When the news reached the North Courtyard, both Master Si and Madam Si were about to go to bed. Upon hearing the news, Master Si went out, and Madam Si was no longer sleepy. If it weren't for the heavy rain, she would have gone to the front yard with Master Si. She was getting anxious waiting in the house.
It was unclear how long they waited before the Fourth Master returned. The Fourth Madam rushed to greet him and asked anxiously, "Why would the Ministry of Justice arrest the Old Madam?"
"The arrest was justified," the Fourth Master said angrily.
The fourth wife looked bewildered.
The Fourth Master said, "The late Madam was killed by the old lady."
Fourth Madam thought she was hallucinating, and her voice suddenly rose, "Didn't the late Madam die from postpartum hemorrhage?"
But if the evidence wasn't conclusive, the Minister of Justice wouldn't have taken the old lady away.
Thinking of how the old lady repeatedly expressed her gratitude to the late old lady for saving her life, the fourth wife's face turned as if she had swallowed a fly.
Before dawn, news spread that the old lady of the Pingyang Marquis's mansion had been arrested by the Ministry of Justice. However, the first reaction of those who heard about it was disbelief. The Ministry of Justice rarely arrested people at night, especially the old lady of the Pingyang Marquis's mansion. Why would the Ministry of Justice need to go at night to arrest an elderly lady? It must be fake news.
Rumors stop with the wise.
I don't believe it.
I just don't believe it.
Just when everyone was skeptical, the Vice Minister of Justice led his men to surround the Wang family's residence, arrested the old lady of the Wang family, put her in a prison cart, and took her to the Ministry of Justice.
Everyone knows that the Wang family, the Salt Commissioner of Liangjiang, is the maternal family of the old lady of the Pingyang Marquis's mansion.
If the old lady of the Wang family was arrested, then the old lady of the Pingyang Marquis's mansion being arrested and brought to the Ministry of Justice might not be entirely unfounded.
Someone asked, "What crime did the old lady of the Pingyang Marquis's mansion commit that led to her arrest by the Ministry of Justice?"
"Who would believe it if I told you? The Marquis of Pingyang's birth mother was actually murdered by the old lady."
"How could that be? Wasn't she breaking off her engagement to marry the old Marquis as his second wife to repay the late Madam for saving her life?"
"So it is said that the stinger of a wasp is the most poisonous thing, and that it is the heart of a woman."
“Just because the old lady of the Pingyang Marquis’s mansion indulged her son in keeping a mistress and illegitimate children, she is no good person,” a woman said.
"..."
Everyone was talking at once, truly shocked by the old lady's viciousness.
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