Gu Huixiu was in so much pain that she saw stars and vomited blood. She rolled over on the ground, and her internal organs were in a lot of pain.
Liu looked at her, feeling both fearful and anxious, her face pale, "This, this, Qingqiu, what is going on? Why did she become like this out of nowhere!"
No... it's just a simple girl returning to her parents' home, so she should just deal with it? Why, there are deaths and vomiting blood!!
Liu was terrified.
Shen Qingqiu's face was as cold as water.
"Mom, this is murder to silence someone."
She said coldly.
I completely understood in my heart that this must be the evil scheme of the second wife, and she would pay back what she owed.
He used the married woman's hand to eliminate their vigilance, and took Bai Mama's life to pin the crime on Gu Huixiu. Moreover, regardless of whether the plan succeeded or not, he directly killed Gu Huixiu, leaving no evidence! !
Haha, that’s a smart calculation.
Shen Jingqiu gritted her teeth, her pupils filled with hatred. How could she let those people from the second house succeed? !
"Mother Chen, go to the kitchen and get some milk. Give her a big drink."
Shen Qingqiu pinched Gu Huixiu's palm and gave a stern order, then raised his voice to Jin Cai, "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and keep a low profile, don't alarm others."
“Yes, yes!”
Jin Cai and Mother Chen responded and ran out in a panic.
Jin Cai ran to the front yard to find the doctor and Gu Yong, but Mother Chen came back quickly with the milk, "Pour it into her!"
Shen Qingqiu shouted sternly.
"Hey, hey." Mother Chen responded quickly, and together with Mrs. Liu, they turned Gu Huixiu's body over, poured the milk to her lips, and poured it into her mouth.
"Um, uh..." Gu Huixiu drank half and vomited the other half, her eyes rolled up, and she struggled desperately. After a long while, "Wow..." She vomited out a lot of black blood, soaking most of her body. It looked scary, but she felt much better.
My internal organs didn’t seem to hurt as much, and I felt much more alert.
"It seems that they were afraid of being discovered by you, so the drug they gave them was not strong enough." Shen Qingqiu saw that she was temporarily alive, and couldn't help but sneer, leaning over and looking down at her, "Big sister, you are already alive, so don't pretend to be dead."
"Will you tell the truth yourself, or should I ask Lord Gu to take you to the dungeon and tell it to you?"
She raised an eyebrow and sneered.
"I, I..." Gu Huixiu gasped for breath. The feeling of escaping near death made her a little confused. She didn't understand what was going on. She said blankly: "Sister Shen, I, I really don't know..."
She really didn't know.
She only returned home because her father and mother sent someone to say they missed her.
"Don't know? Haha, do you think I would believe it?" Shen Qingqiu raised his eyebrows, looked at her appearance, and whispered softly: "Big sister, you are the eldest daughter of a concubine, you were able to survive in the hands of the Shen family until adulthood, and married so well, and you can handle several levels of mother-in-laws so well, haha, you tell me, are you a confused person?"
"Do you think I will believe it?"
"Stop pretending to be ignorant, Second House...your biological father and stepmother are trying to kill you, why are you still pretending?"
"Do you think you can escape if you pretend? Or do you want to protect the parents who want your life?"
"I, I..." Gu Huixiu closed her eyes in pain.
Yes, just like what Miss Shen said, she is not a fool. How could she not feel anything when she was used and abandoned like this? When Mother Bai was desperately urging Madam and Miss Shen to eat something, she felt something was wrong and wanted to leave quickly, but...
"Father...it's fine if my stepmother treats me like this. After all, I didn't crawl out of her intestines. But, I, I am your biological daughter. How can you treat me like this? You, you want to kill me!"
She murmured and sobbed.
She was always very cautious when it came to Shen's place and would never touch anything from Shen's place. The only time she ate and drank when she entered the mansion today was a cup of tea from her father. She was poisoned and it was her father who did it.
Gu Huixiu figured it out quickly, but there was nothing she could do.
She didn't have a single bit of evidence. She was the one who brought the snacks, and Mother Bai bit her hard before she died!!
"Madam, Miss Shen, I know you won't believe me, but I really didn't do this, and I don't know about it. I guess it was done by my father and stepmother, but I can't produce any evidence."
She cried weakly.
"Is it really my second brother and Shen?" Liu asked in surprise and confusion.
Shen Qingqiu's brows slightly frowned.
She originally thought that Gu Huixiu was colluding with the second house to harm her and Liu, and that she was poisoned and was just being used as cannon fodder. She should have evidence in her hands and be able to find out something during the interrogation. However, her expression did not seem fake, so was she really innocent?
Simply being used? That's bad.
In this situation, the people from the second house came to pay their respects with snacks, but ended up with one dead and one injured. Even though the snacks were brought by Gu Huixiu herself, as long as Gu Jing and Shen wanted to, they could easily turn the tables and say that it was the mother and daughter who did it themselves, and that they were just trying to frame them...
They might even turn around and confront them about Gu Huixiu's poisoning and Bai's mother's death.
After all, people are lost in them.
Old Madam Xu never liked them mother and daughter, and would definitely favor the second wife.
Gu Yong would protect them and believe in them, but this matter was really hard to explain.
At the very least, she couldn't bring the second wife to justice as she had imagined.
"You are the eldest daughter of the second house, and you grew up under the care of Gu Jing and Shen. They both abandoned you and are about to kill you. Gu Huixiu, do you really have no idea at all?"
"Or do I think your case is not serious enough and I need Lord Gu to interrogate you personally?"
Shen Qingqiu asked unwillingly, she still wanted to get something out of Gu Huixiu's mouth.
"I, I..." Gu Huixiu turned pale with fright, her body trembling, and she lay limply on the ground. She looked panicked and her face was unpredictable, as if she was hesitating about something.
She didn't know whether she should say it?
"Hmm?" Shen Qingqiu raised his eyebrows, and looked down at her oppressively with his cold eyes.
Gu Huixiu gritted her teeth.
Since her father and stepmother treated her like this and regarded her life as nothing, then don't blame her for being unfilial and disobedient in order to protect herself.
"Madam, Miss Nong, although... I can't help you much in this matter, I know another very important thing about Madam Zhao. As long as you two can help me treat my injuries and save my life so that I can return to my husband's home to live, I will tell you."
She whispered softly.
"Mrs. Zhao?"
Shen Qingqiu was startled, "Who is that?"
She was a little unresponsive.
Liu was very sensitive. She bit her lip, pulled her daughter's sleeve and whispered, "That, that was father's previous wife..."
“It’s her!”
Shen Qingqiu reacted suddenly.
Before Liu, Gu Yong had married a wife, a girl from the mansion of the Duke of Ping. She married into the mansion at the age of 16. She and Gu Yong were in love, but Gu Yong was young at that time and was fighting on the battlefield. The two of them were rarely together and their feelings faded, but they still respected each other. Until a few years ago, Zhao became pregnant, and Gu Yong was ordered by the emperor to go to the border city to defend against the barbarians...
The battle lasted for more than a year. When Gu Yong returned victoriously, the Zhao family was gone.
Old Madam Xu said that she had a difficult birth and died of two diseases.
Gu Yong lost two relatives without even seeing her corpse. Since then, he was depressed for many days and no longer wanted to get married. After a few years, he was still single. Old Madam Xu became anxious and ordered the second house to adopt Gu Shaoqing.
Became the prince of Hou Mansion.
Several years passed like this, and Gu Yong had been playing around in the world until he met Liu, at which point he began to think about settling down a family. Regardless of her status as a second marriage and a concubine, he insisted on welcoming her into the family.
"Gu Huixiu, what do you know? How did Madam Zhao come back?"
Shen Qingqiu said in a deep voice.
"You have to promise to save my life and let me return to my husband's home safely, and everything will be as before."
Gu Huixiu did not answer, but started to talk about the conditions.
Shen Qingqiu raised his eyebrows and said with a half-smile: "If you want to save your life and keep everything normal, it depends on how much the thing you said is worth."
Gu Huixiu's eyes flickered, and she endured the dizziness from excessive blood loss, panting and saying, "Back then, the reason why Madam Zhao had a difficult delivery and lost two lives was all caused by my father and stepmother. They bribed Madam Zhao's maid, the Bai Jiaoniang, to do something to Madam Zhao during her pregnancy..."
"Later, when Madam Zhao was giving birth, they bribed the midwife. Madam Zhao had a difficult birth to begin with, and the midwife even tampered with the child while she was still in labor, saying that she had pushed the baby back several times. That was why Madam Zhao had heavy bleeding during childbirth..."
Gu Huixiu murmured.
"Oh my God, how could this happen!" Liu gasped in shock.
How dangerous is childbirth? Even if you give birth well and take good care of the baby, you are risking your life. What's more, if you don't take good care of the baby during pregnancy, and then there is manipulation during childbirth? When you are giving birth, you are pushed back into the birth canal? Such a cold-blooded and terrifying thing, Liu felt her scalp tingling just by hearing it, "Then, then what about the child of Lord Hou..."
"I heard that Shen suffocated him to death."
Gu Huixiu whispered.
She had heard her father and stepmother plotting against each other. On the day when Madam Zhao gave birth, she had secretly hidden under the window and listened to her miserable cries. That was her lifelong nightmare! "This, this is simply insane." Liu couldn't help but gasp.
Shen Qingqiu also frowned, and was about to say something when a loud shout suddenly came from outside, "Gu Huixiu, are you serious about what you said?"
Several people turned their heads at the same time. Outside, Gu Yong walked in with a cold face and a strong momentum. Beside him, the court doctor and Jin Cai followed in small steps, all of them were so frightened that they were as quiet as cicadas.
Gu Yong's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He rushed in with big strides. He grabbed Gu Huixiu and held her up like a torn sack, with a terrifying look on his face. "How did Zhao die? How did my child die? Tell me everything, one by one!"
"Uncle, I, I..." Gu Huixiu's face turned blue from being strangled. She was frightened and scared. She struggled weakly and spit out blood. "I'll tell you, I'll tell you, uncle, please forgive me!"
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