When the Minister of Revenue Lin Quan heard that the Regent had arrived, he shook his fat and round body and hurried out to greet him.

Lin Quan looked breathlessly at the group of guards standing at the door and the man kneeling on the ground, feeling confused.

Then he slowed his breathing, bowed, walked to the front of the carriage and saluted.

"Your Highness, Lin Quan, pays respects to His Majesty the Prince Regent. I was unaware of His Majesty's arrival and apologize for not coming to greet you."

There was no response from the people in the carriage. Lin Quan buried his head deeply and dared not breathe.

What on earth is going on?

He has never offended this evil god!

Lin Quan was thinking when Xiao Heng's cold voice came from the carriage.

"Xuan Yu."

Before Lin Quan could react, Xuan Yu had already received orders and rushed into the Shangshu Mansion with the Xuanying Guards.

Seeing the menacing posture as if they were going to confiscate the property, Lin Quan was so frightened that his hands began to tremble and he fell to his knees with a thud.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please spare my life! Please have mercy on me! Please spare my life!"

Su Yuejian in the carriage frowned when she heard this.

This Minister of Revenue is too cowardly. He didn't even ask what happened and just came up to ask for mercy.

Seeing Su Yuejian's puzzled expression, Xiao Heng raised his hand and tapped her between the eyebrows.

Su Yuejian turned to look at him and asked quietly,

"Ache, he seems a little..."

A guilty conscience...

Xiao Heng knew what she wanted to ask and nodded slightly at her.

Su Yuejian pursed her lips, her expression became even colder, and she said nothing more.

The onlookers were even more curious when they saw Xuanyingwei's drastic posture. Listening to Lin Quan's pleading, they had all kinds of guesses in their minds.

"I say, what has this Minister of Revenue done wrong? Looking at the Prince Regent's attitude, he seems to be coming at us with great force!"

"I just made inquiries. The person kneeling on the ground is the palace physician of the Grand Tutor's residence. I heard that Madam Su is critically ill and was poisoned!"

"Ah! Poisoning? How could someone murder Old Madam Su out of the blue? And why did the Prince Regent bring someone to the gate of the Minister of Revenue's residence?"

"Could it be that the person who poisoned Madam Su is from the Minister of Revenue's Mansion?!"

Lin Quan, who was kowtowing and begging for mercy, stopped moving when he heard the words of the onlookers.

Madam Su???

Poisoning????

Not because he...

Lin Quan was wondering when suddenly a woman's sharp voice came into his ears.

"Let me go! Let me go!"

"Who are you? Why are you arresting me?!"

The Xuanying Guards escorted the woman out of the Shangshu Mansion.

"Hey, isn't that the Shangshu's daughter, Lin Mengran, Miss Lin?"

"How did you catch her?"

Lin Quan turned his head suddenly, and Lin Mengran's familiar face suddenly appeared in front of him.

Xuanyingwei dragged Lin Mengran and her maid to the front of the carriage.

Lin Mengran was still struggling to resist. When she saw Lin Quan, she immediately ran to him, grabbed his arm and cried out in grievance.

"Dad, we don't know who they are, but they want to arrest us for no reason..."

The maidservant beside her caught sight of the middle-aged man kneeling in front of the mansion gate, and her eyes narrowed suddenly.

"Miss..."

Seeing the maid's strange expression, Lin Mengran's words were choked for a moment, and then she looked at the gorgeous black carriage in front of her that looked so familiar, and her body suddenly stiffened.

As she was stunned and stunned, the door slowly opened and Xiao Heng got out of the carriage. He was dressed in a dark narrow-sleeved python robe and looked very dignified and handsome. He was cold, arrogant, lonely, yet domineering. Standing alone, he exuded an air of majesty and dignity.

Lin Mengran stared at the person she missed day and night.

Then her eyes suddenly opened slowly, and she saw Xiao Heng leaning sideways and reaching out his hand to the carriage. The icy eyebrows and eyes like the snow-capped mountains melted away, and his eyes were full of tenderness. He gently held the girl's hand and helped her get off the carriage.

Looking at that enviable face, a vicious glint flashed in Lin Mengran's eyes.

Su Yuejian!!!!

Su Yuejian glanced at Lin Mengran's fierce expression, and murderous intent rose in her eyes.

Lin Mengran met Su Yuejian's cold eyes. Looking at her calm expression, she suddenly felt a huge fear in her heart, as if there was endless danger condensed under that silence.

Du Shi from Jingzhao Prefecture rushed over without stopping.

He glanced at the huge crowd at the gate of the Shangshu Mansion, then looked at the eye-catching dark figure, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and hurried forward to salute.

"Your servant Du Shi pays homage to the Regent and Princess Minghua."

Su Yue was slightly surprised when she saw him saluting her.

Although Su Yuejian has the title of princess, she is not a royal relative. However, Du Shi is a shrewd person, and Xiao Heng's attitude towards Su Yuejian was so obvious at the palace banquet.

Even if Su Yuejian was not a princess, he knew that the daughter of the Grand Tutor's Mansion must not be offended!

Xiao Heng nodded slightly, and Du Shi stood up with a flattering smile.

Lin Quan looked at this scene in confusion. What on earth was going on?

Lin Quan suppressed his panic and stepped forward to ask, "Your Majesty, I wonder what happened. I'm sorry to trouble you and this Du Fuyin..."

Su Yue saw Lin Mengran avoiding her gaze after glancing at Lin Quan.

His voice was as cold as ice, and he spoke word by word.

"Lin, Meng, Ran."

Lin Mengran's body stiffened. She caught a glimpse of Su Yuejian's cold eyes from the corner of her eye, and her heart suddenly panicked. Suddenly, a bad premonition enveloped her heart.

"Master Du, I want to sue the Shangshu's daughter, Lin Mengran, for poisoning and murdering my grandmother, leaving her life in imminent danger."

There was no warmth in Su Yuejian's voice. Although she was talking to Du Shi, her cold eyes were fixed on Lin Mengran.

Hearing Su Yuejian's words, Lin Quan's fat body trembled, his small eyes suddenly widened, and he said in disbelief, "What?!"

Lin Mengran was in a state of confusion, and her palms were already covered with sweat.

I didn't expect that the truth would be revealed!

But she knew that the more times like this happened, the more she couldn't lose her composure.

She tried to straighten her body and suppress the panic in her heart.

"I didn't! Su Yuejian, don't rely on your status as a princess, and..."

Lin Mengran glanced at Xiao Heng, paused, and then changed her words, "With the support of the Duke of Huguo's Mansion, you can unscrupulously accuse others!"

"You are slandering me! It's..."

Su Yue saw disgust between her brows and glanced at the shadow guard behind her.

The two Xuanying Guards immediately understood the signal and threw Lin Mengran's personal maid in front of the palace doctor.

The palace doctor, who had been frightened out of his wits by the Xuanying Guard, saw the maid, trembling and shouting urgently,

"Your Highness, it was her! She was the one who gave me one thousand taels of silver! She was the one who asked me to poison Madam Su!"

"Please spare my life, my lord. I know I was wrong. I was blinded by greed for a moment... Please spare my life, my lord. Please spare my life..."

The court doctor was trembling and kept kneeling and kowtowing for mercy.

The maid turned pale and immediately retorted, "What nonsense are you talking about! I don't even know you!"

Then he knelt down and crawled to Lin Mengran, tightly grabbing the corner of Lin Mengran's clothes, "Miss, I don't know him, I don't know what he is talking about!"

Lin Mengran's expression was tense, and the hand holding the embroidered handkerchief was clenched into a fist.

Then he raised his head after a moment and saw Xiao Heng's eyes suddenly turned red. He suddenly knelt on the ground and cried in grievance.

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