CHAPTER 377: CHAPTER 379: LEAVING THE RESIDENCE (PART 1)

The crowd suddenly stopped, no one expected Zhou Dao Po to say these things. The Grand Dowager raised her eyes and glanced at the Fifth Madam, who sharply replied while clutching her handkerchief: "Zhou Dao Po, have you gone mad, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Zhou Dao Po didn’t even look at the Fifth Madam, continuously kowtowing to the Grand Dowager: "Please spare me, Grand Dowager, I’m really just taking the Fifth Madam’s silver, it truly has nothing to do with me."

At this moment, the Grand Dowager seemed that the anger from earlier had faded away, she slowly waved her hand and looked at the Fifth Madam: "Why rush, let her finish speaking." She then turned to Zhou Dao Po: "Tell me in detail, why are you begging for your life, what have you done?"

Zhou Dao Po knelt on the ground, kowtowing and replied: "Two years... Two years ago, the Fifth Madam took two hundred taels of silver notes and bought a pill of ancestral abortion medicine from me..." As she spoke, she paused, and the faces of the crowd became increasingly unsightly, the Fifth Madam screamed and pointed at Zhou Dao Po: "What nonsense are you spouting! Smack her mouth!"

The Grand Dowager’s cold gaze fell on her, the Fifth Madam was shocked and quickly knelt down at the Grand Dowager’s feet: "Mother, don’t listen to her ridiculous words."

The Grand Dowager chuckled coldly: "Whether it’s nonsense, let her finish speaking." Not looking at the Fifth Madam, she addressed Zhou Dao Po again: "Continue speaking."

Zhou Dao Po bowed her head and continued: "I don’t know where she is used it, I also advised the Fifth Madam, saying this medicine is extremely aggressive, even the girls at Zui Chun Fang don’t dare to use it often, but the Fifth Madam insisted on buying it and taking it away..."

Xiao Yanyi seemed to have anticipated what she was about to say next, and his brow furrowed deeply.

Second Madam also slightly squinted her eyes.

"A few days later, I heard..." Zhou Dao Po glanced at the Second Madam and quickly lowered her head: "I heard Second Madam had a premature birth, I was extremely frightened, so I found a reason to take a look in the Second Madam’s room and saw her complexion, indeed caused by my medicine. At the time, I was afraid of being implicated and left the Capital overnight, but after staying outside for a while, I couldn’t bear it and snuck back. I asked around to find out that the Fifth Madam was still residing steadily in the mansion, and the matter had not been revealed."

"You’re lying, you’re slandering me!" The Fifth Madam suddenly pounced over, grabbed Zhou Dao Po by the collar, and slapped her: "You wicked person, full of lies!"

The Grand Dowager’s brows furrowed in anger: "Shut her mouth!" Following the order, the servant outside the courtyard came up, grabbed the Fifth Madam’s arms to block her mouth, the Fifth Madam panicked and glared at Xiao Yanting standing by: "Fifth Young Master, Fifth Young Master!"

Xiao Yanting stood there stunned, his face expressionless.

The Fifth Madam was enraged, twisting her body and cursed: "Xiao Yanting, you are a gutless man!" Before she finished speaking, the two servants used a handkerchief to loosely cover her mouth.

The room quieted down, the Grand Dowager looked at Zhou Dao Po kneeling on the ground, her face red and swollen, and asked: "Continue speaking!"

Zhou Dao Po was initially somewhat apprehensive about the Fifth Madam, but seeing her mouth blocked, continued: "Later, Fifth Madam’s minor days were not regular, only after some months did it come to know that the deceased Second Madam secretly did something to her before she passed away. The Fifth Madam angrily summoned me and asked me for a medicine that could slowly poison someone to death without leaving any trace."

"This time, I didn’t dare to sell medicine, so I deceived Fifth Madam, saying that a Soul Suppressing Array could be set up in the mansion. This array, if placed in the mansion for five years, could suppress the spirit of the deceased Second Madam, preventing her from causing chaos in the mortal world, while also causing her offspring to weaken day by day due to insufficient yang energy, eventually leading to death."

"Wait!" Xiao Yanzheng listened, his face flushed with anger, questioning: "Who did she want to poison to death?"

Xiao Yanyi clenched his fists tightly, staring at Zhou Dao Po, Zhou Dao Po’s eyes narrowed, and she reluctantly replied: "To poison... poison the young master Xin in the mansion."

Upon hearing this, the Grand Dowager felt dizzy, almost fainting as she covered her forehead. First Madam and Nanny Wu quickly supported her from either side to stabilize her, Second Madam looked at Xiao Yanyi with a tough expression, her eyes slightly blinking and asked: "Why didn’t you speak earlier? Why say these things now?"

The previously somewhat composed Zhou Dao Po suddenly burst into tears, holding her face cried: "I... I committed too many sins, received retribution, a few days ago because I sold medicine to a girl, that girl couldn’t bear the medicine’s effects and died, her family came to find me, saying... saying if I didn’t reveal all the things I’ve done that harm morality, they... they’d kill my whole family in a righteous act!" Zhou Dao Po wailed like a crow: "My son and daughter-in-law are still nowhere to be found!"

Zhou Dao Po finished speaking and desperately kowtowed to the Grand Dowager, to Xiao Yanyi: "Begging the Grand Dowager, begging the Marquis, begging the Great Governor, please spare me, look at my frankness, save my son, I beg you!"

Standing behind the crowd, Xiao Yanting suddenly collapsed to the ground with a thud, the color on his face gradually faded away.

The Fifth Madam whined, glaring at Zhou Dao Po!

First Madam spoke indifferently: "You say this, do you have evidence?"

This was the crucial moment!

Zhou Dao Po, upon hearing this, hurriedly nodded and replied: "Yes, yes! At the time, the Fifth Madam gave me the silver notes, I still hid them under the foundation of the walls of my house, I haven’t dared to use them yet."

Xiqiu sneered, not daring to use them right, Zhou Dao Po spoke in such detail, as if everything was done by the Fifth Madam, but if she was truly this timid, how could she sell such medicine to others? She just now wants to push all the blame onto the Fifth Madam, trying to exonerate herself, seeking sympathy and hoping to use the Marquis Mansion’s power to find her son.

"Mmm..." The Fifth Madam, as if possessed, kicked a chair, flipping it over with a bang, she desperately shook her head and looked at the Grand Dowager.

The Grand Dowager supported her forehead, pointing at the Fifth Madam said: "Release her."

The servants on either side heard this and released the Fifth Madam... The Fifth Madam immediately spat out the handkerchief from her mouth and cried with tears: "Don’t believe her nonsense!"

"Mother, she’s talking nonsense!"

The Fifth Madam looked ferocious, suddenly crawled up from the ground, rushed to Zhou Dao Po, and smacked her several times, pointing at Zhou Dao Po said: "I treated you well, yet now you bite me back!" Still seemingly unsatisfied, she desperately fought Zhou Dao Po.

Zhou Dao Po dared not fight back, only letting the Fifth Madam hit her.

Xiqiu signaled with her eyes to the waiting servant, who immediately went up to pull the Fifth Madam away, the Fifth Madam’s cheeks flushed red, she looked over at First Madam, Xiao Yanyi, and Second Madam, then to Fourth Master Xiao: "Mother, Second Brother, Second Sister-in-law, Fourth Brother... You must believe me, I really didn’t do anything, she’s slandering me, throwing dirt on me!"