The Demon Queen of Divine Doctor is not to be trifled with

Chapter 68 Everyone is a murderer

Ye Jingsheng left, leaving Xiao standing there in a daze. After a long while, she asked Jinxiu beside her, "What does he mean?"

Jinxiu said: "I feel that... the master seems to have his own reasons. It sounds like Xichun forced him to do this."

Xiao's eyebrows were tightly furrowed together, her excited mood gradually calmed down, and her rationality returned.

Yes, it was Xichun who forced him, otherwise no matter how foolish Ye Jingsheng was, he would never fall in love with the maid beside Ye Wenyan.

At the beginning, he and his wife did something that even the old lady didn't know about, but Xichun knew it clearly because that thing was done with Xichun's help. But how could a maid force the master? Even if she knew everything, wasn't she afraid of being killed to silence her? "Madam, let's go back and talk about it!" Jinxiu reminded in a low voice, "Xichun is still locked up in our courtyard!"

Xiao hurried back to her Huayu Courtyard. This former courtyard of the Mu family was well built. Apart from the old lady's Fulu Courtyard, it was almost the most prosperous place in the mansion.

It was built like this in the past to highlight the status of the mistress of the house. Now that Xiao has moved in, she is very proud of it.

"Go cook a bowl of soup for that girl. She hasn't eaten anything all day. Don't let her starve to death in our yard." Xiao instructed Jinxiu. While she said that people must not be starved to death, she quietly handed over a packet of powder.

Jinxiu had followed the Xiao family for many years, so she naturally understood what this meant. So she said nothing and quietly retreated.

Xichun was locked in the woodshed in the backyard, with her hands and feet tied and her mouth gagged, and no one came to see her the whole day.

She almost thought that Xiao was going to starve her to death, but at this moment, Jinxiu came. The woodshed was very dark, and Jinxiu held a lamp in her hand, with only a candle stick left on it, swaying as if it was about to go out.

She felt terrified and stepped back subconsciously, but soon she discovered that Jinxiu was holding a bowl in her hands, which made her even more frightened.

The cloth gag was taken out. Because it was stuffed with too much cloth, she couldn't close her mouth completely at once, and her cheeks were sore.

"Are you hungry?" Jinxiu said to her softly, "The Second Madam took pity on you and asked me to bring you a bowl of porridge. Drink it quickly, or it will get cold soon."

Xichun was terrified and shook her head desperately, while gritting her teeth and saying, "I won't drink! Don't try to fool me, I know what you want to do. The Second Master and the Second Madam have done this once before, I know it all, don't try it on me. Jinxiu, go back and tell the Second Madam that you can either agree to let the Second Master take me as a concubine, raise my status, and let me live a life of luxury from now on, or you can prepare to bear the wrath of the Fourth Miss and the First Madam's family."

Jinxiu put the bowl on the ground and advised her calmly: "Why bother? If you don't want to drink, I can force you to drink. You are dead now, and the incident will be buried with you, and no one will know about it anymore. Xichun, Xichun, what can I say about you? If you had taken the money and left, you would have lived a rich life now, and how could you have fallen into this situation? People should not be too greedy. If you are greedy, you will lose your life."

"Want to take my life?" Xichun stared at Jinxiu and sneered, "Don't worry, no, I know them so well, how could I let myself follow that person's old path. Go back and tell your master that it's impossible to kill him to silence him. I have left evidence and witnesses. Once I die, that person will hand the evidence to the fourth young lady. So they'd better pray that I'm alive and well, because only if I'm alive, that matter will remain a secret and will never be known to others."

Jinxiu left, and the bowl of porridge was brought in and out the same way she had carried it in. She then poured it under the tree, and it melted into the snow pile.

Xiao was furious at Xichun's words and smashed everything in the house. Jinxiu had no choice but to persuade her, "Madam, think positively. At least the Second Master was really forced to do so. He didn't intend to take Xichun as a concubine. No matter what others say, your relationship with the Second Master has not changed."

Xiao thought about Jinxiu's words for a while, and finally felt a little comforted. She said to Jinxiu, "Go and invite the Second Master, be respectful, and invite him to Huayu Courtyard for dinner."

It was already this late and dinner had not yet been served. Both the master and the servants were extremely hungry.

Jinxiu hurried to invite someone, but unfortunately she failed because Ye Jingsheng had already gone to Liu's Qiaoshuyuan.

Xiao was so angry that she started smashing things again, and only stopped when there was nothing left in the house.

"Go! You can go a little longer. You still have to get up at midnight to celebrate the seventh day after death for Ye Wenyan. I don't believe that Ye Wenyan will forgive him if he doesn't show up on the seventh day after death." Xiao snorted coldly and took Jinxiu to the front yard.

There is a big funeral going on at home, so there is no need to go out and buy funeral supplies right away, as there are plenty of ready-made ones.

Xiao asked the kitchen staff to prepare a few dishes, and cut some white cloth ribbons to give to the servants in the mansion, telling them to tie them around their waists. A brazier was set up in the Xuming Hall, with a pile of burning paper next to it.

Jinxiu said, "There is still a missing tablet. There is really no place to carve it at this time. I will ask the second master to write one!"

Xiao agreed.

The night scene was very fast, and Xiao saw that he was dressed neatly, and she felt relieved. But when she saw Liu and Ye Chulian following behind, her anger was rekindled.

"Concubines and concubines have no right to participate in such an important matter. Go back to your room!"

Liu glanced at Ye Jingsheng, and when she saw Ye Jingsheng nod, she bowed to Xiao from a distance and was about to take Ye Chulian back.

But Ye Jingsheng pulled Ye Chulian and said to her: "Since it is the seventh day of mourning, it cannot be just us elders. Chulian should stay, after all, we are of the same generation, so just fill in the number!" Xiao gritted her teeth but said nothing.

Ye Chulian stayed like this. She knew why she stayed, so without saying a word, she knelt down beside the brazier and started burning paper.

Xiao ordered the servants, "Go and call the eldest young lady, the second young lady, and the eldest young master. They don't even know what time it is, and they still want to hide and sleep. Come out and burn paper for their fourth sister and send her off properly."

The servants went to invite them separately. Jinxiu gently tugged at Xiao and said in a low voice, "Madam and Aunt Liu may be angry, but there's no need to bring up the Fourth Young Miss on the seventh day of her death. We still have to count on the Fourth Young Miss!"

Xiao took a deep breath and nodded.

Yes, she still had to count on Ye Wenyan! She had to cure her daughter's face, no matter whether the baby in her belly was a boy or a girl, the face had to be cured. Ye Wenyan was the only person she knew who could do it, and she didn't need to offend everyone together with the old lady. The Xu Ming Hall was decorated very well, and the kitchen cooked eight dishes. The servants also used wooden sticks to build a small ladder at the threshold. This was the custom of the first seven days, which meant that the dead could use this ladder to enter the house.

All the servants tied white cloth around their waists, just like when setting up the coffin for a big funeral. Ye Chulian also burned the brazier very vigorously, and muttered something in his mouth. Xiao Shi couldn't hear clearly, but it was definitely the same as for a funeral!

Soon, Mu came with Ye Feiyu and Ye Qingmei.

When Ye Feiyu and his sister saw Ye Chulian burning paper, they hurried over to burn with her. But Ye Lianmian hadn't arrived yet, so Xiao knew that he must be accompanying the old lady.

She was thinking, will the old lady come? If she doesn't come, Ye Wenyan will be angry, right? But if she goes, the old lady will definitely blame her for being too nosy.

After thinking it over, she decided not to bother with it. She had done what she was supposed to do anyway, and the old lady was not under her control. Ye Wenyan's blame could not be put on her. Mu was supported by the maid and sat down on a chair. Xiao came up with a smile on her face, sat beside her and talked to her: "Sister-in-law, please check if there is anything wrong. I will ask someone to correct it immediately."

Madam Mu glanced at her, her eyes fixed on the smile on her lips. She asked Madam Xiao, "Sister-in-law, you look happy? My daughter died, and today is the seventh day after her death. Is this something worth being happy about?"

She was a little excited, and leaned forward while speaking, as if she wanted to eat Xiao.

Xiao quickly shrank back, and Dannuo hurried to help his master, but he found that Madam Mu was trembling all over, and her teeth were clenched so tightly that they made a clicking sound.

Dannuo was scared. She had seen Mu like this once before, on the day the eldest master died.

But it was because her husband passed away at that time, so why is it happening now? Although it is a seventh day celebration for the Fourth Young Lady, it is just a trick she came up with to make people suffer. She is still alive, so it is not a real seventh day celebration. What is wrong with the Madam? Xiao had the same idea, and she even asked, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing? The Fourth Young Lady is not dead, and this seventh day celebration is fake. She is just upset about what happened that day, so she made such a fuss for us. Look at you, why are you so excited as if your daughter really died?"

Mu couldn't control herself at all. She shook Dannuo off and almost rushed towards Xiao. She stretched out her arms and grabbed Xiao's neck.

She had been the mistress of a first-rank general's mansion for so many years, and she had never lost her composure like this even after her husband died. In this situation, she felt like a lunatic.

But she had no choice, she couldn't control it. Her daughter was dead, and everyone in the house from top to bottom was the murderer.

The old lady, Ye Jingsheng, Xiao, Ye Hongzhuang, each of them was the murderer of her daughter.

She has endured for many days. No one could understand her torment. No one knew that she couldn't sleep every night. As soon as she closed her eyes, that beautiful and lively daughter would appear in front of her, calling her mother over and over again.

Her hair was falling out in clumps, and everyone thought she was haggard because of her husband's death, but they didn't know that what really sad her was her little daughter, whom she had loved since childhood, the one who grew up in her arms.

She strangled Xiao tightly and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Xiao Shubai, you killed my daughter. I, Mu Qianqiu, swear that I will never stop fighting you in this life!"