The news of Shao Wenxun's arrest spread quickly like wildfire. The Wang family, who had been particularly concerned about the matter, only breathed a sigh of relief at this time.
Mrs. Wang looked at the set of twelve beautiful hairpins in the box with complicated eyes. After a long while, she gently closed the box.
Wang Yuerong turned around and looked at her inquiringly: "Mom, can the Pang family's banquet still be held this time?"
"It's probably impossible to hold it." Mrs. Wang touched her daughter's hair and sighed for a while: "So many things have happened in the capital recently. It's not an exaggeration to say that the situation is changing rapidly. There will be more things to happen. At this juncture, the Pang family will not hold a banquet no matter what."
Wang Yuerong also knew this truth. She held a gorgeous hollow gold-threaded pearl hairpin and shook it, and asked softly, "Is the Su family safe from now on?"
Mrs. Wang's eyes moved, but she didn't answer in the end.
When Mr. Wang returned in the evening, Mrs. Wang asked her husband anxiously, "How is it? Has the outside world reached a conclusion? Has the trial revealed anything?"
Master Wang looked at her in surprise and asked, "When did you become so concerned about state affairs?"
"What state affairs?" Madam Wang reached out to take his clothes, and could not help but snorted in reproach: "Don't you know why I am worried? Apart from other things, our fifth brother's wife is the legitimate daughter of the Song family... If there was something fishy about what happened back then, then wouldn't the Crown Princess be even more wronged? The Crown Princess was about to give birth at that time..."
Women are always more empathetic.
Thinking about the difficulties the Crown Princess faced at that time, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
Master Wang sighed, washed his hands, sat down at the table, took a look at the snacks on the table, and finally picked up a piece of mung bean cake, saying, "We are investigating now. Mr. Gao has been going out early and coming back late every day recently. He has lost a lot of weight. Su Mingqing's master handed over the handwritten letter of Mr. Tan colluding with the Japanese pirates..."
Seeing that Mrs. Wang was listening attentively, Mr. Wang paused for a moment before continuing, "What Mr. Tan? He is the secretary of the Crown Prince's Mansion, but do you know his real identity? He is someone recruited by the Third Prince, and he is also the Third Prince's brother-in-law!"
No wonder he betrayed the prince at that time.
In the Weichang case, Mr. Tan took advantage of the prince's trust and spread false information to both sides, deceiving the prince by saying that Emperor Yuanfeng was in danger, so that the prince gathered troops to rescue him, but the result became an unclear matter.
Now that Mr. Tan’s identity has been revealed, the prince no longer needs to defend himself as to what exactly happened back then.
Whether the Su family was wronged or not is now self-evident.
The shadow that had hung over the Su family for more than a decade suddenly dissipated.
Mrs. Wang couldn't help but sigh: "It's really not easy for Mrs. Su..."
How did you manage to survive all these years
"The Su family's good days are coming." Master Wang did not shy away from speaking frankly, "The emperor originally felt guilty about what happened back then, and now that it has been proven that the Su family was wronged, the guilt is even deeper. Not only that, Master He also died to protect the prince. He fought to the last moment..."
As the prince's grievances were cleared, weren't those who had been close to him before like the true gold found in the sand after the great waves
Mrs. Wang still had many questions: "Shao Wenxun's age doesn't make sense, does it? He was able to collude with the Third Prince more than a decade ago?"
"Who can say for sure?" Master Wang smiled faintly, "Perhaps the Xu family bribed and wooed Shao Wenxun in order to win over Prince Fenyang and provide an extra layer of protection?"
He shook his head: "The exact situation can only be explained by the files of the Ministry of Justice. I only have a partial understanding. But you can rest assured that our family will not get into trouble because of our close relationship with the Su and He families."
Mrs. Wang nodded after getting the OK. After thinking for a while, she said, "I'll go to the Su family tomorrow to check on the situation. I don't know how Young Master Su's illness is going."
Unlike the hustle and bustle outside, the Su family was filled with silence.
No matter how serious the situation was outside, the Su family never expressed any opinion and just lived their lives with the door closed.
When the news of the death of the Second Master and Su An spread, Mrs. Su was in pain for a while, but soon she had no time to feel pain anymore - Mrs. Su took away the Sixth Miss Su Xingtian and the Ninth Master Su Zheng, and forbade her to have any contact with the children.
Mrs. Su was extremely irritable, but Mama Wen disappeared without a trace, and Mama Wu was a yes-man who couldn't even leave the second room. After a few disturbances, Su Yao came once and just asked her a question indifferently: "Aunt, did you dream of Xiao Ba in the middle of the night? Xiao Liuer said that Xiao Ba once told you that after he died, you should not treat Xiao Liuer and Xiao Jiu the same way as he did to him. Did you do it?"
Mrs. Su was silent.
Su Yao didn't waste any more time talking to her, but just said lightly: "Second uncle is dead, and you must know the situation of Second Aunt's family better than me. If you are no longer the second wife of the Su family, is your family still your family?"
Mrs. Su Er stopped doing this from then on.
As for Mrs. Su San's place, Su Yao had never even been there.
Everything that should and can be said has been said. They had no mother-daughter relationship in their past and present lives. If she died, Mrs. Su San would not only jump up and applaud, but would also sincerely say "well done".
There was really nothing more to talk about between them, and she didn't care if Mrs. Su San hated her any more.
However, Mr. Su San had a big quarrel with Mrs. Su San again.
However, Mrs. Su San had been in the small Buddhist temple all year round, and no one cared whether she was angry or not.
Anyway, Master Su San himself doesn't have any emotions about Su An's death.
Looking at the recent bloody turmoil in the capital, he really couldn't feel any emotions - all the men, women, young and old of the Wei family were thrown into jail, and not long after, he heard that several of them died. As for the arrest of Shao Wenxun, many people were implicated, including several families who were close to the Mansion of Marquis Zhongyong and Marquis Changping Fu in the past, and none of them had a good end.
If Su Yao had not discovered that Su Mingqing and Su An had returned to the capital, it would not be the Wei family and the Xu family that were wiped out, but themselves.
Not only did he not have any resentment, he also took the initiative to take charge of the funeral of Su Mingqing and Su An. He was busy setting up the mourning shed to place the spirit tablets, and took care of the funeral arrangements.
The more this happens, the more pitiful the Su family seems. They can swallow their anger to this extent even when faced with such a thing. It shows how the Su family has survived all these years.
People outside sighed and lamented, and there were vague rumors that even the reason why Mrs. Su San took the wrong child away was because she was being hunted by the Xu family.