How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

Wuhen and Wuji were injured and had been drugged and knockout drugged for several days. When they woke up, their bodies were extremely weak.

Wuhen struggled to stand up by holding onto the wall and asked anxiously, "Is Your Highness safe?"

"Don't worry, your life is not in danger." Hu Lai helped the two people onto the carriage and replied, "Fortunately, Lord Shen arrived in time and saved your life."

Wuji frowned upon hearing this, and when his peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly, they showed their sharp nature, "No worries about life? That means he's injured?"

Hu Lai coughed lightly, feeling helpless about the young man's sharpness, "Don't worry about it, just take care of your injuries first."

Seeing that Wuhen and Wuji were unable to conceal their murderous intent towards Sheng Shihuai and were ready to fight to the death, Hu Lai pressed the two men back to their seats like pressing garlic, muttering, "Alright, stop making trouble. Sheng Shihuai has been killed by His Highness. You should save your energy and go back to the mansion to deal with Lord Shen."

"After all, Lord Shen is taking care of His Highness without taking off his clothes." Hu Lai pinched his throat and spoke in a rhythmic manner.

As expected, the two young men immediately became obedient, leaning against the car board and urging, "Then take us back quickly!"

Hu Lai smiled, opened the carriage curtain, sat on the saddle, pulled the reins and hit the horse's butt, and then said, "Go!"

It's so easy to control without leaving any trace. It's so easy to control without leaving any trace.

When they returned to the county government office, all the people in the office were tied up. The bailiffs cried bitterly, fearing that they would be executed because of the poisonous incense incident. The county magistrate and his family knelt on the ground tremblingly, begging Shen Yuan for mercy.

Only Magistrate Zhu's second wife looked trance-like, with an expressionless face, as if she had long since become indifferent to life and death.

Shen Yuan was interrogating about the poison incense. He walked up to the county magistrate's wife and asked coldly, "Did you make the poison incense? Do you have an antidote?"

The county magistrate's wife looked up at Shen Yuan, a smile on her face, "Sir, instead of asking me for the antidote, why not ask me for the recipe for this poison incense? After all, the antidote won't sell for much money."

In order to get the formula of the poisonous incense, Mr. Sheng stayed in the county government for so many days to bargain with her.

She felt very relieved when she saw these high-ranking officials wanting to kill her but not being able to touch her because of their own interests.

Twenty-five years ago, there was a plague in Zhuolu County. It was her parents who found the antidote to the disease and saved so many people. However, the county magistrate, in order to gain credit, killed her entire family, silenced everyone, and took credit for it from the court.

She was beaten half to death and thrown into a mass grave in the back mountain. The severe pain all over her body made her feel like she was dying, but the hatred for her entire family being killed prompted her to crawl towards the grave with difficulty. Finally, she crawled to a black flower growing on a grave.

She bit off the root of the flower, forced herself to suppress the pain in her body, and limped out of the mass grave.

She wanted to kill the county magistrate, she wanted to take revenge on all the people in Zhuolu County who had been bribed, and avenge her poor parents.

The concubine of the Lin family, who was not yet the wife of the prefect at that time, picked her up when she fainted on the road. It happened that the county magistrate of Zhuolu County reported his merit to the court, and the head of the Lin family decided to marry the concubine of the second wife to him.

Knowing that the concubine of the Lin family did not want to marry the ugly county magistrate, she told her that she could help her kill him.

If they kill him, the court will replace the county magistrate.

The concubine of the Lin family was also cruel. She conspired with her and used low-quality and toxic drugs to kill the official who had murdered her entire family.

They waited for a new county magistrate. The young magistrate was very handsome. The Lin family also wanted to win him over and planned to let the Lin family's concubine's daughter marry him. However, the Lin family's concubine's daughter was not satisfied. She set her eyes on the Jizhou prefect who was married to her eldest sister.

So she gave her advice, taught her how to secretly have affairs with her, and exchange marriages with her elder sister, and even became her maidservant, supporting her and helping her suppress the concubines in the mansion...

But what about her?

However, she was jealous of her elder sister's happy marriage with the new county magistrate, and complained that she had given her advice which led to her marrying the prefect. Finally, she wanted her to seduce the new county magistrate and kill the legitimate daughter and her son on the grounds that he had saved her life. If she refused, she would let the prefect kill her!

What on earth is she not satisfied with?!

Once these people reach high positions, they become extremely greedy and lawless!

So eight years ago, when Sheng Shihuai, who was still a teenager, went to see the prefect of Jizhou, looking at his eyes full of desire for power, she deliberately asked the concubine of the Lin family to show Sheng Shihuai the drug to win his attention and let him use the drug to control the disobedient court officials.

Anyway, these officials are all idiots, otherwise how could they not have discovered that the one who made great contributions to the control of the plague was not the county magistrate, but her parents!

She knew that this kind of thing would backfire on her sooner or later, so she let the concubine of the Lin family show up, claim the ability, and retreat behind the scenes.

And now, Sheng Shihuai came to her personally and wanted to take the recipe from her. She knew that she would be abandoned by the concubine of the Lin family.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

After all, as long as she was willing to give him the prescription, Sheng Shihuai would kill the Lin family's concubine without hesitation.

The only person she felt sorry for was the eldest daughter of the Lin family.

And... the regent who looks greedy and dissolute, but is actually incorruptible and has no airs.

After all the embezzled silver that the county magistrate had hidden was taken away that day, she remembered this prince and pondered how to drug him in the future. After learning about his contribution to Yizhou, her first thought was that he, like the county magistrate, had taken credit for other people's work.

But when she learned that Zhu Xiaobiao had become his confidant and that both Zhu Xiaobiao and Jing Ze were living well, she suddenly realized that her original idea was wrong.

When she was accustomed to giving to the concubine's daughter of the Lin family, and when she knew that the legitimate daughter of the Lin family was a very good woman but she wanted to kill her and her child, she had developed an indescribable feeling for Zhu Xiaobiao, the child.

She gave Zhu Xiaobiao the worst drug to make him suffer and turn him into a spoiled good-for-nothing in order to dispel the doubts of the concubine of the Lin family. She watched the child struggle to survive and secretly adopted those coerced women, turning a blind eye to it.

She knew Zhu Xiaobiao best. How could a master who could make him follow her willingly be a bad official?

Even if Zhu Xiaobiao went astray, the scholar named Jing Ze would definitely not fail to stop him.

So when Sheng Shihuai asked to use Duxiang to poison the Regent, she ignored him and advised him not to do it.

She didn't know whether it would work or not, but fortunately, even the ambitious Sheng Shihuai was reluctant to use poison incense on the kind and talented prince.

As for whether His Royal Highness the Regent will take revenge on her in the future?

It doesn't matter anymore.

When the Lin family's concubine chose to expose her, and when she told Sheng Shihuai that he would kill the Lin family's concubine if he wanted the prescription, she had already decided to go to hell with the Lin family's concubine.

Sometimes she wondered, if the one who picked her up was the eldest daughter of the Lin family, would everything be different?

Probably not.

She was carrying the hatred of the murder of her clan and the everlasting feud with the county magistrate. However, the legitimate daughter of the Lin family was too kind. Even if she was picked up by the legitimate daughter of the Lin family, she would choose to become the maid of the concubine's daughter and use her temper to get her revenge even if she was picked up by the legitimate daughter of the Lin family, with her heart full of hatred and murderous intent.

The night I witnessed my parents’ death, the night I was thrown into a mass grave and felt grief-stricken…

She is no longer a good person.