Mrs. Zhao cried with joy when she saw this, and knelt down on the ground excitedly, "Thank God! Thank God..."
Doctor Xue quickly put away the silver needle.
Mrs. Zhao looked Zhao Xiaoshun up and down and asked, "Shun'er, do you really recognize mother?"
Zhao Xiaoshun no longer looked stupid and cried loudly, "Mom, Shun'er's head hurts so much!"
Doctor Xue said calmly, "I just used silver needles to stimulate the meridians of the brain. There will be a little pain, and it will be fine in an hour or two."
Mrs. Zhao thanked Doctor Xue repeatedly.
She thought her younger son would be stupid for the rest of his life.
Zhao felt happy that her youngest son's madness was cured, but felt extremely sad. She took Zhao Xiaoshun back to the inn and found a few people to bury Zhao Da.
Zhao Da's body has been left for two days. If it is not buried, it will stink.
Xiangshui Town is far away from the capital, and it takes ten days to travel by carriage. Even if she wants to take Zhao Da's body back to the countryside, she can't, and she can only bury him here.
Zhao Xiaoshun pulled the hem of Zhao's clothes and asked, "Mom, where is the eldest brother? Why hasn't the eldest brother come back yet?"
After Zhao Xiaoshun was cured of his madness, he could not remember some things, such as the fact that Zhao Da was dead.
Mrs. Zhao wiped away her tears and said, "Your eldest brother went home first, and we will go back tomorrow."
"I don't want to go back!"
Zhao Xiaoshun bit into the candy man, his mouth was sticky, "There are big buns to eat here, and there are candy men..."
Zhao forced Zhao Xiaoshun back to the inn to pack his bags.
......
After Jiang Mengyue returned to the Marquis Mansion, she planned to collect money to give to Zhao and send her away quickly.
Only when Zhao leaves the capital can she feel at ease.
But these days, the money in her small warehouse is flowing like water. She asked the Zhao family to come to the Capital and gave Zhao Da a sum of money. The cash has long since bottomed out, and the box is empty.
She had never been so strapped for money.
She bit her lower lip, took out the jewelry box, and called Hongzhu.
"Miss, do you have anything to tell your servant?" Hong Zhu came over and asked.
Jiang Mengyue pushed the jewelry box in front of Hongzhu and said, "Go and exchange these for silver notes and bring them over."
"These are..."
Hongzhu was a little surprised. These were jewelry given by Young Master Jin. They were exquisite in style. They were the only ones on the market. Even if you had money, you couldn't buy them. Why would you sell them?
Jiang Mengyue clenched her handkerchief and shouted angrily, "Go if you are told, what nonsense are you talking about!"
"I'll go now." Hongzhu didn't dare to talk back and immediately did what she was told.
Soon, she exchanged it for a banknote and took it back.
Jiang Mengyue took the banknote and went out.
She went to the inn, ready to send Zhao away.
In the inn, Mrs. Zhao had already packed her bags. The inn could no longer accommodate them, so they didn't give her a good look and urged them to leave quickly.
When the innkeeper passed by, he spat at the door of the room and cursed for the bad luck.
When Jiang Mengyue saw this scene, she lowered her curtain and hat, covering her face tightly so that no one would recognize her.
She opened the door and walked in.
Zhao turned her head when she heard the sound and saw a figure dressed in extraordinary clothes, "Miss Jiang..."
Jiang Mengyue threw her purse on the table and said coldly, "Take these five hundred taels and leave quickly! Don't show up in the capital again, and keep your mouth shut!"
The tone was like dismissing a beggar.
"Yes, yes." Mrs. Zhao replied humbly, while Jiang Mengyue was arrogant and had no good face from the beginning.
Mrs. Zhao couldn't help but think to herself, if they had not held the wrong child at that time, she would have been a girl in the village, no different from them, so there was nothing to be proud of.
But she can only think about these words in her heart and don't dare to say them out.
Zhao Xiaoshun was biting the candied haws. He clamored for the candied haws, but Zhao couldn't resist and bought him one.
Accidentally, a candied haw fell to the ground.
Rolled to Jiang Mengyue's feet.
Zhao Xiaoshun didn't know it was dirty, so he walked over and picked up what fell on the ground.
When Jiang Mengyue saw the dirty child, she frowned in disgust and took a step back, "Don't touch me, he's so dirty!"
"Shun'er, come here quickly!" Zhao quickly grabbed Zhao Xiaoshun and prevented him from getting close to Jiang Mengyue.
Zhao Xiaoshun was reluctant to pick up the candied haws that fell on the ground, "I want to pick it up! Candied haws, candied haws..." As he spoke, he looked at the red haws and suddenly became quiet.
Suddenly he raised his head and looked at Jiang Mengyue.
Jiang Mengyue's face was full of disgust, and she didn't hide it at all.
A bunch of candied haws on Zhao Xiaoshun's hand fell to the ground, "You pushed my eldest brother, and he bled a lot... My eldest brother fell to the ground..."
Zhao was startled, "Shun'er, what did you say?"
Jiang Mengyue's expression also changed drastically.
Zhao Xiaoshun burst into tears, "You pushed my eldest brother! My eldest brother's head bled a lot, and he's dead!"
"It was you! You pushed my eldest brother! You bad woman!"
Zhao Xiaoshun cried.
Mrs. Zhao was stunned, her mind went blank, Zhao Xiaoshun's cry echoed in her ears.
"Tell me clearly, what happened? Who pushed your elder brother?"
Zhao Xiaoshun pointed at Jiang Mengyue, "It's her! It was this bad woman who pushed eldest brother, causing him to bleed a lot!"
Zhao Xiaoshun didn't know what happened. He only knew that his eldest brother fell to the ground and his head bled a lot. It hurt even if he broke his own skin. It must be very painful for his eldest brother to bleed so much.
Zhao's eyes turned red as she listened.
"It's you……"
She raised her face in confusion and looked at Jiang Mengyue, "It was you who pushed my son."
Jiang Mengyue took half a step back, feeling chilled all over her body and down her spine, and her face turned pale, "I didn't!"
"It's you. Shun'er saw it even when he was hiding under the bed!" Mrs. Zhao didn't expect that it was Miss Jiang who killed his son. "Why, why did you kill my son?"
"I didn't, I didn't..." Jiang Mengyue shook her head and replied in a daze.
Was there someone hiding under the bed at that time?
The scene where she pushed Zhao Da to death was seen...
A chill spread from the soles of her feet, and she felt panicked and her hands trembled.
Zhao collapsed to the ground, tears falling down her face, and she raised her face and asked, "Why did you kill my son? We have worked hard for you, why did you kill my son!"
Jiang Mengyue was extremely panicked.
The only thought in her mind is to shut up Mrs. Zhao quickly. This matter must not be spread!
If the news that she killed Zhao Da spreads, her reputation will plummet, and there will no longer be a place for her in the Marquis Mansion. No matter how much her father and grandmother love her, they will not tolerate her anymore.
"Shut up!"
Jiang Mengyue's face was twisted and she said fiercely.
Mrs. Zhao was so frightened by Jiang Mengyue's cold expression that she forgot to cry.
Jiang Mengyue gritted her teeth, "I didn't want to kill him, it was him... he wanted to take advantage of me!"
"That beast was drunk, and when he saw me, he had evil intentions. He grabbed my hand and tried to flirt with me... I pushed him, but to his surprise, he lost his balance and hit his head on the table..."
"It's all his fault! I just pushed him lightly and didn't mean to kill him!"
Jiang Mengyue refused to admit it until death, and in a hurry, she made up a reason.
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