The Fourth Lady

Chapter 21 The Wickedness of a Human Heart I

As soon as granny Ruo returned home, she saw her son by her grandson's bed. When her elder son

saw her, he walked up to her and shook his head, "Mother, Dabao and Xiaobao won't make it; the

doctor said that they were poisoned by white arsenic, and by a large amount of it."

Hearing her son say this, granny Ruo was extremely confused. Why did her two grandsons get

poisoned out of no where? Not only that, but poisoned at the same time.

Granny Ruo walked up next to the bed and looked at the two children on the bed whose body's were

gradually growing cold. She cried out, "My poor babies, how did such a thing happen?"

"Cuihong, why don't you tell mother everything that had happened recently. My younger brother and I

were working outside the whole time, and so we don't really know the specifics either." Dahai looked to

the woman next to him and said gently, even patting her on the shoulders.

Cuiliu glanced at Cuihong and stepped forward, even putting the pastries from the basket before

granny Ruo. "Some time ago, someone placed the food in this basket before us. We saw that the

pastries in this basket were very delicate, so we took them out and ate them. But who knew something

like this would happen."

When granny turned to look at the pastries from the basket, she fell onto the ground at once.

She seemed to be mumbling that it was impossible, and that this was definitely something that couldn't

have happened. This basket of pastries was clearly the one she gave to Su Qingyan, so why was it

sent here to her grandsons?

"Mother, what's wrong? Did something happen?" When Dahai walked up to granny Ruo to help her up,

she shook her head.

"Did you ever see the visitor's appearance? Was it a girl?" Granny Ruo said quietly, lowering her voice

as much as she could.

Before today, Su Qingyan didn't even know that she had two sons here, so how could she suddenly set

out to kill her grandsons? It definitely couldn't have been Su Qingyan.

"Mother, didn't I just say so earlier. After we woke, it was already on the window sill. We saw that they

looked delicious and decided to eat them." Cuiliu replied sorrowfully, "If we had known that the pastries

were poisoned, we would have never tried to eat them."

Dahai, seeing granny Ruo's appearance, remembered that his mother was employed at the Su manor.

He really wanted to know if his mother had offended anyone, and that was why the villain thought of

harming her family. But wasn't she in charge of taking care of the main house's legitimate daughter?

Every month his mother would even send some of the money she got from the girl to them, which was

why they lived pretty well off.

"Mother did you make an enemy of someone, that's why they want to kill Dabao and Erbao?" Dahai

looked to granny Ruo and said calmly.

It seemed that her eldest son had hit he mark, but granny Ruo didn't know how to answer him.

Was it really Su Qingyan that killed her grandsons? But wasn't Su Qingyan always at the manor? How

would she have be able to harm her grandsons? Could it be the people of the second house that did

this, was it so that she would continue to do their dirty work?

"Dahai, it's all my fault, Dabao and Xiaobao died because of me. But you have to believe me,

everything I did was for this house. That's why I did those things." She helplessly cried out to her son,

"Who knew that the people of the second house were this ruthless. Don't worry, mother will take care of

this matter."

"Mother, weren't you suppose to be taking care of the young miss of the Su's main house? When did it

become the Su's second house? Mother, just what in the world did you do?" Dahai looked to her in

disbelief, "Mother, that General Su was pretty good to you, why would you do this!?"

Granny Ruo's head was a complete mess. In truth, even she didn't know how to explain the matters of

Su manor. In the end, she could only sit on the floor and silently cry.

"Mother, say, why did you want to kill Dabao?" Cuihong looked to her and cried out hysterically, "It's all

your fault that my Dabao died, give me back my Dabao." Cuihong hammered down on the old woman,

her eyes reddening.

When he saw this, Dahai immediately pulled Cuihong away, but who knew that he would accidentally

slammed her into the corner of the table. Seeing Cuihong's forehead overflowing with blood, Dahai was

filled with guilt.

Wang Dahai, I've been married to you for 10 years, I gave you a son, yet now your mother has killed

our son. In spite of everything, you still protect that old woman? Was it really your son that died?!"

Cuihong tearfully accused him, "If you really feel that Dabao is not your son, then I will accompany my

son in death today." Saying this, Cuihong forcibly rammed herself against the wall.

"Cuihong!" Dahai frantically ran to her side, but she was already no longer breathing. Just like that, her

eyes were fixated on granny Ruo in the distance. It was as if she wanted to pull her into hell with her.

When Xiaohai rushed home, he saw such a scene. Cuiliu looked to her dead sister and covered her

mouth, not knowing how to express her current feelings. When she looked to Xiaohai, she smiled at

him in despair, "Xiaohai, my sister and I were originally orphans. We received your pity and were

cherished for many years. But I'm worried my sister will be very lonely on her journey, I can't let her go

alone." With that said, Cuiliu pulled out the hairpin in her hair and stabbed herself in the throat.

She held the blood overflowing from her throat and step by step walked towards Cuihong's body.

"Mother, just what in the world happen? Everything was fine before, why did our family become like

this?" Xiaohai seeing Cuiliu's fallen body, lashed out at granny Ruo in a stern voice.

"Brother, you shouldn't reprimand mother like that." Dahai tried to persuade his emotional younger

brother, "Mother is also a victim in this matter. What we need to do now is to find the culprit and report

them to the authorities."

Granny Ruo listened to her son and immediately tried to stop him, "Don't cause a huge fuss over this,

things aren't as simple as you think they are."

Listening to granny Ruo's words, a despairing expression slowly started to surface on Dahai's face,

"Mother, just what did you think of our children?"

Listening to Dahai's words, granny Ruo reluctantly shook her head. In the end, she couldn't help but to

tell the truth, "You want to know who the culprit is? That culprit is me! I've singlehandedly killed my own

grandsons."

Hearing her say this, her two sons widened their eyes. How could it be their own mother that killed their

sons, something must have happened?

"Mother, just what in the world happened? How could you have killed Dabao and Erbao!" Dahai walked

up next to her and shook her as he asked, "They're your grandchildren, why did you kill them, why?!"

"Dahai, listen to me, I didn't do it on purpose. These pastries were originally for the Su's fourth miss,

but who knew it would end up like this. You have to believe your mother, I really didn't mean to kill

them!"