Shipin Dalizheng

Suddenly, there was a sound of falling tiles outside the house, and Mother Yao was startled. "Madam, don't say anything. This mansion is full of young master's spies. The people under him are used to committing murder and arson. It's hard to guarantee..."

Rong Xiu was also panicked and quickly blew out the flame.

After a while, Rong Shen reported the few words he overheard to Rong Tang.

"Master, Rongxiu and Mother Yao know that you are not Jin Shizhao's biological son."

Rong Tang turned around twice and analyzed, "Rong Xiu probably didn't know, or rather, she didn't know before. Everything she knows was subtly instilled into her by Mother Yao."

"We ignored Madam Yao before and didn't investigate her past carefully before letting her return to the Bo's Mansion."

Rong Tang nodded. "At first, I wanted to abandon the entire Bo Mansion and send everyone away. But then she came. As Madam Rong's most trusted confidant, I had no choice but to trust her."

"Rongxiu has been out of touch with the capital for too long, and she's unable to integrate quickly. Naturally, she only obeys Mother Yao. And Mother Yao obviously hasn't properly taught her how to be a qualified old lady in the Bo Mansion. Instead, she's instilled some strange ideas in her and led her astray."

"So, Mother Yao isn't necessarily Madam Rong's confidant. She is..."

The two of them looked at each other and said the name together, "Jin Shizhao."

If a man wants to poison his wife, what better way is there than to bribe her closest relatives?

But these ideas are just speculations and cannot be used as actual evidence.

"Call Butler Tao over and ask him how Jin Shizhao has been doing recently. Forget it, I'll go and see for myself."

The Jin family next door has closed its doors to visitors for several months. More than ten servants take turns to look after the Jin mother and son. They are provided with food and drink, and their defecation and urination are cleaned up on time several times a day.

(Note: The cleaning is done after a few hours, very punctually)

It was fine in summer and autumn, but in winter, the feces and urine on the bed were warm at first, but soon turned cold, making the mother and child groan in pain day and night.

Rong Tang jumped over the wall to look. The servants who served Jin Shizhao were pointing at his nose and scolding him. "I told you to be a bad person. As the saying goes, a wife who loses a hundred fortunes will never make a fortune. Now you're getting your comeuppance. Our young master is now a double earl, unprecedented and unparalleled. If you hadn't been so ruthless back then, you would be the earl's father now. What a great honor! You deserve this!"

He was just cursing happily when Rong Tang stepped closer and startled him, "Young Master."

Rong Tang waved him out, and the servant was embarrassed, "Young Master, I was just making the bed, and another one was pulled out."

"Get out first."

The servant immediately covered Jin Shizhao tightly again, for fear that the smell would stink to his master.

As soon as the servant left, Rong Tang lifted a corner of the quilt. A foul odor rushed straight to his spirit platform, so he quickly put it down.

"Jin Shizhao, I know you are awake. Answer a few questions for me. If you are satisfied, I will make your life better."

Jin Shizhao's mouth was crooked, saliva was flowing from his mouth, and his eyes were full of resentment.

"You can't really blame me for ending up like this. I just arrived and wanted to coexist peacefully with you, but you and your son refused to let me go. Since it's either you or me, let's not talk about who's right or wrong. Whoever is more ruthless wins, right?"

Half of Jin Shizhao's body trembled, and he made "uh uh uh" sounds in a fierce and angry manner.

"I used to never understand. My mother is a lady from a famous family. In terms of beauty and intelligence, she is several times better than Yang. Why do you look down on her so much and treat a village woman like a treasure? Later I thought it through. My mother is not a wife to you, but a stepping stone to wealth and glory. How could a man with such a strong sense of career fall in love with his own stepping stone? I was also puzzled. Even if my mother is your stepping stone, I am your biological son! In terms of ability, I am a hundred times better than Jin Yaoyang. It is easier for you to obtain wealth and glory with my help. Why can't you tolerate me? Later I thought it through. It is very likely that you know very well in your heart that I am not your biological son. No matter how outstanding I am, I am not your own child and you cannot tolerate me. Am I right?"

Jin Shizhao was indeed sober, and the anger in his eyes almost made him want to eat Rong Tang.

"Your eyes really make people happy! Let me guess, how are you sure I'm not your biological son? You are sick..., you can't..."

Seeing that Jin Shizhao was about to vomit blood out of anger again, Rong Tang suppressed his nausea and moved closer, "Speak louder, I can't hear you..."

Half a cup of tea later, the torture of Jin Shizhao ended, and Rong Tang heard the answer he wanted to hear.

Jin Shizhao never consummated his marriage with Mrs. Rong.

At first, Jin Shizhao was waiting for his eldest son to come home, but later, Mrs. Rong herself was unwilling to do so.

A couple who never consummated their marriage, when the wife gave birth to a child, the husband of course knew that the child was not his.

"Bitch...people..."

Jin Shizhao cursed Mrs. Rong vaguely, and Rong Tang slapped her in the face without any psychological burden at all.

"You still have the nerve to scold others, you are nothing yourself. In your next life, remember not to be a human, you are worse than pigs and dogs."

After cursing, he couldn't stand the stench anymore and walked away with his nose pinched.

After finally getting rid of the foul smell, Rong Tang analyzed with Rong Zhan, "If it's simply because I'm not Jin Shizhao's biological son, Yao should know that they can't control me. After all, I only need to be Madam Rong's son. Unless..."

Rong Zhan wasn't stupid either, and he also thought of a problem, "Besides her, you're not Madam Rong's biological son."

There is a possibility that Mother Yao discovered that he was a fake and told Rong Xiu, so Rong Xiu said that he had inherited the Rong family's title and obtained a lot of property. She also felt that he had obtained the Rong family's property for nothing but did not help the clan members more, which made her feel unbalanced.

Because in her mind, this was the wealth of their "Rong family", belonging to all members of the Rong family, and should not be monopolized by an outsider like him.

Rong Zhan was puzzled. "It's impossible. Master, you have never been alone with Mother Yao. There's no way she could have seen any marks on you that don't match Young Master Rong's."

Of course she had never seen him. If she had really seen him, she would have known that the master was not only not Madam Rong's son, but not even a man.

"We are just speculating now. I don't want to wrongly accuse her. Let's wait until Rong Shen investigates the clinic before we make any decisions."

Rong Shen came back late because Mrs. Rong had already started taking medicine in the spring and it was difficult to find her prescriptions left in the clinic.

However, Rong Shen still found a prescription, which was said to be what Mrs. Rong had been taking all year round, and she was still using this prescription shortly before her death.

Doctor Mo had just rested for a short while when he was asked to look at the prescription again.

Doctor Mo said confidently, "This is a prescription for treating heart disease. The effect is average. It is too strong. It can't cure the disease, nor can it kill the patient."

Rong Shen said, "I've inquired carefully. For years, it's always been Mother Yao who has been getting the medicine. She hasn't bought any other poisonous drugs. It's impossible for other pharmacies to sell her a single poisonous herb. Everything has to be recorded in the book. Perhaps, as she said, she picked it herself in the wild."

Rong Tang, however, had already thought of another problem. "That's not right. According to the people at the pharmacy, Madam Rong had been taking this prescription for years to treat her heart disease. She was still taking it before she died. If she was determined to commit suicide and didn't want to wait for her son to return, why would she continue to take the medicine?"

Being willing to take medicine means that you still want to live. Then why would you let Mother Yao buy poison? Isn't this a contradiction?

Doctor Mo said slowly, "There's another possibility: chronic poisoning."