After Zhou made arrangements for Su Jian, the gatekeeper arrived.

"Mrs. Chen said she was too scared to sleep alone next door..."

Zhou sighed and had the old woman take Chen to the back room in the backyard.

The next morning, Su Xuerong learned that Chen had moved in when she got up.

She paused for a moment, then called Xiuchun over and whispered something in her ear.

Xiuchun immediately went out to find Song San and relayed Su Xuerong's words.

Song San was stunned: "This..."

“My wife said that the back room of the house was already empty, and with the mercury incident last time, she was very uneasy. She wanted to invite all of you to move into the house so that you wouldn’t have to stand outside in the sun every day.”

Song San hesitated for a moment.

Before leaving, the prince instructed that their small team was only there to protect Madam Su and her family, and they had no intention of staying there.

But since Madam Su has agreed, it would actually be more convenient for them to move into the house for protection.

The prince also instructed that if Lady Su asked them for help, they should agree immediately without fail.

Xiuchun added, "My wife said that if it weren't for Brother Song's timely intervention last time, the mercury would have been splashed all over her face. This time, we absolutely cannot let you sleep in the open again."

Song San thought for a moment and said, "We can move in, but you don't need to take care of our meals every day."

“Okay!” Xiuchun agreed.

When Song San arrived with eight guards, Zhou had already learned from Su Xuerong about how she had almost been disfigured by mercury a few days ago.

They were immediately grateful to Song San and the others, and promptly ordered their servants to prepare a room for them to stay in.

Song San immediately arranged for people to take turns on duty, and soon the eight men disappeared.

When Zhou had someone bring tea and snacks from the kitchen, she looked around and asked, "Where are they?"

Su Xuerong smiled and said, "They're working, don't worry about them."

"Well, we should at least eat and drink something, right?"

"They are secret guards; they can't just eat this food. What if someone poisons them?"

Zhou was startled: "My goodness, are all these people experts?"

Su Xuerong had already guessed that this was Xiao Yuan's doing, probably one of the ways to coax her into the Prince's mansion.

She didn't refuse before because she was worried that Chen Siyi would do something bad to her.

The reason for letting Song San and his group into the mansion now is to prevent any potential problems from arising.

Although the blame for Liu Qiao'er's affair was pointed at Fang Mingzhu, Su Xuerong was more inclined to suspect that it was Chen Siyi's doing.

This time, Aunt Zhang inexplicably fell into the water and died, and Chen went out every day without a trace.

Last night, Su Jian heard them arguing loudly in the kitchen, and she felt that Chen was the most suspicious.

If Aunt Zhang was truly harmed by Chen, the Su family might not be safe.

It would be better to sell Xiao Yuan and borrow his people for a while.

Chen woke up when the sun was high in the sky, completely unaware that six more guards had appeared in the courtyard. Her intense resentment towards Su Xuerong rekindled.

She quietly took the bottle out of her sleeve pocket, looked at it for a while, and then got up and left.

Huang Silang specifically instructed that they could take advantage of the large number of people at her mother's funeral to make their move.

When the authorities come to investigate, they will say that Su Xuerong's old enemies from Suzhou came and sneaked into the Su residence during her mother's funeral, poisoning the well water.

As for who their enemies were, they were all blamed on Su Xuerong.

She said that when she was in Suzhou, she took advantage of her ex-husband's long-term absence to have an affair with someone else. After her ex-husband found out, she actually joined forces with the adulterer to kill her ex-husband, and then the whole family fled to Hangzhou.

The person who poisoned and killed the Su family this time was a hitman hired by the ex-husband's family.

In short, the Su and Lin families must all be poisoned before her story can be accepted by the government.

Thinking of this, Chen's hands couldn't help but tremble.

When Zhou saw Chen come out, her face looked unwell. She hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "How did you sleep last night? Do you want to rest some more?"

Chen looked flustered and hurriedly asked, "Where is my mother? When will she be brought back for burial?"

Madam Zhou sighed and said, "Don't worry, your father-in-law and Uncle Lin went to the yamen just now, and there should be a result today."

Chen remained calm and sneered, "It's only because they're not your relatives that you sent my mother to be groped by outsiders."

Zhou was taken aback and frowned.

Normally, Madam Chen would never dare to speak to her like this. What's wrong with her today?

Considering that Zhang had just passed away, Zhou held back and ignored her.

Madam Chen glanced at the courtyard where Su Xuerong lived.

The furnishings and decorations inside were all much more expensive than those in her home in Yangzhou.

Chen knew that this was only a small part of Su Xuerong's total assets.

According to Huang Silang, the houses and properties she bought in the south and north of Hangzhou totaled about seven or eight thousand taels of silver, not including the farmland she asked Su Jingxuan and Lin Chenggui to help her buy in Shaoxing this time.

She never expected that Su Xuerong's ex-husband would be so rich!

But now, all this money will belong to her and Su Jian!

At this moment, Chen actually hoped that Su Shirong would encounter those bandits outside and never return.

Otherwise, if he comes back, it will be another troublesome matter.

But Huang Silang said that this matter would be discussed when Su Shirong returned.

Having lost his entire family, Su Shirong is overwhelmed with grief and drowns his sorrows in alcohol. Who knows, he might fall into the river one night to search for his family...

With Huang Silang's complete plan in mind, the evil flames in Chen's heart were slowly ignited.

At this moment, she couldn't wait to take action so that she could become a rich man with nearly ten thousand taels of silver!

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