Although she had expected this, Su Yao still felt unavoidably startled when she heard this. She stood there for a long time before she came to her senses and asked with a stiff face, "What medicine is this?"
Doctor Shen could see how depressed and sad she was. He paused and said softly, "If I'm not mistaken, it's a common tranquilizer, but the dosage is much larger. The person who gave it to her probably didn't intend to kill Mrs. He, but just wanted her to fall asleep."
Su Yao hummed, took a deep breath and thanked Doctor Shen, but was a little puzzled: "Then why couldn't several doctors see anything wrong?"
Doctor Shen couldn't help but laugh: "I usually say you are smart. You didn't notice anything wrong before. That's because you didn't give her medicine before seeing the doctor. If you don't believe me, you can observe for yourself. Is your grandmother's spirit much better than usual two days before and after seeing the doctor?"
Su Yao understood everything. After seeing Doctor Shen off, he turned back to Mrs. He's courtyard. He saw Second Madam He instructing the servants to boil medicine in the corridor: "Be careful and follow Doctor Shen's prescription."
Doctor Shen once cured Su Rong. He was an absolute miracle doctor. Second Madam He had seen it with her own eyes, so she naturally had great faith in Doctor Shen.
Seeing Su Yao coming back, Aunt He, who was tucking in the quilt for Mrs. He, turned around and hurriedly explained to Su Yao with a smile: "Mother is tired and fell asleep again. Yaoyao, do you want to stay for dinner today?"
"Since grandma is asleep, I'll chat with my aunt for a while." Su Yao sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Mrs. He, and whispered about what happened when he just went from the Shen family to the He family.
Aunt He looked uneasy and echoed a few words absentmindedly: "Yes...your grandmother actually loves every child very much..."
Su Yao reached out and held Mrs. He's hand under the quilt. Hearing this, he turned his head and looked into her eyes and asked softly, "If that's the case, then why did Aunt give Grandma the drug to make her fall asleep?"
Aunt He was holding a cup in her hand. She was so surprised that she even held the cup. The cup fell to the ground with a snap, making a crisp sound. She was so anxious that her face changed drastically: "I didn't... What nonsense are you talking about?"
"I have already asked people to interrogate my aunt's servants, as well as my two cousins. I'm sure they will know something about this, right?" Su Yao did not miss the expression on Aunt He's face. Seeing her suddenly change from pretending to be calm to panic, his heart sank - it turned out to be related to Aunt He.
She stood up suddenly.
Aunt He was trembling all over. She didn't care about anything else and hurried over to grab Su Yao, shaking her head in panic: "No, no, no, don't ask An Yuan and Yi Yi, they don't know anything! Don't ask them!"
Su Yao gently brushed her hand away, his face cold: "Okay, then I won't ask them, I'll just ask you, aunt, why do you do this? What good does it do you to have grandma sleeping so soundly?"
Aunt He covered her face and cried.
She was actually under a lot of pressure and had been unable to bear it for a long time. Now, after hearing Su Yao's questioning, she finally broke down: "No, no! I have no choice, Yaoyao, I really have no choice. Mother wants to go to the palace to kill the emperor... I dare not..."
Because they wanted to expose Aunt He, all the servants in the room had been sent away. At this moment, Aunt He suddenly said such words. Su Yao widened his eyes in disbelief, and his chest suddenly felt tight and painful.
Even though she was always calm, she couldn't help but deny it in shock when she heard this: "No! Aunt, what nonsense are you talking about?!"
How could Aunt He want to assassinate the emperor? !
"It's true!" Aunt He fell to the ground and cried, "I didn't believe it at first, but it's true. Mother went to Qingzhou because my master and I were in trouble. My master got into trouble while in office and many people starved to death. In order to cover up this mistake, my master was threatened by other local officials and the Chamber of Commerce and gave them benefits... The matter became more and more serious. I had no choice but to write to my mother for help."
This is the truth behind why Mrs. He rushed to Qingzhou.
Su Yao couldn't explain how she felt, she was too shocked. Before this, Mrs. He did have many grievances against Emperor Yuanfeng, but she had never thought of his death.
What on earth happened that made her come up with such a terrible idea after just one trip to Qingzhou
Aunt He was sobbing. She had been keeping this secret all this time and dared not reveal it at all. Now Su Yao finally found out why Mrs. He was in a coma. Besides being afraid, she felt more relieved.
Finally, she wasn't the only one carrying this secret.
"After mother came, she scolded the master first, telling him not to worry about so many things and to write a letter of apology first, truthfully reporting that local officials colluded with merchants to hoard goods and empty the rice warehouse. She also assured the master that she would definitely plead for him in front of the emperor, and the master wrote the letter of apology..." Aunt He still can't help crying whenever she thinks of what happened at that time: "But I don't know why, after mother and master were asked to go out, things changed completely. Mother never mentioned anything else, and the master never came back and was found dead in the brothel..."
Aunt He's heart palpitated, and she cried in pain and discomfort: "After my mother came back, she locked herself in the room for a few days. No matter how I knocked on the door, she didn't open it. When I heard that the master had died, she didn't say anything... It was only on the way back to Beijing that I found that she was not in a good state, but because the master's death was too painful, I didn't care too much. It was not until we returned to the capital that my mother wanted to go to the enclosure..."
She was about to collapse during that period, and had no other options, so she gave Mrs. He a tranquilizer.
She had no other choice.
Aunt He couldn't stop crying: "There are so many people in the family! If mother does this, what will happen to the whole family? What should we do? I don't dare to let her do anything stupid, but I don't dare to leak the news, so this is the only way..."
Su Yao rubbed his brows tiredly, and after a long while he said to Aunt He: "Don't feed grandma medicine today. I have something to tell her."
Aunt He didn't dare to refuse and nodded quickly.
After dinner in the evening, Mrs. He finally woke up. She looked at Su Yao apologetically and said, "You are becoming more and more useless. Why haven't you gone home yet?"
Su Yao offered her some ginseng tea and said softly, "I'm leaving tomorrow, and I came here today to say goodbye to you, so I stayed a little longer because I wanted to talk to you."
Mrs. He was a little surprised. She took the ginseng tea but didn't drink it. She frowned and asked, "You're leaving? Where are you going?"
"Go to Yunnan." Su Yao finally told everyone about Xiao Heng and the others.