"I know."

After a moment, Shen Ruyi raised her head and met his gaze, "But, did I do anything wrong?"

Shen Yu frowned, "To be fair, you didn't do anything wrong. Your mistake was that you shouldn't make family matters public. This will have an impact on the entire Prime Minister's Mansion and also ruin your second brother's career."

"In other words, you betrayed this family."

He looked so serious and fair that Shen Ruyi laughed.

"Since Big Brother thinks so, then it means I am the one who betrayed him."

There's nothing to defend.

It was her fault anyway, she was used to it. "So, what did my father and eldest brother want me to do today?"

The smile disappeared, and her cold eyes fell on Shen Yu's face.

Shen Yu looked a little unhappy, and said, "Save the situation."

"How to save it?" Shen Ruyi asked.

"Go to the palace to find the emperor and explain what happened in the Imperial Hospital today." Shen Yu stated his plan.

"Didn't I explain it clearly enough in the Imperial Hospital today?" Shen Ruyi pretended to be stupid, with a hint of sarcasm in her heart, "I think I have explained it clearly enough. Imperial Doctor Qi understood it, and the Ninth Prince also understood it."

As he said that, he looked at Shen Ci who was hiding behind Shen Yu and pretending to be stupid, "Didn't Second Brother understand?"

Shen Ci's face looked extremely ugly.

Shen Yu glanced at him and looked at Shen Ruyi, "What I mean is that you have to go to the palace and explain things to the emperor. Tell the emperor that it was you who lied to the Ninth Prince and that the Ninth Prince knows nothing."

"It was you who stole the old beggar's prescription and gave it to your second brother, asking him to take it to the Imperial Hospital. Your second brother didn't know anything either. He thought the prescription could be used, but he didn't expect you to dare to deceive the Ninth Prince and cause a scene in the Imperial Hospital!"

Shen Ruyi laughed when she heard this.

“Haha. Haha.”

She couldn't stop laughing and looked at Shen Yu with a sarcastic expression, "Brother, do you want to listen to what you are saying? You taught me since I was a child to be honest and to be true to my conscience."

"Now, honesty and conscience, do you have these two things?"

"You are still pretending to be fair here, don't you feel hypocritical?"

Shen Yu's face turned completely dark. "So, you're unwilling to explain it clearly?"

“Is that an explanation?”

Shen Ruyi's face turned cold. "Can you explain to me what these two words mean?"

"you--"

Shen Yu's eyes turned red with anger.

When Shen Ci came to him in a rage before, he thought Shen Ci was making a fuss out of nothing. A little girl could make him so angry. After all, he was a person with a short temper.

But he didn't expect that he would feel like vomiting blood because of her scolding.

"I what me?"

Shen Ruyi looked at them, "You are older than me. Over the years, you have relied on the fact that you have eaten a few more bowls of rice than me to boss me around. I believed it."

"But now, look at your own faces."

His eyes fell on Shen Cangyun's face, "Prime Minister, do you handle things in the court in the same way?"

Although there were no harsh words, the awkward phrase "Prime Minister" itself was an extreme insult to Shen Cangyun as a father. In addition, he knew that he was not fair and was biased, so he was hit in the sore spot and immediately shouted in anger!

"Evil creature! I think you won't cry until you see the coffin! In that case, I will lock you up in the cellar and let you reflect on yourself! Then you will know how to talk to your elders in the future!"

How could he raise such a rebellious daughter?

Shen Cangyun was so angry that a bloody taste filled his throat and he couldn't suppress it for a long time.

"Locked in the cellar? Reflect on your actions?"

Shen Ruyi sneered, watching the tears in his eyes, "It's the same way my wet nurse died, right?"

Her wet nurse was wrongly accused to death by Shen Jiaojiao.

Last winter, Shen Jiaojiao deliberately knocked over the teapot and said that the wet nurse had poured hot water on her. If she had not dodged quickly, she would have been disfigured.

After framing her, she pretended to plead for mercy, saying that she could understand why the wet nurse didn't like her. After all, her appearance threatened Shen Ruyi's interests.

After adding fuel to the fire, Shen Cangyun became furious and locked the wet nurse in the cellar to reflect on her actions.

Within three days, the wet nurse died in there.

When Shen Ruyi rescued the wet nurse from inside, she had already died and even her body was stiff.

Shen Cangyun shed two weasel tears and said that the wet nurse was sick and that was why she couldn't even make it through three days. He also said that he was sorry for his wife's last words and that he had failed to take good care of his daughter and the wet nurse and had failed to teach his daughter well.

But everyone in the mansion knew how Shen Ruyi's wet nurse died.

Shen Cangyun himself also knew the situation.

Hearing Shen Ruyi's words, Shen Cangyun was like a cat whose tail was stepped on, "Asshole! How dare you bring up the past! Someone, take her away!"

Shen Ruyi became even more certain that the wet nurse did not die because of her illness.

The real cause of her death was that Shen Cangyun hit her in the chest with a palm, injuring her internal organs, so she didn't survive when she was locked in the cellar.

Tears welled up in Shen Ruyi's eyes. "Mr. Prime Minister, you can lock me up, but if you do that, I'm afraid your precious daughter's stomach disease won't be cured."

She glanced at Shen Jiaojiao.

"You dare to threaten me?"

Shen Cangyun was so angry that his chest hurt.

Shen Ruyi didn't say anything, but just stood there stubbornly, with a coldness in her eyes that Shen Cangyun had never seen before.

"Dad, let's forget it."

Seeing this, Shen Jiaojiao carefully pulled Shen Cangyun down and said, "Sister went to the Imperial Hospital because she was just angry. The cellar is cold and there is miasma. I'm afraid something will happen to her if she goes down there."

"Her wet nurse passed away, and Jiaojiao felt really guilty. If she had known that her wet nurse was in poor health, Jiaojiao would have definitely asked her father to forgive her."

Then, she snorted, "Father, Jiaojiao has a stomachache."

Shen Cangyun felt so distressed when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Jiaojiao, go back to bed!"

As he said this, he carried her to the bed. When he saw Shen Jiaojiao's pale face and cold sweat, and then looked at Shen Ruyi, he felt that she was jealous and vicious. The last bit of Shen Cangyun's patience disappeared completely.

He said in a deep voice: "Either you hand over the prescription today, and then go to the emperor to clear your second brother's name. Or, you will be locked up in the cellar!"

Shen Cangyun prepared to force his way in.

Shen Ruyi is stubborn, but she is a delicate girl after all. The cellar is not like the woodshed. It is pitch black down there and you can't see anything. If she is locked up for two or three days, she won't be able to bear it.

It won’t be too late to coax her once the problem is solved.

He waved his hand, signaling Nanny Yang to drag Shen Ruyi out.

"Let's go, Miss!"

Nanny Yang, relying on the power of her master, sneered and reached out to grab Shen Ruyi's arm with extremely strong force.

The other two maids also rushed over and grabbed Shen Ruyi and threw her into the cellar without saying a word.

At this time, a man rushed in from outside the door, "Master, someone is coming from the Ninth Prince's Mansion! He asked to see the eldest lady!"