Drive a RV and go farming in ancient times.

It turns out that her words were not alarmist.

After Yinshan left in a hurry, about an hour later, he sent someone to deliver the news that Liuxu was really dead. He had hanged himself with a rope used to bundle firewood. When people found him, he was already dead.

Everyone in the Su family was terrified and uneasy, but they were also secretly relieved about this.

Su Rui only took a look from a distance, then had the body wrapped in a mat and secretly sent out of the Su family. No one knew where the body was buried.

In this way, the matter was over once and for all. Su Rui had cleared himself of all charges and there was no scapegoat for Gu Huanxi to make a fuss about, but things would not end there.

Su Zhe was furious. He rushed into Su Rui's study room regardless of the servants' attempts to stop him and started smashing things. The porcelain and jade worth a fortune were soon shattered all over the floor, and Su Rui was so heartbroken that he almost fainted.

But Su Zhe's posture of killing gods and demons was too intimidating, Su Rui was so shocked that he didn't dare to step forward. Seeing this, the servants had no choice but to ask Su Jian to come, otherwise, one of the two young masters would be gone today.

Su Jian got the news and rushed over. He just heard Su Zhe yelling angrily. The hatred in his tone was not concealed at all. "Damn it, don't think that you are the only smart person in the world. Don't you know your own weight? Relying on your father to protect you and the people around you to please you, you don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is. You have no ability at all, but you only know how to show off those little tricks. In the business world, others give in to you because of the Su family's reputation, and you think you are capable? You are so stupid!"

At this time, Su Jian walked in with a sullen face and shouted, "Seventh Brother!"

Warn him to stop.

Su Zhe didn't take it seriously at all. He sneered and continued to mock Su Rui, "You have done so many stupid things over the years. Don't you know anything about it? You can do whatever you want just because your father cleans up the mess for you. But this time, you are totally wrong. Have you forgotten that the Su family can't cover the sky with one hand? You can cover up by bullying me at home, but do you think the Gu family is easy to bully? Where do you get the courage to touch Xu Huaiyi's wife?"

He pointed at Su Rui, gritting his teeth in hatred, "You are courting death, go ahead and do it, let's see who can protect you this time!"

Su Rui's face turned pale and he was shaking all over. "Seventh Brother, are you crazy?"

Otherwise, how dare you treat your eldest brother like this? Do you still want to stay in the Su family?

Su Jian also said, "Seventh Brother, watch your words, this is your brother!"

Su Zhe said self-deprecatingly, "Brother? An enemy is more like an enemy! What kind of brother would try to kill me time and again? He won't stop until I die. What kind of brother is he? The most terrifying thing is that in order to harm me, he is willing to drag the entire Su family into it. This is the heir you have worked so hard to cultivate. It really makes you proud!"

Su Jian's face changed, and he looked at Su Rui with a bit of disappointment and coldness in his eyes. This time he really went too far. He could use any other method to suppress his brother, but the stigma of molesting his friend's wife would ruin not only his reputation as a bastard, but the reputation of the entire Su family.

Su Rui was panicked when he saw this, "Father, I didn't do that. It wasn't me, it was that bitch Aunt Liu..."

This guy dares to do something but not take responsibility, and is still shirking responsibility...

Su Jian closed his eyes and said, "Shut up!"

"Father!"

Su Jian ignored his pleas and looked at Su Zhe, saying in a stern tone, "Your brother was confused for a moment, but he must have realized his mistake now. The truth has been clarified, and Aunt Liu is dead. You should go to the Gu family to apologize and explain everything to the Gu family..."

Hearing this, Su Zhe laughed out of anger, "What gave you the illusion that Gu is easy to talk to, easy to bully, and can be forgiven with just a little coaxing? I tell you, it's impossible! She is not an ordinary woman in the harem. She has brains and means, and is not inferior to men at all. Now the most popular beauty salon in Beijing and the most favored bookstore by scholars are all opened by her. With this ability, do you think she is easy to bully?"

Su Jian frowned, "Wasn't this Xu Huaiyi's idea?"

Su Zhe sneered, "No, Huaiyi only helped with the socializing on the opening day. Everything else was done by Gu. I can't even begin to compare to her in terms of knowledge and vision. She has the final say in the Gu family. Even though Huaiyi has his current status, he still listens to her, so..."

After a pause, he turned to look at Su Rui and said with disdain, "You made a wrong calculation. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle. But you are arrogant and self-righteous. You think that since Huai Yi is not at home, you can do whatever you want. You think that since Master Sun and Mr. Jiang have also left the capital, the Gu family will have no one to rely on, and you can do whatever you want! Bah! And what about the Sun family? As soon as the scandal came out, Minister Sun sent his daughter-in-law to the door in person. What does this mean? Don't you understand?"

After hearing this, Su Jian began to regret, but he couldn't stop Su Zhe from hurting him.

Su Zhe said happily, "At that time, nothing was clear yet. When the truth was unknown, the Sun family showed their attitude. This was absolute trust, without any doubt. There were also several disciples of Mr. Jiang. They avoided suspicion and did not come to visit, but that does not mean they did not contribute behind the scenes. You just wait and see who will be the unlucky one in the end!"

“Don’t think that everything will be fine if you kill Aunt Liu, bah, that’s dreaming! I am incompetent and cannot do anything to you, but there are people who can. In order to destroy me, you dragged the Gu family into the water, and made so many enemies at once. You even dared to offend a noble family like the Sun family. Hahaha, father, look, this is the good son you have placed your hopes on, the heir you have spent so much effort to cultivate, but his mind is only this big. Can you rest in peace if the future of our Su family is handed over to him? Hahaha…”

He was mad, cursing and laughing, laughing at his own patheticness, laughing at the absurdity of this family, and then he couldn't help but burst into tears, and began to mutter to himself in a depressed and desperate tone, "The Su family is a low-ranking merchant, but through the efforts of several generations, it has become the royal merchant of Dayong and the richest man in the country, and people look up to it. But now? How many jokes have the Su family made this year? Brothers are at odds with each other, and the family is in turmoil. This is a sign of the family's decline. Now it's even better, and a disaster is about to happen..."

Su Rui finally exploded, glaring at him viciously, as if he wanted to eat him, "Isn't it all your fault?"

At this moment, after that intense emotional outburst, Su Zhe was exhausted and too lazy to argue with him. Anyway, in Su Rui's eyes, it was all his fault. He shouldn't have fought, shouldn't have resisted, and shouldn't even have been born. But he just wanted to live and live with dignity. What's wrong with that?

He said indifferently, "Summer insects cannot talk about ice", and ignored it. He just watched Su Jian speak, his tone had calmed down, so calm that it made people's scalps numb, "Even if you bring up the Second Prince this time, he won't care. Things should be done and not done. This time your eldest son is too vicious. He used a woman's reputation to make a fuss, which undoubtedly forced her to death and humiliated Xu Huaiyi. Any man would not tolerate it. Besides, he is not a person who will compromise. This time, don't have any illusions. If you don't handle it well, the Su family will be seriously injured."

Finally unable to hold back, he added mockingly, "Also, you may not be able to keep your position as the head of the family. The Su family is large and powerful, and you are not the only one in the direct lineage. You are just the eldest."

After that, he left without looking back.

Su Jian had already frozen after hearing what he heard. He wanted to speak out to stop them, but his throat was blocked and he couldn't shout. The color on his face slowly faded, turning a terrifying pale blue.

"Father, father..."

With the anxious cries and the frightened shouts of the servants, Su Jian's chest tightness finally eased, but his heart was icy cold, and when he touched his back, it was soaked with cold sweat.

"Dad, Dad, look at me, can you see? I hope nothing happens to you, wuwu, otherwise, your son will have no way to survive..."

Su Jian's scattered eyes finally focused on his eldest son's face, but he didn't say anything. A thought he had never had before flashed through his mind. For the future of the family and for his own consideration, he had no choice but to give up this eldest son.

Su Rui didn't know that his father was going to abandon him. He knelt on the ground, hugged his legs, and cried breathlessly, as if only in this way could his father see his grievances, and then soften his heart and clean up the mess for him again, like before.

It's a pity that this time, the mess he made was too big and Su Jian couldn't fix it.

However, he still tried one last time, as a last-ditch effort to give an explanation for his efforts over the years, so he gritted his teeth and went to beg the Second Prince with generous gifts.

As expected, the Second Prince didn't care and gave him a beating with an unhappy look on his face. He didn't even keep the generous gifts that the Second Prince had brought with him. He then asked someone to ask him to leave, using the excuse that he had official business to attend to.

This was the first time that Su Jian was humiliated in the Second Prince's mansion. When he left, he felt that all the reputation he had accumulated in half his life was thrown away. After returning to the Su family, he fell ill. It was not because he was too embarrassed to pretend to be sick, but because he was really sick. Doctors came one after another, and the whole yard was filled with the smell of boiled medicine, but his condition did not improve.

Su Rui served by the bed without taking off his clothes, acting like a filial son.

Su Zhe was too lazy to pretend and didn't even bother to say hello. However, he was not idle either. He told the clan elders about the Su family's current situation without hiding anything. He also wrote a letter to the old house, asking his second uncle Su Ting to come to the capital to discuss things and take charge of the overall situation.

Su Ting and Su Jian are brothers, both are legitimate sons, and both are capable. Now he is in charge of the old house. Compared with Su Jian's stubbornness and partiality, Su Ting seems much more fair.

There were also clan elders who privately reminded Su Zhe, "If your second uncle gets the position of head of the family, there will be no place for your branch. No matter how capable you are, you cannot bypass your cousins ​​and inherit your uncle's position."

Su Zhe said, "Rather than fighting for the right of succession, I would rather see the Su family continue to prosper. In this way, all the descendants of the Su family can benefit from it. But if I ignore the overall situation because of my selfishness and the family collapses in this generation, how can I face my ancestors after I die?"

"No regrets?"

"I will never regret it!"

He didn't regret it, but Su Jian regretted it so much that he was sick to his stomach. He lay in bed, unable to sleep for nights. The one who regretted more than him was the Minister of Guanglu Temple, Hu Yuanliang. He regretted marrying his daughter to a fool with a false reputation. He was a hopeless case and his status was wasted.

But the Second Prince could ignore it, but he couldn't hide away and had to make plans for his own daughter.

Therefore, he could only show weakness and try to make peace, or even pretend to apologize.

Xu Huaiyi was not at home, so he could only go to the Sun family to see Shangshu Sun. Shangshu Sun was considered the elder of the Gu family and could make half of the decisions.

But Shangshu Sun is not someone who is easy to talk to, especially since the person being bullied this time is his disciple whom he values ​​very much. How could he swallow this humiliation so easily?

Hu Yuanliang was rejected several times before he finally got the meeting. After the meeting, he humbled himself, said all the nice things he could, and was bullied by Minister Sun in various ways, but he still had to put on a smiling face. All this did not get the other person to give in.

Hu Yuanliang had also looked for several of Jiang Yong's disciples, but they were all more straightforward than each other. When they saw him, they started to mock him in a sarcastic tone without waiting for him to plead, saying that he was blind to marry a beast.

Hu Yuanliang couldn't stand being humiliated repeatedly, so he pretended to be sick and stopped caring about the matter.

In fact, at this moment, the Sun family has not launched revenge. Firstly, it is not the right time yet, and secondly, they have to take Su Zhe into consideration. He is also a member of the Su family. If they are ruthless, it will also damage his interests. There is also the Second Prince. The Su family is his money bag. If they really retaliate without regard for the consequences, the Second Prince will be the first one to disagree.

The Su family was so frightened that they had to save themselves like headless flies.

In addition to the Su family, the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion and the Pingyuan Earl Mansion of the Meng family have also fallen into an anxious dilemma. With the joint efforts of Han Jun and the Sun family, they have unraveled the mystery and caught the people who spread the rumors in the first place. As expected, one is the manager of the outer courtyard of the Marquis Mansion named Ma, and the other is Yu, who guards the small gate of the Meng family. Although neither of them is considered capable people around the master, it would be a lie to say that they were not instructed by the master.

Those who should understand know that these two families cannot deny their relationship. Next, it depends on how this matter is handled.

The Li and Meng families were waiting for Gu Huanxi's backers to come to their house to seek justice for her, or to retaliate behind her back, but in the end, what came were the yamen runners from Jingzhao Prefecture.

They openly came to the house to arrest people, without giving the two families any face at all. After hearing the report from their servants, Marquis Dingyuan and Earl Pingyuan's faces immediately turned dark. Even if the people arrested were servants in the mansion, it was undoubtedly a slap in the face for them.

In fact, the yamen runners of Jingzhao Prefecture were also in a dilemma and were unwilling to wade into muddy water to arrest people from these two families. However, the one who filed the complaint on behalf of the Gu family was the chief steward of the Sun family. The children and grandchildren of the Sun family would politely call him uncle when they saw him. How could they dare to be perfunctory?

Moreover, the Dali Temple Minister Han also sent his long-time attendant to inquire about this matter. Who was that person? He was impartial and just, known as Bao Gong in the world. Who would dare to bend the law for personal gain?

It is better to offend these two families than to let Lord Han catch them. Lord Qiao, the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture, is on high alert and dare not fool around.

There was also a group of spectators who heard the news from somewhere and came to watch the fun. Each of them had sharp eyes, and no one would be stupid enough to do anything tricky under their noses.

However, it was okay to just give a glance and give a few words in private, so Marquis Dingyuan and Earl Pingyuan quickly understood the seriousness of the matter. In addition to being shocked, they also found it unbelievable.

How could there be such a woman? Her reputation was damaged, even if it was slandered, it should be handled behind closed doors, right? Now she has made a big fuss in the government office, just short of beating gongs and drums to announce it to the world, doesn't she feel ashamed?

What picture?

Revenge? Relief?

But things have come to this, even if they don't end up well, will she be fine?

Even if she was finally proven innocent and became a topic of conversation among the people of the capital, her reputation would be ruined. It would be a complete loss of both herself and the enemy.

They were confused and puzzled, but they could not stop Gu Huanxi from taking action, nor could they stop this eye-catching case from being watched and spread to everyone.