Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Chapter 313 It's not a disease, it's a poison

Aunt Meng carefully took the patient's pulse, looked at his eyes and tongue, pressed his chest and pinched his fingers.

Then he took a silver needle and pricked his fingers and toes. He looked at the green blood beads that emerged with a solemn expression.

Finally, he looked at Daiyu: "Am I telling you the truth?"

Daiyu's heart trembled: "Just tell me!"

"The old lady is not ill, and she is not dying."

Aunt Meng looked at Yuanyang, then at Lady Xing and Wang Xifeng who had just entered the room, and said solemnly,

"The old lady has been poisoned by a chronic disease."

Daiyu stood up quickly: "What did you say!?"

"Do you still remember that you were weak and your blood was insufficient?" Aunt Meng sighed and nodded slightly at Daiyu, whose eyes were wide open. "That's the thing."

Daiyu's eyes flashed with sternness, and she looked up at Yuanyang: "Has the old lady's diet changed in the past month? Who are the servants? Go and recall it carefully and write it down!"

Who knew that Yuanyang had already burst into tears with excitement, fell to her knees, and held up an envelope with both hands: "It's all in there!

"I felt something was wrong, but I didn't understand it! I could only write down everything about the old lady's food, clothing, housing and transportation after the girl left, no matter how big or small it was!"

Daiyu breathed a sigh of relief and curled her lips: "Good girl!" She reached out to take the envelope, opened it and took a closer look.

Wang Xifeng, who was standing by, quickly reached out and helped Yuanyang up: "Don't worry, Miss Lin is back, everything will be fine, don't worry!"

Aunt Meng looked at them and said nothing.

Daiyu read the whole thing at a glance, then paused, pointing to the first item and asking, "Did the Xue family send three shuttles of cloth to Songjiang?"

Yuanyang wiped her tears and nodded: "That's right. The cloth is very good. I ironed and washed it before making underwear for the old lady."

Daiyu said "oh" and continued reading.

Aunt Meng stood up, carefully pulled out the underwear from the lying Lady Jia, took out her silver needle, and tried it out.

The silver needle did not change color.

But Aunt Meng still felt something was wrong. She raised the silver needle to her nose and sniffed it, then looked at the silver and frowned.

Daiyu looked up and saw it, and immediately said, "Yuanyang, help me take off my underwear so that Aunt Meng can take a closer look."

Then he continued to read the paper in his hand, and found that since then, the Xue family had sent many things, fresh fruits and vegetables, live chickens and fish, and even sent two daughters to read books to Jia's mother for half a month.

Daiyu was full of doubts and asked, "How many times have the Xue family come to my farm?"

Yuanyang carefully and skillfully changed Jia's mother's underwear, and then explained it to Daiyu in detail:

"A few days after Aunt Meng left, the Xue family came to the house and gave the cloth. The second time, Miss Xue brought Miss Qin.

"The old lady liked Miss Qin very much, so she kept her by her side. From then on, the Xue family sent gifts to her from time to time.

"Miss Qin is smart and honest, and she gets along well with Miss Shi. During that period, the old lady was smiling every day and was in a very good mood.

"It's just that I felt increasingly sleepy and my appetite wasn't very good during that period. We gave him medicine according to the prescription Aunt Meng left, but it didn't seem to work.

"Later, the Xue family heard about it and sent someone to ask Dr. He to come over. Dr. He changed some medicine and it got better.

"Later, it was the Xue family who brought the news of Master Xiaorong's death to the manor. The old lady fainted and things didn't go well."

As Yuanyang spoke, tears began to fall again.

Daiyu then looked at Aunt Meng.

Aunt Meng had already cut off a piece of the underwear, soaked and rubbed it in water, then smelled her fingers and placed the silver needle in the water.

After Yuanyang finished speaking, the silver needle actually gradually changed color!

When Aunt Meng picked up the silver needle with a stern face, she saw that it was already completely green!

"So, it's this cloth." Daiyu looked coldly at the underwear with a missing corner, and turned her gaze to Yuanyang.

The mandarin ducks were speechless!

"The underwear you made may be fine. However, if someone prepared the same cloth and cut the same underwear.

"You thought you had ironed and washed it, but in fact, every time you changed the old lady's clothes, they were all poisonous cloth!"

Daiyu's face was filled with grimness. "Catch all the laundrymen in the old lady's room!"

Wang Xifeng agreed and hurried out, shouting, "Zhang Cai's family, go in person and tie up and gag all the people who followed the old lady to the farm to do the laundry, and bring them in!"

Daiyu heaved a sigh of relief. Seeing Yuanyang blaming herself and feeling remorseful, she consoled him, "Forget it. How could you have thought of such things? Now that we have found the cause, we can punish them."

Aunt Meng sighed again, looked at Daiyu, and said with her hand on her forehead: "You didn't even ask me whether the old lady can be cured."

Daiyu was startled and grabbed her: "What did you say? Isn't it poisoned? If you detoxify it, won't it be ..."

"The poison has entered the internal organs!" Aunt Meng interrupted her, "Fortunately, I know what the poison is, and it can still be cured.

"But the old lady is old after all. Even if the poison can be removed, her body will certainly be seriously injured!

"You have to be prepared. The old lady's life span is only about a year or so!"

Daiyu was distraught: "Only a year and a half?" She sat on the edge of Lady Jia's bed, tears falling like rain!

But everyone else, including Jia She and Jia Zheng outside, and Madam Xing in the room, all breathed a sigh of relief.

Aunt Meng ignored Daiyu and wrote a prescription and gave it to Mrs. Xing.

Mrs. Xing thanked her profusely and almost knelt down to Aunt Meng, then hurriedly took the prescription and went out to give it to Jia She.

The two brothers looked at the prescription and ordered someone to get the herbs and boil them.

Yuanyang went over with tears in her eyes and advised Daiyu: "The old lady has lived a long life. Moreover, she has been in poor health for the past two or three years and has been taking injections and medicines constantly.

"When I went back to the hot spring village, I told me that I was sick and tired...

"When the old lady wakes up, I will try to persuade her to stop caring about those trivial matters and just live her life happily."

Daiyu finally stopped crying, and suddenly remembered something, so she asked, "Where is Yun girl? Doesn't she know I'm here? Why isn't she here?"

Yuanyang reported back, "Young Marquis Shi returned to the capital to report on his work and asked Miss Shi to go back with him, saying that he wanted to take this opportunity to arrange her marriage.

"The old lady fell ill and returned home. Miss Shi originally said she would be back soon. But tomorrow morning, Madam Wei has to go to the Shi family, so she postponed it."

Daiyu was immediately unhappy: "Since the old lady is so ill, shouldn't the young Marquis Shi and his wife postpone Yun's wedding? Why are they treating her in-laws without any consideration?!"

The mandarin ducks dared not say a word and could only remain silent.

Mrs. Xing, who had just returned from outside, heard this and sighed, "It's rare for young Marquis Shi to return to the capital, and Yun girl has reached the age.

“If the old lady’s trip is really bad, even though the mourning period is only a few days, it will still have to be delayed for a while.

"Mrs. Shi Hou came to tell me that it was just to bring good luck to the old lady, and the wedding will be held in about half a month."

Daiyu frowned and was about to speak when she heard a commotion outside.