The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 1175 - 1169: Recruited

Chapter 1175: Chapter 1169: Recruited

Today, if she cannot cure Consort Zhang, she might as well write her name backwards.

"Gu Youyou does not admit it; at least she did not drag her own maid down with her, still protecting those around her. You’re stubborn, utterly disregarding the loyalty between master and servant. I really want those maids to see how you betrayed them."

Consort Zhang bit her lip tightly, no longer speaking.

This humiliation is enough for her to ponder over for a lifetime.

However, whether she has a lifetime to ponder is yet to be seen.

The Kitchen Maid is far inferior to Consort Zhang’s maids; without even resorting to torture, they confessed everything after just seeing the maids’ miserable state.

At this moment, the Kitchen Maid knelt before the Empress, telling her everything she knew in detail.

"Empress, your servant was forced. If your servant did not listen to them, they would harm my family, making sure we would never have a good day ahead."

Madam Li angrily interjected: "Then speak plainly, what exactly did they ask you to do?"

"I... I don’t know!"

"Hmm?"

"They just gave me some white medicinal powder to add to the meat soup they ate. Whenever a new Madam arrived, she had to drink that soup laced with the medicine. Initially, I did not know what it was, but over the years, there were no reports of any Madam in the residence being pregnant. As someone who has been there before, even if I didn’t understand it all, I roughly guessed."

"Who gave you that medicine?" the Empress asked sharply.

"It was... was..." She looked at the pale-faced Consort Zhang, then turned her head to look outside the door.

A moment later, a woman, battered beyond recognition, was thrown in; the Kitchen Maid trembled and said, "It was... her."

Consort Zhang’s maid was thrown in, her wretched state startling the women in the room into screams, each of them covering their eyes, not daring to look.

All ten fingers were bloody, with all fingernails pulled out.

Fingers are connected to the heart; no wonder the screams were so shrill just now.

Flipped over by two guards, everyone saw that her nose was gone, savagely cut off with a sharp instrument.

It was too tragic; seeing that face, the screams of the women in the room rose again in waves.

Imperial Physician Cui sighed and shook his head to the Empress, "This girl has fainted, Your Majesty. May this servant examine and treat her?"

"Hmm, go ahead!" the Empress said indifferently.

King Jin sighed, wanting to say something, but shrank back after receiving a stern glance from the Empress.

He remembered how as a child, he had seen the Empress handle women competing with her for favor this way; these forms of torture had not been seen for many years, and now, it scared him once again.

It turns out she hasn’t changed at all over the years.

In the past, she said she did it to protect herself; if she wasn’t ruthless enough, she would be the one with a cut-off nose.

But now... who would dare to harm her?

Imperial Physician Cui administered acupuncture to the maid, and soon she woke up.

Pain surged through her body, so intense she nearly fainted again.

In her scattered consciousness, she heard someone asking who had given the wives at Prince Jin Residence the poison that caused their infertility.

In a daze, she mumbled: "It was... the Madam!"

"The Madam?" The Empress was taken aback, "Which Madam?"

The maid said: "Which other Madam could it be? Naturally, it’s our Madam Zhang. Our Madam said, only if our young lady conceives before everyone else, only if she alone is able to give birth, can she become the wife of King Jin, and eventually the Empress. The most powerful family outside court has to be the Zhang Family. Therefore, she gave medicine to our young lady, instructing us to feed it to all the women in the residence."