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"Madam! Master is back!" The newly promoted head maid stumbled in to report.

Madam Jiang's heart skipped a beat, and she instinctively took a step back: "Why is he back at this time?"

The head maid twisted her fingers and continued, "As soon as the master entered, he ordered his men to arrest all the stewards and servants. They are being tortured in the front hall right now. Madam Liu, Uncle, Aunt, and the young masters and ladies of the cousins ​​are all in front."

The people she was referring to were all family members of Chu Jin and Jiang Ruining who had come to attend their coming-of-age ceremony.

Madam Jiang's mind went blank, her vision blurred, and she almost couldn't stand: "He knows... He must know everything... Interrogating me in front of my family, he didn't give me any face at all!"

Without bothering to change anything, he hurriedly put on his outer garment and rushed to the front yard.

The execution was taking place in the front yard.

The sounds of beatings and the screams of the tortured echoed throughout the courtyard.

The steward who sent letters to Jiang Huai every month was the first to be tortured. He was lying on the veranda of the main hall, covered in blood, and replied: "It was Madam... it was Madam who threatened me not to tell you about what happened in the mansion. It was also Madam who made me intercept all the letters that Miss sent out."

The head maid of the inner garden trembled like a leaf: "Because the madam doesn't like the young lady, the servants in the mansion follow suit and don't respect her much. Everyone knows that the madam will scold the young lady regardless of the truth."

"The head maid of the service department took away the girl's snacks, the daughter of the head of the errand department deliberately broke the girl's jewelry, and the sewing room deliberately rusted the girl's clothes with roses that the girl hated..."

"The madam didn't punish any of them, but whenever the young ladies went to seek justice, they were always forced to kneel in the ancestral hall, forbidden to eat, drink, or sleep, and had to kneel for a whole day and night, sometimes even three days and three nights!"

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Under the order of "life or death, it doesn't matter," few of the guards and their managers could hold back from revealing what they had seen and heard.

None of the bullying incidents were directly ordered by Madam Jiang, but every single one of them was inextricably linked to her.

Jiang Huai's eyes grew colder and colder.

Sitting on either side were Madam Jiang's family members, who had come to attend Chu Jin's coming-of-age ceremony in three days. They only learned upon arriving in the capital that Jiang Ruining had fallen off a cliff and died while praying for Madam Jiang's well-being.

Before he could recover from the shock, Jiang Huai arrived home and immediately began interrogating his servants.

Hearing this, the women's family members were all astonished.

I knew she was selfish and self-serving, but I never imagined she would use such cunning and tricks on her own daughter.

The young woman was quite agitated: "Has my second aunt gone mad? Why is she treating Ning-mei like this?"

Madam Jiang, who was standing outside the door listening, was trembling violently.

The trial has finally arrived!

Jiang Ruining's wet nurse wiped away her tears and added, "Every time the lady fell ill, she would deliberately conceal the news. The old woman guarding the gate would use the excuse that the lady was busy or kneeling to recite scriptures to keep the girls who came to pay their respects morning and evening from entering the courtyard, but she would then leak the news to her relatives."

"When relatives come to visit, the lady will slander the young lady, saying that the young lady knew she was sick but did not even show her face, and was an unfilial daughter."

Madam Jiang, her hands trembling, gripped the doorframe and loudly denied it: "That was the servants acting on their own; I knew nothing about it!"

A dozen pairs of eyes in the hall all fell on Madam Jiang's face.

Jiang Huai's face was expressionless, but his eyes were like approaching dark clouds, churning with muffled thunder.

He suppressed his anger and glanced at his wife.

I raised my hand to stop her from continuing to speak.

The wet nurse retorted, "Every time Miss Jin gets into trouble, Madam doesn't ask any questions, she just goes up and slaps her. Wasn't Madam supposed to be a brilliant judge back then? How could she not even know what her trusted confidante was doing?"

"It was clearly your doing to ruin the girl and drive her to her death!"

Madam Jiang defended herself: "That's not true! Sir, I really didn't, it's all a misunderstanding."

"That's not a misunderstanding!"

Jin Yu, who had been kneeling outside, crawled into the hall and shouted, "Miss, you play the pipa so well that you've received praise from a nobleman. But instead of being happy for you, Madam says in private that you're showing off in front of others to seduce men! Yet she's doing everything she can to make you perform in public!"

"The young lady can compose poetry. When she was eight, she won against the young master of the main hall, and the madam scolded her for deliberately humiliating him! Last month, the young lady won first place in the poetry competition, and the madam again said that the young lady stole the poem from the young lady Jin, and called her a thief!"

"The young lady was a skilled horseman, but a few days later, her horse suddenly went berserk while she was riding, nearly trampling her to death!"

Drugging the horse?

Upon hearing this, everyone gasped.

Because there are cases of people being disabled or dying from falls from horses every year, this is murder!

Madam Liu, being an old noblewoman who had seen many horrifying things, maintained her composure: "A horse going mad is something no one could have predicted!"

Jin Yu, however, asserted, "It was predictable, because it was a deliberate scheme; someone wanted to kill the young lady!"

Madam Jiang's lips trembled, her attempt to cover up the truth only making things worse: "It wasn't me!"

Jin Yu took a deep breath, decided to go all out, and pointed at her: "It's you! It's definitely you!"

"Last year, on the third day after the horseback riding incident, the young lady went to the south courtyard early in the morning to present her gift. The lady deliberately ignored her and only chatted intimately with the young lady."

"When the maid served tea, she accidentally broke the gift that the young lady had presented. The young lady got angry and scolded the maid. The madam protected the maid and scolded the young lady for being petty and for deliberately making things difficult for her on her birthday."

"You complained that the girl's gift was meager, showing no regard for her as her mother at all. But Madam... you emptied the girl's storeroom, and you've been ruthlessly deducting her monthly allowance for various reasons until it's almost gone. You've even intercepted all the gifts that the master and young master sent back!"

The Liu family members looked at each other, wondering if they were hallucinating.

A mother stealing her daughter's property? And withholding her daughter's allowance?

Cracks appeared on Jiang Huai's face: "Liu Ruoyun! How dare you!"

Madam Jiang's face and eyes were frozen, as if she was realizing for the first time how she had treated Jiang Ruining all these years.

Jin Yu gritted her teeth and glared accusingly at Madam Jiang: "The money that the young lady saved by scrimping and saving has all been used to buy you a gift. What more do you want from her? You know perfectly well that she emptied her own pockets to buy you a birthday gift, yet you still ridicule her and belittle her filial piety in front of all the servants."

"Madam wanted to punish her by making her kneel in the ancestral hall again. The young lady was wronged and naturally refused. So you ordered the maid who broke the gift to forcibly drag her away. The young lady already disliked her and slapped her twice, breaking her face."

"It's common for servants to get injured; a little ointment will do the trick. But unfortunately, that maid's medicine malfunctioned, and she was disfigured! And what a coincidence that her fiancé works in the stables!"

"Several coincidences strung together can't possibly be coincidences! Someone must have secretly set a trap to deliberately harm him!"