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

Zhao Fangyu swore this poisonous oath, and in order to prove her innocence in this matter, she was even willing to risk the rest of her life.

For a moment, everyone present looked at her with eyes full of pity.

Zhao Fanglan stammered and could not explain clearly. He hid in the tent and pretended to be dead in an attempt to hide himself.

Zhao Fangyu was blamed for such a huge crime out of the blue, and all her efforts these days were almost wasted. How could her wish come true?

She immediately knelt down on the spot and said to the eldest lady and Zhao Minshan, "My daughter is unfilial, but I also want to defend myself. May I ask what Aunt Zhang said, that I poisoned the third sister, was shameless and despicable, and instigated the palace doctor to poison the sisters and the aunt in the palace, is there any evidence?"

"My aunt raised me, even if there are faults, please be more respectful in your words, Aunt Zhang. We are all aunts, she just has a bad fate, unlike Aunt Zhang who can read and write and understand many great principles. She is just an ignorant woman, but she has never gained any honor because of me, and she should not be implicated because of me and cursed by Aunt Zhang with such vulgar words."

Aunt Zhang sneered and straightened her back: "The fourth young lady has entered the eldest lady's courtyard. She is so well-informed and sharp-tongued that I have no way to defend myself."

Zhao Fangyu suddenly raised his head, his pair of bright black eyes were slightly red, his voice was almost trembling, and his whole body was like a fallen leaf, drifting in the air and unable to find its way home.

"Auntie, you have no way of defending yourself! Or are you slandering me out of thin air?"

Zhao Fangyu kowtowed loudly to Zhao Minshan and the eldest lady. The noise was so loud that Zhao Fangjin felt his teeth aching and his brain seemed to shake.

Zhao Fangyu slowly raised his head, his tearful young face revealing a kind of determination.

"Since I entered Qingping Court, I have never been disrespectful. I respect my elder sister, and I am filial to my parents. I respect my elder brother, and I am afraid of causing trouble for my mother. Living in Qingping Court has already caused a lot of trouble for my mother. Now I have to endure unwarranted slander, which has affected the reputation of the first lady and my sister. I am responsible for this."

"Once this matter is investigated, if my daughter is truly at fault, I ask my father to send me to a nunnery to correct the family tradition."

Zhao Fangyu was gambling. She was betting that Zhao Minshan would not dare to let her commit suicide by jumping into the lake, nor would he dare to let her enter the family temple.

No matter which dynasty, there must be a supervisory agency in the court. Sometimes it is the East Factory, sometimes it is the Embroidered Uniform Guard, or it may be other organizations. At worst, there are also censors.

Fights among wives and concubines at home, resulting in the death of children, are always the best excuse for political opponents to attack.

Even if one sends a daughter to the family temple for no reason, the political enemies will investigate it three times.

Zhao Minshan wouldn’t dare, most likely he wouldn’t dare.

What's more, when Aunt Zhang and the First Lady confronted each other, she was already showing signs of defeat from the moment the maid in the scarlet jacket and skirt found the medicine residue.

What Zhao Fangyu did afterwards was only adding fuel to the fire, adding to Aunt Zhang's defeat.

Zhao Minshan was silent for a moment, and the eldest lady remained motionless as a mountain. She picked up the teacup again and let things take their course.

"The third girl is the master's daughter, and so is the fourth girl."

"When the third girl got a rash, she went to the master and cried, saying that someone in the family poisoned her. The fourth girl fell into the water and was almost unable to be saved due to the fever, but she didn't say a word about the others."

"Knowledge is good, but character is rare. What do you think, Master?"

The master thinks... the master thinks that the eldest lady is right.

There were not just one doctor but three doctors invited from outside.

The three doctors tasted Mr. Huang's medicine residue and carefully tasted the medicine soup left by Zhao Fanglan. They said, "There is some extra peanut powder in the medicine soup of Miss San."

The eldest lady said "oh" and raised her tone: "Peanut powder?"

Zhao Fangyu also laughed.

Because Zhao Fangmo in the main courtyard also has a peanut allergy, peanuts are never allowed in the entire Qingping Courtyard.

Aunt Zhang said stubbornly: "In addition to the main courtyard, the fourth girl also has another concubine Qian!"

Zhao Fangyu had learned housekeeping from Zhao Fangjin and the eldest lady, so he had memorized the rules of the mansion by heart. He immediately recited the rules of the mansion from the beginning of the month to the present: "From the beginning of the month to the present, there are only three dishes in the mansion that use peanuts. These dishes are available in all courtyards except Qingping Courtyard and Caiyue Courtyard."

"There are twelve kinds of snacks using peanuts, and they are available in all the courtyards except Qingping Courtyard."

"The peanuts in the snacks were few and broken. The sixth of the twelve items is peanut crisps, which are made from peanuts ground into powder and flour. It is impossible to extract pure peanut powder from them to poison the third sister. The other sixth item is peanut sesame crisps, which do contain peanuts. As long as we find out where the sixth-grade peanut sesame crisps and the third-grade dishes went, the source of the peanut powder in the third sister's autumn cough soup should also be clear."

The eldest lady nodded, approving of Zhao Fangyu's statement, and filled in the gaps for her, saying, "Go and call Madam Li from the kitchen, and ask her to check who has bought peanuts for the family in the past three months, where they were used, and how many there are."

The content of peanut powder is not much, so it is actually difficult to detect it in this way. It is just a warning to scare the tiger and clear Zhao Fangyu of suspicion.

Mother Li and mothers from other courtyards, including Caiyueyuan, were called over and told what to do with the peanut sesame candies that had been distributed to them.

The focus of the questions was on the old lady and Mrs. Li from Caiyueyuan.

The old mother remembered it clearly: "Mrs. Qian never liked to eat peanut sesame crisps, and neither did the fourth lady. So the peanut sesame crisps in our yard were always given as a reward to the servants. Sometimes when someone came to Mrs. Qian's house, we would give some to her family to take away."

The authenticity of this statement was extremely easy to check. Zhao Minshan just gave her a look and naturally someone went to verify what the old mother said.

Mother Li recalled for a moment and said, "In the middle of March, we bought peanuts four times. They were all bought by Zheng Er's family. Each time, we bought three pounds of peanuts, which were usually used to make snacks and glutinous rice balls."

"But today, Qiaohui, who is beside the third lady, ordered a portion of peanut sesame crisp candy."

At this point, Aunt Zhang and Zhao Fanglan's treacherous plot was completely uncovered, so easily that it even gave Zhao Fangyu a feeling of having started well but ended badly.

At the beginning, it was so loud that I thought someone was going to die. But who knew it was just a self-directed and framed allergy incident.

That is to say, under the rule of the eldest lady, records were kept of the entry and exit of each gatekeeper, and all food ingredients entering and leaving the kitchen had fixed numbers and documents, otherwise Zhao Fanglan would not have been found so easily.

That’s right, Zhao Fangyu’s Autumn Cough Soup was delivered so suddenly, and apart from that, I couldn’t think of any other good ideas.

For some reason, Zhao Fangyu thought of a sentence: although this move is risky, the chances of winning are high.

If they succeeded in framing Zhao Fangyu, the result that awaited him might be drowning or spending the rest of his life in the family temple.

Judging from Zhao Minshan's attitude just now, even though she is now in the Eldest Lady's Courtyard, her status in his heart is far inferior to that of Aunt Zhang and Zhao Fanglan.

And the extremely weak father-daughter relationship between her and Zhao Minshan could not withstand any storms.

After the truth came out, Zhao Minshan did not show any sign of weakness. He continued to sit upright, showing no sign of mercy in the face of Aunt Zhang's pleading. He had a blank expression on his face and even turned his head to look at Zhao Fangyu's expression, as if he wanted to observe whether there was any resentment on her face.

Zhao Fangyu lowered his head, thinking about all the sad things in his past and present lives, and tears could not stop flowing.

The eldest lady took out a handkerchief and pursed her lips. She looked at Zhao Fanglan and Aunt Zhang and said slowly, "Logically speaking, a concubine like this who harbors evil intentions should be sold off to keep the family peaceful."