Minglan is reborn, this time with no regrets!

Zhu Manniang was held by Changdong's guards and could not move, but she kept spouting, "You all in the Sheng family are bastards! You killed my husband and drove my son away! Sheng Changbai, you have done so much just to take over the Sheng family's assets, right? You are such a greedy villain! I will kill you, I will kill you!"

Changbai retorted angrily: "When I went to Tianshui Lane to look for you, I wanted to bring you and your son back to the Sheng family. It was you who ran away with your son, and now you blame me?"

Zhu Manniang: "Who doesn't know that you want to capture us and bring us back for credit? You capture us, and then send us to Youyang like my daughter, and you and your son will be able to take over the entire Sheng family!"

"Nonsense!" It is said that a scholar cannot explain himself clearly when he meets a soldier. Changbai, a proud man who crawled out of a pile of papers, was helpless when facing a scoundrel like Zhu Manniang. He was so angry that he could not find any words to refute except gasping for breath and glaring.

The old lady and Hai Chaoyun simultaneously caught the loophole in Zhu Manniang's words. The two looked at each other, and the old lady said, "This evil woman dared to assassinate an official appointed by the court. Come, take her to my yard and keep her under guard. No outsiders are allowed to approach her at will. Send her to Kaifeng Prefecture early tomorrow morning to see if she is still so arrogant!"

After saying that, the old lady motioned Changbai to come closer, leaned over and whispered in his ear: "I'm afraid there is a thief in the house. Go to Chengyuan and ask Marquis Gu to borrow a reliable team of soldiers and surround Sheng Mansion from the inside. Remember, don't even let go of the dog hole!"

Changbai understood instantly and rode his horse to the Marquis' Mansion to ask for the person.

When Minglan heard about it, she was extremely anxious, but she was in mourning and it was not convenient for her to go back to her parents' home in person. So she sent Langya and Xiaotao back to serve the old lady, and Shitou also asked Gu Tingye's permission to lead a team to help the Sheng family.

Soon, all entrances and exits of the Sheng family were guarded by Gu's men, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

At night, intermittent sounds of whipping and women's wailing and crying could be heard from Old Lady Sheng's yard. Every half an hour, someone would come out with bloody torture instruments to clean them. It was truly creepy to watch.

Before dawn the next day, Shitou's men caught a maid, Caihuan, who was trying to escape from home, near a dog hole.

When the person was escorted to Changbai, he was extremely shocked: "You? It's actually you?!"

Cai Huan: "Sir... Sir... It's not me, it's not me!"

Changbai: "Not you? Then why are you crawling through the dog hole so early in the morning? I clearly prohibited you from entering or leaving yesterday. What urgent matter do you have to go out at this time?"

Cai Huan: "My maidservant...my maidservant's mother has died! I must rush back to attend the funeral!"

Hai Chaoyun said to Changbai, "Sir, don't listen to her nonsense. When her mother died a year ago, her mother gave her five taels of silver for the funeral. The servants in the entire Sheng Mansion knew about this. How could she die again now?"

Changbai looked at Caihuan fiercely: "How dare you, a cunning slave, lie?"

Shitou bowed and said, "Second brother, let us help you pry open her mouth."

Changbai nodded, and the colorful ring was taken away.

In just half a quarter of an hour, a confession with the ink still wet was presented to Changbai.

He held the confession in his hand and gnashed his teeth as he read it: "Cai Huan really went there to tip off the police!" The destination was exactly the Wang family...

The story goes back to before the Sheng family became prosperous.

Caihuan was bought into Weiruixuan as a personal maid when she was young. Wang Ruofu placed her next to Liu Mama to let Liu Mama take care of her and train her to take over the management. Caihuan knew this very well and felt that she had a bright future. She wanted to show the attitude of a high-ranking manager early on, so she often forced herself to show her ability in some important events, but was repeatedly refuted by Liu Mama, and Wang Ruofu often followed Liu Mama's words to scold her.

One day, Caihuan, who had just been scolded by Liu's mother, hid in a corner and cried. She happened to be seen by Kang Wang, who was strolling around Sheng's house. Kang Wang listened to her crying patiently and pointed out that Liu's mother was jealous of her and deliberately suppressed her. Caihuan received full recognition and support from the eldest daughter of the Wang family, and her fighting spirit and confidence were rekindled. At the same time, she also had infinite resentment towards Liu's mother.

In order to reverse her image in front of Wang Ruofu as soon as possible, Caihuan begins to take the initiative to contact Kang Wangshi, hoping to get more tricks from the mistress's biological sister in order to balance the "narrow-minded" Mother Liu.

In fact, Wang Ruofu and Liu Mama did try their best to train Caihuan, otherwise, there would be no way that she would know the many secrets of the Sheng family. It was just that Caihuan was young and hot-tempered, and was eager to get ahead. She often did things without thinking about the head and the butt, and her preparations were often flawed. Liu Mama scolded her to sharpen and spur her on. After all, Caihuan was a maid, not a lady. Did she need to be coaxed carefully to be trained?

However, Caihuan could not understand Liu Mama's intentions. Kang Wangshi successfully planted a rift in her heart. She not only felt resentment towards Liu Mama, but also gradually alienated Wang Ruofu. In the comparisons, Caihuan gradually found that perhaps Kang Wangshi was her mentor. Only she could give her a stage to display her talents and make her value truly recognized. Later, she simply obeyed Kang Wangshi's orders and helped her find out the news of Sheng family.

This matter was soon discovered by Liu's mother. From then on, she deliberately excluded Caihuan and secretly looked for other maids to train as disciples. However, before she could find a new successor, Sheng Hong suddenly died. Wang Ruofu cried every day as if she had lost her soul. Kang Wangshi took over the Sheng family in an unprecedented manner, and Caihuan also fell. The situation developed to the point where Liu's mother was unable to turn things around, and she could only stay by Wang Ruofu's side and pretend to be deaf and dumb.

It was originally thought that the Sheng family would continue on this path from then on, but unexpectedly, in the third month after Sheng Hong's death, the situation took a turn for the worse. The children of the Sheng family worked together to find out the real culprit, and Wang Kang was punished by the Sheng and Kang families and eventually died of illness in the inner prison.

When the old lady of the Wang family received the news, one of her daughters had already died and the other had been sent to the countryside. Old lady Wang was heartbroken and wanted to seek an explanation from the Sheng family. However, the evidence was irrefutable and the eldest daughter did not die in the Sheng family. Even if she wanted to sue the officials, she would have no reason to do so.

Just when Old Lady Wang and Uncle Wang were having too much trouble at the Sheng family, Caihuan came to the door herself.

At first, Mrs. Wang thought it was a conspiracy of the Sheng family and almost beat Caihuan away. Later, she gradually let down her guard after listening to Caihuan's story about her past with Kang Wangshi. When she heard how the Sheng family crippled Kang Wangshi that day, Mrs. Wang burst into tears.

So, she patiently asked Caihuan why she came to find her, and then she found out that Wang Ruofu only brought Mother Liu to Youyang, and the remaining staff of Weiruixuan were left in Sheng Mansion to be dispatched by Hai Chaoyun. However, Hai Chaoyun only used people brought by her mother's family and those in Changbai House. Caihuan and other "old servants" of Weiruixuan were only assigned some unimportant tasks to do, and would be sent out to marry when they reached a certain age. From then on, it would be impossible for them to become managers of a wealthy family.

How can Caihuan be willing?

How could her lifelong dream of becoming a housekeeper end just like that?

For the sake of her own future and to repay Mrs. Kang Wang's kindness, she would find Old Lady Wang.

After understanding the motive of the colored ring, Mrs. Wang also found a way to use the colored ring.

She put Caihuan, the discarded piece, back on the chessboard and made her her eyes and ears in the Sheng family. She also found "Zhu Manniang", a point of entry from Caihuan that she could make a big fuss about.

Caihuan didn't know how the Wang family found Zhu Manniang, but she knew that Old Lady Wang had evidence against Zhu Manniang, so she had to obey the Wang family's arrangement. She also didn't know what task Old Lady Wang gave Zhu Manniang, but she was asked to keep an eye on Zhu Manniang's movements in Sheng Mansion, and report to the Wang family immediately if the Sheng family wanted to torture Zhu Manniang.

The whole family knew that Zhu Manniang had failed in her assassination attempt on Changbai and was locked up in the old lady's yard. Her painful wails all night long frightened all the servants in the Sheng Mansion. How could Caihuan not know that?

So, she wanted to sneak out of Sheng Mansion and go to Wang's house to report the case while it was dark, but she was caught by the Gu family guards who had been lurking nearby.