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"You're spouting nonsense!" Cui Ruixin knew she absolutely couldn't admit to this, so she resolutely denied it.

She sneered, "That little slut told you, didn't she? She'll make up any nonsense to climb the social ladder."

“I’m completely open and honest. If you don’t believe me, you can check it out. I’m not afraid to tell anyone.”

Her certainty made Yu Kangping hesitate.

Could it be that Chunque really lied?

But Chunque had just come of age; how could such a kind and innocent girl lie?

“Fine, then I will go and ask my father and mother to make the decision. If you don’t allow me to take a concubine, then this matter will spread throughout the entire capital tomorrow.” Yu Kangping’s face also turned cold.

"Are you crazy? Don't you care about the reputation of the Marquis's mansion?" Cui Ruixin looked at Yu Kangping in disbelief.

"The only one who will lose face is you, the mistress of the Marquis's mansion." Yu Kangping said, then turned and left.

"Stop! I'll take a concubine for you, okay?" Cui Rui panicked.

Three men can make a tiger; many voices can melt metal.

She was afraid that if this matter really got out, her reputation would be completely ruined.

"Okay, I'll leave this to you." Yu Kangping had successfully resisted, and a smile returned to his face.

"How could I have married such a bastard?" Cui Ruixin cried, angered by him.

"Madam, please be careful with your words." Madam Li also felt sorry for her, but if these words reached the ears of the old lady, she would be the one who would suffer in the future.

Cui Ruixin's gaze turned cold as she swept her eyes over the surrounding maids: "All of you, keep your mouths shut. If anyone dares to tell anyone what happened today, I'll rip out your tongues."

"We didn't hear anything," the maids all shook their heads.

Cui Ruixin returned to the house and cried bitterly.

Only after tidying himself up did he go to find the old Marquis and his wife to discuss the matter of arranging a concubine for Yu Kangping.

……

"You mean, I was drugged with an aphrodisiac yesterday, and that drug was given to me by my sister-in-law?" Yu Kangjing looked at his wife in astonishment.

"Mm." Shen Jinzhu nodded.

He explained the whole story.

From buying the medicine to administering it, not a single step was missed.

“But I have no grudge against my sister-in-law. Why would she drug me? Could it be that she wanted to drug my brother, but I happened to have been drinking with him? That’s why I got drugged. As you know, my brother hasn’t been back to her room for a long time,” Yu Kangjing explained somewhat awkwardly.

"If it was just to drug my brother, would I have needed to ask you to drink with him? Knowing you were there, and still drugging his drink, do you think that makes sense?" Shen Jinzhu glared at him angrily.

"That's true." Yu Kangjing scratched his head sheepishly.

"But why would she do that?"

"How would I know?" Shen Jinzhu replied irritably.

"When evil people do evil, they do it because they want to. What does it matter what their reasons are?"

"Madam is right to reprimand me," Yu Kangjing quickly admitted his mistake.

“I need to go to my father and mother to make a decision about this. Do you want to come with me?” Shen Jinzhu glanced at him.

Yu Kangjing originally wanted to say that maybe we should forget about it, but seeing the look in his wife's eyes, he immediately changed his mind: "Of course! I'll do whatever you say, Madam."

The couple went to Wanxiangtang together.

Cui Ruixin arrived before them and was discussing taking a concubine.

"Because of Liu Ying'er's matter, the Marquis has been drowning his sorrows in alcohol every day. I never expected that he would mistake my maid's sister for Liu Ying'er after drinking. Since such a thing has happened, we must give her an explanation."

"Because I failed to take Liu Ying'er as a concubine, the Marquis has already become estranged from my wife. If I still cannot bring Chun Que into the house this time, I'm afraid our marital relationship is coming to an end."

She wiped away tears as she spoke.

The old lady immediately felt a little guilty and quickly comforted him, "If that's the case, then let him have his way. How to deal with a mere concubine is entirely up to you, the mistress of the house."

Yu Kangjing and Shen Jinzhu happened to overhear their conversation.

Shen Jinzhu gently pinched him, and Yu Kangjing quickly said seriously, "Sister-in-law, you gave that maid an explanation, why don't you give us, husband and wife, an explanation as well?"

Cui Ruixin was so frightened that she clenched the handkerchief in her hand.

The old lady looked bewildered.

"What explanation do you two have for this?"

Cui Ruixin forced a smile: "Yes, Third Brother, what are you talking about? I don't understand."

Yu Kangjing was furious when he thought about how his dignified sister-in-law had actually given him, her brother-in-law, such a drug.

If his wife hadn't taken him away in time, he would definitely have done something to betray her.

So she grew increasingly angry: "You're still pretending!"

He spoke passionately, recounting the whole story.

"How could you do such a thing?" The old lady looked at Cui Ruixin in disbelief.

"I didn't, I didn't do it." She shook her head desperately, but Shen Jinzhu and the others had come prepared.

The maid who went to buy medicine was brought up.

She honestly admitted that it was Li, the head maid of the main house, who gave her the money to buy the medicine.

When Li saw that something was wrong, she knew that this matter absolutely could not fall on the wife's shoulders.

She had no choice but to take on this responsibility.

She knelt down on the ground with a thud and kowtowed repeatedly, admitting her mistake: "Madam, Third Master, I am at fault for everything. I acted on my own initiative."

"Because the Marquis hasn't returned to our lady's room for a long time, she has been crying every day. I was momentarily bewitched and did such a thing."

"Madam knows nothing, which is why she tried to persuade the Third Master to drink with the Marquis."

"It's all the old slave's fault."

Li took on everything.

Tears welled up in Cui Rui's eyes instantly.

She wanted to defend Li, but she also knew that at this point she could only go along with Li's words, otherwise she would be completely ruined.

"Granny, you're confused! How can you force things between me and the Marquis?" she said, choking back tears.

Then she looked at the old lady and said, "Mother, I really didn't know about this. If I had known, I would have stopped the old woman. She watched me grow up and treated me like her own daughter, so she did such a thing in a moment of panic."

"Mother, please forgive her this time. I'll fine her a year's salary and forbid her from leaving the courtyard. Is that alright?"

"No." The old lady's face turned ashen.

They schemed against her two sons; this matter cannot be left unresolved.

"Give him twenty strokes of the cane and expel him from the mansion."

"Mother, no!" Cui Rui panicked.

But the old lady gave the order, and her men acted quickly, dragging Li out.

Hearing Li's screams of pain as she was being beaten, Cui Ruixin fainted on the spot.

“Madam Cui is not strict in managing her subordinates, and I don’t trust her with the New Year’s gifts. Jinzhu, why don’t you do it?” The old lady looked at Shen Jinzhu.