Qin Yuyan said with a righteous tone, "Su Yuejian, you are just making up your mind!"

"This young man is obviously a gentleman of good character. He defends you with every word he says. You can't prove it, so you're just blaming me."

Everyone nodded in agreement with Qin Yuyan's words.

Xiao Ningyao watched the discussions around her intensify, her lips moving slightly as she was about to speak.

But Su Yuejian was talking to the maid beside her.

Yuzhu turned around and helped her walk to the muddy ground under the ginkgo tree. Yinxin found a thin branch and handed it to her.

Qin Yuyan was puzzled by her actions. Was she planning to escape? She even found a wooden stick to use as a cane.

With a sneer on his face, "Miss Su, you..."

Before she could finish her words, Su Yuejian took off her veil.

The veil covered her entire face. She closed her eyes, and the breeze blew the veil, revealing her smooth and delicate facial features. She bent down and wrote something on the ground.

Xiao Ningyao and Shen Wenshu walked forward in confusion.

I saw that she was holding an ordinary branch in her hand, but when she was in high spirits, she wrote like a whirlwind, and the branch fell to the ground like clouds and smoke.

Everyone was attracted by Su Yuejian's actions, and at this moment in the woods on the other side, a man in a blue brocade robe was staring at her.

It had rained for days and the ground was still wet, with clear traces of branches scratching across the mud.

After a moment, a seven-character quatrain appeared on the mud.

"Thousands of hammers and chisels have carved out the mountains,

The fire burns as if waiting for a while.

I am not afraid of being broken into pieces,

To keep a clean record in the world."

The handwriting is flowing, elegant, and majestic.

Shen Wenshu couldn't help but be shocked.

Good poem! Good writing style!

The handwriting is in no way inferior to that of a master with profound skills. She only uses a thin branch and writes blindly, which shows that she is extremely talented.

Yinxin took the stick, and Yuzhu handed her the handkerchief. She wiped her fingers carefully, her expression calm.

"I am blind, but I never said I couldn't write."

He Yanzhi's pupils widened instantly. He never knew she could write!

Every time Su Yuejian replied to him, she would ask Lian Qiao to pass on the message to him. He thought she was blind and couldn't write, so...

There were no love letters in the first place. He forged them based on the handwriting of the breakup letter, and he had torn up the letter of rejection in anger after reading it.

Then these letters in his hand are not...

Su Yuejian Youyou spoke.

"Although my eye disease is not as severe as that of ordinary people, my family has taught me since I was young, and I have never neglected reading and calligraphy. If I really wanted to write a letter to communicate secretly, why would I need to ask someone else to do it and give them more evidence?"

Xiao Ningyao and Shen Wenshu also nodded.

The handwriting was completely different from that on the letter. The letter was written in the beautiful small regular script that women often use, while her handwriting was grand and fluent.

The onlookers also began to sway, what Miss Su said made sense.

Qin Yuyan said disdainfully, "Even if you can write, who can prove that you didn't ask the maid to write the letter? Besides, isn't Lian Qiao your personal maid? You must trust her very much."

He Yanzhi said anxiously: "Yes, the letter was indeed given to me by Lian Qiao herself."

Yin Xin stepped forward, snatched the letter from his hand, took a look at it,

"This is clearly Lian Qiao's handwriting. It's clearly Lian Qiao writing to you."

Su Yuejian replied to Qin Yuyan in a mocking tone,

"I rarely interact with people, and I've only met this young man once so far. How can there be any mutual affection? The letter was given to him by Lian Qiao, and the handwriting was also from Lian Qiao. How can Miss Qin know that Lian Qiao wasn't impersonating me to have a romantic relationship with him?"

Su Yuejian sneered and then asked He Yanzhi,

"Besides, the murder of Lian Qiao is a private matter within the Su Mansion, unknown to outsiders. How did you find out about it, young master?"

He Yanzhi realized that he had just let something slip and stammered, unable to speak.

Shen Wenshu also noticed something was wrong. The man's eyes flickered and his words were unclear. His previous actions seemed to be well prepared.

Su Yuejian continued to press, "Lian Qiao has been poisoning me for years, and in her room we found a lot of stolen gold and silver treasures. Since you have close ties with Lian Qiao, do you know about these poisoning and thefts?"

Yin Xin glanced at him coldly, her words filled with anger.

"The Shu brocade you're wearing is from the most famous Jinxiufang in Kyoto. It's worth its weight in gold. The jade pendant around your waist and the jade hairpin on your head are made of fine material and intricately carved. They're clearly valuable items. Young Master, you said your family is poor?"

Yuzhu said angrily, "No wonder the family hasn't been able to find the whereabouts of many things recently. Who knows if Lianqiao secretly gave them to you?"

The wind direction changed instantly, and everyone began to speculate that he had a close relationship with the maid, and perhaps wanted to rob Miss Su and kill her. Now that the maid was dead, he wanted to climb up the social ladder by establishing a relationship with her.

Seeing this, He Yanzhi looked panicked and pretended to be calm.

"No, I don't know her at all, how would I know these things?"

Yin Xin sneered, "Not familiar? But I think the sachet on your waist was made by Lian Qiao."

He Yanzhi's pupils suddenly shrank, his hands clenched into fists, and his lips moved.

"Miss, don't talk nonsense. This is embroidered by my younger sister. How can it be related to Forsythia suspensa?"

Qin Yuyan felt disappointed when she saw his guilty look and stopped trying to support him.

Turns out he's just a useless idiot, what a waste!

Su Yuejian spoke calmly, "Lian Qiao is best at double-sided embroidery. Apart from the embroiderers in the palace, few people in Kyoto know this technique. Moreover, she has a habit of embroidering a lotus flower inside the embroidery surface."

Yuzhu rolled her eyes, and while he was not paying attention, she walked up to him and pulled out his sachet in one breath.

He Yanzhi wanted to reach out and grab it, but as soon as he moved, he felt a sharp pain in his leg and fell to the ground.

Yuzhu ignored his wailing, opened the sachet, turned it over, and showed it to everyone. There was indeed a lotus flower inside the embroidery, and the inside of the sachet was embroidered with mandarin ducks!

The meaning of giving the mandarin duck sachet is self-evident. The facts are before him and He Yanzhi has no way to argue.

Everyone instantly understood that all this was a secret affair between him and the maid Lian Qiao, and had nothing to do with Su Yuejian.

He Yanzhi still didn't give up, and tried to drag his injured leg forward to crawl closer to Su Yuejian.

"Yue'er, I was also deceived by Lianqiao. You are the one I have always been attracted to."

Su Yuejian looked impatient.

"You are even more shameless than I thought. You are slandering my innocence today. I told you that you will be responsible for your words."

"Yinxin, go report this to the Jingzhao prefect. I want to accuse him of defaming an official's daughter, and of Lian Qiao's death. There's no guarantee it wasn't someone he knew. He and Lian Qiao had a close relationship, so I ask the prefect to investigate thoroughly."

He Yanzhi was terrified. No! He couldn't go to Jingzhao Prefecture! In his current state, even if he wasn't imprisoned, his body couldn't withstand a beating.

He still wanted a bright future and wealth and glory. He shook his head desperately to admit his mistake to Su Yuejian and begged her to let him go.

Su Yuejian looked at him coldly as he cried and begged for mercy, and was not moved at all.

The onlookers cursed him and said that he brought this upon himself, as they had thought he was a gentleman.

Just as Yin Xin was about to leave, Xiao Ningyao stopped her.

"Wait a minute."

Su Yuejian frowned.

What does it mean?

She didn't seem to have offended the eldest princess.

Shen Wenshu and Qin Yuyan were also puzzled.

He Yanzhi seemed to have found a lifeline. He crawled to Xiao Ningyao and kowtowed repeatedly: "Princess, please save me. I was deceived. I will never dare to do this again! I have an old mother and a young sister at home. Please, Princess, save me."

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