Xu Rourou glared at him. What right did a mere servant have to question her?
Uncle Li chuckled and addressed the crowd. "So it really is true. Don't you all want to know what Xu Bo did to land himself in jail?"
Everyone pricked up their ears, unwilling to miss a single word.
Uncle Li looked at Concubine Xu's pale face and trembling lips and chuckled.
"Your father wanted a position in the Marquis's Residence, but he didn't have the ability to get one. So he decided to poison me, hoping my mistress would choose him instead. He poisoned the food to kill me. Luckily, the little miss reached out and stopped me."
"Then he actually hit the little miss before forcing my head down and trying to make me eat that poisoned food!"
At those words, Xia Wanwan burst into loud sobs.
She nodded as she cried, raising her little hand, whose injury had long since healed!
Huh?
Why wasn't it red anymore?
Never mind! Just keep crying!
"What a beast! The little miss is so young. How could he strike her?"
"It seems Concubine Xu's whole family is rotten!"
"The little miss is so adorable. Who wouldn't want to pamper her? I'd say he deserved to be thrown in jail!"
"Exactly! Trying to poison someone just to get a job-how vicious!"
"I say he deserves the death penalty."
"Instead of having him killed, Eldest Madam handed him over to the Government Office. She's truly merciful."
Xu Rourou trembled all over as she listened. She was nearly overcome with despair.
She snarled at Uncle Li, "You say my father fed you poison, so why aren't you dead? My father only put in some laxatives. You're spitting blood to slander him!"
Of course she knew her father had bought the