Chapter 137: The news-bringers are here

Jiang Shi and Du Ren Mei were both silent.

For a girl, her face was just as important as her life. Without a face, how would she marry in the future?

"Forget it, Mother, just let me die." Du Mingzhu's hope was shattered once again, and she smiled miserably. "Rather than living with such a hideous and terrifying face and suffering the cold eyes of the world, it's better to just die."

Jiang Shi covered her face and cried.

Du Ren Mei paced back and forth, sighing and groaning.

Wen Shiyuan couldn't stand it anymore. "I say, your family is really strange. What could be more important than life? As the saying goes, as long as the green hills remain, there's no need to worry about firewood. As long as the life is still there, there is always hope. Do you still need me to teach you such a simple truth?"

Jiang Shi hurriedly wiped away her tears. "Right, let's save her life first."

She got up and walked to her daughter's bed, holding her daughter's hand and forcing a smile. "Zhu'er, don't worry. No matter what method it takes, Mother will definitely find a way to cure your face, okay?"

Du Mingzhu turned her head away and didn't speak, but her shoulders shook one by one, clearly crying.

Jiang Shi looked up at Wen Shiyuan. Wen Shiyuan rummaged through the bottom of his medicine box and took out a pill to hand to her. He thought for a moment and then withdrew his hand. "Two hundred taels of silver, okay?"

"Okay, Divine Doctor Wen, I'll offer it later." Jiang Shi said hurriedly.

Only then did Wen Shiyuan give her the medicine and warned: "Take it now, dissolve it with warm water."

The woman immediately went to pour water, and Jiang Shi served her daughter to take it. The big stone in her heart finally dropped halfway.

In addition to this pill, Wen Shiyuan also prescribed several detoxifying and conditioning formulas, saying they had to be taken for two months before stopping.

After everything was done, Wen Shiyuan didn't leave but stopped Du Ren Mei. "Lord Du, trouble you to help me catch a few cockroaches from this prison."

Du Ren Mei was stunned. "Cockroaches?"

"That's right." Wen Shiyuan said, "I've practiced medicine for many years, and I've never seen such highly toxic cockroaches, so I want to see what they look like."

"..." Du Ren Mei had no choice but to agree.

Cockroaches, besides Mingzhu's cell, there were plenty in other cells.

They were caught quickly, each one fat and strong.

Wen Shiyuan personally tested the insects, played with them, teased them, provoked them, and even deliberately let a cockroach bite him. But after waiting for several hours, except for a few small red rashes, there were no other abnormalities.

In other words, the cockroaches in this prison were ordinary cockroaches and didn't have such great toxicity.

That was strange. Why were all the other prisoners in the prison fine, and only Du Mingzhu got sick?

"Maybe it's because Mingzhu was scared by cockroaches when she was young, so she reacted so strongly." Du Ren Mei gave a perfect explanation.

Wen Shiyuan thought about it and felt that this was the only possibility.

Since the illness had been seen and the questions in his heart had found answers, Wen Shiyuan prepared to leave the prison.

Du Ren Mei personally sent him out.

After the two left, Jiang Shi's ordinary face sank, and she ordered: "Go call Gui Sao over."

Gui Sao had been uneasy for the past few days, fearing that the Du Mansion would settle scores with her later.

But what she feared came, and she finally stood in front of Jiang Shi. "Madam is looking for me?"

Jiang Shi sat on the chair and stared at her steadily. "Gui Sao, the day Zhu'er got sick, did anyone come?"

Gui Sao's heart jumped, and then she quickly calculated in her mind.

Should she expose Du Niang Zi? Du Niang Zi was quite good, and she was Jiang Tou's wife. If Madam Du vented her anger on Du Niang Zi...

Forget it, better the friend dies than the self. It was better than suffering herself.

"Someone did come to visit Miss Mingzhu that day, it was... it was Du Niang Zi." Gui Sao gritted her teeth and said.

Du Niang Zi? Jiang Shi's mind turned. "Are you talking about Du Ruo?"

Gui Sao responded with a "yes."

Jiang Shi always felt something was wrong. Du Ruo and Mingzhu were at odds, and the reason Mingzhu was in prison was also thanks to Du Ruo.

How could she suddenly be so kind as to visit Mingzhu?

Connecting it to everything that happened in the examination hall, Jiang Shi suddenly understood.

It must be that Ma Jiao's framing of Jiang Erlang failed, which aroused Du Ruo's suspicion, so she came over to poison Mingzhu in retaliation.

A bitch is a bitch, sure enough, insidious and vicious!

Jiang Shi asked with a dark face: "Was the cockroach brought by Du Ruo?"

"Impossible!" Gui Sao shook her head repeatedly and denied it flatly. "When Du Niang Zi came, I specifically checked. Such a large living cockroach, there was no place to hide it."

Could it be conjured out of thin air?

After thinking about it, she added: "And Du Niang Zi is just like Miss Mingzhu, very afraid of cockroaches. At that time, I saw her whole face turn pale with fright, and she couldn't even walk steadily. I think this matter should have nothing to do with Du Niang Zi."

Nothing to do with her? Heh.

Jiang Shi sneered secretly. There was no such coincidence. She was afraid that Du Ruo was just pretending.

Regardless of whether this matter had anything to do with Du Ruo, she was pinning this pot on her anyway.

In the end, wasn't the disaster Zhu'er suffered all because of her? If Du Ruo had agreed to the one-thousand-tael settlement back then, there wouldn't have been today's incident.

The prison was filled with gloom, but the Jiang family's second branch was full of joy.

Early in the morning, Zheng Shi laughed from ear to ear. "There must be good news today. Look at the osmanthus trees in the courtyard, there are so many magpies chirping!"

Du Ruo winked. "Yes, yes, there must be a handsome uncle coming to propose to Mother."

"Nonsense." Zheng Shi spat at her. "Mother doesn't want to remarry. Mother will just guard you and live. In the future, I'll bring up your children. My life is so beautiful, what do I need a man for? It's annoying."

Du Ruo laughed heartily.

Actually, Zheng Shi was not yet forty, and she would support her if she wanted to remarry, but the object had to be carefully chosen.

Don't look at Zheng Shi's haggard appearance, her foundation was very good, otherwise how could she give birth to such a beautiful daughter as herself?

Hmm, it wasn't enough for her to become beautiful, Mother couldn't be left behind either.

Du Ruo made up her mind.

The chili seedlings in those three acres of land were all planted yesterday. Now there was only the work of watering left, and it was enough for Zheng Qinghe and Jiang Sheng to be busy.

Du Ruo called Zheng Shi and Chunhua, and the three women (girls) started making pumpkin cakes and mung bean cakes.

Things promised to others, of course, had to be done.

Although she only promised... she decided to make two hundred of each, considering the dozens of people in Clan Leader Jiang's family, and leave some for their own family to eat.

Just after finishing and packing the baskets, Yao Yulan ran over in a hurry.

"Sister-in-law, a group of official news-bringers has come to the entrance of the village!"

Du Ruo's spirit was lifted, and she hurriedly washed her hands and started to prepare. Incense, candles, melons, fruits, sugar water, and the red envelopes for the official news-bringers, none of these could be missing.

At this time, at the entrance of the village, several official news-bringers were walking while beating gongs and drums.

A large group of adults and children followed behind to watch the fun, and everyone was discussing.

"Did someone become a scholar?"

"Who else could it be? The only ones from our village who participated in the county exam are the uncle and nephew of the Jiang family. It's either him or him."

"Then who became a scholar, Master Jiang or Erlang of the Jiang family?"

Zhu Shi was habitually planning to make a few sarcastic remarks in the crowd, but after moving her mouth a few times, she suddenly remembered that she was dumb, and suddenly sorrow came from it.

Then she ran toward the Jiang family's old mansion. ===== CHAPTER 138 =====