Black Lotus Concubine's Case-solving Notes

Feng Jia looked at her with a half-smile: "Madame Liu, what are you talking about? Why can't Lan Zhao understand a word you say?"

"Ninth Miss! Please don't bother with me! There's no one else here, right?" Madam Liu endured the itch on her back and dragged her legs to kneel at Feng Jia's feet, pounding her legs and saying, "That night you and that girl Cui Chai played tricks in my room, and I really know I was wrong! Just think of it as a lesson for me. Now that I've learned the lesson, please be kind and give me the antidote! I really can't stand the itch any more!"

Feng Jia and Cui Chai looked at each other and said frankly: "Madam Liu, have you seen how powerful I am now? Do you dare to go against me in the future?"

Madam Liu gnashed her teeth in hatred, and in her heart she had long wanted to tear the two men in front of her into pieces, but on the surface she pretended to be respectful and said, "I dare not, I dare not! Ninth Miss, you are so smart! How dare I mess with you again!"

Cui Chai felt extremely happy, and said at this time: "Since you don't dare to do it again, then kowtow to my master and admit your mistake. You have to kowtow ten times!"

Madam Liu didn't dare to delay any longer. She gritted her teeth and kowtowed ten times. In order to prevent Miss Nine from catching her again, she kowtowed ten times with a loud sound: "Miss Nine! I kowtow to you! Just give me the antidote!"

Feng Jia looked at her and said coldly: "I can give you the antidote, but you have to agree to one condition of mine."

"Miss, don't even mention one condition! I must agree to all ten conditions!" said Madam Liu, scratching her back.

Feng Jia said, "Give me back Cui Chai's indenture, and I will give you the antidote."

That was the original idea!

Madam Liu wanted to stand up and spit at her, but she didn't dare. She could only say angrily, "Ninth Miss! The indentures of the servants in this mansion are all with the Madam. How can I get my hands on them? You asked me to get them. Don't you mean you don't want to give me the antidote?"

"Aren't you a favorite of the Eldest Madam? How come you can't even get a contract of sale? Just say that the contract of sale is used to exchange for the antidote. The Eldest Madam loves you so much, how could she not give it to you?" Feng Jia said.

Madam Liu's tone was full of complaints: "It's true that I used to be the Madam's confidant! But because I messed up the matter of sending the lotus dress to the Ninth Miss, the Madam was confined to her house. I have long been disliked by the Madam!"

That vicious woman is the most selfish. She kicked her away because she was useless. How could she stand up for her? Meng is a bitch! Evil woman! She must die a miserable death! Madam Liu muttered in her heart.

Feng Jia's eyes rolled dimly as she said, "So you admit that you really had bad intentions when you gave me that dress?"

Madam Liu thought it was bad, and immediately evaded the question, saying, "I was ordered by the Madam! I am just a servant! I had no choice!"

I had no choice to frame her, and I didn't dare to disobey my master by burying her alive. But all of this was done by you, Madam Liu!

Feng Jia's cold eyes flashed with coldness. She said, "That's it. Since you can't get the indenture contract openly, just steal it."

"Steal?" Madam Liu was stunned. "Ninth Miss! You don't know! Those indentures were kept at the bottom of the box by the Madam, locked in her treasure box! No one can open it without the key, how dare I steal it!"

"So you don't want the antidote?"

"Just beat me to death!" Madam Liu was also angry. "If you don't want to give me the antidote, just say so! Why beat around the bush and make things difficult for me!"

Feng Jia paused for a moment, and then said as if she had made up her mind: "Since Mammy said I was making things difficult for you, let me change the conditions. You tell me what the third room has been up to recently, and I'll give you the antidote as well."

Feng Jia placed a bottle of gray-brown medicine on the table, and Aunt Liu stared at her in amazement.

But she said, "Miss, you are making things difficult for me again, aren't you? How would I know about the affairs of the third house?"

Just as she finished her words, a hot bowl of tea was overturned in front of her, scalding Aunt Liu so much that she screamed.

"You old fox! Don't think I don't know that the Madam has spies in every room! Whatever you do, whatever you say, it's all clear! And those spies will report to you. You say you don't know? I'll give you one more chance. Do you really not want this antidote anymore?"

Seeing that she knew everything, Nanny Liu was shocked and frightened, her legs shaking like a sieve as she said, "I know I was wrong! I dare not hide it from you! Isn't it enough for me to tell you, Miss Nine, please don't be angry! The Third House has been in turmoil recently! Ever since Miss Rong offended the princess that night, she has been locked up in the room by the Third Master. No matter how Miss Rong screamed, he would not open the door, not even when the Third Madam knelt down to beg for mercy!"

Feng Jia asked: "Where is he being held?"

"She is locked up in Miss Rong's own boudoir, with a big lock on it and a few servants guarding the door!"

Feng Jia asked again: "Whose yard is behind Miss Rong's house?"

"The courtyard?" Madam Liu recalled for a moment, "To answer Miss Nine, there is a pond behind Miss Rong's house, but no one lives there!"

Feng Jia stood there without answering, as if she was considering the truth of his words. After a while, she finally said, "I'll forgive you this time today. If you do it again, it won't be as simple as making you itch all over!"

"I swear! If I cause trouble to Miss Nine again, I will strike you with five thunderbolts and kill you!"

Feng Jia threw the medicine bottle on the ground.

Nanny Liu was a little hesitant.

"You are quite cautious," Feng Jia said, "Don't worry, I have no reason to lie to you. The medicine is right here. Believe it or not, it's up to you. Show me around!"

Nanny Liu was surrounded by servants and carried out of the door again. She fell on the ground and cursed the sky and the earth. After cursing, she quickly applied the medicine on her back. In a short while, the numbness and itching miraculously stopped.

"That little bitch really didn't lie to me!" Madam Liu patted her butt and sat up, carefully putting the medicine bottle into her arms, fearing that this hard-earned bottle would be snatched away.

"Bitch! Slut! You'll give birth to a son without an asshole!" Aunt Liu felt so humiliated. She had lived for more than fifty years and had always been the one bullying others, but she had never been bullied like this before. She kept cursing.

But she was really afraid of Xie Lanzhao, so she didn't dare to rush up to her. She could only stand outside the garden and curse, not even daring to raise her voice!

The more Madam Liu scolded, the angrier she became, but suddenly she heard a voice coming from the side, so she walked forward and put her ear close to it.

Inside the wall, servants were working with hoes and plowing the land, while a maidservant was commanding: "Everyone, work hard! If you don't fill the pond before dinner, you won't be allowed to eat!"

"This water brings wealth, why do we have to fill up this pond?" asked a servant.

The maid said, "Didn't you hear what our master said this morning? When she was fostered in Shicheng, the wicked woman from the Wang family bullied her. She was forced to wash clothes by the river in the freezing cold. Our master was young at the time and couldn't stand steadily. She accidentally fell into an ice hole and almost drowned! Since that day, she has been afraid of water! This pond is too deep, and the master is terrified when she sees it. We have to fill it up today!"

"I didn't expect that our master would encounter such a thing? There was also someone who fainted at sea. This is the first time I've seen it!" A servant said as if he was watching a joke.

"I think you are just itching for trouble. You dare to make fun of the master!" The maid said angrily, "Did you just stay in the garden for nothing? Aunt Liu came to find the master but didn't let us leave. Why? She was killing the chicken to scare the monkey!"

"You are such tactless people! The master is reminding us. No matter what happened in the past, no matter what rank you were as a maid or a slave, now this Xingyuan can only recognize her as the master! Our fate is in her hands! If you are loyal to her, even a third-rank maid like Cui Chai can rise to the top. On the contrary, if you disobey her! Even if you are an old maid like Liu Ma, who is a favorite of the eldest lady, she will show no mercy to you!"

"The final outcome will be the same as Aunt Liu's! Even worse than her!"

The servants were all stunned, and only after she pointed it out did they suddenly realize what was going on.

Thinking of all the disrespect they had shown to their master before, they were all sweating profusely and looking at each other in bewilderment. They could only work as hard as they could, fearing that Xie Lanzhao would be unhappy and punish them, and they would be in trouble.

Outside the wall, when Madam Liu heard the words "kill the chicken to scare the monkeys", her blood boiled again. When she heard that Xie Lanzhao was hydrophobic, she was stunned.

Ninth Girl is afraid of water?

Matron Liu's eyes rolled around and a vicious idea came to her mind!