Chapter 465: Preferring Sons to Daughters
Chen Wan leaned over to pick up the rotten stone tablet on the ground, and carefully looked at the small words at the bottom that were engraved with Si Tiantian's birth date.
“It’s a sweet birthday!”
Mother Si's eyes widened instantly and she screamed in disbelief. She angrily reached out to grab the rotten stone tablet and threw it to the ground with all her strength, shaking with anger.
"Who! Who is it? Who is harming my daughter?"
Mr. Si's face was grim and his voice was low and majestic.
"How could such a thing happen in our family? This is outrageous! Send someone to investigate immediately and make sure this evildoer is caught and severely punished!"
Shen Wan looked at Grandma Tiantian and said slowly: "Grandma Tiantian, don't you want to say something now?"
Grandma Tiantian's face turned even paler, as if she had been severely whipped. She jumped up and down in anger and cursed:
"Who the hell dared to do such a vile and evil thing in my house without telling anyone? He harmed my granddaughter! I will never forgive him!"
The corners of Chen Wan's mouth slightly raised, and he let out a mocking smile: "The thief cries thief."
Mr. Si's eyes were like knives, shooting at his daughter-in-law, with a hint of inquiry and questioning in his eyes: "Zhou Xiuqin, did you do it?"
Zhou Xiuqin cried out loudly, "Father-in-law! How could you doubt me? Tiantian is my granddaughter. How could I do such a vicious thing to hurt her? I swear to God, it's not me!"
"Chen Wan! Don't spit bloody words if you don't have any evidence!"
She turned around and looked at Shen Wan viciously.
Tiantian's mother stood up and said, "Master Shen, could this be a misunderstanding? My mother-in-law has always loved Tiantian and treated her very well. How could this be..."
Shen Wan looked calm, and unhurriedly took out a yellow talisman from his pocket and threw it into the tea.
"This is a mantra. If you drink this tea, you will tell the truth. Zhou Xiuqin, do you dare to drink it?"
Zhou Xiuqin said angrily: "I won't drink this kind of weird stuff. Who knows if you can't find the murderer and deliberately frame me!"
Chen Wan was calmer. "The stone tablet with Tiantian's birth date and time is filled with evil spirits. I infer that it was taken out from a mass grave. Tiantian must have drunk the powder ground from the stone tablet and was poisoned by the evil spirit."
"The only ones who can cast this kind of soul-inducing spell are sweet blood relatives."
Zhou Xiuqin said angrily: "There are so many people in the Si family, why do you think I did it?"
Mr. Si asked sternly, "Zhou Xiuqin, why don't you tell the truth?"
"Dad! I didn't do anything, why should I confess? Besides, how can you be so sure that I did it just based on her one-sided statement?"
Shen Wan waved, motioning Xiao Rui to come over.
Xiao Rui obediently took out his schoolbag and gave it to her.
Shen Wan took out the pair of red embroidered shoes from her schoolbag.
As soon as the red embroidered shoes appeared, the faces of all the Si family members present changed.
Mr. You Si asked: "Isn't this the dowry your Zhou mother gave you when you got married?"
Zhou Xiuqin looked flustered: "I don't know, I have always kept the shoes at the bottom of the box and never took them out. It must have been Chen Wan who stole them..."
Bang!
Mr. Si slapped her angrily, "Who is Master Shen to be interested in your slut?"
Tiantian's mother looked unhappy. "This is indeed my mother-in-law's dowry. I have seen it before. Master Shen, what is going on? Is there any connection between Tiantian's illness and this pair of red embroidered shoes?"
Zhou Xiuqin argued: "No, this is not my pair of red embroidered shoes. My pair is not that dirty!"
Shen Wan took out a small spray bottle from her bag and sprayed it into the eyes of several people.
"What did you spray?" Zhou Xiuqin panicked.
"Something good that will make you see the truth clearly."
When they looked closely, they saw a strange blood thread coming out of the red embroidered shoes and connected to Xiao Rui's wrist. They were all shocked.
"Aunt, why are you looking at me like that?"
When Zhou Xiuqin saw the bloodshot lines, she was so shocked that she quickly stepped back, with a hint of fear in her eyes.
Chen Wan said bluntly: "There is also a Yin Sha aura in the red embroidered shoes, but it is not the vitality that is absorbed, but Xiao Rui's Yang energy."
"It's easy to find the real culprit. All of you Si family members drop a drop of blood on the red embroidered shoes. Whoever the blood thread connects to is the culprit."
When Zhou Xiuqin heard that blood would be dripped, she immediately refused to do it and angrily shouted: "This is my dowry, I won't allow you to dirty it!"
Tiantian's mother had a strange expression on her face: "Mom, didn't you just say that these shoes are not yours? If they are not yours, what are you afraid of?"
Zhou Xiuqin looked unhappy: "I, I just..."
Tiantian’s mother picked up the fruit knife on the table, stabbed her finger, and then dripped the blood on the red embroidered shoes.
The red embroidered shoes did not respond.
Tiantian's mother handed the fruit knife to Zhou Xiuqin, "Mom, it's your turn."
Zhou Xiuqin took two steps back, "I, I don't..."
Mr. Si said coldly: "If you don't try, you must have something to hide."
Zhou Xiuqin had no choice but to bite the bullet and take the fruit knife, trembling as she pricked her finger.
Blood dripped onto the red embroidered shoes.
Just when everyone thought that the blood thread would connect to Zhou Xiuqin's hand, the red embroidered shoes still showed no reaction.
Zhou Xiuqin seemed to have caught something wrong, and cried out excitedly: "No reaction, see, no reaction! I said it wasn't me!"
"Chen Wan, you claim to be a master of metaphysics, is this how you cheat people?"
Mr. Si also pricked his finger and dripped blood on the red embroidered shoes.
The shoes still didn't respond.
"Master Shen, what?" Tiantian's mother was puzzled.
Chen Wan said calmly, "There are more than just the three of you in the Si family, call back everyone who is related to Tiantian and give it a try."
"What are you talking about!" Zhou Xiuqin was furious. "One moment you said I was the murderer, and then when I saw the shoes didn't react, you framed someone else!"
“Chen Wan, don’t even think about making trouble in my Si family again!”
"Dad, can't you see clearly? She is a charlatan!"
Mr. Si looked at Shen Wan deeply, and then ordered: “Let Tiantian’s father go home.”
Zhou Xiuqin became even more excited when she heard that her son was going to come back: "Dad! Sihao is very busy at the company. It would be a waste of time to call him back now!"
"Tell him to go home right now!" Mr. Si's dragon-headed cane hit the floor tiles heavily, making a dull sound.
Tiantian's mother looked at her mother-in-law Zhou Xiuqin's unreasonable behavior, and thought of her husband's deliberate avoidance after Tiantian fell ill, and her face turned pale.
No way…
When she found out she was pregnant with a daughter, her husband never despised her and instead encouraged her to give birth to the baby.
My husband is not a man who favors boys over girls, so it definitely won’t be his.
Soon, Si Hao was called back home. He didn't know what everyone was doing. He only heard his grandfather asking him to drip blood on his shoes.
Without thinking much, he picked up a fruit knife and stabbed it, letting the blood drip on it.
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