Chapter 7 The poison was not given by us

"Good morning, sister-in-law!" Mu Yuntian rubbed his sleepy eyes and said hello to the broad figure who was drying clothes in the yard, and then soullessly dragged his body to the kitchen to get warm water to wash up.

"Sister-in-law, why didn't you call us today? Ah! Ah..." Mingyue just turned around when Mu Yunhe looked up, so what he saw was a face that was whiter and bigger than his brother's big white face.

He had a face with huge dark circles under his eyes. It was just getting dark at this time. He really thought he had seen a ghost. He turned around, ran back to the house, and slammed the door.

Hearing the frightening screams outside, Mu Yunkai, who had not slept at all last night, also walked out of the house. Even Mrs. Mu stuck her head out of the window and looked into the yard, and Mu Yuntian also stuck his head out of the kitchen.

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Unfortunately, a wisp of evil wind was rising from the ground at this moment, picking up Mingyue's long hair that was scattered behind her head, and obscuring half of her face...

"Ah!" Mrs. Mu was so frightened that she fainted on the kang.

"Ah, brother, help me!" Mu Yuntian was so frightened that he sat down on the ground. He...he was so frightened that he peed!

Mu Yunkai held on to the door frame and swallowed hard, "Mingyue? What's wrong with you?"

Mingyue glanced at him and didn't answer him. She walked a few steps quickly to wake up Madam Mu. She straightened her hair lightly and said, "Hey, what an impetuous spring breeze!"

Xiaomeng secretly rolled her eyes in Mingyue's mind: "Master, what does this have to do with Chunfeng?!"

Seeing Mingyue heading straight for my mother's house, Mu Yunkai stopped her and said, "You'd better not go, I'll go."

Mingyue paused, raised her hand to touch her face, nodded and said, "Okay, then go ahead and call me if you need help."

Xiaomeng couldn't help but said: "Master, if you need help, you can't go, otherwise your mother-in-law may directly ascend to heaven."

At the dinner table, the two brothers-in-law lowered their heads to pick up the rice and did not dare to raise their heads when picking up the vegetables, for fear that their sister-in-law's face would break through their psychological defenses again.

Mu Yunhe lowered his head and asked, "Sister-in-law, we got up late today. The mountain products we promised yesterday haven't been picked yet. Is it too late to send them over?"

Mingyue told him in a hoarse voice, "I have already picked them. We will send them to you after we have eaten. It will be in time. Let's go back early and come back early to buy some rapeseed and grain seeds. We must hurry up and cultivate seedlings."

Mu Yuntian lowered his head and nodded, "Okay, when we get back we will go to the back mountain to open up wasteland. We have already cleared two acres. Didn't my sister-in-law say five acres of land would be enough last time?"

Mingyue said weakly: "I have already weeded the remaining three acres of land. I went to the town to buy some hoes, shovels, sheep forks, etc. to loosen the soil in the field."

"What?!" The whole family looked up in unison, forgetting to be afraid even when they saw Mingyue's face. They were so surprised.

Mu Yunkai looked at Mingyue worriedly, "You, you didn't sleep all night and went to the back mountains to open up wasteland? How can this be done? Don't go to the town today, make up for your sleep at home, and let the second and third children go.

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Mrs. Mu trembled slightly and said, "Yes, you'd better not go, so as not to frighten others."

Mingyue insisted, "No, today's business is a bit complicated. I'm not worried about the two of them going."

Mu Yunhe raised his right hand and swore, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, I will never gamble again, otherwise the sky will strike like lightning."

Mrs. Mu slapped his hand away, "Bah, bah, bah, how can a poisonous oath be made casually?"

Mu Yuntian remained silent.

Mu Yunkai said helplessly: "Okay, then you go and come back early, and I will go back to the house and find you a curtain to put on your head."

Brother Wang's bullock cart left very early this morning. Because everyone knew that Mingyue was going to town to sell mountain products this morning, so those who wanted to take the cart to town packed their bags early and followed Brother Wang to the door of Mingyue's house.

Pick them up.

"Oh! Mingyue, what's wrong with you?" Sister-in-law Wang was shocked when she saw Mingyue wrapped her face into a rice dumpling, leaving only her eyes and nose.

Brother Wang trembled when he saw this, and stepped in front of Mingyue. He vaguely saw the black and blue eyes of Mingyue, and anger filled his eyes, "Tell me, is their family bullying you?"

Mu Yunhe put the bamboo weaving he was holding in his arms on the car, turned around and followed Mu Yunkai to put away three large baskets of spring bamboo shoots and four pheasants, and also put a bundle of something unknown weighing more than twenty kilograms.

Stickan carried her into the car and exhaled a long breath and said: "Don't worry, no one will bully my sister-in-law. Besides, no one can beat her. She is too diligent and makes herself tired."

Mu Yuntian patted his second brother's arm hard, "It's not all because of you."

Brother Wang, Uncle Da Niu and Aunt Da Zhuang, who jumped out of the car, started a fight and looked at the three Mu brothers suspiciously.

Mingyue shook her head, "Don't worry, everyone, no one dares to bully me. I just didn't sleep well, so I got up early and worked late at night."

Everyone looked at Mu Yunkai again, "Is this how you treat Mingyue well when you say you should?"

Mu Yunkai held the curtain and glanced at his wife behind the crowd. He felt very innocent.

Mingyue glanced at him lightly: Huh, you are not innocent at all. If I hadn't been disturbed by you and couldn't sleep, I would be like this!

"My aunts, sisters-in-law, and brothers, it's not his fault. Let's set off quickly, otherwise I will be too late."

Everyone gave Mu Yunkai a hard look before getting in the car.

Brother Wang said: "Mingyue, come here, this place is specially reserved for you. My mother is afraid that you will be cold, so this is a quilt specially made for you. There are only a few people today. Those who have nothing urgent to do are waiting.

Let’s go again tomorrow.”

"Thank you!" Mingyue glanced at the quilt that occupied a quarter of the car's space and solemnly thanked her. After getting in the car, she turned around and waved to Mu Yunkai, "Go back!"

Mu Yunkai watched the solid figure disappear at the entrance of the village before turning back. He looked at the curtain in his hand: Would it really be safe to cover it with a cloth bag?

Mingyue's things were sold very quickly. Not long after they arrived in town, all the wild products and pheasants were sold out. Even the two bamboo baskets and a bamboo mat that Mu Yunhe and the others had knitted overnight were also sold.

However, just as they were walking towards the city gate with the purchased seeds and farm tools, a group of solemn officials blocked their way and took them to the government office.

In the official courtroom, the magistrate's gloomy and distorted face showed that he was trying his best to suppress his rage.

There was a snap. The gavel almost smashed the table into pieces.

"You are bold and unruly, daring to harm your own children, and say, who is instructing you?"

Mingyue straightened her strong neck and looked calmly at the county magistrate, whose brain had been burnt by anger.

She told the truth calmly and calmly: "The common people don't know what you are talking about. My two brothers and I are just here to sell some mountain products. I don't know why it is related to making money and killing people."

A richly dressed lady sitting nearby pointed at the cook kneeling beside Mingyue and asked in tears, "Tell me, did you buy the spring bamboo shoots from them?"

The cook had been shaken into chaff. She turned her head to look at Mingyue and Mu Yunhe, and said with a look of horror: "Yes, it's them."

The gavel was slapped again, and Ming Yue plucked her ears impatiently, "Well, yes, I gave your family a spring bamboo shoot for free, what's wrong?"

The aunt, who was standing behind the noble lady and dressed in pink and willow green, sneered, "One? You obviously sold us three baskets and all the money was given to you, and you still dare to quibble? Our eldest daughter is filial and gives you what she likes at noon.

I gave the spring bamboo shoots to the eldest son, and he was poisoned because he ate your food."

Mingyue was not afraid. She looked at the county magistrate and said, "Sir, I obviously gave your family a spring bamboo shoot, but it must not be enough for the young lady to eat for breakfast. The poison in your young master has nothing to do with the common people."

The aunt roared, "Someone come and search their bodies for me!"

The county magistrate looked calmly and almost nodded to the officials waiting on both sides.

"You don't need to search, I only have these one hundred taels. Don't touch me, otherwise I will be very angry and the consequences will be serious." Mingyue handed the money bag in her arms to the officer who came forward to search her.

The officer looked into Ming Yue's murderous eyes and took the money bag without daring to come forward.

The aunt sneered, "I'm not asking for it, my lord, look, this is the money our family spent this morning, and the cook greeted me last night, saying that their Miss Chun Bamboo liked it,

I ordered three baskets from them. You heard this when the cook reported it to me yesterday. It was her poison."

Mingyue gave her a cold look, "How do you know it belongs to your family? Is it possible that your family's money has any special marks?"

The aunt twisted her small waist and stepped forward, "Of course. Ever since I took charge of the warehouse, our family's silver has been engraved with wooden characters."

With a crash, Mingyue snatched the money bag from the officer's hand and poured the broken silver inside to the floor, staring at her aunt in a funny way.

The aunt rolled her eyes and pointed at the bright moon, "It was you who gave the poison. You must have been afraid that the matter would be exposed and you exchanged the silver for broken silver. This must be the case. Otherwise, why didn't you dare to show your true colors? Fortunately, we found out.

Morning, otherwise you would have changed your clothes and escaped."

Mingyue looked up at the magistrate with a smile in her eyes, "Sir, do you really want to see my true face?"

After receiving the county magistrate's nod, Mingyue pulled off the cloth from her face.

When she raised her head, she met the county magistrate's glance, and Ming Yue clearly saw that the magistrate's whole body froze.

My aunt almost fainted from fright, holding on to the chair next to her to prevent herself from collapsing to the ground.

The lady's cries also stopped abruptly.

"I did this because I was afraid of scaring everyone. It's what you want to see. Don't blame me if you're scared. Do you want me to come closer and have a closer look?" Mingyue asked her aunt as she stared at her without fear.

The aunt covered her heart and said with shaking hands, "You, you dare to threaten me? It's you, look at your face, it's the same as the eldest son's reaction after being poisoned."

The noble lady squinted her eyes and glanced at Mingyue's white face, and then shouted angrily: "Aunt Wang, shut up! I'm not blind. The eldest young master turned pale after being poisoned."

The county magistrate also calmed down a little. He pointed at the cook and asked: "Tell me, what is going on? Someone is preparing torture tools. If you don't tell the truth, you will torture me one by one!"
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