"Miss, please forgive me. Zhaodi has been suffering from hysteria these days and has been talking nonsense all day. Please don't bear grudges and don't take it to heart." Mrs. Wang kowtowed to Lin Yushu as she spoke.

Lin Yushu secretly praised, it turned out that the older you are, the wiser you will be.

Zhaodi is a simple-minded fool who cannot stand verbal provocation, but Wang Po is very smart and responds to Zhaodi's words in time.

Not only did Mrs. Wang stop Zhaodi from saying anything in time, she also forced Lin Yushu to forgive Zhaodi's rudeness.

If she scolded Zhaodi at this moment, the white lotus image she had just established would collapse.

Lin Yushu pretended to be afraid and dodged Wang Po's greeting, looking sincere.

"How could I blame Zhaodi? It's just that Zhaodi shouldn't have said nonsense that I gave the sachet to Li Erma. I clearly gave it to Zhaodi a long time ago!"

Mrs. Wang was confused. She said that what Zhaodi said just now when he offended Lin Yushu was nonsense, but Lin Yushu took advantage of the situation and made even Zhaodi's testimony become nonsense.

Mrs. Wang was a little shocked. How come Miss Lin, who was always dull, became so smart? !

It seems that the key to the problem lies in this sachet. The county magistrate waved his hand and asked someone to bring the sachet forward and examine it carefully.

Just as he opened the sachet, he couldn't help but exclaimed.

"what is this?"

The county magistrate pulled out a piece of bright red cloth from the sachet, and when he raised his hand, it turned out to be a woman's close-fitting bellyband!

"Miss Lin looks dull, but I didn't expect she is such an interesting person."

A man in the crowd looked at Hong Douban and Lin Yushu with lustful eyes.

"Bah! This is really immoral! This Miss Lin is too shameless."

The decent women couldn't help but spit.

As soon as Zhaodi saw the bellyband clearly, the color drained from her face. This was her bellyband!

How did it appear in this sachet?

Zhaodi couldn't figure it out. She had stolen the sachet two days ago. She had looked at it when she first stole it and saw that there were only some spices inside.

This morning, before Li Erma's marriage proposal team arrived at the mansion gate, she secretly mixed in the crowd and handed the sachet to Li Erma.

Li Erma didn't know that there was a bellyband hidden inside. He thought that the sachet belonged to Lin Yushu, so the bellyband must be hers as well.

Li Erma hurriedly explained, "This is the token of love my lover gave me, a bellyband hidden in a sachet."

Mrs. Wang held down Zhaodi who wanted to argue. Although she didn't know why Zhaodi's bellyband was in the sachet, she absolutely could not admit that the bellyband was Zhaodi's at this time!

Lin Yushu was not surprised at all because she was the one who put the bellyband in!

Before she went out this morning, she sneaked into Zhaodi's room and stuffed Zhaodi's red bellyband into the sachet.

She pretended to be confused: "Did your lover give it to you? But this bellyband is obviously Zhaodi's! Could it be that your lover is..."

Mrs. Wang pretended to be surprised, her face full of hypocritical indignation.

"Even if the young lady doesn't want to admit her affair with Li Erma, she can't wrongly accuse my daughter. What evidence do you have that this is Zhaodi's bellyband?"

Lin Yushu looked at Wang Po with a smile on her face, but her eyes were as cold as arrows, making Wang Po feel cold all over.

"Because I have seen this bellyband in Zhaodi's room, with two fat dolls embroidered on it. I heard from the servants that your greatest wish in life, Mrs. Wang, is to give birth to a son. Many items in your home are embroidered with the Fuwa pattern, even on Zhaodi's clothes."

After saying this, Lin Yushu turned to look at the county magistrate and spoke earnestly.

"My daughter is not married yet, how can she have a bellyband embroidered with the Fuwa (the lucky doll)?"

After hearing this, the county magistrate spoke to Mrs. Wang in a very rude tone.

"If you don't admit it, I will have someone go to your room to find the embroidery and compare it with this bellyband. I will know at a glance whether it was embroidered by you."

When Mrs. Wang heard this, her face turned pale. A skilled embroiderer could easily tell from the stitches whether the embroidery pieces were made by the same person. She had no way of making an excuse.

Lin Yushu signaled Chuntao with her eyes, and Chuntao understood.

Following the words that Lin Yushu had taught her on the way, she pointed at Zhaodi angrily, her eyes spitting fire.

"So the person the young lady caught having a secret meeting with you that day was Li Erma!"

After saying that, Chuntao kowtowed deeply to the county magistrate.

"Sir, my young lady once caught Zhaodi having a secret meeting with someone, and she also heard Zhaodi say, 'As long as she dies, the money and property she brought will be ours. You can use the money to propose marriage, and my mother will definitely agree.'"

"It seems that Zhaodi was planning with Li Erma to kill my young lady and steal her property. When that plan failed, he wanted to force my young lady to marry him. He must be trying to extort money!"

Zhaodi was so furious that she shook off Wang Po's hand and rushed towards Chuntao, cursing her loudly.

"What nonsense are you talking about, you bitch! I have never met with Li Erma in private, and I didn't say these words that day. I just told Li Erma that I would steal the lady's sachet and give it to him..."

Chuntao hurriedly dodged away from the crazy Zhaodi. The yamen runners nearby stepped forward and pinned Zhaodi to the ground, making him unable to move. Wang Po collapsed on the ground.

It’s over! It's all over!

"It turns out that this maid had an affair with Li Erma. She was afraid that her mother would not agree, so she wanted to kill Miss Lin and take away her property so that Li Erma could come and propose marriage! It is true that women have the most vicious hearts!"

"Tsk tsk, I was wondering why Miss Lin would fall for Li Erma. This maid is plain-looking, but she is a good match for Li Erma."

The discussions in the crowd made Zhaodi angry and hateful. She hated it most when people said she was ugly.

Although she didn't like Li Erma, under Li Erma's teasing, Zhaodi found the satisfaction of being treated as a great beauty.

When her mother said she was going to find someone to ruin Lin Yushu's reputation, she turned to Li Erma for help.

The county magistrate shouted sternly, "Li Erma! Zhaodi! Why don't you two tell the truth quickly? If you don't, you will be severely punished!"

Li Erma was a coward. He was so frightened by the county magistrate's shouting that his legs went limp and he began to tremble.

But he still knew what to say to benefit himself, and he stammered his way through it.

"Sir, we just want to ask Miss Lin for some money, we don't want to kill her. This was all Zhaodi's idea. The bellyband was a token of love she gave me. She forced me to marry her and wanted to steal Miss Lin's money."

After hearing this, Zhaodi rushed towards Li Erma in anger, and in a blink of an eye, several blood marks appeared on Li Erma's face.

Zhaodi's nails were stained with Li Erma's flesh, which was bloody and looked crazy.

"Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself? How dare you, a dog like you, be liked by this girl? It's a joke!"

The bailiffs once again pinned Zhaodi to the ground, making her unable to move. The county magistrate secretly thought that these people were simply too bold.

"You two intended to murder Miss Lin, and when you failed you tried to force her to marry you. This is truly a heinous crime! Each of you will be punished with fifty strokes of the cane, and exiled three thousand miles away on a chosen day!"

When Mrs. Wang heard this, she spat out a mouthful of blood, her eyes rolled back and she fainted on the ground.

The bailiffs pressed Li Erma and Zhaodi down on a bench and hit them hard on their buttocks and legs with boards.

After a while, the clothes of the two men were stained with blood, and one could vaguely see that their skin and flesh had been torn apart by the beating.

Li Erma and Zhaodi cried out in pain. Zhaodi was usually weak and fainted after a few beatings. Only Li Erma was left screaming.

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