After being forced into a marriage with a wealthy family, the virtuous wife caused a huge uproar.

Rong Yingluo couldn't help but laugh out loud. She looked around and thankfully, no servants were passing by.

Yinghong felt confused. What was Miss laughing at?

Rong Yingluo coughed twice, then pressed down on her lips to suppress her smile. She then pretended to be worried and distressed as she walked into the inner room.

"Mother, what's wrong?" Rong Yingluo's eyes welled up with tears, as if her own mother were seriously ill and about to die.

When Su Jingyi saw Rong Yingluo arrive, she could hardly hide the ruthlessness in her eyes.

That damned Rong family, it must have been her who harmed her, but I just can't figure out when she did it.

There is absolutely no evidence.

"Young Madam, the Duchess has contracted heatstroke." Granny Zhao replied indifferently on behalf of Su Jingyi.

"Is it heatstroke, where you feel hot and cold all the time?" Rong Yingluo asked, guessing.

"Exactly."

"Waaah, Mother, it's all my fault. I came back late yesterday, and no one told me you were sick. Otherwise, I would have come to take care of you last night." Rong Yingluo portrayed a filial daughter-in-law so convincingly that everyone who watched it was moved. "Mother, is it very hot now? Let me fan you."

As she spoke, she snatched the palm-leaf fan from the maid and began to fan herself, quite earnestly.

Su Jingyi endured the heat in her body and wanted to speak, but the pain in her throat made her really not want to talk.

"Mother, you don't know, I almost died last night. The carriage you arranged for me suddenly went mad on the way back."

I was terrified. The horse went berserk and ran incredibly fast. My maid and I were jostled around in the carriage and almost passed out. To save our lives, we had no choice but to jump out. Luckily, we survived the fall.

I thought we were finally out of danger, but before Yinghong and I could even get up from the ground, two assassins appeared and tried to take our lives.

I asked the assassin why he wanted to kill me, and he said that the Duke's mansion could not tolerate me and that I had to go and keep the four older sisters company.

"Mother, I'm so scared! Isn't our Duke's Mansion the guardian of the Southern Xia Kingdom? It should be the most righteous family, so why is someone in the manor trying to kill me?" After saying this, Rong Yingluo burst into tears, feeling extremely wronged, and the palm-leaf fan in her hand was no longer strong enough to wave.

"You... shut up. Slap me now." Su Jingyi was in so much pain that she couldn't bear it any longer and had no mood to listen to her.

"Okay, I'll fan you." Rong Yingluo was so startled that she dropped the fan to the ground.

The maidservant immediately picked it up and shook it vigorously.

But after only a couple of shakes, Su Jingyi started to feel cold again.

Granny Zhao deftly covered her with the quilt that had just been pulled off.

Seeing Su Jingyi suffering from alternating hot and cold, Rong Yingluo felt as happy as a bird soaring freely.

But you still have to pretend to be worried.

"Granny Zhao, how could you do such a thing? Mother is in so much pain, didn't you call the imperial physician to come and see her? It's been a whole day and night, and Mother is still in so much pain," Rong Yingluo scolded.

As the wife of the heir apparent, it was perfectly reasonable for her to reprimand the servants around her mother-in-law out of concern for her.

"The young master's wife has already summoned the imperial physician, but the physician couldn't do anything about it. Yesterday, the young master also invited all the best doctors in the city, but they still couldn't completely cure the duchess's illness." Granny Zhao felt as bitter as if she had swallowed bitter herbs.

"Oh, is that so? My father knows a doctor who is quite skilled. How about I ask him to invite him to take a look at my mother?" Rong Yingluo kindly suggested.

The Duchess owes a merchant family a great favor. Where can you find such a good daughter-in-law? If word gets out, her reputation will only improve.

Su Jingyi knew that Rong Yingluo was manipulating her. If she didn't agree, she would continue to suffer from alternating chills and fever, waiting for the doctor from yesterday to come and give her acupuncture to alleviate the pain, but not to completely detoxify her.

At this moment, a maidservant led an old doctor in.

"Dr. Luo, please give our lady acupuncture quickly. Your treatment yesterday can only temporarily alleviate her condition and has a limited effect. Now, our lady is in the same pain as when she first fell ill." Granny Zhao led the old doctor to the bedside as if she had seen a savior.

Dr. Luo said nothing and administered acupuncture to Su Jingyi as he had done the day before.

Rong Yingluo watched the whole thing. The old doctor was quite skilled, but his purpose in using acupuncture was only to numb the sensations of hot and cold, not to solve the problem.

What a joke! The poison she used is incurable by anyone but herself, and it doesn't even originate from the Southern Xia Kingdom, but from the far northernmost part of the Northern Cang Kingdom.

Few people have even heard of the doctors in the Southern Xia Kingdom.

After administering the acupuncture, Doctor Luo packed up his medicine box and said, "Madam, this is all I can do. To completely cure the illness, we'll have to find another way."

After receiving acupuncture, Su Jingyi felt much better.

"Thank you, Doctor. Granny Zhao, take her away to collect the reward."

After Granny Zhao left, Su Jingyi turned to Rong Yingluo and asked, "Are you sure the doctor your father hired can cure my illness?"

"It should be fine. My grandmother was once very ill, and my father traveled three hundred miles at night to fetch her. She really pulled my grandmother back from the brink of death," Rong Yingluo said earnestly.

Su Jingyi felt unhappy when she heard that her grandmother was being brought up again.

"Shall we invite her?" Rong Yingluo asked cautiously when she saw that Su Jingyi was not speaking and was just staring at her.

Su Jingyi knew Rong Yingluo's purpose. If she didn't agree, she didn't know how much suffering she would have to endure before Rong Yingluo would let her go.

But she couldn't stand it for even a second longer.

"Please." Su Jingyi managed to squeeze out a single word after gritting her teeth.

"Alright, I'll go back to the hospital and write to my father right away. However, that doctor doesn't usually make house calls this far away. If we want to invite him to the capital, it will take two days, and the consultation fee will be at least one thousand taels. If it's a complicated illness, the consultation fee will depend on the doctor's mood," Rong Yingluo said happily.

If we don't fleece her ruthlessly, how can we justify the poison and antidote she used?

"What?" Su Jingyi was furious again.

"Mother, it's alright. If the Duke's mansion can't afford it, I'll have my father pay the medical fees. But you have to tell me who in the mansion wants to kill me. If you tell me, our Rong family will willingly pay the money." Rong Yingluo wanted to see what her choice would be.

"How could anyone in the manor want to kill you? Someone must have framed you!"

"Maybe it's the work of the Crown Prince's political enemies, deliberately saying this to create chaos in our manor. Don't believe such provocative words." Su Jingyi shifted the blame without a second thought.

"In that case, my Rong family has no reason to pay for it. However, we can still help you hire a doctor, since that doctor only cares about my father." Rong Yingluo didn't take Su Jingyi's words to heart; it was something she had expected.

I wonder if she can handle it next time.

It's more fun to play slowly. She had seen cats catch mice, play with them like toys before eating them, and then eat them when the mice were half dead.

This game is very interesting.

"Mother, I'll go write a letter now. I hope you can recover soon and suffer less." Rong Yingluo bowed respectfully and prepared to leave the inner room.

She was afraid that if Su Jingyi stopped her to continue caring for the sick, she might lose her temper and kill the person. That would be a huge disaster.

If the Duke were to marry another woman to Gu Ce, it would be troublesome. She didn't want to call a woman about her age her mother.

She stopped halfway there.