Duan Tingxuan looked at her indifferently, and suddenly said, "Just now Caisang said that you instigated Ran Yun to harm Chuan Ge'er, but what happened when Chuan Ge'er had a stomachache? What was the inside story? Are you still not willing to tell the truth?"
"Master, I...I don't have..."
Although Xue Zhilan was flustered, she still had a glimmer of rationality and knew that she would never admit this matter. Her husband valued her feelings the most. How could a disfavored concubine compare to his love for his own flesh and blood? If she knew that she had designed Xu Ranyun to harm Chuan Ge'er, then even if she could clear herself of the injustice this time, she would not have to live.
As soon as she thought of this, she wanted to make a few more excuses, but she heard Duan Tingxuan shouting, "Come here, drag Fengxian and Longyan away and beat them severely. If they don't confess, send them to the Ministry of Justice. I don't believe these two slaves won't confess."
Before she could finish her words, Fengxian collapsed to the ground.
At this time, Xu Ranyun was dead, and the people in the Earl's Mansion refused to pay attention to them and left. If she kept the secret for her master, she would not even be able to die a quick death. How could she not be terrified? She didn't even need the maids to drag her. She crawled a few steps to Duan Tingxuan and cried, "Master, I confess. I am willing to confess. I only ask you to give me a good death... I have no choice. I dare not disobey the order of my grandmother."
"explain."
Duan Tingxuan was not moved by Fengxian's pitiful appearance at all, and shouted loudly. Everyone only felt a buzzing sound in their ears. Su Nuannuan turned her head and quickly held her husband's hand, saying softly: "Calm down, it's not worth getting sick from this kind of thing."
"Yes, I will tell you, I will tell you..."
Fengxian immediately told how Xue Zhilan had spoken to Xu Ranyun that day, causing her grandmother to be in a state of panic, and then used words to hint that she was using Duan Maochuan's life to frame Su Nuannuan. Then, how Xu Ranyun arranged for herself to disguise herself and buy rhubarb when she went out, and took the opportunity to put it in ginger sugar water and let Duan Maochuan drink it, and so on.
Hearing the amount of rhubarb in the ginger sugar water, Duan Tingxuan even had the urge to whip the corpse. Aunt Jiang was beside Su Nuannuan, shaking non-stop. Although she knew that Xu Ranyun harmed her son, she didn't know the specific data. After hearing this, she felt dizzy.
Thinking about what she did that day, if Su Nuannuan hadn't acted decisively and ordered the maid to pull her away, she would have been annoyed and lost her patience. If she hadn't induced vomiting, her child's life would have been in danger. The more she thought about it, the more scared she became. After a while, sweat poured down her face like rain. Fengxian had just finished her story. Without waiting for Duan Tingxuan to speak, she suddenly knelt down with a plop. She grabbed Su Nuannuan's clothes and cried bitterly, "Grandma, it was you who saved Chuan'er's life. How foolish was I that day? But you let bygones be bygones. Thank you, Grandma... Thank you, Grandma..." As she spoke, she kowtowed.
"Hurry up and get up. I'm pregnant now, how can I have the strength to pull you up?" Su Nuannuan hurriedly pulled Aunt Jiang up, and suddenly heard Duan Tingxuan said indifferently: "Take this bitch out. Beat her to death."
"Wait."
Su Nuannuan quickly spoke up, then looked at Aunt Jiang and said, "I remember you said that when Rong'er saw Fengxian, her eyes were full of pity and sympathy, as if she knew that Chuan Ge'er would die, right?"
As soon as she spoke, Aunt Jiang understood what she meant. After thinking about it, although she was unwilling in her heart, she still nodded and said softly, "Yes."
Su Nuannuan said to Duan Tingxuan, "Speaking of which, Fengxian is just a servant. It was her master who was cruel. If she didn't help her master, with Madam Yun's temper, how could she have kept her alive and held this handle? She was really helpless. Now that I still have a little life in my belly, I should consider it as a good deed for our child and spare this girl, okay?"
"Even if she was coerced, she could have chosen to report it to me, but she ended up helping Ran Yun harm Chuan Ge'er. How is this different from being an accomplice? She deserves to die."
Fengxian had thought she was doomed, but when she suddenly heard Su Nuannuan speaking for her, it was like a life-saving straw suddenly falling from the dark abyss of despair. How could she not grab it quickly? She quickly pulled herself together and shouted, "Master, I know I was wrong. I really know I was wrong. I will never do it again. Please spare my life. I also know that our grandmother and grandmother Lan have teamed up to arrange many people pretending to seek refuge outside the Su residence. Because the eldest grandmother said before that she would go back to her parents' home to live for a few days, they wanted to use these people to sneak into the Su residence and kill the eldest grandmother without anyone noticing. It's only because the Marquis's Mansion is so tight..."
"Poisonous woman."
Even with Duan Tingxuan's great composure, he could no longer hold back his rage, and glared at Xue Zhilan in front of him with flaming eyes. Seeing that her face was pale and she couldn't utter a word to defend herself, he knew that what Fengxian said was true, and in a rage he kicked Xue Zhilan to the ground, then walked out without looking back.
"Duan Tingxuan, where are you going?"
Su Nuannuan blinked her eyes, thinking, what's going on? I... I'm the victim who is being targeted and killed, and I'm still sitting here, where are you going? Are you so angry that you even forgot about your wife?
"Come here, detain Xue Zhilan and Longyan Caisang Fengxian Cuiping together, and wait for me to come back and deal with them."
Duan Tingxuan shouted to the courtyard first, then turned around to look at Su Nuannuan, and said in a deep voice: "The carriage of the Xu Mansion must not have left yet. I will go find Xu Yunxiu and take him to the Su residence to let him see the good things his sister has done. Don't think that it is our mansion that failed to protect him. Everything is his sister's own fault."
"Oh, yes, yes, that's right, then go ahead."
Su Nuannuan breathed a sigh of relief, secretly thinking that Duan Tingxuan was thoughtful. The Marquis's Mansion had lost face this time, as could be seen from the sarcastic words that Xu Shizi said when he left. In order to shut up the Xu family, Duan Tingxuan had to do this.
She was a grown woman, and she would not complain about her husband's behavior of remaining rational and not coming to comfort her at this time. Yin heaved a long sigh of relief, and looked at the woman kneeling on the ground with a miserable face. She didn't know what she felt in her heart, and could only shake her head helplessly and said, "You are too clever, but you calculated your own life. Alas! Why bother?"
"Haha, grandma, you are too kind. How can I say that I am too clever? To say more is just a little cleverness. How can I compare with you, grandma? You are the real wisdom. Without making a sound, I lost without knowing why. I lost miserably. The most important thing is that I didn't do it at all, but you beat me to death with a stick. Even if I die, it will be an unjust death."
Suddenly, Xue Zhilan laughed miserably. Su Nuannuan looked at her and felt so angry that she gritted her teeth and said, "Oh? Do you think you are wronged? It was not you who instigated Xu Ranyun to harm Chuan'er? It was not you who ordered people to go to the Su family and harm me? You are wronged." Su Nuannuan really couldn't muster any sympathy for a vicious woman like Xue Zhilan. Seeing that she was still pretending to be righteous, she couldn't help but burst out with a swear word.
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