Chapter Twenty-Three: Punching a Hole

No one cared whether Xiao Jin was bitten by a snake raised by stone vines, the poison of the small hooked snake had already frightened everyone present, a little venom could kill people instantly, and there was no time to rescue it. This kind of murderous weapon is indescribably threatening to ordinary people like them.

"It doesn't bite." Shi Vine shook her head, although she knew that they would be afraid of the little hooked snake, but the disgust and repulsion she saw in their eyes was not what she expected.

"It's just a stupid snake. And you can't hurt people after the tooth is extracted. Xiao Lei said as he motioned to the little hooked snake with his eyes to cooperate. Xiao Lei, who was incompetent in the heart of the little hooked snake, actually said that he was stupid, turned his head and spit out the letter to him defiantly, and was about to show his fangs, but he was hit by the interlocking of the thumb and index finger of the stone vine.

In an instant, it created an eerie and terrifying aura that immediately disappeared without a trace, and it opened its small mouth in humiliation and shrunk its fangs, indicating that it was really "toothless". Despite this, the look in the eyes of those present was still disgusted. Seeing them look at the little hooked snake with such eyes, Shi Manman seemed to be looking at himself. She took the little hooked snake from her hand and put it in her sleeve again.

"Who would keep such a venomous snake around, is it really dead?" Xiao Lei seemed to be mocking, but it reassured the people present a lot.

Xiao Lei has repeatedly defended a woman of unknown origin against her family, whether Shi Manman has raised a toothless poisonous snake or is innocent, Xiao Yuan does not like this woman. He said expressionlessly: "Since it wasn't Miss Shi's snake that hurt someone, please don't carry this wild thing with you, there are many women in the family, and it is easy to be frightened." After speaking, he said to the old doctor: "Just bother the doctor to prescribe medicine for the little girl." Lei'er and I went to the study. ”

Saying that, he left Xiao Jin's courtyard with a cold face, Xiao Lei gave Shi Manman a reassuring look and left behind Xiao Yuan.

Among them, the most unwilling should be Yunxi, she thought that she could see that Xiao Yuan didn't like Shi Manman, and would use this excuse to drive her away, but she never thought that Shi Manman was Xiao Lei's life-saving benefactor. This is also something that Xiao Yuan is afraid of, if outsiders know that the Xiao family treats their life-saving benefactor like this, not to mention that the Xiao family's reputation will be damaged in Shicheng, and the Xiao family's business will also be affected. Human words are not only literal, but also the most difficult to control in terms of destructive power and spread.

Liu Yemei seemed to be frightened and stunned, and he didn't even know that Xiao Yuan was leaving.

"Ahem, ahem...... Ling Yuan's body was originally weak, the medicinal properties of snake venom were too domineering, and the medicinal materials in the old man's medicine box were still a few flavors of harmony, so I went back and wrote a good recipe for the boy in the store to send it. The old doctor carried the medicine box on his back. The gaffe that was frightened by a toothless little snake just now made him lose face, and he just wanted to leave quickly.

"Huanyan, send the doctor." After Liu Yemei came back to his senses, he saw that Xiao Yuan and Xiao Lei were not there, so he realized that he had lost his manners in front of people, and solemnly ordered Huan Yan to send the doctor away.

After confirming that Xiao Jin's life was worry-free, Liu Yemei raised his heart and said sharply to the maid in Xiao Jin's room: "Miss was bitten by a snake, and you people who serve can't get out of it." Each person will be deducted half of the silver per month, and if such a thing happens in the future, you just wait for Huang Po to come. ”

The Huang Po in Liu Yemei's mouth is a personal trafficker, and almost all the maids taken away in her hands are sold to third-rate places like Qinglou kilns. The word Huang Po is enough to make the maids present look disgraced, and being taken away by Huang Po is almost equivalent to ruining her innocence. No matter how bad the Xiao family is, it is still married to a subordinate, if it is taken to that kind of place to be tortured, it is better to die cleanly.

A few maids were frightened and Nuo Nuo agreed, only Yunxi bit his lower lip, although he lowered his eyes and face, he still looked at Shi Manman with resentment.

"Miss Shi, you've been wronged." After Liu Yemei finished teaching the maid a lesson, in order to show his sincerity, he was not afraid of the sudden attack of the small hooked snake hidden in the sleeve of the stone vine, stepped forward and took the hand of the stone vine and patted it gently.

Shi Manman looked at Liu Yemei, and then at his own hands, the mother and daughter seemed to like to hold people's hands to show their closeness.

"The girl must have eaten before she came in the morning, so why don't you eat here?" Liu Yemei asked softly, the grace and elegance of the past seemed to return to her body all of a sudden, as if it was not the same person who was heartbroken just now.

"Yunbi is already preparing my breakfast in the kitchen." Shi Manman glanced at Yunxi lightly, although Yunxi's hostility was insignificant to Shi Manman, no one liked to be in the same room with people who were hostile to him.

"In this case, the concubine is not reluctant. It will take some time for Jin'er to wake up, so the girl will go back to the courtyard to eat first. Liu Yemei also saw Shi Manman's gaze, she followed Shi Manman's gaze and saw Yunxi with low eyebrows. She couldn't see Yunxi's expression clearly, but she could see her clenched hands. This appearance seemed to make Liu Yemei think of something, and the smile in his eyes faded by three points.

Saying goodbye to Liu Yemei, Shi Manman returned to the courtyard.

After Yunbi completed her task of "spying" on Aunt Sun, she returned to the courtyard early and waited for the stone vines to return. After she learned that she would "marry" Shi Manman into the Xiao family, she was determined to serve the future heroine well, and she knew very well how easy it was for the powerful heroine in the family to kill a concubine.

"The girl is back. Miss, how is she? Yun Bi poured a glass of water for Shi Manvine and asked.

"The doctor said that you can get better by drinking a few patches of medicine." Shi Manman took a sip of water and said, "Do you have anything to eat?" After tossing for a while, Shi Man, who had not eaten enough last night, had not experienced the hunger in her belly for a hundred years.

"Yes, I'll go and prepare." Yun Bi sincerely hoped that the people of the Xiao family would be well, and when she heard that Xiao Jin was fine, she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart and took a few maids to the kitchen to serve food.

At this time, in Xiao Yuan's courtyard, the father and son were locked in the study and didn't know what to say, and after a while, they saw Xiao Lei walking out of the study with a gloomy face. As soon as he left, he heard a whispered scolding in the broken porcelain in the study.

Xiao Lei strode forward, as if he wanted to vent his inner indignation, and his sleeves crackled every time he walked. From an outsider's point of view, such an action is like a disgruntled child who is angry with someone. Just striding like this, he unconsciously walked outside the stone vine courtyard.

"I don't know if the goblin has come back." Xiao Lei muttered to himself, thinking of Shi Manman's rare smile on his perennial frosty face, he could no longer stir up a trace of anger in his heart.

While talking to himself, he raised his feet and entered the courtyard where Shi Manman temporarily lived, and before he walked in front of Shi Manman's wing, he saw a figure squatting in the flower garden not far away, and seeing that the other party was dressed as Shi Manman, there was no doubt that it was Shi Manman. She turned her back to herself and didn't know what the other party was doing, Xiao Lei wanted to scare her together, and tiptoed towards Shi Manman.

"You're here?" He hadn't taken two steps before the stone vine squatting at the base of the flower garden wall suddenly spoke, which startled him.

Xiao Lei smiled self-deprecatingly, stepped forward and asked the other party, "What are you doing?" As he spoke, he squatted down together.

"I suddenly remembered something just now, and I asked Long'er to help me find it." Shi Manman said and pointed to a small hole in front of her, three fingers wide enough for a small hook snake to drill through.

"This hole?" The Xiao family has always managed it very well, even if there is a hole in the corner of this inconspicuous wall, the gardener who takes care of the flower garden will report it.

"I just hit it." Shi Manman said with his fingers together, as if he felt that the entrance of the cave might not be wide enough, and the condensation of aura widened the cave a few points.