Tang Xiao was indeed locked in a bitter prison cell. At this moment, someone called out to him, naturally causing the crowd to turn their heads and look back.

  But then Tang Xiao saw someone carrying a person and walking forward, behind him were Hua Rou and Yu Er supporting each other.

  This...

  Everyone is puzzled.

  "Xiao Er?" Grandma was also very surprised, but she took a step forward and restrained her inner concern and excitement, standing still and asking: "How did you..."

  "Brother Xiao!" Tang Fei Yan had already rushed to Tang Xiao's side: "You..."

  She was eager to care, but Tang Xiao didn't respond to her at all, just taking a step forward. Tang Feiyan subconsciously took a look at the person behind Tang Xiao's back and stood stupidly in place, watching them walk by in front of her.

  In the crowd, Mu Jun's eyebrows were already furrowed at this moment. He saw Hua Rou and also saw the purple-red mark on her neck, which made him feel uneasy.

  Tang Xiao carried him straight to Grandma's face, put him on the ground, and revealed the face of "Mu Junwu".

  Everyone looked at Mu Junwu in surprise, while Mu Junwu stared at the "himself" on the ground with a shocked expression and hidden anger in his eyebrows.

  "What...what's going on?" Grandma looked at Tang Xiao, seeking an answer, but Tang Xiao didn't respond to Grandma. Instead, she nodded towards Hua Rou, and then Hua Rou let go of Yu'er's hand and took a step forward.

  "Grandma, just now in the prison cell, someone threw in a handkerchief with anesthetic and knocked out Tang Xiao and Yu'er. Then this person opened the door of the cell saying he wanted to rescue me, but when I realized it was fake Murong brother, he tried to kill me."

  Tang Xiao crouched down and tore off a human skin mask from the ear of "Mu Jun Wu", revealing Zhou Feng's face.

  Everyone was shocked and amazed.

  I still stared at Zhou Feng's body, my expression didn't change much, while Grandma immediately looked towards Tang Lei.

  "Zhou Feng?" Tang Lei feigned a surprised expression, pretending to be unaware: "This... what's going on here?"

  Hua Ruo stood up and walked towards Tang Lei, glaring at him angrily: "Master of the house, I, Hua Ruo, have no grudges or grievances with you. Why do your family members repeatedly target me?"

  "How dare you! This is no place for your nonsense!!"

  "You're well aware that I'm not speaking nonsense! The House of Jiang has always been bullying me, and today at the grand ceremony, they've come to frame me again. I was locked in a bitter prison, and you still won't let me off, actually letting him impersonate Mu Brother to kill me!"

  "What's it to you, homeowner? What are you meddling for?"

  Hua Rou couldn't respond for a moment, and Tang Jiu'er coldly snorted beside her: "I don't know why the master is being difficult with me, but the fact that Zhou Feng is lying here is undeniable. Could it be that he has nothing to do with your Fang Clan?"

  "This..."

  "Tan Lei!" His grandmother said sternly: "You must give me an explanation for what happened today!"

  Tang Lei's face was difficult, turning his eyes to think of a way to respond. Tang Shi Qi saw the situation and immediately came out to protect him: "Master, although Zhou Feng is a person from the House of Industry, it's also possible that there is a personal grudge between him and Hua Rou."

  "Right! Who knows if the two of them had any grudges?" Tang Feiyan also rushed forward at this time: "It's possible that Zhou Feng heard that Hua Rou was locked in a bitter prison, and thought of finding an opportunity to teach her a lesson. Whether or not he wanted to kill someone, he's dead now, so there's no way to verify..."

  Tang Feiyan saw Tang Xiao glare at her, feeling a bit guilty, she turned her head to one side and didn't dare speak again.

  "Fei Yan is right, Zhou Feng often muttered that Hua Rou ruined his hands, who knows if he suddenly wants to go and collect Hua Rou..."

  "Collect?" Hua Rou was excitedly pointing at her own neck: "He almost strangled me to death, and you say it's just collecting?"

  Tang Lei, Tang Shi Qi, and Tang Fei Yan exchanged a brief glance, but all three remained silent.

  Mu Junwu's eyes, fixed on Zhou Feng's corpse, flashed with anger as he suddenly spoke up: "The Phoenix House disciple who just died was the one who erased the hundred-step mark from the flagpole. If Zhou Feng really only had a personal grudge against Hua Rou, then what kind of grudge did this Phoenix House disciple have against Hua Rou?"

  A sentence asked, and the three of them were even more speechless. Tang Xiao also took a step forward excitedly: "Grandma..."

  "There's no need to say any more." Grandma stopped Tang Xiao's outburst: "I'll take care of this matter myself."

  Grandma finished speaking and locked eyes with Tang Lei:

  "What a good door celebration, several times out of the way, and so many disciples died. Whether it was Zhou Feng's doing or not, the master and the Phoenix Master, you can't escape responsibility!"

  "Master!" Tang Lei immediately knelt on one knee: "The door celebration and sacrifice went wrong, it was my family's house management that was not done properly, Tang Lei is willing to accept punishment."

  Tang Shi Qi followed suit and knelt down: "Feng Ju Fang is also willing to accept punishment."

  "Jiaye House and Fengzhuo House have failed me. The disciples of these two houses... are hereby disqualified from this trial."

  Grandma's words shocked Tang Lei and Tang Shiqi: "Master of the door..."

  "Hmm?" However, Grandma's eyes were exceptionally sharp and stern. With a single word, she made Tang Lei and Tang Shiqi admit defeat and not dare to say anything more, both of them indicating that they would accept their punishment.

  It has come to this, and the grand ceremony of worship is basically ruined.

  The grandmother hastily instructed the person in charge of each room to quickly complete the remaining agenda, and then reluctantly returned to the high platform.

  The sacrificial animals were slaughtered, the pottery was buried, the gods were worshipped and the ancestors were paid respects to. What should have been a grand and extraordinary ceremony ended in a lackluster and unenthusiastic manner.

  ……

  In the west wing of the poison house, Yu'er was applying ointment to Hua Rou's neck, while Hua Rou recounted everything that had happened before to Tang Jiu'er.

  "You're clearly caught in their trap, but now that the two people involved are dead, even if I know you're innocent, this matter can only be dropped. You don't have to bother with them anymore."

  "Master, the frame-up is obvious, no need to investigate clearly. But I don't understand why Zhou Feng wants to kill me? He was the one who bullied me first!"

  Tang Jiuer heard this and lowered her eyes: "Forget it, just rest well!" She said as she got up to leave, but turned back halfway and looked at Hua Rou: "How did you recognize that he wasn't Mu Junwu?"

  "Oh, Mu Ge won't call me... Hua Rou." Hua Rou said and saw the astonishment in Tang Jiu Er's eyes, then hurriedly added: "That... when I'm alone with Mu Ge, he... he calls me Xiao Rou."

  Tang Jiuer slightly raised an eyebrow and turned around to leave. Linlin, who was behind her, glanced at Hua Rou before following her out.

  After Tang Jiuer and Linlin left, Yu'er closed the medicine bottle with one hand and said in a low voice: "I've already told you that the poisonous house is their thorn in the eye, why are you still asking?"

  "Because I don't understand why they want to use my hands to poison others."

  Yu'er was taken aback upon hearing this.

  "If I hadn't realized at that time that the cumulative poison would be fatal, how many of our fourteen people would still be alive now?"