After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

Unexpectedly, the other party insisted that it was Zhuang Mengdie - probably because that person knew that Zhuang Mengdie and Yuan Ge had had some conflicts a while ago.

It's a good trick to divert trouble away.

There were no lights on in the yard. The only source of light was the lantern in Lin Mu's hand. The light from the lantern shone on Wang Erjie's face, clearly illuminating the evasiveness in the boy's eyes.

Yuan Ge leaned against the door frame, his eyes shifted from Wang Erjie to Wang Dabao. The elder brother was obviously calmer, except for his trembling fists that gave away some of his thoughts. Yuan Ge lowered his head and chuckled, walked out of the room and walked to the other side, lowered his eyes and asked, "Oh? If so, did he tell me how Sister Hong offended her and made her hire someone to hurt someone like this?"

"They said a little bit..." Wang Dabao stared at the embroidered shoe beside him, racking his brains and stammering, "They said that many people of unknown origin came to Zhixuan Mountain and were very disturbing... They also said that this guest was an important criminal of the court. If something happened to her, these messy guests would naturally leave..."

The embroidered shoes were exquisitely embroidered. He had never seen such beautiful embroidered shoes before. Instead, they made his hands, which were stained with dust and blood, look dirty and ugly. He curled his fingertips, his momentum became weaker, and he said almost pleadingly, "Everything I said is true. Please, please, please, the adults will understand."

If Yuan Ge was really Wen Qian, maybe she would really believe the nonsense of these two people and put the blame on Zhuang Mengdie... But she is Yuan Ge, she knows Zhuang Mengdie well enough. If this Miss Zhuang really dislikes someone, she will deal with it directly in person. If she can beat them, she will beat them. If she can't, she will hold it in and fight back with interest when she can beat them!

This is Zhuang Mengdie, a girl with an extremely simple and straightforward mind. She disdains to do such shady things behind the scenes and she is incapable of doing it!

"Every word is true?" Yuan Ge sneered. "Even if you accused the Second Elder, I might have believed you, but you insisted on accusing Zhuang Batian. How can I believe you? Take the man away and keep him under good care. Send him to the First Elder tomorrow and have someone identify the identities of these two men."

"Yes."

Yan Huo nodded, grabbed Wang Dabao by the collar and lifted him up. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly saw thick smoke rising from the courtyard next door. The faces of several people changed - Oh no! They fell into a trap!

At this point, Yuan Ge couldn't understand that he was waiting in Hong Lan's yard, and the other side really sent two silly rabbits to make jokes and talk nonsense to divert their attention, but the real killer move had already been arranged in the next yard... Yuan Ge pushed Wang Dabao away and walked out, but he didn't see the old woman who walked out slowly in the dark. She clenched her hands, her pupils trembled slightly, her lips trembled for a long time, and she softly called out three words, "Miss..."

The eldest daughter of the Zhuang family was originally named Zhuang Mengdie, but she changed her name herself. Miss Zhuang had a good temper but was also willful. No one in the mountains dared to mess with her, except for their own eldest daughter Yuan Ge. Only Yuan Ge liked to call that girl "Zhuang Batian".

The old woman watched "Wen Qian" rushing to the next door, and her whole body trembled because of the secret expectation in her heart... She was the old woman next to Yuan Ge, the only old woman who had been by her side before Yuan Ge was four years old. She was destined to have no children in this life, and all her efforts were poured into Yuan Ge, treating her like a close relative. After that day, she was going to follow him, but then she thought that if the old man came out of seclusion, she might not be able to bear it. The eldest lady only had such a relative, so she should protect her a little, so she survived.

She watched over the young lady's coffin, and she also sent her all the way to the forbidden place. Later, she guarded the young lady outside for three days and three nights. It should be impossible... But the young lady was always smart and clever. Maybe she didn't fall off the cliff that day. Maybe the coffin was a fake... Maybe the young lady found something wrong and took the opportunity to escape and hide her identity? Her nails dug into her palm, which hurt. The old woman woke up with a start, hid all the emotions in her eyes, and retreated to a corner where no one noticed.

……

The fire spread quickly. When everyone saw the thick smoke rising and rushed to the next courtyard, the raging fire had already shown signs of getting out of control. There were not many servants in the medicine garden and the two guest houses to begin with, and now half of them were knocked unconscious, so there were not many who could be pulled out to put out the fire.

The only thing to be thankful for was that Hong Lan, who had been tossing and turning and unable to sleep because she was worried about the yard next door, escaped at the first opportunity. Now she was standing there with messy hair and a smoke-stained face, and her expression... was as if she had lost her parents.

Yuan Ge took two quick steps forward and asked, "What happened? Did you see who set the fire?" It was a late winter night and the fire spread so quickly. It was hard to believe that it was just a natural disaster.

What’s more, it happened at such a “coincidental” time.

Hong Lan lowered her head and shook her head, "I didn't see it clearly... I couldn't sleep, and I was worried that something happened to you, so I closed my eyes and thought about it. When I realized something was wrong and wanted to chase you out, the fire had already started..."

In order to avoid being seen by others, there was not even a servant to serve in this courtyard. When Hong Lan saw the fire, she hurriedly put on a piece of clothes and ran to the courtyard, and the fire suddenly broke out. The guest house was uninhabited in the past, so the servants were naturally lazy. There was no water in the water tank in the courtyard. At that moment, she could do nothing but stand in the courtyard at a loss...

"Wen Qian." Hong Lan clutched the edge of her cloak, unconsciously picking at the lines of the embroidery thread, calling out to the other person in a state of panic. Hong Lan felt that she and Wen Qian were not friends. Except for the admiration she had for each other when they first met, they seemed to always be on the opposite side of being wary of each other. But perhaps it was because of the daily interactions, or perhaps she was really too helpless. She had no one to confide in the heavy feelings that made her feel suffocated. So at this moment, looking at the buckets of water being carried in from next door and the chaos in the yard, she bit her lip and asked softly, "Do you think... is it him?"

It is self-evident who he is.

Yuan Ge looked at the other person's obviously trembling fingertips and sighed for a while, "I don't know... whether it is him or not. Mother Hong should know it herself."

Hong Lan was silent. Yes, how could she not have counted? It was so obvious that the man had no intention of hiding it at all...On the same night, the next door was attacked by a "thief" and everyone was drugged. If Wen Qian had not set up an ambush in advance, she would have died in the hands of the thief tonight...Even so, she could not resist the other party's determination to kill.

Only then did she realize that man could be so cruel.