"Acid-base neutralization reaction."
When Feng Linyuan heard the first half of the sentence, he was quite dissatisfied. He thought to himself that there was nothing in this world that he, Feng Linyuan, had never heard of. But the second half of the sentence really stumped him.
Acid-base neutralization reaction? What on earth was this?
He looked at the woman in front of him, whose face looked even more magnificent against the bright red regular clothes. There was a rare look of frustration in his eyes, but soon, that hint of frustration was replaced by joy and delight.
His woman, Feng Linyuan's, was truly extraordinary.
The imperial physicians looked at each other. Even Uncle Zhu stepped forward to take a sniff, then looked at Bai Zheng and Bai Di in great surprise.
"The stuff in here is indeed not tuwu," he said firmly as he quickly withdrew his gaze.
"You're talking nonsense!"
These words infuriated Bai Di. She was hysterical, her shrill voice almost piercing through people's eardrums. "How could there not be tuwu in here? It's clearly tuwu! I think you're trying to protect the Marchioness... Oh, you're from the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, aren't you?"
Bai Di suddenly remembered Uncle Zhu's identity. With an expression of sudden realization, she stared at Uncle Zhu with a venomous look in her eyes and said, "How dare you protect a criminal in front of His Majesty? You're simply extremely audacious. Do you know that this is a crime of deceiving the emperor!"
It was the first time Uncle Zhu had been questioned while being pointed at like this. He was so angry that he blurted out, "What a crazy and unreasonable woman!"
Then, he looked at the imperial physicians angrily and said, "Since Lady Chen says I'm protecting someone, then let's ask the opinions of these esteemed gentlemen! They're all imperial physicians from the palace, not from the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion."
As soon as these words were spoken, Bai Di's pair of bloodshot eyes instantly fixed on the imperial physicians.
At this moment, she was extremely excited, and her body trembled with agitation.
As long as these imperial physicians said there was tuwu in it, Bai Zheng would never be able to clear her name!
After sacrificing so much and planning for so long, she could finally drag Bai Zheng into the bottomless abyss and make her stay there with her forever, never able to climb out!
The more Bai Di thought about it, the more excited she became. The corners of her lips curled up slightly, forming a brilliant smile as she looked at the imperial physicians.
"There's tuwu in the Snow Skin Cream, isn't there?"
Although it was a question, she used an affirmative tone.
The imperial physicians were about to answer when they saw Bai Di raise her hand again and point at her own face.
"Look at my face. Look closely. Can it ever recover? I'm only sixteen years old, and I've been completely ruined by this jar of Snow Skin Cream!"
Her voice suddenly became shrill as she pointed at the jar of Snow Skin Cream. "It's all because of it! I thought applying it would make my skin as smooth as coagulated fat again. I applied it every day, but what was the result!"
There were tears welling up in Bai Di's eyes, and her whole face was horribly distorted. But it was precisely this horror on a once beautiful sixteen-year-old girl that made people feel pity.
Facing Bai Di like this, even those who had originally been certain began to have doubts.
The imperial physicians wavered.
After all, no matter how promiscuous and flirtatious this girl was, she had never done anything to harm them.
In the end, she was just a young girl in her prime. Now she had also married the man she was supposed to marry. Moreover, several of the imperial physicians had once been on good terms with the old general Bai Qiying. Facing his granddaughter, they couldn't help but feel a bit of compassion.
"It's all because of this Snow Skin Cream. There's tuwu in the Snow Skin Cream, right!" Bai Di shouted.
The imperial physicians frowned deeply. For a moment, they were really confused by Bai Di's confident appearance and didn't know how to make a judgment.
The Snow Skin Cream was originally made by combining dozens of herbs such as plant soot, frankincense, cogongrass rhizome, pagoda tree flower, platycladus orientalis leaf, and salvia chinensis. The natural fragrance it carried was extremely strong and thick due to the complex ingredients.
Moreover, the smell of tuwu was extremely faint. Unless one had an extremely sensitive sense of smell, it was almost impossible to clearly distinguish tuwu from it.
This was completely different from smelling it on Bai Zheng's wedding dress. Although there was also incense on Bai Zheng's wedding dress, it was just a piece of clothing. If there was some powder on it, one could still smell it by rubbing it.
Unlike the Snow Skin Cream, all the ingredients were mixed together. It was definitely not enough to rely on an ordinary person's sense of smell to detect tuwu from it.
After all, no matter how sensitive a person's nose was, it couldn't compare to a wolf's...
Thinking of this, Imperial Physician Zhang's eyes lit up. "How about we..."
"I have a way," Bai Zheng said almost immediately, cutting off Imperial Physician Zhang's words.
Bai Zheng could tell at a glance what Imperial Physician Zhang was up to.
It had been so hard to let Liufeng escape. If they were to call it back in, how could Feng Linche and Queen Chu possibly let it go?
Under no circumstances could Liufeng be brought in!
But the method they had just used to verify the tuwu was to use Liufeng for the experiment. If they didn't use Liufeng now, what should they do?
Imperial Physician Zhang blew his beard in annoyance and said impatiently, "What method can the Marchioness possibly have? In my opinion, it's better to just call that..."
Before the word "wolf" could come out of his mouth, Feng Linyuan, who was smiling, interrupted him again. "Old Zhang, my Zheng'er is always very intelligent. Since she has spoken, she must have a good method. Why don't we listen to what she has to say first?"
Although his words were in a polite and inquiring tone and his face was smiling, his pair of dark eyes were extremely domineering. They stared at Imperial Physician Zhang so hard that he got goosebumps all over and couldn't say a word.
Everyone then cast curious looks at Bai Zheng.
Zhuo Yi, who had been watching the show all along, just sipped his tea leisurely with a calm look in his eyes, perfectly playing the role of an outsider.
Only Feng Linche's gaze was full of strong curiosity.
This Bai Zheng's performance today was completely different from the previous times he had seen her.
She was also completely different from the rumored talentless, immoral, and weak woman. Since the incident of Liufeng's sudden attack during the wedding today until Bai Di exposed her in public, he had never seen a trace of fear or panic on her face.
He had never seen such a calm and composed woman before.
Feng Linche's heart sank.
I'm afraid that it was a wrong decision for me to assign this wife to Feng Linyuan back then.
Bai Zheng stood upright with a graceful posture. Her gaze swept over everyone present casually and suddenly stopped on a pink-clothed maid.
If she remembered correctly, this was the maid she had seen in Concubine Zhao's Wenrui Palace before. She was the maid who served beside Queen Chu.
However, there was an obvious cut on her originally delicate face, as if it had been scratched by gravel.
Seeing her, a smile appeared on Bai Zheng's face. She turned around and bowed gracefully to Queen Chu. "Your Majesty, this subject's wife would like to borrow someone from beside you."
Queen Chu was stunned. "You want to borrow someone from beside me? Who?"
Bai Zheng pointed her slender finger at the pink-clothed maid.