Zhao Mo guessed his father's intentions, but he was not optimistic in his heart.

The emperor and the crown prince were not fools, so how could they not see Zhao Shuo's true intentions? When the emperor deliberately abandoned the Wang family, he didn't take the forces behind the Wang family too seriously. To put it bluntly, the emperor did not want to wipe out the Wang family, after all, the Wang family had married many royal families, nobles and high-ranking officials, and they could not get rid of the roots, so why should they be evildoers in vain?

Perhaps in a short period of time, there will be officials and people who are attached to the Wang family, or who are confused by the Wang family without knowing the truth, but the emperor has no intention of setting off a big storm and will not force the Wang family to go to a dead end. This Wang family has never made great contributions to the country and the people, second, they are not really innocent, and third, they are not without political enemies in the officialdom, how many people will die or live for their family? After a long time, those who are attached to them will join the new master and find another way out for themselves, and when they look back in ten or eight years, how many people still remember who the Wang family is?

It can be seen that the connections behind the Wang family are precious, but they are not very reliable. Zhao Shuo chose to go against the emperor and the crown prince for the sake of this unreliable network force, and he really looked up to himself. He is now in the court, and he does not have a solid foundation, one is with the emperor's holy favor, and the other is with the power of the Wang family, now the latter can't be saved, and the former was given up by himself, what else can he leave?

Zhao Mo didn't know what stupidity his father had committed, maybe he just thought too highly of himself. He didn't want his father to get into trouble and affect himself, but he also knew that he couldn't persuade his father to do anything. All he could do was to draw a line with his father, show his innocence to the emperor and the crown prince, and hope that they would not be angry with him for his loyalty and small past achievements.

Along with Qin Zhonghai's letter, there were also letters written by Qin Jian and Qin Jinhua to Zhao Mo and Qin Hanzhen respectively. The communication between the children was mostly a joke, and Qin Bai and Niu couldn't listen to it, so they each took it back to the cabin to read it for themselves.

Qin Hanzhen didn't think that there would be any true secrets in the letter his cousin gave him, so he read it with Zhao Mo in the front cabin used as a study. Qin Jinhua didn't write anything special, it was all private talk between children, at most, it was to mention some small gifts she sent back to the capital from Jiangnan in the past, which was very pleasing to her heart, and asked her if she could bring some back.

Qin Hanzhen carefully read the list attached to the letter, nothing else, Yangzhou incense powder is a little troublesome. The letter came late, and now that the fleet had already left Yangzhou for hundreds of miles, where could she go back to buy it? However, when she passed through Yangzhou, she also bought some time-honored fat powder, which she was going to take back to the capital to make souvenirs, and a few of them coincided with the items on the list, and they happened to be taken to Qin Jinhua. As for the rest, there's nothing she can do.

However, it has only been less than two years, and the little girl Qin Jinhua has actually begun to pay attention to rouge powder? Look at the types listed on this list, they are far from being comparable to the types of fat powder placed in her boudoir the year before last. Could it be that the ladies in the capital began to apply grease and powder to the teenage girls in Chengdu? Qin Jinyi was taught crooked by her family at the beginning, why is Qin Jinhua the same now?

Speaking of Qin Jinyi, Qin Jinhua did not forget to mention it in the letter, saying that the second room has moved now, the house is not far from the Chengenhou Mansion, and the surrounding neighbors are still dominated by princes and nobles. It's just that Qin Bofu, who is in charge of the second room, is still a six-grade official, and after the family is separated, he can't be called the master of the Hou Mansion, and he is quite out of place in this noble mansion. But the Xue family refused to move to a place where middle and low-level officials lived, thinking that they had "lowered" their own status, and their daily consumption was still in accordance with the rules of the former Hou Mansion.

Qin Jinchun pitifully became a typical example of this "unimportant", and now he is pitifully detained. If it weren't for Qin Jinhua's thoughts of sisterhood, he begged for everything, and finally let Chengenhou's wife Xu Shi loosen her mouth and promised to let Qin Jinchun continue to go to school in the Hou Mansion, and the second room thought that Changfang would pity this daughter, maybe he would be able to take some advantage in marriage in the future, and save a dowry, or daily use, and did not refuse this olive branch, Qin Jinchun still doesn't know what kind of field he will fall into. Now her clothes and jewelry, tea and snacks, pen, ink, paper and inkstone all year round are still from the Chengenhou Mansion, but she did not go to the public account, but from the Shengyi Ju account, just because Yao found a cousin for her beloved daughter to accompany her. Therefore, Qin Jinchun can still maintain the dignity of Miss Qianjin, and he has to look up to outsiders.

However, since Qin Jinyi is still the most favored eldest lady in the family, at least half of Qin Jinchun's things will be snatched by the eldest sister. It's a shame that the two sisters are far apart in age, and the size of their clothes is very different, and what Chengenhou Mansion gave was ready-made clothes, not clothes, otherwise maybe Qin Jinchun wouldn't even have this half of the things. But jewelry and daily necessities may not be able to be kept.

Qin Jinhua hugged Qin Jinchun unevenly, and complained about a whole page. Qin Hanzhen saw a fact from this: it seems that the marriage of the lobby sister Qin Jinyi has really been affected, and it has not yet been settled. She is also sixteen now, and she has changed to another family, and she is at an age where she can get married. But now she hasn't even decided on a person who is interested, not to mention that the Xue family and Qin Bofu are bent on marrying this daughter, and when they saw that the young son of King Shu had no blessing as the crown prince, even a clan nobleman like him was disgusted. But now, where can they still find good candidates who can be seen by them? Separated from the family, it is the six-rank official family, in terms of bloodline, and it is a side branch of the Qin family, even if it is in the name of a brother of Queen Qin, it is a person who has died decades early, and he can't borrow power. His family looks down on those who are right with his family, and what his family can look up to, but they can't look down on his family. Qin Jinyi's marriage is ruined, and she really can't complain about others.

Qin Hanzhen read the letter again, sighed for his cousins, and put it away. When she looked up and saw that Zhao Mo was still reading the letter, she asked with a smile: "What did Brother Jian tell you in the letter?"

Zhao Mo raised his eyes and smiled at her: "This is the third time I've seen it from the beginning." Brother Jian didn't mention anything else, just mentioned the gossip that was circulating among the royal family of the clan. My father was probably in some trouble, but he was too conceited to understand it, and he refused to listen to anyone's advice. ”

When Fang was in the main cabin, Qin Bai and Zhao Mo were talking about the content of the second hall uncle Qin Zhonghai's letter, Qin Hanzhen also heard it, and understood what he meant by what he said, so he snorted: "You are his son, not his father, how can you worry about getting so much?" I think it's better for you to protect yourself first." The clan, as long as you don't follow him to do bad things, you generally don't want to implicate your children and grandchildren. The father of the king of Shanyang was no different from the rebellion at the beginning, and now the king of Shanyang is not comfortable as the prince of the county? Although the situation is not very good, the treatment he deserves is not less. You are planning to honestly find a small fief to plant for a few years, and you have no ambition to get ahead, the emperor and the crown prince understand what he is like, what is there to fear?"

Zhao Mo smiled slightly and put the letter away: "It's nothing to be afraid of." He was just worried that when his father found out about his real situation and couldn't bear it, he would hit him with the idea.

Qin Hanzhen didn't know the worries in his heart, and talked to him about the Huang family: "Didn't the second sister and Brother Jian mention them in the letter......? Did you succeed in entering the palace? The Huang family is still hiding from the clansmen?"

Zhao Mo asked curiously, "Why does my cousin pay attention to their family like this?"

Qin Hanzhen shrugged: "I don't pay special attention, I'm just curious about what will happen when the second room gets mixed up with their family." ”

Zhao Mo smiled: "I'm afraid there won't be anything wrong at all, otherwise Brother Jian wouldn't have failed to mention it in the letter." If my cousin wants to know, I'll just mention it in his reply. If he had known, he would have told me in the letter. ”

Qin Hanzhen smiled and said: "Forget it, we will be able to go to the capital in the last month at most, how many things can't be asked at that time? ”

Zhao Mo said: "What is this? I was going to go to Beijing to write a letter." It's just an extra letter on the way, who can bother?"

Qin Hanzhen blinked: "Are you sending news to your people in Beijing?"

Zhao Mo smiled but did not answer.

After receiving the letter from Jingzhong, the Qin family replied to Jingzhong while sending people to quickly buy the things that should be bought, replenish the water on the ship, and continue to set off north. Zhao Mo and Qin Hanzhen bought a lot of tree seeds, and also bought two houses of family members in the market, but the farmers who suffered from the disaster were sold by the whole family because they could not repay the debts of the landlords.

Zhao Mo's subordinates have rented a house in Suning County, bought a piece of saline-alkali land, and are recently taking advantage of the spring flowers to test several tree species. Zhao Mo ordered someone to send the newly bought tree seeds and grain seeds over, and try to plant them for a year first. No one in Suning knew their identities and origins, and the buyer of the saline-alkali land was a fool.

The fleet went north, passed through Shandong, crossed the Yellow River, and stopped in Liaocheng to rest for a few days. At this time, it is already spring and the weather is fine. Everyone on the boat changed into light spring clothes, Qin Bai took his family to swim the Guangyue Tower first, and was thinking about whether to go farther, and went to Yanggu County to see the famous Lion Tower in the Water Margin story, and received a letter from the capital.

This time it was Zhao Shuo who wrote back, and he urged his son in the letter to quickly change the land route and return to the capital, and stop following the Qin family to the canal.