Chapter 479 Past Events, Master Tao's Secret
Just then, the Wen family was recruiting workers, so Tao Xiangjun joined the Wen family. After hard work, he finally rose from a laborer to a housekeeper.
Little did he know that this was the beginning of another ordeal for him.
“I was diagnosed with nephritis a few years after I was promoted to housekeeper of Wen Zirou’s house. But because the treatment was too expensive, and I didn’t have much money at the time, it dragged on and eventually developed into uremia.”
Tao Xiangjun sighed and said, "The city hospital told me that the only way to live was to have a kidney transplant, but how could I afford the hundreds of thousands of yuan? At that time, my wife was pregnant again. I didn't want to leave them to die, so I decided to go back to my old ways and set my sights on the Wen family's accounting."
"But things are unpredictable. I've been stealing for years and have never failed before. I never expected that I would fail on this most important occasion."
"Could it be that Wen Zirou found out?" Kong Wange guessed.
Tao Xiangjun nodded: "That's right. Under Wen Zirou's questioning, I had no choice but to tell her about my situation and identity. I was willing to resign as the housekeeper and begged her not to call the police because I didn't want my child to be born with the stigma of being the child of a thief."
"But to my surprise, Wen Zirou wasn't furious when she heard what I said. Instead, she was quite happy. She promised not to call the police, but asked me to do something for her. She also promised that if I did it, she would help me find a kidney donor and pay for my kidney transplant!"
"Wow, those are tempting offers." Murong Ting said sarcastically from the side.
Tao Xiangjun sighed again and said, "Young Master Ting, Miss Kong, whether you believe it or not, I really didn't know Wen Zirou's purpose in asking me to do something. If I had known that she wanted to kill someone, I would never have agreed."
Hearing this, and considering Tao Xiangjun's identity, Kong Wange had a rough idea and asked directly, "Wen Zirou asked you to steal a herb called 'Heartbreak Grass' from the Imperial Academy, right?"
Tao Xiangjun glanced at Kong Wange and nodded in surprise: "That's right, but I didn't really want to steal anymore, so I took a shortcut and impersonated a student from the Imperial Academy, pretending to borrow herbs for research and returning them later. I figured that even if I didn't return them, that student would take the blame, and it wouldn't necessarily trace back to me."
“I didn’t think anything of it at the time, but Wen Zirou scolded me after hearing about it. She said I was unreliable and insisted that I get rid of that student so that there would be no trace of him. I disagreed. In the end, we argued back and forth and came up with a compromise: I would sneak into Baicaotang and erase the medicine collection record.”
"So you wet the collection form with ink and erased the registered name." Kong Wange finally understood what was going on with the registration book with the erased name that she had found.
Tao Xiangjun suddenly realized, "No wonder, it turns out Miss Kong had already gone to Baicaotang to check the registration form."
Murong Ting, standing beside him, raised an eyebrow and asked suspiciously, "You're trying to absolve yourself of all responsibility. You said you were only responsible for stealing the medicine, and Wen Zirou never explained its purpose to you. So how did you know she used the medicine to kill someone?"
“Young Master Ting asks a good question.” Tao Xiangjun continued to recall, and said in a low voice, “Because before I stole the medicine, there was a rumor circulating in the Wen family that Old Master Wen was seriously ill and intended to bring back his eldest aunt to inherit the position of family head. Just over a month after I stole the medicine, news suddenly came from Jiangcheng that his eldest aunt had passed away.”
"Based on this alone?" Kong Wange stared intently at Tao Xiangjun.
“Miss Kong, please let me finish. The night the news of my great-aunt’s passing came, the entire Wen family was immersed in grief. Even the current head of the family, Wen Zhengning, was somewhat dejected. But Wen Zirou… was a little relieved and a little happy. She even called me over to tell me that a kidney donor had been found and that I could go for a transplant and resign from my job to recuperate at home.”
"At the time... I had a vague feeling that something was wrong, so I kept an eye on things. When I left, I didn't go far, but went around to the back window and heard my second aunt making a phone call. In her voice, she said..."
"What did you say?" Kong Wange pressed.
Tao Xiangjun gritted his teeth and said, "He praised the unique secret recipe for the Heartbreak Pill provided by the other party, saying that it was indeed powerful. It was made mainly of the century-old Heartbreak Grass and supplemented with other poisonous herbs. Even a genius of traditional Chinese medicine like my great-aunt was poisoned by it. He also exclaimed that my great-aunt was poisoned by such a powerful poison, but she was still able to hold on until she gave birth to her child before dying. If she hadn't been pregnant, the Heartbreak Pill might not have been able to deal with her."
As soon as Tao Xiangjun finished speaking, Kong Wange shrank back, her whole body trembling uncontrollably.
So, did she ruin her mother's life?
If it weren't for her, given her mother's medical skills, wouldn't she have been able to neutralize the poison of the Broken Intestine Pill without any worries?
"It was me... It's all my fault, I'm the one who ruined my mother," Kong Wange murmured to herself.
Murong Ting hugged Kong Wange tenderly, stroking her head and saying, "Wanwan, it's not your fault. The biggest villains are Wen Zirou and the person who provided the poison formula. Don't get stuck on this and let the real bad guys get away with it."
"Little Ge'er, Murong Ting is right. Calm down and listen to what I have to say. We will avenge Aunt Zhiyi." Yan Su's voice came through, steady and solid, bringing Kong Wange back to her senses.
Murong Ting hugged her and gently patted her back: "It's alright, it's all over now. Your brother is right. With such a great grudge before us, we should pull ourselves together and punish the evildoers to comfort our mother's spirit in heaven."
Under such reassurance, Kong Wange's emotions gradually calmed down. Holding back her tears, she asked in a muffled voice, "Who was the person who called Wen Zirou and provided her with the poison formula?"
"I don't know about that. I only heard Wen Zirou call him Boss Tang, and her tone when she spoke to him was quite respectful, unlike an ordinary person."
Kong Wange turned to look at Murong Ting and Yan Su, both of whom shook their heads, indicating that they had never heard of Boss Tang.
Seeing the three people's reaction, Tao Xiangjun, fearing they wouldn't believe him, added, "I recorded this conversation. If you don't believe me, I'll hand over the recording, and you can listen to it yourselves."
"To be honest, I'm so glad I survived all these years without being silenced, thanks to this recording. Wen Zirou is doing all this tonight without any regard for the consequences, she must be afraid that I'll give the recording to Miss Kong."
"Where is the recording?" Yan Su asked.
Tao Xiangjun paused for a moment, then mentioned a place.
The three of them secretly noted down the location. Kong Wange then asked, "Tao Xiangjun, besides Wen Zirou, were there any other members of the Wen family involved in my mother's death?"
"You want to know if Wen Zhengning knows or not, right? I have always been following Wen Zirou's orders. As for whether Wen Zhengning knows or not, I can't make any assumptions."
Yan Su chimed in, "How could he not know that he was the biggest beneficiary after Aunt Zhiyi's death?"
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