Chapter 571 Too many secrets
When Li Tong returned home, he found Mr. Wen. He did not say anything about Jiang Huanzhang and Gao Ziyi. He first said the last two words Princess Fu'an told him. When Mr. Wen's expression changed when he heard this, he didn't bother to say much. He quickly asked for the horse and took Lu Fu and Brother Huan and others to Shangyuan County.
The next day, just dawn, Erye Wen came back into the city.
After dinner, Li Tong took a break. Seeing that his face was fine, there was a faint trace of indescribable struggle and depressedness in his expression.
"What happened?" Li Tong couldn't help but raise his heart and asked first.
Master Wen Er smiled bitterly and shook his head, "What should I say? Alas," Master Wen Er sighed slowly, "Let's talk about it from the beginning, otherwise I won't be able to explain it clearly."
Li Tong stood up and personally brewed a cup of tea for Master Wen Er.
"Miss all know about my family. Until now, in addition to my sister and I, there is actually a living person in our Wen family. The son of a big girl whom my uncle served since childhood. At that time, my uncle was determined to be alone for the rest of his life and let go of his hands and feet to do what he wanted to do. But when he was pregnant, his uncle still couldn't get rid of the secular world. He took advantage of the small month to find an excuse to beat the girl out, and in fact he secretly sent him back to his hometown Shangyuan County."
Li Tong was stunned and raised his hand to press it on his forehead. From yesterday to now, there seemed to be too many things that shocked her.
"At that time, my elder sister had just gotten married and had miscarriage less than three months pregnant, so she kept the miscarriage from it. When the girl gave birth to a son, she brought it over and said it was her eldest son. Before her uncle died, she told me that she did not have to recognize her ancestors. As long as he survived well, she would have children. Over the years, my sister and brother-in-law treated him as their own child, and I almost forgot that this nephew is actually my cousin."
Mr. Wen Er thought of the grievances and tragic deaths of his uncle and father, and his expression was sad. After a while, he continued: "I think no one in the world knows this secret until now except me, my sister and brother-in-law, who knows... Alas! I really want to miss people, unless I don't do it."
"How did the eldest princess know?" Li Tong felt chill in his heart. How did she know? How many other secret things she knows?
"I don't know, this..." Wen Erye paused, "Nephew, who is also the temper of the Wen family. He is different from other children when he is young. He is very smart. He is too smart. After studying for a few years, his sister discussed with me and refused to let him study anymore. He sent him to a pharmacy shop as an apprentice. Who knew how many years he had been an apprentice? He kept it from his parents and me, and passed the exam without saying a word, alas!"
Master Wen Er smiled bitterly, "Look, this is the bloodline of our Wen family, and none of them are stable!"
Li Tong raised his eyebrows high, not knowing what to say, this is also a person with great ambitions!
"My sister and I had no choice but to ask someone to place him in Shangyuan County and serve as a documentary. My sister quickly told him about the family marriage. She was the girl from the county grain calligrapher. He himself also liked it very much. He got married. The next year he had children and a family. He had been peaceful until I came here."
Mr. Wen rubbed his forehead hard and sighed, "Oh! When I went back yesterday, my sister and brother-in-law were preparing to take a cart to find me. My nephew, last month, accompanied his father-in-law to the capital to pay money and grain," Mr. Wen stopped talking, with a faint sense of pride in his wry smile, "He is from the Wen family, and he is born to understand the name of money and grain. His father-in-law's ancestors have been books on grain, but he has done one or two accounts for his father-in-law, and is much more proficient than his father-in-law. In recent years, he went back to the capital to pay money and pay accounts, saying that he was with his father-in-law, but in fact he was the one who paid this account for his father-in-law."
Li Tong nodded. She had seen the skills of Wen Erye’s money and food. His cousin was one percent more than enough to deal with the money, grain and taxes of a county.
"By the way, he didn't know who said that the Ministry of Personnel selected the county magistrate to serve outside the office. Just like the last time he went to the minor official, he didn't say a word and found an excuse to stay in the capital for a few more days, and then he got the shortage of the county magistrate of Cao County. Alas! He had not been taught and could not see the coincidence in the middle. It was so coincidental."
Mr. Wen sighed repeatedly, and Li Tong nodded. The county magistrate was regarded as the junction between officials and officials. The highest position of a minor official in his life, or the first important goal of a minor official with lofty ambitions. He got it so easily. The things delivered to the door will always contain deep or shallow hooks.
"Is there anything special about Cao County?" Li Tong thought for a while and asked.
"Zhu Mingyi, the magistrate of Cao County, is the nephew of the mother of the eldest prince's concubine Huo. As the magistrate of Cao County, at least seventy-eight percent of the magistrate of Cao County, is because Zhu Mingyi is timid and afraid of things, is kind-hearted and has little mind." Wen Erye commented on Zhu Mingyi in a few words.
Li Tong understood as soon as he heard this, if such a magistrate, if he met a county magistrate like Wen Erye, he would soon become a puppet who obeyed the rules.
"Do you think this is the eldest princess' arrangement?" Li Tong asked softly.
"I don't know, it's not necessarily all the arrangements of the eldest princess, but no matter who arranged it, now, this matter is in the hands of the eldest princess."
Master Wen lowered his head and said softly for a long time: "I shouldn't mess with her."
"You didn't think you were offended, and the eldest princess was not that stingy either." Li Tong's voice was gentle, "There are two more things. You left in a hurry yesterday and had not had time to tell you. The eldest princess said that Jiang Huanzhang had a bad character and could not let him lead the King of Jin to the King of Jin, and said that he would beat him to Weinan County as the magistrate and transfer Gao Ziyi to the King of Jin's mansion to be the chief minister."
"What?" Mr. Wen was as surprised as Li Tong when he heard this, or even more shocked.
"It was the eldest princess who transferred Jiang Huanzhang to Weinan to protect his shortcomings. He was afraid that he would lead the King of Jin to ruin the King of Jin. This is a common saying. But Gao Ziyi was transferred to the King of Jin's Mansion to be the Chief Secretary. This is the matter..." Li Tong looked at Master Wen Er, "I can't figure it out. Yesterday, the eldest princess said, if I can't think of it, I will ask you for advice, and then said those few words to let you go home and take a look."
"Oh!" Master Wen Er slapped the table, "So that's the case, alas! I'm better at this, let me take care of it."
Master Wen stood up and paced back and forth. After half a quarter of an hour, he stopped, turned around and sat back, and looked at Li Tong and said, "First, the eldest princess has abandoned the prince. In her eyes, there are only two left, King Jin and the Fifth Master."
Li Tong nodded, and she thought of this too.
"Second, Gao Shujiang regrets it." After Mr. Wen said, there was no expression on his face, and he smiled with all kinds of feelings. "And, the eldest princess knew that Gao Shujiang regretted it."
Chapter completed!