"On the other side of the second room, the second wife, Mrs. Hong, was born in the Suning Palace. She is the second daughter. The Suning Palace was also a powerful family in the capital. The brothers were quite successful in their studies, but they accidentally got involved when the late emperor was in power. After being implicated in the imperial examination fraud case, his future was in ruins. Later, Jinshang ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world. He investigated many old cases and rehabilitated several people who were implicated, including their family. But even if his title was restored, after all, She has been neglected for many years and is not very prosperous. Otherwise, the Hong family would not be able to marry the second master."
Among the Gongsun clan, the eldest son Gongsun Jingzhi was the only outstanding Miao Miao. The second and third masters were not very good at civil and military affairs and had no merits. The Hong family was still married at that time.
Li Qingyi nodded.
Mother Jiang continued: "Over the third house, the third wife Yuan's natal family is now prosperous, but she was a donated official before, so her connections were limited. It took a lot of effort to marry the third master. Now the third wife's My brother has reached the sixth rank of Zhongzhou Governor Shi. He is a man with real power. If he can be promoted by others, he will be promoted to the fifth rank in just two years. By then, the Yuan family will be able to get rid of the hat of donating officials and gain a firm foothold. Already."
When Mother Jiang said this, Qin Zeng glanced at her in surprise, as if he didn't expect that the mother in charge of Li Qingyi was so powerful and understood the official system of Dajing.
When Mother Jiang saw him looking over, she smiled and said, "I'm making the uncle laugh. I'm just following the second lady in the Li Mansion. I'm just being influenced by what I hear and see."
Officials and businessmen are not separated. The Ruan family has a large business, so they naturally know the ways of the officialdom. Ruan has followed them since she was a child, and has much more knowledge than ordinary housewives.
Qin Zeng did not hesitate to praise her, "In other words, she is a good daughter-in-law and good descendants for three generations. With her as the head of the family, even the servants in the family are so sensible and knowledgeable. The children and grandchildren of the Li family are bound to do nothing wrong."
Li Qingyi looked at him with a smile: "Don't worry, sir, I will convey this to my second aunt for you."
The girls covered their lips and snickered, but Qin Zeng said, "No, I will prepare a generous gift another day and go to my second aunt in person to thank my second aunt for raising a good wife for me."
Even Mother Jiang couldn't help but laugh now.
Li Qingyi glared at him, "Why do you get married? People become more narrow-minded and talk more."
Qin Zeng put an exquisite and clear shrimp dumpling in her bowl and said, "Is it possible that you like me to keep you cold?"
Li Qingyi gave him a look that said he didn't want to pay attention to you, and said to Jiang's mother: "The second wife was born in a noble family, but her natal family was in recession. The third wife was not born in a noble family, but her natal family was prosperous. One married low, one married high, one went downhill, and the other But he is so proud, I am afraid that the two of them have many conflicts in private."
"What grandma said is that there are always problems overtly or covertly, but with the princess always mediating in the middle, there hasn't been any big trouble."
Princess Zhenbei's method of manipulating people is indeed very clever.
Li Qingyi had never seen a woman of all ages and sex to such an extent, and couldn't help but become more curious about her origins.
When Qin Zeng saw her looking towards him, he knew what she was going to ask. He put down his chopsticks and said, "I have tried hard to find out her origins, but I only found out that she is the only daughter of Lin He, who was previously offered to the Imperial Academy. Lin Jianyue was taken out of the house by Lin He when she was three years old and lost at the temple fair. Mrs. Lin died of sadness and depression. Lin He did not remarry because of guilt in his heart, so he tried his best to find his daughter. Finally, seven years later, she was found in A trace of his daughter was found in a nunnery. In order to make up for her daughter, Lin He resigned from his official position and returned home to concentrate on teaching his daughter. However, he only stayed with Lin Jianyue for four or five years before he suddenly fell ill."
Li Qingyi also put down his chopsticks, touched his lips with a handkerchief, and asked sensitively: "When did Lin He die of illness?"
The emotion between Qin Zeng's brows became inexplicable, "Just three months ago my father was involved in the rebellion case."
Li Qingyi's eyes darkened, "What did Lin Jianyue do in those three months?"
"Both her parents have died, and she is an orphan who has just grown hair. Faced with the elders in the clan who have different thoughts, one can imagine her situation. After handling the funeral affairs of her father Lin He, Lin Jianyue spent a month. I got my late mother's dowry back from my aunt, and then resold the property and house my father left to me, and left the Lin family alone."
Li Qingyi took a deep breath and said, "You can use your own
It is not easy to get things back, not to mention that she can leave the Lin family without touching her body. But after leaving the Lin family, she was alone. Where did she go? "
"She returned to the nunnery where she had stayed as a child, copied scriptures, prayed for her late father, and led him in meditation."
Li Qingyi was extremely surprised, "It's really smart."
Returning to the nunnery to pray for her father, even if she leaves the family, people will not forget her origins, and she will gain a reputation for filial piety. And because she is in the nunnery, her reputation will not be doubted because she lives outside the family. And whenever she has a way out, she can leave at any time.
Qin Zeng also nodded, "She stayed in the nunnery for seventy-seven forty-nine days. During this process, something happened to my father. The old lady asked around and found out about Lin Jianyue from others."
"This time is too strict."
"indeed."
"So you said before that you spent a lot of effort on the investigation and only found this, which means that all this is just the surface. In the seven years since Lin Jianyue disappeared, maybe there was some chance that made her become someone's pawn. ? Or maybe she is not really Lin Jianyue at all, but she just knows that Lin He is looking for her daughter, so she takes advantage of this identity?"
Qin Zeng said: "I prefer the latter. After all, the timing of Lin He's death was too coincidental. It was probably a homicide. If Lin Jianyue was his biological daughter, she might not be so cruel. However, Lin Jianyue She was lost when she was three years old and was only found when she was ten years old. I don’t know what happened to her during this period. Who knows how much she feels about her father? People’s hearts are complicated, so I can’t be sure.”
Li Qingyi frowned and thought for a long time, "It seems that only by finding more details can we find out her true identity."
Seeing that the conversation between the two had come to an end, Jiang's mother reminded her loudly: "Uncle, grandma, it's almost time."
Li Qingyi stood up, tidied up a little, and walked out of the courtyard with Qin Zeng.
The sky was bright, but the shadows in the yard were still a little dark, so the girls lit up the lamps in the eaves and corridors.
Qin Zeng looked around and asked Li Qingyi, "Is this all your dowry?"
"Yeah." Li Qingyi knew what he was going to ask and said, "Mama Tong and the others came here to help before, but later the dowry department didn't have enough manpower, so they had to be transferred out."
The two of them smiled knowingly.
As long as they are in their own courtyard, no matter what they say or do, it will never spread.
