Listening to her daughter's heartfelt words, the pregnant Lady Hou went on a killing spree.

Ji Yueru was shocked; the other party had actually released poisonous snakes.

He got up, got out of bed, and quickly went to the window, intending to go out first.

I tried to push it but it wouldn't budge, and I could hear the sound of chains scraping outside.

"Mom, run to the right quickly! The snake is swimming towards you!"

In the darkness, Ji Yueru couldn't see anything at all; she could only rely on her memory to avoid the venomous snakes.

After a few laps, she was even more out of breath, and she knew she couldn't keep running.

"An'an, have the people outside left yet?"

They've already left, but Mother, you can't go out now; the door is locked from the outside.

"I understand! Spring flowers!"

Ji Yueru started shouting outside, but Zhiyi, who usually came running at the slightest call, didn't make a sound today.

An'an's voice was choked with sobs.

"Mother, it's all my fault for not paying attention earlier. There were two people in the yard. One released poisonous snakes for you, and the other blew a sleeping potion towards their house. No matter how you call them, they can't hear you now."

It's all my fault, it's all my fault for being useless.

The child's tender voice already contained a hint of crying, which relaxed Ji Yueru's tense mind a bit, and she comforted An'an instead.

"It's alright, just a few small poisonous snakes, Mother can handle them."

While running, Ji Yueru accidentally touched the candlestick.

Oh right, how could she forget that snakes are afraid of fire?

There was a tinderbox next to the candlestick. I used the moonlight from the window to find the tinderbox and light the candlestick.

[Mom, watch out behind you!]

Ji Yueru was startled. She turned around and bent down slightly, while simultaneously handing over the candlestick in her hand.

A venomous snake, over a meter long, entirely green, with its mouth wide open, abruptly stopped its forward momentum in mid-air, fell to the ground, and slithered around rapidly.

A pair of tiny, bean-sized snake eyes stared in Ji Yueru's direction; in its eyes, Ji Yueru was now its prey.

Those people are truly vicious; the two poisonous snakes they released were ones that had been starving. Mother, you must be careful.

An'an no longer cared about crying, fearing that she might accidentally remind her mother and lose her life.

"Don't worry, Mother will be alright."

As Ji Yueru retreated, she reached the edge of the bed. Another venomous snake slithered over, one red and one green, staring intently at her, giving her goosebumps.

The hand holding the candlestick trembled slightly, and the other hand reached onto the bed, touching the dart that had been placed there earlier.

She gripped the dart tightly in her hand; it was the only sharp weapon she had at the moment.

Ji Yueru held a candlestick in one hand and a dart in the other, her eyes filled with ferocity.

She had wronged An'an in her previous life by causing her to die in the womb before she was even born. This was something she owed her daughter, and she was determined to bring her into the world.

As a mother, she would do anything for her child.

She kept reassuring herself and encouraging herself, thinking that they were just two small poisonous snakes, and that she had weapons and fire.

Ji Yueru, you can definitely do it.

An'an was extremely anxious, but she couldn't afford to say anything reckless that might upset her mother.

The two venomous snakes were clever; they quickly separated and attacked Ji Yueru from two directions.

Knowing he couldn't wait any longer, before the two snakes could complete their encirclement, he swiftly grabbed the candlestick and rushed towards the emerald green venomous snake.

She was fast, but the snake was even faster. Using the force of its lower body, it sprang upwards, its entire body shooting straight towards her.

He thrust the candlestick into the snake's mouth, quickly dodged to the side, stepped on the snake's tail, and stabbed the dart into the snake's body.

"puff!"

[Mom, watch out behind you!]

Before Ji Yue Ru could think any further, she rolled over on the spot almost as soon as An An finished speaking.

At this moment, when her own safety was threatened, she was incredibly agile, not at all like a pregnant woman who was more than five months pregnant.

Almost as soon as she rolled away, the red snake landed where she had been crouching. The fallen red snake smelled the blood in the air, which made it even hungrier, and it completely ignored Ji Yueru beside it.

Now, all it could see was the corpse of its own kind that had just died. It opened its blood-red maw and swallowed the entire snake whole, starting from its tail, piece by piece.

By the moonlight streaming through the window, one could vaguely see the scene of a snake swallowing another snake, and Ji Yueru's back was already soaked with cold sweat.

"Mother, now is the best opportunity. Use the silver hairpin in your hair to nail the snake to death."

Seeing that half of the snake's body had been swallowed, An'an quickly warned her.

Ignoring her own fear, she pulled out the hairpin from her hair and rushed over, stabbing it hard into the red snake's head.

The snake's head, along with the body inside its mouth and its lower jaw, was completely pierced through; both snakes were utterly dead.

With the crisis over, Ji Yue Ru was exhausted and felt weak all over, with a slight feeling of heaviness in her lower abdomen.

She dared not move any further and slowly lay down on the bedside.

"An'an, Mommy's going to sleep for a while. If anyone comes, just wake me up."

"Okay, Mom, go to sleep now. I'll stay with you."

With An'an around, Ji Yueru could sleep soundly, since the windows and doors were locked from the outside and she couldn't get out anyway.

"Who is it that locked the lady's door from the outside?"

Chunhua, go find a hammer and break the lock.

"No need, Zhiyi, move aside."

Then came the sound of chains breaking.

"Wow! Chunhua, you're so strong! You even managed to break a chain."

"It's nothing, I eat a lot so I'm naturally strong."

The door opened, and Zhiyi walked in.

"Madam, are you alright?"

The scene on the floor inside the room was so gruesome that Zhiyi couldn't help but scream.

"Understand."

The voice of his wife came from the bed; his worry for her outweighed his fear.

"Madam, are you alright?"

Zhiyi, filled with fear, quickly bypassed the bloody scene in the middle of the room and rushed to the bedside. She looked her mistress up and down, making sure there was nothing wrong with her before she felt at ease.

"Madam, why didn't you call us last night?"

Thinking about how she had unusually overslept this morning, and recalling the scene in the room, Zhiyi could imagine how desperate her wife must have been last night when she couldn't wake her, which led her to personally deal with the two poisonous snakes, much to the timid and cowardly wife.

"It's alright, I'm fine now, but you guys need to be more vigilant next time you sleep, and make sure you don't fall into someone's trap again."

"It's all my fault, please punish me, Madam."

"Alright, Chunhua, find a food box and put the snake in it. Come with me to pay our respects to the old lady later."

Since the other party gave her such a generous gift, it would be wrong of her not to reciprocate.

"Yes, madam."

Zhiyi was afraid of snakes, but Chunhua wasn't. She went outside, found a food box, and quickly rolled up the snake carcass on the ground and threw it into the food box.

He even went to find a rag to clean up the bloodstains on the floor himself.

After Chunhua finished cleaning, Ji Yueru also tidied up with Zhiyi's help.

"Let's go and pay our respects to the old lady first, then we can have breakfast when we get back."

Inside Anju Courtyard, the old lady had been listening to the sounds coming from Qinghe Courtyard, but after waiting and waiting, no one came to report, and she began to get impatient.

"Granny Chang, are you sure the snake has been placed in that wretched woman's room?"

"Reporting to Madam, the person was personally arranged by this old servant, there is absolutely no chance of anything going wrong."

The windows and doors were locked from the outside; unless she killed the snake, she would be the one to die.

The people sent might have blew sleeping gas into the two maids' room, and the two maids are still unconscious, which is why they haven't realized he's gone.

Now, the old lady had no choice but to accept what Granny Chang had to say.

"Madam, Madam has come to pay her respects."

The master and servant exchanged a glance; how could this be?

The curtain was lifted, and Ji Yueru entered with two maids.

"I'm sending my regards to my mother. Knowing that she's not in good health, I've brought her some food."

Chunhua stepped forward carrying the food box and opened it in front of the old lady.

"what!"