Chapter 146 A Great Satisfaction (First Update)
The mother and daughter looked at the medicine packet on the table with a puzzled expression, wondering what the old lady had given them.
"What is this?" Yao asked.
The old lady stretched and lazily sat down in the chair: "Arsenic."
Yao choked.
Gu Jiao almost choked too. If she remembered correctly, the old lady had just casually pulled it out of her bosom, right? Are all old ladies these days so hardcore? Carrying arsenic with them?
"Where did you get the arsenic?" Gu Jiao asked the old lady.
The old lady felt a little guilty under her gaze, and coughed lightly, saying, "It's... it's... rat poison!"
She mumbled the "uh-huh" sound, but Gu Jiao still understood.
"Reselling," she said.
A while ago, Gu Jiao discovered rats in her house, so she made some rat poison with arsenic.
The rat poison was gone, and the rats never appeared again.
She thought all the rat poison had been eaten by rats, but it turns out the old lady had taken it and resold it again?
Reselling wound medicine is no longer enough to meet your needs, is it?
You're even selling rat poison now?
The old lady cleared her throat: "The medicine works very well; everyone in the neighborhood has a packet."
Gu Jiao: You've made it so widespread that everyone in the alley has a pack?!
Gu Jiao's lips twitched.
"Oh my! It smells so good! Are they cooking? I'll go check the kitchen!" The old lady slipped away as fast as she could.
Madam Yao stood up: "Yes, it smells so good! I'll go take a look too!"
Gu Jiao's gaze fell on the hand holding the medicine packet.
Bringing arsenic into the kitchen is terrifying, okay?
Madam Yao gave an embarrassed smile, clutching the medicine packet in her hand, and said, "I took it to throw it away!"
"Oh." Gu Jiao pretended to believe her.
Yao caught up with the old lady, and the two came to a secluded corner!
Holding up the medicine packet, Yao humbly asked, "My dear aunt, how exactly do I use this?"
The old lady first made a gesture of administering the drug, then made a gesture of tilting her head back to drink it, and winked at Yao: "Just putting on an act, understand? It's just the two of you, she can't explain herself!"
Madam Yao seemed to understand but not quite: "But how do we shake off those maids?"
Aunt Ling was always accompanied by her trusted maid.
"Of course you can't shake off her maid. Let her shake her off herself." The old lady said, then leaned close to Yao and whispered a few words in her ear, "Understand?"
Yao suddenly realized: "Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!"
After devising a plan, Yao left without hesitation.
Watching Yao's excited departing figure, the old lady fell into deep confusion: "What did I do before? Why was I so full of bad ideas?"
Madam Yao took the arsenic back to her residence.
She was quite nervous, as it was her first time doing something like this.
However, thinking about all the grievances and wrongdoing she had suffered over the years, she felt that nothing could be more terrible than this.
She first executed the first step of the plan: luring the snake out of its hole.
Aunt Ling is a very cautious person, and it is unlikely that you can arrange to meet her alone unless Aunt Ling has something shameful to do, such as seducing Lord Gu.
Yao first spread the news that Lord Gu was in the back mountain. In order to make the news seem real and reliable, Yao did indeed trick Lord Gu into going to the back mountain.
Upon hearing that Lord Gu was in the back mountain, Aunt Ling immediately dressed up and went alone to the back mountain to create a romantic "chance encounter" with Lord Gu.
However, she didn't encounter Lord Gu, but rather Madam Yao, who had been waiting for her at the back of the mountain.
"Madam?" Aunt Ling was taken aback and hurriedly tugged at her slightly slipping clothes.
Looking at her alluring figure, Madam Yao smiled faintly: "Auntie, dressed like this, are you going to the back hill for a secret rendezvous?"
Aunt Ling quickly wrapped her cloak tighter around herself, suppressing her guilty conscience, and said, "I just came over for a walk. If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."
Madam Yao smiled and said, "Since you're already here, why don't you come in and sit down? The Marquis will come to find me after he finishes picking the fruit."
With Madam Yao around, Aunt Ling couldn't use her eighteen kinds of skills, but she was unwilling to leave just like that. After all, she was indeed dressed very beautifully, and she was unwilling to leave without letting the Marquis take a look.
Aunt Ling and Madam Yao went to a nearby cabin.
Lord Gu would occasionally come to the back mountain to practice his sword, and Gu Chengfeng and Gu Chenglin would also come from time to time to pick some fruit. This little wooden house was prepared for them to rest.
It doesn't look big, but it has everything you need.
The two sat down facing each other.
Madam Yao poured a cup of tea for Aunt Ling, and while Aunt Ling wasn't looking, she snatched the medicine packet into her hand.
The old lady's plan was for Yao to use a self-inflicted injury ruse, putting poison in her own cup, pretending to drink it and acting as if she had been poisoned, while actually just spilling it on herself, and then falsely accusing Aunt Ling of poisoning her.
Since there was no third party involved, Aunt Ling couldn't explain herself clearly.
But it was clear that Yao had misunderstood the old lady's intentions. Taking advantage of her unpreparedness, she put rat poison directly into Aunt Ling's cup.
Aunt Ling never expected that Madam Yao would so blatantly poison her. She picked up her teacup and drank it without hesitation.
Then tragedy struck.
The old lady was selling rat poison, but she couldn't use the original dosage, otherwise she wouldn't make any money. It was mixed with flour; it was fake rat poison. It wouldn't kill anyone, but it would still give Aunt Ling a run for her money.
Aunt Ling collapsed to the ground, her nose and mouth distorted, her body convulsing, and foaming at the mouth...
Those who knew her said she was poisoned, while those who didn't thought she had suffered a stroke at such a young age.
What's worse, her disheveled appearance was seen by Lord Gu, who had come looking for Yao.
Aunt Ling wished she were dead!
"What happened? What's wrong with her?" Lord Gu asked in astonishment.
"I don't know!" Yao pretended to be clueless.
Lord Gu immediately summoned servants to escort Consort Ling back to her courtyard and called the royal physician to treat her.
The physician diagnosed that Consort Ling had been poisoned and quickly induced her to vomit.
This is the hardship that Yao once endured.
However, the physician's skills were not as good as Gu Jiao's, and his medicines and equipment were not as advanced. Aunt Ling suffered much more than Yao Shi had.
After two hours of this ordeal, and with her nearly dead, Aunt Ling was finally able to speak again.
Her first words were an accusation against Yao: "She poisoned me!"
Lord Gu frowned: "Don't talk nonsense, how could Madam possibly poison you?"
Not only did Lord Gu not believe it, but even Old Madam Gu and the Gu brothers, Chengfeng and his brother, did not believe it.
The three of them disliked Yao, but disliking her was one thing, and believing that Yao had the guts was another.
If Madam Yao truly possessed such abilities, why would they have forced her out of the mansion?
Gu Chenglin, in a wheelchair, came to see her. He dismissed the servants and asked in a low voice, "Auntie, are you using a self-inflicted injury ruse?"
Aunt Ling felt deeply wronged: "I didn't!"
Old Madam Gu also questioned her: "What were you thinking? How could you do such a foolish thing? She just stayed in the manor a few days longer, didn't she? Even if you wanted to force her to leave, you should have come up with a smarter way!"
"Aunt!" Aunt Ling was so wronged that she even called out her maiden name.
She admitted that she had harmed the Yao family, but this time it really wasn't her!
"It's really her fault, Auntie!"
Old Madam Gu glared at her and said, "She harmed you by using arsenic mixed with flour?"
The physician has already said that with timely treatment, that level of arsenic will not kill a person.
"I know exactly what you're thinking, so there's no need for you to lie to me! Do you think I'm a fool? Do you think I can't see through you?" Old Madam Gu was very angry. She wasn't angry that Aunt Ling had done something stupid, but that Aunt Ling had done something stupid and wouldn't admit it, and was trying to fool her like a fool!
Madam Gu originally intended to stand up for Aunt Ling, but now she has changed her mind!
"You should reflect on your own actions!" After saying this, Old Madam Gu turned and left.
“Aunt, even I can see the flaws in this method. If you want to deal with that woman in the future, you'd better not use such petty tricks.” Gu Chenglin said awkwardly and went back to his own courtyard.
Aunt Ling was on the verge of a breakdown. She had been dealing with that woman for over ten years, but this was the only time she hadn't succeeded!
When she harmed people, no one suspected her; but when she did nothing, the entire household did not believe her!
Aunt Ling was so angry that her head ached!
Gu Changqing stayed in the military camp for several days, and finally dragged himself back to the Marquis's residence at nightfall, looking exhausted.
As soon as he entered the mansion, his personal servant reported to Gu Changqing about Consort Ling's poisoning: "...I really didn't expect that Consort Ling would be so ruthless to herself. She didn't hesitate to poison herself in order to frame Madam. Isn't she afraid of poisoning herself to death?"
Gu Changqing was lost in thought and remained silent.
The servant continued to chatter on and on, mostly expressing his surprise that Aunt Ling was so vicious as to harm the madam.
To be honest, Aunt Ling was a kind-hearted person in the mansion. She had been in charge of the household affairs for many years and rarely argued with the servants. However, in the eyes of the servants, Madam Yao was more harmless than Aunt Ling.
"How is Aunt Ling doing?" Gu Changqing asked.
The servant noticed that the young master was now addressing Ling Yiniang as "Auntie Ling," not "Auntie." This one-word difference made it seem as if his feelings for Ling Yiniang had changed.
The servant didn't dare to ask his master what he was thinking, but answered him truthfully: "The physician said that the poison was mixed with flour. It won't kill anyone. The concubine is fine, but she needs to recuperate for a while."
Gu Changqing said expressionlessly, "In that case, take good care of yourself. Don't let Aunt Ling worry about the affairs of the manor anymore."
The servant was completely bewildered. What did you mean by that?
Gu Changqing went to Songhe Courtyard and temporarily took back Aunt Ling's management of the household affairs under the pretext of recuperating from illness and giving her a minor punishment.
In fact, it was an unreasonable arrangement to let a concubine manage the household affairs. It was only because Concubine Ling had a powerful backer and Madam Yao was not in the mansion that she was able to take advantage of the situation for the past ten years.
Old Madam Gu was still resentful about Aunt Ling lying to her and wanted to teach Aunt Ling a lesson, so she nodded in agreement.
Thus, after being poisoned and falsely accused by the entire household, Consort Ling also lost her power over managing the household affairs.
After the clinic opened, it snowed for three consecutive days, freezing many streets in the capital, making it difficult for carriages to move and pedestrians to walk.
Xiao Jingkong tripped and fell flat on his face as soon as he came out of the house.
Oh dear, this time it's not his fault, the ground was too slippery!
He tried to get up a few times but couldn't, so he gave up and just lay there on the ground, sticking out his little tongue slightly.
Something felt off while I was vomiting.
Huh?
My tongue is stuck!
As Gu Jiao came out of the kitchen, she saw a cute little figure lying on the ground in the front yard through the passageway.
Gu Jiao walked over strangely: "The ground is cold, get up quickly."
Xiao Jingkong: Ouch, I can't get up.
Gu Jiao squatted down and took a look, only to find that the little guy's tongue was stuck to the ice on the ground.
Gu Jiao: How did you end up like this?
Xiao Jingkong felt incredibly embarrassed. Jiaojiao had actually seen him in this awkward state, which seriously damaged his heroic and handsome image!
He tried to pull his tongue out.
Gu Jiao said, "Don't move around."
Pulling it out forcefully will hurt her tongue, so Gu Jiao went to the kitchen to add warm water.
Before the warm water was fully mixed, Xiao Liulang came out of the study.
He spotted the little guy on the ground at a glance, and squatted down with a half-smile to observe the little guy's predicament.
Xiao Jingkong is going crazy.
Ahhh!
Bad brother-in-law, you're not allowed to watch!
Soon, Gu Yan and Gu Xiaoshun also came out.
The two of them also came over to watch.
Gu Yan laughed so hard he almost fell over!
Gu Xiaoshun doesn't usually laugh unless he can't hold it in.
For example, right now.
Xiao Jingkong is extremely agitated.
Bad guys, bad guys, bad guys! Adults are all bad guys!
It felt like an eternity before Xiao Jingkong finally got Gu Jiao to bring him warm water to relieve his tongue.
My tongue is numb and I can't feel it anymore.
Gu Jiao picked the person up.
He was filled with shame and indignation, feeling utterly humiliated. He covered his face with his small hands, buried his head in Gu Jiao's arms, and turned the others away!
Xiao Jingkong always eats alone in his room, not with those bad adults who laugh at him!
This is the first time the little guy has ever thrown such a big tantrum.
It might sound a bit heartless to say this, but the little guy looks kind of cute when he's being difficult.
"It's time to go to school." Xiao Liulang suppressed a laugh and came over to call him.
Xiao Jingkong pulled back the covers and buried his head inside: "I'm not going to school with you! I want to go to school with Jiaojiao!"
I woke up this morning to find that Jiaojiao was no longer on the new book list; it turns out she'd been available for 30 days already.
Time flies.
I wonder if anyone still has any monthly tickets left? If so, please support Jiaojiao so that more readers can see her.
Thank you everyone, *bows*
(End of this chapter)
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