The next morning, a piercing scream shattered the sky!
The servants in the residence rushed over upon hearing the sound, all gathering at Tang Yiyi's door.
Jin Miaomiao, dressed in her pajamas, stood at the door with a look of terror, pointing inside, her body trembling violently. "There's... there's a snake! Save her quickly..."
Inside the room, Tang Yiyi's body was dark blue, and the gauze wrapped around her face was stained with bloody snakebite marks.
Her body was contorted in an extremely twisted state, her leg swollen and purple, forming a bulging mass. She lay bleeding on the bed, her life uncertain.
The colorful venomous snake coiled in the corner of the wardrobe, lazily flicking its tail and hissing from time to time.
"Ahhh!"
Some timid servants also recoiled in fear.
The braver ones, though pale, ran to find tools and slowly advanced into the room.
Hearing the commotion, Jin Xiao rushed upstairs. Upon seeing the situation, he was extremely shocked. How could a snake appear in the house out of nowhere?
"Dad! Wuwu..."
Jin Miaomiao threw herself into her father's arms, crying from fear.
It seemed like Yiyi had been bitten to death by the snake. She lived next door to this room, meaning she had almost suffered the same fate.
It was too terrifying, absolutely too terrifying...
Jin Xiao gently patted Jin Miaomiao's shoulder, comforting her softly. On the other side, he organized the servants to catch and remove the snake, and wait for the ambulance.
"Miaomiao, what exactly happened?" Jin Xiao asked his daughter after she had finished crying and calmed down.
"I don't know. I wanted to check if Yiyi had woken up this morning, but she didn't respond after I called for a long time. I was afraid something had happened to her, so I asked a servant to find the key and open the door. Who knew... who knew there was a snake in the room..."
The scene she had just witnessed flashed through Jin Miaomiao's mind again, causing her to break out in a cold sweat and tremble all over.
Jin Xiao frowned tightly. "Logically, there shouldn't be a snake in the room. If the snake crawled up from downstairs, no servant would have failed to notice it. Unless someone deliberately put it in..."
"You, go and check if there are any signs of anyone else having entered the room?" Jin Xiao instructed.
Two servants went into the room to investigate. Moments later, they returned and reported, "Master, there's a footprint on the balcony! It must have been accidentally left by the person who put the snake in last night, but..."
"But what?" Jin Miaomiao quickly asked.
"It's just that the footprint is very small, like a child's shoe..." The servant was also a bit confused. How could a child climb over to the balcony and put such a venomous snake in the room?
"A child? That's impossible." Jin Xiao and Jin Miaomiao also found it unlikely. "Perhaps it was an adult with small feet."
Suddenly, something flashed through Jin Miaomiao's mind!
She grabbed Jin Xiao's hand and said angrily, "It's Su Ding! It must have been Su Ding!"
"Only she has a grudge against Yiyi in this house. She felt that Yiyi was already seriously injured and couldn't resist, so she used this despicable, underhanded scheme to try and kill her!"
"Su Ding..." Jin Xiao murmured, frowning. He couldn't easily touch a single hair of Su Ding's now.
"Let's not jump to conclusions for now. Since there's a footprint, we'll know once we check around the Jin family."
Jin Xiao directly instructed the servants to start collecting shoes from everyone in the Jin family and compare them with this footprint to identify the person who had been in Tang Yiyi's room last night.
Soon, the ambulance arrived.
The nurse carried Tang Yiyi, whose body was bloody, dark blue, and swollen, out on a stretcher. Almost half of the Jin family's staff witnessed her miserable state.
"Miss Tang used to be so beautiful. How did she end up like this?"
"What? That's Miss Tang? Holy cow..."
"I think her body will rot after being bitten by a snake like that. Whether she can survive is another question."
...
Jin Xiao dismissed the gossiping servants and began to investigate the matter.
Tang Yiyi was taken away with the ambulance, and Yin Bo was notified by phone.
An hour later.
The person who tested the footprints cleared everyone in the Jin family, except for the shoes of Su Ding, A'da, A'xiao, and the two children in the side courtyard.
There was almost no need for testing; all suspicion pointed to the little girl from the Tang family.
Jin Xiaoxi was the young master of the Jin family. He had no reason to harm his aunt, and he couldn't easily climb over the balcony to catch venomous snakes.
Moreover, his shoe size was known to almost everyone in the Jin family.
The footprint on the balcony, however, was two sizes larger than Jin Xiaoxi's shoe size.
"Do not investigate the side courtyard for now."
Jin Xiao said in a deep voice, "Have the surveillance cameras been checked? Did they record anything?"
There were cameras installed on the road from the side courtyard to the main house. If the little girl had indeed done it, evidence should have been left behind.
"Checked!"