Just as Su Muxi was making wild guesses, Jiang arrived.

When the yamen runners entered the mansion, Madam Jiang guessed that the good-for-nothing she had hired had failed.

I don't know where Granny Wu found this person; she's so useless!

Not only did he fail to burn Su Muxi to death, he was also caught red-handed by Su Muxi.

However, she remained calm in the face of this.

Who is she anyway, while the other party is just a street thug? As long as she insists that he is slandering her, what can the Prefect of the Capital do to her?!

As she slowly walked into the government office, Madam Jiang immediately spotted Su Muxi standing in the middle of the hall.

Her back view was quite graceful, but unfortunately she had an ugly birthmark on her face, making her a true ugly duckling!

"May I ask what business the Prefect of the Capital has with me?"

Jiang made a strong first move, showing no sign of unease, but her gaze flickered slightly when she saw Xie Chi.

Before He Zhengyang could speak, Xu San, who had been kneeling on the ground, prostrated himself at Jiang's feet. "Madam, save me! I was just following your orders, you can't abandon me!"

Jiang kicked the other person with disgust, "What are you! When have I ever seen you before?!"

She had her servants find Xu San, and he never showed his face, so there wasn't a single flaw on her face.

Xu San wanted to say something more, but He Zhengyang slammed his hand on the table and shouted angrily, "Quiet! No one in the hall is allowed to speak nonsense before I have asked any questions!"

He then looked at Madam Jiang and, forcing a smile, asked, "Is the person below the hall the Lady of Anyang Marquis?"

"Exactly."

"Did you give Xu San money to set fire to and kill people at the Su residence?"

"No."

Upon hearing this answer, He Zhengyang didn't know how to continue.

As Xu San just mentioned, he had never met the Lady of Anyang Marquis; it was just an old woman with a veil who approached him.

The old woman's face was covered, so her appearance could not be seen; all that could be made was that she was slightly overweight.

However, these are only his side of the story and cannot convict Jiang at all.

After glancing at Xie Chi, He Zhengyang turned to Xu San and asked, "Do you have any evidence to prove that it was the Lady of Anyang who hired you to set fire and kill people? If you dare to lie, I will not let you off lightly!"

Xu San knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly. "That old woman told me herself that the Lady of Anyang Marquis wanted to burn everyone in the Su family to death. I was afraid that the old woman was just bluffing me, so I secretly followed her and saw her enter the back gate of the Anyang Marquis's mansion with my own eyes! Everything I said is true, and I would never dare to lie in the slightest. Please, Your Excellency, see the truth!"

Jiang sneered, "Ha! You brought me to this government office based solely on the one-sided words of a scoundrel. Lord He is truly a man of great integrity and impartiality!"

Su Muxi remained silent, but she already knew that without direct evidence, she couldn't do anything to the Jiang family.

However, as long as Madam Jiang enters the gate of the government office, her goal for today will be achieved!

With a slight upturn of her lips, Su Muxi looked at Madam Jiang and smiled faintly, "Madam is really in a hurry. Even if this matter was slandered by Xu San, it is true that the Marquis of Anyang's mansion owes me 17,840 taels of silver!"

After saying this, she bowed deeply to He Zhengyang, "This humble woman begs Your Excellency to do me justice and ask the Lady of Anyang to return this silver. This is the medicinal material that the Marquis of Anyang's mansion has taken from my dowry shop over the past three years. Please take a look, Your Excellency!"

As they spoke, they took out the ledgers that had been prepared beforehand.

He Zhengyang never expected that the Lady of Anyang was not only vicious, but also extremely shameless.

He even coveted the woman's dowry.

Could it be that they killed him to silence him, or that they wanted to smuggle the money?

Jiang was surprised that Su Muxi would bring up the matter of money in court, and her originally calm expression finally changed.

She glared angrily at Su Muxi, her voice icy cold.

“Su Muxi, as I said, this sum of money is not a small amount. It will take two days to gather, and then I will give it to you! I treated you like family before, which is why I didn't divide it with you so carefully. Now that you and my son are divorced and have no further connection with our Anyang Marquis's Mansion, that sum of money will naturally be given to you!”

As he spoke, he sneered with a mocking expression: "Ha! I just didn't expect you to be so shameless as to bring this up in the government office. You really are from a humble family. Did you think the Marquis of Anyang's mansion would be short of your little bit of money?"

He Zhengyang almost rolled his eyes to the sky.

It was truly eye-opening to see someone speak of being greedy for small gains with such arrogance.

Su Muxi looked at Jiang Shi and winked with amusement.

"Madam is joking. I almost lost my life, how could I care about saving face?"

"There's just one thing I'm confused about. Madam first said that this sum of money is not a small amount, and then she said that she wouldn't be short of my money. So, is this sum of money a lot or a little for the Marquis of Anyang's mansion?"

Jiang opened her mouth, about to speak, but then she discovered the trap Su Muxi had set for her.

Xie Chi, the Imperial Censor, is still alive. If she says that more than ten thousand taels of silver is too little, the other party might accuse the master of embezzlement and bribery.

But if she said that the amount of silver was a lot, she would be contradicting herself.

As expected, she had underestimated Su Muxi before!

She thought Su Muxi was an honest and upright person, but she never expected that Su Muxi would not only be so vicious as to harm her son, but also so cunning, and even wanted to harm her lord!

"The Marquis must be blind to treat you like his own daughter!"

Having said that, he said angrily, "You wait, I'll give you the money when I get back to my residence today!"

However, no sooner had Jiang finished speaking than Qiao Zixi's voice rang out from outside.

"Mother! Su Muxi has tampered with the account books! You can't give her the money!"

He Zhengyang frowned. "Who's making a scene outside! Bring them in!"

Since she called him "Mother," he naturally knew her identity.

Although the Marquis of Anyang was a military general, he was a well-educated and reasonable person.

How could his wife and daughter be like this...?

Qiao Zixi swaggered in with two accountants, and upon seeing Su Muxi, she sneered, "Ha! Su Muxi, you're finished! I wasn't planning on arguing with you, but you've turned around and accused me first! Today, I'll show the world your true colors!"

Su Muxi had always been too lazy to pay any attention to Qiao Zixi.

Whether it was due to her inferiority complex since childhood or because she was spoiled by the Jiang family, Qiao Zixi's mental capacity was sometimes no better than that of an eight-year-old child, and she was also so stupid that she was annoying. Only her appearance and her status as the daughter of the Marquis of Anyang were somewhat better than others; in other aspects, she was truly worthless.

"I know exactly what kind of face I have. I wonder if Miss Qiao knows what kind of face you have right now? Would you like me to lend you a bronze mirror so you can see yourself in it?"

Su Muxi meant that Qiao Zixi looked like a shrew at the moment, but Qiao Zixi thought that Su Muxi was bringing up the scars on her face from before.

Her face immediately turned red with anger.

But then she burst out laughing: "Hehe! Su Muxi, let's see if you'll still be so smug in a bit!"

The accountant said there was something wrong with Su Muxi's ledger!