Ye Qingxue took a deep breath and stepped into the courtyard.
He then called Chunqian over: "Go and bring up Granny Hu."
Chunqian agreed, and soon after, Hu Mama was brought before Ye Qingxue.
From the time she was put in the dark room until now, only two or three hours have passed, and Hu Mama seems to have become a completely different person.
Her hair was disheveled, her face was pale, her cheeks were swollen, and her eyes were bloodshot, showing that the darkness of the small dark room was not something everyone could easily endure.
"I'm willing to tell the eldest young lady the truth about the second young master and the second young lady's background, but I demand that the eldest young lady release my daughter, son-in-law, and two grandsons first!" Granny Hu's voice was hoarse and strained.
Ye Qingxue took a sip of tea and said, "Granny Hu, your family is in my hands. You have no right to negotiate with me. Only if you obediently tell the truth will I consider whether to release them."
Granny Hu said, "But before revealing the truth, I want to see if my daughter and the others are alright. Is that too much to ask?"
“Okay.” Ye Qingxue said, “Chunqian, you and Xia Lu take Hu Mama over to see her daughter.”
Spring is light and summer is green. One of them, along with the other, led Hu Mama to the backyard.
Ye Qingxue sat in the chair and waited.
She remembered that when she entered the courtyard, the sky was still bright. She never expected that in such a short time, the sky would become so gloomy.
It looks like tonight's rain is going to be really heavy.
She clearly remembered that there was a torrential rain tonight in her past life. At that time, she was in unbearable pain, lying in bed listening to the sound of the rain until midnight. At midnight, the rain almost flooded the yard.
Who could have imagined such a storm in spring?
This is so rare, no one expected it.
"Miss! Miss!" Chunqian rushed over, her face pale, and almost collapsed in front of Ye Qingxue: "Hu Mama's daughter is dead, bleeding from all seven orifices, lying on the ground!"
"What?!" Ye Qingxue immediately stood up and walked towards the backyard. "How could someone die with blood flowing from all seven orifices?"
"This servant doesn't know either. There have been people watching over her all along. Apart from her son-in-law, no one can get in touch with her daughter," Chunqian said anxiously.
Because it was unexpected, she and Xia Lu were really startled.
As soon as Ye Qingxue approached the backyard, she heard Hu Mama's heart-wrenching cries.
Ye Qingxue quickened her pace and saw Hu Mama's son-in-law in the house. She seemed to be extremely frightened, and she collapsed to the ground, clutching her head and looking pale.
After crying and shouting for a long time, seeing that her daughter showed no signs of waking up and had stopped breathing, had stopped pulsating, and had stopped having a heartbeat, she rushed towards her son-in-law and began to tear at him.
"How did my daughter die? How exactly did she die? Just a few hours ago, I saw her perfectly fine. How did she become a corpse now?"
Her son-in-law was also in a state of confusion, shock, and fear, and his tone of voice was completely incoherent:
"I don't know, Mother, I really don't know! She suddenly collapsed, bleeding from all seven orifices, and wouldn't wake up no matter how much I called her! Could she have been poisoned? Someone poisoned her! Someone must have poisoned her!"
"Poisoning?" As if she had thought of something, Hu Mama suddenly stopped tearing and slowly turned around to look at Ye Qingxue.
The lanterns in the courtyard were all lit, but the light was still dim, and the lanterns swayed in the strong wind. Coupled with the rumbling thunder in the sky, the atmosphere became increasingly gloomy and terrifying.
The sudden flash of lightning turned Granny Hu's face as pale as a ghost.
"It was you—" Granny Hu stretched out her hand, pointing at Ye Qingxue's face: "You poisoned my daughter! She was not a servant of the Marquis's mansion. You had no right to decide her life or death. I can go to the government office to sue you. I want you to pay for my daughter's life!"
Ye Qingxue said, "I have no grudge against her, and I have no reason to kill her! She was in the same room as your son-in-law, so your son-in-law is more likely to kill her than I am!"
"However, these are just guesses. Let me check on her condition first and determine how she died."
Ye Qingxue wanted to go in, but was stopped by Granny Hu.
She roared, "You're not allowed to touch my daughter! You're the one who poisoned her! You're ruthless; you can even kill your own family. What chance do you have of my daughter, who was just an insignificant stranger to you?"
Suddenly, Granny Hu pulled out the hairpin from her head: "I don't care how capable you are, I'm going to fight you to the death today to avenge my daughter!"
In her extreme rage, Hu Mama used all her strength to stab Ye Qingxue in the heart with her hairpin.
Ye Qingxue did not draw the long whip from her waist, but instead subdued Hu Mama with her bare hands and handed her over to Chunqian and Xia Lu to watch over.
Granny Hu howled like a trapped beast, her voice extremely shrill.
Ye Qingxue went forward to check on her daughter's condition. Judging from the manner of death, it did seem like she had died from poisoning, but who could have poisoned her?
Ye Qingxue looked at Hu Mama's son-in-law. He was the most suspicious, but he had no motive to kill his wife, and he seemed to be quite frightened.
Ye Qingxue suddenly remembered what Yun Zhuo had told her before he left. Could it be that the old lady's people did it when she went to the front hall?
That shouldn't be the case. Chunqian and Xialu are both in the courtyard. If the old lady's people came in to poison them, they wouldn't have been alerted.
Moreover, Hu Mama's son-in-law is here too. If the old lady's people want to poison someone, they wouldn't just kill one of them, would they?
Besides, if it were an outsider who poisoned the daughter, the son-in-law should have seen it.
Based on this, the son-in-law is the most suspicious.
Chunqian and Xialu were not skilled in martial arts. Hu Mama, in a state of extreme anger and grief, suddenly broke free from their grasp and was about to attack Ye Qingxue again.
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