“Miss Song, I’m sorry.”
After sending the Sixth Princess back to her house, Sun Jin came to the door of the Ding Guo Gong Mansion and asked the concierge to call Song Wan Yue out and apologize to her.
Having confirmed that it was Consort Shu and the Wu family who had moved against Song Si, he had no face to enter the Ding Guo Gong Mansion, nor did he have the face to meet Song Si.
If the Sixth Princess had not inadvertently revealed that he and Song Si had gone for a drink, Song Si would not have been attacked and would not have been poisoned and unconscious.
“This matter has nothing to do with you, since they have already started such a thing, even if there is no such thing this time, there will definitely be another time.”
Sun Jin was still blaming himself.
“I will keep this time in my heart, tell the Sixth Princess that I will not count what Consort Shu and the Wu family have done against her, so that she can rest assured.”
She asked the Sixth Princess to ask for the antidote, on the one hand, she wanted the Sixth Princess to confirm for herself that it was Consort Shu and the Wu family who had done it, on the other hand, she also wanted to see the attitude of the Sixth Princess, if she was helping Consort Shu and the Wu family, there would be no need for Big Brother and Sun Jin to interact with each other in the future.
“I will relay the truth, it’s just that Brother Song he ……”
“I will have other ways myself.”
Sun Jin didn’t ask what the solution was and nodded, “If there’s anything you need me to do, just have someone find me.”
“Good.”
Watching Sun Jin get on the carriage and walk away, Song Wan Yue also turned around and went back inside the mansion.
When Sun Jin asked the concierge to call Song Wan Yue out, Duke Ding knew that the antidote had not been requested, “Since this path won’t work, we will take another one.”
There were plenty of ways to get the antidote from the Wu family, they had only taken the easiest route. Since Concubine Shu and the Wu family would not give it to them, they should not blame them for not being polite.
……
Huang Yu walked slowly with the baby in one hand and the basket in the other.
Shortly after returning from Jiangling, she had married Jin Hao and had a daughter, and now that she was pregnant again, Jin Hao had stopped letting her work over at the pastry shop, leaving her at home to look after the baby.
She couldn’t be bothered, so she found an embroidery shop to take on some odd jobs, which was right next to the shop where Jin Hao worked, so Jin Hao let her.
“We’ll see daddy in a little while.” Huang Yu spoke to her daughter as she walked.
Coldly a man came out of the shop next to her and stumbled and fell in front of her.
Huang Yu was startled and subconsciously took a step back.
A boy rushed over to help the fallen man up, his voice choked, “Young master ……”
The man’s face was full of bruises, as if he had just been beaten up, “Leave me alone, let me die.”
His face was right in front of Huang Yu, who couldn’t help but step forward, “What happened to your young master?”
These past few years Wu Sheng had intentionally or unintentionally dangled in front of Huang Yu, who remembered him.
The boy raised his eyes, his eyes blurred with tears, “My aunt died, not only did the eldest young master take back all the things that aunt left behind, he also drove our young master out of the house, pity our young master, he has not suffered since he was a child, now he is being driven out everywhere he goes, he has just, just been beaten up by the eldest young master’s men, we are at the end of our rope.”
It was true that Wu Sheng was not dressed as well as he used to be today, even worse than the average citizen. After all, they knew each other, Huang Yu was moved with compassion, she remembered Jin Hao said that the shop was looking for fellows, “Just ahead is the shop where my husband works, my husband works in it, they seem to be looking for fellows there, you ……”
“I can.”
The man who was just alive and well looked like he had grabbed a lifeline, “I can, and please girl, no no, and please madam, do me this favor.”
The first time he helped them, Wu Sheng was spirited, and every time they met afterwards Wu Sheng also had the physique of a rich gentleman, but he never became overbearing, nor did he pretend not to know her because of the disparity in status.
“Let’s go then.”
Wu Sheng answered, limping behind her with the help of the boy, and soon arrived at the shop, where Jin Hao saw Huang Yu at once and greeted her, taking the child in her arms, “Didn’t I tell you not to carry her?”
“She’s still small, so it’s no trouble for me to carry her.”
Jin Hao took the basket as well and only then did he see the two people following behind her, “Are they ……?”
“Your Excellency still remember the first time we went to the capital a few years ago, our carriage broke down on the road and a gentleman helped us? This is the same gentleman, his family is now in trouble and is about to run out of food, didn’t you say that the shop was looking for a mate, so I brought them here to try.”
Jin Hao was now the head of the shop and had the power to recruit people.
Jin Hao looked at them for a few moments, “Let’s talk inside.”
After arranging for Huang Yu and the child to go to the back yard, Jin Hao questioned Wu Sheng about some things and let him try to sell for a while. Wu Sheng had a sharp tongue and had completely dropped his young master’s stance, which Jin Hao was very satisfied with, “Come and start work tomorrow.”
Wu Sheng was overjoyed, and after a series of thank yous, he left the shop and walked a short distance away, turning back with a sneer.
“Young master, you should wash your hands.”
A different boy came over with a jar of water.
……
It was late at night.
Everyone in the Wu family is in dreamland.
Two figures crept silently over the wall and headed straight for the main courtyard.
There was a maid on night duty in the main courtyard. Song Wangyue flicked out a pill, which fell in front of the maid and diffused, and before long the maid was leaning against the door frame and slowly sitting down.
Song Yin walked to the door, gently pushed the door open a crack, threw a pill in, waited for a while and then pushed the door open. Song Wangyue wanted to go in but was stopped by him, he himself went in first with big steps and only after a while did he let Song Wangyue in.
Wu Jin sat slumped in a chair, his body only loosely covered with an outer robe, which Song Yin had temporarily put on him.
Song Wangyue stuffed a pill into Wu Jin’s mouth.
A moment later, Wu Jin’s mouth moved unconsciously.
“Wu Jin.”
Song Wangyue called out to him.
Wu Jin answered.
“Whose idea was it to poison Song Si?”
“Lady Shu’s.”
“And the antidote?”
“In the hidden compartment of my study.”
“Where is the study?”
“Out the door and to the left, the third courtyard is there.”
Song Wan Yue nodded towards Song Yin, who carried the person back to the bed, and the two of them went to the study.
The study was not large, with a bookshelf, a table and a chair.
Song Wan Yue’s gaze skimmed over the bookshelf, normally in this case there should be a heavy book as a mechanism to open the secret compartment.
Sure enough, there was a book in an inconspicuous position on the third level of the bookshelf. She went up and moved the book, and the bookshelf slowly split in two, revealing the hidden compartment behind it.
Song Wangyue opened it, and inside was a locked brocade box.
Song Wan Yue took the hairpin off her head and fiddled with it a few times, the lock popped open with a click and inside was a pill wrapped in gold leaf.
Song Wan Yue took it out, opened the gold foil and smelled it, handed it to Song Yin, took out a pill similar to this one and wrapped it up, put it back in the brocade box, put it back and closed the hidden compartment.