Shen Weimin knew he couldn't hide it from her. Her very first question cut right to the heart of the matter. It was impossible to know for sure if her mother had been drugged back then, but at the time, their grandmother was still alive.
'Did he ask?'
'Of course he did.'
He just couldn't ask directly, so he had to probe indirectly. "From what your grandma said, she was watching over your mother for two or three nights in a row.
"Before it got dark that night, the plan was for your maternal grandmother and your Aunt to be at your house. In the end, your maternal grandmother didn't show up, and Bai Xiulian came instead. When your paternal grandmother went back to her room to sleep, your Aunt was still there."
"Heh! So the world is full of surprises. All that bullshit, all those rotten things, just happened to pile up so perfectly! No wonder. No wonder! No wonder this is how it is!"
'So that explains it!'
