Suwen only knew that there was a ten-tael silver ingot in her room, which was given to her by Princess Fucha.

Li Yu led his men to search her room, and sure enough, they found some copper coins and ten taels of silver in a small drawer.

Glancing at the silver, Princess Fucha felt it was absurd and pouted aggrievedly, "Fourth Master, everyone has silver. It's a bit too arbitrary to frame me based on just ten taels of silver."

"I won't frame you for no reason. If you want evidence, I have plenty!"

After the imperial physicians discovered that it was a pill for changing one's gender, Hongli ordered people to investigate its source. They learned that the formula for this medicine was a secret and it was not sold in ordinary clinics. There were only two places in the capital that sold the pill: one was a Taoist nun, and the other was a woman who knew medicine.

Hongli ordered Li Yu to bring both of them over and identify the servants in Fucha's courtyard.

The woman, Luo, examined them closely and said she had never seen these people before. After observing them, the Daoist nun pointed to one of the maids and said that she had come to buy a pill for changing the fetus.

The maid was Xia'er, the personal maid that Lady Fucha had brought from her maiden home.

From the moment the Taoist nun entered, Xia'er began to tremble uncontrollably. When she was identified, she broke out in a cold sweat, unable to deny it, and knelt down with a thud.

"Fourth Master, please forgive me. This servant did indeed buy the Reversal Pill, but this servant never gave the Reversal Pill to Suwen!"

At this point, the answer couldn't be clearer: "Your maid went to buy the pregnancy-changing pills, and Yu Shan's pregnancy-preserving medicine was switched. Now the evidence is conclusive, Lady Fucha, do you still dare to deny it?"

Emperor Hongli flew into a rage, and Lady Fucha, terrified, hastily knelt down, lifting her skirts. Now that things had come to this, she dared not lie any longer and could only tell the truth.

"I did send Xia'er to buy the Rebirth Pill, but the Huatang Pavilion is heavily guarded. After it was brought back, I had no chance to put the pill inside."

Although I had this intention, I was ultimately too timid, fearing severe punishment if I were exposed, and in the end, I didn't dare to risk putting it into practice. Fourth Master, Consort Su, I was merely confused for a moment; I had the will but not the courage!

Such an excuse was utterly ridiculous. Suppressing her anger, Su Yushan retorted, "You bought the medicine, but you say you didn't add it? Did the medicine in my bottle just appear out of thin air?"

Princess Fucha insisted that she had not drugged the girl, and said that the bottle of medicine that Xia'er bought was in her trunk, and that it would be easy to find out if she checked.

Su Yushan questioned the nun about how much medicine she had been given.

The nun dared not conceal the truth and answered truthfully, "That maid bought sixty pills, which cost a total of five taels of silver."

Hongli then ordered people to search for the medicine bottle in Fucha's room. They searched the places she had indicated, turning over every box, but they couldn't find the medicine bottle at all!

Lady Fucha panicked and questioned Xia'er about the whereabouts of the medicine. Xia'er insisted that the medicine was placed at the bottom right of the rosewood box, wrapped in red silk.

After a quarter of an hour of fussing, the medicine bottle in Fucha's mouth had vanished without a trace. She could not prove her innocence. Hongli raised an eyebrow impatiently, "Is the show over?"

"I wasn't acting; everything I said is true!" Empress Fucha wanted to explain further, but Hongli's patience had run out, and he gave the order directly.

"The maid, Lady Fucha, plotted to harm the concubine and the imperial heir; her intentions are despicable, and she deserves death!"

A capital offense? Hongli actually wanted her dead? The taut strings of Fucha's heart snapped instantly. She knelt and wept, moving towards Hongli, clutching his robes and confessing:

"Fourth Master, I shouldn't have harbored such malicious intentions. I am indeed guilty, but my crime doesn't warrant death! I really didn't put the pill there. Please, Fourth Master, investigate thoroughly!"

When Jin Minjing plotted to harm Yushan, Consort Xi intervened repeatedly, forcing Hongli to spare Jin Minjing's life by expelling her from the mansion. Now that Consort Fucha has resorted to trickery again, Hongli will not let her off easily and is unwilling to talk to her anymore, so he waved his hand impatiently.

Li Yu understood and summoned the guards to take Princess Fucha and her servant away to await their fate.

Su Yushan's biggest worry was her child. She questioned the Taoist nun about how the "reincarnation pill" was made and what kind of medicine it contained.

With the prince present, the Daoist nun dared not conceal anything and truthfully explained, "The so-called rebirth change is just a pretense. This medicine is actually equivalent to a pregnancy-stabilizing medicine. It's just that the medicine for changing a male fetus tastes more sour, while the pill for changing a female fetus tastes sweeter. It's fine to take it and won't harm the child. Princess, please don't worry."

Su Yushan dared not fully believe the Taoist nun's words, because Physician He had said that some people who took the potion to change their sex gave birth to children who were neither male nor female. The Taoist nun was probably afraid of taking responsibility, so she did not dare to tell the truth.

What's even more frightening is that she had heard about the scam of gender reassignment drugs in her modern life. They are actually drugs mixed with male and female hormones, and pregnant women taking too much of them can indeed affect the baby.

She ordered her men to crush the pills one by one and found that there were still forty rebirth pills in the bottle. Excluding the ones she crushed herself, that means she had already taken at least a dozen rebirth pills!

Whether these dozen or so pills will harm the child is unknown. Even the imperial physicians dare not make a judgment and can only wait until the child is born to determine the outcome.

Hongli cherished the child Yu Shan was carrying, but now it had been betrayed by someone, causing Yu Shan great anxiety. Hongli hated the culprit and gently comforted Su Yu Shan.

"Rest assured, I will severely punish the Fucha clan and will not let you suffer in vain!"

If the other party had only hurt her, it would have been fine; she could bear the injury herself. But now it was her child who was suffering. Su Yushan was terrified that the fetus in her womb would suffer irreversible damage. She was heartbroken and extremely depressed. She no longer cared whether Fucha was alive or dead and left everything to Hongli to handle.

Although it was a family matter, Lady Fucha was, after all, a maidservant bestowed upon Hongli by the emperor. According to the rules, Hongli had to report the whole story to the emperor and request that Lady Fucha be executed.

Now that the evidence is conclusive, and that Princess Fucha's clan is not the same as the Fujin's family, and that her maternal family was of the Plain Yellow Banner bondservants, not a noble family, Yongzheng will not care about anything and will let Hongli handle it without interfering.

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