Time Travel: The Noble Family-Chapter 553 - 213定计_3

Nanny Hao came out from the main gate and went straight to Zhuang Ruolan. She knelt before her, weeping bitterly, "Young lady, our girl is now comatose and her life is hanging by a thread. I beg you to save her!"

Zhuang Ruolan marched quickly into Lanxi Courtyard and into the bedroom. When she saw Yueyao, who was unconscious on the bed, she demanded, "What on earth is going on here? Why didn’t you call for a doctor when your lady fell ill?" Not only did they not seek a doctor, but they also concealed it from the Lian family and sought her help instead. Zhuang Ruolan instinctively felt that there was more to this incident.

Lady Mo also sensed something unusual.

Nanny Hao glared at Lady Mo, who seemed unfazed, and spat out, "Eldest Young Madam, our girl is not sick, she’s been poisoned. The Kitchen Maid did it."

Zhuang Ruolan had been sitting at the bedside and jolted to her feet upon hearing this, "What did you say? Poisoned?" At that instant, Zhuang Ruolan understood why Yueyao had sought help from the Ma family. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

Lady Mo also turned pale and asked, "How could she have been poisoned?" She too smelled a plot, and this plot was aimed at her.

Xi Yu stepped forward and said coldly, "You should ask the Eldest Madam that question." After speaking, Xi Yu handed over the Kitchen Maid’s confession to Zhuang Ruolan.

Xiang Wei felt that since Xi Yu was Yueyao’s personal maid, it’d be best for her to deliver it.

Zhuang Ruolan skimmed the confession rapidly. After reading it, she turned red with anger. She didn’t bother confronting Lady Mo anymore and instructed Cai Yun, "Go and call for Elder Zhang quickly." Elder Zhang was a retired Imperial Physician from the palace. Since Zhuang Ruolan’s marriage, he had been the one to examine and treat the various heads of the Ma family for any ailments.

Zhuang Ruolan then ordered her maid, Cai Yi, "You go and call for the Old Master and the Eldest Young Master right now." Regardless of the reason, the fact was that Yueyao had been poisoned, and this matter required her father-in-law and husband to seek justice for Yueyao.

After reading the confession, Lady Mo’s face turned pale, then flushed, and then darkened, and the hand holding the confession even trembled. It wasn’t until her maid Ru Se called out to her that Lady Mo snapped back to reality.

Lady Mo, furious, shouted coldly at Xi Yu, "Where is this Kitchen Maid? I want to interrogate her myself." How dare she frame her; she was determined to make the Kitchen Maid pay with her life, and once she found out who was behind this, she wouldn’t let them get away with it either.

Zhuang Ruolan was also puzzled; this matter was too strange. If she hadn’t seen Lady Mo, Zhuang Ruolan might have believed that Lady Mo had done this, but Lady Mo’s reaction didn’t seem like it. A person who commits a misdeed, no matter how much they try to cover it up, cannot hide the truth. And if it had truly been Lady Mo, they wouldn’t have been able to come in so easily.

As Zhuang Ruolan’s mind raced, her gaze fixed on Xiang Wei and Nanny Hao, her eyes ablaze with fury, and she said angrily, "If you knew that the lady had been poisoned, why didn’t you immediately seek a doctor? And why did you seal off Lanxi Courtyard so tightly? Are you hoping that Yueyao’s life is somehow too long?" A servant who can’t distinguish priorities is useless.

Nanny Hao clenched her teeth and responded, "Young lady, it was I who didn’t let them call a doctor. I feared that the doctor called would become the harbinger of death for our girl." Not calling for a doctor had been Nanny Hao’s suggestion because the doctors of the Lian Mansion had been changed and were no longer Doctor Tang. The current doctor had been brought in by Lady Mo, whom they dared not trust.

Lady Mo was so angry she nearly vomited blood, "What is this servant babbling about?"

Xi Yu, standing by, explained, "Young lady, as soon as Sister Xiang Wei learned that our lady had been poisoned, she immediately induced vomiting. Most of the poison our lady had ingested was thrown up. Then we fed her mung bean soup which has a detoxifying effect."

Zhuang Ruolan frowned, not having asked yet, Lady Mo coldly interjected, "Are you saying that the Third Young Lady is all right? That the poison had no effect on her?"

Even if Lady Mo hadn’t caused this, her attitude infuriated Zhuang Ruolan greatly. Zhuang Ruolan, displeased, retorted sharply, "By the tone of Lady Lian, it seems you’re quite disappointed that Yueyao is unharmed? Do you really wish that Yueyao had succumbed to the poison?"

Lady Mo’s face turned an angry blue; she had been holding back, but now she couldn’t any longer, "This is blatant slander! You servants dare to defame me; I will make sure you don’t die well." The people of Ma’s Mansion were clearly intent on interfering with this matter, and if the truth wasn’t uncovered, she would definitely be tainted by the reputation of a murderer, and she wouldn’t let Yueyao get her way.

A cold light flashed in Xiang Wei’s eyes.

With a hint from Xiang Wei, Xi Yu said, "Nanny Hao, since the Eldest Madam wants to see the Kitchen Maid, bring her to the living room to confront the Eldest Madam face to face and avoid any accusations of defamation."

Zhuang Ruolan sent Cai Yun to accompany them, while she stayed in the bedroom.

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