Volume 1 Chapter 42: Speak Clearly

  His wife, Du Juan, looked at her husband with a dashing demeanor, and suddenly her eyes turned red. This was the dream she had been expecting for so long? Now her husband's body really got better, this is true.

  The cuckoo couldn't help but shed tears, happiness overflowing from her heart.

  "Sorry, I've troubled you. In the future, I won't trouble you again, believe me." Xie Chengyu lifted his jade-like hand and gently wiped away the tears from his wife's eyes, making a promise.

  "Hmm, as long as you're fine, everything's fine!" Du Juan's hoarse happy response.

  Two of them collected their thoughts and soon, Xie Wenjing brought in her uncle and aunt, Third Uncle and Third Aunt. At first, they thought something had happened to Wenjing's father when they heard Wenjing invite them over.

  How can Wenjing's father be standing there waiting for us?

  "Brother, lie down quickly!" Third Uncle hastily rushed out two steps, supporting Big Brother with one hand, and was about to help him back onto the big bed.

  "It's okay, Third Brother. I'm fine now. Eldest Brother, Eldest Sister-in-law, you can come in too? I'm really fine, it's just that there's something I want to tell you both that you should know."

  Xie Chengyu smiled and looked at his silly-looking relatives, explaining his behavior.

  Uncle and aunt were both aghast, staring incredulously at the elegant brother-in-law. Is this the same brother-in-law who was lying weakly in bed? How different he looks now!

  Third Uncle and Third Aunt were also shocked, Big Brother's illness, the whole family knew, was relying on Mother buying those precious medicinal materials to sustain his life, why can't it be seen now, is Big Brother's life in danger? Do we still need to go ask Buddha?

  "Everyone sit down, Wenjing. Give your Third Uncle and Third Aunt a cup of tea, Big Brother-in-law and Big Sister-in-law are pouring the tea. Juan'er, don't be in a hurry, everyone sit down and listen to me explain slowly."

  Xie Chengyu pulled his wife, Dujuan, to sit beside him. His eyes were extremely heavy, and the third uncle and aunt felt a chill in their hearts. Even the eldest uncle and aunt felt a sudden thud in their chests.

  Xie Wenjing poured tea for her relatives and didn't leave, sitting down at the lower end of the table, listening to her father recount his hardships over the past two years, all because of that good stepmother.

  Later on, I found that something was wrong with me, and also discovered that the doctor Jia who treated me was not right, even Liu Lingling who came to congratulate me was not right.

  Jia Dafu prescribed medicine for himself, although it was often several dozen or even several hundred taels of precious medicinal materials, but it must not be something I can eat. I realized too late, and it wasn't until more than two months ago that I came to my senses.

  At that time, I was very sad and desperate. The ones who wanted to put me to death were my own parents. My stepmother could harm me until now, also because of the indulgence of my ruthless father. If my father had a little bit of affection for me, it would have been impossible for him to only invite Dr. Jia from Hui Chun Tang to treat my illness.

  But if Father had invited another doctor, how could that Doctor Jia have colluded with Stepmother to poison me until now?

  Luckily, I have a good daughter thanks to God's blessing.

  Almost a month ago, Wenjing also discovered her grandmother's ugly face and knew that she was poisoning me.

  Wen Jing helped me secretly replace the valuable medicinal materials in my house with fake ones that looked similar, which could deceive Liu Lingling, the informant, and also give me a chance to recover.

  A month ago, I could only lie in bed, weakly breathing the thin air, waiting for the unknown god of death to arrive at any time.

  At that time, I even felt tired drinking water, wanting to live but unable to, wanting to die but unable to, and could only barely hang on.

  This past month has been great, I haven't taken those expensive medicines and my body is much better. Although the last two years have been a waste and I'm not yet back to how I was before I got sick, but I'm very happy that Wenjing fought for me to leave the Xie family. As long as I can leave the Xie family, I can find a good doctor and slowly nurse my body back to health. I believe it won't be long before I fully recover.

  Here is the translation: "Also, I would like to thank big brother and sister-in-law for their help, as well as third younger brother and his wife for their kind intentions."

  Xie Chengyu finished a long speech without taking a breath. After finishing, he bowed deeply to the ground to thank them for their support and help.

  "Juan'er? So it's really like that? I said Wenjing was fine, how could she suddenly kneel on the ground and knock her head, insisting on following me to Hangzhou? I knew that old thing wasn't a good person, with a hypocritical face, looking vicious, an evil stepmother!"

  Xie Wenjing's aunt was furious, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she scolded the old lady, calling her an old thing. Fortunately, at that time, she stood up for Wenjing, her niece, otherwise she would have catered to the old thing's wishes.

  "Big brother? Is it really like this? Mother? Would mother actually do such a thing? Or was mother also deceived by that Doctor Jia? Or is Doctor Jia just an incompetent doctor. Is all of this Doctor Jia's fault and has nothing to do with mother? If mother wanted to harm you, why wouldn't she just kill you outright instead of spending so much money buying expensive medicine for you? Big brother, could it be that you've wrongly accused mother?"

  Thick and honest Third Uncle suddenly couldn't accept that the gentle and kind mother would be such a person, and in his anxiety, he hastily began to defend his mother.

  Xie Wenjing knew it wasn't easy to make people believe the fact that someone would spend a huge amount of money to harm her stepson for over two years, so she couldn't tell the truth to Third Uncle and others in the Xie family.

  Now Father can stand up in person and explain the situation to them. San Shu still has an incredulous face, speaking for that old woman, it can only be said that the old woman has won too much fame with Father's illness in these two years.

  "You're confused!" Xie Chengyu was so angry at his third brother's defense of that old woman that he suddenly started coughing violently.

  Xie Wenjing hastily stood up and patted her father's back: "Father, don't worry, I'll prove grandmother's sinister intentions for you."

  "Third Uncle, Third Aunt, we are not Grandma's blood relatives, but her enemies. We are the descendants of our own ancestors."

  This is the motive of grandmother poisoning us two houses, not just father, including my marriage, including my brother's mischievousness and even spoiled temper, all are her unintentional design.

  I believe that apart from our house, your house is also the meat on her chopping board. How she chops and slices depends entirely on her mood.

  I'm not exaggerating, Third Aunt knows a thing or two about it. When Mrs. Zhao came to our house to visit me when I was sick, my grandmother didn't tell me beforehand and had me prepare in advance.

  It wasn't until Mrs. Zhao arrived that I had the image of being lazy at the Zhao's, and then they called Li to go to the bamboo garden to call me to welcome Mrs. Zhao.

  Even my grandmother had my cousin Pei Yezhu bring that so-called fiancé of mine to my courtyard to look for me, and at that time I was in the bamboo garden, and it was Li Niang who personally escorted me over from Grandma's side.

  My grandmother had even taken out two hundred-year-old ginsengs early in the morning, which seemed to be very reluctant to part with my father. However, at that time, I only wanted to smash those two hundred-year-old ginsengs on that hypocritical face.

  Naturally, that time I was successfully molded by my grandmother into an arrogant and ill-mannered eldest daughter, and my mother was also molded by her mother into an ill-mannered lady who wouldn't even come out to greet our relatives when they came over.

  Mrs. Zhao, in order to humiliate and mock me, not only looked down on me with her words, but also, as she was leaving, gave the sheep fat white jade bracelet on her wrist to her clever niece Pei Yezhu right in front of me. My grandmother smiled and accepted it for my cousin.

  There are also people around Wen Bao, one by one not treating Wen Bao as the master. Not to mention others, just talking about last night, I asked Mei Lan to clean up Wen Bao's golden necklace and black jade inkstone.

  As a result, Wenbao's personal maid, Dong'er said that Wenbao gave the gold necklace to her as a birthday gift. And Wenbao's black jade inkstone was lost by Wenbao in a gamble with Ma's grandson, and Meilan still hasn't come to swindle Wenbao out of his huge sum of money.

  Until I went to the past, gave them a big week of law, the young master was not yet ten years old, all words and deeds were irresponsible, the servants deceived the young master's money into thousands of taels, then they would be put to death, only then did they hand it over.

  This is what I discovered last night but didn't notice before. It must have been tampered with by those sloppy servants.

  Several times I went to Wenbao's place, I could see them playing with Wenbao, fighting, and even Dong'er dared to take Wenbao to the lotus pond in Wenbao's courtyard that was half a person high during the summer to learn how to swim, so Wenbao wasn't afraid of water at all.

  Third Uncle, Third Aunt, I don't want to say more about that. You might think we didn't discipline our younger brother well, but the truth is, all of us know that the original maids in our brother's household were transferred away by Grandma on various pretexts, and those left behind are all Grandma's people.

  So I must leave the Xie family with all my might, I don't want our whole family to die in the Xie family without a clear cause.

  "Wait for a moment, I'll go and call Liu Lingling over. None of you should speak, just listen to how I interrogate her, and the truth will naturally come out."