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Xiao Ruo gave Yuan Bao the medicine pill which was the poison she was afflicted with, intending to treat him in kind. However, since Cang Xinzi was far away in the Great Zhou Country, that fellow took the fall in place of Cang Xinzi.
Xiangxiang returned from the Prime Minister Residence and saw that his parents had already returned home, overjoyed: "Dad, Mom, I thought you wouldn't come back for the New Year."
Xiangxiang was eight years old this year, long past the age of clinging to his mother. He only knew his mother would soon give him a little brother or sister and was unaware that his mother was poisoned, thinking his father had taken her out to have fun for the past few days.
Since Fu Hanwen and Xiao Ruo hadn't been heard from for a few days, Lady Shao had no heart to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. Once they returned, she quickly instructed the cooks to prepare fresh dishes.
