Chapter 282 Awakening
Duke Wen hurriedly stopped him, "Your Highness, wait! The old lady has never been feeling well, and now she's seriously ill. She can't possibly..."
Pei Siyan's expression turned solemn as he corrected him, "It's poisoning! Uncle wants to interrogate me here?"
This was the first time the Crown Prince had addressed him in this way since the incident. Duke Wen's brow twitched; how could he not know what the difference in address meant?
No matter who is involved in Madam Wen's matter, Pei Siyan will never let it go. Could it be that he has obtained conclusive evidence?
Duke Wen stopped obstructing them, and the group moved into the Wisteria Garden.
Two burly imperial guards, expressionless, tied Wen Jingchu up and threw her to the ground, while the area outside was surrounded by imperial guards.
Duke Wen stared at his sister in astonishment, his eyes burning with rage and hatred. "Is it really related to you?"
Wen Jingchu broke out in a cold sweat and cried out, "It's clearly...it's clearly just that she's sick. You all know about the old lady's health, how can you blame me?"
"It wasn't me, it really wasn't me... What proof do you have?"
Pei Siyan lowered his brows and coldly uttered a few words, "Eight Treasures Nourishing Pill!"
Like a thunderbolt exploding above Wen Jingchu's head, at this moment, she looked up, her eyes filled with shock, feeling that it was all over.
How did he know?
Wen Jingchu's mind went blank. She stared in horror, forgetting even to cry.
She didn't intend to harm her mother; she was simply overcome by greed...
Duke Wen grabbed her and pulled her up, slapping her hard across the face. "What exactly did you do?"
The force was so great that her face swelled up instantly, and the gold hairpin in her hair was flung more than three zhang away.
Wen Jingchu's eyes were filled with sorrow. She wiped the blood from the corner of her lips and stared intently at her brother. "Big brother, I didn't want to harm Mother. Do you believe me? No one will believe me now, no matter what I say?"
Wasn't her misfortune caused by them?
If she had been able to enter the palace and become a concubine, she would have been at least in the position of Consort Zhang, but her own sister, Wen Wan, refused to allow it.
Her prime years were wasted, and in the end, she could only marry Sheng Runeng, that spendthrift son.
All of this is the root of the problem, that bitch Wen Wan!
Pei Siyan questioned in a cold voice, "You were the one who went to make the pills when Granny Qin was preparing them, weren't you? You not only replaced the ginseng, but also replaced the lingzhi and several other precious medicinal herbs with substitutes."
"Wen Jingchu, are you so desperate for money that you've gone crazy?"
Wen Jingchu moved her gaze blankly. She had given herself away; she had intended to destroy the evidence by destroying those bottles of pills, even if Granny Qin told the truth.
She could also bite back.
However, the Wen family all knew about the pills she had prepared.
Recently, Sheng Runeng incurred a large gambling debt. He not only secretly used her dowry but also physically abused her.
She had no choice but to return to the Duke of Wen's mansion for help, but the Duke of Wen's attitude was extremely perfunctory, saying that the Wen family had been living beyond its means for more than ten years, and had only the title of Duke's mansion but no real wealth.
The Duke's mansion is now just an empty shell.
He only took a few hundred taels of silver to get rid of himself.
Sheng Runeng owed a total of 20,000 taels of silver, which was simply a drop in the ocean.
She was filled with bitterness and had no choice but to swallow her pride and ask Madam Wen for help, hoping that she could open her private treasury to solve her urgent problem.
The old lady only gave her three thousand taels of silver.
Just then, she saw Granny Qin taking a lot of medicinal herbs out of the storeroom to make pills, and she had an idea. She expressed her desire to show filial piety and took the initiative to take on the task.
Granny Qin couldn't let her mistress's opportunity to shine go to her head, so she agreed.
The ginseng was three hundred years old, and coincidentally, the pharmacy was willing to pay a high price to buy it. She gritted her teeth and sold the ginseng to the pharmacy. She was worried about the efficacy of the medicine and was afraid of causing trouble, but Granny Tao told her that she could use sand ginseng instead, so she felt at ease.
She was driven to a dead end, and then she hit it off with Sheng Xiyue, which led her to drug Pei Siyan.
But when her scheme was exposed, she was not only flogged, but also banished to Cuifeng Nunnery.
Who would have thought that Bazhen Burong Pills would make my mother seriously ill?
She collapsed to the ground, her last thread of hope broken, on the verge of a breakdown. "I... only replaced the ginseng with sand ginseng."
The Wen family members looked at each other in disbelief, their expressions strange and speechless.
What exactly did she do?
She is the legitimate daughter of the Wen family.
Madam Wen is her mother.
But she cruelly replaced her medicinal herbs?
The second maternal grandfather of the Wen family slapped her hard across the face, the sound extremely loud.
Wen Jingchu's face was slapped and twisted, her cheeks were swollen, and tears flowed silently down her face.
"You are not worthy of being a member of the Wen family!"
"I'm not worthy? Then are you all worthy?" Wen Jingchu completely lost her mind, screaming loudly:
"Have you all forgotten what happened back then?"
Duke Wen's expression changed drastically, and he grabbed her by the neck. "You wicked, disloyal and unfilial wretch, do you still want to kill your mother?"
Pei Siyan's eyes were filled with coldness. What exactly happened back then?
Just then, a servant came in and reported, "Old Madam Wen has woken up."
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Madam Wen's cloudy eyes swept over the Wen family members. "I heard the Crown Prince's voice. Where is he?"
Pei Siyan pushed through the crowd, knelt before the bed, and tightly grasped Old Madam Wen's withered hand, his eyes instantly reddening. "Grandmother, how are you feeling?"
Old Man Wen's hand trembled as he tried to stroke his cheek. "Much better. Is it really you? What happened to me? I think I saw your mother..."
Pei Siyan's eyes welled up with tears, "Grandmother—"
She was the only person in this world, besides his mother, who truly cared for and loved him.
Madam Wen's lips trembled. "One after another, I'm not dead, why are you all crying?"
Wen Jingchu was pushed to the back, nervously watching what was happening here.
Duke Wen looked ashamed and looked away unnaturally.
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