Su Chen just heard something wrong and rushed in without caring about the raging fire inside, putting on several layers of wet clothes.
Sure enough, I saw a man. The key point was that he had nothing on him and was pulling the old woman's quilt to cover himself.
Looking at my mother again, she was just wearing a maid's coat.
Su Chengang's eyes turned red with anger.
"Take the old lady out now!"
“Yes, yes.”
The two old women were also unlucky. They wanted to save someone and get some credit, but they didn't expect to encounter such a weird thing. They can forget about getting any credit, but it's good that they were not silenced.
"Madam, please come with us."
Zhang looked at her son speechlessly and stood obediently beside the mother-in-law. The two of them put the quilt over her head and quickly took Zhang away from the fire scene.
When Liu Yong saw the Marquis come in, he knew that it was really over and there was no room for maneuver.
"It wasn't me. It was the old lady who asked me to come. If you don't believe me, ask Aunt Hua. I have many letters from the old lady asking me to come."
He tried to find an excuse to save his life temporarily, but Su Chengang didn't give him any time to say anything and kicked him into the fire.
"Ah, it's burning, it's burning, it hurts, help me!"
Seeing that he was still shouting, Su Chen threw all the half-burned tables and chairs at him like a madman, and he was instantly engulfed by the fire.
I saw him trying desperately to stand up and run out in the fire, but unfortunately he only twitched a few times and then there was no movement.
"My Lord, please come out! The beams are about to break."
Su Chen had just endured the burning heat and walked through the sea of fire when several people came to the door to help him. They poured basins of water on him to relieve the burning sensation on his body.
When I came out, the wet clothes I was wearing were burned. Fortunately, I covered my head with a thick blanket, so my hair was not burned.
However, his left hand was burned and his calf was also injured.
Originally, he didn't have to go in personally, but since it concerned his mother's reputation, he had to do it himself.
The man is dead, so whatever he said is what it is.
"A thief broke into the house to steal, and when he was discovered, he resorted to murderous tactics, attempting to set fire to the courtyard to silence the thief. He has now been executed. Why don't you put out the fire quickly before it spreads elsewhere?"
The servants were already worried because of what they had just heard and seen, but they were relieved after hearing what the Marquis said, as it meant that they were fine.
Su Chen just stared at these servants one by one
"I believe you all know what to listen to and what to say."
"It was that thief who, after being caught stealing, set fire to the old lady and killed her. Heaven forbids his death."
"Well! What happened today only exists in this yard. Forget everything once you leave this yard."
"Yes, we are just here to put out the fire!"
"Well, Madam Hua will take the old lady to the next courtyard to rest, and Jinling will go get the palace doctor."
"yes!"
Someone had already brought a large cloak to wrap the old lady. Nanny Hua, shivering, supported Zhang to the next yard.
I dressed her tremblingly and tidied her messy hair.
"Who started the fire? Was it you?"
"How could it be a slave?"
"Who else could it be but you? Weren't you outside the whole time? Did you see anyone come in? Did you see who set the fire? Why did you only notice it after it got so big?"
"I didn't see it, but I really don't know. I had my back to the door, so I might not have seen anyone. The fire must have started by the back window. I called out to you when the front started burning, but you couldn't hear me."
The fire was getting bigger and it was too dangerous, so I shouted loudly. I'm really not a servant."
Zhang also felt in her heart that it couldn't be Nanny Hua. She had always been her confidante, and it would not be in any good for her if she harmed her.
"From the back window?"
"After I discovered the fire, I vaguely saw that the fire outside the rear window was bigger than this side."
"That means someone else has discovered me!"
Aunt Hua said worriedly
"Will the Marquis~"
"No, Liu Yong is dead. He was the thief. I found him and fought with him. The clothes are a little damaged, but there's nothing wrong with them."
Zhang knew that Gang'er would suppress this matter no matter what and would never let others talk nonsense.
However, Nanny Hua was not so relieved. Zhang was the Marquis' biological mother. Even if the Marquis was angry, he would not take her life directly. She was not like that.
But there is nothing more to say about this. I just hope that the Marquis will let this matter go.
The court doctor arrived and examined Zhang. There were some bruises on her face and body, but he couldn't see them. She had inhaled some smoke into her nose and had some burns on her skin. Otherwise, there was nothing serious. She just needed to drink some medicine to heal her throat and apply some wound medicine on her face.
Su Chengang also treated the wound and applied medicine.
"Wait until the old lady goes to bed, and bring Aunt Hua to me."
"yes!"
He won't be able to sleep tonight until he gets to the bottom of this.
An hour later, Nanny Hua was brought to Su Chengang in the front yard.
"The Marquis has arrived."
"Let her in, and you all retreat outside the yard."
"yes"
When Aunt Hua came in, she knelt on the ground.
"My Lord, the fire was not started by me."
Su Chengang held a dagger in his hand, and the dazzling cold light froze her heart.
"Who put that there?"
"I really don't know. I didn't see anyone at all. Really!"
"Could it be a ghost? Or are you in cahoots with that thief?"
Nanny Hua was dumbfounded. The Marquis wanted her to take the blame for colluding with outsiders to steal and set fire to the old lady.
"Slave~Old slave..."
"Who is that man? If you won't tell me, then go with him. I won't let you bear the blame for conspiracy and murder alone. Remember, you have a son out there. I've already sent people to look for him."
"Hou~ye"
"It's up to you whether to tell it or not."
Aunt Hua knew she was doomed.
"I said, Liu Yong is the old lady's new manager. Nine years ago, when she went to a farm outside the city to escape the summer heat, he was checking the accounts there. Liu Yong was sweet-tongued and good at talking, which made the old lady laugh. Then, after drinking, he...
The old lady was also very scared at that time, but she was widowed at a young age. When the old marquis was alive, he also had a courtyard of concubines, and they rarely came to the lady's courtyard. Her life was really hard.
The maids who knew about this at the time were dealt with by the old slave. From then on, the old slave had been helping to contact the old lady. Whenever the old lady went out, she would ask him to have a tryst. When she was in the mansion, she would call him in every ten days or half a month, and no one had discovered it.
My Lord, please have pity on the old lady; she is suffering a lot too!"
It had been nine years, nine years. Su Chen gritted his teeth and wished he could stab her dozens of times to vent his anger. At the same time, he also hated his mother very much.
"Heh, it's never been discovered. Who started the fire today?"
"This~"
It is really hard to imagine who set the fire.
"I suspect it's Aunt Rong's people."
I can only blame it on the Rong family.
"She hated the old lady for punishing her by making her copy scriptures to pray for the young master, and for taking Xi Que, who was beside her, as a concubine. She also ordered everyone to call her "Auntie" instead. The other day, a servant girl even said that her copying was not up to standard.
She must have hated me and the old lady, so she wanted to kill her. What happened today must have been an accident."
"Did you see it?"
"without"
“Humph, you dare to push it onto Rong’s even though you didn’t see it!”
"I can't imagine who else would do such a thing."
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