The daughter of the metaphysical fortune teller: she is the best at eating melons to prolong life

Chapter 204 Ending
When Mrs. Peng saw Yu Yuanli's miserable condition, she realized that Xie Lan had actually poisoned the box.

She was somewhat glad that she didn't steal the two signs directly, otherwise she would have been the one poisoned.

But when she thought that Xie Lan had already discovered the matter and that she had to pay 80,000 taels in compensation, she couldn't be happy anymore.

Xie Lan patted the melon seed crumbs in his hands, stood up and walked to Yu Yuanli, looking down at him.

"Tell me, who ordered you to steal my things?"

Yu Yuanli was shocked and angry. He considered himself a master thief who had stolen countless things without any incident. He didn't expect to be tricked this time.

Even though he hated her very much, he was afraid of the kick that the maid had given him just now, so he didn't dare to curse again.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I haven't stolen anything from you."

"You've never stolen anything? I'm in a good mood now, so I'll give you a chance to talk again. This is your last chance, so you better think about it before you speak. I'm the only one who can cure the poison in your body. If you miss this chance, you'll lose your life."

Yu Yuanli didn't take Xie Lan's threat seriously. It was Yu who asked him to steal the two signs, so he had to ask Xie Dahe to help him heal them.

Even if Xie Dahe's medical skills were not good, there were so many doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau, and he didn't believe any of them could help.

"Don't think about it. If you haven't stolen anything, then you haven't stolen anything."

"You don't mean to say that, do you? Fine. Then let's see how long you can hold out."

Xie Lan ignored Yu Yuanli, turned around and sat back at the table, and began to count nonchalantly, "1, 2, 3..."

Yu Yuanli looked a little disdainful. He had excellent endurance since he was a child, otherwise he would not have been able to learn such a superb stealing technique. Although the wound on his hand was a little painful, he felt that he could endure it for a few more days.

But what he didn't expect was that when Miss Xie counted to seven, he couldn't help rolling on the ground in pain. What frightened him even more was that the skin on his hands was festering and oozing pus at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just a short while, the skin on both hands from the fingertips to the wrists was completely rotten.

Even though Yu Yuanli considered himself to be a man of great character, he was frightened when he saw the sore on his hand spreading to his arm and his face turned pale.

The girl wasn't trying to scare him. If things continued like this, he would really die.

Yu Yuanli's knees softened and he knelt down. "I confess. It was my cousin Yao Peishan who instructed me to steal the plaque you carved."

After pointing out Yao, he kowtowed again, "I am also wrong. I shouldn't have been blinded by my cousin's greed and used by her. I am not a human being. I am worse than pigs and dogs. Please spare my life, young lady. I promise that I will turn over a new leaf and never be a thief again."

"Okay, stop knocking. This bloody mess affects my mood." Xie Lan glanced at Yu Yuanli with disdain, took out a small bottle from his sleeve pocket, poured out a pill of antidote and threw it over.

Yu Yuanli caught it in a hurry and put it into his mouth impatiently.

However, what he didn't expect was that the medicine was so unpalatable that he almost vomited it out as soon as he took it.

At this moment, Xie Lan said in a cold tone, "There is only one antidote, if you spit it out... it will be gone.

Yu Yuanli was shocked and could only try his best to swallow the pill.

But I don't know if Miss Xie made the detoxification pill taste worse than shit on purpose in revenge for him stealing.

Yu Yuanli almost spent half his life forcing himself to swallow it, and finally collapsed on the ground like a dead dog.

Fortunately, after taking the antidote, the festering on his hand finally stopped. Yu Yuanli breathed a sigh of relief, and seeing that Xie Lan looked fine, he hurriedly asked cautiously, "Miss, when will my hand be able to recover?"

"You can't recover at any time. Your hand will have to stay like this from now on."

Yu Yuanli's face suddenly changed, "How can this be possible? Wouldn't it be useless for me to use my hands?"

"What's wrong with that? Why, do you want to wait until your hand recovers before you become a thief again?
"That's not what I meant... But didn't you just promise me that if I confessed who ordered me to steal your things, you would help me detoxify and heal my hand?"

Xie Lan glared at him coldly, "When did I ever promise to heal your hand?"

Yu Yuanli's expression froze, and he realized belatedly that she had never said this.

"If it weren't for the fact that you only stole two signs and didn't have any other intentions, the grass on your grave would be several feet high by now, not to mention that you still want the antidote pills."

Yu Yuanli's expression changed again and again. Although he was angry, he had to admit that she did show mercy.

Otherwise, he would have lost his life when he came to steal things that day.

Xie Lan ignored him and turned to ask Yao Peishan, "Aunt Yao, your cousin has already admitted that you instructed him to steal my sign. What do you have to say now?"

Seeing Yu Yuanli's miserable condition, Yao Peishan no longer had the courage to argue.

"My dear lady, all the mistakes are my fault. I shouldn't have seen Baifulou setting up a fortune-attracting formation, and I became greedy and ordered my cousin to steal your fortune-attracting tablet.

Fortunately, the two signs have been taken back now, and you have not suffered any loss. Can you please forgive me this time?"

Xie Lan sneered, "You are so shameless. You want me to forgive you with just a simple sentence of "I was wrong". How can you say such shameless words?"

“I originally carved those two plaques for a wealthy businessman, but because you stole them, I couldn’t deliver them on time, and ended up paying a loss of 50,000 taels.

Aunt Yao, if you want me to forgive you, that's fine. I'll compensate the rich businessman with 50,000 taels, and the detoxification pills that I used to save your cousin are worth 30,000 taels.

If you give me the two sums of money, I will forgive you this time for the sake of my uncle."

Yao's face was ashen, "Miss, it's not that I don't want to compensate you.

But I am just a concubine, how can I have so much money? "

"No? I'm sorry." Xie Lan turned to Mrs. Gong and said, "Now that the truth is out, shouldn't we report to the police?" Mrs. Gong looked at Xie Lan with a complicated expression and was quite afraid of her.

After looking at them for a while and making sure that Xie Lan had no intention of letting the Second Madam and Yao go, Madam Gong ordered the maids and servants who followed them, "Take them to the Dali Temple."

When Peng saw that she was about to be arrested, she screamed desperately, "I am the wife of an official, you can't do this to me."

Xie Dahe was not at home, and the old lady did not come either, using the excuse that she had not recovered from her injury, so Yao had no one to turn to.

He could only beg Huang, "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, please save me. I can't go to jail, otherwise my life will be over."

Huang hated her sister-in-law so much. "I don't have any money, how can I save you? Don't forget that your elder brother is still in jail. If I had money, I would have used it to bribe him. Why would I have come to you?"

Huang was afraid that Yao would still beg her, so she simply turned around and left. Even though Yao screamed at the top of her lungs, she did not turn back.

Mrs. Gong was unable to get the compensation, so she had no choice but to take Mrs. Peng and Mrs. Yao to the Dali Temple with her maids and servants.