Chapter 38: Exploring the Truth
When Su Ling learned that Jiang Duanchen had ruined Su Mu's innocence, her sky seemed to have collapsed. She didn't know what heavy steps she had taken to Su Mu's room.
Looking at Su Mu, who was lying on the bed without eating or drinking, Su Ling was at a loss. She sat gently on the edge of Su Mu's bed, trying to comfort her, "Mu'er, are you okay?" ”
The man lying on the bed covered his head with a futon and said nothing.
Su Ling had no choice but to say to herself: "I didn't expect him to do such a thing to you, don't worry...... We'll be responsible for you. ”
Hearing this, Su Mu lifted the quilt and stared at Su Ling tightly with a pair of tearful eyes, because of crying, her eyes were red and swollen, her nose was red, and she said in a trembling voice: "How do you want to be responsible for me?" Let him marry me? ”
Su Ling was stunned in place, she didn't know what to do, but she believed in Jiang Duanchen's character, and would never do such a thing, she could only say, "I'm sorry......"
Su Mu stretched out her jade hand and gently stroked Su Ling's cheek, she forcibly endured her grievances and said to Su Ling: "I believe in my sister, and I also believe in the man you have a crush on, but this matter has hit me hard, and I need time to slow down." ”
Su Ling looked at Su Mu in disbelief, "You believe us?" ”
Su Mu smiled reluctantly, "Even if he really did it, I can't take away my sister's happiness just because of this." What's more, Jiang Gongzi doesn't look like that kind of person. ”
Su Ling suddenly hugged the well-behaved Su Mu in front of her, "Mu'er, don't worry, I will definitely find the truth and give you a clean slate." ”
"Hmm!" Su Mu lay on Su Ling's neck, silently holding tears. She knew her own body, and when she heard that the woman lost her first time, the pain under her body would be unbearable, but she didn't feel it at all, and the events of the day were really strange.
Her sister finally escaped from such a place and found her own home, and she couldn't ruin her happiness because of something unnecessary.
Su Ling silently promised in her heart that she would definitely find out about this matter, for Mu'er's future, and for her and Jiang Duanchen.
Dark alleys of Jinping Street
Guan Hao showed greed in his eyes, and said to Concubine Su: "Madam, please pay the tail money for this matter." ”
Concubine Su sneered: "The matter didn't work out, and you still want me to pay the tail money, you want to be beautiful." ”
Guan Hao raised his eyebrows, pulled out the forehead dagger that had already been prepared in his hand, and pressed it against Concubine Su's neck, "I did everything I should have done, but I didn't expect that the son's perseverance was so strong that he could not be tempted by beauty, but the way things developed like this is not as you want, Madame must follow the rules in doing things, otherwise ......"
"Okay, good, for you." Concubine Su didn't expect this Guan Hao to only recognize money and not people.
She handed over all the silver taels in her arms to Guan Hao, and reminded: "Jiang Gongzi is not a person to be messed with, this matter is not cooked with raw rice, he will definitely come to find evidence, you dispose of the things as soon as possible, take the money and run away." ”
Guan Hao counted the silver tickets in his hand, and swore and said: "Don't worry, I have already packed up my things, I will leave tonight, Madame, don't worry, we will not tell the owner if we take money to do things." ”
Concubine Su looked at Guan Hao suspiciously, "That's very good." ”
Guan Hao brought the prepared carriage, jumped on it, and said to Concubine Su before leaving: "Don't forget that after the matter is completed, my other remuneration, otherwise, even if you really live a rich life, I will visit you every day." ”
Sure enough, Concubine Su thought silently in her heart, this Guan Hao promised not to tell her identity, in fact, it was to put a long line to catch a big fish.
But it doesn't matter, as long as her daughter can marry Jiang Duanchen, she has everything in glory and wealth, are you afraid that she won't be able to pay the honorarium.
After Guan Hao left, Concubine Su also left the dark alley with a proud face.
Jiangfu
Jiang Duanchen ordered Xue Fei with a gloomy face, "Catch the man who deceived me in the drunken township, I want to see people alive and corpses when I die." ”
"Yes!"
Xue Fei had never seen his young master get so angry. Although he had also heard about what had happened in Zuixianglou today, he firmly believed that his young master would never do such a thing.
When he was ordered to come to the drunken township building, he was told that there was no such person as Guan Hao.
"How could it not be?" He grabbed the shopkeeper's collar and his brows were full of anger, "Say, did you mean to hide from him?" ”
"Childe, Guan Hao is really not our person, he just handed us a large stack of silver tickets today and said that he wanted to be a buddy for a day, I thought about such a good thing, so I accepted someone, and I didn't ask so much, who would have thought that such a thing would happen."
"So where is he now?" Xue Fei asked.
The shopkeeper motioned for Xue Fei to put him down, straightened his collar and replied: "After that farce happened in the store today, he packed up his things and said that he would not do it and would go back to his hometown, I seem to remember that his hometown is called Shiqiao Village." ”
Xue Fei learned of Guan Hao's whereabouts and immediately set off for Shiqiao Village. Not long after Xue Fei left, Su Ling also came to the Zuixiang Building.
"Is the shopkeeper there?" Su Ling looked at the quiet drunken village building, thinking that it must have been affected by today's events, and the business was bleak like this.
The shopkeeper poked his head out from the second floor and replied, "I'm here, is the girl sharpening or staying in the hotel?" ”
Su Ling looked at the location of the shopkeeper, which was the room where Su Mu had happened, so she immediately said, "I live in the hotel, so I will live in your room." ”
The shopkeeper turned his head to look, hesitated for a moment and said, "This room hasn't been cleaned up yet." ”
"It's okay, I'll clean it up in a while." It just so happened that it hadn't been cleaned up yet, otherwise it wouldn't be possible to find evidence if you wanted to, Su Ling thought in her heart. She quickened her pace, came directly to the second floor, stood in front of the shopkeeper and said eagerly: "Shopkeeper, this is the house money, you can help me get a bucket of water first." ”
The shopkeeper saw her urgency, so he had no choice but to give up and take away the things used to clean up the house.
Su Ling walked into the room and looked at this room, although the shopkeeper said that it had not been cleaned up, but it looked like it had been carefully cleaned up, messy and tidy.
She looked at the plate on the table where the pastries were placed, and according to Su Mu's recollection, she had only lost consciousness after eating a plate of delicate pastries. But she only ate one, and the plate was unusually clean.
Next to the plate is an incense burner, and the incense inside has long been burned. After Su Mu woke up, he smelled a fragrance, and his body began to heat up, presumably caused by the burning of incense.
Su Ling poured the incense ashes from the stove on the handkerchief and wrapped it. I searched the rest of the house, but found no remaining pastries, and it seemed that they had been taken away.
She didn't find that Concubine Su had returned home during the day today. But Su Mu said that Concubine Su arranged for her to come to Zuixianglou to meet people, and after Jiang Duanchen came to her room, Concubine Su appeared in time. Then there is only one possibility, that is, Concubine Su has been drunk in the township building all along.
Su Ling walked out of the room and came to the next door to check, there were two rooms next to Su Mu's room, one of which had two candles, which should be inhabited, and the other room was dim, she lit the candle, walked in, and lit the lights in the room.
There are also traces of people living in this room, but it is not dirty, so the store is too lazy to clean it. She looked at the crumbs on the table, and she twisted it and sniffed what sounded like pastry. She took a sip, and sure enough, it was sweet. She lifted the tablecloth and saw the crushed pastries remaining under the table.
It seems that after Su Mu fainted, Concubine Su stripped her naked, helped her to the bed, arranged the game, and took the evidence back to this room and hid it.
She pulled a tablecloth and wrapped the broken pastries.
She thought that Concubine Su was not a thing, but she didn't expect that he would be ruthless to his daughter and make her a bargaining chip.
Mockery flashed in Su Ling's eyes, this time, she would definitely not let Concubine Su have a good time.
She came to Jiangfu with her things to find Jiang Duanchen to explain the truth of the matter.
When Jiang Duanchen saw her arrival, he immediately took her into his arms and said over and over again, "I'm sorry Ling'er, you believe me, you must believe me." ”
Su Ling patted him on the back, opened his lips and replied, "How could I not believe you?" Okay, look what I've found. ”
After gaining Su Ling's trust, Jiang Duanchen stabilized his mind. After the incident, he didn't know how to face Su Ling and how to explain, he wanted to arrest Guan Hao, ask about the facts, and then go to Su Ling to explain, but he didn't expect her to come to him by herself and say that she believed him.
Jiang Duanchen looked at Su Ling gently, Su Ling unfolded his handkerchief, and was about to say to him, but he raised his eyes to meet his gentle eyes. Su Ling couldn't help but sneer: "Look at what I'm doing, look at this." ”
"Okay." Jiang Duanchen obediently looked at the handkerchief and found that it was some white incense ash. He asked suspiciously, "What is this?" ”
"This is the ash I found in an incense burner in that room, but I don't know what kind of incense it is." Su Ling replied.
Jiang Duanchen remembered that it was because of that incense burner that his body was hot, and he thought it should be an aphrodisiac. He spoke his mind and added that it was because of this incense that his body felt the same way.
Su Ling said with a smile: "I know, I won't think about it, now we just need to find the person who arranges these things, in order to restore Mu'er's innocence." ”
"And what about my innocence? I'm your future father-in-law, but I've been placed in the same room with a woman, and I've gossiped like that. He said coquettishly to Su Ling.
Su Ling touched his head, "I have wronged our family Duan Chen, but my sister has been wronged even more, we must find a good marriage for her." ”
Jiang Duanchen frowned and pretended to be angry, "After you come back, your heart is full of your sister, and you don't have me in your heart." ”
Su Ling hooked the tip of his straight nose and said gently: "Why don't you have it, I'm wholeheartedly devoted to you." ”
Jiang Duanchen looked at Su Ling's gentle eyes, his head gradually lowered towards her, and he was about to give her a kiss, but was interrupted by Xue Fei's voice.
"Childe! People are back! ”
Xue Fei swaggered into the Jiang Mansion with Guan Hao, and happened to encounter an embarrassing scene, and hurriedly coughed twice.
Jiang Duanchen's eyebrows twisted slightly, turned his head to look at Guan Hao, and slowly stood up.
He walked up to Guan Hao step by step, squatted down, dragged Guan Hao's hair from behind his back, and said sharply with a cold look in his eyes: "Say, who instructed you to do it?" ”
"I don't know!" Guan Hao is also considered to be a rule-abiding person, and if he says that he doesn't provide for others, he won't provide for others.
Jiang Duanchen's hand was a little more ruthless, "If you don't say it, I'll let you live as well as die." ”
"Come on, try it, your reputation is ruined anyway, and it's useless to kill me." Guan Hao looked at Jiang Duanchen with a cruel smile.
Su Ling walked over quietly and said expressionlessly: "If you don't confess, I also know that my mother ordered you to do it." ”
Guan Hao's eyes flickered, but he still didn't say a word.
Su Ling took out the incense ash in his handkerchief and poured it in front of Guan Hao, "I only understand that you are doing things with money, since this matter is irreparable, we won't go into it, it's just that I will give you money for another business, can you do it?" ”
Hearing that if he is not held accountable, he can use the money to do another thing, of course Guan Hao is willing. He asked curiously, "As long as I have enough money, I will do anything." ”
Su Ling glanced at Jiang Duanchen and signaled to let go of Guan Hao, although Jiang Duanchen didn't understand what she was going to do, he still chose to believe her.
Su Ling smiled and said to Guan Hao: "I want you to be my mother's lover." ”