Water Reflects Peach Blossoms

Gong Yuanzheng saw Gong Ziyu's angry expression.

He scoffed and regained his composure. "The night that Old Blade sent me to lure out the assassin from the bride, Gong Ziyu went to the ladies' quarters to look for my sister. That night, one of my sister's maids came to me and said that my sister wasn't feeling well and had run out of Heart-Protecting Pills. She was afraid she was going to have a heart attack and came to me for more."

"I should have gone to deliver it myself, but I was bound by orders from Old Blade and couldn't get away. Also, seeing that it wasn't Qinglan who came to ask for the elixir, I was worried, so I asked my subordinate Jia to go."

"So what?" Gong Ziyu remembered something and realized why Gong Yuanzheng had murderous intent when he looked at him before.

Gong Yuanzheng smiled contemptuously: "It seems you remembered."

"After my sister's heart attack, I thought it was Steward Jia who was plotting to harm her, so I wanted to imprison him in the dungeon for questioning. But Steward Jia, terrified, told me that he had been clutching the Heart-Protecting Pill tightly that night, fearing any mishaps. On the road leading from Zheng Palace to the Women's Guest House, he only met one person: Gong Ziyu."

The young man walked up to Manager Jia and asked, "Do you want me to explain what's going to happen next?"

Manager Jia shuddered and looked up at the three elders sitting at the head.

"Speak!" Elder Hua shouted.

Steward Jia lowered his head, wishing he could curl up into a ball. "That night...that night I did meet Master Zhiren. He asked me where I was going, and I said I was going to the ladies' quarters to deliver Heart-Protecting Pills to the Second Young Lady. Then he let me go. As I was leaving, I accidentally stepped on a stone and nearly slipped. Luckily, Master Zhiren helped me up."

Elder Yue asked, "Is that all?"

Manager Jia nodded vigorously, "That's really it! I swear! Master Zhiren has absolutely not touched the porcelain bottle of elixir in my hand!"

Elder Xue looked at Gong Ziyu and said, "Zhi Ren, is he telling the truth?"

Gong Ziyu nodded. "What he said is true. That night, Gong Yuanzheng punched me in the chest and it hurt. My brother asked me to go to the clinic to get some medicine. On the way, I met Manager Jia. That was the only time I had any contact with him."

Elder Xue asked again, "Who was it that took the medicine from Steward Jia in the women's quarters?"

Manager Jia: "It's Miss Qinglan."

"Then it could also be Qinglan!" Gong Ziyu couldn't help but be speechless, knowing that Gong Yuanzheng hadn't investigated it clearly.

Gong Yuanzheng denied it: "I asked my sister, and she said that Qinglan stood at the door and turned sideways to her when she received the medicine. She saw the whole process of her receiving the medicine, and she didn't have the chance to change the medicine."

Elder Hua frowned: "Is that so? Yun Zheng."

"Yes." Gong Yunzheng looked at Elder Hua and replied, "I saw everything Qinglan did at that time. If there was any unusual movement, it would not have escaped my sight."

Gong Yuanzheng: "Sister will not risk her life to protect someone who wants to harm her, so the person who replaced the Heart-Protecting Pill and wanted to harm Sister is either Jia Guanshi or Gong Ziyu."

"What a coincidence! Gong Ziyu brought Manager Jia here to accuse me of replacing the Divine Feather Flower with the Spirit Grass Flower."

"If you say there's nothing fishy going on, no one will believe it!"

Gong Ziyu looked at Gong Yunzheng helplessly. He was afraid that Sister Ayun really believed what Gong Yuanzheng said and thought that he was her murderer.

Gong Zishang pushed the door open and came in: "If that's the case, why don't you interrogate Manager Jia?"

She saluted the elders and then looked at the tall, well-proportioned young man. "Brother Yuanzheng, you are not the kind of person who would be so gentle in front of a suspect."

After asking, she winked at Gong Ziyu and Jin Fan.

Don't be afraid, I'm here~

"Brother Yuanzheng was indeed planning to interrogate Manager Jia," Gong Shangjiao said in a deep voice, "but I happened to be in the mountains at that time, so he temporarily detained Manager Jia in Zheng Palace. Afterwards, he told me all the suspicions against Brother Ziyu and Manager Jia. I thought Manager Jia was the more suspicious, but there was no reason for Manager Jia to murder Sister Yunzheng unless someone bribed him. So while investigating Brother Ziyu, he used a little trick to test Manager Jia, hoping to find out who was behind the murder."

Gong Ziyu asked: "What's the plan?"

Gong Shangjiao: "Playing hard to get."

Gong Ziyu's heart tightened, realizing that he had fallen into a trap.

"I released Manager Jia. If it really was him, he would have gone to meet secretly with the person who ordered him. An hour ago, I received news that Manager Jia was taken to Yu Palace by Jin Fan, and then brought to Zhiren Palace by you, Brother Ziyu, to testify against Brother Yuanzheng."

"You..." The other party was so eloquent that Gong Ziyu felt she had no way to defend herself!

Sighing that his brother was useless and that he had to do it himself, Gong Zishang cleared his throat. "Gong Yuanzheng was about to interrogate Manager Jia when you came back, and then you guys planned to play hard to get? Just like what Gong Yuanzheng said before, how could it be such a coincidence?"

Gong Yuanzheng challenged Gong Zishang: "You were just eavesdropping through the crack of the door."

Gong Zishang rolled his eyes at him: "What do you care?"

Gong Shangjiao remained calm despite Gong Zishang's unreasonable demands. "According to what Miss Zishang said, do you think Brother Yuanzheng would turn a blind eye to someone suspected of harming her sister? Not only would he not interrogate him, but he would allow him to continue to act as the steward without questioning him?"

Gong Zishang's expression changed, and he said in a low voice, "Absolutely impossible."

Given Gong Yuanzheng's temper, letting that man die would be considered a bargain for him.

"Then the matter becomes clear."

Gong Shangjiao looked at Gong Ziyu with a slightly serious look: "Brother Ziyu was just a suspect before, but now that Manager Jia was brought to Yu Palace by Jin Fan and followed him to identify Brother Yuanzheng, his suspicion has increased."

Gong Ziyu explained anxiously, "I discovered that the Divine Feather Flower had been replaced with Spirit Grass. I originally wanted Jin Fan to bring the male servant who burned the herbs to question him, but I couldn't find him, so I brought Manager Jia here!"

Gong Shangjiao's fierce aura emanated from him. "The most important point is this. Sister Yunzheng's Heart-Protecting Pill was replaced. The other ingredients in the pill remained unchanged. They replaced the core Ganoderma Lucidum with the common Chenglan. Ganoderma Lucidum and Chenglan are easy to distinguish from each other by appearance, but once they are made into pills or medicinal juices, they taste and smell almost identical. The difference is so subtle that even a doctor with decades of experience would have difficulty detecting it."

Gong Zishang was speechless: "It's impossible to detect, then how did you see it?"

"Have you forgotten what I do?" Gong Yuanzheng scoffed disdainfully. "Others may not notice it, but for me, it's as easy as eating and drinking water."

Oops, this kid is pretending again. Gong Zishang was so embarrassed that she touched her earrings.

Seeing the two of them quiet down, Gong Shangjiao, who was interrupted, continued: "Does this method of changing the dressing sound familiar to everyone?"

"It sounds familiar." Gong Zishang immediately responded.

Already anticipating what Gong Shangjiao would say next, Gong Ziyu pulled Gong Zishang's sleeve, telling her not to cooperate with the enemy so much.

Seeing all of the other party's little movements, Gong Shangjiao smiled slightly, but the words he said made everyone shudder: "The method of exchanging the Baoxin Pill is exactly the same as the method that Manager Jia mentioned for exchanging the Baicaocu."

"If it was really Brother Yuanzheng who ordered Manager Jia to replace the Divine Feather Flower with Lingxiang Grass, he would have definitely personally reviewed the purchase list to ensure that everything was safe. He would have noticed immediately that Lingzhi Grass was replaced with Chenglan Grass. He wouldn't have spared even his own sister in order to murder Zhiren and the Young Master, would he?"

"This is even more impossible." Gong Zishang pulled his sleeve anxiously.

Gong Yuanzheng, that dead-eyed boy, would rather get hurt himself than let anything happen to his sister!

She found that Gong Shangjiao's words were so reasonable and well-founded that even she began to think that it was Gong Ziyu who murdered Sister Yunzheng.

What should I do? !