The doctor concubine who broke off the engagement was forced to rush to the wedding, but became the

When Zheng Yan heard the words "Crown Prince's Consort", he felt his ears buzzing. Did he hear it right?

Looking more closely at the person in front of him, although he looked taller and more mature than a few years ago, he was indeed Pei Yi, the prince of the Prince of Yan's Mansion, who carried Pei Jingshu on his back when he went out to pick up the bride.

Zheng Yan felt his legs go limp, and a voice in his heart said, "It's over."

He knelt down and greeted, "Your humble servant Zheng Yan pays respects to the Crown Prince."

Aunt Bao also heard the words "Crown Prince's Consort" and was shocked to see her master kneeling down to Pei Yi. These two people were actually the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess of Prince Yan?

But thinking that her son almost died, she was right anyway, so she said to Pei Yi: "Even if the prince of Prince Yan's Mansion is here, what can it do? Don't rely on your status to ignore right and wrong and erase the charge that the eldest lady pushed my son into trouble."

Pei Yi glanced at the Zheng family's eldest brother and second sister, and saw that the girl was obviously flustered when she saw him looking at her.

So he asked the second sister of the Zheng family in a cold voice: "Are you sure it was our Miaomiao who pushed your brother into the water? Children should not lie. If you lie, your tongue will be eaten by the liar. After your tongue is eaten, it will never grow back. You will not be able to tell the truth in the future."

He was a general who had come from the battlefield and had killed countless people. He had a murderous aura. His face was dark at the moment, which gave people an even more terrifying and oppressive feeling. How could a little girl bear it?

The second sister of the Zheng family burst into tears immediately and said, "No, it wasn't my elder sister who pushed me down. It was my brother who fell down by himself. We lied."

Pei Yi continued to ask her with a cold face: "But why did you lie?"

Aunt Bao immediately covered the second sister's mouth and looked at Pei Yi with dissatisfaction: "Is the prince going to use his status to force a confession out of a child?"

Pei Yi raised his eyelids and stared at Aunt Bao.

"How did I torture the child? Please tell me in detail. If you are talking nonsense, I can report you to the emperor for slandering the imperial officials."

"I advise you to take your hand away. I won't hit a child, but I'm not sure about you."

Zheng Yan also realized that something was wrong and wanted to find out the truth. He grabbed Aunt Bao's hand and said to the second sister of the Zheng family, "Good child, tell Dad what's going on."

The second sister of the Zheng family was encouraged by her father, and continued to cry, "It was mother who said that only if my elder sister made an unforgivable mistake, my father would drive mother and elder sister out of the house. In this way, my father would belong to me and my brother from now on, and I could call mother mother in front of others."

The ladies and young ladies around all looked at Aunt Bao with contempt on their faces. This woman was so vicious that she had corrupted even the best children.

Old Madam Zheng naturally knew what Aunt Bao was thinking. Besides, she didn't like Pei Jingshu as her daughter-in-law very much, so she usually turned a blind eye and let Aunt Bao do what she wanted.

But it would be really embarrassing to make a scene in front of others at this moment.

Zheng Yan did not expect the whole thing to turn out like this. At this time, the ladies and young ladies surrounding him were all looking at him, and he felt very embarrassed.

Pei Yi looked at Zheng Yan and said coldly, "Since the Zheng Mansion cannot accommodate my elder sister, I will make the decision. You two should get a divorce."

Upon hearing this, Madam Zheng shouted, "We can't divorce! We have never had a daughter-in-law divorced before in the Zheng family. We can't afford to lose face like this!"

At this time, Xie Zhichan interrupted and said, "If it is unreasonable, then we have to settle accounts with the Zheng family. My elder sister was given a sterilizing drug, and we don't know who did it. Killing someone's offspring is like killing them. When we return to Beijing, we will file a complaint with the emperor to find out who is behind this."

When Pei Jingshu heard the words "infertility drug", her body went limp and she could hardly stand. Pei Yi helped her up and she was able to stand.

When Zheng Yan and Old Madam Zheng heard the words "sterile medicine", they both froze and turned to look at Aunt Bao at the same time, with an incredible look in their eyes.

When Xie Zhichan saw this scene, he knew that this was the work of Aunt Bao alone, at least not the one beside her, so it would not make her elder sister feel desperate.

Although Aunt Bao felt guilty, she still defended herself by saying, "If it wasn't me, how could I dare to do such a thing?" But what she was thinking in her heart was that since the incident had happened many years ago, even if she were to investigate now, she would not find any evidence.

She forgot that although the evidence was gone, the witness was still there.

Pei Yi looked at Aunt Bao, with a storm in his eyes, as if he was looking at a dead person.

He said to Danfeng, "Go and tie up all the maids and servants in Aunt Bao's courtyard. I want to interrogate them one by one!"

Aunt Bao stiffened when she heard this. She looked at Zheng Yan and said hurriedly, "Master, you are an official appointed by the court. Are you going to allow an outsider to bully us like this? Even if he is the prince of the Prince of Yan's mansion, so what? Isn't that unreasonable?"

Zheng Yan looked at Aunt Bao's obviously flustered expression and heard the guilty conscience in her words. He knew that she must be involved in this matter and shouted at her, "Shut up!"

He also felt that if the concubine in the mansion plotted to murder the mistress and it was exposed in front of so many people, his Zheng family would become a joke.

He said to Pei Yi, "Sir, can you please let me investigate this matter myself and then give Madam an explanation?"

Pei Yi looked at Zheng Yan sternly, "So, Lord Zheng wants me to go back to the capital to file a complaint?"

If he filed a complaint directly before the Emperor, his official career would be ruined.

He had no choice but to shut up and let the prince investigate, hoping that he could resolve the matter in Zheng's mansion so as to avoid bringing it to the emperor.

Soon, Danfeng and Yueyan were seen tying up a group of maids and old women, stringing them together with hemp ropes, and leading them in front of everyone.

Pei Yi, Xie Zhichan and Pei Jingshu had three stools brought in and sat in the yard.

Zheng Miao stood closely next to Pei Jingshu.

Pei Yi said to Dan Feng, "Who among these is Aunt Bao's personal maid? Punish her first."

After hearing this, Dan Feng pulled out a young, rather graceful maid and said to Pei Yi, "Master, this is Aunt Bao's personal maid. I heard she has some connections with Master Zheng."

The ladies and young ladies who were watching looked at Zheng Yan with disdain, as if they had eaten a fly.

Even if the maidservant around the lady is to be taken in as a concubine, at least she should have done it in a clear way. But being entangled with the maidservant around her own aunt in an unclear way, is she trying to learn from the cat and steal fish?

When Aunt Bao saw the maid being dragged out, her face changed and she shouted to Zheng Yan, "Master, they are just being tortured into confessing. How can we trust a confession that was forced into them?"

Xie Zhichan sneered and said to Pei Yi, "Why bother to torture her, my Lord? Even if you don't use any torture, this maid will tell the truth."

Pei Yi knew that Xie Zhichan had a way to make the maid talk, so he waved at Dan Feng and told him not to torture her for the time being.

Everyone was curious. What method could the Crown Prince's wife use to make the maid tell the truth?

Xie Zhichan took out a small black porcelain bottle from his pocket and said, "The pill inside is called 'Truth Telling'. Anyone who takes one pill will not lie no matter what you ask him. If he lies, he will immediately vomit blood and faint, and the medicine will be useless."

Aunt Bao said, "This medicine was brought out by the Crown Prince's wife. It has whatever effects you said it would have. How do we know that you didn't tamper with the medicine? Maybe it's a medicine that makes people lie. Wouldn't I be slandered to death by this maid?"

Xie Zhichan smiled and said, "It's very simple. Just do an experiment first to ensure the authenticity of the medicine."

As he said this, he pulled Zheng Yan over, pinched his chin, and stuffed a pill into his mouth.

After he swallowed the pill, he asked him, "Master Zheng, I want to ask you, where is your private money hidden?"

Master Zheng immediately replied: "It's hidden under my shoe insole."

Pei Yi immediately signaled Dan Feng to take off his shoes, pulled out the insole and indeed, pulled out a few silver bills from underneath.

When the ladies saw the effect, they were all very interested in the pills in the Crown Princess's hand. They thought that maybe they could ask the Crown Princess to buy a few pills to take back and try them on the men at home.

However, now was obviously not the time to talk about this, so everyone just stared at the small black porcelain bottle in Xie Zhichan's hand with shining eyes.

Xie Zhichan glanced at everyone's expressions and asked, "Now do you believe that this medicine is okay?"

Everyone nodded.

Xie Zhichan asked Danfeng to feed the maid a pill, and after waiting for a while, he asked the maid, "Who gave Madam the infertility drug? When did they give it to her? Where did they give it to her? Do you know?"

The maid didn't dare to lie, and replied tremblingly: "I put it in the Madam's ginseng soup after she gave birth to the eldest daughter. But it was Aunt Bao who asked me to do it. I didn't want to harm the Madam!"