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Chapter 112 - What a mess
Chapter 112 - What a mess
Chapter 112 What a mess
Although Madam Luo and Mammy Tang were mentally well-prepared, they were shocked by Dr. Ma’s words. Dong Xinlan was not surprised but angry. Dr. Ma was so stupid! Shi Liu had said that the cubilose soup was sent by Madam Luo. Why did he still say that Zhu had been poisoned?
In the early of this morning, Pu Gongying brought a cup of superior red cubilose soup, saying that it was made by the Third Miss for Zhu. Although the red cubilose was a good thing, it wasn’t a rarity for Dong Xinlan. A few days ago, when she was pregnant, all the red cubilose in Luo’s Family was sent to her. Wang Qi’s wife, the administrator of kitchen, cooked it for her in various ways, so she just wanted to vomit when eating it.
After Pu Gongying left, Dong Xinlan was very angry, so she raised her hand and splashed the red cubilose soup on the ground, which made her happier. Then she hit upon an idea while seeing Zhu who was sound asleep in couch. She fed him with a few knockout drops dissolved in warm water. Then she asked Shu’er to tell Dr. Ma, who lived in the guest room, that if Madam Luo asked Zhu’s situation, he just told Madam Luo that Zhu had been poisoned by the cubilose sent by He Danggui, so that he was unconscious. And she also gave Dr. Ma a red packet of 20 liang silver.
Seeing that Dr. Ma was extremely stiff, Dong Xinlan hastened to wink at him. At this time, Luo Baiqian was confused by her action, so he asked, “Do you have a cramp in your eyes?” Then Dong Xinlan had to give up the idea of changing Dr. Ma’s words.
“Madam Luo, the Third Miss is coming.” Mammy Hua led in the Third Miss she met on the way. He Danggui came up and bowed to Madam Luo. Then she stood obediently behind Mammy Hua. It seemed that she was unchanged, as timid and resigned as she was in everyone’s memory.
“Ah, she’s the ghost!” Wei, who stood in the corner, looked at He Danggui and threw the thing in his hand away. He cried, “She’s the ghost! She is the ghost who wants to kill my little brother!”
Wei threw the thing on Mammy Li’s feet, and then Mammy Li looked down. Immediately, she yelled, “Ah! That’s a mouse! A mouse!”
All people looked at it. It was really a mouse. Among the people in the room, Luo Baiqian was the one most afraid of it. He killed the mice all the time yesterday, and he dreamed of these things at night. Therefore, seeing them again, he jumped to the couch where his son was sleeping without taking off his shoes. That mouse didn’t go to find anyone else, but just jumped into the couch and crawled to the sleeping Zhu. Then Dong Xinlan and Madam Luo started screaming, but they didn’t dare to come forward to save Zhu.
Seeing that the mouse was about to climb onto Zhu, Madam Luo looked up to the sky and shouted, “Nie Chun, help!” Then Nie Chun, who was always hiding in the dark, leaped into the room immediately. He killed that mouse by waving his palm and threw it away from the window with another wave.
Dong Xinlan was irritated, and then she saw He Danggui lowering her head in the corner. Immediately, she rushed toward He Danggui with her right palm high raised and was about to hit He Danggui. However, He Danggui who was in the corner completely wasn’t aware of it, but just lowered her head without any intention of avoiding. The fake Feng Yang was close to He Danggui. Seeing this, he subconsciously jumped to and stood in front of her to block Dong Xinlan. Therefore, Dong Xinlan who was rushing rebounded from the fake Feng Yang and took some steps backward. Wherever she went, everyone avoided her. At last, she sat on the ground.
Dong Xinlan was so anxious and angry that she screamed, “Ah! You bastard! Why do you stop me?” Mammy Pin stepped forward to hold her, and whispered that the Childe was Feng Yang, the Young Lord of Caobang Organization, an important guest invited by Madam Luo. Young Lord of Caobang Organization? Dong Xinlan’s face turned pale at once. The trepang business of Dong’s Family depended on the business channels of Caobang Organization! Then Dong Xinlan got rid of Mammy Pin’s hands angrily. She said angrily, “Hum, before I fell down, you saw me but eluded. But now, why do you hold me?”
Mammy Pin was sent by Madam Luo to serve Jiugu. Although she could not compare with Mammy Tang in status in Luo’s Mansion, she was an elder. Besides, as an old saying went, “When you beat a dog, you should consider its owner.” Hearing Dong Xinlan’s words, Jiugu said unhappily, “First Younger Mistress Luo, why did you hit the Third Miss?”
Dong Xinlan pointed to He Danggui behind the fake Feng Yang who was tall and strong, replying angrily, “She is a jinx! Before she came, all of us were just talking with each other. As soon as she came in, first she scared Wei and then almost let the mouse bite Zhu!” After hearing that, Feng Jiugu’s face turned pale. Then Dong Xinlan realized that she had misspoken because the biggest “jinx” there was Feng Jiugu! And the word “jinx” was a taboo for Jiugu. The reason why she refused to go back to Feng’s Mansion with Feng Yilian was that Madam Feng once pointed at her nose and scolded her as “white tiger spirit” and “jinx”.
Finally, Madam Luo was intolerant of her granddaughter-in-law who spoke bad words frequently. She rebuked, “Granddaughter-in-law, I think you are the niece of my first daughter-in-law, and you are spoiled at Dong’s Family, so I always treat you as my granddaughter. But you definitely crossed the line today! You even don’t know how to speak well in front of the distinguished guests. Today, even if your mother-in-law doesn’t teach you a lesson, I will do it for her!”
Madam Luo’s rebuke stunned Dong Xinlan. Then she threw herself on Zhu who was comatose, and cried, “How undeserved! What’s wrong with me? Zhu has become like this. Why can’t I beat her?”
Luo Baishao saw Wei shaking in chaos, so she asked happily, “Nephew Wei, don’t hide! Come to play with me! Tell me, why do you call the Third Sister ghost? Why do you think she looks like a ghost?”
“Ah, ghost!” Wei rushed towards Luo Baishao’s arms, shivering and shouting, “Fourth Aunt, help! The bitch He must come to avenge herself on me and my little brother! Don’t look for me! It was my little brother who pushed her down the rockery. I was just watching them. I did nothing!”
After Wei finished, all the people in the wing-room kept quiet. Even Dong Xinlan who was the loudest stopped crying. All people were shocked. They looked at Wei together and then looked at Wei’s mother together.
All people in Luo’s Family knew that “the bitch He” said by Wei was Third Miss. Under the “education of different status” of the First Younger Mistress Luo, not only the two Young Masters called the Third Miss of low status “the bitch He”, but a maid in Liu Li Tang called her “the bitch He” casually. Much to their surprise, a white dog named “Shuo Yue” from the Western Regions raised in Liu Li Tang would like to roll and play with anyone in the family. But it went away only when seeing the Third Miss.
In the stare of the crowd, Dong Xinlan regretted and wanted to leave. After hearing that He Danggui was reborn in the Taoist temple, she immediately joined up with the First Mistress Luo to persuade Madam Luo not to bring He Danggui home. She was afraid that He Danggui would tell others that Zhu pushed her down the rockery and hurt her head if she came back. Later, Li Jiuguang’s wife from the Taoist temple said that He Danggui had lost her memory and couldn’t remember all the things before her “death”. Therefore, Dong Xinlan no longer cared about Madam Luo’s determination to take He Danggui back. Then she was busy looking after her son Zhu, so she forgot to tell Wei that he didn’t need to be panic while seeing “the bitch He” and never told others that he and his little brother bullied He Danggui so she fell off the rockery!
In fact, Dong Xinlan didn’t want to bring Wei here because he had been crying for his mouse since yesterday. And he was sadder than when his little brother died. But in this morning, Luo Baiqian was absent-minded and tried to go out, while Wei made the effort to leave him staying at home. Then Dong Xinlan was very happy, so she brought Wei here and asked him not to let his father leave.
“Hey, why do you all stare at me?” Dong Xinlan rolled her eyes and screamed, “Wei is only 3 years old. How can you believe his words? Why don’t you ask He Danggui if she was pushed down? Did Zhu push her down? Grandma, you know that Zhu can’t even hold chopsticks while eating. How can he push a strong person down the rockery?”
Therefore, everyone looked at He Danggui.
He Danggui was also shocked because when she woke up in the Taoist temple in the previous life and in this life, the memory of her death was blank, which was really weird. She had doubted several defiant maids, and also doubted Dong Xinlan, Sun Meiniang or Luo Baishao, but she had never doubted these two three-year-old nephews. Oh, how weak she was in the previous life! She should be pushed down the rockery by Zhu who couldn’t hold chopsticks and just learned to walk!
Then He Danggui realized that both Dong Xinlan and Ms. Zhao, the First Mistress Luo, knew that she was killed by Zhu.
She lost her memory in the previous life, and she said she only remembered a dream that three kids were fighting for a jelly bean. Then the jelly bean fell onto the ground, and she picked it up and ate it. After that, she woke up. This dream was delivered to the people in Luo’s Family by several women who kept vigil beside the coffin. Ms. Zhao and Dong Xinlan were guilty about it. They thought that “three kids” in He Danggui’s dream obviously were Dong Xinlan’s three children. Even if He Danggui really lost her memory, there must be several scenes before she died in her mind. Maybe once she returned to Luo’s Mansion, she would remember who killed her. Therefore, Ms. Zhao and Dong Xinlan bribed Fortune-teller Li on the West Street, and then told Madam Luo some bad words about He Danggui. As a result, He Danggui was abandoned in the Taoist temple for half a year.
Thinking of that, He Danggui, who was standing behind the fake Feng Yang, suddenly put her hands on her head and cried out sadly, “Ah, I have a splitting headache! Ah, I can’t remember it! Don’t push me. I forget everything!” After this, she closed her eyes and fell onto the ground.
The fake Feng Yang was shocked, and then he held her in his arms nimbly. But immediately, he thought it was inappropriate, so he highly held her neck with one hand and wanted someone to help. Then he handed her to Ning Yuan and winked at him to ask if Ning Yuan wanted to take her. Ning Yuan shook his head slightly. At this time, Nie Chun in red, the tallest man, came out and held He Danggui who was just like a doll under his right arm. Then he walked quickly to hand her to Madam Luo who was sitting beside the couch.
Madam Luo touched He Danggui’s chest, and then her face suddenly changed. She cried loudly, “No, Yi is going to die again! What a short-lived child!”
Nie Chun tugged at He Danggui’s right arm to feel her pulse. Then he found that there was no response. He used his finger to transmit Zhenqi for her, but it was also useless. Therefore, Nie Chun, who hardly had expressions, couldn’t help opening his mouth and exclaiming, “She really died! Was she scared to death?”
Luo Baiqian didn’t believe it. Therefore, he pushed Nie Chun away and grabbed that delicate arm to feel the pulse. After a while, Dong Xinlan looked unhappy and just wanted to complain. Unexpectedly, another man grabbed the arm from Luo Baiqian to observe. Luo Baiqian and Nie Chun stared at the man together. Where did he come from? Someone of Luo’s Family was dead now. Did he have anything to do with it?
Ning Yuan frowned and felt He Danggui’s pulse. He also wanted to feel the pulse on the side of her neck and the heartbeat on her chest, but he stopped because he was surrounded by several people who were staring at him. She was indeed dead from her pulse. Ning Yuan shook his head. If he hadn’t dealt with her, it was OK. But just now, she was still fighting with him. He had to admit that he lost a game, though he was unwilling to admit it in his mind. How could a girl with subtlety, means and courage be scared to death by a three-year-old kid? Thinking of this, he transmitted Zhenqi for her through her right palm.
Seeing this, Nie Chun also held another hand of He Danggui to transmit Zhenqi for her. However, he felt that his Zhenqi was useless for her life.
When all the people in the room were nervous, gloating or waiting, Zhu lying on the couch writhed suddenly. Then he looked extremely painful and got cramp in the whole body. Meanwhile, he started foaming at the mouth. Dong Xinlan burst into tears, rushed to pick up him and asked, “How could this happen? What about Zhu?”
Dr. Ma threw up his hands and replied helplessly, “First Younger Mistress Luo, I have said that Young Master was poisoned! Highly toxic!”