C14 I'm Not Telling You

Only she and Tong Xiuchun knew that she drugged Mu Jia. Tong Xiuchun wouldn’t say anything about it, so if Mu Jia knew about it, Tong Xiuchun would suspect her. If that was the case, she wouldn’t be able to stay in the Mu Family anymore. She might even be in danger…

She was Tong Xiuchun’s elder. She was familiar with Tong Xiuchun’s methods. Tong Xiuchun was suspicious and ruthless. Therefore, she couldn’t let Tong Xiuchun know about it.

Thinking of this, Mother Zhang was drenched in sweat. She drank half a bowl of water and walked to the west courtyard.

…

West courtyard.

Bi Yao came back and hurried to the soft couch to report to Mu Jia.

“Lady, you are so accurate. Mother Zhang followed me secretly today.” Bi Yao’s eyes were bright and her cheeks were red. She couldn’t hide her excitement. “I played with her according to what you told me. I saw her angrily come out of the Huai Ren Hall! It was so funny!”

“Didn’t she find out?” Mu Jia asked.

Bi Yao said proudly, “Of course not. You are still worried about my skills?”

Bi Yao was lively and active. She wasn’t an honest girl since she was young. When other girls learned embroidery, she followed the guards in the mansion to dance. Such a personality wasn’t suitable to be a maid. However, Bi Yao was easy-going. Besides, Kang Rumei was a cunning person. It wasn’t a bad thing to have a maid who knew martial arts. Therefore, she let Bi Yao stay with Mu Jia.

“Don’t be too ostentatious. If people find out that you have martial arts, they will be wary of our West Court in the future,” Mu Jia said. She then asked, “Can the people in the clinic see the problem in the medicine?”

Since she couldn’t find the dregs, Mu Jia left some medicine. This time, she asked Bi Yao to take it out and let others see it.

Bi Yao said, “The physician in charge only saw that the medicine was a little strange, but he couldn’t tell where the problem was. Let me go there again in a few days. Maybe I will have some clues.”

As expected, there was something fishy in the medicine, Mu Jia thought to herself.

“Okay, remember to go there when the time comes,” Mu Jia nodded. She pointed at the food box on the table and asked, “What delicious food are you making today?”

“Ugh! All of them are what Miss likes to eat!” Bi Yao hurriedly picked up the food box and opened it. She took the food into the small table and smiled as she said, “Pink steamed meat, boiled cabbage, chicken bean paste, and a plate of brown sugar dough.”

Mu Jia looked at the exquisite dishes on the small table and her fingers moved. In her previous life, she had always been sick in the Mu Residence and drank medicine soup all day. She didn’t have the appetite of a normal person at all. When she had recovered, she went to the Xiongnu and never had a meal that was good for her stomach.

In the end, she returned to the capital after going through hardships. What awaited her was not delicious food, but dirty rice and water. In the end, it was dog food…

“Miss, why is your complexion so bad? Is the food not to your liking?” Bi Yao looked at Mu Jia’s face and couldn’t help but worry.

Mu Jia took a deep breath and spat it all out. Only then did her tightened heart slowly recover. She smiled at Bi Yao and picked up her chopsticks.

Bi Yao had always been careless, but even so, she could sense Mu Jia’s change. She felt that ever since the nightmares, Mu Jia had become different from before. She became silent, smart, and worried.

“Miss,” Bi Yao asked hesitantly, “what kind of dream did you have that day?”

Bi Yao was quite happy with Mu Jia’s sudden change, but she was also worried.

Mu Jia’s hand that was holding the chopsticks stiffened. She ate the steamed pork and smiled at Bi Yao. She said, “I won’t tell you.”

She wouldn’t tell anyone about that dream, but she would remember it for the rest of her life. She would do everything she could to protect the person she treasured. As for other people, she would take revenge on them unscrupulously. She would never go back on her vow in front of the Buddha.