Chapter 941 Aunt is not a stepmother (16)
How innocent the original owner was in her previous life. She worked diligently to take care of household affairs for Xun Xiu, discipline the children, and be filial to her parents. She had never done anything wrong to him. However, he threw the original owner to the family temple without hesitation and left her to be tortured to death. Such a cold-blooded and ruthless man could still live in wealth and glory and die of old age. It makes people vomit blood. He should have lived a life of disgrace, mediocrity and pain.
Xun Xiu was unwilling to believe that Cao Shichu had no way to detoxify him, so he used threats, inducements, and begging. He looked extremely embarrassed, and even his wife, who was standing nearby, felt disgusted and kept her distance from him.
When she was sure that Cao Shichu really couldn't detoxify Xun Xiu, she had already started to consider divorcing Xun Xiu. She was almost half-deceived into marrying into the Xun family. Now that she had been married to the Xun family for more than a year, she was still a young girl. She didn't want to spend her whole life relying on the infirm Xun Xiu and live a life of widowhood...
Finally, Xun Xiu tried every possible method, but could only get the answer that Cao Shichu could not give him the detoxification. So he had to give up and started to investigate another issue.
"Who poisoned me?" Xun Xiu asked with red eyes.
His wife rolled her eyes secretly and said, "It must be someone who hates you to death. Don't you think about who you have offended to get such a vicious revenge?"
Xun Xiu carefully recalled for a long time before saying, "I have always been kind to others. I value my reputation as an official in the court, and I have good relationships with my colleagues and superiors. Even if I have had disputes with others, they have never reached this level of hatred. I really can't imagine who would do such a cruel thing to me."
"It's not necessarily out of hatred that they're harming you. It could also be because of interests. Whoever harms you will benefit in this regard. That's who did it to you." Cao Shichu said casually, deliberately trying to disrupt Xun Xiu's thoughts.
Isn't she the murderer? Hehe, it's a pity that Xun Xiu will never know until he dies. Cao Shichu lied with his eyes open without any guilt.
But after hearing what she said, Xun Xiu suddenly had the wrong idea.
"Could it be that Cao Shuhui poisoned me?! This vicious woman!" Xun Xiu was so angry that his eyes were about to bulge out of blood. If Cao Shuhui was still alive, he would tear her apart alive with his bare hands.
"Cough cough..." When Cao Shichu heard what he said, he was so shocked that his own saliva got stuck in his throat and he almost suffocated.
She never expected that Xun Xiu would actually pin the blame on Cao Shuhui. What was he thinking?
When Xun Xiu's wife heard what he said, she was also shocked: "Are you talking about your ex-wife, no, your original wife, who poisoned you?"
"Who else could it be but her? Only she has the motive to poison me in such a vicious way! Because she was afraid that after her death, I would have children with my later wife, and the status of her two children would be unstable. So in order to eliminate future troubles, she chose to attack me and cut off the source of the trouble!" Xun Xiu said confidently, thinking he had guessed Cao Shuhui's thoughts.
When Cao Shichu heard his speculation, she was stunned and then became expressionless. No matter how smart she was, she could not have imagined that things would develop like this. Although she had not thought of letting Xun Xiu know the truth, she had not thought of letting the dead Cao Shuhui take the blame.
However, it was a good recitation. Cao Shichu just felt very happy in his heart. Cao Shuhui schemed against her own sister for the sake of her own child without considering her own sister's wishes at all. She morally blackmailed her to take over her husband and children. It was really disgusting.
Now, even if she died, she would still be misunderstood by Xun Xiu and be blamed by Cao Shichu. Isn't that just tit for tat? ! She deserved it. She was the culprit who ruined the original owner's life.
If it weren't for her moral blackmail, the original owner would never have fallen to the state of her previous life, raising an ungrateful person for more than ten years, and being slandered, and finally dying in poverty and extreme misery.
So it is not unfair for Cao Shuhui to take the blame for Cao Shichu.
"Is, is that so?" Xun Xiu's step-wife opened her mouth in shock after hearing his inexplicable yet reasonable guess. She was stunned and didn't come to her senses.
"Cao Shuhui! How dare you do this to me? I won't let you go! And your two brats!" Xun Xiu had lost his mind. If Xun Yiming and Xun Linyuan were in front of him now, he would definitely strangle them to death immediately.
"Why don't you let them go? They are your children too." The stepmother asked with a puzzled look on her face. After she came to her senses from the shock, she was still quite clear-headed and reminded Xun Xiu, "Besides, the fact that the first wife poisoned you is just your own guess. There is no evidence. You can't just jump to conclusions like that, right?"
"It's her! She is a vicious woman. She drugged my concubines and caused them to have miscarriages in the past, but I turned a blind eye to it because she was my wife. But I never expected that she would dare to attack me..." Xun Xiu had lost his mind. He urgently needed a culprit to vent his anger, so he stubbornly determined that it was Cao Shuhui.
"I'm going to dig up her grave when I get back!" Xun Xiu said with a vicious look on his face, then turned around and left angrily.
The stepmother was about to leave, but suddenly remembered that she hadn't paid yet, so she took off the purse from her waist and threw it to Cao Shichu, saying, "No need to give me the change for the consultation fee! Remember not to say anything you shouldn't say!"
Cao Shichu took the purse accurately, tossed it up and found it was quite heavy. He poured it out and saw that there were more than ten taels of silver. Wow, Xun Xiu's step-wife was quite generous, giving more than ten taels for the medical fee.
What happened to Xun Xiu afterwards had nothing to do with her. Would Cao Shuhui's grave be dug up by Xun Xiu? She guessed not, because family disgrace should not be made public. Even if it was really Cao Shuhui who poisoned him, he couldn't tell anyone, because after telling anyone, it would only make his reputation even more infamous.
After all, how can a man who is poisoned by his first wife before his death be a good man? It must be because he does not trust his character that he chooses to "cut off the firewood from under the cauldron".
Cao Shichu was in a good mood, tossing the silver in his hand up and down. Cao Shuhui was dead, but the two children she left behind were still alive. How could a selfish, cold-blooded man like Xun Xiu not vent his anger on the two "vested interests"?
After all, in Xun Xiu's heart, Cao Shuhui poisoned him for the sake of both of them and to ensure their status.
Now Xun Yiming is already thirteen or fourteen years old, a teenager who will soon be able to support the Xun family. However, because of his incompetence, Xun Xiu has not been interested in officialdom in recent years. He has been increasingly perfunctory at work, often taking leave to treat illnesses. Fearing that he would be despised and ridiculed, he gradually alienated himself from his colleagues and superiors. Therefore, not only did his official position not rise, but he was marginalized and became an insignificant person. It seemed that he would never have a bright future in this life, but Xun Yiming began to emerge and would be the successor to his father in a few years.
Xun Xiu's position is unstable, how could he not feel the threat posed by his son?
(End of this chapter)
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