Chapter 963: Chapter 963: Her Heart Couldn’t Be That Cruel, Right?

Sixth Brother sat with his mouth open, clearly unable to grasp Yun Jiao’s meaning immediately.

Mrs. Chen already understood completely. Her lips trembled, "She, she wouldn’t be so cruel, would she?"

Sixth Brother looked at Mrs. Chen, "Who?"

Without Mrs. Chen needing to answer, he figured it out himself.

The veins on Sixth Brother’s forehead throbbed, and he clenched his fists, ready to charge into Hui Niang’s room.

Yun Jiao held him back, "What are you doing? We don’t have any evidence now."

"Besides, we need to get the child out first." With the child in Hui Niang’s hands, if Sixth Brother impulsively rushed in, it would be bad if Hui Niang reacted irrationally.

Mrs. Chen trembled all over, "I’ll go. I’ll get the child out first."

She rubbed her face, putting on a relaxed expression, and walked towards Hui Niang’s room.

Hui Niang was looking at the child in the cradle, who was plump and white since birth. She adored him and couldn’t look enough.

Mrs. Chen entered, forcing a smile, "I heard the child crying just now. Is he hungry? I’ll take him to Xiao Wan for feeding."

Hui Niang was a bit surprised, "Is Xiao Wan fine now?"

Mrs. Chen nodded, "Sixth Brother just asked Jiao Jiao to come over, and Jiao Jiao gave some acupuncture. Xiao Wan’s life is temporarily saved."

Hui Niang’s lips moved unnaturally as she reluctantly watched Mrs. Chen carry the child out.

She followed, seeing Yun Jiao standing outside, with Mrs. Chen carrying the child to Xiao Wan’s room, and Sixth Brother nowhere to be seen. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Hui Niang smiled at Yun Jiao, "Doctor Gu is here."

Yun Jiao nodded at her, not saying anything.

By this time, Sixth Brother had already gone to the front yard, where Yun Jiao advised him to look carefully and see if he could find any soup residue.

Sixth Brother asked Zhu Er’s mother and learned that she had dumped all the soup residue into the swill barrel.

Families with slightly better conditions almost always had a swill barrel.

It was filled with leftover food scraps and soup, and some pig-raisers would regularly come to collect the swill. Pigs have incredibly robust stomachs and can eat anything without getting sick.

This is also why pig manure can cure ulcers, using poison to fight poison.

The person collecting the swill would also pay a few coins for a full barrel, so frugal families would naturally save the swill to exchange for money.

At this moment, Sixth Brother was holding his nose, rummaging through the swill barrel.

Yun Jiao told him the red flower was reddish-yellow, thin like threads, only about an inch or two long.

Sixth Brother remembered having seen this kind of herb.

In the past, while living in the backyard of Renxin Hall, sometimes Zhang Shun and others would spread herbs on large bamboo sieves to dry in the courtyard; when the sun was good, the yard was full of those large sieves.

When Yun Jiao described it, he recalled it.

Sixth Brother rummaged through the swill barrel for a while and indeed found the red flower. Enduring the unpleasant smell, he used a spoon to scoop out the red flower and put it into a bamboo sieve.

Sixth Brother patiently picked through it for a long time, almost completely clearing the red flower from the swill.

A large pile of wet red flower accumulated in the bamboo sieve.

Looking at this large pile of red flower made Sixth Brother’s heart tremble. With such an amount, it seemed like they feared Xiao Wan wouldn’t die.

If it weren’t for him riding quickly, if Renxin Hall hadn’t been nearby, if Sister Jiao’s medical skills weren’t exceptional, would Xiao Wan even have survived?

Sixth Brother carried the bamboo sieve into the backyard.

Yun Jiao and Yang Ying sat in the middle room of the east wing.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Chen was holding the child in Xiao Wan’s room, and Hui Niang was also inside.