Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

Over the next two days, Sheng Hong and Chang Bai argued continuously. One was afraid to take drastic measures, considering his children's future, while the other was upright and determined to eradicate the evil in the family.

Changbai, who had always been filial and gentle, contradicted his father for the first time, which made Sheng Hong very angry. He kept scolding Changbai for being disobedient. After Changbai "spoke frankly and gave advice", he ran to the ancestral hall to be beaten with a stick. The servants did not dare to beat him, so he took the ruler and beat himself.

Molan was locked in Changfeng's room, crying and screaming, either shouting "ghost" or "murder", during the day and at night, making Wang Ruofu's scalp tingle every time she went there.

Wang Ruofu didn't even have time to cry these days. She begged Sheng Hong, persuaded Changbai, went to Linqi Pavilion to scold Molan, and then went to Jing'an Jushi to make a scene, insisting that the Jushi perform a ritual to exorcise the evil spirits in her home.

Jing'an Lay Buddhist only knows how to copy scriptures, how can he exorcise ghosts? He simply claimed to be sick. This frightened Wang Ruofu even more: "How can even a cultivator be sick? Is there really a ghost in the house?"

Influenced by her mother, Rulan dared not stay in her room alone at night. She would hug her pillow and crawl into the bed with her mother, clamoring to sleep with them, saying that more people would mean more yang energy.

The family was in such a mess, and Hai Chaoyun was the only normal person left. She knew that only the old lady could solve the problem, so she wrote down all the recent events, sent the two yellow phoenixes that came as a dowry from her natal family to Youyang, and asked the old lady to return to Beijing as soon as possible to take charge of the situation.

However, the day after Huang Fengju set out, Youyang's letter arrived.

At this time, Changbai was still busy at the Ministry of Rites, and Sheng Hong was the one who received the letter. He was skeptical at first: "The distance from Youyang to Bianjing is a thousand miles, unless the military uses the 400-mile express, how can it be so fast?"

The brothers of the Cao Gang in the Eighth Division had already prepared their words: "Gu Du Yu Hou specially left a few good horses, saying that they were specially for the Sheng family, in gratitude to Lord Sheng for letting him come to his home to study."

A smile finally appeared on Sheng Hong's face, which had been gloomy for a long time: "Gu Erlang is thoughtful." He originally thought that Gu Tingye was no different from other rich and powerful sons, and took the Sheng family's efforts for granted. He didn't expect that Gu Tingye had always kept it in his heart.

[If it weren't for the unrest in the Gu family, such a good boy should have been kept as a son-in-law! ]

Sheng Hong opened the small note while thinking about it.

Inside was the tiny calligraphy written by Old Lady Sheng:

"Molan has died on the river. The person who returned to Beijing was an impostor and has been released back into the mountains."

Just twenty words solved the Sheng family’s urgent problem!

Mrs. Sheng’s meaning was clear: regardless of whether Changfeng could come back or not, the Sheng family would tell the outside world that Molan had died in the river. In this way, all the elopement, murder and arson would become false - how could a dead person do such things?

Without these charges, men and women in the Sheng family, whether married or not, would no longer be affected, and the constraints of the Kang family on the Sheng family were lifted.

As for the woman who returned to the capital… After the Sheng family took her home and interrogated her for several days, they found that she was a fake. She was actually a refugee from the south who accidentally picked up Molan's pass in order to beg for food in the capital. The Sheng family had already released the woman back to the countryside, letting her find her own way.

The old lady's plan was to sacrifice Molan to save the whole family!

Sheng Hong watched for two hours.

He sat in the hall holding the feather-light piece of paper in his hand. He felt both relieved that his predicament had been resolved and desolate as he had woken up from a dream - this beautiful dream of a talented man, a beautiful woman and a reunited family was finally going to be destroyed by his own hands.

The mother and daughter of the Lin family, who were held in his palm, were finally going to become a smear of annoying mosquito blood and be completely wiped out by the Sheng family...

That night, Changbai finally stopped going to the ancestral hall to beat himself. He returned to Qingfeng Hall happily and enthusiastically discussed his grandmother's brilliant plan with Hai Chaoyun.

Wang Ruofu was also very happy. She felt that her Rulan finally had a future again and she no longer had to worry about Hualan being laughed at by her in-laws because of this.

Only the Lin mother and daughter were completely unaware.

Molan continued to cry and scream in the dark Changfeng room. For several days, except for the nanny who brought her food, no one was seen, and there was no candle in the room. No one spoke, no one told her how things had developed, and no one told her what she would face. In this long-term confinement, Molan was driven crazy by her own doubts.

She tried to kill herself, of course, just to show off, just to attract Sheng Hong's attention in this drastic way. But, not to mention Sheng Hong, even the servants didn't ask about her injury.

She chased the nanny who delivered the food and asked for a doctor, but the nanny ignored her.

She hurt herself in front of the nanny, but the nanny didn't even raise her eyelids.

No matter what she scolded, the nanny didn't respond. No matter what she did, the nanny ignored her. She seemed like a ghost, existing only during mealtimes.

At the end of the fight, Molan realized that she was the only one hurt, so she gathered her spirits, tried to eat, and maintain her strength, waiting for the moment when her backhand would work...

Lin Qinshuang was sent to Pinglingzhuang, the Sheng family's property on the outskirts of the capital.

Sheng Hong asked the village head of Pingling Manor to stare at Lin Qinshuang and never let her leave the house. Lin Qinshuang was crying in the dilapidated hut with serious injuries, but the village head surnamed Zhao didn't care about her at all - the lady Zhao who was forced by Lin Qinshuang to buy a poisonous snake was the village head's sister! At that time, when he heard that Lady Zhao had suddenly been promoted, Village Head Zhao was happy for her, thinking that his sister had finally made it in the Sheng family and would become a powerful manager around the master. Unexpectedly, after just over a month, Lady Zhao was sold to Beijing by the Sheng family because of the case of buying snakes and killing people, so that Village Head Zhao was separated from his flesh and blood.

This was done by Madam Zhao herself, and it was inevitable that the Sheng family would deal with her in this way, so Zhao Zhuangtou could not hate Sheng Hong. But Madam Zhao was forced to do this by Lin Qinshuang, so Zhao Zhuangtou poured all his hatred on Lin Qinshuang.

The moment he knew that she was coming to Pingling Manor, Zhao Zhuangtou had already sentenced Lin Qinshuang to death by slicing in his heart.

He did not call a doctor or send medicine to Lin Qinshuang. The food he brought in was cold and rotten, and the water he gave was dirty and smelly. He threw rats into her room three times in two days, and deliberately had someone take slop to wet Lin Qinshuang's bed... In short, he tortured Lin Qinshuang in every way he could and vented all his hatred on her.

After four or five days, Lin Qinshuang was no longer able to survive.

The wounds on her body that were beaten to pieces by Dongrong were not treated in time. They were rotten and merged into one piece. They smelled and festered, which was disgusting. When the person who brought food entered the house in the morning of the fifth day, her body was already cold.

Zhao Zhuangtou sent the news back to the Sheng family, ready to be held accountable, but in the end, Sheng Hong just said "I know". He laughed three times, pointed at Lin Qinshuang's body and cursed "You deserve it", and threw it into the mass grave outside the village.

At this point, Lin Qinshuang, who had been in charge of the Sheng family, finally came to a tragic end.

Her family was ransacked twice, and she was rescued by the Sheng family twice. However, she was also killed by Sheng Hong because of her "greediness" in both lives. This really proves the saying: fortune and misfortune have no doors, but are brought upon oneself.

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Five days later, the news sent by Han Niu from Huaiyang reached the Sheng family.

The letter stated that, except for the five people who were burned to death and the "missing" woman, the remaining boatmen on the boat were all arrested.

They described the situation of the night in detail to the government, saying that they were resting in the cabin when the fire broke out, and it was the righteous shipowner who risked his life to go down to the cabin to wake them up. However, the shipowner did not escape with them, but continued to wake up the drunken Sheng family members, but the boatmen were swollen by the boat and no more survivors came. The shipowner must have died in the fire with the Sheng family members.

As for the cause of the fire, these people knew nothing about it; as for the missing woman on the boat, these people had never seen her. As for why they did not report it to the authorities in time, these people answered that they were too scared, afraid of offending the officials in the capital and suffering bad luck for the rest of their lives.

The government searched the homes of these people and questioned their relatives, confirming that these people did not profit from the fire. Based on all the confessions and evidence, the local county government concluded that in addition to the boatmen, the five members of the Sheng family and the boat owner were killed in the accident, and the missing woman's body may have sunk to the bottom of the river.

In the letter, Han Niu asked Sheng Hong: Does the Sheng family want to sign and seal the final verdict of the case?

Sheng Hong hesitated for only a moment before nodding and replying with a "yes".

Then write:

"Make sure to bring the bodies of my children back to the capital. The coffins and other items must be arranged as follows... As for Yun Zai and other loyal servants, since they died while serving the Sheng family, we must also bury them with honor. Each of them will be given five taels of silver to buy a coffin..."

As soon as this letter was sent, Sheng Hong confessed to the world: Sheng family's third son Changfeng and fourth daughter Molan all died in the fire.