Husband Volume 12: There is indeed something fishy in the soup.

  "How can this be?" Liu's face changed color, and she subconsciously blurted out.

  "Hmm?" Yun Chu looked at her suspiciously. "Auntie, you've worked hard, I'm the master of this house and I reward you with a bowl of soup, what's wrong with that?"

  "Not" The word made Liu's eyes widen in surprise, her heart filled with astonishment. It was as if a simple phrase had taken on a different meaning coming from the big miss's mouth. A sense of foreboding rose to the surface of her mind, and she couldn't help but feel that the big miss had changed a great deal lately.

  A hint of awkward smile appeared on his face as he explained, "What I meant to say is that this soup was specially given by the mistress to the young lady, so naturally I couldn't drink it. Besides, my body is quite stout and strong, really no need to drink too much tonic."

  Yun Chu heard the words, but didn't say anything, her eyes dimmed and stared at the bowl of soup as if there was something wrong with it. After a long time, she still didn't react, and Liu's palms began to sweat slightly, worried that Yun Chu might have discovered something.

  After a long time, Yun Chu's eyebrows suddenly furrowed again, staring at Liu Mama and said with difficulty: "But it's too hot today, my heart is extremely anxious, drinking such hot soup will make me even more irritable. At this moment, I really don't have an appetite. But if I don't drink it, Mama won't drink either, and it would be a waste of Mother's kindness... Ah, it's really difficult."

  Yun Chu stood up and paced back and forth in the room, as if thinking of a solution. Suddenly, she said to Xue Tao, "Since you don't want to drink it, then you drink it for me, Snow Peach."

  "This... Miss" Xue Tao was about to say how could this be, when Yun Chu waved her hand gently but with a firm tone.

  "This was given to me by my mother, which means that this soup already belongs to me. I want to give it to you, and that's my freedom. You drink when I tell you to drink, what's with all the nonsense?"

  "Ah..." Xue Tao looked at Yun Chu with some inexplicable gaze, the young lady's temper was indeed strange nowadays, she would get angry for no reason, and he could only agree, then went forward to pick up the bowl of soup.

  As she watched the bowl of soup getting closer and closer to Xue Tao's mouth, Liu's heart was in her throat. This soup wasn't something just anyone could drink.

  Suddenly, he snatched the bowl of soup from Xue Tao's hand and poured it into his own mouth. He thought to himself that if Xue Tao drank it, she would be exposed, but if he drank it, he could just ask Madame for an antidote and everything would be fine. After tasting the remaining soup on his lips, he smiled wryly.

  "This old servant just felt dry mouth and tongue, all because of that cheap maid Xue Yu causing trouble, making this old servant's heart fire rise. Now, seeing the young lady's soup, actually really wants to drink it, but afraid of Madame's blame. Since the young lady has also said it, this soup already belongs to you, then this old servant thanks the young lady for the reward."

  Xue Tao watched in stunned silence, this Liu's behavior was too abnormal. Yun Chu raised an eyebrow, she actually chose this method to stop Xue Tao from drinking the soup, it really wasn't within her expectations.

  The words I previously gave to Liu were intentional, knowing she would refuse, so it was good that I could give them to Xue Tao instead. If Liu hadn't stopped me, it would have meant that my guess might be wrong and the soup might really be fine. But if she did stop me, it means there must be something fishy about this soup.

  Confirmed her inner guess, Yun Chu's heart was turbulent. When she saw Zhao Ruxue earlier, she felt that Zhao Ruxue didn't have any feelings for this body. It is said that mothers and daughters are connected at heart, even if the mother from her previous life was cruel to her, there was still a hint of maternal care in her eyes. But Zhao Ruxue's eyes were as calm as water, and she even felt a few hints of inexplicable hostility in them, although it was well hidden, but she still detected it.

  What's going on, this master was occasionally sober before, but soon became stupid again, all because of that bowl of soup, it can be seen that there may be some kind of drug in the soup that makes people dizzy and confused. But why did Zhao Ruxue do this?

  What's the relationship between her and that maid in green clothes? Why did she speed up after seeing her, Zhao Ruxue had countless questions swirling in her mind.

  "Miss, since you're feeling unwell, why don't you take a good rest in the courtyard? The mistress will soon send over a few maids to tidy up your boudoir. I'll take my leave first." After drinking the soup, Liu's nanny suddenly felt her heart racing and even broke out in a cold sweat on her forehead. To avoid her noticing anything, she quickly came up with an excuse to withdraw.

  "Hmm" Yun Chu didn't stop her, responding in a light tone. After she walked away, the doubt in his eyes grew thicker.

  "Miss, Xue Yu and Zhao San are actually doing such filthy things in your boudoir, why don't you punish her, but instead help her out? In my opinion, this kind of person is even too lowly to be someone's concubine." Xue Tao was filled with indignation, knowing that Xue Yu had done such a thing and was extremely angry.

  "Hmph... " Yun Chu smiled coldly, looking at her foolish expression, and explained herself reluctantly. "Since Xue Yu and Zhao San are in cahoots, how dare they sully my boudoir? How could I let them off easily? Zhao San, because of my few words, crippled Xue Yu, and that scoundrel actually dares to covet me. Don't you think it's hilarious to make him marry a woman he himself crippled as his legitimate wife?"

  She believed that after Xueyu married into the Zhao family, their household would become lively again. That young lady was not one to give up easily, and although her body was now half-crippled, with her temperament, it was unlikely that Zhao San would be able to continue his philandering ways in the future. Forcing him to face a woman who made his stomach turn every day wasn't the best punishment?

  "Ugh..." Xue Tao's face suddenly turned black, she really hadn't thought of it that way. Just now, she was sympathizing with the young lady, but she didn't expect her thoughts to be so sinister.

  Yun Chu Yi stood by the door and suddenly said, "Xue Tao, you've been following me since childhood, do you remember what happened to me before I became foolish?"

  "Miss, why are you suddenly asking this?" Xue Tao was taken aback, and after thinking back to the past for a moment, she looked suspicious and said "Could it be that Miss herself can't remember?"

  "Huh?" Yun Chu furrowed her brow, she really couldn't remember, it seemed like when she was a bit over five years old, after waking up from a dream, she became stupid, as for why it was like that, she truly had no memory of it.

  She thought it was because of his young age that he couldn't remember things from his childhood, which is normal, but now it seems that's not the case.

  "It seems that the young lady has forgotten. Snow Peach saw that she couldn't remember, thought for a moment and said: "Young lady, on your fifth birthday, Madam gave you a very beautiful headdress, you were so happy, and then you wanted to personally embroider a pair of shoes for Madam as a surprise, but didn't let anyone follow you, and secretly snuck into Madam's courtyard alone. You were so mischievous that you didn't even take the main gate, fearing being discovered by the gatekeeper maid, and ended up climbing over the wall, falling from the wall and landing in Madam's courtyard... it was a big illness after that... it seems to be like this"

  "Really?" Yun Chu asked again.

  "Yes, because you're too mysterious, I only knew that you wanted to give the hand-embroidered shoes to the mistress, and you also said you didn't want anyone to know. But when you were carried back into the courtyard, you were seriously injured. The maid in the mistress's courtyard said that the young lady was injured from climbing over the wall." As soon as this was mentioned, Xue Tao's eyes became slightly red, if it weren't for this, the young lady wouldn't have been foolish for so many years.