"Mother, it doesn't matter if they don't believe us. Anyway, we've done what we should. It's their own problem if they don't believe," Feng Yao thought it was actually good that people didn't believe, as it could maintain her reputation.
The Second Lady turned around and gave Feng Yao a fierce glare. "Do you think Feng Yuqin will be satisfied with this outcome?"
Coincidentally, these words were overheard by someone.
"What? What's going on?"
"Could it be that Feng Yuqin threatened you?"
"Feng Yuqin is too much. She doesn't admit her mistakes, and now she even asks you to take the blame. It's simply too much. We mustn't let her go."
"Yes, the Second Lady is so kind. She even spent silver to buy the antidote for us, but now she has to face such a thing. We must stand up for the Second Lady and severely punish Feng Yuqin."
Hearing these words, the Second Lady was on the verge of despair.
She had provided the antidote just to make people less harsh on her when they learned the truth.
But now such a situation had occurred.
It was completely deviating from her expectations.
"Everyone, listen to me," Feng Chi saw that the situation was out of control, so he had to step forward and say, "This incident is indeed our fault. The toxin was brought back by my third sister and me from the trial ground in the abyss. But because we had some conflicts with our eldest sister, we got carried away for a moment and came up with the idea of framing our eldest sister with the toxin."
Everyone was stunned.
Feng Chi continued, "After we came back, we exaggerated a lot of bad things about our eldest sister in front of mother. We also deliberately said that our eldest sister bullied us and wanted to kill us in the trial ground. Mother was very angry after hearing this and arranged for people to poison you when Feng Yuqin came back to frame our eldest sister. All this was done by us. It has nothing to do with our eldest sister."
"You... Are you telling the truth?" A poisoned person reacted and stared firmly at Feng Chi.
"True. It was all done by us," Feng Chi said.
Feng Yao felt desperate.
She knew that once this was exposed, she would never be able to gain a foothold in the imperial city again.
Fortunately, she was about to go to the Central Region soon.
Thinking like this, Feng Yao felt that it wasn't a big deal.
"How can you prove it?" Someone in the crowd said.
"I have a way to prove it for you," Yun Jie's voice suddenly rang out.
"You? Aren't you from the Dark Night Pavilion? What does this have to do with you?"
Yun Jie didn't answer but directly asked people to bring up all those who had helped the Second Lady to poison.
Many of these people had been personally contacted by the Second Lady.
So when the Second Lady saw these familiar faces, her face didn't look good.
She never expected that these people had been controlled by the Dark Night Pavilion.
"Second Lady, do you remember these people?" Yun Jie asked calmly.
"Hey, isn't that a clerk from the yamen?"
"That seems to be a legitimate son of the Wang family."
"I know that man in red. He's the grandson of the Li family."
Some of the poisoned people recognized some of them.
Because they had all had contact with these people.
Some people reacted and immediately rushed over and asked, "A few days ago, you bumped into me. Did you poison me at that time?"
The man being questioned looked ugly, but thinking of Xiao Ying's methods, a look of panic flashed across his eyes, and he nodded with difficulty.
Then some people found some clues. Most of them were poisoned after being bumped into, meeting, or having contact with these people.
In this way, everyone gradually believed that it was these people who had poisoned them.
And these people also stepped forward to admit their guilt. "We all obeyed the Second Lady's orders."
This completely confirmed the matter.
Even if the Second Lady wanted to turn things around, she couldn't.
Of course, since the antidote was in Feng Yuqin's hands, even if the Second Lady wanted to turn things around, she didn't dare.
So she could only bear everyone's anger.
"You're simply scoundrels. You made us find the wrong enemy."
"That's right. Beat them all to death."
Someone rushed forward and wanted to beat the Second Lady and Feng Yao and her younger brother.
The three of them were surrounded and severely beaten by everyone.
Previously, everyone had shown mercy.
After all, at that time, they still thought Feng Yuqin was their enemy.
But now that they knew it was the Second Lady and the other two, they didn't care so much.
All the guards of the Prime Minister's Mansion came up to protect the Second Lady and the other three.
As these people were in a state of anger, many guards were directly beaten to death on the spot.
Seeing this scene, Meng Xingyu and his group thought this was the right way.
What happened before was just a minor skirmish.
"Stop hitting. Stop hitting..." Feng Yao was almost crazy with anger.
Although she was being protected by so many people, some people still managed to take advantage of the loopholes. She had been hit many times, and the pain made her see stars.
"Don't beat them to death, or we'll get into trouble," someone shouted. Then everyone gradually calmed down.
Yun Jie said in a timely manner, "Now you know who your enemy is, but do you know who your benefactor is?"
"What do you mean?" Someone asked.
Some grateful people also looked at Yun Jie and asked, "Young Master Yun, do you mean the benefactor who refined these antidotes?"
Yun Jie nodded. "That's right."
"Young Master Yun, could you tell us who refined this pill?" Someone asked eagerly. "We're not ungrateful people. We won't let those who hurt us go, but we also won't forget those who have been kind to us."
"Of course, it's our pavilion master and Miss Feng," Yun Jie said. "Moreover, this antidote was researched by Miss Feng. After you were poisoned, she started researching it. She has a high talent in this aspect. After she researched it, she refined it with our pavilion master. They've been refining pills day and night these days without any rest. If it weren't for Miss Feng researching the antidote, your toxin might not have been able to be removed until now."
Yun Jie's words not only stunned everyone but also the Second Lady and the others.
Feng Yuqin had clearly been in the mansion. How could she be involved with the pavilion master of the Dark Night Pavilion?
And when did Feng Yuqin learn to refine pills?
Why didn't they know?
All these questions kept swirling in the minds of the Second Lady and the other two.
But the poisoned people didn't know.
Yun Jie's words represented the Dark Night Pavilion.
The Dark Night Pavilion had a very good reputation in the imperial city. Coupled with the fact that Yun Jie had personally delivered the antidote today, their favorability towards the Dark Night Pavilion had skyrocketed.
So if Yun Jie said that Feng Yuqin was their benefactor, then Feng Yuqin was their benefactor.
"Aqin can finally stop being labeled as a useless person in front of everyone," Yan Xiao saw this scene and said with relief.
"Yes, Aqin is clearly more powerful than everyone else, but she has to be called a useless person," Meng Xingyu also felt aggrieved for Feng Yuqin.