The lady took the silk paper, glanced at it, and her expression immediately turned grim.

There were only a few simple words on the silk paper:

Connect Chu Yunmu's bones.

Shen said again: "Mother, please identify whose handwriting this is."

All the shares in Aunt Jiang's courtyard were collected by Madam Cui, and her handwriting was left in the accounting office, so she couldn't deny it even if she wanted to.

"As for this paper," Shen pointed to the silk paper in the lady's hand, "this is lily paper that was just bought from Jiangnan this year. It rains a lot in spring, and on the way from Jiangnan to the capital, the convoy encountered a rainstorm. Most of the lily paper was destroyed, leaving only three bundles."

Chu Lingxiao thought of something and his expression changed.

Shen looked at Chu Lingxiao with a half-smile and said, "I remember that the Marquis said at the time that Madam Jiang liked lily paper, so all this paper should be sent to her. May I ask if the Marquis still remembers it?"

"In our mansion, except for Aunt Jiang, no other courtyard has this paper."

Shen spoke with a smile, her expression and voice were gentle and elegant.

Aunt Jiang likes lily paper, but Shen doesn't. She thinks this paper is too fancy and not as thin and smooth as Chengxintang paper. Since Chu Lingxiao wanted it, she let him take it away.

Chu Lingxiao: “…”

Nanny Cui's eyes flickered and her face turned even paler.

At that time, after the fourth young master fell off the rockery, there was a commotion everywhere, and she took advantage of the chaos to hand the note to Doctor Li.

Later, after Doctor Li went back, she went to Qianjintang in person and watched him burn the silk paper with her own eyes. She never expected that Doctor Li, who usually looked honest, would actually be so cunning!

"Madame Cui!" The old lady grabbed the piece of silk paper, threw it to the ground, and asked angrily, "Did you write this?"

“……” Nanny Cui was in great confusion.

At this moment, she had lost her previous composure and blamed herself for her momentary negligence, which resulted in such a big mistake on the paper on which she wrote the note.

That day, she deliberately picked up a piece of yellowed paper from the desk. It looked very inconspicuous. Who would have thought that it would be "Lily Paper".

Nanny Cui's chest was heaving violently and her breathing was a little disordered.

"Speak!" The lady frowned and her voice rose a few notches.

When the old lady thought about how she had just sworn that Madam Cui would never do such a thing, and now she was slapped in the face, a ball of rage rose from her heart to her head.

Nanny Cui knelt on the ground, staring down at the piece of paper floating in front of her. Her eyes flickered, but she didn't say a word. Her forehead was already covered with cold sweat.

Shen's eyes swept from Aunt Jiang to Aunt Cui, and she said calmly, "Aunt Cui, do you want Doctor Li to confront you before you are willing to admit it?!"

Her voice was neither fast nor slow, neither light nor heavy, just as gentle as usual.

But to Aunt Cui, it sounded like a death song.

Nanny Cui's heart skipped a beat.

When Shen took out the note, Madam Cui knew that her bribery of Doctor Li had been exposed, but she still had a glimmer of hope in her heart and wanted to deny it.

Until now, Shen had completely shattered her luck and pushed her into the abyss.

Yes.

Doctor Li must have confessed everything!

Aunt Cui felt cold all over, gritted her teeth, and finally admitted: "Madam, this note was written by me."

"You slut!!"

The lady was furious. She picked up a tea bowl from the table and threw it at Aunt Cui.

“Bang!”

The tea bowl hit Aunt Cui's left shoulder heavily, and the scalding hot tea splashed everywhere, and half of Aunt Cui's face was instantly scalded red by the tea.

"Mammy!" Aunt Jiang cried and was about to rush over, but Chu Lingxiao quickly pulled her back and put his arm around her delicate shoulders.

Chu Lingxiao looked at Shen with cold eyes, thinking that she was really aggressive and felt even more annoyed.

Madam Cui did not even raise her sleeve to wipe it, but kowtowed to the ground vigorously and said, "Madam, I plead guilty."

"But the Fourth Young Master falling off the rockery really had nothing to do with me. It was only later that I heard from Doctor Li that the Fourth Young Master's leg bone was broken that I was temporarily bewildered..."

"Pingping is the daughter of the Marquis, but the second daughter always gives way to the eldest daughter. Auntie is heartbroken."

"I was thinking that if the fourth young master's leg bone doesn't heal properly in a short time, he will be in pain for a few more days, and Madam will feel distressed as well."

Nanny Cui's forehead was red and swollen from the knock, her breathing was hoarse, and she was very emotional.

"This was all my idea. Auntie knows nothing... Otherwise, I wouldn't have used that rare lily paper."

"This is all my fault!"

Madam Cui closed her eyes, her eyes were red, and she said resolutely: "The slave harmed the master, and he should pay with his life."

As she said this, she suddenly rushed towards the corner of the table like a wild beast fighting for her life.

Everyone in the room was shocked.

The head maid of Rongfu Hall let out a low cry of fear.

Bang!

The pointed corner of the table hit Aunt Cui's forehead, and blood splattered everywhere.

Nanny Cui slid down the corner of the table softly, and bright red blood flowed from under her head, staining the gold brick floor red.

"Ah." Chu Qianhuang covered her cherry lips and let out a frightened cry. She turned her head away and dared not look again.

"Mammy! Mammy!"

Aunt Jiang cried out at the top of her lungs, her frail body shaking like a leaf in the wind.

Her voice was delicate and soft, her face was pale, and she fell softly into Chu Lingxiao's arms.

"Shan'er."

Chu Lingxiao hugged Aunt Jiang, looking at her with eyes full of worry and reluctance.

However, when he looked at Shen again, there was only indifference on his face, and he said unhappily: "Are you satisfied now?"

"Madame Cui was eager to protect her master, so she got angry for a moment and did something wrong."

"If you want to blame someone, blame Sister Chen. She doesn't know who she is and has to compete with Sister Huang."

Chu Lingxiao seemed to believe what Aunt Cui said from the bottom of his heart, and said coldly: "If it wasn't for Sister Chen, Aunt Cui wouldn't have done this!"

His voice was so cold that ice chips seemed to fall out of it.

The atmosphere in the room was heavy, depressing, and cold.

Shen's expression finally changed, and her face became as gloomy as water.

She squeezed out a sound from between her teeth: "Just now, the Marquis said that we should not listen to the one-sided words of this humble servant."

"What? Aunt Cui is not a slave girl?!"

"A lowly maid hooked up with a girl in the mansion, and the Marquis was quick to believe it."

Facing Shen's sarcasm, Chu Lingxiao did not give in. He stared at her and said, "When a man is about to die, his words are kind."

"I can't tell that." Shen smiled faintly, elegantly and gracefully.

"You!" Chu Lingxiao gritted his teeth.

The room was tense and sparks were flying.

The lady came to her senses and was about to say something to persuade her when she heard Shen's cold face and ordered, "Come here, Madam Jiang has no way of disciplining her servants. She will be caned ten times."

"Shen Zhi, how dare you!"

Chu Lingxiao angrily called Shen's maiden name.

Shen pursed her lips and smiled, her smile was as flamboyant as a blooming rose, beautiful but with thorns.

She looked straight into Chu Lingxiao's eyes without any hesitation, and reminded him word by word: "My Lord, in this Yongding Marquis's Mansion, I, Shen Zhi, am the mistress of the house!"

(End of this chapter)