Chapter 74: Demanding an Explanation

Yunzhu was stunned after hearing the conversation between her mother and the physician.

Shouldn’t Yunzhi have been the one poisoned? How could it be her? Clearly, she had taken advantage of Yunzhi’s unpreparedness and poisoned her, how could it have come back to her?

Yunzhu panicked and fell at Xu’s feet, clutching her legs and shouting, “Mother, mother, save me, save me!”

She had seen Xu use this poison before, harming many women in Yuncheng’s backyard. Knowing its potency, she had asked Xu for it.

Originally, she had intended to harm Yunzhi, making her wither away like the other women in Yuncheng’s backyard. But unexpectedly, she ended up harming herself.

“Zhu’er, your mother doesn’t have the antidote, I can’t save you.” Xu looked distressed, filled with regret.

“How can you not have it?” Yunzhu looked at Xu in shock. How could this poison not have an antidote? If so, wouldn’t she be doomed to die like the previous concubines in the mansion?

She was still young, not yet married, and she didn’t want to die.

Therefore, she pleaded with Xu again, saying, “Mother, go find the person who gave you the poison, they must have the antidote, right?”

“Me?” Xu looked troubled. The person who gave her the antidote had long since passed away, where could she find it?

At this moment, the physician suddenly spoke, saying, “Madam, Miss, I have something I’m not sure if I should say.”

“Speak!”

“It’s like this, I just took Miss’s pulse and found that she was indeed poisoned by the Beauty’s Sorrow, but the potency is much stronger than before. Logically, Miss has just been poisoned, and I shouldn’t be able to feel it. According to past cases, it would take at least half a month before I could tell. But now, Miss has just been poisoned and it’s already showing, could it be that the person who poisoned her has increased the potency?”

The physician’s words struck the mother and daughter like a thunderbolt. They looked at each other, and a figure flashed through their minds.

Thinking of Yunzhi, Xu could no longer sit still. She said to Yunzhu, “Let’s go, let’s go find Yunzhi and settle this.”

Yunzhu got up, not even bothering to change her clothes, and followed Xu towards Yunzhi’s courtyard.

When they arrived at the courtyard, Yunzhi was not yet back. She had had lunch at the Regent’s Mansion. After lunch, she didn’t rush to leave, but rested at the mansion for a while.

Since Yunzhi wasn’t at the mansion, the servants dared not let the two of them in, so they were left waiting outside.

Xu looked at the closed door, her anger rising. She had come to demand an explanation, and now she had to wait outside for Yunzhi, it was infuriating.

As for Yunzhu, she was also angry. However, she was more afraid, afraid that Yunzhi wouldn’t give her the antidote, then her life would be over.

However, she couldn’t understand how Yunzhi knew she had poisoned her and how she managed to return the poison to her.

Time passed slowly, the mother and daughter were both angry and hungry, but they dared not leave.

Finally, they waited for Yunzhi’s carriage to return.

Xu saw the carriage and rushed forward, blocking Yunzhi who was about to return to the mansion.

Fortunately, the carriage wasn’t going fast, otherwise, it would have hit her. But even so, because the carriage stopped suddenly, Yunzhi bumped into the carriage wall, hurting herself.

Therefore, she lifted the carriage curtain with some displeasure and looked out.

When she saw Xu standing in front of the carriage, her face instantly darkened, and she said coldly, “What are you doing here again?”