In the dead of night, the quiet Ye residence was suddenly thrown into chaos. The dark Ye residence was instantly illuminated.
The servants were bustling noisily, rousing everyone.
Ye Ziyu, wearing a coat, watched the servants frantically searching for something in the living room.
"What's going on?" Shen Meixiu descended the stairs with dissatisfaction.
The commotion in the middle of the night disturbed her sweet dreams.
Ye Ziyu saw the lights in the courtyard were also on and walked out curiously.
"Old Hu?"
Old Hu sat on the ground, a basin of vomit in front of him. Judging by his pale and uncomfortable appearance, this basin of vomit was his.
Ye Ziyu approached him and asked with concern, "Are you feeling unwell?"
"Mmm." Old Hu nodded weakly. He wanted to say more, but his stomach churned, and he turned his head away as a hot wave surged up from his stomach, causing him to vomit.
Ye Ziyu looked at his discomfort and then at the servants behind him, asking, "Did you call an ambulance?"
"Yes, we did."
"How long has he been like this?"
"When he went to sleep tonight, he said he felt a bit unwell and had a stomachache. So I got him some stomach medicine. Not long after he took it, he started vomiting," said the servant who shared a room with Old Hu.
A stomachache too?
His condition seemed similar to Qianqian and Yuze yesterday.
"What did you eat tonight?" Ye Ziyu asked.
Old Hu was too weak to speak, so his companion answered Ye Ziyu's question.
"We had some dinner, and then fruit," the servant thought for a moment and then added, "He said the fruit was given by the young lady and young master."
"Qianqian and the others?"
"Yes, they said they brought the fruit back from school."
Ye Ziyu glanced at Old Hu and instructed the servants nearby to help him up from the ground.
The floor was too cold; lying on it would only make him feel worse.
Ye Ziyu returned to the living room. Shen Meixiu, yawning, looked at her impatiently. "Did you find out what happened?"
Asking her?
Ye Ziyu ignored her question and coldly walked past her.
"I'm asking you!" Shen Meixiu shouted at Ye Ziyu's retreating back.
Ye Qianzhi, with a stern expression, looked at the aggressive Shen Meixiu.
"Dad." Ye Ziyu spoke, "I'm going to check on the children."
"Go ahead." Ye Qianzhi nodded and sternly called out to Shen Meixiu, "Come here!"
"I thought she didn't hear me, so I spoke a bit loudly. I didn't mean anything else," Shen Meixiu explained.
She strongly suspected that Ye Ziyu had seen Ye Qianzhi standing behind her earlier, otherwise, why would she have been so rude and ignored her?
"Spoke a bit loudly? Then will I speak to you in the same tone from now on?"
"Qianzhi, I was wrong. It was noisy tonight, and I was in a bad mood because of the disturbance, which is why I spoke to her in that tone."
It was late at night, and Ye Qianzhi couldn't be bothered to argue with her further. He snorted, turned, and returned to his room.
Shen Meixiu stamped her foot and glared fiercely in Ye Ziyu's direction.
The children in their rooms had already woken up due to the noise outside.
"Qianqian, did you give Uncle Hu fruit today?"
"Mmm, the teacher gave it at school. My brother and I didn't eat it, so we brought it back for Uncle Hu."
Qianqian, still groggy, responded sleepily.
The three children, with their eyes wide open, looked at Ye Ziyu in confusion.
"It's okay now, you can go back to sleep." Ye Ziyu watched them lie back down on their beds and turned off the room light before leaving.
When she learned Old Hu had a stomachache, she had suspected it was an issue with the food at home. Now, after asking, she was even more certain that the problem originated from the school.
She returned downstairs again as the ambulance arrived at the Ye residence. Ye Ziyu decided to accompany them to the hospital. Upon learning this, Di Mingjue changed his clothes and joined her.
At the hospital's emergency department, Ye Ziyu confided her doubts to Di Mingjue.
"You suspect someone at the school wants to harm the children?" Di Mingjue retorted.