Cai Yan explained: "Liu's mother's nephew is not a learner, six years ago her nephew came to Liu's mother, saying that when he was visiting the Qinglou, he had a conflict with someone and killed someone by mistake, so let Liu's mother find a way."

Liu's mother has no children under her knees, so she points to live in her nephew's house in her later years and spend the rest of her life with her sister.

But at that time, the eldest lady's maiden family had already declined, and the Hou Ye rarely came to the eldest lady's side, and the eldest lady couldn't help at all in this matter.

Just when Liu's mother was anxious and didn't know what to do, Guo Xiaoniang took the initiative to find Liu's mother, saying that she could solve the matter, and the condition was to drug the eldest lady.

Liu's mother was unwilling, but now her nephew is desperate. Mother Liu thought that Guo Xiaoniang just wanted the stewardship of the Hou Mansion, and she didn't feel distressed when she thought that the eldest lady was working hard for the Hou Ye every day, so it was better to take this opportunity to ignore anything and live her own idle life, so she agreed to Guo Xiaoniang's conditions.

Guo Xiaoniang promised that as long as the eldest lady handed over the housekeeping in the house, she would immediately find someone to take the charge for his nephew. ”

"How do you know this?" Mu Ningxuan wondered.

Cai Yan said: "Later, it was Liu's mother who took the initiative to say that I knew. ”

"Mother Liu helped Guo Xiaoniang for her nephew, why have you been helping Guo Xiaoniang make eyeliner all these years?" Mu Ningxuan asked with a frown.

"It's all my fault." The mother who picked the goose suddenly beat her chest and cried loudly.

Cai Yan patted her mother's back and comforted: "Mother, I don't blame you. ”

When Cai Yan's mother was a little quieter, Cai Yan began to tell again: "The slave maid has a father who is addicted to gambling, and my father sold me into the house as a maid in order to pay off gambling debts.

But the gambling debts here have just been repaid, and there are a few debts owed there, and my mother has worked every morning and late in order to repay the gambling debts for my father, and in this way, my mother is often beaten and scolded by my father.

The debts are high, people often come to the house to collect debts, and the house is smashed without even a decent bowl, my mother really can't stand it.

At that time, the slave maid inadvertently saw Liu's mother drugged. That day, the eldest lady said that she was thirsty, and the slave was just about to go to get the tea bowl, when she saw Liu's mother bring a bowl of tea over, and there was a little white powder on the side of the tea bowl. I asked more, and Liu's mother's face immediately lost color and passed perfunctorily.

Later, the slave told my mother about this in private, and my mother went to Liu's mother behind my back, wanting to ask Liu's mother for some silver as hush money. But Guo Xiaoniang knew about it, Guo Xiaoniang directly detained my mother and forced the slave to do things for her. ”

"What did Guo Xiaoniang ask you to do?"

Cai Yan said in a hoarse voice: "Guo Xiaoniang asked the slave maid to supervise Mother Liu to drug the eldest lady on time every day.

Because Liu's mother has been drugging the eldest lady for a while, but the eldest lady has not been poisoned, Guo Xiaoniang thinks that Liu's mother is because of three days of fishing and two days of drying nets.

Guo Xiaoniang gave Liu's mother a pack of medicinal powder again, this time the medicinal powder was much stronger than last time, and the eldest lady was gone that night. ”

Mu Ningxuan suddenly felt cold, her whole body was cold, and hot tears slid down her cheeks, and the two people who trusted her the most around her mother before her death actually killed her together.

"Is the big lady in pain before she goes? Did you leave anything to say? Mu Ningxuan asked sadly.

Cai Yan shook her head: "The eldest lady did die in her sleep, without pain, and without leaving a word. The person the eldest lady was most concerned about before her death was the county lord, but after all, I didn't look forward to you back, and the slave is sorry for the eldest lady. Cai Yan suddenly slammed his head on the ground, and his forehead was bleeding instantly.

Mu Ningxuan was taken aback by Cai Yan's sudden move.

The mother of the goose picker hugged the goose and was distressed.

"Why are you in Huaifang County?" Mu Ningxuan

Cai Yan replied: "After the eldest lady went, Guo Xiaoniang was still trustworthy and settled the matter of Liu's mother and nephew, but Liu's mother was ashamed, so she proposed to leave the house, so Guo Xiaoniang asked me to follow Liu's mother and go back to Huaifang County to continue to monitor Liu's mother."

Liu's mother probably didn't want to live under surveillance for the rest of her life, so she left her slave and maid and moved her family away overnight. ”

"Since Mother Liu is gone, why does Guo Xiaoniang still leave you in Huaifang County?" Mu Ningxuan didn't understand that the mouth of the dead has always been the strongest, since Guo Xiaoniang dared to poison the eldest lady to death, why didn't she kill Mother Liu and Cai Yan directly.