Isn't this a common practice in film and television dramas?

Commonly known as the "blame-shifting" method.

Qian Shengyan smiled, but deliberately feigned anger: "Who doesn't know that the Princess Consort is the kindest and most gentle person? When Consort Nian entered the manor, the Prince was not in the capital yet. It was the Princess Consort who arranged for carriages to travel thousands of miles to send Consort Nian to Rehe. This shows that the Princess Consort hopes that the Prince and Consort Nian will get along well. How could she possibly harm the Prince's child?!"

It is well-reasoned and convincing.

Yinzhen nodded, then looked at Qian Shengyan and asked, "Then why did Granny Wu do this?"

Qian Shengyan: ?

Shouldn't you be the ones investigating this? Why are you asking me?

I can only make up stories, I'm not a fortune teller!

Fortunately, Qian Shengyan didn't need to do any divination. Soon, a series of cries and shouts came from outside the door, accompanied by Li Shi's sharp curses. Qian Shengyan blinked and asked, "Isn't Your Highness going out to see what's going on?"

"Let's go together." Yinzhen smiled, took Qian Shengyan's arm, stood up, and dragged her towards the door.

Qian Shengyan: ...

She's not curious at all and doesn't want to go at all!

But Yinzhen held on tightly, clearly not willing to let her have any peace. Qian Shengyan had no choice but to follow him, walking out while looking back every few steps. She stopped the moment Yinzhen let go of her, determined to stay far away from this group of people.

As expected, it was Granny Wu who arrived. She had somehow gotten the news and was probably completely desperate. As soon as she arrived, she started fighting with Madam Li, shouting "I'm innocent!" while having a great time fighting with Madam Li.

Li is the one who was truly wronged!

What does this whole thing have to do with her?

She was nearly forty years old, and her only son was the eldest son of the Prince's mansion. No matter how many children she had after that, it was none of her business. Moreover, she already held the title of Consort, and apart from arguing with the Prince's wife when she had nothing to do, she couldn't do anything else!

The prince then entrusted her with investigating the matter of Lady Nian losing her child. After investigating for a while, she ended up investigating the matter of the Fujin (the princess's wife), and now the Fujin's people are coming to beat her up!

Who did she offend? It wasn't her idea to investigate, nor did she find out about it!

Li was on the verge of tears, but that old nanny Wu was incredibly fierce. She grabbed her hair bun, and all she could do was scream in pain…

"Enough! What kind of behavior is this!" Yinzhen shouted angrily from the steps, and immediately some nannies came over to separate the group of people who were fighting.

Qian Shengyan stood at the door and secretly glanced at Li Shi—oh dear, she looked terrible. Her hair was disheveled, her clothes were wrinkled, and her face was scratched by long fingernails. She was trembling as she stood there, clearly very angry.

Yinzhen glanced at her and frowned. After considering for a moment, he let her go back to rest first. Then he called Su Peisheng over and made Wu Mama kneel to the side to question her on the spot.

It turned out that the potent aphrodisiac was put into Madam Nian's pregnancy-preserving medicine. Because the pregnancy-preserving medicine had an extremely strong and bitter taste, Madam Nian never tasted it carefully and just drank it all in one gulp. Someone noticed this and put the medicine that Granny Wu sent into the pregnancy-preserving medicine.

The person who administered the drug was none other than the unsophisticated old woman from the small kitchen who had been caught that day. Her husband worked for Wu Mama's cousin, and Wu Mama had found her through a roundabout way, promising her countless benefits and even offering to transfer her to the Fujin Courtyard after the matter was settled. She also promised that if she couldn't get away with it peacefully, her husband and son would be taken good care of.

So when the old woman saw that things had fallen apart that day, she simply and decisively smashed her head against a wall and died.

When explaining these things, Granny Wu was quite straightforward and spoke without hesitation. However, when asked why she did this, Granny Wu remained silent for a moment.

Qian Shengyan was a little worried that if she mentioned the Fujin (the wife of the deceased), things would get complicated. But Wu Mama, being a loyal servant, insisted that the matter had nothing to do with the Fujin. She said that as the Fujin's wet nurse, she simply couldn't stand Nian Shi's arrogance.

"She has the Nian family backing her up, but doesn't the Fujin (Prince Consort) have the Ulanara family backing her up too?! Yet she dares to be so arrogant, even saying things like 'No matter how bad the Fujin is, she's still the Fujin' in front of the Prince. How can a mere concubine like her comment on whether the Fujin is good or bad? Relying on the two ounces of flesh in her belly, she doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth. This old servant will definitely teach her a lesson!"

Granny Wu gritted her teeth and said, then looked up at Yinzhen with tears in her eyes, "This old servant came here today not hoping to go back alive, but Your Highness, the Fujin really knows nothing about this! This old servant has medicine, but the Fujin is completely unaware. Last time, it was also this old servant who acted on her own. Your Highness, you should trust the Fujin more!"

She cried out hoarsely, "Your Highness, the Princess Consort has been your husband for twenty years. Doesn't Your Highness know what kind of person she is? Even though she has been heartbroken every night because of the passing of the First Prince, she has always served Your Highness diligently. Your Highness! You should know the heart of the Princess Consort towards you!"

"Insolence!" Yinzhen roared. He didn't need an old hag to expose how his wife treated him in front of so many people. He just felt extremely ashamed!

"Your Highness, Your Highness! Please forgive Granny Wu! Please forgive Granny Wu for all the years she has served me!"

Ulanara stumbled in, tears streaming down her face, and embraced the kneeling Wu Mama. She looked at Yinzhen pleadingly, "Wu Mama was just temporarily bewitched. She...she didn't know that the medicine would harm Consort Nian so much!"

"You're too late. This old codger has already confessed everything," Yinzhen said in a deep voice.

"Your Highness!" Ulanara cried out, slowly kneeling down and kowtowing, sobbing uncontrollably, "Your Highness, please... forgive Granny Wu..."

Ulanara didn't want to look too bad, but to save her wet nurse, she couldn't care less about anything else. She kowtowed twice more and cried, "Since Honghui passed away, I've been awakened every night, and it's always Wu-nanny who takes such good care of me..."

"Enough!" Yinzhen didn't want to hear her finish. He smashed the teacup on the ground, stood up abruptly, and glared at Ulanara. "Fine, fine, today you all come to mention Honghui to me. Fine, fine, then I'll discuss with you how Honghui died!"

"Your Highness!" Ulanara's eyes widened in horror. She instinctively knew that what was about to be said was not what she wanted to hear, but she could no longer stop the furious Yinzhen.

Yinzhen strode over, kicked over the kneeling Wu Mama, and pointed at her, saying, "It was this old hag who, when Honghui was seriously ill, threw away all the medicine prepared by the imperial physician and replaced it with medicine sent by your Ulanara family! My eldest son originally only had a cold and high fever, but because the wrong medicine was given, his condition was delayed, and in the end, even the imperial physician was helpless! It was because I was kind and pitied your pain of losing your son that I did not hold it against you. Did you really think I was blind and deaf?"

"If the Ulanara family is so good, then go back to your Ulanara family. My Prince Yong's mansion cannot accommodate the two of you!"