After waiting and waiting, Jian Piaoyi finally arrived.
“Young Miss.” Granny Zhang lowered her head, but her eyes were fixed on the soup that Jian Piaoyi was holding.
"Where is Mother?" Jian Piaoyi looked around but couldn't find Ji Xiaoxiao.
"Reporting to Miss, Madam was overworked yesterday and has not yet gotten up."
Granny Zhang looked slightly embarrassed.
"Not up yet?" Jian Piaoyi looked surprised.
Granny Zhang nodded in agreement.
With malicious intent in mind, Jian Piaoyi waited for people in the main hall with a bowl of soup.
Time ticked by, and it was late afternoon when Ji Xiaoxiao finally arrived.
"Ha." Ji Xiaoxiao yawned.
"Madam, Miss has arrived," said Zhang Mama with relief. "Miss has brought soup."
"Soup?" Ji Xiaoxiao was taken aback. That thing could deliver soup to her?
"Indeed, it's the soup, the taste is absolutely amazing." Granny Zhang paused, took out a handkerchief to wipe the corner of her eyes, "Madam, the eldest young lady has become sensible."
Jian Piaoyi has become sensible? That's a pipe dream.
"Could it be that they poisoned me, wanting to get rid of this eyesore of a mother?"
Ji Xiaoxiao thought to herself without uttering a word.
Upon entering the main hall, Jian Piaoyi warmly approached him, offering words of comfort and concern.
"Mother, this is the soup your daughter made for you."
Have we laid enough groundwork?
"Madam." Ji Xiaoxiao took the small bowl of soup that the maid brought out from the pot.
Ji Xiaoxiao held a bowl in one hand and a spoon in the other, the spoon supporting the soup. She brought it to her lips and smelled the aroma; it was very fragrant, indicating that a lot of ingredients had been added!
"Mother, please try it quickly, it won't taste good when it gets cold," Jian Piaoyi urged.
Unsolicited kindness is either a sign of malice or theft; the ancients were right.
"Granny Zhang, bring a dog over."
A little while later, Granny Zhang came over leading a small dog.
Ji Xiaoxiao handed the bowl to Granny Zhang, "Give it to the dog."
"Madam, what is this?"
The young lady personally cooked the soup, but the madam didn't appreciate it and even made the dog test the soup for poison. The madam was really slapping the young lady in the face.
Despite her dissatisfaction and worries, Ji Xiaoxiao was her mistress, and Zhang Mama could only obey her orders.
"Wait!" Jian Piaoyi panicked as she saw the soup about to be forced into the dog's mouth.
"Ignore her."
The dog drank the soup that Jian Piaoyi served, its limbs convulsed, it foamed at the mouth, and soon it died.
"Young lady, you murdered your own mother."
Granny Zhang's hands and feet trembled, and the remaining half bowl of soup in her hand spilled out.
"No, it wasn't me."
Regardless of whether Jian Piaoyi was the one who poisoned him, the impartial Ji Xiaoxiao ordered the person to be detained and sent to the government.
By the time Jian Guangyang learned of this, the news of Jian Piaoyi murdering her birth mother was already common knowledge in the capital, and he could no longer suppress it.
"Zeng Feizi, you poisonous woman."
Jian Guangyang, his clothes fluttering, stormed into Wutong Garden in a rage.
"Go to the government office immediately and say that you made a mistake and that you have rescued Piaoyi."
"Seeing is believing, hearing is deceiving. Do you think I, the person involved, wouldn't know whether it's true or false? My lord, please use your brain. Am I poisonous? It's your daughter who's poisonous, so vicious that she wants to poison the very mother who gave birth to her and raised her."
This is truly an eye-opening experience for Ji Xiaoxiao. It's the first time she's encountered a daughter murdering her own mother. She's certainly learned something new.
Jian Guangyang, feeling guilty and in the wrong, would not allow Jian Piaoyi to be convicted. If the daughter was found guilty of murdering her mother, the Marquis of Wei's mansion would truly have no face to remain in the capital.
No beatings, no scoldings, no forced confessions—Jian Guangyang wanted Ji Xiaoxiao to go to the government office in high spirits and bring Jian Piaoyi out, completely silencing the gossip.
“Okay, I can grant your request,” Ji Xiaoxiao continued, “However, I cannot keep Jian Piaoyi as my daughter.”
"don't want?"
Ji Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "Aunt Hu and Jian Piaoyi have always addressed each other as mother and daughter. I think it would be good to raise Jian Piaoyi under Aunt Hu's care. What do you think, my lord?"
Jian Guangyang agreed to Ji Xiaoxiao's request for this small matter.
Ji Xiaoxiao did not disappoint Jian Guangyang. The next day, she took the "prisoner" that Jian Guangyang had randomly chosen to the government office and exchanged him for Jian Piaoyi.
Jian Piaoyi had suffered in prison; her face was pale, and she looked like a frightened deer. That night, Jian Piaoyi's courtyard was brightly lit, and a doctor rushed over.
After resting for about ten days, Jian Piaoyi's illness subsided.
"Father, Mother," Jian Piaoyi greeted at Wutong Garden.
"Aunt Hu," Jian Piaoyi called out respectfully.
Hu Yanyan sat in the lower seat and smiled kindly at Jian Piaoyi.
"Brother." Following the order of seniority, Jian Gongxin was last.
Jian Gongxin grunted in response, then asked impatiently, "Father, why did you summon us to Wutong Garden?" He hadn't had enough fun yet!
Jian Guangyang looked at Ji Xiaoxiao and sighed, "Today, I asked you to come to Wutong Garden not for any particular reason, but because of Piaoyi."
"Father, I didn't poison her. I didn't want to harm Mother." Jian Piaoyi quickly denied it. She didn't want to go back to that domineering prison where snakes, insects, and rats roamed.
"That's not it."
That's good, Jian Piaoyi breathed a sigh of relief.
Jian Guangyang's gaze fell on Hu Yanyan, "Yanyan, do you like this child, Piaoyi?"
Hu Yanyan smiled and said she liked it.
"Alright, from now on, Piaoyi will be your biological daughter."
Jian Guangyang made the final decision, fearing they might change their minds.
---Aside---
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