When my vicious stepmother mistakenly married me to the Immortal Lord

"Oh my God! I was personally granted an imperial decree by His Majesty. How is the Xie family insulting a woman of high rank in the imperial court? This behavior is no different from treason."

Jiang Song couldn't help but sneer when he heard Du Shulan's remarks that distorted right and wrong.

"Madam Du, you're really going too far in accusing me of treason. But who is the real traitor? I'm sure you know better than anyone else!"

Du Shulan's face changed and she turned her head away guiltily, not daring to look at Jiang Song.

Jiang Song refused to let her go and continued to ask, "Madam Du, let me ask you, how did you get the title of Madam of Imperial Concubine?"

Du Shulan feigned composure and replied, "Didn't you, a lowly servant, listen to the imperial edict just now? This is naturally a gift from His Majesty. I have been instrumental in educating my daughter, and you have bestowed this title upon me."

"Oh? Really?" Jiang Song chuckled, his eyes cold as ice. "Then I wonder how Madam Du raised her daughter? Did she teach her to deceive her superiors and subordinates, or did she teach her to collude with bandits and have evil intentions?"

Du Shulan was horrified when she heard this. "You...what nonsense are you talking about? How could I possibly teach He'er to do these things?"

"If there isn't any, then what's going on with the ghosts causing chaos in the mass grave? What's going on with the repeated attacks on the Xie Mansion? And what about the remnants of the Shen family who escaped?"

"Why were they able to accurately evade the pursuit of the officers and soldiers every time, and even kill several people during the encirclement and suppression of the officers and soldiers?"

Jiang Song pressed on step by step, his tone sharp.

Jiang Song's series of questions made Du Shulan flustered. She subconsciously looked at Jiang He, but saw that Jiang He also had a confused look on his face.

She had never mentioned these things to Jiang He, so Jiang He naturally didn't know the inside story.

"I...how should I know? Those ghosts and the remnants of the Shen family are all cunning. They have their own ways of escape. What does it have to do with me?" Du Shulan argued with a specious argument.

Jiang Song remained unmoved and pressed on, "Then why did those bandits gather in the Jiang family's stronghold? Why did they kill the Xie family members? Who was behind this?"

Du Shulan's face turned pale, with beads of sweat oozing from her forehead. She shook her head in panic, "I don't know, I don't know anything!"

When Ximen Liu heard this, he immediately stood up and looked at Jiang Song with a sharp gaze, "Are what you said true?"

Jiang Song nodded solemnly, "It's absolutely true! Your Highness will know the answer later!"

The trouble with ghosts?

The disaster of the Xie family?

Collude with the remnants of the Shen family?

Release criminals privately?

Any one of these things, if confirmed, would be enough to make the Jiang family suffer.

Although what Jiang Song said sounded a bit unbelievable, considering the recent events, everyone had to start to doubt it.

After all, there is no smoke without fire. If the Jiang family really had no knowledge of and no involvement in these matters, how could Jiang Song, a married woman, know so much about them?

For a moment, the lobby was silent, and everyone looked at Du Shulan and the Jiang family with strange eyes.

Those who originally wanted to curry favor with the Jiang family now retreated, fearing that they would be implicated by the Jiang family.

Du Shulan felt the gazes from all around her and felt like a thorn in her back. She glared at Jiang Song hatefully, her heart filled with resentment.

"Jiang Song! Stop slandering me! I, Du Shulan, act uprightly and have never done anything illegal! Stop framing me!"

Du Shulan retorted angrily, but her defense seemed so pale and weak that even her lips began to tremble.

"Frame you? If I wanted to frame you, I wouldn't be standing here confronting you today."

"Jiang Song, I know my mother doesn't get along with you, but you absolutely cannot frame her with these unfounded charges!"

"If you have evidence, show it to everyone. If you don't have evidence, shut up and stop stirring up trouble here!"

Jiang He finally came back to her senses from her shock. She stepped forward, stood in front of Du Shulan, and looked at Jiang Song.

Although she didn't know what her mother had done behind her back, she would never allow anyone to slander her mother, especially in front of so many people.

Jiang Song looked at Jiang He, who had bullied her in the past but now looked so righteous, and she just found it funny.

"Evidence? You want evidence, right? Okay, then I'll give you evidence!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Yunni, Xie Ankang and others walked in from outside with Shen Yuehan, Lu Xiao and other remnants of the Shen family.

Behind them was a group of students from Fengwu Academy, escorting the bandits that had been captured in the two strongholds.

These people were tied up and pushed to their knees in the lobby of the Jiang family. They were dejected and looked ashen.

Seeing these prisoners, there was an uproar in the hall again, and everyone started talking.

"Aren't these the remnants of the Shen family who were wanted before? How did they get caught here?"

"Could it be that they are really related to Madam Du?"

"It seems that what Jiang Song said is true. There is indeed something wrong with this Madam Du!"

"I think I saw someone from the He family..."

When Du Shulan saw the prisoners, her face turned pale instantly, her body went limp, and she almost collapsed to the ground.

These prisoners were all pawns she had secretly contacted and prepared to use against the Xie family. How could they appear here at this time?

She looked at Jiang Song in panic, only to see Jiang Song looking at her coldly, with a cold light flashing in his eyes.

"Mrs. Du, you should be familiar with these people, right?" Jiang Song said slowly, his tone cold, "They are all your good helpers."

Du Shulan was already flustered at this moment. She subconsciously wanted to deny it, "I... I don't know them! They have nothing to do with me!"

Xie Yunni stepped forward and knelt beside Ximen Liu.

"Your Highness, today we captured a total of forty-five bandits in two deserted houses in the west and north of the city. Twenty-six of them resisted arrest and were killed on the spot. The remaining nineteen have all been captured and are here."

"We have verified their identities. These people are the remnants of the Shen family who were previously convicted of treason, as well as the accomplices of the He family, the Shen family's in-laws."

As she spoke, she held up a thick stack of confessions and evidence in both hands.

"These are their confessions, as well as the correspondence, account records and other physical evidence we collected."

"It records in detail the conspiracy and deal between them and the Du family, including details on how they planned to attack our Xie family and how they avoided pursuit by the government."

"In addition to today's actions, they also explained the attack on the east wing of our Xie Mansion last time. It was also secretly orchestrated by the Du family. They planted spies in our Xie Mansion and poisoned us, luring the remnants of the Shen family into the mansion in the middle of the night and slaughtering more than 20 members of our Xie family."

"Furthermore, this group of people once staked out my sister-in-law's biological mother's grave, threatening to dig it up, intending to lure my family into a trap so they could wipe it out in one fell swoop."

"These confessions are signed and sealed, and the evidence is irrefutable. Your Highness, please examine them carefully!"

Ximen Liu took the confession and physical evidence and read them carefully page by page. His face became more and more gloomy, and his eyes when he looked at Du Shulan were full of coldness.

Du Shulan was now limp on the ground, her face ashen. She knew that she was really finished this time.

Jiang He was also like being struck by lightning. She stood there in a daze, looking at her mother in disbelief.

The mother whom she once admired and trusted so much actually did these things!