Princess Menglang is hard to change, the whole capital is embarrassed for her

Anger swirled in Shen Li's chest, almost making her explode.

Zhao continued, "In this case, even if the emperor still favors Fang Yao, he will have to search the mansion. By then, if he finds the letter and the evidence is irrefutable, will he still have time to care about the bitch's affairs? Will he still have time to make the queen and the second prince suffer? He can't even protect himself, so how can he think about how to save his family..."

"The Second Prince said that if you can't be used by him, then you must be killed without mercy!"

Shen Li's eyes were gloomy, and a cold aura emanated from his body.

What a Zhao family, what a Chongguo Mansion! It’s not enough to set a trap for her, they also reached out to her uncle.

"My second brother's wife is also involved in this matter?" Shen Zhaojiang asked in surprise.

Zhao's face was filled with disdain as she said, "She? She's worthy of working with us? The letter was hidden in the dowry, so it didn't need to go through her hands. If the letter was discovered by Fang Yao, she would be the one to offend Fang Yao. The Fang family would think she was grudged Fang Yao for forcing her to hand over the dowry, so she framed him. Let them fight, the more ruthless the better."

"Why is that? My sister-in-law is just greedy for money, but she has never done anything to let you down."

"Bah," Zhao glared at Shen Zhaojiang and said, "Last time Fang Yao came to our house to calculate the dowry, do you know what she said to me after Fang Yao left?"

"what?"

"She pointed at my nose and scolded me, saying, 'What's so arrogant about a stepmother?' She said she knew Fang's death was related to me and told me to be careful," Zhao's face grew darker. "If she dares to threaten me, I will kill her."

Shen Zhaojiang suddenly shuddered.

The person in front of him made him feel very unfamiliar. When did the shy, resourceful and beautiful girl become such a vindictive, vicious and cunning person?

Or has she been like this from the beginning?

The scene of her speaking in a sweet voice and guiding him on how to give Fang the medicine flashed through his mind.

She said that if she could marry him, she would ask the Prime Minister and the Empress to bless him with a successful career. She also said that she had always admired his talent and had long been in love with him. In fact, she would be willing to be his concubine, but her father, as the Prime Minister, would definitely not allow her to do so...

After a few times, he lost his mind.

What’s the use now that I know everything is fake?

Shen Zhaojiang was disheartened and looked at her dejectedly. "How did you come up with this plan with the old lady of the Chongguo Mansion? She's always been so arrogant. Why would she do such a thing for you?"

Zhao was very proud when she heard this. "Don't we have Wanying? She came from Jiangnan, and I accompanied her to the Chongguo Mansion to pay my respects to the old lady. The old lady is the old aunt of the Wen family, and Wanying is the eldest daughter of the Wen family. The two are very close. Before the banquet at the Guanyong Marquis's Mansion, Wanying accompanied me to the Chongguo Mansion again. When she talked about Shen Li's behavior in the mansion, Old Lady Yao laughed at me for not being able to deal with a girl who was still wet behind the ears. With Wanying flattering and helping her, the old lady said she would take care of it and asked me to cooperate. By the way, she would teach me how to punish those who disobeyed the rules in the harem."

If it weren't for the fact that the old lady took the blame for this matter herself, and Madam Yao had committed a scandal that tarnished her reputation and then committed suicide, how could the Chongguo Mansion have let her off so easily?

At this point, not only can we not blame her, but we have to treat her as one of our own and work together to come up with a comprehensive and rigorous response.

She was asked to find a scapegoat and give an explanation to the Guanyong Marquis' Mansion.

Over there, the Chongguo Mansion would say that Madam Yao had been poisoned and plotted against, and after the poison was cured, she felt ashamed to face the world and had to end her life. This way, they could earn back their reputation, otherwise the entire Chongguo Mansion would never be able to hold its head up again.

Shen Li felt a little tired from lying down, so she turned over and continued listening.

Zhao said, "How about we say that the scapegoat is Madam Sun?"

When Shen Li heard this, he pricked up his ears.

Nanny Sun, someone close to Old Madam Shen?

Shen Zhaojiang immediately became angry. "You've already included my sister-in-law in your scheme. What? My mother has also offended you? Do you want to drag my mother into this?"

Zhao rolled her eyes, and knowing how to be humble, she immediately lowered her voice and said, "I was just saying that, how could I really dare to do that?"

"You'd better not dare, otherwise I will not forgive you easily."

"Yes, I won't plot against your mother, don't worry. But who should I find as a scapegoat? Otherwise, should I look for one among those people in the Horn Courtyard?"

"You'd better forget it. You can't afford to offend any of those girls. You'd better find someone else."

"Find someone else?" Zhao murmured to herself. "Who should I find?"

At this time, Shen Li could no longer listen.

He used his mind to propel space to the roof of the study, found a secluded corner, and suddenly emerged from the space. He casually lifted up a few tiles and threw them into the yard, then flashed back into the space in the blink of an eye.

The crackling sound of tiles falling to the ground almost scared Shen Zhaojiang and Zhao to death. The housekeeper and guards standing in the yard were also startled.

The guards suddenly jumped onto the roof and looked around in confusion.

There was no one, not even a sound.

"What happened?" Shen Zhaojiang came out of the study and asked in shock.

"It's still unknown," said a guard on the roof. "We didn't see any human figures. There are a few tiles missing, as if someone had lifted them up. But our subordinates jumped up in an instant. Judging by their speed, if there was someone there, they definitely wouldn't have been able to escape."

Zhao also walked out of the house. When she heard what the guard said, her heart suddenly tightened.

"Didn't you see any escaping figures in the distance?" Shen Zhaojiang asked again.

"No, there was no movement at all," the guard said. "It's impossible for someone to run that fast. I didn't see anyone."

"Could it be a big cat?" Shen Zhaojiang's tense nerves relaxed a little. "Did you see the cat?"

"Not really," the guard said honestly, "a cat could run that fast, but..."

He glanced at the empty space between the tiles and didn't dare to say that such marks could not have been made by a cat.

They were all on duty in the yard just now. If someone was lying on the roof under their noses without being discovered, the master would definitely not let them off.

"But the cat is too strong. It kicked off so many tiles at once..." the guard murmured.

"What a fuss! From now on, we'll have someone come out to specifically stay on the roof."

"Yes." The guard bowed in response.

It’s not that they don’t lie on the roof, but when the lady goes to the study to talk, she never allows anyone to get close. If they were on the roof, everything the master and the lady say would be heard clearly, and then the lady would be angry and embarrassed.

At this time, they missed the secret guards sent by the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Ever since the secret guard returned from the accident, the Prime Minister sent someone to say that the young master and the young lady have grown up, and the master has been an official for so many years and has his own power, so the Prime Minister's Mansion will no longer send secret guards.

From then on, they occasionally saw something flash by in the mansion, but they never saw it clearly, so they could only treat it as a ghost and fool people away.