Wu Dinghou narrowed his eyes and smiled. He ordered in a cold voice: "Come here, feed all this food into the mouth of our loyal and righteous grandson!"

"Yes!" The security guard standing outside walked in quickly.

The old servant collapsed and tried to stop him: "No, please have mercy, my Lord. This matter has nothing to do with my grandson!"

Wu Dinghou stared at him fiercely: "It has nothing to do with him, then it has to do with you. Do you want to eat it yourself, or do you want me to let someone else feed it?"

Zhongyi gripped the group's head tightly and kowtowed heavily, saying, "It was my fault. Someone bribed me with two hundred taels of silver and poisoned your food!"

"What?" Marquis Wu Ding couldn't believe it.

Zhongyi choked up and said, "It's the people from the Luyang Palace. They don't want to marry Miss Jing Shu'er into the family, so they want you to die suddenly before the wedding!"

Wu Dinghou's face turned pale and blue. He raised his hand and slapped him hard on the face. "You are so stupid!"

Zhongyi cried and argued: "I was blinded by money. I know I was wrong. Please forgive me."

Marquis Wu Ding said coldly, "It's impossible to forgive you. Go to the Dali Temple and report to the authorities. Say that the Luyang Palace is plotting to murder me. I will make them pay the price!"

Zhongyi did not dare to refuse and immediately left Wudinghou Mansion tremblingly.

Originally, Prince Jing and Jing Shu'er were waiting for the news of Wu Dinghou's death to be spread from his mansion, but in the end they never got it.

It was getting dark, and there was still no movement outside.

Jing Shu'er couldn't help but ask worriedly, "Dad, could something have happened?"

Prince Jing frowned and shook his head: "Impossible, the method used by the staff is extremely reliable. His personal servant was bribed and should be dead for sure!"

Jing Shuer bit her lip hard. She wondered if her father was too confident.

Just when she was lost in thought, a sound of busy footsteps was heard outside.

Prince Jing was the first to stand up and say, "There's news! The plan must have been successful, and the secret guards have returned to report!"

Jing Shu'er was also full of joy, as she was about to escape the emperor's arranged marriage.

She didn't believe that the emperor would really let her marry with the tablet in her arms.

She and Prince Jing walked out together, but saw the Chief Justice Lin Ran.

She looked wary: "Why is it you?"

Lin Ran said coldly, "Marquis Wuding's old servant Zhongyi went to the Dali Temple to report that someone from the Luyang Palace bribed him to poison Marquis Wuding. The evidence is irrefutable. I'm taking you to the Dali Temple for investigation!"

Prince Jing retorted angrily: "This is slander!"

Lin Ran said sarcastically, "Sir, whether it's slander or not, you'll know when you meet that old servant!"

When the father and daughter were brought into the Dali Temple, they saw the white-haired Marquis Wuding sitting upright on a chair.

The moment Jing Shuer saw him, she felt so nauseous that she wanted to vomit.

She hated the emperor so much for marrying her to such an ugly guy.

This is simply an insult to her!

She hid behind Prince Jing and didn't want to look at Marquis Wuding.

Lin Ran spoke first: "Zhongyi, look carefully, the people standing in front of you are Prince Jing and his daughter. Are you sure they ordered someone to give you the poison?"

Zhongyi nodded heavily: "That's them!"

Prince Jing interrupted immediately, "That's ridiculous! They can always find a pretext to accuse someone of something. Lin Ran, as the Minister of Justice, how can you believe this unfounded accusation against our Luyang Palace?"

Lin Ran said calmly: "Don't worry, my lord, there will be evidence!"

He looked at Zhongyi and said, "Take it out!"

Zhongyi pulled out a waist badge from his sleeve and said, "I stole this from the guard's waist. I was just trying to protect him, so he wouldn't deny it after the deed was done!"

Lin Ran ordered someone to take the badge and examined it carefully before narrowing his eyes and smiling, "This Luyang Palace access badge shouldn't be fake, right?"

Prince Jing's expression suddenly changed. He didn't expect that the guards would make such a big mistake.

He couldn't argue!

Jing Shu'er was so nervous that sweat broke out on her forehead. What should she do? Could it be that even her father would die here?

Lin Ran was already shouting angrily at this time: "Prince Jing, do you plead guilty?"

Prince Jing's pupils contracted violently. He gritted his teeth and said, "It was all the guards' own decision. This has nothing to do with me!"

The guard didn't expect that he would become a scapegoat. How could he be willing to accept this?

In a hurry, he quickly thought of an excuse. He knelt on the ground with a face full of grief and anger and said, "It's my fault. I didn't want the young lady to marry Wu Dinghou, so I bribed his old servant and tried to poison him to death!"

Lin Ran frowned and asked, "Why don't you want to?"

The guard replied with a complicated expression: "Because I admire the young lady!"

Jing Shuer interrupted anxiously: "Stop talking nonsense!"

Lin Ran slammed the table: "Don't make any noise. This matter involves Marquis Wu Ding. Let him decide how to deal with it!"

Marquis Wu Ding said disdainfully, "I cannot afford to marry such a vicious prince's daughter. I would rather remain a bachelor for the rest of my life than marry her. As for the guard who tried to poison me, just kill him. I believe the Emperor will make a fair judgment!"

He ignored everyone and stood up, turned his sleeves and left quickly.

Lin Ran ordered someone to ask the Emperor Xiao Ling for instructions, and soon another decree was issued, ordering Jing Shuer to have a ghost marriage with the guard who had been killed, and to return to the Prince of Luyang's Mansion, and never set foot in the capital again.

Jing Shu'er couldn't bear the blow and fainted.

The next day, Prince Jing hurriedly left the capital with the embarrassed Jing Shu'er and her daughter.

Peace returned to the Zhan Yihou Mansion, but at this time they received bad news that Madam Fang had passed away.

General Fang brought her body back to the capital. He seemed to have aged a lot.

Lin Yiwan and Zhan Yan took the children to keep vigil for Old Madam Fang. She cried so hard that she almost fainted.

Even though she had been prepared for this, she was still very sad.

She would never see the kind and generous little old lady again, who was her stepmother who had given her family love and care.

Yin Yue consoled her, "Wanwan, everyone will eventually face separation and death. Father said that Mother was very happy when she traveled and enjoyed the mountains and rivers. Even when she died, she was smiling. She said she had no regrets at all!"

Lin Yiwan naturally understood this truth. She had been reborn too long ago, so she greedily wanted to protect everyone around her. She could resist those conspiracies and tricks, but she could not prevent the trajectory of time.

Eventually someone will leave. Madam Fang is the first, but she will definitely not be the last!

She must cheer up and live in the present.

Madam Fang's funeral was grand and solemn. Because there were so many people from the Fang and Zhan families, and they were in high positions and had great power, many court officials came to pay their respects spontaneously.

Fang Qingshan found a very quiet cemetery for Old Madam Fang, nestled among the mountains and beside the water.

General Fang never returned to Beijing. He planned to guard the grave of Old Madam Fang.

Lin Yiwan fell ill and had a high fever. Her mind was dizzy and she kept recalling fragments of her past and present lives.

Lin Xiaoruan was worried about her and came to take care of her personally.

She had a good life after marriage. Even when she had a child, she left the child to her husband and continued to practice medicine in the pharmacy as usual.

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