Chapter Eight The Nanny
"It is indeed a beautiful picture of kindness at the top and filial piety at the bottom, and harmony."
Shen Xinyue's voice was not loud, but it startled everyone in the old princess's courtyard who was immersed in a peaceful atmosphere.
"Bitch! Who let you in? What do people outside do for food? Is this a place where she can come in and run wild as she pleases?" As soon as the old princess saw Shen Xinyue, she became angry.
The servant was so frightened that he was about to step forward to report the matter, when Huo Weilou came in with a solemn expression, "Concubine, I asked her to come in. She said that she found out the truth of the matter and wanted to report it to Concubine."
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hospital had different expressions on their faces.
As for the truth of the matter, the old princess had actually lost interest for a long time. She raised her hand casually and said impatiently: "In that case, let's talk about it."
Everyone turned their attention to Shen Xinyue, but the latter didn't seem to be in a hurry to speak, but looked at Lan Qingruo with an intriguing expression.
Lan Qingruo felt guilty when she saw her, but she forced herself to calm down and asked: "Sister Shen, what do you mean you don't reply to the princess, but you keep looking at me?"
"I really can't understand. A rich young lady like Miss Lan, who was born in the Imperial Palace, is supposed to be well-informed and courteous, and has a better understanding of etiquette, justice and integrity, but why would she do such a thing?" Shen Xinyue got straight to the point. .
"Sister Shen, please don't slander me. This matter has nothing to do with me." Lan Qingruo was startled, her eyes dodge a little, but she still argued.
"That's right. What does this matter have to do with Qingruo? She is the eldest lady of the Taifu Palace, how can you allow you to come here to question her?" the old princess sneered.
"Princess, what you say is unfair. Although I am a commoner, I have never done anything that is harmful to nature or contrary to my conscience. Although Miss Lan is the daughter of the Taifu Palace, if I do something wrong, no one can You have the right to question." Shen Xinyue said neither humble nor overbearing.
"You bitch, you are so sharp-tongued. But let me tell you, you have to speak with evidence. I don't think you can find out the so-called truth at all. You just want to embarrass Qingruo about this matter. Take it with you." Shen Xinyue's look of not taking her seriously made the old princess even more angry.
"Of course I know I need evidence, otherwise I wouldn't be standing here now." Shen Xinyue did not flinch.
"Where is the evidence?" The old princess pressed forward step by step.
"It's in Miss Lan's yard. If you don't believe me, I'll go get it. Everyone will know it when they see it." Shen Xinyue said.
When the old princess heard this, she sneered, "You still want to go into Qingruo's yard to search? What an unexpected idea."
Shen Xinyue was not angry, she still said slowly and confidently, "The princess protects Miss Lan so much, is she afraid that I will find out the truth and find the mastermind behind the scenes? Is it possible that the princess and Miss Lan are a team? Is it you who secretly transferred me together, and then you want me to take the blame?"
As soon as she said these words, it was like a time bomb being thrown in. Everyone in the hospital was instantly shocked.
Even Huo Weilou frowned slightly. Just now, Shen Xinyue said that if she cooperated with her, she would be able to find out something, but she didn't tell herself that she would point the finger at the old princess. This woman's It's really a bit courageous.
The old princess was so angry that she trembled all over, stood up, pointed at Shen Xinyue angrily, and said: "What?! You bitch, you are so cowardly, you actually did it on my head. , I really don’t want to live anymore.”
"If the princess and Miss Lan are not in the same group, then why do you repeatedly stand up for her and don't let me look for evidence? If they are not in the same group, why do you have the same son and the same newly married daughter-in-law when you meet her? We are eating snacks and drinking tea, but we are like a bitch? What is the hidden secret behind this?" Shen Xinyue looked at the old princess with a pair of sharp eyes, looking aggressive.
"It's really outrageous. You let a little bitch like you run wild here. Come on, why don't you take her out and beat her to death? I'm really angry." The old princess was angry with Shen Xinyue. He was so exhausted that he kept slapping the table with his hands, causing the things on the table to fall to the floor.
Seeing several servants running towards her, Shen Xinyue quickly rushed to Huo Weilou, grabbed his sleeves and pretended to say: "Please make the decision for me, Your Majesty. I just want to find out the truth and clear my name." .Look, the princess realizes that her old man can’t tolerate me now and wants to kill me. Isn’t this murder and silence?”
Huo Weilou also opened his eyes this time. The Shen Xinyue in front of him was more and more puzzled by him. She was thinking carefully and acting decisively. Although she had not produced any evidence so far, her words came into his mind. In his heart, he really wanted to see what ulterior secrets there were behind this.
Several servants had already grabbed Shen Xinyue's sleeves, but they hurriedly retracted their hands after seeing Huo Weilou's cold, murderous eyes.
Seeing that they all retreated, Huo Weilou slowly said: "Concubine, this matter is no longer a trivial matter. We must get to the bottom of it. Since she insists that there is evidence in Qingruo's yard, let's She just goes to find it. If Qingruo doesn't do it, what's there to be afraid of?"
Having said this, the old princess is a little bit stuck, let her go, if nothing else, her old face can't stand it; don't let her go, look at her endless aggressive look, Huo Weilou is standing behind her again On the other side, I am afraid that if this matter cannot be resolved, it will cause even greater trouble.
After careful consideration, the old princess had no choice but to say, "That's it, let her find it."
Lan Qingruo, who had been staring closely at the old princess, couldn't help but feel nervous when she saw that the old princess finally compromised. She involuntarily twisted the handkerchief into a rope with her hands, but her face looked aggrieved, " Princess, Qingruo is also a victim of being exchanged. This is fate, Qingruo accepts it. But Sister Shen is inconsiderate and rubs salt into people's wounds. Isn't it too bullying? Please The princess makes the decision for me!"
The old princess didn't want to get too entangled in this matter, so she also advised her, "Qingruo, you are upright and not afraid of the shadow. Just let her investigate. As long as she can't get any evidence, I will naturally punish her when the time comes."
Lan Qingruo wanted to say something else, but the old princess waved her hand impatiently and asked her servants to take Shen Xinyue down.
About the time it took for a stick of incense to be used, Shen Xinyue came back with a medicine bag in her hand.
"What are you holding in your hand?" Although Huo Weilou was speaking to Shen Xinyue, he could see the expressions of everyone around him from the corner of his eyes.
"This is the evidence that Lan Qingruo changed the marriage." Shen Xinyue threw the medicine bag on the ground, clapped her hands, as if she was afraid of being contaminated with something bad, and then said: "On the day of the wedding, I was I was stunned on the sedan chair, and I didn’t know how I ended up in the prince’s room. Lan Qingruo and Huo Ziyao rolled together in disheveled clothes that day because someone had administered aphrodisiac incense. And that day I was punished to kneel down. "The reason why I ran away from the ancestral hall was because I found that someone had spiked Ruanjin powder in the food given to me to harm me."
"In the past few days, I focused on the patent medicines, but I couldn't find any trace of them. Today I discovered that no one brought the patent medicines in, but a person who knew pharmacology was dispensing the medicines in the house. This person is none other than Lan Qingruo. These medicine residues are evidence that they prepared the medicine."
"I thought I discovered something. It turned out to be these medicinal dregs." When Lan Qingruo heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and his nervous expression disappeared. "Those medicinal dregs are what I prepared for the old princess today." It’s just leftovers.”
Shen Xinyue sneered, "Don't treat others as fools. These medicinal residues have been completely dried, and they are obviously not from today. Besides, I have already checked the ingredients in them. They are not medicinal at all, just aphrodisiacs." and Ruanjin Powder. Is it possible that the aphrodisiac and Ruanjin Powder you prepared for the old princess were not medicated meals?"
This last sentence really made me angry to death, laughing to death, and scared to death.
Lan Qingruo was a little confused for a moment, and began to stutter when speaking, "You, you are talking nonsense. I, I, I didn't -"
"Whether I'm talking nonsense or not, the people who went with me just now can testify. You can ask them if these medicine residues were found in your house? If you don't believe it, you can also call the doctor in your house. Check to see if the ingredients inside are medicinal or aphrodisiacs or other rotten things?"
"I really don't know, Weilou, you must believe me. I don't understand medical science, these things-" Lan Qingruo panicked for a moment, and suddenly thought of something while speaking, as if grasping a life-saving straw He said: "Today's medicinal meal was prepared by the wet nurse. Yes, it was made by the wet nurse."
The wet nurse was quite a person. When she saw Shen Xinyue coming in with the medicine bag, she already knew that the matter could not be hidden. She had done this for the sake of the whole family and Lan Qingruo, whom she had regarded as her biological daughter since she was a child. I made a plan and said, "Yes, I did all of this."
Unexpectedly, the incident happened in Lan Qingruo's yard. The old princess was beaten hard in the face. She angrily pointed at the wet nurse and cursed: "You slave, why did you do this?"
"Because I hate her." The wet nurse pointed at Lan Qingruo fiercely, with a complicated expression in her eyes, "She was the one who caused my little daughter to be hit and killed by a carriage in the street. Over the years, I have never been able to forget my daughter's tragic death that year. She has been living in pain. For this reason, I also wanted to make her suffer, so I took this opportunity to ruin her marriage and make her suffer for the rest of her life."
After the wet nurse finished speaking, before anyone could react, she rushed towards the rockery in the courtyard, hit the mountain and died. Her condition was horrific.
Seeing with her own eyes that the nanny who had brought him up since childhood died in such a tragic manner, Lan Qingruo was so shocked that she didn't know what to do. Her eyes widened with fear and she almost couldn't recover.
However, the maid next to her gently tugged on her sleeve and whispered in Lan Qingruo's ear: "Miss - Miss, it's okay, it's okay, the wet nurse recognizes it."
At this time, Lan Qingruo just came back to her senses and cried so hard that she said: "What a sin. I didn't know that an accident in childhood actually harmed the nanny's little daughter, and I didn't know that she never mentioned it but always I have a grudge in my heart and have such thoughts, which have disturbed the palace. I ask the old princess and the prince to forgive Qingruo for her unintentional mistake."
This marriage exchange was originally something that the old princess wanted. She had long wanted to avoid pursuing the whole story. Now that someone had come out and confessed, there was nothing more to say, so she asked someone to take care of the wet nurse. The body was dragged out and buried.
At this moment, the person who felt most sorry for Lan Qingruo was Huo Ziyao. He hurriedly stepped forward and held her in his arms, "Qingruo, you have been wronged. I didn't expect that this nanny would do such a thing behind her back. You were innocently implicated."
Aggrieved? Innocent?
Chapter completed!