Sun Ruling didn't know why Gao Zhuangshan suddenly brought up this matter. She thought Gao Zhuangshan had figured it out, so she softened her tone and said, "Child, Mother won't harm you. Only if you marry Miss Jiang will your grandfather's family business be passed down to you. Otherwise, the family business will belong to the imperial court."

Hearing this, Gao Zhuangshan felt mixed emotions and looked at Sun Ruling and said, "But Miss Jiang already has someone she loves."

Upon hearing this, Sun Ruling couldn't help but chuckle, covering her lips. She glanced at Jiang Yanyu, who had a wooden face, and then turned to look at Gao Zhuangshan, with a look of confidence: "My dear child, no matter what, Miss Jiang will agree to marry you."

After saying that, she looked at Jiang Yanyu again, with a hint of arrogance and a hint of threat: "Isn't it? Miss Jiang, now that Master Jiang is in prison, only my family can help you."

Jiang Yanyu pursed her lips tightly and was about to speak when Rong Su reached out and held her back, then spoke directly to Sun Ruling.

"Mrs. Gao. Just today, Mrs. Jiang found new evidence proving that Mr. Jiang was not the murderer of Mr. Zhou. Therefore, Mr. Jiang has been acquitted."

Sun Ruling was shocked: "How is that possible?"

"Impossible? Master Jiang has been cleared of suspicion and released, which is a good thing. Madam Gao said she would help Miss Jiang reduce Master Jiang's sentence, but from my perspective, you don't seem to want Master Jiang to be acquitted."

Rong Su looked at Sun Ruling with a smile, and saw her face becoming increasingly ugly, provoking her emotions.

"Where did you come from, slave? How dare you be so rude in front of me?" Sun Ruling seemed guilty and did not dare to answer Rong Su's question directly. Instead, she changed the subject and attacked her identity.

Rong Su narrowed her eyes, a hint of coldness flashed across her eyes, but her face remained smiling.

"Mrs. Gao, I originally wanted to play with you slowly, but now, I really don't like your behavior."

Sun Ruling was furious and yelled at Rong Su, "You are such a wicked slave! Who are you to say anything about me? Come on! Teach this lowly girl a lesson!"

Instantly, two servants approached Rong Su. Jiang Yanyu saw them and wanted to go forward to say something on her behalf, but Rong Su raised her hand to stop her and said in a low voice, "I don't need you to speak for me. This is paralysis powder. Go save Liu Zhu first."

After saying that, she put her hands behind her back and secretly stuffed a package into Jiang Yanyu's pocket.

Jiang Yanyu was stunned for a moment, then nodded. While Sun Ruling was not paying attention, she slowly took a few steps back and moved towards Liu Zhu.

At this time, the two servants had come to her. They looked at each other, then smiled evilly and stretched out their hands towards her.

But in just a short moment, in full view of everyone, before anyone could react, the two servants' outstretched hands stopped only half an inch away from Rong Su, and then both of them fell straight to the ground at the same time and fainted.

Sun Ruling was shocked when she saw this. She pointed at Rong Su and shouted, "What did you do to them?"

Before Rong Sudu could answer, someone had already noticed that the man was the middle-aged man next to Sun Ruling. He seemed to be the housekeeper of the mansion, just like Shang Bo.

"Madam, this woman is the evil woman who injured so many of the Jiang family's servants! It was she who poisoned so many people that caused our plan to fail!"

Sun Ruling's face gradually became sinister and angry, and she looked at Rong Su as if she wanted to eat her.

"I didn't expect it to be you, a bitch! If you hadn't been an obstacle, I would have let my Shan'er marry Jiang Yanyu!"

When Jiang Yanyu heard this, she was shocked, then she understood and looked at Sun Ruling with disbelief and anger.

"So it was you! You bribed my family's servants to arrest Ah Shen and me in my father's name, and then you wanted to kill Ah Shen! I still blame my father! Sun Ruling, you have such a vicious heart!"

Seeing that Jiang Yanyu already knew about this, Sun Ruling no longer concealed it. She raised her chin and stared at Jiang Yanyu with a condescending look: "Jiang Yanyu, I'm giving you a clear path. Marry into our Gao family, and you'll be the only young wife. How can you be happy with that rural doctor?"

Listening to Sun Ruling's words, which seemed to be for her own good and a gift to her, Jiang Yanyu couldn't help but sneer, thinking that she was simply shameless.

"I won't marry. Give up on this idea, Sun Ruling!"

"That's right, Miss Jiang won't get married. Now that Mr. Jiang is fine, she doesn't need to beg you, and naturally she doesn't need to marry Gao Zhuangshan." Rong Su took the opportunity to retort to Sun Ruling based on what Jiang Yanyu said.

Sun Ruling's face looked as ugly as if it had been smoked by a dead fish. At this time, the man next to Sun Ruling gave her a suggestion with a somewhat sinister look on his face.

"Madam, since the young master is here, and Miss Jiang is here too, why not let them have their affair today? This way, we won't have to worry about it any longer."

Sun Ruling seemed to have thought of something, and smiled softly, "Yes, Butler Yan, you are right. Then let's do as Butler Yan says. Let my Shan'er and Miss Jiang have a fait accompli today and make this a perfect match!"

These words shocked them all.

Rong Su couldn't help but frown slightly and glanced at Butler Yan. This man was simply disgusting.

Butler Yan winked at the servants, and then all the servants surrounded Jiang Yanyu. Jiang Yanyu was about to go to Liu Zhu, but she didn't expect Sun Ruling to do this, which made her panic, and she had to sprinkle the paralyzing powder that Rong Su gave her at the servants.

But unlike expectations, the paralyzing powder had no effect on the servants. Rong Su also saw this and was stunned for a moment. How could this be possible? Her medicine would not be wrong.

Steward Yan gave a cold laugh. Seeing their surprised expressions, he said, "Stop struggling. This witch's medicine will no longer work. As early as when I knew that the witch had poisoned many members of the Jiang family, I predicted that this witch might also come to Lincheng. Just in case, I asked a doctor to prescribe a lot of antidote in advance. Now, it seems that everything is going as I expected."

Rong Su looked at Butler Yan in astonishment, and then she remembered that she had knocked down many servants in the bamboo forest before, but only one escaped. Thinking back to it, a cold light flashed in her eyes. This man actually had such a strategy!

"Haha, Butler Yan, you did a good job! You are far-sighted and good at planning!" Sun Ruling couldn't help laughing happily when she saw that Jiang Yanyu had been caught.

Before Rong Su could come up with a response, Sun Ruling suddenly looked at Rong Su coldly and pointed at her: "Catch this lowly bitch too!"

Two or three servants surrounded her. This time, her medicine really had no effect on them. Her hands were grabbed, and one of the servants even punched her in the abdomen fiercely.

"Ugh!" She felt a sharp pain as if her internal organs were hit by a huge rock, and she couldn't help but cry out in pain.

Enduring the severe pain, she gritted her teeth, stared at Butler Yan, and asked a puzzled question: "Since you already gave your men the antidote, why was I able to knock down two servants just now?"

Butler Yan put his hands behind his back, sneered, and looked at her with disdain: "If it weren't for this, how could you let your guard down?"

After hearing this answer, Rong Su finally understood and smiled coldly in her heart.

Gao Zhuangshan, who had been silent for a long time, was unusually calm. He did not struggle and allowed the two servants to hold him. When Butler Yan walked up to him with the medicine, he suddenly raised his head and looked directly at Sun Ruling.

"Mother, my child, I just want to know one thing. Did you frame Master Jiang?"

Sun Ruling's face suddenly darkened: "Shan'er, do you really have to know? Mother is only doing this for your own good."

Gao Zhuangshan lowered his head when he heard this, then raised it again, smiled bitterly, and continued to ask, "Mother, as long as you tell me, I am willing to do whatever you want."

Sun Ruling frowned and hesitated for a moment. Then, seeing Gao Zhuangshan's pleading eyes, she sighed softly and replied softly, as if compromising, "Shan'er, if I don't do this, the Gao family's assets will be owned by the imperial court! What will you and I do then? I just don't want you to suffer! Shan'er, I hope you will understand your mother's good intentions for your own good."

She spoke so earnestly. If Rong Su didn't know what Sun Ruling had done, after hearing these words, she would have been unable to help but applaud a mother who cared so much about her child.

Rong Su looked at the disappointment gradually emerging on Gao Zhuangshan's face and said to him, "Now, you should finally believe that Sun Ruling is indeed the one behind the frame-up of Mr. Jiang."

Sun Ruling frowned, looked at Rong Su, and saw the disappointment in Gao Zhuangshan's eyes. Suddenly, she said angrily, "No matter what you think now, the matter is done. Shan'er must get his way with Jiang Yanyu today! As for you, this lowly little girl, come, capture her and Liu Zhu and throw them into the river together!"

"No, no, young master, save me, save me!" Liu Zhu kept struggling and crying for help from Gao Zhuangshan.

Rong Su glanced outside. It was dark and silent outside, and a trace of anxiety flashed in his eyes.

Just as the servants were about to carry her and Liu Zhu out, the sound of footsteps continued to be heard from outside.

When Sun Ruling heard this, she and Butler Yan were both surprised.

"who?"

"How could there be someone here? I clearly have deployed guards nearby!" Butler Yan seemed to have made preparations in advance, but he did not seem to expect that there was someone else behind the scenes, and his face was filled with horror.

"Just two people. Such guards are useless." Shen Peiqing sneered disdainfully.

Gu Yun and Yuan Shen walked in from outside and saw Rong Su and Jiang Yanyu being captured respectively. They both called out their names nervously.

"Miss Rong!"

"Yu'er!"

Shen Peiqing's gaze unconsciously fell on Rong Su. Seeing that her face was a little pale, he couldn't help but frowned slightly.

After hearing what Shen Peiqing said, Butler Yan's face turned ugly. Sun Ruling was not afraid when she saw Shen Peiqing and the others. She even ordered Butler Yan: "What are you waiting for! They are just three yellow-haired brats. Can't we kill them with so many of us?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Steward Yan immediately turned ruthless again. He raised his hand and ordered the servants, "That's right! Come, quickly capture these three people! Life or death is irrelevant!"

Shen Peiqing's face was stern. He looked at the servants who were about to surround him, then looked at Butler Yan and Sun Ruling. His voice turned as cold as frost: "Then let's see if you really have the ability to do this."

As soon as he finished speaking, a number of yamen runners rushed in behind Shen Peiqing and the other three, and a man in official uniform walked out from among the runners.

When Shen Peiqing and the others saw the man, they all made way and the man walked in front of them.

Sun Ruling panicked slightly when she saw the man, but then quickly put on a respectful look and said to the man, "Greetings, Master Cheng. What brings you here, Master Cheng?"

Lord Cheng looked solemn and majestic. He asked in a deep voice, "It is I who want to ask Madam Gao. Don't you know why I came here?"

After hearing what Master Cheng said, Sun Ruling's expression froze for a moment. She pretended not to know and tried to get away with it: "How could a humble woman know what Master is thinking?"

Seeing that Sun Ruling still refused to confess the truth, Lord Cheng frowned, somewhat displeased: "Madam Gao, do you admit or not that you framed Jiang Suifeng?"

Sun Ruling was startled, a flicker of panic flashing across her eyes, but after a moment, she calmly smiled and played it off, "Haha. My Lord, you've mobilized so many people just to interrogate me. Without evidence, I naturally won't admit to such a trumped-up charge."

"Do you really think there is no evidence?" Lord Cheng narrowed his eyes, his eyes revealing a stern and oppressive look.

Sun Ruling began to panic, her eyes wandering. Could it be true, as that lowly girl said, that Mu Yining had found evidence, and Jiang Suifeng had been acquitted?

No, if that were the case, then Lord Cheng would have brought evidence to arrest her long ago. Why would he come to question her in such a grand manner?

After figuring this out, Sun Ruling seemed calmer. She covered her lips with a faint smile and said, "Then please produce the evidence, sir. If you have evidence, I will naturally have nothing to say, but if you don't, I will never suffer such an injustice!"

By saying this, she meant that she would not suffer in silence, and there was a hint of threat to Adult Cheng in it.

Lord Cheng naturally heard it and frowned slightly. Rong Su could already see that Lord Cheng was about to retreat.

She didn't expect Sun Ruling to remain calm in such a situation. She was indeed not a scheming person. Without caring too much, she could only shout, "Master Cheng, there is evidence! Among the people behind you, my guard is one! The evidence is on my guard Shen Peiqing!"

When Sun Ruling heard this, a hint of viciousness appeared in her eyes, and her voice was slightly scolding: "Sir, don't believe the words of this lowly girl. She poisoned two of my servants, which shows how cruel she is!"

Seeing that Sun Ruling was already using other things to divert the master's attention, Rong Su was determined not to let her succeed. She hurriedly said, "Master! I will take responsibility for poisoning people, but now we must find evidence to prove that Master Jiang is innocent! Tomorrow is the day Master Jiang will sentence him! Please believe me!"

Sun Ruling glared at Rong Su fiercely, her hatred for her reaching a peak, but she said to Master Cheng with a flattering expression, "Master, don't believe the nonsense of this lowly girl. She has no evidence at all."

Rong Su pinched her fingers, glanced at Sun Ruling, and then looked closely at Shen Peiqing. What was this man doing? Why didn't he say anything? Didn't he find any evidence?

At this moment, Master Cheng raised his hand, stopping Sun Ruling from continuing to speak, and turned to look at Shen Peiqing and the other three: "Which of you is her guard? If you have evidence, bring it out."

Shen Peiqing pursed his lips and said nothing. Rong Su watched, feeling anxious. What was he doing? Did he really not find any evidence?

Gu Yun and Yuan Shen looked at Shen Peiqing at the same time, both of them a little puzzled.

Shen Peiqing noticed that many people were looking at him, and he felt annoyed. He raised his eyes and glared at Rong Su fiercely. He was not her bodyguard!

Rong Su was stunned when she saw Shen Peiqing's angry eyes. No, why was he looking at her like that? Didn't they agree that he and Gu Yun were going to find evidence? This didn't look like the look of someone who hadn't found anything?

Master Cheng also noticed who Gu Yun and Yuan Shen were looking at, so he looked at Shen Peiqing and asked in a deep voice, "Are you Shen Peiqing, the guard of that girl?"

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