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  Kept down the unusual rise in her heart, she just thought, what kind of person is this Second Prince of Dezhou? Why did he let her call him "Second Brother"? So intimate?

  Looking at the porcelain bottle in his hand, he thought of Lotus Leaf, that maid, who didn't follow her own sedan chair during the day and now was nowhere to be found. This maid was very mysterious.

  She immediately dispelled the idea of letting her know more about herself, put down the account book, untied her clothes and applied the ointment to her right arm by herself, put on her undershirt, put the medicine bottle in her bag, and also put the piece of ink jade pendant together, before lying down.

  She closed her eyes, and her thoughts immediately flew quickly. When she woke up from her daze, the Chu family was holding a funeral. Mrs. Chu had passed away. Before her passing, she, along with her second sister Chu Yunting and fourth sister Chu Yunqing, went to the temple to burn incense and pray for Mrs. Chu's recovery from her long illness. On their way back, the horse carriage overturned, and it was said that all three sisters were unconscious for several days.

  She woke up the latest.

  When she woke up, Madame Chu was already dead, the entire mansion was draped in white, and she couldn't remember how she got there or why she was in Chu Ke's body. She also couldn't recall anything about Chu Ke's past, nor did she know if the Crown Prince's consort had any basis for her suspicions, or if they were true...

  Yi Niang Liu, she had seen him twice in these four months. The first time they met was at the funeral of Chu Furen, where she was dressed in mourning attire and wore a hemp hat.

  The second time they met was a month later, at Master Chu's wedding.

  The Chu family has been passed down for three generations, and now the master of the house is over thirty years old and still childless. His wife had also passed away, so the elderly Mr. and Mrs. Chu ordered their son to remarry as soon as possible to carry on the family line. The master tearfully agreed.

  The one who was brought in through the door was a distant niece from Chu Lao's wife's family, only one year older than Chu Yuntin and several years younger than her elder sister Chu Yunxue. People all say that this woman has many children in her fate, so the two old men of the Chu family were eager to have Mr. Chu marry her back home.

  Before Madame Chu's death, her three daughters still had the leisure to go to the temple to burn incense, which can be seen that Madame Chu's condition was not serious at that time. At least her daughters should not have known that Madame Chu would die soon. Therefore, there was a hurry to rush back and forth, and the carriage overturned.

  The illness suddenly took a turn for the worse and she died. Perhaps there really was a problem, but was the problem really with herself and her aunt? Was the Crown Prince's wife so certain that she and Liu Aunt had colluded to harm Madame Chu?

  Chu Ke thought back to the wedding and saw Liu Niang, only seeing that she was a very weak woman on the surface, but didn't understand anything else.

  However, it's not easy for a concubine to harm the wife. Even if the wife is seriously ill and the concubine takes care of her every day, it's still not easy. There must be people serving beside the wife, making it difficult for the concubine to take action.

  Besides, even if the legitimate wife were dead, the position of the legitimate wife would not fall to the concubine.

  The concubine was promoted to be the legitimate wife, something that ordinary merchant families would disdain to do, let alone the Chu Shaoshi household which valued poetry, books and etiquette.

  If Madam Liu had any conscience, she would know that even if she killed Lady Chu, she wouldn't have the chance to become the official wife. So, from Madam Liu's perspective, why would she want to kill the official wife? Lady Chu, no matter what, had coexisted with her peacefully for twenty years. If Madam Liu killed Lady Chu and another powerful person who couldn't tolerate her appeared, wouldn't she be lifting a rock only to drop it on her own feet? Moreover, killing the official wife would put her at great risk. If someone discovered her crime, both she and her daughter might end up dead with no place to rest.

  Chu Xiang thought for half a day, didn't the Crown Prince's wife understand this principle? She was the eldest granddaughter of the Chu Hanlin family, and her insight and understanding would not be inferior. Why did she insist that it was Liu Niang and her daughter who were behind it? Or was there something she didn't know about that made her certain that she and Liu Niang had joined forces to harm Madame Chu?

  Or is there something that you don't know about, that makes the Crown Prince's consort think it wasn't us who did it with Mistress Liu, but still frame us for it?

  Chu Ke's hand gently stroked the smooth bottle in her purse, deep in thought.

  A noise came from the doorway, she was slightly startled, hastily stopped her thoughts, concentrated and quietly listened to the noise at the door.

  An elderly-sounding person is asking: "Has the girl gone to sleep? Is she asleep?"

  "Returned to aunt's place, it has been half an hour since she fell asleep, probably she is already asleep."

  "Huh? The king's wife ordered a doctor to come and see Third Sister, has he arrived or not?"

  The maid of Pinmei Xuan at the door replied: "Report to auntie, she has been here."

  "That aunt's voice was strange, and she raised her voice a little to ask: 'Since you've been here before, why didn't you go back to report to the county king's wife about San Gu Niang's illness? Did you dare to ask us, and we directly called the doctor away?'"

  The maid's terrified voice: "We didn't dare to think that the second master of the De Fu County Prince's mansion had followed the fifth master, and the second master even went into the house directly behind the doctor. We thought it was...it was the princess who sent him... The doctor also told the second master about the young lady's illness..."

  "How could the foolish princess send a man to take care of Third Miss? That Second Master is clearly an outsider, yet you let him into Miss's room"

  A "thud" sound was heard, and it seemed that the maids had knelt down. Several panicked voices came: "Spare us, mistress."

  "Ten strokes for each of you, report to the punishment room tomorrow." Aunt's voice was stern and low.

  "It is... " Several people trembled with fear and dared not speak loudly.

  "What about Third Sister's maid? She should know, shouldn't she? How could she also let Second Master rush in?"

  "Reporting, reporting to auntie, that maid said she was going to get medicine for third young lady, and has been gone for over an hour"

  "That aunt's voice was shocked and angry: 'There is still such a thing...' The words behind were not spoken, and the voice stopped, I don't know what she was doing."

  Chu Ke'er leaned sideways and listened carefully, but heard the sound of Yuhe's voice rising: "Auntie, you're here." The voice was light and high-pitched.

  "Auntie said in a low voice: 'Where did you go? The young lady was injured and you left for an hour'"

  "I'm going to get medicine for Third Miss... Fourth Miss said that she has some medicine for treating bruises and injuries, and told me to go with her to get it."

  Aunt's voice was gone, and after a long time, she said: "I know I left, the second master of the De Fu County Wangfu sneaked into the house, fortunately, there were many people and nothing happened. If something had happened, how could we have borne it?"

  The lotus leaf's voice rang out again: "Nothing will happen to Second Master, he is our girl's cousin, how can anything happen?"

  "Brother-in-law...... what? I'm talking about the Duke of Devonshire..." Auntie was a bit confused.

  "The concubine of the King of Dezhou, who is the mother of the second master, is the elder sister of our family's Liu Niang. Therefore, the second master is the cousin of our girl, and when he was in Chufu, he often entered our girl's boudoir."

  Chu Ke'er finally understood that Zhu Yi Chen was her another cousin... No wonder he was so close to her.

  She remained focused on listening, the people outside were obviously frightened by Yuhe's last sentence, Auntie was blocked and couldn't speak, Chuke now can imagine Yuhe's complacent face.

  This is not a servant serving herself, but an enemy who wants to harm her.

  Chu Ke closed her eyes, for the first time seriously thinking about her current situation, the people around her, and how to continue living peacefully in this place, whether it was a past life or a future one...

  Lotus leaf walked in and went straight to the bedside, softly calling out: "Miss? Miss?"

  Chu Xue was motionless with her eyes closed, she felt Yu He's unscrupulous gaze on herself, then finally put down the curtain and lay down on the opposite kang in the room.

  Chu Xue didn't know what her personality was like before, but seeing the maid by her side, it was clear that her former self wasn't someone who would be looked down upon by a maid.

  She couldn't hear anything else and slowly fell asleep too...

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