The Book of Raising Children by Houmen

Chapter 232 The Smell of Rat Poison (2)
"Our family used to be poor. We were afraid that the rats would eat the food. If we lost the family's rations, we would buy rat poison and put it outside the haystack, and sprinkle a few grains of rice on it. The rats would eat the rat poison as food. I just died. I didn’t understand it when I was a child. I thought it was something delicious. I picked it up on the ground and stuffed it in my mouth. My stomach hurts and I almost died. I didn’t expect that at my age, there are still people who want to use mice. The medicine came to hurt me..."

After hearing this, Zhao Jing also understood that there was no need to invite the lady in the kitchen. The old lady came from here, so the rat poison might not be wrong.Zhao Jing was amused by the old lady's words, so she could only comfort her while washing her hands: "Old lady, you are blessed with great fortune. The so-called good luck comes after a catastrophe, and it is about people like you. No, this time the rat poison hasn't even reached the bowl yet, so you can see through it!"

The old lady felt a little heartbroken when she heard this, she nodded her head and said, "That's right, I've tasted the taste of rat poison once, and I'll never forget it for the rest of my life. If this girl really dares to put rat poison in the bowl, See if I don't take her skin off."

As the old lady spoke, she glared at Ji Xiang, who was so frightened that Ji Xiang knelt on the ground and shook three times.Zhao Jing hurriedly ordered the little maid to change some clean water, and the old lady was really big enough to grab the rat poison with her bare paws.

The little maid went out with a water basin and almost bumped into Sun Yu'e. Mama Zhang walked in after her and said to the old lady: "Madam Han, Mama Han has already brought it over."

Rat poison was sprinkled all over the hall, and Zhang's mother didn't even have a place to stay. Zhao Jing helped the old lady to sit down, and Sun Yu'e had already leaned against the old lady Xu, pretending to be innocent and asking: "Old ancestor , What did Mother Han do, why did she have to be tied up?"

The old lady was about to get angry, but she remembered that Sun Yu'e was still a child after all, so she suppressed her anger and said to her: "You are still young, this matter has nothing to do with you, why did you come here, you should go back quickly!"

Sun Yu'e raised her eyes to look at Zhao Jing, and said casually: "It was the little girl who said you asked me to come here."

Zhao Jing just smiled when she heard this, and said to the old lady Xu, "Old lady, you invited me to the Hou's mansion, and I was originally intended to be the lady's husband for the eldest girl, so what happened today, I just invited the eldest girl to come here so that she can learn how to coerce the slaves below in the future!"

After hearing this, Mrs. Xu felt that it made sense, so she nodded and said, "Exactly, then don't leave, and stay here to learn, so that you can see this mother Han clearly, is it true?" What a man with a heart of snakes and scorpions."

Mother Han was pushed into the main hall by two young daughters-in-law, and knelt in the middle of the rat poison all over the floor. When she saw the rat poison, she became more and more frightened, and saw Ji Xiang kneeling aside and already confessed, her heart ached. It's more than half cold.She lowered her head, knelt down in front of Mrs. Xu with a downcast face, and cried loudly: "Old lady, this servant didn't intend to harm you, old lady. This servant was deceived by lard, and I was thinking wrong for a while, please ask old lady For the sake of my dedication to serving you all these years, please forgive me this time!"

Mrs. Xu was soft-hearted. Seeing Mama Han's tearful appearance, she suppressed her anger a little while ago, but Zhao Jing still stood aside coldly. After she had finished speaking, she asked, "Mama Han , I just want to ask you, did you secretly give this auspicious auspicious thing in private, or did you give it in front of the eldest girl?"

Mother Han hesitated for a moment when she heard the words, and Sun Yu'e over there only hurriedly said: "When did they do this, how do I know, what does Mr. Zhao mean by asking her that?"

Zhao Jing glanced at Sun Yu'e and said with a smile: "Young lady, don't be impatient, I just ask, are you there, wait for them to tell me!"

Sun Yu'e couldn't sit still on the chair anymore, Zhao Jing turned her head again, looked at Mother Han and continued: "The old lady is the order of the second rank, and the order of poisoning the second rank is to copy and kill the whole family and implicate the whole family. The emperor has been a court lady for ten years, and he still understands these national laws. Mother Han, if you tell the truth at this time, I can ask the old lady for you not to send you to the court. If you don’t say it After a while, people from Shuntian Fuyin will come, then you can only tell the officials!"

At this time, Mother Han was so frightened that she lost consciousness, and even her eyes went straight... What kind of national law does a village woman like her know?But Zhao Jing is a court lady in front of the emperor, what she said is always right!She doesn't understand anything else, but she can understand the words "slash all over the family, implicate the Nine Clans"!

Zhao Jing pretended not to see Mother Han's expression, and continued: "You are not a servant of the Hou family, and our Hou family can decide whether you will stay or not. If something like this happens, we can only send you to the official, otherwise After being investigated by the higher authorities, the Hou Mansion will still be charged with harboring criminals."

"Mr. Zhao..." Mother Han finally couldn't bear it at this time. She broke free from the restraints of the two daughter-in-laws, threw herself on the ground, pulled Zhao Jing's dress and cried, "Mr. Zhao... I didn't want to harm the old lady...it has nothing to do with me, these...these rat poisons are what the eldest girl asked me to find for her!"

(End of this chapter)