Repudiating a Good Wife Is Out of the Question

118. To Clean the House

Translator: Sissy That Walk

Everyone scattered and went to look for Xiao Qian when Mohua came rushing in, pouring with sweat, “The Youngest Master is found! He fell into the water vat in the kitchen.”

Hearing that, Dowager Xiao felt giddy and dazzled, Xiao Yugui held her when she was about to faint, “Mother, please take care, Xiao Qian is merely an unworthy son.”

Dowager Xiao battered Xiao Yugui on his back, “Stop saying that, Qian is the apple of my eye!”

Mohua continued, “Please don’t worry, madam, our Young Madam has saved him already, the Youngest Master is fine. My madam asked me to report this to you in case you get worried. The doctor has stewed medicine already.”

“Good boy, Mo! I will give him some reward!”

Dowager Xiao wiped the tears streaming down on her face, “Not only has Mo saved Xiao Qian, he has saved my life as well. Yuqi, I don’t want to hear anything like repudiating Mo again. Mo is nothing but a lucky charm to our family, Yi has turned well after they got married, I will look for a concubine for him when the right time comes, no need to worry about the offspring. And today he saved Xiao Qian, what a lucky charm Mo is! No once can say a bad word about Mo in this manor, including Yi.”

Xiao Yi smiled, “I won’t, grandmother, I won’t even have that thought.”

They made their way to the kitchen to see Xiao Qian, Xiao Qian had already got changed and now was resting in Concubine Fang’s arms.

Xiao Yugui drew a long face and asked, “What is Qian doing in the kitchen, how come he fell into the water vat?”

The wet nursed answered with a trembling voice, “We were all in Cunxi Hall, but Qian’s hand got burned, I went to look for the ointment, he went missing after I came back.”

“Have you forgotten your duty? Mother has said more than once, you cannot move a step from Qian!” Xiao Yugui slapped hard on the wet nurse.

“Your Lordship, Concubine Fang was there taking care of Qian, so I…” the wet nurse wailed.

“Today is your lucky day, Mo has saved Qian, otherwise I will kill you and your whole family. Get lost now!”

Xiao Yugui interrogated Concubine Fang what happened to Xiao Qian, Concubine Fang kept looking at Cao Mo, she trusted Cao Mo but all she had seen was Cao Mo saving her son from the water vat.

Cao Mo didn’t want to get misunderstood, he chimed in, “I saw Lvzhu and Concubine Fang talking under the porch before I left Cunxi Hall, probably Qian ran away while they weren’t looking at him.”

Concubine Fang bit her lips, she didn’t want to say a bad word about Cao Mo.

Lvzhu kowtowed to Xiao Yugui, “I saw Young Madam made a kindling-figurine for Qian, probably Qian accidentally dropped the figurine to the water vat and he wanted to catch the figurine so he fell into the vat as well.”

“Nonsense! Qian is not half as tall as the vat, what you said didn’t make sense, why would you say such a lie, do you have something to do with this?” Xiao Yi rebuked.

Lvzhu cried, “Young Master, we all know how much you dote on Young Madam, but you can’t wrong me like this to protect the Young Madam!”

Cao Mo chimed in, “Well, Yi is right, you may haven’t noticed it yourself, Qian used my toilet water, he fell into the water and that has thinned the smell, Concubine Fang didn’t find him in time. But you, you smell like my toilet water as well, it means you have had close contact with Qian.”

Lvzhu sniffed her clothes and there was faint fragrance on her.

“It’s you? Do you have anything to say about that?” Xiao Yugui fumed.

Lvzhu snapped her finger and put the poison hidden under her finger in her mouth.

Cao Mo shouted, “She has taken poison! Make her drink water and vomit, she needs to say who orders her!”

With that Cao Mo dragged Lvzhu to the water vat and put her head into the water, soon Lvzhu started to gasp and vomit, Cao Mo thought it was too slow so he started to say some disgusting words about raising animals in the country estate, how the pigs live in a shit hole and fight for food.

It worked, Lvzhu started to vomit.

Cao Mo asked a servant to feed her some soup to keep her alive.

Xiao Yugui grabbed her by the collar and asked, “Why! Why did you try to harm Qian!”

“Because I hate you and your whole family, I don’t want you to have any offspring!” Lvzhu roared.

“Today is your doom, you ruthless monster!” Xiao Yuqi walked to Lvzhu and snapped her neck before Xiao Yugui could stop him.

“Why did you do that! Are you trying to destroy evidence?” Cao Mo pointed at Xiao Yuqi.

“I just cleaned my house, Lvzhu is a maid in Banyan House.” Xiao Yuqi looked grim.

Xiao Yi grabbed Cao Mo, “It’s true, Second Uncle did the right thing.”

“But we need to investigate more, Lvzhu is merely a maid and we’ve all treated her well, it doesn’t make sense that she tried to hurt Xiao Qian. There must be someone else behind the scene, Lvzhu is just a scapegoat!” Cao Mo got emotional, this reminded him of Qin, the familiar helplessness.

He believed Lvzhu didn’t really want to hurt Xiao Qian, she could have had pushed Xiao Qian to the water before he showed up, but she didn’t.

… …

In Magnolia House.

“Have you noticed Lvzhu infuriated your father on purpose?” Cao Mo asked in a low voice.

Xiao Yi cuddled Cao Mo, it ached his heart to see how painful Cao Mo felt about Lvzhu.

“Yeah, she doesn’t have much choice, she failed at her mission and she didn’t want to betray her madam.” Xiao Yi replied.

“But she is wronged.” anger well up in Cao Mo, “It’s Auntie Lu! But poor Lvzhu didn’t dare to even mention her name.”

“Luckily Qian is fine, otherwise it’s not just Lvzhu who needs to die.” Xiao Yi cuddled Cao Mo tighter, “Father knows, everyone knows, it’s just we are all playing dumb to control the damage.”