Mr. Ruan sat down angrily, but his wife, who had rarely humiliated Aunt Xu today, could not help but curl her lips.

She spoke slowly, as if she had good intentions.

"Since Aunt Xu said so, does that mean someone deliberately framed the Fourth Lady?"

Aunt Xu bit her lips tightly and said, "I don't dare to speculate recklessly, but I don't want to see my daughter suffer!"

Having said that, he went to persuade the Fourth Lady to tell her what had happened in detail.

Ruan Yuxi then complained, "My daughter didn't intentionally destroy Fifth Sister's face! She bumped into her on her own!"

The wife then looked at the third and sixth ladies present and said, "You are witnesses, tell us what you saw."

The Sixth Lady was so frightened that her face turned pale. She sobbed softly in the nurse's arms and could not speak. The Third Lady was indignant and said, "It was the Fourth Sister who provoked her first! She was self-righteous and wanted to snatch the fabric that the Fifth Sister liked. The Fifth Sister was kind and did not want to fight with her... But she refused to give in and even ridiculed the Sixth Sister's background."

"The fifth sister couldn't stand her bullying the sixth sister, so she tried to persuade her, but she rushed over and pulled her away!"

Ruan Yuxi immediately retorted: "I did push her, but I didn't scratch her with the hairpin! She threw herself at me!"

The Third Lady sneered: "Fourth sister, you haven't even wiped off the blood from the hairpin on your head, so don't rush to confuse right and wrong!"

Seeing the two sisters quarreling, neither could convince the other, Lady Liu cried so hard that she couldn't speak. They were in a stalemate for a while.

At this time, Aunt Xiaobai, who had been silent on the side, was heard speaking slowly.

"I happened to be sitting close to you...I seemed to have heard a few words from the ladies."

"Oh?" The lady asked with her eyes flickering, "What did you say?"

The slightly older concubine Bai came forward and said, "It was the Fourth Lady... who mocked the Sixth Lady's background, saying that her mother was a maid of Concubine Xu, and that the Sixth Lady was a little lower than her and should not be on the same level as her."

"Then Fifth Lady advised her that they were all sisters and so on...she shouldn't talk about her own sister like that," Aunt Xiaobai thought, "and then it seemed that she started fighting."

The two of them made such statements, and the meaning of their words naturally leaned towards the idea that Fifth Lady was an innocent victim.

But the sisters have never been close to the main courtyard, so in Mr. Ruan's mind, these words are completely credible and fair.

Aunt Xu and her daughter looked pale, and they saw Master Ruan frowning and speaking in a bone-chilled tone.

"Mrs. Xu, look at the wonderful daughter you have raised!"

Aunt Xu hugged Ruan Yuxi and cried softly, "Master... No matter how wrong Fourth Lady is, she is still your daughter!"

Mr. Ruan seemed to have lost his patience to listen to their arguments. He closed his eyes and made the final decision.

"This matter... is entirely handled by the Madam. Only when she is severely punished will she know how to repent."

Ji was delighted, but she still had to pretend to be serious.

"Yes."

The Madam had always disliked Aunt Xu and her daughter, and now that the Fourth Lady had murdered her younger sister, this was a foregone conclusion, and the Madam was determined to punish Ruan Yuxi for her temper.

She specially sent people to invite two retired maids from the palace who were familiar with all kinds of annoying rules to teach her.

She was kept under guard and watched on weekdays, and was not allowed to leave Jinxiu Courtyard. It was said that even Aunt Xu rarely saw her on weekdays.

How could the spoiled Fourth Lady stand this? She made a small noise every three days and a big noise every five days, and she kept making a fuss.

However, after being severely punished several times, she no longer dared to make trouble.

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