Mu Yanjing and the two maids looked at each other, and the two maids were a little flustered.

"Why?" Mu Yanjing was unconvinced. "It was you who ordered your maid to set the fire. Why should I cooperate with you?"

Mu Qingge sneered. "What's wrong? You're afraid of being exposed, so you don't dare?"

"Why wouldn't I dare?"

That was what Mu Qingge had been waiting for. She knew that Mu Yanjing was impatient and couldn't stand being provoked.

"That's great. Father, since Yanjing has agreed, let's ask someone to send some writing brushes, ink sticks, paper and inkstones."

Mu Yanjing gritted her teeth. Why has she agreed so impulsively?

Mu Qingge was at a disadvantage before, but now she was led by the nose by Mu Qingge and was at a disadvantage.

But if she went back on her word now, it would be even more difficult to explain.

In desperation, the three took the pens, ink sticks, paper, and inkstones and began to write.

It took them a long time to finish writing about Mu Qingge's questions.

As soon as they put down their pens, Mu Qingge took the three pieces of paper.

"Father, this is the account of the incident written by them. Apart from the questions that only Lv Zhu knows the answers to, there are many discrepancies in the responses provided by all three of them."

"Yanjing, you said that when you found Lv Zhu, she was standing at the door, but Lv Zhu and your maid said that she was outside the window."

"You said that the fire started from the altar, but Lv Zhu and your maid said that it started from the ground."

"They all wrote that the fire was ignited because Lv Zhu used a small stone to overturn the candlestick on the table."

Mu Qingge looked up at the three people who were obviously a little guilty and did not give them a chance to defend themselves. She just said directly, "After the fire broke out, the servants put out the fire. After coming over, Father and Aunt Liu should not have entered the ancestral hall to see it, right? Father, let's go in and see who lied?"

After saying that, Mu Qingge stood up and went straight into the ancestral hall.

Mu Changyun and Aunt Liu hurried to follow them in.

It was pitch-black inside the ancestral hall. Mu Changyun asked someone to light the lamp, and only then did he see that it was in a mess.

Aunt Liu covered her nose and frowned. "It's almost burnt out. Can you see anything?"

"Of course, I can see it." Mu Qingge glanced at Aunt Liu. "The sacrificial table has been burned black, the cloth on the sacrificial table has only pieces left, and part of the memorial tablet has been burned, but there is no trace of fire on the ground, which means that the fire should have come from the table or the sacrificial table, not from the ground mentioned by Lv Zhu and Yanjing's maid."

"And the altar and table are both in the innermost part of the ancestral hall. There are indeed windows next to them, but they are still far away from the door. Yanjing said that they found Lv Zhu after the Lv Zhu was set on fire. If that's the case, it's impossible for Lv Zhu to be at the door. So what she wrote is wrong."

Mu Qingge looked at the altar table and her gaze paused for a moment. "Besides, did you see that, Father? Half of the altar table has been burned to ashes."

Aunt Liu became more and more annoyed. "The ancestral hall needs an eternal fire. What's wrong with a lighter? Is it strange?"

Mu Qingge walked over and picked up two lighters that had not been completely burned. "Although there is only a little left of these two lighters, I can still see that the patterns outside are not the same. This pattern should only be used in the courtyard of the master of the mansion, right?"

"Why would this lighter appear here?"

As Mu Qingge spoke, she walked up to Lv Zhu, bent down to feel for a moment on Lv Zhu and took out a intact lighter from her sleeve.

"Lv Zhu's lighter is still on her sleeve. The lighter on the table should not be hers. So, who lied? Whose lighter does it belong to?"

Mu Yanjing panicked and said, "My maid and I just heard the sound and caught her. You're here to stir up trouble and frame me!"

As soon as Mu Yanjing finished speaking, a servant's voice suddenly came from outside the door. "Master, Madam is here."

Mu Qingge was a little surprised. She quickly turned her head and looked out of the door, only to see Shen Weilan walking in quickly in a cloak.

"Mother, why are you here? Didn't I tell you that it is ok? You're still in confinement. It's cold at night. It's not good for you to catch a cold. You'll have a headache in the future."

Shen Weilan pursed her lips and patted her hand to comfort her. "It's okay. My daughter was wronged and framed here. How can I not come?"

Shen Weilan seemed to be talking to Mu Qingge, but her eyes were looking at Mu Changyun.

"I felt that something was wrong when I heard the young male servant's words just now. I was right."

Mu Changyun frowned. "What are you doing here?"

Shen Weilan looked disappointed. "If I hadn't come, my daughter would have been charged with murder and arson."

"As soon as I heard the news, I felt that there must be something wrong with Lv Zhu, who has been serving Qingge. It's really strange for Lv Zhu to appear in the ancestral hall in the middle of the night."

"So, I immediately asked the servants in the yard to search the room of Lv Zhu, and found a lot of things in her room."

Shen Weilan turned around and took a bundle from Fu Rong, throwing everything in it to the ground.

There were gold, silver, and pearl hairpins.

Shen Weilan sneered. "Gold and silver are one thing, but these pearls, hairpins, and jade pendants all seem to belong to Yanjing."

"I've seen Yanjing wear some pearl hairpins a few times. Why would Yanjing bring her own things to my daughter's maid's room?"

"The whereabouts of the jewelry in the manor should have been recorded, right? Aunt Liu, why don't you take them out and compare them? Let's see who is at fault."

"Or, why don't we invite Yanjing and Lv Zhu to talk?"

Lv Zhu looked at the things on the ground, and her face suddenly turned pale and her heart felt as lifeless as ashes.

No matter what the final result of the investigation tonight was, she might not have a good ending.

Lv Zhu was tense all over, and her stomach hurt faintly.

This pain reminded Lv Zhu of how Mu Yanjing had treated her before.

Lv Zhu loosened her clenched teeth and suddenly raised her head. "It's Second Miss."

"Long ago, Second Miss bribed me and asked me to help her do things and hurt First Miss and Madam. These are all rewards from her."

"The day before yesterday, she also asked me to lead First Miss to the guest room and put a scent of ecstasy in it. She wanted to completely destroy the innocence of First Miss. But for some reason, something went wrong and she fell into the trap herself."

"She was so angry that she asked me to go there at night and gave me a pair of bracelets and a letter. She asked me to put the bracelets and letters in First Miss's makeup and frame her..."

Mu Qingge squinted her eyes and pointed to a pair of bracelets and a letter on the ground. "Is it these?"