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    Shen Jie carried her to Mrs. Jiang’s yard and walked to the door. She patted him and said, “Put me down quickly. My aunt will see it later.”

    On Prime Minister Lin’s birthday, a banquet was held in the front hall, and Mrs. Jiang handled the matter of Lin Shuwan falling into the water in the backyard.

    Shen Jie helped Du Yaoyao enter the door.

    Sitting in the hall was a woman with gentle features. Du Yaoyao guessed that this was Mrs. Jiang.

    After seeing the ceremony, Mrs. Jiang waved her sleeves and said, “Ajie, you’re here, sit down.”

    It was as if Du Yaoyao was nothing.

    Du Yaoyao was mentally prepared that Mrs. Jiang would not like her, so she followed Shen Jie and sat down on the sandalwood chair beside her.

    “Bring Qiuyue and the servants here.” Mrs. Jiang ordered.

    Later, two guards dragged several tightly tied women over.

    Qiu Yue’s clothes were disheveled and her mouth was stuffed with white cloth. She saw Du Yaoyao sitting in the hall, making strange screams from her throat and making a frightened expression.

    Mrs. Jiang was suspicious and instructed: “Take the cloth away and let her talk.”

    As soon as Qiuyue gasped for air, she crawled and hid next to Mrs. Jiang, “Madam, Madam, it was Madam Shen who pushed our young lady into the lake. This slave is definitely not wrong!”

    Mrs. Jiang was not surprised and asked, “According to what you said, why did Mrs. Shen jump into the lake to rescue Shuwan again?”

    Qiuyue lowered her head to think, and shouted: “She has done something wrong. She is afraid that the Lin family will cause trouble for her!”

    She glanced at one of the three maids, crying and shouting, “Zhang Lao went to save the young lady, but Mrs. Shen refused to let her go, and forcefully took the credit for saving the young lady on herself, in order to clear away the suspicion. Madam, please don’t be deceived by her!”

    “Noisy!” Shen Jie frowned and ordered the guards, “plug her mouth.”

    The guard looked at Madam Jiang hesitantly, and Madam Jiang agreed, dragging Qiuyue to stuff the white cloth again.

    “Ah Jie, what do you think?” Mrs. Jiang ignored Du Yaoyao.

    “Yao Yao just explained the whole story to me clearly.” Shen Jie said.

    “This maid first took the dragon and phoenix jade pendants that Shuwan and I had, and misled Yao Yao that they were tokens of love. My jade pendant was given to Yao Yao a few days ago, and Yao Yao would never believe her nonsense.”

    “She also pushed Yao Yao on the boat, causing Yao Yao to knock Shu Wan into the lake.”

    Mrs. Jiang tapped the tea lid lightly with her slender fingertips, her attitude noncommittal.

    Shen Jie smiled calmly, “Yao Yao has a sprained lower back. You can check it out for yourself.”

    How could Mrs. Jiang deign to condescend to check Du Yaoyao’s injuries? She ordered the mother-in-law beside her to take people to the side room to have a look.

    The mother-in-law came back and reported: “Madam, Mrs. Shen’s waist is red and swollen. It seems to have been there for a while. She must have been injured on the boat.”

    Mrs. Jiang stared coldly at the audience, “Qiuyue, what else do you have to say?”

    The guard pulled out the cloth from Qiu Yue’s mouth. Qiu Yue insisted that Du Yaoyao was dead and refused, “Madam, this slave is unjust. Madam can’t help her, but she doesn’t help. Madam Shen has murdered the young lady, and I am willing to die to show my determination!”

    After saying that, she bit her teeth, blood splattered in her mouth, her face was ferocious, and she fell to the ground with a sorrowful cry.

    The guard checked Qiuyue’s mouth and tongue, then checked her breathing, and informed Mrs. Jiang, “This maid is dead.”

    “Qiu Yue commits suicide out of fear of crime, so let’s hold off.” Mrs. Jiang waved her hand and determined Qiu Yue’s crime in one sentence.

    She turned to the three servants and asked Shen Jie, “Ah Jie, your wife doesn’t allow anyone to save Shuwan. What’s going on?”

    Shen Jie smiled and said, “I also want to ask, what is the relationship between these three women and Qiu Yue, or in other words, what is their relationship with the person behind Qiu Yue?”

    Two servant women shook their heads desperately and were so frightened that they burst into tears. Only a long-faced woman looked at the pool of blood left by Qiu Yue on the ground and could not suppress her grief.

    Mrs. Jiang winked, and the guard pulled out the gags from the three of them. The two women cried loudly, shrank away from the long-faced woman, and shouted: “Madam, Madam Zhang, Madam Zhang is Qiuyue’s godmother!”

    Du Yaoyao looked over and saw that Zhang Nui was the servant who was holding the boat for them. She pretended to save Lin Shuwan, but in fact she wanted to push Lin Shuwan under the water and drown her.

    At this moment, the woman’s face was ashen, her face was covered with tears, and she had no trace of the fierceness of splashing in the water.

    The relationship between Zhang Nu and Qiu Yue was already clear, so Mrs. Jiang did not need to interrogate her further. She asked, “Who instigated you to harm the young lady?”

    Zhang Nu shed tears silently and cried: “The old woman and my daughter were forced by others. I am ashamed of my lady. I am willing to die to apologize!” As she spoke, she knocked her head on the corner of the case.

    The two guards held Zhang Nu down, and Mrs. Jiang asked: “Who forced you?”

    Zhang Nu bit her lip and didn’t answer.

    Shen Jie interrupted, “Auntie can send someone to their residence to look for any clues.”

    Zhang Nu panicked when she heard this, and Mrs. Jiang ordered someone to go find her immediately.

    After a while, the guard brought a pickle jar and placed it in the middle.

    “What is this?” Mrs. Jiang was curious.

    The guard opened the lid of the altar, revealing a putrid smell that was nauseating.Mrs. Jiang approached and Du Yaoyao stretched her head to look around.

    Inside Wu Chen’s jar, there was a bone-white human hand!

    The guard replied: “This was found under this woman’s bed.”

    Mrs. Jiang examined Zhang Nuo, who covered her face and cried bitterly.

    Ignoring the stench, Shen Jie looked at it closely for a while and speculated: “It looks like a man’s hand, a young man.”

    He looked at Zhang Nu, “Is it your son’s hand? The person behind the scenes gave it to you?”

    Zhang Nu nodded slightly.

    “Maybe someone caught me for something and I had to do something.” Shen Jie said to Mrs. Jiang.

    He asked Mrs. Jiang to withdraw the servants and interrogate, “Is this King Chen?”

    Zhang Nu held her head and trembled, begging tremblingly, “I didn’t say anything… I didn’t say anything…”

    Shen Jie sat down, took a sip of tea, and reminded: “King Chen has always been secretive. Last time he kidnapped Yaoyao, this time he targeted his cousin. Auntie needs to take more precautions in the house.”

    In the battle for the throne, both sides overturned the nest without leaving any eggs.Mrs. Jiang lowered her head and ordered people to drag Concubine Zhang down and beat her to death with sticks.

    Du Yaoyao just saw Qiu Yue committing suicide in front of the hall, and then Zhang Nu was about to be beaten to death.Although she knew that she deserved her punishment, she couldn’t help but feel frightened by the fact that human life was so devalued.

    “Husband, my cousin and I are in danger, can you let her go?” Du Yaoyao took Shen Jie’s hand and asked in a low voice.

    “The state has national laws, families have family rules, and those who betray the Lord…”

    Before Shen Jie finished speaking, Du Yaoyao understood that class interests in ancient times were inviolable, otherwise he would be dead.

    People are divided into three, six or nine levels, high and low, and many people without power will become victims of the struggle between the royal families.

    It is written in the history books: One general achieves great success but ten thousand bones wither.

    Du Yaoyao suddenly hoped that the capital would become faster that day, with less blood loss to innocent people at the bottom.

    Shen Jie asked Mrs. Jiang to resign, and Mrs. Jiang spoke out to keep Du Yaoyao.

    “She looks much better than before.” Mrs. Jiang looked at her. She was as delicate and beautiful as a lotus.

    “Thank you for saving Shuwan today. I am a daughter like Shuwan. If she is in trouble, at worst I will ask that person to pay for his life, at worst I will retaliate. I hope that you two cousins-in-law can live in harmony without any barriers.”

    The original owner had a lot of trouble with Lin Shuwan in the past because of Shen Jie.Mrs. Jiang was a warning after becoming suspicious.

    Du Yaoyao bowed and said, “Yaoyao understands.”

    After stepping out of the threshold, her inner clothes were soaked.

    Du Yaoyao suddenly had an epiphany: She seemed to know who was the person who attacked the original owner in the book!

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