Exile? A mad, wicked woman empties the national treasury to escape famine.

"These crocodiles are obviously carnivorous, why would they eat this durian in our hands? Use your brains, will you?!"

Old Zhao had lived outside for decades, so he had some experience with large animals. Such a ferocious crocodile couldn't possibly be a herbivore; it must be a carnivore. What a waste of his fruit!

Xiao Wu was so anxious at this point that he couldn't listen to anything he was saying, and even threw out the last durian from his bundle.

The durian was thrown right into the mouth of a crocodile.

The durian rolled to the crocodile's mouth, and the crocodile, which had been staring wide-eyed, stopped and slowly approached the durian, nudging it with its mouth as if it had become interested in it.

Everyone held their breath, eager to see if the crocodile would actually eat durian.

Seeing this, Ji Yunyao's lips curled into a victor's smile. She knew she couldn't be wrong. The reason these crocodiles were chasing them was because they wanted Ji Yunshu and the others' durians!

"Hmph, I told you! It's all your fault! It's all Ji Yunshu's fault for leading everyone to pick durians, which attracted these monsters. We're all in this mess because of you!"

"If it weren't for you, none of us would have gotten hurt, and we wouldn't have been chased by these crocodiles!"

"I know you want to show off in front of everyone, but you can't ignore everyone else's lives!"

As she spoke, she clutched her stomach, turned to look at the eldest prince beside her, her eyes brimming with tears.

"Brother Jinsheng, look, it's all Ji Yunshu's fault. If it weren't for her, things wouldn't have turned out this way. She even used this incident to swindle a thousand taels of gold from you!"

"Such a vicious woman, she deserves to be punished! Brother Jinsheng, you absolutely cannot let her go so easily!"

She wanted to see how Ji Yunshu could deny it now that the evidence was irrefutable.

Today is Ji Yunshu's death day!

All of this is Ji Yunshu's own fault; she brought it upon herself and shot herself in the foot!

Hahaha, it's truly a blessing from heaven! She didn't even have to exert herself much, and heaven just gave her a helping hand to eliminate that bitch Ji Yunshu!

She spoke loudly, and everyone around her, except for the eldest prince, heard her.

Old Zhao, no longer caring about the loss of his durians, quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the eldest prince.

"Your Highness, it's not like that, it's not like that! There must be some misunderstanding. The Princess Consort isn't that kind of person!"

"Yes, Your Highness, the Princess is a kind-hearted person. There must be some misunderstanding. I hope Your Highness can calm down. The current situation does not prove that the Princess definitely brought these crocodiles!"

The other villagers chimed in, "Yes, Your Highness! We can't blame the Princess Consort for all this based solely on this one side of the story!"

"Yes, none of this was done by the Princess! What is this vile woman up to, trying to pin this on our Princess!"

The villagers kept talking.

Ji Yunshu frowned. Seeing everyone kowtowing to Chu Jinsheng, she quickly jumped off the carriage and helped Old Man Zhao up from the ground.

"Uncle Zhao, get up! We won't beg him. I didn't do it, so it wasn't me. Begging him won't do any good!"

Chu Jinsheng's mind is as stubborn as a nutshell. If he is convinced that this matter is related to her, no matter how much the villagers beg, he will not change his mind.

Sure enough, just as she was thinking this, she heard Chu Jinsheng's cold voice coming from over.

"Ji Yunshu, explain yourself clearly to this prince! What exactly happened?! Did you do this?! Did you lure these monsters here?! What are you trying to do?!"

He has been tolerant enough of her; isn't she satisfied?

A cold smile crept across Ji Yunshu's lips as her gaze subtly swept over Ji Yunyao's stomach, her tone mocking.

"Your Highness, you're an adult, don't you have any common sense? This kind of crocodile is obviously a carnivore, it wouldn't eat vegetables! Before you go out, please bring your brain with you!"

"Hmph, stop spouting nonsense to me. Look for yourself. Those durians we just threw out have already attracted a lot of crocodiles. They're probably all gone by now. Seeing is believing. Open your eyes and take a good look. There's plenty of evidence. You still have..."

As he spoke, his eyes unconsciously glanced at the crocodiles, but before he could finish speaking, he saw that the crocodiles that had been huddled together, rummaging through the durian, had slowly retreated.

The durian lying on the ground suddenly came into everyone's view. The durian that Xiao Wu had thrown out was lying on the ground intact, without any damage.

Perhaps the durians smelled too bad, because before the crocodiles left, they used their tails to sweep the durians away a bit, with a hint of disgust.

Chu Jinsheng's voice stopped abruptly, followed by a look of confusion.

"What's going on? How could this happen? Why aren't these crocodiles eating durian? I clearly saw them crawl over, their mouths even open!"

A hint of confusion flickered in his eyes. He had clearly seen with his own eyes that all the crocodiles were rushing towards the durian, as if they were about to devour it.

But can anyone tell him why the durians are still untouched? Do these crocodiles really not eat durians?

He instinctively turned to look at Ji Yunyao. "What's going on? Didn't you say these crocodiles were after the durians? Why aren't they eating them?"

Ji Yunyao opened her mouth, not understanding what was going on either...

Just now, all those crocodiles rushed towards the durian, looking incredibly excited. Why are they not eating it now?

She tugged at the corners of her lips and subconsciously shook her head.

Faced with Chu Jinsheng's murderous gaze, Ji Yunyao had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "Brother Jinsheng, perhaps... perhaps these crocodiles aren't hungry, or perhaps they think there aren't enough durians. Why don't you have the others throw away all the durians they have?"

After all, with so many crocodiles, throwing just a few durians wouldn't be enough. They're so united, they definitely won't hog all the durians! If you get everyone else to throw them all the durians, maybe with more, they'll be willing to eat them!

Yes, that must be it, that must be it!

Chu Jinsheng frowned. Although he felt it was somewhat unlikely, he wanted to give it a try.

He turned around and waved his hand at the crowd.

"Listen up, all of you! Now, immediately, throw all your durians to these crocodiles! No one is allowed to keep any. If I find anyone hiding any durians, I'll chop them up and feed them to these crocodiles!"

These words caused an uproar among those around them.

These durians were fruits they had finally managed to find, and they especially liked them.

How could the eldest prince act like this? Without even asking what happened, he let them throw the fruit to these crocodiles to waste!