Chapter 422: Drugging His Own Biological Daughter

Nan Jiaojiao ignored her and unfolded the acupuncture kit, beginning to detoxify Qianqian.

She had revealed her identity merely for convenience.

And why did Zhou Zining, who could have used any name, insist on finding her?

She dared to openly admit it because this was the Bo Family, and every word spoken in this room could never be leaked out.

Zhou Zining, however, felt as if she’d been struck by lightning.

By the time she came to her senses and thought to intervene, it was already too late to find a reason to do so.

But she still held onto a sliver of hope and suspicion.

Thus, she took out her phone, trying to take a picture of Nan Jiaojiao, but just as she pressed the shutter, Bo Yanching happened to raise his hand and block the shot.

There was no second chance, as she couldn’t withstand the stern warning in Bo Yanching’s sharp gaze.

Luckily, the photo captured the lower half of Nan Jiaojiao’s face and the acupuncture needles in her hand, so Zhou Zining sent the original image to her grandfather.

To her surprise, her grandfather called back in less than a second.

Zhou Zining stepped away from everyone to take the call outside.

“Zining, where did you get that photo?” her grandfather asked, his voice trembling slightly.

Zhou Zining pursed her lips.

“Grandpa, do you recognize the person in the photo?”

“She resembles someone I used to know,” he said.

“Who?”

“Xiao Nanshan” was on the tip of her tongue, nearly slipping out, but Zhou Zining didn’t want to impose any preconceived notions on her grandfather.

“I’m not sure.

Every time that person came to see me, they covered half their face, so they look both similar and dissimilar to the photo.

Do you have a full-face picture?”

Zhou Zining’s heart sank.

She didn’t tell him that Xiao Nanshan, whom her grandfather had been searching for, was right in front of her.

Instead, she made up a quick lie that she had just happened to see the person and then hung up the phone after a few perfunctory remarks.

Rushing back into the room, she heard someone screaming, and in a daze, she caught words that sounded like someone saying Qianqian was foaming at the mouth.

Zhou Zining immediately wanted to rush over, but she was stopped outside by Old Lady Bo’s people.

Soon after, Nan Jiaojiao recognized several medicinal ingredients from Qianqian’s vomit and accurately identified them.

Taken individually, these herbs wouldn’t harm the human body, but combined, they could cause drowsiness and diarrhea.

Old Lady Bo was furious.

She ordered a thorough search inside and outside the Bo Residence and gave Auntie Wu a significant look.

Understanding the cue, Auntie Wu went straight to Zhou Zining’s room and indeed found a bottle of pills.

Nan Jiaojiao crushed the pills, picked through them with a needle, and said with a chilling calm, “This is poison.”

Old Lady Bo, in a swift motion, slapped Zhou Zining across the face and pointed at her accusingly, yelling, “I thought you just didn’t like Shuxian, and therefore disliked Qianqian too, but I never imagined your mind was so malicious to drug your own daughter!”

Zhou Zining’s legs gave out, and she fell to her knees, covering her face and sobbing, “I don’t know, I really don’t know.

Qianqian has been taking this medicine all along for her stutter, it’s not poison, how could it be poison?”

Old Lady Bo’s dark eyes deepened with doubt.

She asked Nan Jiaojiao, “Jiaojiao, what exactly is this drug?”

“I’ve tested it.

The person who prepared the medication put three grams less of each herb.

If taken in large doses, it is undoubtedly a slow poison, but reduced like this, at most it causes diarrhea and drowsiness.

Qianqian’s dark complexion is due to the frequent use lately.

If she stops taking the medicine, the poison will slowly leave her system, and there will be no lasting harm.”

The person who prepared the medicine held malicious intentions yet calculated precisely, knowing that it wouldn’t be a problem in small doses, but they forgot the principle that all medicine has its poison element.

“Zhou Zining, tell me honestly, where did this poison come from!” commanded Old Lady Bo sternly.