Bai Zheng never expected that Bai Di would be so willing to mutilate her own face just to oppose her.
For a moment, she didn't know whether she should admire or be touched by this cousin of hers.
"What... happened to Lady Chen's face?" Feng Jingxuan's voice was hoarse. He was truly frightened.
At the birthday banquet of Princess Mingzhao back then, Bai Di had impulsively angered Feng Linche and was slapped in the face. Her face was indeed badly injured.
But after all, it was just a flesh wound. The General's Mansion and the Duke's Mansion had plenty of rare medicinal herbs. How could they not heal her face?
However, it seemed that not only had Bai Di's face not healed, but the wounds had also suppurated. It looked as if...
As if she had been poisoned!
Sure enough, Bai Di pointed at Bai Zheng, extremely angry. "Tuwu... It was you who put the tuwu in my Snow - Skin Ointment!"
"Tuwu? You mean... someone put such a deadly poison in your Snow - Skin Ointment?" Feng Jingxuan was extremely shocked.
No wonder Bai Di's face had been so horribly disfigured. It was because someone had put tuwu, a poison that made wounds fester and rot, in her ointment.
Not only Feng Jingxuan, but everyone present was also deeply shocked.
As the name suggests, Snow - Skin Ointment was a medicine that could eliminate scars when applied. It could not only make the skin heal quickly but also make it fairer and smoother.
Because of its fast - acting and good results, its price had skyrocketed. In Yongding City, it was almost impossible to get even one jar.
After Bai Di was slapped in the face, her face was full of scars. What she needed most was this Snow - Skin Ointment.
But who would have thought that someone would put tuwu in the ointment that she used to apply on her wounds every day?
Ruining the face of a young girl in her prime.
How vicious the person's heart was!
Bai Di cried and continued to accuse. "That day when I returned to the General's Mansion seriously injured, many people came to visit my father and me and left gifts, including this Snow - Skin Ointment.
My father felt sorry for me. As soon as he saw the Snow - Skin Ointment, he gave it to me.
I was very happy when I saw the ointment and used it to apply on my face every day. I didn't expect that not only did the scabs not fade, but the wounds became more and more festered and serious.
I found several doctors, but none of them could find out the reason.
It was not until yesterday that I met an old doctor on the road. He said that there was the smell of tuwu on me, and then I found out it was the problem with the Snow - Skin Ointment.
But at that time, the Snow - Skin Ointment was mixed in a pile of gifts. Because of my father's paralysis, the mansion was in a complete mess. No one remembered who had sent the Snow - Skin Ointment.
I couldn't figure it out either. Those who came to send gifts at that time were all people who were on good terms with the General's Mansion, and most of them were uncles, aunts and other relatives. Who would be so vicious?
Moreover, tuwu was a rare and deadly poison. Even the first few doctors I found couldn't recognize it...
I almost suspected all the people who came to send gifts that night. No matter how hard I thought, I didn't expect it to be you!"
Bai Di's voice suddenly became shrill. She pointed at Bai Zheng and trembled violently all over.
The pus on her face began to flow down along the scars as her body shook violently.
It made everyone feel nauseous again.
Bai Zheng quickly averted her gaze slightly and didn't look directly at her. Then she forced herself to hold back the nausea and said, "I never sent any gifts to the General's Mansion. Where did the accusation of poisoning come from?"
"You didn't visit in person, but your father sent so many good things here in different ways for several days!" Bai Di said confidently.
Hearing this, Bai Zheng couldn't help but smile bitterly.
This was exactly what her good father, who always regarded the General's Mansion as his own family, would do.
The Snow - Skin Ointment was mixed in a pile of gifts sent by others, and her good father, Bai Yinan, had once eagerly brought a pile of rare medicinal herbs and tonics to the General's Mansion.
Although the General's Mansion didn't accept them at first and threw them out, her good father still took a lot of trouble and even secretly sent them in the name of others.
Unexpectedly, Bai Di had even caught this loophole.
Now, the Bai Mansion was doomed to be unable to clear itself of the suspicion about the origin of the Snow - Skin Ointment. Since several families that had sent gifts were all suspected, they could only start with the tuwu.
And now, there was tuwu on Bai Zheng's wedding dress...
Looking at Bai Zheng, who was smiling helplessly, Feng Linyuan got closer to her and said loudly to Bai Di.
"Lady Chen must be too angry to think clearly, right? Didn't you hear what this Marquis said just now? The tuwu was sprinkled on this Marquis's wife by someone else. She is also a victim. Instead of showing sympathy for her, you are here making unfounded accusations. What's the reason for this?"
"Marquis of Dingyuan, you keep saying that the tuwu was sprinkled by someone else. Then let me ask you, who exactly sprinkled it! Who can prove that the tuwu on your wife's body was definitely sprinkled on her by someone else and not stained when she made the Snow - Skin Ointment herself?"
Bai Di refused to give in. "Just now, that vicious wolf came into the hall and didn't attack anyone else but only targeted Bai Zheng. Why is that?!"
Hearing this, everyone's faces immediately showed suspicion, and their looks at Bai Zheng also changed.
Since Liufeng came in, everyone had only cared about whether Liufeng's attack was instigated by someone else. No one had ever suspected whether the thing on Bai Zheng's body was stained by herself or sprinkled by someone with ulterior motives.
But now that they thought about it, it was indeed as Bai Di said.
Liufeng had been jumping around outside, but in the end, he didn't really hurt anyone. After entering the main hall, he directly targeted Bai Zheng.
What did this mean?
Didn't it mean that there was no tuwu on the bodies of others, only on Bai Zheng's body!
"Today is your wedding day. I've been accompanying you all the time. I'm most clear that on your way here, apart from your maternal grandfather's family and your parents, no one else got close to you.
But your maternal grandfather's family has always been in Ningcheng, living in seclusion from the world. This matter must have nothing to do with them.
So, if it wasn't you who put the tuwu, then it must be my second uncle and second aunt, who are always weak - tempered?"
Bai Di said firmly, directly throwing an unsolvable problem at Bai Zheng.
Bai Zheng frowned deeper and deeper, trying hard to recall what had happened in the morning.
The only time Bai Di had gotten closest to her was when she was first helped out of her boudoir. At that time, although Bai Di had always wanted to touch her, with the help of several cousins and Song Yiqing, she hadn't succeeded in the end.
But she had still touched Cousin Lin, who was helping Bai Zheng.
Now that she thought about it, it should have been at that time that Bai Di had sprinkled the tuwu on Cousin Lin. And Cousin Lin had been closely next to her all the way, so the tuwu had been passed on to her.
Fortunately, Cousin Lin had only sent Bai Zheng to the sedan chair and hadn't come to the Marquis of Dingyuan's Mansion with her. Otherwise, they didn't know who Liufeng would have attacked today!
Thinking of this, a sneer appeared on Bai Zheng's lips.
She really had calculated every step precisely!