The princess was fed contraceptive soup on the day of the marriage exchange, and she went crazy

The guards that Sheng Nanzhi brought from Prince Yi's Mansion immediately stepped forward, arrested the servant, and brought him into the yard.

After a while, the owner of the flower garden came.

The shopkeeper looked at the people in front of him, his face filled with fear and trepidation: "Greetings to Prime Minister Sheng and Princess Yi."

Sheng Lin responded, "I heard that my wife bought some flowers from you a few days ago."

"Yes." The shopkeeper lowered his head quickly, "That's what happened."

Hearing him say this, Sheng Nanzhi immediately took over Sheng Lin's conversation: "Did you know that there is saffron in this batch of flowers?"

"It's understandable that we don't know saffron, but since you run a flower garden, you shouldn't be unfamiliar with it, right?"

"Before you sold saffron to your mother, did you know that there was a pregnant concubine in the Sheng Mansion? And the Seventh Prince's wife and I are also pregnant, and we will return to the Sheng family to visit relatives from time to time."

"Have you ever thought about what would happen to you if the saffron was placed in the Sheng Mansion and we smelled it, causing the baby in your belly to miscarry?"

The shopkeeper widened his eyes and looked at Sheng Nanzhi's belly in panic. Then he turned his gaze and saw the saffron in the garden behind. His face changed drastically and he knelt down in a hurry.

"Princess Yi, please understand. I had already reminded Madam Sheng's people when they came to ask for these flowers."

"But Madam Sheng said she just wanted to send the flowers to the farm to be raised. She said saffron is not only effective in causing miscarriages, but can also nourish qi and invigorate blood circulation. She has other uses for it, and she must have fresh saffron."

"I believed it and sent it over."

"I really don't know, she wants to place the saffron in the house."

"I'm just a flower seller. I sell flowers to whoever pays. I have no right to control what she does with them."

Sheng Nanzhi had already secretly threatened the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper quickly told the whole story.

"Last month, Madam Li of the Li family held a flower viewing banquet, and she got the flowers from me. Madam Li was kind enough to introduce me to the ladies, saying that I have a special trade route that can transport all kinds of rare flowers and plants that are not usually seen in the imperial city."

"I just mentioned it casually, saying that whether it's the snow lotus from the Tianshan Mountains or the saffron from the high mountains in the west, as long as I can afford the price, I can get it."

"Not long after, Madam Sheng sent someone to inquire about saffron..."

"Among the nearly a thousand pots of flowers and plants that I provided to the Sheng Mansion a few days ago, there were over a hundred pots of saffron."

Sheng Nanzhi raised his eyelids and said, "Some of what the shopkeeper said is true."

"He's just a flower seller. He sells to people who want to buy. He explains the pros and cons of saffron clearly, and he doesn't care what people do with it."

"It's not his fault. Let's send this shopkeeper back first."

After the servants took the shopkeeper away, Sheng Nanzhi continued, "I have two questions now. First, the shopkeeper just said that among the flowers he sent, there were more than a hundred pots of saffron. But now, there are only a few of these pots at the door. Where are the remaining hundred or so pots?"

The steward standing nearby quickly said, "It's Madam... Madam suddenly ordered us to remove all these flowers and send them to the manor this morning."

"It's the manor where the eldest lady lived before."

The manager's eyes fell on the pots of flowers. They had clearly moved all of them away, so how come there were still a few pots?

He suddenly remembered that there were indeed a few pots missing when he had counted them earlier.

But he just thought that this flower was delicate and the climate of the imperial city was not suitable for its growth, so the flower died and was cleaned up by the servants without him thinking much about it.

Sheng Nanzhi nodded: "I see, but I still have a doubt..."

Sheng Nanzhi thought for a moment and said, "Regarding my mother's miscarriage, I have some vague suspicions in my mind. I want to ask the court doctor to come over again. I have something I want to ask him in detail."

The court doctor was brought over soon. Sheng Nanzhi narrowed her eyes and asked, "When my mother was bleeding before, why did she immediately suspect a miscarriage and invite you over?"

"Logically speaking, if a woman suddenly starts bleeding from her lower body, shouldn't she be having her period?"

"Or maybe, your mother bribed you into lying?"

The court doctor hastily denied it: "Princess, please understand. I absolutely did not lie, nor did I accept any benefits from you, Madam, or lie for you."

"The lady summoned me and told me that she smelled a lot of saffron flowers and then suddenly felt abdominal pain and bleeding."

"Woman, saffron, abdominal pain, bleeding. Any doctor would probably connect these factors to pregnancy and miscarriage."

"Plus, when I took Madam's pulse, it certainly looked like a miscarriage."

"So without any hesitation, I concluded that she had a miscarriage."

Sheng Nanzhi nodded, which was pretty much what she thought.

What she wanted was just this sentence from the court doctor.

“So, things are becoming clearer.”

"My mother had over a hundred pots of saffron brought to the house. Later, while walking in the yard, she might have admired the saffron she had planted."

"But at this moment, her period came. She looked at the saffron in front of her and mistakenly thought she was having a miscarriage."

"Or maybe she deliberately used some trickery to get the court doctor to diagnose her as having a miscarriage. Then she used this opportunity to frame Concubine Liu."

"As to whether the mother mistakenly believed she had a miscarriage, or whether she knew she had her period but deliberately made people think she had a miscarriage, we need to investigate thoroughly."

Sheng Lin's face looked very ugly.

Regardless of whether Li Yueru was unaware of the truth and mistakenly thought she had a miscarriage, or deliberately pretended to have one, it was an established fact that she had specially gone to the Sheng Mansion and placed a large amount of saffron in an attempt to cause Concubine Liu, Sheng Nanzhi, and Sheng Qingqian to have miscarriages.

Moreover, it is probably true that she deliberately framed Aunt Liu.

Sheng Lin gritted his teeth, stupid woman!

How stupid!

Nanny Jin, standing by, lowered her head, her hands folded in front of her belly. "This is about Princess Yi's unborn child. I will report this matter to Concubine Hua truthfully."

"At the same time, we will leave someone from Prince Yi's Mansion at Sheng's Mansion to follow the progress of the investigation."

"Prince Yi's womb is the only child of Prince Yi. Both Concubine Hua and His Majesty attach great importance to it. I believe Prime Minister Sheng should also be able to understand."

Sheng Lin almost bit his back teeth to pieces: "Of course, it's natural."

Nanny Jin nodded: "I'm glad that Prime Minister Sheng can understand."

Sheng Nanzhi suppressed the smile on her lips and said, "There are still saffron flowers at the gate of Aunt's yard. Let's have someone check Aunt's yard carefully."

"Auntie gave birth to two daughters for Daddy, both of whom are now consorts of the princes. Now she's pregnant again. Even though she hasn't done anything meritorious, she's certainly worked hard. I don't have any other wishes, I just hope Daddy can treat me well and not let both me and her feel disappointed."