Ji Le quickly returned home in the carriage, and stumbled into the door. As luck would have it, he bumped into Matsuri who was just about to go out.
"Ouch! You crazy girl, what are you doing!"
Ji Xian looked at her sweating profusely and immediately glared at her pretending to be displeased.
"How unbecoming is it for a girl to run around like this all day long!"
Having said that, he already had a sweat towel in his hand.
But who knew that Ji Le ignored his good intentions at all and just said bluntly:
"Father, I'm afraid the grain that my two brothers transported to Weiguo has been subcontracted by someone else!"
"Nonsense! Who dares to do such a thing in Zhengyi? Where did you hear the news?"
It is impossible to believe in the sacrifice of ancestors.
You know where this is, it’s in Zhengyi! Jishi's spies are all over the city, how could something like this happen?
If you do these little tricks under his nose, aren't you asking for bad luck?
"Oh, Dad! When brother Ziming and I checked our grain trucks outside the city today, the weights of those grain trucks were all different. There must not be grain in them!"
"And...and..."
At this point in Ji Le's words, he couldn't continue for a while.
"And what?"
Ji first heard the sound and frowned.
Ji Le looked at him, and after thinking again and again, he finally said:
"And Brother Meng seemed to have left the city with a group of strangers last night..."
"Nonsense! What do you mean by this? Do you mean that your brother Meng sent people out of the city to transfer the food last night? What do you call this?!"
"Le'er, then Li Ran is just an outsider no matter what. What's more, who is Li Ran? Nowadays, no one knows that this person likes to make trouble the most? How can you trust such a person, but instead doubt your own family? Really? You, Brother Meng, have been busy working on the business of the Ji family these years, do you think you can't see it at all? Besides, Ji Zeng and Ji Xun are his biological brothers, how could he trap them like this?"
"I say that you, this girl, have been acting more and more wrong recently. First you cried and shouted that you wanted to marry Li Ran, and now you are helping Li Ran frame you like this, Brother Meng. You should tell me what you want to do!"
If someone else had said these words to Ji Xian, Ji Xian would have been arrested long ago, whipped and tortured, and then blasted out.
But now facing his beloved daughter, he was filled with all kinds of anger, but he could only suppress it. He still didn't say a harsh word inside and outside his words, and his tone was very helpless and frustrating.
Regarding Shu Niu, no one in the large Ji clan knew it better than him.
He was determined not to believe that Shu Niu would do such a thing.
"Dad! But if this thing comes true, what should we do?"
Don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of what happens.
At this moment, she had no conclusive evidence to verify this matter. After all, the best opportunity to expose the conspiracy had been missed.
"Even if this is really the case, it must be your brother Meng who has made other arrangements, so don't just follow along and make fun of me."
"We still don't know what Li Ran's intention is in coming to Zheng. How can we believe his one-sided words and then doubt his own family? Your brother Meng has always been reliable in his work, and there will definitely be no mistakes this time."
"Le'er, I would like to remind you one last thing. There are some things that we can only talk to our own family. You can't tell them all to Li Ran. Do you understand?"
In the end, Ji Le not only failed to convince his father, but was scolded by his father.
This can't be blamed on Ji Le, after all, most women these days are the targets of being dumped, and they don't need to say anything. Moreover, in the eyes of her father, Ji Le will always look like a "wild and willful" person.
It's understandable that Ji Xian didn't believe her.
Seeing this, Ji Le knew that he could not convince his father at the moment, so he immediately stamped his feet and left with a small mouth pouted.
Looking at Ji Le's leaving figure, Ji Xian couldn't help but let out a long sigh. After being tormented by her, I couldn't help but feel that I was mentally and physically haggard, as if I had aged a few years.
If we say that the person in the Ji family that worries Ji Xian the most now is the apple of his eye, which has always been willful and reckless.
After Ji Le's mother passed away, his doting on Ji Le became out of control. He would do almost anything by her, and no matter how big of a deal it was, he would just give her a few words of reprimand and forget about it.
Hold it in your hand for fear of falling, hold it in your mouth for fear of melting. It can be said that you can't be beaten or scolded.
Whenever Ji Le caused trouble outside, he could only blame himself for not fulfilling his responsibility as a father, and he did not dare to say anything harsh to Ji Le.
Now, watching Ji Le grow up day by day, his temperament is not only more wild than before, but he even prefers to believe in the words of outsiders and begins to doubt his own brother. This really broke his heart. But what can he do?
"Here comes someone."
"Owner."
I saw two pedestrians half kneeling on the ground with their fists clasped.
"What's going on over there, Li Ran?"
"In the past few days, except for a trip to the east city gate with the young master Ji Le, he has never left the other courtyard. On the other hand, his follower Sun Wu has been wandering around the city in the past few days, asking around about the bulls. Young Master’s business.”
Ji Xian has never relaxed his surveillance of Li Ran.
After hearing this, Matsuri looked outside the main hall and murmured:
"What does this person want to do?..."
After hearing his daughter talk so wildly today, of course he knew that Li Ran was behind this. Therefore, Li Ran became even more suspicious of his intentions.
Since he couldn't stop Ji Le from wanting to marry Li Ran, he could only start with Li Ran.
"Where's the vertical bull?"
He thought for a while and asked one more question.
Just listen to the man continue to reply:
"Young Master has been taking care of things in the city these days and has contacts with caravans from various countries."
"But Sect Master, I have also heard that..."
The man was talking normally, but suddenly he stopped talking.
Ji Xian frowned at him and asked:
"What did you hear?"
The servant then continued to reply:
"I heard that Young Master Shu Niu seems to be at odds with the other two young masters... These days, the business the two of them were doing in the city has now been opposed by Young Master Shu Niu..."
"presumptuous!"
Before the servant could finish speaking, Ji Xian interrupted him with a cold shout.
I saw that Ji Xian's face was full of anger, and the eyes in his eyes were sharp and stern, which was very scary.
"Yes... I'm just talking nonsense, please forgive me, sect master!"
Seeing Ji Xian's anger, the servant was so frightened that he immediately fell to the ground and did not dare to breathe.
But Ji Xian did not continue to say anything. He only glanced at him, then raised his hand slightly, impatiently motioning for him to retreat.
He actually already knew about the infighting between Ji Niu, Ji Zong, and Ji Xun. But today he got confirmation from his own spy, which was still somewhat unacceptable to him.
After all, a large part of the reason for Ji's family's decline was due to internal strife.
Although he wanted to see Shu Niu and Ji Zeng, and ask Ji Zhi who among the three was more suitable to inherit his position as the leader of the clan, but if the three of them were allowed to fight openly and secretly, the Ji clan would probably be in trouble soon.
Coupled with the words of today's sacrifice, although he still didn't believe it, he still had some doubts about Shu Niu...
There is no doubt about Zhu Niu's ability, but if he cannot use this ability to protect his family and business, he cannot unite other people in the family. Then I am afraid that this position of sect leader cannot be given to him.
After thinking about it, Matsuri hurriedly left the house.
