Xu was too excited, and after the cuckoo had been gone for a long time, Xiao Tao's heart was still pounding, as if someone was beating a drum vigorously on her heart.

Xia Jiu didn't care about comforting her, and hurriedly went to the rag to clean up the broth on the ground, but the soup was greasy and greasy, and after wiping it dry, it was like putting a layer of wax oil on the ground, and it was slippery when walking, and it was easy for people to fall.

Xia Jiu couldn't help but make a difficulty, and hurriedly helped Xiao Tao to the side of the bed, but found that her palms were cold, and hurriedly said, "Girl, your hands are cold." ”

No need to ask, he must have been frightened by what the cuckoo just said.

Xiao Tao clenched her hands, looked at the mess all over the ground, and suddenly remembered the thing that Wu's mother had said in her ear before.

Oleander......

I heard that the eldest grandmother was in distress in the capital because of that little bit of oleander juice.

It's not very common, but it's enough to buy it for the same amount of money.

She had the silver, and she was only a little bit of determination, but now that she has the determination, there is nothing impossible. Cuckoo's behavior today undoubtedly crushed the nerves she had been forced by the pressure, and the last thin thread was about to break, and all the resentment was clumped, turning into a dark anger that swept over her heart.

Xiao Tao couldn't help but think of the miserable scene when she crawled out of the pile of dead people in the past, and she was suddenly not afraid of anything.

Xiao Tao has not forgotten all this today, how difficult it is to come, she can't give up, she can't just admit defeat and admit defeat.

When she followed Zhu Jinlun's side, although it was not for a long time, she also knew how cold and powerful everyone in this mansion was, and she was busy currying favor with herself in front of the second young master a while ago, but now, she was in cahoots with the cuckoo, torturing and burying herself openly and secretly, and she could do whatever she wanted......

Xia Jiu's expression changed when he saw her, her eyes flickered, as if she was thinking about something, and hurriedly said, "Girl, don't be like them...... The cuckoo said that she was just jealous of the girl, she was jealous of the girl's favor, and she was jealous that the girl could conceive the second master's child......"

Xiao Tao bowed her head thoughtfully and muttered, "I can't bear it anymore, I can't bear it anymore." ”

When Xia Jiu heard this, he had a bad premonition in his heart, swallowed his saliva, and asked in a low voice, "What is the girl going to do?" ”

Xiao Tao paused before saying, "Oleander, I need oleander." ”

Xia Jiu was stunned when he heard this, and naturally understood what it was, but anyone who was on an errand in the yard knew that oleander was not something that could not be touched, it was extremely toxic, and it could easily kill people.

"Girl...... What do you want oleander for? That stuff is poisonous. Xia Jiu stumbled and asked.

Although she was like a mirror in her heart, she couldn't help but ask.

Xiao Tao said coldly: "You have seen everything today, if she lives one more day, I will not be able to live in peace for a day." It doesn't matter if I'm dead, but I can't let him bury me with the child in my womb. Xia Jiu help me, the only person I can trust around me is you. You take the money and go to the little market outside the south gate of the city, where you can buy everything, you know......"

Xia Jiu listened to her words, his heart panicked, and he subconsciously shook his head, holding the rag with both hands at a loss, not knowing what to do.

The girl's consciousness is to poison the cuckoo and make her ...... It was a living life, she didn't dare, she was afraid......

"Girl...... The slave maid didn't dare, the slave maid couldn't do it......" she replied tremblingly, but she heard Xiao Tao's gloomy voice, and the words were as hard as ice: "You don't need to do it, you just buy the things, and I will take care of her myself when the time comes." ”

No matter what happens in the future, she just wants to get rid of the cuckoo's haunting nightmare once and for all.

If you fight back and forth, and you will die in the end, then she has to pull a cushion. Even if the second lady blames her and punishes her with family law, it is better than letting her be bullied and tortured like this every day!

She is too difficult, if she doesn't be ruthless and give her a chance to fight back, then her fate is destined to be extremely miserable, and life is better than death.

Xia Jiu looked at her eyes and knew that she was real. She looked at her gloomy gaze, and the mess on the ground, and she didn't know where she got the courage, bit her lower lip and said, "Okay, the slave knows." ”

She had already picked a side, and from the moment she felt that she had betrayed the cuckoo, she had no choice again. The girl has always taken care of her gently, and she can't help it, after all, helping her is equivalent to helping herself.

If Miss Little Peach really has something to lose, not to mention that the second lady will not spare her, when the second young master comes back, she will also be dead......

Although Xia Jiu was very scared in her heart, she was more in agreement, she took a deep breath, nodded again, and said, "The girl is right, it is not a way to endure it like this." Slave maid, slave maid must do the errand assigned by the girl. After she finished speaking, she squatted down again, wiped the oil stains on the ground with a rag, wiped and wiped, changed several basins of water, and finally cleaned it up.

After cleaning the room, Xia Jiu came to Xiao Tao's front to get a piece of silver, ready to go out.

Xiao Tao didn't know how much that thing was, so she took ten taels of silver for Xia Jiu in one go.

Xia Jiu took it in his hand heavily, then put it away carefully, then turned around and went out, without saying a word, as if he was afraid that he would regret it if he hesitated a little more.

There are some things that you have to do as soon as you decide, because the slightest hesitation can make people lose courage.

Xia Jiu walked out of the Zhu family from the backyard with silver all the way, and walked in a hurry, going straight to the south gate of the city.

There is everything in the market, but poisons such as arsenic are still nowhere to be found. Such things are not allowed to be bought and sold privately, and no one dares to sell them except for pharmacies.

However, oleander is different, although it is poisonous, it is also a flower, and the flowers are bright and very ornamental.

Perhaps because of some weakness, Xia Jiu hesitated for a while, and then came to a stall and asked about the price of the oleander.

When the seller saw that she was dressed in a light shirt and looked delicate, he knew that she must be a decent little maid, so he hurriedly came up with a smile and said, "Little girl, you really have a vision, my flowers and plants are the best and most beautiful." Look at these flowers and leaves, petals, they look so tight. ”

Xia Jiu didn't have the slightest interest in the side, just looked at these oleanders, and asked softly, "I only need this one." ”

The stall owner replied with a smile: "Well, this oleander is also a good thing to look at, and it blooms every season." If the girl really wants to buy it, it will cost 50 yuan a plant. ”

Fifty dollars is definitely a high price.

He decided that Xia Jiu was an illiterate child, so he deliberately fooled her. I thought she would open her mouth to bargain, but who knows, but I saw her nod and said, "Okay, I want all these flowers on the stall." ”

The stall owner was stunned when he heard this, and then responded with a smile: "Oh, the girl is really happy, okay, I'll fill you with soil and pots." ”

It's a day of good luck.

Xia Jiu waved his hand and said, "I don't want to spend soil, as long as I spend flowers, you can tie me up." ”

The stall owner was stunned again, thinking that maybe it was because of her proximity, so he responded, but he was worried that she really didn't understand anything, so he couldn't help but kindly remind: "Although the girl's words are good, they are also poisonous things." Especially the flowers, leaves, and stalks, the girl should be careful when she goes back. ”

Xia Jiu didn't hear it, his eyes stared at the bright red petals, took out a tael of silver and handed it to the stall owner, and said lightly: "This money is enough." With that, he reached out and took the oleander that had been tied.

When the stall owner saw the silver, his eyes lit up, and he nodded hurriedly and said, "Where did you use so much!" The little one doesn't have any broken silver to find the girl. ”

Xia Jiuli didn't pay attention to him, just hugged the flowers and left, looking like he didn't care.

The stall owner was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly took the silver into his arms, as if she would suddenly turn back and ask for it.

Xia Jiu didn't dare to go back with the flowers, so he bought a half-sized clay pot from the market, and then broke the oleanders one by one and put them into the jar and brought them back to the Zhu family.

Because Xiao Tao was pregnant, everyone didn't think much about her holding the jar, but they just thought that Xiao Tao was greedy again and wanted to eat something good, so she quietly bought it back.

Xiao Tao has been waiting for her to come back anxiously, and when she came back with a jar, she couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

The master and servant stayed in the room all afternoon and did not go out, only mashing up the petals, branches, leaves, and stalks, and then collecting the poisonous juice little by little.

After a busy afternoon, I could only make a small bowl in the end.

Xiao Tao looked at the bowl of dark green soup, and said in her heart, before poisoning the cuckoo, you have to try the medicinal properties first.

Xia Jiu poured some poisonous juice from the bowl, mixed it with some leftovers, and sent it to the corner of the backyard, where wild cats often haunted and stole food. So, if you want to know whether the poison juice is really useful or not, and see if the wild cats are dead or alive, you will know it all.

The night was extraordinarily long.

Early the next morning, before Xia Jiutian was bright, he went to the backyard for a walk, and as a result, he saw the corpses of several wild cats in the place where the bowls were placed.

Xia Jiu buried the bowl containing the leftovers in a nervous mood, and then trotted all the way to reply to Xiao Tao.

Since something is useful, there is nothing to hesitate about.

Xia Jiu panted and asked, "Girl, that person from the cuckoo has always been cunning, and it is not easy for you to poison her. ”

Xiao Tao groaned slightly: "It's hard to say, it's not difficult to say." Didn't she say that yesterday? Hopefully seeing me give her a forehead confession, I think that if I did, she would think that she had won and would have no sense of vigilance. ”

The cuckoo is naturally a little arrogant in his bones, although he is a slave, but he is also the first woman that the second young master has ever met in his life, it is impossible for him to have no thoughts in his heart, and he has no pride at all.

Xia Jiu let out a long breath and said uneasily, "The girl really thought about it?" ”

Xiao Tao's mood at the moment was as cold as ice, and even those dark eyes were covered with a thin layer of frost.

There was no turning back from the bow, as she did now, if the cuckoo did not die, then the child in her womb would die, and she had to choose one.

"Let's do it. Whether it's good or bad in the future depends on this time. ”

Xiao Tao silently brewed a plan in her heart, but Du Juan was unconscious, and continued to bully Xiao Tao in different ways, looking at her dejected and depressed face and complacent.

Xiao Tao carefully put away the oleander juice, and asked Xia Jiu to bury all the remaining things behind the rockery in the garden overnight, so as not to be found after the incident.

After everything was arranged, Xiao Tao deliberately gave a lot of reward to the kitchen ladies and asked them to buy a table of good meals and dishes for themselves, and they were all dishes that Cuckoo liked to eat.

The kitchen man sent a message to Cuckoo, but Cuckoo didn't expect her to be so leisurely, and she couldn't help but feel a little angry.

The kitchen man was very quick with things, but the meal was ready in an hour and delivered over.

As soon as the meal was put on the table, the cuckoo swayed her slender waist and walked in slowly, she smelled the fragrance of the food from a distance, and after entering the house, she first glanced at the table with slanted eyes, and then looked at Xiao Tao and sneered: "What a good day today, my sister is so interested." ”

Xiao Tao looked as usual, slowly walked in front of the cuckoo, bowed, and said respectfully: "Today is not a good day, I prepared some wine and food without authorization, and I want to personally compensate my sister, and I hope that my sister will appreciate her face, don't dislike it." ”

When the cuckoo heard this, his eyes flashed, he smiled slightly, his tone was full of condescending disdain, and said: "It's strange, it's so strange, my sister can actually say such flattering things." However, I don't know who said it for two days, saying that he was going to fight me to the end, and he had to make me regret it? ”

Xiao Tao lowered her head and said: "That will be my sister is too ignorant, dizzy and bumped into my sister, afterwards, I deeply regret it, so I want to apologize to my sister today, and I hope that sister, you can be a lot of adults, adults don't remember villains, forgive my sister once, my sister is here to compensate my sister." ”

She knew she would relent. When the cuckoo heard this, a slight smug smile appeared on his face, but then he said: "Since it is an apology, there should be an apology." My sister is standing upright like this, and it makes people look really insincere. ”

Xiao Tao knew that she would definitely gain an inch.

She hesitated slightly, but slowly knelt down on her knees.

The cuckoo looked at her condescendingly, looking at her with disdain, and did not speak for a while.

Seeing this, Xiao Tao secretly took a deep breath, bent down and kowtowed heavily to her: "My sister was too stupid before, she didn't understand her sister's good intentions, she did a lot of wrong things, and said a lot of wrong things. My sister kowtowed to my sister today, and asked my sister to be relieved. ”

Cuckoo's heart jumped, she didn't expect her to really kneel.

Xia Jiu's face also changed beside him, and he was about to reach out to help, but suddenly remembered what the girl had told him before, and then silently put down his hand.

The cuckoo deliberately pretended to sigh, then walked to the table and sat down, raised his hand slightly at Xiao Tao and said, "Sister, why did you bother in the first place if you knew this was the case?" Forget it, since you sincerely admit your mistakes, I naturally can't care about anything with you anymore. ”

When Xiao Tao heard this, she didn't get up immediately, but only raised her head and asked, "My sister said so, but I forgive my sister?" ”

Du Juan looked at her cowardly and innocent face, and said with a smile: "My sister has done this, and she is so sincere, of course I have to forgive you, not to mention, you are still pregnant with the second master's child in your belly." Don't look at the monk's face and look at the Buddha's face, I have the right to think that it is for the second young master, so I will simply forgive you once. However, we have to say ugly things in the front, and since you admit your mistakes, then you have to be able to look at some eyes when you talk and do things in the future. The name between our sisters and sisters, although it sounds close, can't be without rules. ”

Xiao Tao held Xia Jiu's hand, slowly stood up and said, "What my sister said is very true. In the past, my sister didn't know the rules, but from now on, whatever my sister says, my sister will do, and I promise to be obedient. ”

When Du Juan heard this, he smiled slightly and glanced at her meaningfully: "It's naturally best for my sister to think like this." Speaking of which, we are all people around the second master, you call me sister,"

Xia Jiu kept standing by and watching and listening, only to feel that the girl was really bearable. If it were someone else, I would have been unable to bear it a long time ago.

Xiao Tao looked at the cuckoo present with a meek expression, smiled softly, and thought, let her be so proud, until tomorrow morning, she can't laugh even if she wants to.

The more docile the little peach became, the happier the cuckoo's heart became, but she still kept a little careful in the end.

The meals on the table are all made by the kitchen people, so there should be no problem. However, she still waited for Xiao Tao to taste it first before she dared to eat it with peace of mind.

The cuckoo ate a beautiful meal, while Xiao Tao kept looking at her face, didn't eat much, just blindly laughed.

After the meal, Xiao Tao personally brought tea to Du Juan, who hesitated slightly, but said softly: "You put it first." ”

Xiao Tao smiled slightly: "This is osmanthus tea, Fang Cai's meals are all meat dishes, this cup of tea can just relieve my sister's greasy." ”

The cuckoo raised his eyebrows and said, "In that case, why did my sister bring a cup." ”

Xiao Tao smiled: "I'm pregnant now, so I can't drink tea." ”

The cuckoo asked, "What does my sister drink?" ”

She deliberately asked the question to see if she had any tricks.

At this time, Xia Jiu took another cup of warm honey grapefruit tea, and said with caution: "The girl has been drinking this grapefruit tea a lot recently, it is sweet and sour, and there is a little bitterness, which can just suppress the nausea when she is happy." ”

The cuckoo's eyes moved, and he suddenly said, "I haven't tasted such a fresh thing." After speaking, he directly picked it up and smelled it, Xia Jiu opened his mouth, wanting to stop it, but he still didn't dare to say it.

Seeing this, Xiao Tao only said: "Then please ask my sister to try it, I will drink this cup of osmanthus tea." ”

The cuckoo took a sip, only to feel that it tasted good, and then stared firmly at Xiao Tao to see if she dared to drink the osmanthus tea in the cup.

Xiao Tao lowered her head, hesitated for a moment, and finally took the cup and drank it.