After hearing this, Emperor Wen smiled and said: "The Yuan family's various businesses are prosperous. How can they care about this little money? Don't be too suspicious. As for Cheng Shi..."
When mentioning Cheng Shi, Emperor Wen paused. To be honest, he didn't think Cheng Shi would do such a thing, but it was hard to vouch for him.
In addition, Emperor Wen had always wanted to support poor families. Cheng Shi and Yan Zhong were the models he had spent so much effort to create, so naturally he didn't want to waste his efforts on this matter.
Then he said again: "Now that the army is still returning one after another, it is not appropriate to start a big fight. We might as well slow down the ordnance for the time being.
As for you, thinking that you have just triumphed, I will let you use your merits to offset your mistakes and not be punished. "
After hearing this, Ling Busu didn't press any further. Anyway, he had done a lot of things of cutting things off first and telling them later. He would just wait until he found out some information secretly and then report it.
After continuing to sit with Emperor Wen for a while, Ling Buyi planned to get up and leave, but Emperor Wen replied: "It's already a curfew outside, why are you going back? Just stay in the palace for one night, just spend more time with me." say something."
But Ling Buyi didn't want to stay in the palace. After all, the movement in the palace was restricted and it would be inconvenient to track down the Cheng family, so he refused and said: "I have already established an independent mansion, so it would be inappropriate to live in the palace any longer, or... It's good to go back to the palace and live there. I'll wait till tomorrow when I come back to the palace to talk to His Majesty."
Then the two exchanged a few more moves. Emperor Wen really had no choice but to let Ling Buyi leave the palace.
However, when passing by the Marquis of Chengyang's Mansion, Liang Qiu Fei said casually: "Young Lord, we have returned to the capital and have not yet paid a visit to the Marquis of Chengyang. We heard about it during the expedition a few days ago, and there are already some gossips in the court."
Ling Buyi replied directly: "They are just criticizing me for being unfilial. They have laid out so many crimes against me, and they are not afraid of adding this one."
Then he left directly without any intention of returning to Chengyang Hou Mansion.
That night, after Qu Lengjun returned to Yuan Mansion, he talked to Li Hao about the matter and asked: "Do you think Captain Cheng would be involved in this matter? Will it make Ling Zicheng suspect that our family is involved in the theft and sale of arms?" It’s related to something.”
Seeing that Qu Lengjun was worried about this, Li Hao replied: "He doubted him. Anyway, we have never done anything, so there is no need to worry.
As for the Cheng family, I don't think Captain Cheng is such a greedy person. It's probably just that the Dongcang manager can't control his own hands. "
After listening to Li Hao's explanation, Qu Lengjun nodded slightly. After all, she could only guarantee that her own family would be fine. The situation of the Cheng family could only depend on whether they acted upright.
It just so happened that Cheng Shi and his wife were back now. Qu Lengjun thought that Mr. Cheng would be taken care of by someone, so he did not visit Cheng's house in the next few days.
However, Cheng Shi and his wife later made a special trip to Yuan Mansion to express their gratitude to Li Hao and Qu Lengjun, and also brought many congratulatory gifts.
And on that day, Yuan Shen happened to be there and met Cheng Shi and his wife for the first time.
However, at this time Huangfuyi had not asked Yuan Shen to help send a message to Sang Shunhua, and had not seen Cheng Shaoshang, so she behaved quite calmly when facing Cheng Shi and his wife.
Seeing this scene, Li Hao thought that the Lantern Festival was not far away now, and he didn't know if the Three Eyes of the Night would happen like this again.
Li Hao was still quite curious about this, wondering why he should follow him out to see the excitement that day.
Then Qu Lengjun led Xiao Yuanyi to visit the Xia Liang family, while Li Hao and Yuan Shen stayed to chat with Cheng Shi. They did not leave until they had a meal at the Yuan Mansion.
So in the evening, Li Hao learned about Cheng Shaoshang's current situation from Qu Lengjun. Even if she didn't accuse Uncle Dong, she was still a thorn in Xiao Yuanyi's lips.
For this reason, Qu Lengjun complained to Li Hao: "Although Shaoshang was neglected at a young age and therefore has no talent, doesn't Mrs. Cheng know the reason?
I thought that after Mrs. Cheng came back, she would find a way to make up for the missing mother-daughter love in the past fourteen years and teach Shao Shang carefully.
But based on what Mrs. Cheng said today, it seems that the situation is different from what I thought. "
Facing Qu Lengjun's words, Li Hao didn't know how to answer for a moment. To say that Xiao Yuanyi didn't care about Cheng Shaoshang, that was definitely not the case.
It's just that the way she thinks she cares is indeed a bit difficult to understand and accept, and it is also an important reason for the separation of mother and daughter.
But this is a family matter of the Cheng family after all, and Li Hao has no reason to interfere. Moreover, Cheng Shaoshang is not a submissive person, so he can't suffer much loss.
So he changed the topic and said: "From what you said, it seems that I feel deeply about the love between mother and daughter, but it's not easy for us to take care of other people's family affairs.
So let's get some rest early so that we can give birth to a daughter. Then let me see with my own eyes how you are a mother. "
Then he picked up Qu Lengjun and walked to the bed. Qu Lengjun patted Li Hao and said, "You...", and then nothing happened.
In the follow-up investigation by Ling Buyi, even without Cheng Shaoshang's informant, the culprit of Geshi Buzhuang was still found, and the fact of Uncle Dong's embezzlement of ordnance was completely confirmed from the Buzhuang's accounts.
Now Ling Buyi could let go and take Uncle Dong directly from the prison, and only used some small tricks to make Uncle Dong tell the truth.
But yes, Uncle Dong was greedy for life and fearful of death. He saw the fate of several prisoners who had been severely punished, and then was frightened by Ling Buyi. With Ling Buyi's cold-faced King of Hell appearance, ordinary people would indeed bear it. Can't live.
So Ling Buyi found out that behind this matter was Xu Jinzhong, the commander of Shaofu Shangfang, who had ordered Xu Jinzhong to steal and sell weapons from his uncle for half a year.
The amount of stolen ordnance stolen was not a small amount, which meant that Li Hao and Cheng Shi were not involved in this matter, otherwise this would really be a troublesome matter.
Perhaps Xu Jinzhong had already sensed something was wrong when Uncle Dong was arrested and ran away.
By the time Ling Buyu sent someone to arrest him again, he no longer knew where he was, so he had to find another way to trace him.
For this reason, Ling Buyi was not in a good mood. In addition, without Cheng Shaoshang's relationship, although he still did not take Uncle Dong's life, before being sent to the frontier fortress, the pain of flesh and blood was indeed gone, let alone returned. The opportunity to go to the Cheng Mansion to meet the Cheng family was a pity that a famous scene was missed.
But when talking about this, we have to talk about Emperor Wen's partiality. Ling Buyi had all the power in the army, but he could intervene in the affairs of Tingwei's mansion. If it were someone else, Emperor Wen would have to lend his head.
After Cheng Shi's suspicion was cleared, the reward for him was officially issued. Cheng Shi was granted the title of Marquis of Guannei, with the title of Quling, and a settlement of 500 households. He was also appointed as Weiwei Zuocheng, and the imperial edict with an official rank of thousands of stones was sent to him. Went to Cheng Mansion.
From then on, Cheng began to have formal duties, and Wei Wei was in charge of the palace gate guards and palace inspections. Wei Wei Zuo Cheng, as one of Wei Wei Qing's adjutants, also had some power.
And then Cheng Shi informed him that he was moving to Wanjia's old house. In addition, the former Ge family was tricked by Cheng Shaoshang and made a vow not to move out of the old house without heirs.
Then Ge was furious and went to settle the score with Cheng Shaoshang, but was provoked to speak indiscriminately and insult Cheng Cheng wantonly, but Xiao Yuanyi took the opportunity.
Taking advantage of the situation, he wanted to help Cheng Cheng divorce his wife, drive the Ge family out of the Yuan family, and keep Cheng Shu in order to repay his hatred for being entrusted by the Ge family with the name of a fake god and having to leave Cheng Shaoshang behind.
All this was implemented very smoothly. After receiving the news, Taigong Ge rushed to the capital at night, signed a letter of divorce and took Ge away, which made Xiao Yuanyi let out a bad breath.
Later, Cheng Chengyuan went to Bailu Mountain to study, and Xiao Yuanyi took over the job of taking care of Cheng Shu. Then, through a series of favoritism, the already estranged relationship between mother and daughter became even weaker.
It was not until after moving to a new home that Cheng Shi's third brother Cheng Zhi, Sang Shunhua and his wife, and his two sons Cheng Song and Cheng Shaogong rushed back to the capital.
Under the instigation of Fu's mother and maidservant, Cheng Shuo was filled with confusion, Cheng Shaoshang and Xiao Yuanyi began their first official confrontation.
Although Xiao Yuanyi strongly suppressed him in the name of filial piety, Cheng Shaoshang resolutely withstood the pressure. Even though he was forced by Xiao Yuanyi in the name of disobedience, he still won the full support of Cheng Song and Cheng Shaogong. In the end, Xiao Yuanyi could not resist. True to his word, I don’t know how to end it.
There was no way, in order to show his impartiality and selflessness, Xiao Yuanyi would sometimes be kind to others and treat his own flesh and blood harshly, which made both his biological sons look down on him.
In the end, Cheng Shaoshang lamented: "My cousin has no mother everywhere, but she seems to have a mother everywhere, but I actually have a mother, but I seem to have no mother.", coupled with Sang Shunhua's appearance, the drama came to an end.
Of course, Cheng Shaoshang's fierce confrontation was not without rewards. The most recent thing was that he earned himself the opportunity to go out freely and was no longer restricted at home.
In addition, he has the upper hand emotionally. From now on, if Xiao Yuanyi does anything against Cheng Shaoshang, his two sons and Cheng Shi will immediately side with Cheng Shaoshang to avoid being harshly criticized by Xiao Yuanyi.
In addition to the excitement at the Cheng family, Ling Buyi also found Xu Jinzhong's hiding place, but he lost his hand when he finally captured him alive, causing Xu Jinzhong to bite the poison and commit suicide.
If it was just like this, Ling Buyi might not have much reaction. After all, if a prisoner died, he would just find a way to trace it from other aspects.
But when Ling Buyi accidentally discovered the birthmark on Xu Jinzhong's neck, he discovered that this man had appeared in Gucheng before and was the one who sent inferior ordnance to Gucheng.
Even if he loses his composure, after all, Gucheng has always been the most important place in Ling Busuo's heart, and it is also the source of his revenge.
So he immediately ordered a strict investigation of everyone and everything related to Xu Jinzhong. He would rather make mistakes than let them go, but unfortunately, there was nothing gained for a while.
It wasn't until the first day of the new year, when I saw the lanterns in Xinghua Courtyard, that I realized that the lanterns in the blacksmith shop where Xu Jinzhong was hiding were wrong.
It just so happened that Princess Yuchang came to deliver lanterns that day and invited Ling Buyi to attend the Shangyuan Lantern Festival. Liang Qiufei spotted the lanterns as a pair, so he planned to go to the lantern festival to find someone.
As for Li Hao, there hasn't been anything important to do recently. After all, there haven't been many major events in the court recently, and the relationship between the prince and Li Hao doesn't have the same foundation as Ling Buyi's from childhood to adulthood.
Therefore, the prince did not leave spy information and seals to Li Hao for the time being. If he was just busy with his duties, Li Hao would be quite free.
But even so, Li Hao could still get praise from the prince, so one can imagine how bad Wang Chun and the others who did this job were.
Now that he had time, Li Hao took the time to visit She, Wu Han, and Gai Yan at their homes.
After all, in the past, he was afraid that the stakes would make Emperor Wen dissatisfied, but now that he had already completed the reward, this problem no longer existed.
And they also welcomed Li Hao. After all, Li Hao had cooperated with them, and the friendship gained on the battlefield was still very reliable.
Of course, there is a premise for this, as long as Li Hao is not helping the prince to build relationships with them.
And just as the Lantern Festival was approaching, Li Hao suddenly learned that Huangfuyi was visiting when he returned home. Whether it was because of Huangfuyi's reputation or his status as Yuan Shen's teacher, Li Hao had to Warm welcome.
However, it was obvious that Huangfuyi was not interested in this. After polite greetings for a while, he took Yuan Shen with him to discuss private matters.
In this regard, Qu Lengjun thought that he had not treated him well, so he asked Li Hao: "I see that Dr. Huangfu is like this, is it because we are not doing a good job there? You can ask Shan Jiankan what's the problem later. Don't neglect it." It’s Doctor Huangfu.”
Li Hao could probably guess what Huang Fuyi came here to do. After all, in the original plot, the scene where Yuan Shen threw the embroidered ball after Cheng Shaoshang answered the question correctly was very abrupt.
Now that I think about it, it was most likely to find Cheng Shaoshang to help send Sang Shunhua a message and to pave the way.
After all, given Yuan Shen's character, he has a strong purpose in doing things and generally would not do anything meaningless.
Of course, it is possible that love is really falling in love at first sight, but Li Hao thinks that the probability is not high.
But this time, with his relationship with the Cheng family, it was uncertain whether Yuan Shen would ask Cheng Shaoshang for help.
Because now Qu Lengjun can also enter and leave the Cheng Mansion's inner house, it is possible that Yuan Shen will directly come to Qu Lengjun to come forward.
Li Hao thought, if this were the case, wouldn't Yuan Shen and Cheng Shaoshang have no chance to get to know each other?
This was inappropriate. Li Hao felt that he still couldn't stop Yuan Shen from pursuing his wife. Moreover, he was helping her this time. If Yuan Shen really took a liking to her, he could cut her off immediately.
The conditions of my family are much better than those of the Lou family, both in terms of family background and internal environment.
Compared with Ling Buyi, marrying Yuan Shen would not give Cheng Shaoshang the opportunity to enter the palace and contact Queen Xuan, but Cheng Shaoshang would miss something.
But for the Yuan family's own environment, Cheng Shaoshang would be able to live well as long as he married in. As for the tedious things to learn, Qu Lengjun could also teach him.
The most important thing is that Cheng Shi and his wife will definitely like this marriage. The only trouble is whether Yuan Shen can get Cheng Shaoshang to agree to the marriage because of his tough mouth.
But this is a thing for later. What Li Hao needs to think about now is how to keep Qu Lengjun away for a while without telling her the truth to create opportunities for Yuan Shen.
