Ever since His Majesty the Emperor brought Prince Teng and his illegitimate son to the capital while hiding in his outer chamber in Liaodong, the tranquility of the Wang family has been completely broken.
Wang Ziteng's first wife, Mrs. Dong of Ningyuan County, smiled openly when she welcomed her daughter-in-law and her son into the house, but privately she almost scratched the prince's face.
When the Dong family failed to give birth to a first-born child in ten years, they had already decided to bring their cousin, who was a concubine in the family, into the Wang family to continue the family's legacy.
But Wang Ziteng's response at that moment almost made Ms. Dong think that she had a deep friendship with her husband, and she refused to accept the Dong family's proposal because she didn't want to be wronged.
"You have been married to me for ten years. Although you have not given birth to a son, you have still worked hard to take care of the housework. Since ancient times, there have been many wives and concubines who have competed with each other. Instead of making the house restless due to the quarrels between wives and concubines, it is better for you and me to raise my nephew Wang Ren well and let my nephew take care of me in the future. Two bedrooms…”
Look at these words, Mrs. Dong was so moved at that time that she was so focused on Wang Ziteng that she almost emptied the Dong family.
But when the time came, I suddenly discovered that the husband, who was usually not a womanizer, secretly had a delicate and frail wife and gave birth to a very big son.
When the emperor sent his eldest son back to the capital, Mrs. Dong was almost stunned to death.
But these are just trivial matters. After the weak Ms. Chen and her evildoer entered the house, they hung out in front of her every day, doing some disgusting things at every turn.
This caused the entire Ningyuan County Houwang family to be in a state of panic. Not to mention that the prince was not happy to stay in the mansion, even the Dong family wanted to live directly in the village outside the city.
It's a pity that as the mistress of the Wang family, how could she hide outside the city and easily give up the huge Hou Mansion to that bitch Chen...
The Dong family spent a lot of money these days, and asked people to find connections to recall Wang Ren from the northwest army to the capital. She also spent a lot of effort to win over the elders of the Wang family to compete with the Chen family and that evildoer.
She originally thought of teaming up with the third-bedroom Wang Zisheng to keep Wang Ren's heir status, but she didn't expect that early this morning, before she had finished her breakfast, she heard a lot of noise in the front yard.
When the maid came to report in a panic, Mrs. Dong felt that she didn't seem to wake up.
At the feet of the Emperor, in broad daylight, the gate of the dignified Marquis' mansion in Tangtang County was broken open, the courtyard wall was knocked down, and the master of the Marquis' mansion was captured.
When Mrs. Dong heard that Daiyu had sent soldiers to break down the door and arrest people, she never thought of going out to ask for them in person.
On the one hand, she sent someone to report to Wang Ziteng outside the city, and on the other hand, she was wondering whether she should go and tell the old lady of Rongguo Mansion about this matter, when she heard from her disciples that the Marquis had returned to the mansion.
"Master, why did you come back... hiccup~"
Mrs. Dong immediately went out to greet him. The maid took advantage of the situation and stuffed a piece of ginger into his hand and wiped it on his eyes.
Then he heard Dong howl and say a word before seeing Jia Cong entering the door with Wang Ziteng.
The cry got stuck directly in the throat, neither going up nor going down, and it was very choking.
Wang Ziteng couldn't care less about Dong's pretentiousness, and asked with a cold face: "Madam, what's going on with the third child and that Chen Zhiwen? Also, who has the third child been in contact with recently?"
"Ah? What happened to Bao Yatou, was it really the third child who did it?"
Of course Ms. Dong heard about what happened to the He family yesterday, but she didn't really believe that Wang Zisheng would do such a thing.
After all, he is also Bao Yatou’s biological uncle~
She was still thinking of sending someone outside the city to tell her husband today, but she didn't want someone to break open the door of her house and arrest her so early in the morning.
Seeing the cold look on Wang Dahou's expression, she hurriedly shook her head and said: "I really don't know, since the master grounded him, except for Bao Yatou who went out a few times when going to the six rites, the third uncle has never stepped out of the house. ...By the way, Third Uncle had a few extra drinks at Xue's house yesterday, and Brother Pan sent someone to bring them back."
Jia Cong carefully observed Dong's words and deeds, and saw that they did not seem to be hypocritical, so he reminded him in a low voice: "Mrs. Hou is a woman, and she stays in the inner house all the time. How can she know what Wang Zisheng has done. Mr. Wang, business matters are important. Let’s go check out Wang Zisheng’s residence first to see if there are any useful clues.”
Now that Daiyu has captured Wang Zisheng, he and Wang Ziteng didn't come to Wang's house just to watch the fun. They wanted to take advantage of Wang Zisheng's unpreparedness to search first to see if they could find anything useful. clues.
Not to mention, this kind of surprise inspection is indeed useful.
Although Wang Zisheng probably hid it well, he couldn't resist his brother's understanding of him.
Wang Ziteng only walked around the room twice and found two secret compartments and a secret room.
When Wang Ziteng saw the letters about his "good brother"'s conspiracy with others, the veins in his neck were pulsing.
Wang Zisheng was so shameless that he actually conspired with others to seize the Xue family first, then the Jia family, and finally kicked his "good brother" Wang Ziteng away, leaving the third room to inherit the Wang family business, which was better than being addicted to a marquis.
"Tsk, tsk, the Wang family is really of the same origin. Did the Marquis plan this too at the beginning?"
While Jia Cong was flipping through the thick stack of letters, he did not forget to turn on the sarcastic mode, constantly provoking Wang Ziteng's nerves.
"Look at this. Wang Dahou is considered by Wang Zisheng to be a stumbling block in his great career of becoming a general. Unexpectedly, the men of the old Wang family are so smart, killing their brothers and seizing their wives, and then poisoning their nephews to eliminate the roots... Hou Master, I have to say that this brother is much more ruthless than you, at least you raised the second sister-in-law and his sister."
Although Wang Ren, a fool, was a little useless, the bloodline of the Wang family's eldest family was not cut off.
Fortunately, it was not Wang Zisheng who was in charge, otherwise...
It’s gratifying, it’s gratifying~
"There is also this letter. Mr. Wang, please come and take a look. This brother of yours is amazing. He has secretly interacted with Shui Rong. Did Mr. Wang give birth to the wrong child? I don't think the prince is from the Wang family. People from the Wang family shouldn't be so stupid..."
"Shut up!"
Wang Ziteng finally broke through his guard. Jia Cong's words were so irritating.
At this moment, he almost forgot that he would have to ask Jia Cong to take him to Daiyu later. He snatched the letter written by Shui Rong from Jia Cong's hand, read it quickly and slammed the table with a livid face.
"I can't blame him for going to Jiangnan to get involved in salt affairs. It turns out that Shui Rong was the one behind it!"
When Wang Ziteng said this, Jia Cong remembered that in the fifth year of Yuanyou, he and his father went south with Daiyu. Didn't Wang Zisheng join the Zhen family and the salt merchants from Jiangnan to intercept and kill them along the way?
At that time, in order to catch a big fish in the long run, the Pardon Master deliberately released Wang Zisheng back, which caused a rift between the Wang family and the Liu Bo and Zhen families...
It turns out that from that time, Wang Zisheng had been hooking up with Shui Rong.
I just don't know if Shui Rong really wants to help Wang Ziteng win, or if he simply thinks that this person is stupid and easy to fool, and is specifically used to weaken the strength of the Wang family and contain Wang Ziteng, the head of the Wang family.
But looking at Wang Ziteng's face at this moment, Jia Cong could roughly guess that most likely, Wang Zisheng was Shui Rong who was using it to bring trouble to Wang Ziteng.
The latest letter was unsigned, and the handwriting seemed to be written by a woman. It fully explained how Wang Zisheng should seduce Chen Zhiwen.
He also made a guarantee that as long as the marriage between the Xue family and the He family fell through and they became enemies, the owner of the letter would eventually help Wang Zisheng's lineage win the inheritance rights of the Wang family.
"Then... I don't understand why the marriage between Sister Bao and the He family fell through, so the third wife can seize the inheritance rights of the Wang family?"
Jia Cong didn't understand, and neither did Wang Ziteng.
But it's not difficult to figure it out. Just take these letters and ask Wang Zisheng.
…
The soldiers trained by the Jia family are better at binding than each other.
Wang Zisheng was hung on a crooked tree in the courtyard of Lin Mansion. After being whipped twenty times with a horse whip, the precious silks and satins on his body had long since turned into strands.
There was not much good skin on my body. After I fainted from the pain, I poured a basin of salt water over me and I woke up instantly.
Jia Shiliu followed Daiyu's instructions completely. From the beginning of whipping until now, he never asked Wang Zisheng a word.
From being beaten to fainting from the pain, to being woken up by being splashed with salt water, Wang Zisheng only felt the excruciating pain, wailed and begged, and in the end he could only curse hysterically.
He still can't figure out why he suffered such a disaster since he had never provoked this damn girl from the Lin family recently.
"Why hit me? Why hit me? Why hit me?"
"Girl from the Lin family, our two families are old acquaintances after all. Why do you want people to torture me like this?"
"Damn girl, if you dare to hit me, I will beat you to death when I get out of trouble..."
Snapped!
Without hesitation, Jia Shiliu whipped Wang Zisheng directly on the mouth.
This time the whip was slightly deflected, and the tail hit Wang Zisheng's right eye.
There seemed to be a popping sound, and Wang Zisheng wailed and fainted again.
Jia Shiliu took a closer look and saw that Wang Zisheng, with his head drooped and his face covered in blood, had fainted again.
"Girl, I fainted again."
Daiyu seemed to be used to this kind of bloody interrogation, and she said the harshest words in the gentlest tone.
"Take my warrant and go to the Taiyuan Hospital and ask the best doctor who is good at trauma to come and treat him. Then I will take an old ginseng and give it to him. I want him to feel pain all the time until he tells all the secrets in his stomach. come out!"
Daiyu is not a cruel person, her heart is softer than anyone else.
But she knew one thing very well. The crimes Wang Zisheng had committed went beyond bewitching Chen Zhiwen to frame Baochai.
When Master Pardon escorted her south to serve her illness, Wang Zisheng participated in the canal interception and killing.
At the same time, the role played by the Wang family in the Lin family's disaster was definitely not very glorious.
Even though there is no evidence that Wang Ziteng participated in the murder of the Lin family, there is conclusive evidence that Wang Zisheng colluded with unscrupulous salt merchants to fight against the new salt policy.
It is also related to the snow disaster in Gyeonggi, when Wang Zisheng colluded with corrupt officials in Gyeonggi and embezzled money and food for disaster relief, killing so many people...
To be kind to such people is the greatest cruelty to innocent people!
This is the reason why Daiyu can be cruel and use cruel punishment to interrogate Wang Zisheng.
This is not just an interrogation, but also a punishment for the crime Wang Zisheng committed.
…
When Jia Cong and Wang Ziteng arrived at the Lin Mansion in Huanghuafang, the imperial doctor had already given Wang Zisheng a bowl of ginseng soup and applied golden sore medicine on him.
All of the old doctors at Taiyuan Hospital have unique skills.
Daiyu ordered that if the prince was better off than alive, then the old imperial doctor would never let him die.
Wang Ziteng only took one look at the miserable condition of his third child and roughly guessed what the current situation was like.
For the first time, he was afraid of the young couple in front of him. They were not at all like the golden boys and girls under Lao Jun's throne that Empress Dowager Cao said. They were more like the black and white impermanence who seduced souls and killed people under the hands of Lord Yama in the underworld.
Jia Shiliu briefly told the story in the ear of his mistress. Jia Cong's eyes widened and he took a closer look at the unusual Sister Lin.
Daiyu just smiled at him, and then looked at Wang Ziteng with a complicated expression.
"Marquis Ningyuan, as the head of the Wang family, you are not strict in running the family. You cannot escape the blame for what Wang Zisheng did!"
Wang Ziteng did not expect that Daiyu would strike first and convicted him immediately.
And he really couldn't get rid of this crime. He could only nod slightly and said: "What Her Royal Highness the Princess said is that I am indeed guilty of lax discipline. But..."
"Don't worry yet."
Daiyu interrupted Wang Ziteng's story, and as soon as she raised her hand, an old nun wearing a palace female official's uniform came out, holding a bright yellow brocade book embroidered with a phoenix.
"The imperial concubine's decree..."
Wang Ziteng's heart skipped a beat, and he smiled bitterly at Jia Cong, then bowed and said, "I respectfully wish to express my sincere greetings to my queen."
"The Wang family is so courageous. I personally granted the marriage, but you can't make irresponsible remarks? If you say that the Xue family's daughter has bad moral character, does that mean that I have seen the wrong person? In this case, I will abdicate. Let Xian, how about your Wang family taking charge of the Phoenix Seal?"
…
The old mama's words became more and more severe, fully expressing the anger in the heart of the imperial concubine Yang.
Wang Ziteng was really angry and resentful this time. This Wang Zisheng had his head kicked by a donkey. Why did he believe those lies and dare to instigate a marriage between the Xue family and the He family.
Because of this incident, within one day the Wang family offended not only the Xue family and the He family, but also the imperial concubine in the palace who was in charge of the seal.
He glanced at Wang Zisheng, who was still unconscious, and wished he could kick him to death.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty asked me to bring a message to you..."
"Mommy, please tell me."
The old mama put away the imperial edict and said in a calm tone: "The empress said that the Wang family often says that a woman's virtue is to be without talent, but I feel that it is difficult to understand reason without studying, and it is difficult to care for a husband and raise children without studying. Therefore, a woman must be virtuous and talented. Only when you have both, can you be blessed by the Great Dao.”
"Princess Wen'an asked the three girls of Jia's family to submit a collection of poems. The empress loved it very much. The poems uploaded are all excellent. Since the Wang family has used poems to tarnish Miss Xue's reputation, let's use poems to clear Miss Xue's name."
"The empress thought she had written a preface to the collection of poems presented to Her Highness the Princess. The Wang family spent money to print a hundred thousand copies of it and spread it around the world, so that everyone in the world could see it. The women of my dynasty also have the talent of singing catkins! "
hiss! One hundred thousand copies...
Wang Ziteng took a deep breath. The Wang family was no different than before. They first fished out Wang Zisheng, and then transferred Wang Ren back to the capital. They needed no less than one hundred thousand silver coins.
Ten thousand taels of silver, this is almost the Wang family's annual expenditure.
However, Wang Ziteng did not dare to refuse the imperial concubine's oral instructions. To put it bluntly, this was actually the emperor's wish.
He could only grit his teeth and accept the order, and send the old nanny away first.
Daiyu's set of combos directly defeated Wang Ziteng. After seeing off the old nanny, Daiyu invited Wang Ziteng to sit down.
Wang Zisheng was still asleep, and Wang Ziteng wanted to wake him up quickly for interrogation.
However, Daiyu was not in a hurry now, and said slowly: "I have been waiting for Marquis Ningyuan to come over. Just now, Prince Sheng said something unconsciously in a trance, which made me a little confused..."
"Is the child who came back from Liaodong yours, Marquis Ningyuan, or Prince Sheng's?"
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The update is a bit late, sorry~
I’ll stop updating here first and continue tomorrow night. Good night... uh, good morning!
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