Xie Jinqiu pointed at Madam Li and unleashed a torrent of curses.
"Madam Li! Do you know how precious the medicines in my medicine room were? Taking a few packets would have been one thing, but you emptied the entire room!"
"What am I supposed to treat my illness with? Madam Li, do you want me dead?"
Madam Li was dumbfounded.
She had only taken two packets of poison.
Who had emptied his medicine room?
"What nonsense are you spouting?" she demanded. "I only took two packets of medicine! Who stole your medicinal herbs?"
But Xie Jinqiu was so furious that the loss hurt him to his core.
Those medicines were what he had been relying on to stay alive. This time, Madam Li had truly crossed his bottom line!
"If you didn't take them, did Youyan? You were the only person who went to the medicine room yesterday!"
"Di-Mother, I've done plenty for you, haven't I? I never imagined you were this sort of person. How could you harm me like this?"
Had Xie Jinqiu not been so weak, he would have laid hands on her already. "I won't help you with anything ever again."
Madam Li flew into a rage of humiliation as well. "I didn't take them! You unfilial wretch, how dare you frame me!"
"I'm framing you? Do you dare let me search your courtyard?"
Xie Jinqiu could not understand it. She had been the mistress of an entire household, after all, yet her greed was this ugly.
She had even stolen the medicinal herbs keeping him alive!
"My room was just blown up. Go ahead and search! If you find anything, I'll kowtow to you!"
Madam Li cursed as she walked, calling for people to follow her back to her courtyard.
Xie Jinqiu turned his