Chapter 175 - 173: The Truth Behind the Conspiracy (Double Release)

Chapter 175: Chapter 173: The Truth Behind the Conspiracy (Double Release)

After Xu Jing and the others left, Young Madam Jiang was fidgety and restless in her room.

Anyone who knew someone at home wanted to harm them wouldn’t be able to stay calm.

Seeing this, Jingyi poured a cup of warm water for Young Madam Jiang and said, "Young Madam, please calm down and have some water first."

On the side, Jing Shui, seemingly unable to bear seeing her Young Madam so anxious, frowned slightly and said, "What Doctor Xu said may not necessarily be right. After all, she is just a doctor. It’s possible that Lady Hua has some illicit thoughts about our master, but to say someone at home wants to harm Young Madam sounds baseless."

Jingyi sighed inwardly and said, "I hope Doctor Xu made a mistake too. But you, little girl, why are you always speaking against Lady Hua? Our master has never paid her any attention. With her timid nature, standing next to Young Madam, she’s not even worthy to serve her tea. Why do you care about her so much?"

Jing Shui pouted and muttered quietly, "I just find her annoying..."

At this moment, footsteps were heard outside; Xu Jing and the others had returned.

Young Madam Jiang quickly sat upright and asked, "Doctor Xu, how did it go?"

Xu Jing looked at her and directly stated her conclusion, "Young Madam Jiang, there is indeed someone in this household who wants to harm you."

After pausing, she added, "And that person has set up a murder plot against you. If you were to walk into it unknowingly, the outcomes could be disastrous."

Young Madam Jiang, already pale, looked more ashen, and her breath was unstable as she asked, "How could this be? What on earth is going on?"

"I will explain everything to Young Madam Jiang now."

Xu Jing said calmly, "What to do next is for Young Madam Jiang to decide."

That afternoon, the corridor in front of Lady Huaiyin’s courtyard was bustling. Lady Huaiyin, accompanied by her maidservants, walked there, and upon seeing the corridor full of people, she was slightly stunned, her face already darkening as she asked, "What’s going on here? Lei’er, why are you also here? Did Yanxia call you over?"

The Heir of Huaiyin Marquis, Xin Lei, handsome with fair skin and elegance, looked at his mother, evidently also somewhat surprised, "Mother? Yes, I just returned home, and Jing Dan called me here."

"What about Yanxia? She’s only just started getting better in the past two days. Why isn’t she resting in her room? Why gather so many people here?"

Lady Huaiyin frowned, very displeased.

Looking around, those present included herself, Xin Lei, Fourth Young Lady Xin Zhiwan, and Lady Hua. When she saw the old lady slowly walking over with assistance, Lady Huaiyin was completely surprised and rushed to meet her, this time genuinely a bit angry, "Mother, Yanxia called you here too?!"

"Yes, Jingyi just came to me saying Yanxia has something important to say and asked me to come."

The old lady slowly surveyed the crowd, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, "You, you also..."

Before she finished speaking, Xin Lei’s voice rang out, "Madam, your health isn’t fully recovered. Why are you out? Be careful not to catch a cold again."

Not far away, Jing Dan and Jingyi were supporting the pallid and thin Young Madam Jiang as they slowly walked over. Behind her were Jing Shui, Xu Jing, and Zhao Shaohua.

Young Madam Jiang didn’t respond to her husband’s words. She walked to the front of the crowd and coldly said, "Everyone must be wondering why I called you all here, including disturbing both Mother and the Old Madam. I had no choice; today I learned that someone in this household has painstakingly tried to kill me!"

The hatred in Young Madam Jiang’s voice startled the crowd. Lady Huaiyin was the first to react, quickly saying, "Yanxia, are you out of your mind from your illness? We’re all family; who would want to harm you?"

Moreover, it’s not just harming someone; it’s wanting to kill them.

This is, this is just too shocking!

"Mother, I’ve been married into the Huaiyin Marquis household for three years now. Mother should know I’m not one to talk nonsense. When I first learned about this, I couldn’t believe it myself!"

Young Madam Jiang gritted her teeth and said word by word, "Everyone should know I had a cold these past few days, but it wasn’t getting better and even worsened a few days ago. Today, I found out it wasn’t because of any other reason but because there was something wrong with my medicine! Someone tampered with my medicine, so the more I took the medicine, the worse my health became!"

Xin Lei was stunned and said, "But Madam, hasn’t your condition been improving these past two days?"

If the problem was with the medication, how could her condition have improved these past two days?

Young Madam Jiang laughed mockingly and said, "That’s because that person didn’t tamper with my medicine these past two days. Naturally, my illness got better, because whatever they wanted to do while I was seriously ill is already done. But even so, Lady Hua!"

As she said this, her eyes, as cold as arrows, turned to the delicate and timid-looking Lady Hua. Upon hearing this, Lady Hua was scared, her whole body trembling, and she said, "I... I don’t know what Young Madam is talking about..."

"You’re still pretending? You stole my hairpins and hair clasps, didn’t you! You stole them to make sure I could only wear the remaining step-shaking hairpins. Everyone should be able to guess, my step-shaking hairpins were tampered with, coated with a special scent!"

Lady Hua trembled again, her face turning pale, as Young Madam Jiang sneered, "If I’m not mistaken, that’s the scent of beeswax, used to attract bees! You stole my hairpins and hair clasps because if you coated them all with that scent, even if each pin had a faint scent, combined, the scent would be too strong and easily discovered, so you only left me with four step-shaking hairpins! You deliberately left them for me because step-shaking hairpins have one more dangling part than regular pins, providing more places to coat with scent, increasing the chances of attracting bees. Is that so?!"

Lady Hua’s face turned increasingly pale, shaking her head vigorously, "I... I really don’t understand what you’re saying..."

Standing beside her, Xin Zhiwan, who was always close to Lady Hua and couldn’t stand this woman named Jiang due to the death of Little Snowball, couldn’t help but step forward, biting her lip, "Sister-in-law, don’t make false accusations out of spite! The medicine you drank was handled by your handmaidens; how could Yao tamper with it? And you claim Yao tampered with your step-shaking hairpins to attract bees to attack you. That’s even more far-fetched; where in the Huaiyin Marquis household are there bees? Could Yao possibly have known in advance you’d visit a place with bees?!"

The crowd also looked at Young Madam Jiang with puzzled expressions.

To be honest, like Xin Zhiwan, they all felt what Young Madam Jiang said was baseless nonsense.

Could it be she’s been ill for so long her brain has become muddled?!