The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law

Consort Zhang knew she was finished. Her face was so pale that there was not a trace of blood left, and she no longer had the strength to argue.

The Empress looked on at her own masterpiece with satisfaction. This trick she had once mastered to perfection, and now, after years of disuse, it still worked just as well.

First, they were fed a packet of hallucinogenic drugs, then tortured. In such a state, half real, half illusionary, they would honestly spill everything when asked.

The Kitchen Maid, seeing that Consort Zhang had already fallen from grace, kowtowed non-stop to the Empress, and spilled all of Consort Zhang’s wrongdoings in one breath.

From the first time she poisoned Lin Qianqing, to after the Madams entered the Prince Residence and she gave them infertility soups, drugged them.... She continued until she reached the last one, a young girl who had just entered the Residence.

Trembling, she took a packet of powdered medicine, crying to the Empress, "Your Majesty the Empress, I know this is an atrocious act, I kept delaying it, telling them I hadn’t found the right opportunity.

"In fact, I was hesitant about whether to hand this medicine over to Prince Jin, it’s this drug, that has kept the Madams and the Prince Consorts infertile to this day."

What the Kitchen Maid said was no longer important, whether it was true or false.

Imperial Physician Cui took the powdered medicine, examined it carefully, and nodded to the Empress, saying, "It’s this one, the very poison that the Prince Consorts have been afflicted with."

With both testimony and physical evidence, the Empress was trembling with rage.