Nanxing said: "She knew that no matter what the gesture was, Wu would only state what she wanted to state, so what she said just now should be the truth."

"Tell me about it." Liang Qingchen said.

"She didn't add the bamboo shoot juice. Yesterday, after she gave the madam cake to eat, Wu asked her about it and she told her that bamboo shoot juice was added. She knew that it was poisonous and wanted to tell the madam, but the madam was not at home at that time. She waited until dark but didn't see you come back. She was so anxious that she didn't sleep all night, so she came early to check on the situation."

Jiang Muyu nodded in understanding, looked at Wu, and asked seriously: "Wu, were you the one who poisoned the cakes?"

Wu was obviously stunned when she heard Nanxing's statement. She came back to her senses when Jiang Muyu asked her a question. She shook her head and said, "No, no, that was not my fault."

The fire-making girl hurriedly gestured again.

Nan Xing said: "It wasn't her mother who did it, it was someone else."

Jiang Muyu looked at the little girl and said, "You know who poisoned you. Tell me the truth and I will not wrongly accuse you and your daughter."

Huanhuan shook her head, and tears as big as beans fell down.

Liang Qingchen said coldly: "Don't think that you are so great just because you took the blame for others. Others will not be grateful to you for this. You are just being moved. If you allow the evildoer to go unpunished, he will inevitably harm others in the future. No matter how many mistakes he makes, you must bear the corresponding guilt, because it is you who made his evil possible."

He looks quite intimidating when he's serious.

Huanhuan was a young girl who had never seen the world. She was completely frightened after hearing what he said. She grabbed Wu's sleeve and shook her head while crying.

Wu quickly held her hand and gave her a warning look.

Jiang Muyu took a deep breath and her voice turned cold. "I don't have the patience to watch you perform such a sad drama. If you don't tell me the truth, I will tie you both up, put stones on you and sink you into the river. After all, the end result of murdering the master's servants is the same."

Huanhuan kowtowed to her several times while crying, and then gestured quickly with her hands.

Jiang Muyu couldn't understand it and felt out of place. He thought: This speed might be catching up with the seal.

Nanxing said, "She said she was willing to plead guilty, and that this matter had nothing to do with her mother. She begged the queen to let Wu go."

Liang Qingchen's brows wrinkled into the shape of the Chinese character "川". He said, "One moment you say it's not you, and the next moment you want to confess your guilt. You are almost exhausting my patience."

Jiang Muyu gave the order directly: "Come here, Wu Shi openly deceived the master family, drag him away and give him fifty strokes of the cane."

Wu knelt on the ground and cried, "Madam, please spare my life. Your Majesty, please spare my life..."

Seeing the guards coming forward to grab Wu on the left and right and dragging her away, Huanhuan immediately begged for mercy and knocked her head until it was bleeding.

Seeing that she still refused to confess, Jiang Muyu said, "If the fire girl is happy, just tie her up and send her to the Yanliu Alley."

What is that Yanliu Lane? I'm afraid everyone in Beijing knows it. It is not a place of prosperity and peace, but a dirty and filthy place. On weekdays, no ordinary girl dares to go there, because even if she passes by, she may be mistaken for a prostitute and dragged into the house by a client to be raped.

Wu shouted loudly, and somehow she got the strength to break free from the guards' shackles. She rushed over and hugged Huanhuan, saying, "Princess, this won't work. If we send Huanhuan there, her life will be ruined!"

Jiang Muyu snorted coldly and said, "Do you think she will have a chance to survive if she is charged with poisoning?"

Wu hugged Huanhuan and cried, gritting her teeth and still refusing to tell the truth.

Liang Qingchen had had enough, so he ordered the two to be forcibly separated, pinned Wu to the ground, and had someone bring a board to execute her publicly.

After each hit with the board, Wu started screaming non-stop. After only five hits, Wu fainted from the pain. Then he was hit again to wake up. He could only make weak cries and gasp, breathing in less than out.

Huanhuan, who was standing aside, was crying with tears streaming down her face and gesticulating with her hands.

Nan Xing said: "She said that as long as you let her mother go, she is willing to tell the truth."

Jiang Muyu calmed down a bit and said, "Just tell me. I will ask them to stop if you tell me. Otherwise, they will beat Wu to death. They will not stop unless they get fifty lashes."

Huanhuan nodded quickly and gestured with her hands.

Nanxing said: "It was Ah Long who did it."

Jiang Muyu immediately stopped the caning, and Wu fainted from the pain again. This time she didn't react for a long time.

Huanhuan was crying so hard that she was out of breath, but she kept gesticulating with her hands.

Nan Xing explained what she meant one by one: "Her brother accepted the favor of the Eighth Lady, so he poisoned you. She and her mother were not aware of this at first. It was Wu who accidentally saw it, but the poison had already been put into the cake. When Wu rushed over to stop it, the Queen had already eaten the cake, which led to a series of events afterwards."

Jiang Muyu finally understood and said, "Your mother knew that it was your brother who poisoned you, so as soon as the truth was revealed, she pushed you out to take the blame, wanting to kill the daughter and keep the son, right?"

Huanhuan nodded gently.

"She treated you like this, totally disregarding your life or death. Don't you hate her at all? And you're even begging for her?"

Huanhuan was stunned for a moment, shook her head, and gestured with her hands.

Nanxing said: "Dad passed away a long time ago, it was not easy for mom to raise them alone."

Jiang Muyu sighed.

At this time, Yun Yan came over with a man, "Madam, this is Wu's eldest son, A'long."

Jiang Muyu looked at him. She remembered this man. It was he who rode the horse when she returned to the Marquis' Mansion.

Ah Long knelt down in front of her, lowered his head with a guilty conscience, and said tremblingly: "I, I pay my respects to the princess."

"Your mother and your sister have just confessed." Jiang Muyu looked down at him and said, "Tell me, how much benefit did Jiang Muxue give you to let you poison me?"

A'long suddenly looked at Huanhuan who was standing beside him, with undisguised ferocity in his eyes.

"Look at what she does, look at me." Jiang Muyu turned his face around, a cold light flashed in her eyes, and her voice was as cold as ice: "Tell me, what benefits did she give you?"

Ah Long felt a chill run down his spine when he saw her eyes. He swallowed subconsciously and stammered, "She...she gave me ten taels of silver."

"Really just ten taels?"

"It's true. It's absolutely true."

"Ha-ha..." Jiang Muyu laughed sarcastically, "Just ten taels, is it enough to make you risk your life for her?"