Lu Yan just looked at the bowl of water at this moment and asked in surprise: "How could this happen? Wan Yi, how could this happen? Tell me!"
Bai Wanyi blinked, tears streaming down her face. "You don't believe me! You don't believe me! We didn't even notice the bowl of water. The Crown Princess must have done something!"
Shen Suxin looked at the two bowls of water and laughed: "Whether there is any manipulation or not, it will be clear after another bowl of water. Of course, lest you continue to make excuses, there is a well in this yard, who will go to fetch a bucket of water? People from the Fourth Prince's Mansion should not get involved, lest people say that I sent people to do it."
Eunuch Zhang immediately said, "I'll fetch some water."
Eunuch Zhang quickly fetched a bucket of water and asked someone to get a bowl. He even washed the bowl twice with water before putting it on the ground.
Qin Wan looked at the Dean again: "Isn't the Dean curious about why the blood doesn't mix?"
"right."
The dean nodded.
Qin Wan asked again, "Does the Dean have any alum?"
The emperor was ill, so the director naturally carried medicine with him. Alum was the most common medicine and didn't take up much space, so he naturally brought a small piece. "Yes."
As Yuan Zheng said this, he took out a piece of money from his pocket.
Qin Wan gestured for him to put the alum into the water: "Scrape some powder in."
The director did as he was told. This time, Qin Wan didn't need to tell him anything. After scraping the alum in, he cut his finger and searched the crowd again.
Xiao Luzi stepped forward and dripped his own blood: "I'll be there, this wound hasn't healed yet, don't waste it."
The two drops of blood quickly merged into one.
Qin Wan glanced at Bai Wanyi and said, "Madam Pingyang, if you add alum, it will naturally make the blood of two unrelated people mix."
Bai Wanyi's face turned pale. She gritted her teeth and said, "I didn't do anything! The child is Brother Yan's!"
Qin Wan grabbed her hand and showed the emperor her bright red nails. "Father, the Marquis of Pingyang's wife has beautifully dyed her nails. To achieve such a vibrant and beautiful color, a large amount of alum must be used. When she was carrying water just now, she dipped her nails in the water. The alum dissolved in the water, and the blood naturally dissolved with it."
Bai Wanyi tried to pull her hand back, but it wouldn't come back. She was at a loss for words and could only keep saying, "You're lying! I didn't do that! I didn't do that!"
Chen Suxin pointed at Bai Wanyi and laughed: "Bai, you never thought, did you? Your tricks have been exposed! You don't admit it? It doesn't matter, I really have witnesses, and there are more than one. I also caught the killer you sent."
After Shen Suxin finished speaking, she shouted, “Bring the people up!”
The newly graduated scholars standing at the back heard the sound and quickly made way.
Two men and two women were brought into the room.
Seeing the scene before them, they were also stunned.
Shen Suxin didn't introduce the emperor to them, but just pointed at Bai Wanyi and asked, "Do you remember her?"
Bai Wanyi panicked when she saw these people. She forced herself to remain calm and walked over to Lu Yan, hiding behind him. "Brother Yan, I'm scared."
Lu Yan looked at her coldly and took a step to the side, completely exposing her figure to the four people.
The four of them saw Bai Wanyi clearly and nodded immediately.
The oldest woman said, "I know her! The girl from the Bai family. More than ten years ago, the Northern Di invaded and most of the people in that village were killed or injured. The girl was lucky enough to survive. Later, she gave birth to our child..."
Shen Suxin interrupted her and asked, "You are the midwife, tell me, was her child born full-term or delayed for half a month?"
"Although a pregnancy lasts ten months, a woman can give birth after nine months, and that can be considered full term," the midwife explained. "Some give birth after more than nine months, while others don't until ten to ten and a half months. Mrs. Bai's was considered normal, being delayed by half a month. The doctor didn't even need to tell us. We've delivered at least eight or nine hundred babies, if not a thousand. We can tell if this baby is full term just by feeling it in the belly."
Another midwife nodded: "Yes, we know it very well!"
Shen Suxin asked the other two, "Where's the doctor? It was you who diagnosed Bai's pregnancy, right?"
The doctor nodded: "Yes. Bai didn't give birth when she was full-term pregnant. She gave birth half a month late. She was probably pregnant..."
Bai Wanyi's face paled after hearing the doctor's words. When she was with the Fourth Prince and Lu Yan, there was only a half-month gap between them. She didn't even know she was pregnant. She only remembered that she met Lu Yan a few days after her period was delayed...
The doctor deduced that...
Her face was stern. "It's normal for women to have delayed childbirth! I gave birth to my son at full term, and my body was pure and innocent when I was with Brother Yan! I won't tolerate you making up stories here!"
Lu Yan recognized the two midwives and the doctor. Bai Wanyi's pregnancy was saved by the doctor. After taking her pulse, he glared at the doctor and said, "Why didn't you tell me that back then? Why are you saying this now?"
The doctor spread his hands and said, "I don't know when you were with Bai, so it's not convenient to talk about your pregnancy. What's more, a woman's pregnancy is calculated according to the menstrual period..."
The doctor talked a lot, the gist of which was that since you're pregnant during the same month, there's a time difference between having sex after your period ends and when your period is about to start, so it's normal to have sex half a month earlier or half a month later.
Lu Yan's expression grew increasingly ugly, and he turned around to glare at Bai Wanyi.
Bai Wanyi shook his head repeatedly: "I didn't! You are talking nonsense! Brother Yan, I was innocent at that time! Ping'er was born full-term, not half a month late!"
Lu Yan looked at Bai Wanyi, who was crying like a tearful person, and recalled the first time they met. He was ambushed and fled to her courtyard injured. When he woke up again, the bed was messy and bloody, and Bai Wanyi was lying next to him.
He's not some clueless kid; he knows what's going on just by looking at the bed...
Seeing Lu Yan wavering, Shen Suxin looked at the last man and said with a smile, "Aren't you going to speak yet?"
The man just spoke, "It was the Bai family. They gave me a hundred taels of silver and told me to go to Fengyang and kill these three people. When I went there, they had already been rescued by the Fourth Prince's wife. I thought the Fourth Prince's wife wouldn't know if I had killed them or not, so I set fire to their house as a way of getting away with it."
"But when I went back, I was chased by someone!" The man looked at Shen Suxin and said, "It was the Fourth Prince's wife who sent someone to rescue me. Those who came to assassinate me said that it was the Bai family who sent people to kill me! They asked me to kill to silence the witnesses, and they also wanted to kill me to silence them!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Bai Wan was so angry that she jumped up and down. She glared at Shen Suxin: "Shen Suxin! You're thinking about overthrowing the Fourth Prince today. Why are you holding on to me?"
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