When Wang Ruofu was frightened by Wang Gang, he immediately told the truth about giving laxatives to the old lady, and he hugged Sheng Hong's thigh and begged for mercy.
"My lord, my lord, I was confused for a moment. I really didn't want to harm the old lady. Who knew that a little laxative could kill me?" Wang Ruofu was crying very aggrieved at this time. Who would have thought that things would turn out like this.
The imperial doctor shook his head and said, "What the old lady took was definitely not a laxative. Her symptoms were obviously poisoning."
Wang Ruofu raised his head in surprise and shouted: "Poisoning, it's impossible. I only put laxatives in the pastry, not poison!"
At this moment, Sheng Hong wanted to kill Wang Ruofu with a knife.
The daughter-in-law drugged her mother-in-law, and if word spread about it, the Sheng family would lose their face.
Wang Gang grabbed Wang Ruofu and shouted angrily: "Who gave you the laxative?"
Wang Ruofu subconsciously said: "My sister gave me the laxative. She said the dose is not heavy and it will make the old lady feel upset for two days at most."
Sheng Hong said angrily: "Didn't I tell you that your sister has evil intentions and asked you not to associate with her?"
Wang Ruofu hesitated and couldn't say a word.
Wang Gang asked his servants to bring over the pastries left by the old lady and show them to the imperial physician.
The imperial doctor smelled it, pinched some and put it in his mouth, tasted it, and spit it out immediately.
"What's in the pastry is not laxative, but poison extracted from ginkgo buds. Young people won't be able to last long after taking it, let alone the elderly."
Wang Ruofu was shocked when he heard this and screamed: "Impossible. What I gave was obviously a laxative, it couldn't be poison."
At this time, everyone in the room had already understood that this Wang Ruofu had been tricked by Kang Wang.
Lin Sushuang said angrily: "Madam Wang, you have been tricked by your sister."
Wang Ruofu said in disbelief: "You are talking nonsense, how could my sister harm me?"
Hong Hong angrily slapped Wang Ruofu on the face.
"You stupid woman, you are being taken advantage of by your sister and you don't even know it."
Wang Gang sighed and asked the imperial doctor: "Now that we know what the poison is, can we detoxify it?"
The imperial doctor shook his head and said: "Although I can detoxify, the old lady is old. Whether she can survive it depends on tonight."
Everyone felt heavy in their hearts, but they did not dare to disturb the doctor's treatment of the old lady, so they could only go back to the front hall first.
Wang Ruofu kept shrugging his head, unable to believe that his own sister would trick her.
Sheng Hong looked at the room full of female relatives, frowned and said, "You go back first and wait for the news. Sanlang and I are enough here."
The women left one by one, and Hai Chaoyun temporarily lived in Lin Sushuang's yard.
After only the father and son were left in the living room, Sheng Hong said, "Sanlang, such a scandal has happened in our Sheng family. It really shouldn't be publicized."
Wang Gang said in a deep voice: "It's too late, Master Liao should be back soon."
Sheng Hong was stunned for a moment, and then saw Master Liao walking into the room carrying a sack.
"Chang Feng, I've captured him."
Master Liao threw the sack on the ground and opened it in front of Sheng Hong.
Sheng Hong was shocked because after the sack was opened, Kang Wang was exposed.
At this time, Kang Wang's hair was disheveled, his hands and feet were tied, and a piece of rag was stuffed in his mouth. He groaned when he saw Sheng Hong.
Wang Gang sat there, calm and relaxed, and just said thank you to Master Liao.
Master Liao nodded and left, running back to Mrs. Sheng to guard her.
Sheng Hong turned to Wang Gang and asked, "Sanlang, what do you mean by arresting Prince Kang?"
Wang Gang said calmly: "Kang Wang is the mastermind behind the poisoning of my grandmother. He kills people to pay for his life. If my grandmother is really evil, someone will definitely have to take her life."
Sheng Hong took a deep breath, and then realized that the son sitting in front of him was a man who had shed a lot of blood from the Xixia people killed in Qingzhou.
Mrs. Kang and Wang were also panicked. She originally thought that the Sheng family would never do anything to her in order to cover up their ugliness, but now the situation seemed to be beyond her control.
Wang Gang sat there calmly and said to Sheng Hong: "Don't you want to avenge your grandmother?"
Cold sweat broke out on Sheng Hong's back, and Wang Gang's words felt like knives.
"After all, Mrs. Kang is the legitimate daughter of the Wang family, and her husband Kang Haifeng is still an official of the court. Isn't it good for us to lynching her like this!" Sheng Hong said worriedly.
Wang Gang glanced at Sheng Hong coldly, knowing his thoughts clearly.
"My father wanted to reduce big things to small things, and he turned small things into small things."
Sheng Hong smiled happily and said, "As long as Sanlang understands, it's all family scandals, and family scandals should not be made public."
Wang Gang sneered and said: "I'm afraid my father hasn't figured it out yet. Our Sheng family is no longer a small family, but an authentic family of relatives of the Song Dynasty."
Sheng Hong's face twitched and he didn't understand why Wang Gang mentioned this.
Wang Gang continued: "As a relative, many people in the court are watching our family. Once something trivial happens to our family, it can be used as a weapon to attack the Crown Princess."
"Given the relationship between the Crown Princess and my grandmother, what do you think she would do if she knew that her grandmother was poisoned and assassinated?" Wang Gang said in a deep voice.
Sheng Hong was completely stunned, and he finally realized the seriousness of the matter.
The Sheng family has become the top wealthy family in Bianjing because Sheng Minglan became the crown prince.
But their relationship is one where both prosper and suffer.
Once something happens to Sheng Minglan, the Sheng family will be in dire straits.
Sheng Hong is a man who is absolutely unambiguous in the face of major events.
"Sanlang, if you arrest Prince Kang like this, our Sheng family will also be in trouble!" Sheng Hong said worriedly.
Wang Gang said calmly: "I have already gone to invite the Wang family and the Kang family."
Sheng Hong was very anxious when he saw that Wang Gang wanted to make things worse.
"Aren't you doing this to make my Sheng family the laughing stock of Bianjing City?"
Wang Gang looked at Mrs. Kang and Wang coldly and said, "If we just let go of the murderer who poisoned my grandmother, we will become the laughing stock of others."
Sheng Hong fell silent. When the father and son were speechless, Wang Gang sent people to arrest everyone involved in the incident of poisoning his grandmother, and asked Master Liao to use his methods to extract confessions.
Master Liao is a master of Huajin, and he knows how to make people suffer extremely, but the body is not hurt at all.
As long as the maids and servants bribed by the Kang Wang family were related to the poisoning, Master Liao took care of them and made them obedient and wrote down confessions.
After everything was done, Kang Wang's mother, Mrs. Wang, had already rushed to Sheng's house with her son and daughter-in-law.
On the contrary, Kang Wang's husband, Kang Haifeng, has not arrived yet.
Mrs. Wang felt extremely distressed when she saw her daughter being tied up.
"Yu'er, who tied you up like this?" Mrs. Wang wanted to untie Kang Wang, but was blocked by Wang Gang.
Mrs. Wang immediately changed her face.
"Uncle Qingyang, I am your elder after all! How can a junior stop an elder?"
Wang Gang sneered and said: "Mrs. Wang, please read these confessions first before speaking!"
Sheng Hong handed over the confession collected by Master Liao to Mrs. Wang.
Mrs. Wang took a quick look and was shocked.
"My son and I will never do such evil things." Mrs. Wang angrily tore up her confession and shouted to Wang Gang:
"The confession must have been fabricated by you."
Wang Gang sneered and said: "It's useless for you to tear up these confessions. They are locked up in the backyard. We can write as many copies as we want."
Sheng Hong had someone call the personal maid of the Kang Wang family, and in front of everyone, he told all the evil things that the Kang Wang family had done.
The maid had just been tortured by Master Liao and wrote a confession. Knowing that she could not change the situation, she simply told the truth. She told the whole process clearly how Kang Wang planned to assassinate Mrs. Sheng and how she deceived her sister.
Only at this time did Mrs. Wang completely believe that her daughter was actually a poisonous woman as poisonous as a snake or scorpion.
Maybe the maid thought that it would be a waste anyway, so she simply reported all the bad information about Kang Wang.
Mrs. Wang couldn't bear to listen to all kinds of evil deeds like poisoning Kang Haifeng's concubine, torturing and abusing the concubines of the Kang family, and so on.
"That's enough. You bastard must have taken advantage of someone to frame my daughter."
Mrs. Wang already believed in her heart that her daughter had done something evil, but she could not watch her die. She could only say that the maid had wronged the Kang Wang family.
"It seems that Mrs. Wang still doesn't believe it, so let's go to Kaifeng Prefecture to report it to the official!" Wang Gang said with a cold smile: "I believe that the Kaifeng Prefecture official will get to the bottom of the matter."
"No." Mrs. Wang exclaimed.
Wang Gang said coldly: "Old Mrs. Wang, I am not discussing this with you, I am just informing you for the sake of our Shengwang family's wedding."
Mrs. Wang frowned and said: "How could such a scandal reach Kaifeng Mansion? Why don't we all solve it behind closed doors?"
Wang Gang sneered and said: "Okay, our Sheng family's attitude is very clear, kill for life. If something happens to my grandmother, Kang Wang must die."
As soon as the word "death" came out, a chill spread throughout the living room.
Mrs. Wang couldn't help but take a step back, and then looked at Sheng Hong.
"Good son-in-law, my daughter is certainly guilty, but don't forget that the person who poisoned the old lady with her own hands is your wife."
Sheng Hong didn't want to cause too much trouble, and he didn't want anything to happen to his wife, but just as he was about to speak, there was a noise in front of the Sheng Mansion.