The farmer has a mall

Chapter 339 Inside Story
Bai Shao fell asleep for two days and finally the fever subsided, and the wound began to heal. Seeing that she was fine, Gu Nanyan left Bai Zhi on the Zhuangzi to take care of her, and then returned to the general's mansion.

Not long after she entered the gate of the General's Mansion, she heard that Nanny Ding, who was locked up by Gu Yao, had escaped.

Before she ran away, she bribed a little girl on the stove, and put arsenic in the jelly that Aunt Qiu used every day.

Fortunately, the maid who went to fetch Yanzhan noticed something was wrong and reported the matter to Aunt Qiu's mother Wu.

Mother Wu was shocked after seeing it, and brought the matter to Gu Yao's side.

Gu Nanyan was discussing with Gu Yao about the Queen Mother's birthday banquet with him in Gu Yao's study, and happened to catch up with this matter.

"When the old slave was young, his father used to do odd jobs in the medicine shop, and the old slave who had arsenic saw it. Today, he saw that the swallow cup was covered with white foam. Although he was skeptical at first, he didn't dare to think about it. The shopkeeper of Yanzhan sold us the wormy ones." Madam Wu said bitterly, biting her back molars.

"The old slave was furious. He said that the shopkeeper was so bold that he even dared to lie to the people in the general's mansion, so he went to settle accounts with them. But the shopkeeper was shocked and said that the powder was arsenic!"

Gu Yao, who was sitting at the top, took the poisoned jelly from the servant with an ugly expression.

Gu Nanyan also stretched out her head to take a look, the originally clear swallow cup seemed to be covered with a layer of white flour, even Gu Nanyan who didn't like to eat this kind of thing could see the problem.

She looked at Aunt Qiu who was sitting opposite, wearing a brown-red embroidered jacket, combing her hair meticulously, with red eyes but her back straight and silent.

I haven't seen her for a few days, she seems to be ten years older, and there are many wrinkles on her well-maintained face.

At this moment, her eyes were empty, she didn't know what she was thinking, and she clenched her hands tightly.

Gu Nanyan withdrew his gaze, lowered his eyes and remained silent.

Nanny Wu knelt on the ground and burst into tears.

"General, our aunt has always been kind. She was recruited into the mansion because of the pity of Aunt Ding. If her hands and feet were not clean, my aunt would not have sent her to the kitchen."

"Even so, I arranged a shopping job for her, so that she could earn enough oil and water, but this kind of goods that a dog eats with a conscience, framed my aunt because of a trivial matter, and even wanted to kill our aunt!"

"I beg the general to be the master for our aunt!"

After Wu mama finished speaking in tears, she kowtowed several times, so hard that even Gu Nanyan hurt for her.

"You said she framed Aunt Qiu because of a trivial matter, what is it?" Gu Nanyan keenly caught the difference in her words.

Speaking of it, this matter is a matter of Gu Yao's backyard, and she is really not suitable for meddling as a junior.

So even if she happened to catch up, she just sat there obediently and didn't make a sound.

At this time, the sudden question made everyone stunned.

Nanny Wu looked at her, then at Aunt Qiu, with hesitation on her face.

"It's not a big deal. Our aunt found out that Nanny Ding had bad intentions and tried to send her to Zhuangzi..."

She was vague, and her gaze was a little dodgy, as if she was hiding something.

Seeing this, Gu Yao frowned in displeasure: "What trivial matter can make a woman do such evil things as poisoning the master's family?"

According to the laws of the Jianan Kingdom, if a servant murders his master, at least he will be exiled to a place of bitter cold, and at worst he will die.

Therefore, unless there is a deep hatred, few servants dare to attack the master's family.

Grandma Wu muttered for a long while without saying anything, just when Gu Yao was getting impatient, Aunt Qiu spoke suddenly.

"Nurse Ding will poison Yanzhan, perhaps because the concubine found out that she wanted to use the old lady's affairs to frame the concubine, and deliberately made her sick and rushed to Zhuangzi, so she held a grudge."

She stood up with a wry smile, and was supported by the maidservant and walked to Madam Wu.

"My concubine asked Mammy not to tell this matter. She concealed it because of the master's order. Please don't blame her, the general."

Gu Yao frowned even more when he heard this: "You mean that the poison in Xiulan's body was not caused by you, but by Nanny Ding who deliberately framed it?"

Xiulan is Mrs. Gu's name, and Gu Yao has been calling her this way for decades.

"Yes!" Aunt Qiu said with her head held high.

"I know the general won't believe it, but I still want to say that the poison on the old lady has nothing to do with me!"

When Gu Nanyan returned to the General's Mansion, it was discovered that Mrs. Gu had been poisoned, and Nanny Ding was involved.

Later, she said that Aunt Qiu was not feeling well, and asked her to go to the pharmacy to get the medicine, so the suspicion was cleared.

However, Aunt Qiu felt strange.

She did feel unwell that day, but it was just because she was old and greedy, and she had accumulated food, and it was not serious enough to need to take medicine.

Therefore, since then, she has paid more attention to Nanny Ding.

Later, it was discovered that she often had contact with a little beggar at the intersection, and every time she passed by, she would give him a pastry and a dozen copper coins.

One must know that Nanny Ding's monthly fee plus the kickbacks when purchasing is only more than one or two taels of silver a month.

She gave the little beggar more than a dozen copper coins in two or three days, plus the money to buy pastries, and it would be one or two hundred coins a month!

Nanny Ding has always been a kind-hearted person, even her old sister who is also a servant would not borrow a hundred dollars from her, so how could she be so kind to a stranger for no reason?

So Aunt Qiu became suspicious and found a clever young servant to follow her.

After she came into contact with the little beggar again, she snatched the beggar's begging bowl.

Finally, a knuckle-wide note was found in the pastry, with the words "It's safe, rest assured" written on it.

Looking at this note that seemed to be declaring safety, Aunt Qiu was shocked.

Only then did I know that Nanny Ding was a mole who was put into the mansion by others, and that the old lady was poisoned, most likely it was her who did it!
Aunt Qiu, who has always been doing her own thing and only wants to live a stable life, is struck by lightning.

For the sake of the safety of the west courtyard and the future of her children and grandchildren, she dared not tell others about it, for fear that Gu Yao would not believe her.

At the same time, she no longer cared about Nanny Ding's love for Gu Zhengkang, and only wanted to send her away so that everyone could rest in peace.

So on the second day, she asked Madam Wu to lead someone to tie her up and lock her in an empty courtyard in the west courtyard. Someone brought cold water and poured her on her every half an hour.

At that time, it was autumn, and although the daytime was still hot, the night was very cool.

Nanny Ding was soaked in the cold all night, and she was not too young, so she contracted a cold and developed a high fever that night.

Aunt Qiu wanted to drive her out of the house, but she didn't want her life.

So he asked people to go to Gu Nanyan's Gu's pharmacy to get some medicine for wind and cold, and only gave her [-]% of the medicine every day, so that she would not die of illness, but she could only be sick.

After being sick repeatedly for nearly a month, Nanny Ding finally developed lung disease due to repeated high fever.

Aunt Qiu sent her to her own village on the grounds that she was afraid that she would infect other people in the house, and ordered her to be guarded.

I thought it was over like this, but Gu Nanyan started to investigate this matter again after returning from Anyang Kingdom!

Aunt Qiu smiled wryly and said: "Perhaps a concubine can't escape this catastrophe after all. Nanny Ding has already made preparations, and even used her own son at all, just to frame me."

"And in the eyes of the world, the concubine and the old lady are supposed to be opposites. Adding in the evidence of the crime, it's really hard to tell."

Gu Yao remained silent, the evidence of the crime was indeed conclusive that day.

But he was indeed a little angry because of the involvement of his old wife's life, and he didn't check the criminal evidence carefully.

If he really wronged Aunt Qiu because of this, it would be his fault.

Thinking of this, Gu Yao felt guilty.

"It was indeed my negligence that almost cost you your life." He sighed.

"Don't worry, I have sent people to search for traces of Nanny Ding, and I will definitely bring her back to give you justice!"

Hearing what Gu Yao said, Aunt Qiu showed a grateful smile on her sad face.

(End of this chapter)