In this life, let him taste the methods of the Lady of the Marquis. Let the dogs fight each other.

On the other side, after hearing Wanxing's plea and seeing the county magistrate accompanying her, Madam Wang was unwilling to be branded as someone who would stand by and watch someone die.

They didn't make things difficult for me.

Wanxing gratefully kowtowed three times outside the door.

The maidservant beside Madam Wang said, "Since I am so polite, I suppose my mistress is no less so."

Often, servants simply follow their masters' lead.

Madam Wang sighed, "With hundreds of servants in the Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion, if they really needed to collect dew at night, why would the dignified young mistress need to come and gather it herself?"

That woman surnamed Liu is a real pain in the neck. Now that her son is gone, she'll probably take her anger out on her daughter-in-law even more.

"You should go and see for yourself, lest that Lady Liu do something foolish and implicate the Marquis and Ting-ge'er."

The old nanny must be right.

However, she felt that since Lady Hou was experiencing the pain of losing her son, she would not have the time to make things difficult for her daughter-in-law.

Unexpectedly, just as the female physician finished treating Ye Zhen, Madam Hou rushed in.

She didn't take Ye Zhen to the doctor, nor did she look at her son's body. Instead, she raised her hand and slapped Ye Zhen across the face.

They hit Ye Zhen on the side of his face where he was injured.

Ye Zhen avoided it.

She used to endure it all for the sake of the Ye family, for that rare but longed-for family affection; now…

She chuckled inwardly, but her face showed a wronged expression. "What did I do wrong that makes you want to hit me, Mother?"

In the past, although Lady Hou had some tempering towards Ye Zhen, it was all done in secret.

This was the first time she had laid a hand on Ye Zhen.

According to her plan, Ye Zhen should have been the one scorned by the world, but instead, it was her Yun Zhou who lost his life.

Granny Feng, one of his right-hand women, has also been injured.

Ye Zhen, however, was sitting there perfectly fine.

She was filled with hatred and could no longer pretend.

What angered her even more was that Ye Zhen dared to avoid her.

Lady Hou's eyes flashed with venom, and she uttered slanderous words without hesitation.

“You’re always restless at home, and now you dare to collude with outsiders to murder my son at the estate.”

Today, I'm going to show everyone just what kind of despicable person you really are.

Her son must not bear the infamy.

Then let Ye Zhen bear all of this.

She shouted sharply towards the door, "Someone, pull down her pants and examine her."