Coming out of Agarwood Pavilion, Shangguan Feng’er suppressed her displeasure and put on a smile.
Xie Jinyu saw this and said, "Why are you so happy?"
Shangguan Feng’er twirled the dicine bottle in her hand and whispered a few words into Xie Jinyu’s ear.
Xie Jinyu’s eyes widened, "Why didn’t you tell earlier?"
"She’s still too inexperienced to fight against !"
"Now that the written evidence is in hand, even if she discovers it, she can only swallow this dumb loss."
Shangguan Feng’er eagerly wanted to go back and claim credit, "I’ll head back now."
Xie Jinyu saw her out of the mansion, then returned to Peony Garden to tell Princess Nanzhang about Shangguan Feng’er coaxing Su Jin.
Princess Nanzhang laughed, "It’s about ti she suffered a loss."
Having conned ten thousand taels of silver’s worth of ointnt from Su Jin, the Duchess was jubilant.
After all, it’s her daughter, bringing her honor.
The maid applied the ointnt to the fracture on the leg of the Heir of Duke Chong. Although Su Jin’s ointnt had an unpleasant sll, like a dog’s plaster, its effect was genuinely remarkable.
The Heir of Duke Chong used it for three days.
This morning, a servant helped him sit up for convenience.
As the quilt was lifted, the Heir of Duke Chong’s leg was swollen like a pig’s trotter.
The servant scread incessantly in fright.
The Heir of Duke Chong was stunned, thinking his leg was ruined.
His leg didn’t hurt.
No sensation at all.
The Duchess sent soone to invite an Imperial Physician into the mansion; upon seeing his leg, she twitched her mouth uncontrollably, "It’s nothing serious, just so numbing drug mixed into the dog’s plaster."
"Dog’s plaster?!" The Duchess was furious.
The Imperial Physician confird that what the Heir of Duke Chong applied was indeed a dog’s plaster.
Shangguan Feng’er was furious, "Princess Consort Zhenbei is too deceptive; she actually fooled with dog’s plaster!"
It’s bad enough that she used a dog’s plaster, but she mixed drugs into it.
Shangguan Feng’er couldn’t swallow this grievance.
She angrily went straight to confront her.
Inside, Su Jin was lounging on a small couch reading.
Xingxing ran in, thrilled, "Miss, the eldest daughter of Duke Chong’s Mansion has co to trouble you."
"Don’t get too excited," Su Jin said.
"..."
"What should we do now?" Xingxing asked with a grin.
"Don’t let her step into Agarwood Pavilion."
"Huh?"
Xingxing looked disappointed.
She wanted to see her lady slap the face of Duke Chong Mansion’s eldest daughter.
But the lady didn’t even want to see her.
However, Xingxing would obediently comply with Su Jin’s instructions.
Accompanied by Xie Jinyu, Shangguan Feng’er ca to Agarwood Pavilion to find trouble with Su Jin.
Xingxing, with so maids, blocked the door of Agarwood Pavilion, not letting Shangguan Feng’er step in.
Shangguan Feng’er stomped angrily, "Just you wait!"
"I’m going to the palace to have the Empress Dowager uphold justice for !"
Xingxing suddenly understood why Su Jin didn’t let Shangguan Feng’er into Agarwood Pavilion.
Turns out, she was waiting for this.
It’s been a while since the Empress Dowager rewarded her lady.
"Then you’d better hurry," Xingxing urged.
"We’ll wait for you."
Xingxing was genuine.
But to Shangguan Feng’er and Xie Jinyu, it sounded like blatant provocation.
They weren’t afraid of her going to see the Empress Dowager at all.
Shangguan Feng’er stord off.
Once she was far gone, Xingxing returned inside the house, looking at Su Jin with admiration, "Miss, you’re so clever."
Praise in Dongxiang Marquis Mansion has always been straightforward.
Su Jin was used to it, and accepted it calmly.
She quietly read her book, awaiting the Empress Dowager’s summons.
After about half an hour, soone from the palace arrived.
The Empress Dowager summoned Su Jin to the palace.
Master and servant walked out with radiant smiles.
Their bright smiles seed less like going to the palace to be criticized, and more like going to claim rewards.
Thinking of claiming rewards—
The maids and servants of Prince Zhenbei Mansion were truly impressed.
Whether it was trouble-making or nitpicking, in the hands of their Princess Consort, it always turned into rewards eventually.
The maids and servants were already betting whether the Princess Consort would bring back rewards to the mansion...
A little over half an hour later, Su Jin arrived in front of Yongning Palace.
It seed she hadn’t been here for so ti.
Stepping over the threshold, Su Jin walked in with Xingxing panting behind her.
Inside the hall, the Empress Dowager sat on the Phoenix Chair, exuding authority without anger.
However, upon closer inspection, one could still see traces of paleness on the Empress Dowager’s face.
Being the Empress Dowager and poisoning the Emperor with arsenic, such a charge, even for the Empress Dowager, was unbearable.
Shangguan Feng’er and Xie Jinyu stood aside, glaring angrily at Su Jin.
Su Jin looked at Shangguan Feng’er, "You really reported to the Empress Dowager."
"You fooled with dog’s plaster and even poisoned it, dared to play tricks on , why fear my report?!" Shangguan Feng’er retorted sternly.
"..."
"I’m not afraid of your report; I’m just sorry the Empress Dowager gets conned by you ti and again," Su Jin shrugged.
Shangguan Feng’er turned to the Empress Dowager, "Empress Dowager, listen to her, she gave my brother fake dicine and is still unapologetic!"
"I went to confront her, and she wouldn’t see , with cousin sister Jinyu as my witness!"
Xie Jinyu nodded in agreent, confirming Shangguan Feng’er’s statent.
The Empress Dowager looked at Su Jin, "Did you really give the Heir of Duke Chong a dog’s plaster?"
Su Jin neither nodded nor shook her head, only saying, "I have no guilt."
The Empress Dowager’s face imdiately turned somber.
To give soone a dog’s plaster and feel no guilt?!
Empress Dowager sternly reprimanded Su Jin.
Duke Chong’s Mansion had paid for her treatnt, and Su Jin fooled them with dog’s plaster, how does that differ from those street charlatans?!
Moreover, it was the Empress Dowager’s decree for Su Jin to treat Heir of Duke Chong’s leg, and Su Jin’s action was defiance.
Empress Dowager ordered Su Jin to imdiately send the ointnt to Duke Chong’s Mansion.
Su Jin listened quietly to her reprimand, then looked at her, "Empress Dowager, before you get angry, have you confird they both told you the truth?"
Reporting only displays the beneficial aspects.
To hear from both sides enlightens; to believe one side darkens the judgnt.
By reason, the Empress Dowager had several setbacks too, yet she seed to learn nothing.
Shangguan Feng’er glared at Su Jin, "Stop sowing discord, how would I deceive the Empress Dowager?!"
Su Jin smiled faintly, "So, did you ntion to the Empress Dowager that the ten thousand tael silver note you gave was fake?"
Shangguan Feng’er’s complexion changed.
The Empress Dowager was stunned.
Shangguan Feng’er was inwardly flustered and angry, "Don’t slander !"
"Slander?" Su Jin chuckled.
Really won’t shed tears until seeing the coffin.
She extended her hand, Xingxing took out the silver note and placed it in Su Jin’s hand.
Su Jin unfolded the silver note, "Doesn’t this silver note have your handprint on it, Miss Shangguan? Shall we call soone to authenticate it?"
Shangguan Feng’er’s face went pale.
How could there be her handprint on the silver note?!
What Shangguan Feng’er didn’t know was that Su Jin had imprinted on two different docunts.
But Shangguan Feng’er pressed one on a docunt, and one on the silver note.
During her scrutiny, Su Jin cleverly placed the silver note between the two docunts.
With Xingxing cleverly moving, Shangguan Feng’er imprinted without closely examining, effortlessly deceiving her.
"You give fake silver notes, I give you fake dicine, fair and square," Su Jin said.
"I never thought after settling, you’d still seek the Empress Dowager to complain about ."
"Then I’ll ask the Empress Dowager to judge today’s case for too!"
History is remarkably similar.
Previously, Xie Jinyu complained about Su Jin, and Su Jin pressed the Empress Dowager to issue a punishnt.
Now, Su Jin begins to press the Empress Dowager to penalize Shangguan Feng’er.
The Empress Dowager trembles with rage.
Not because of Su Jin, but because of Shangguan Feng’er.
Is she not afraid she’ll anger this Empress Dowager to death, bringing people to provoke her?!
And then——
Shangguan Feng’er got penalized by the Empress Dowager.
Su Jin left Yongning Palace.
Knowing Su Jin was summoned to the palace, worried Emperor, who couldn’t leave to discuss matters with ministers, could only send Eunuch Fu to keep an eye.
However, Eunuch Fu, upon reaching Yongning Palace’s entrance, witnessed Su Jin coming out.
Xingxing trailed behind, holding a pair of top-grade sky-blue porcelain.
Eunuch Fu, "...."
Little eunuch, "...."
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