Chapter 189 King Yu intervenes
  The housekeeper was talking as he walked and didn't even see the people in the room clearly.
  After seeing it clearly, he was stunned and quickly knelt down to salute.
  The housekeeper's voice was loud. Shen Heshan in the side room heard it and walked over hurriedly without caring about anything.
  He scolded the butler: "There are no rules at all in front of His Highness King Yu. Why don't you quickly admit your mistake and get out?"
  The housekeeper hurriedly admitted his mistake and was about to leave when Jing Muling asked suspiciously: "Did something happen to the Grand Master's Mansion?"
  Shen Heshan hesitated and planned to brush it off, but Shen Zhuoxi took the lead and said, "It's in the backyard. There is a young boy who doesn't know how to live or die. He took people's money and poisoned the fish we will use today to death."
  "The young man is very stern and refuses to say who instigated him. He has been struggling for most of the day, and it is almost getting dark. He finally made some progress, so the butler is very happy. Don't blame the prince."
  "The Ghost Festival is so important, who dares to cause trouble today?" Jing Muling said in surprise.
  Shen Zhuoxi took advantage of the situation and said: "In addition to the poisoned fish, even the ancestral hall was maliciously set on fire. My mother's ranking was even burned to a black charcoal. The prince just said that he wanted to worship, but there was nothing he could do."
  "I also feel strange about what happened today. However, the young man is very strict with his words. No, the housekeeper said that young man has been recruited. Why don't we hear who is so bold?"
  Jing Muling had long known about the fire in the ancestral hall of Taishi Mansion. Hearing this, she pretended not to know and exclaimed: "What, someone dared to burn Princess Xiaoqing's ranking?!"
  "Yes." The pain on Shen Zhuoxi's face was not fake, she was really heartbroken for Princess Xiaoqing. She was plotted by Yu Qinglian when she was alive, and she couldn't live in peace even after she died.
  Jing Muling was furious and said to Shen Heshan: "This is the Grand Master's family matter, and it is not appropriate for me to get involved, but when it involves Princess Xiaoqing, I have to investigate it strictly and give the Queen Mother an explanation!"
  "The grand master declares his righteousness, so he won't disallow it, right?"
  The Queen Mother had already been carried out. If Shen Heshan dared to say anything, he could only say with a bitter face: "Whatever the prince said, please do as you please."
  Jing Muling ignored Shen Heshan and asked the housekeeper directly: "Tell me everything!"
  From the very beginning when he discovered the fish was dead to when the boy confessed, the housekeeper gave a rough outline of what happened, but at the end of the matter, he hesitated and looked at Shen Heshan, confused as to whether he should say something or not.
  When Zhengqing saw this, he angrily said, "How dare you cover up your questions?"
  Shen Heshan didn't know the inside story at all, so he added: "Yes, in front of the prince, just say whatever you want!"
  The butler lowered his head and said in a much lower voice: "The boy just confessed that the person who instigated him was... the young master's valet Maizi."
  Shen Heshan suddenly opened his eyes wide and subconsciously retorted: "Impossible!"
  "I think it's impossible, so I want to ask the Grand Master for an idea." The butler still lowered his head.
  Jing Muling snorted coldly: "It's impossible. It's not up to you to bring that boy up. I want to question him personally!"
  Shen Heshan wanted to say that the death of the fish had nothing to do with Princess Xiaoqing, and there was no need for Jing Muling to intervene.
  But when he raised his eyes and saw Jing Muling's cold expression, he didn't dare to speak out, so he could only swallow the words in his stomach.
  Following Jing Muling's instructions, the two dogs were quickly brought up. Although Shen Zhuoxi treated them, no medicine was used.
  Ergou's face was sickly black and his body was stained with blood. He was full of embarrassment after being tortured. Zhengqing asked suspiciously: "Why does this little guy look so abnormal?"
  Shen Heshan hurriedly said: "It is related to the worship of the Ghost Festival. The young man refuses to say anything. Xiao Xiao has been tortured..."
  "More than that." Shen Zhuoxi took over and said, "This young man was poisoned and was about to be silenced. I happened to go see him and saved his life."
  "Yes, if Miss Er hadn't taken action, I would have become a lonely ghost by now." Er Gou spoke very laboriously, as if he was using all his strength in every sentence.
  After finishing the previous sentence, he stopped to take a breath and continued: "The villain is concerned about the safety of his family and dare not say anything. I didn't expect that there are still people who want to kill the villain to silence him. The villain has no choice but to speak out in order to protect himself."
  "It's Maizi who is beside the young master. He coerces and lures the villain to put quicklime in the fish tank so that the fish can be killed!"
  Shen Zehuan entered the room just now and happened to hear this sentence and retorted: "You are talking nonsense. The wheat around me is fine. What are you doing to kill the fish?"
  "Bold!" Jing Muling snorted coldly: "The young master of Taishi Mansion is so unruly?"
  Shen Zehuan knelt down anxiously and admitted his mistake, saying in defense: "Your Highness King Yu, please forgive me. This young man is talking nonsense. He was rude in a moment of impatience."
  Jing Muling did not let him get up, but continued to ask Ergou: "You keep saying that it was the people around the young master who instigated it, do you have any evidence?"
  "Yes!" Ergou took out the oil paper that he had prepared a long time ago, explained the matter again, and said, "This oil paper is the evidence."
  "Oil paper is everywhere. Even if I go out and buy two buns, they are all wrapped in oil paper. How can it be used as evidence?" Shen Heshan frowned and said, "You are just biting."
  Jing Muling turned sideways and told Zhengqing, "Go and have a look."
  Zhengqing took the oil paper and looked at it, and soon discovered the clue: "This is not ordinary oil paper at all, but oil paper specially used to wrap rice paper, and there is a logo on the bottom."
  "The only ones who can use rice paper in the house are the young master and the grand master." Shen Zhuoxi took the words and said, "How do you explain this?"
  Shen Heshan looked deeply at Shen Zhuoxi, not knowing how to reply, and turned his eyes to Shen Zehuan.
  Shen Zehuan also didn't expect that Ergou would dare to keep the oil paper, and said in a panic: "I can't be sure that a piece of oil paper came from me. I can't guarantee that it wasn't stolen by someone and took the opportunity to frame me!"
  Ergou was getting up and down angrily, and said: "Maizi threatens the villain's relatives, otherwise the villain would not dare to do anything during the Ghost Festival. The villain is keeping to himself in the Grand Master's Mansion, and there is really no need to stir up trouble."
  "Young servants have all been tortured." Jing Muling turned to Zhengqing: "Do you know what to do?"
  "Yes." Zhengqing narrowed his eyes slightly, cupped his hands to Shen Zehuan and said, "The villain is offended!"
  After saying that, he ordered the people he brought with him: "Drag the Maizi next to Master Shen and torture him until he tells the truth!"
  King Yu fought decisively on the battlefield, and everyone in King Yu's palace knew the methods.
  Shen Zehuan's expression changed greatly and he was about to stop him. Zhengqing reminded him, "Didn't Master Shen keep shouting that he was wronged? After Maizi has been punished, he will naturally know the truth."
  Shen Zehuan could only watch as Maizi was dragged away.
  At this moment, the doubts in Shen Heshan's mind were not about Maizi - Jing Muling had been to the Grand Master's Mansion before, and each time he only brought two attendants with him. Why did he bring seven or eight people here today?
  Could it be that he knew something beforehand?
  Shen Heshan was suspicious and his eyes turned on Jing Muling and Shen Zhuoxi.
  Then he thought about Maizi serving Shen Zehuan since he was a child, only taking orders from him, and his mood became even more complicated. Before he could think of a way to deal with it, the voice of the grandma came from outside again: "Old lady, grand master, Cuiping is here!"
  (End of this chapter)

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