The head nanny took the note, glanced at it, and her expression immediately changed. Xiangqiao had been about to send two maids to collect the things that had been rummaged through, but seeing the head nanny's smug look, she left the two maids behind, walked over to the head nanny, and asked, "Nanny, what is this?"

Xiangqiao stared at the note in her hand, wanting to see what it was, but the head nanny seemed to have anticipated her desire to see it and had already slipped the note into her own hand.

"No need to look anymore. We didn't find the safflower, but we unexpectedly found this." The head nanny gave Xiangqiao and Wangshi a meaningful look, then waved to the two of them, indicating that they didn't need to look anymore.

Once the head maid came outside, she made them stop again, said "We've found it," and then quickly left with a few people.

"Princess Wang, what exactly did the head nanny find?" Xiangqiao asked.

"You'll find out when your master returns. I'm leaving now." Madam Wang strode out of the room, called out to Hongying, and left immediately.

Xiangqiao stared at Wang's back and felt that it was different from the usual one. Moreover, her last sentence sounded strange. In any case, it was different from the Wang Gege of the day.

The head maid rushed to the main courtyard like a whirlwind. When she handed the paper to Su Peisheng, who was waiting outside, the latter was visibly surprised. He put the paper in his pocket and went inside with a heavy heart.

When Li saw Su Peisheng suddenly enter, she walked up to Fourth Master, whispered something to him, handed him a piece of paper, and then bowed and left.

The princess glanced at the paper, and a glimmer of starlight flashed in her eyes, which were as still as a deep pool.

Li stared at the note in Fourth Master's hand, feeling inexplicably panicked. She thought to herself: There's no way they could find anything in Mingyan and Que'er's rooms, and she didn't plant the red flower. What could they possibly find?

The Fourth Master slowly unfolded the paper, his eyes following the order of the words, his expression growing increasingly solemn.

After reading the paper, Fourth Master suddenly threw it onto the small hill on the main bed.

"Li Canlian, have I treated you badly?" Fourth Master stared coldly at Li, the light in his eyes as cold as the sky outside, capable of freezing all living things.

Li felt a tightness in her chest and immediately said in a trembling voice, "Your Highness has always been kind to me, and I have never forgotten it for a single day. But why did Your Highness suddenly ask me this question?" After saying this, Li stood up, walked to the Fourth Prince, and knelt down abruptly.

The Fujin glanced at Li Shi, knowing that this woman was always good at acting, even willing to abandon all dignity, which was one of the reasons why she was not as favored by the Fourth Prince as Li Shi.

"Look for yourself?" Fourth Master coldly stared at Li Shi at his feet. Her face was still that incomparably charming, even now streaked with tears. He had once admired this woman's radiance and fiery spirit. But when did the once beautiful, innocent, and straightforward Li Canlian change? She became cunning, ruthless, and ambitious…

Li was convinced that the words on that piece of paper must be detrimental to her, otherwise the Fourth Master would not have said such a thing. But she had done things that left no trace, so how could this piece of paper appear out of thin air?

With these questions in mind, Li Shi took the paper from Fourth Master's hand with trembling hands. When she opened it, she felt her vision go black and her whole body almost collapsed.

The paper contains a very vicious curse spell. This spell involves writing a living person's birth date and time on the paper and using various secret words to curse them. Within half a year, the cursed person will suddenly fall ill and die a violent death.

The person cursed on this piece of paper was none other than Yan Yu, who was almost four months pregnant, according to her birth date and time.

In other words, this cursed sorcery is meant to kill both Yan Yu and her unborn child.

"No, no. Master, I have never seen this curse spell before. Someone must have deliberately placed it with me." Li Shi said, trembling. She never expected that the head nanny would find this thing in her courtyard.

"Who can put this in your place?" The Fujin had already picked up the paper that Li had thrown on the ground earlier, looked at it, and then frowned as she spoke.

“Your Highness is mistaken,” Li said anxiously. “Mingyan and Que’er’s rooms are servants’ rooms. They are on duty, so it’s not impossible for someone to go in and leave one of these.”

"Your Majesty, this servant would never dare to curse Princess Yan Yu, there's no way that could happen!!" Mingyan was nearby, and when Madam Li looked at that piece of paper, she also glanced at it casually.

"Neither have I ever seen it!" Although Que'er couldn't see what was written on the paper, she could tell from Li's expression and the way the Fourth Prince and his wife looked that it was something that could hold Li's life in its hands.

"Fourth Master, I have been serving you since the time of the Fourth Prince's birth, and it has been ten years since I came to this mansion. I have been favored by you and have given birth to four children. It is a pity that the Second Prince was not blessed and died young. Otherwise, he would be seven years old this year." After saying this, Li Shi began to sob. At this moment, her eyes were already slightly red, perhaps because she had cried too much.

"This paper wasn't found in their room, but under your bed!" Looking at that pitiful face, Fourth Master felt a pang of sadness. He recalled the early days he spent with Li Shi, days that had been filled with happiness and innocence…

Li stared wide-eyed at the Fourth Prince with disbelief, then immediately glanced at the Princess Consort, and sure enough, saw a hint of smugness and hatred in her eyes.

I understand now, it was her!! She was the one who put that thing in her room.

Li's gaze suddenly turned fierce as she stared at the Fujin's face, never before feeling such disgust for that face.

They thought they had others in their grasp, but now they found themselves at the mercy of others!

"My lord, I have never seen this thing before. Someone deliberately placed it in my room. She wants to kill me. Please, my lord, do me justice!" Li Shi ignored the Fujin and kowtowed to the Fourth Prince.

Alas, those who harm others ultimately harm themselves. I wonder if Li ever considered that she herself was once a perpetrator.

"The items were found in your room, and Yan Yu almost miscarried in your yard. Is this all someone else's doing? If you say someone else harmed you, then produce evidence of that harm. Otherwise, all the signs point to you." Although Fourth Master was still reluctant to admit that the woman kneeling before him was no longer the Li Canlian of yesteryear, she had still raised three children for him.