Su Ruojin helped the old lady into the house, and the old lady sighed, "How could the Zhao family produce such a person?"
Su Ruojin smiled and comforted her, "Grandmother, don't worry about it. Consort Zhao has already married and won't be able to return to her parents' home for several years. We'll be returning to Great Chu soon too, so don't worry about these things."
The old lady nodded. "That's right, Xiao Jin. I hope your great-uncle is alright."
She heard a rough outline from Xiao Jin that her brother had been poisoned, and by two different kinds of poison, which made her a little worried.
"It's alright, Grandmother. The first poison my great-uncle was given wasn't a particularly potent one, and the second poisoning was still recent, so it won't cause much harm. He'll be fine after a period of rest."
"That's good, that's good."
The old lady might not believe what others say, but she would never doubt what Xiao Jin says.
"Xiao Jin, you've just gotten back, so rest for a while first, and then go check on your older cousin to see if there's any chance he'll wake up."
“Yes, Grandmother.”
Even if her grandmother hadn't said anything, Su Ruojin would have gone to see Zhao Tingyi.
My great-uncle's eyes always light up when he talks about Zhao Tingyi. It seems that this grandson is all his hope.
If Zhao Tingyi hadn't suddenly fallen into a coma, his maternal great-uncle might have already handed the Zhao family over to him.
Falling off a horse can indeed cause cerebral hemorrhage, leading to a prolonged coma, commonly known as a vegetative state.
But we'll only know the specifics after seeing Zhao Tingyi.
Su Ruojin couldn't quite understand it; it was not surprising that wealthy families would resort to any dirty tricks to fight for their inheritance.
From Zhao Guangtao to Zhao Tingyi, they all inexplicably fell into a coma, and later even resorted to a substitution, having someone impersonate the old lady.
Why is that?
If you want to seize the family property, why not just kill the person? In the end, Zhao Tingsong will be the only male member left in the main branch, and then the family property will fall into his hands.
Why go through so many detours?
Was it all for those five jade pendants?
My grandmother said that even if we put all five jade pendants together, we could only take a maximum of ten million taels of silver from the Zhao family.
He killed someone, inherited the Zhao family fortune, and didn't he gain even more?
Is there something else I don't know?
Su Ruojin shared her thoughts with the old lady, who also felt that something was amiss.
Or we can ask our great-uncle.
Just as Su Ruojin and the old lady returned to the house, Zhao Jingning arrived with Zhao Guangtao.
"Xiao Jin, don't take it to heart. Yi'er wasn't like this when she was little. She was all influenced by her mother." Zhao Guangtao sighed heavily.
“Grand-uncle, I’m fine,” Su Ruojin quickly replied.
Even the nine sons of the dragon are all different, so it's normal for children from wealthy families to have their own cunning.
"Sigh," Zhao Guangtao sighed again, "Actually, the Third Prince was asking Ning'er for a wife, but how could the daughters of my Zhao family become concubines? I don't want to get involved in the royal family's troubles. I would rather they marry ordinary people."
“I had already planned to refuse the Third Prince, but I never expected that at the First Princess’s banquet, the Third Prince and Yi’er…” Zhao Guangtao paused here, “…truly disgracing the Zhao family.”
"Fortunately, the Third Prince was still willing to take responsibility, which saved the Zhao family's last bit of face, and he married Yi'er as his concubine."
In her previous life, Su Ruojin would read novels when she was bored. There were countless such plot points in the novels, and they were always effective.
Sure enough, history always repeats itself. Old tricks always win people's hearts. When one side runs out of tricks, another side uses them. As long as they work, that's all that matters.
"Grand Uncle, I'm going to see my cousin." Su Ruojin didn't want to dwell on the matter and instead mentioned Zhao Tingyi.
After Zhao Tingyi fell into a coma, he has been kept in the Zhao family mansion for many years so that the famous doctors invited by the Zhao family can treat him as soon as possible.
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