I'm a humble concubine. My acting skills are off the charts. You can check my performance.

The person who spoke was Zhao Fangjin. Zhao Fangjin came in from outside, supporting the eldest lady, followed by a large group of maids. The courtyard, which was noisy just now, suddenly became silent, with only the footsteps of the eldest lady and others.

A maidservant wearing a scarlet coat who looked good beside the eldest lady quietly slipped out of the crowd, then she quickly called a few people and tied up a few unruly servants.

Mr. Huang was also untied, and the medical box he brought with him was overturned, with the bottles and jars inside scattered everywhere.

Zhao Fangyu nodded to Xiangyao, and Xiangyao went straight to help Mr. Huang pick up the hand pillow and pat it clean.

Zhao Fangjin looked at Zhao Fangyu and smiled. Zhao Fangyu did not explain, but smiled back at Zhao Fangjin under the candlelight.

Zhao Fanglan in the tent was hesitant and unwilling to extend her hand. She hesitated in fear: "My daughter is really seriously ill. Let's wait for the doctor outside to come together. My daughter is injured on her face... really..."

The eldest lady sneered, "I don't know when our Zhao family's backyard became a den of man-eating tigers and wolves. The girl in the mansion even looked like she was going to be poisoned when she saw a doctor."

Aunt Zhang knelt down, and even though several people pulled her, she struggled to kowtow and explain: "Lan'er is really seriously injured. If it weren't for this Doctor Huang who inexplicably sent me some autumn cough soup, Lan'er wouldn't be injured like this!"

"He is just a small court doctor. He usually just stays in his own courtyard waiting for patients. Why would he suddenly think of such a thing? He has not shown any courtesy to me for 800 years, but now he has made my Lan'er's face covered with rashes... As a mother, my heart is bleeding!"

"shut up!"

"shut up!"

Mother Cui and Zhao Fangjin shouted at the same time. Aunt Zhang also remembered the inappropriateness of her words and immediately burst into tears, but she still insisted on clinging to Zhao Fangyu.

"I don't believe that the Fourth Young Lady is innocent. I beg the Madam to conduct a thorough investigation and give justice to our Lan'er!"

The eldest lady said nothing, and even had the leisure to lift the teacup and brush away the leaves that had floated up.

Aunt Zhang was crying bitterly, Zhao Fanglan was choking and crying out in pain, and Zhao Fangyu was standing obediently aside.

It was at this time that Zhao Minshan arrived.

The moment Zhao Minshan entered the room, Aunt Zhang burst out with terrifying power of action. She actually broke free from the grip of the four maids, threw herself in front of Zhao Minshan, hugged his thighs and cried bitterly. There was no trace of her previous ferocity, and she looked like she was going against the entire Minister's Mansion for her daughter.

"Master, please save Lan'er. My Lan'er has been studious and modest since she was young. Everyone who sees her would praise her for being well-educated and sensible. But now she has become like this because of the autumn cough soup. Even seeing a doctor makes her look so miserable!"

"It was Master who wanted me because my face was as beautiful as a peach blossom. I have served you since I was a child and have been with you for many years. Now I am old and ugly, so it is understandable that I am not favored by you. But my child is still young and she has not reached the age of marriage. I beg you to save Lan'er no matter what! She is your own flesh and blood!"

Zhao Fangjin's veins popped out, and his pair of bright black eyes stared straight at Aunt Zhang, as if he wanted to rush up and tear Aunt Zhang apart with his bare hands right now.

I don’t know what’s going on, but once my normally calm elder sister encounters matters concerning the eldest lady, she becomes impulsive and irritable and can’t hide her emotions.

Zhao Fangyu was puzzled, but he could understand it. After all, mother and daughter are connected by heart. However, now was not a good time to get angry, and Zhao Fangjin absolutely could not bring bad luck to Zhao Minshan because of her.

The eldest lady put down the teacup gently, and there was a light touch between the ceramic and the wooden table. Mother Cui immediately came forward and led Zhao Minshan to sit down.

Zhao Minshan glanced suspiciously at Zhao Fangyu who was standing with his head down. Xiangyao took a step forward calmly, but was stopped by Zhao Fangyu who pulled his sleeve.

Zhao Fangjin was also stopped in the same way.

The eldest lady asked someone to bring a cup of new tea to Zhao Minshan, but Zhao Minshan did not drink it. Instead, he went in to check Zhao Fanglan's "injury" in person.

Then she came out angrily and sat down next to the eldest lady, staring at Zhao Fangyu with eyes as if she wanted to eat someone, pointing at Zhao Fangyu and cursing: "You are so vicious at such a young age! You are unworthy of being a member of the Zhao family!"

The lady supported Zhao Minshan's back, turned around and sat down again, advising:

"Don't believe one side of the story. It's wrong to believe only one side. This is the principle that the master taught Huai'er when he was eight years old."

Zhao Fangyu cast a grateful look at the eldest lady. The eldest lady softened her movements, but she still defended Zhao Fangyu: "Yu'er is not like the third girl. She has an aunt by her side to take care of her and understand her. I saw everything about how she came to my courtyard and how she was so cautious."

"Even this autumn cough soup was a recipe she developed with Doctor Huang because I had an autumn cough this year. Someone even sent it to the master a long time ago."

"After all, the children are still young. Fighting and killing will scare them. If the little meat I raised with good water and soup for half a year gets scared and sick, who can I send it to? I can't bother my mother."

The eldest lady helped Zhao Minshan to sit down at the table in front of the window. The carved black lacquer table was cold. Zhao Minshan calmed down a little, picked up the tea that Cui Mama had just served, took a sip, took a deep breath, and looked at the eldest lady: "You have always been in charge of everything in the harem. You can't escape the blame for such a big thing today!"

The eldest lady smiled with the corners of her mouth pulled, but the smile did not reach her eyes: "Then Master, let's see how I manage it."

The maid in scarlet clothes brought in a small bowl of medicine residue from outside: "Madam, this is the remaining medicine soup of the third lady."

"The dregs from the medicine furnace in Mr. Huang's yard have also been taken here."

The eldest lady asked Aunt Zhang calmly, "Qiaohui, who is by the third girl's side, is her eldest maid. Why would she hide her medicine residue?"

Zhao Minshan paused while drinking tea and immediately looked at Aunt Zhang who was kneeling on the ground.

Obviously he realized that something was wrong.

"Today, the gardener in the greenhouse was transplanting the newly arrived chrysanthemums. Mother was afraid that she would make mistakes in her rush and ruin the good flowers, so she asked the servants to lock the small door to the garden."

"It's a good thing it was locked, otherwise the medicine bowl might have been thrown into the lake without anyone noticing, and there would be no evidence."

Zhao Fangyu remained silent, with his head still lowered, but tears as big as beans fell down his face.

"I don't know why Aunt Zhang keeps saying that I harmed my third sister. I am also a human being. I have lived with my third sister day and night. I know that a family will prosper together and suffer together. It is absolutely impossible for me to do something like harming a sister at home."

"Third sister, you think I was responsible for the poisoning. Please show me the evidence. If the evidence is true, I will take a carriage tonight to find the old lady, shave my head and become a nun, and live in a nunnery for the rest of my life!"