As for what Mrs. Dong said, Mrs. Shao and his wife didn't say anything to Mrs. Shao after all, Mrs. Meng and Mrs. Quan Si were a little unimpressed.

Naturally, it is impossible for a high-ranking family to embarrass a person like a folk shrew and directly start a beating, but secretly plotting against people behind their backs is really much more serious than a few slaps and a few handfuls of hair from the people.

The days of Lord Shao's house in the past few years have been worse day by day, and several children have not been able to say goodbye so far, all relying on General Shao Li's one-room help, but since General Shao Li was able to lead troops to surround the future Yue's family and force the future father-in-law to withdraw from his family, he is obviously not a person who puts the interests of the family first, and he has not taken much care of Master Shao in recent years, otherwise with Shao Li's face, his own nephews and nieces will not even be decent.

The Shao family has long been separated, but because the old father is still alive, they are still barely living together, and the old lady Shao kicked her legs that day. People who know a little bit about Shao Li have no doubt that this Shao Li will draw a line with Master Shao and will not give a penny.

In that case, Master Shao will be completely reduced to an ordinary poor people's home, and even an ordinary poor people's home is not as good, other poor families are at least used to living a poor life, and have their own means of making a living.

I also heard that there was a lot of dirt between Shao Li and Master Shao in the early years.

If you want civil officials, you also pay attention to reputation, and you can't ignore the clan, but the military generals. As long as they can fight and win battles, other people are too lazy to care so much, and even for the emperor, the relationship with the family and the ministers of the court and the central government is not good, and the generals with bad reviews are more useful than those who have won the hearts of the people.

Just like Meng Ye, when Meng Ye was a general, he didn't take much care of the Meng family. and even deliberately distant.

Master Shao may just be too desperate. gave birth to some evil intentions, wanted to do something to Shao Li's wife and children, and plotted against the Shao family's second room property, although it was very risky to do so. But sometimes people do everything when they are desperate and crazy. All the signs have shown it before. General Shao Li's wife is also on guard against Master Shao.

While Mrs. Meng was thinking about how likely it was for Master Shao to attack his younger siblings, Mrs. Quan Si thought of something else.

Mrs. Kwon Si thought that she seemed to be able to tell the princess about this matter quickly. After all, it is well known that the Shao family and King Ding have some discord, and now as soon as King Ding returns to the city, something like this happened to the Shao family, and there are such rumors, which must have a great impact on King Ding's mansion.

Maybe such a big event, she doesn't need to come to the door deliberately, Princess Ding may know, but she can also show her sincerity by going to the door to tell her in person, of course, it can't all rely on Mrs. Dong's current words, you have to inquire more and see what the matter is, so you can come to the door to tell it.

Mrs. Shao Li, a woman with a child, disappeared out of thin air, it is impossible to leave no clues at all, maybe look carefully, listen more in the streets, maybe there are any clues, these have some ways to do this, if you can find any useful clues, it will be helpful to the Dingwang Mansion, and the princess will never treat the person who helps her do things.

In the past two years, their family can rise like this, all of which have dragged the blessing of Dingwangfu, some small businesses, Dingwangfu a strip, can be more convenient than others, not to mention the daily income, the profit is several times, that is, she opened a small tea house, can have a better source of goods than others, but also thanks to the Dingwangfu when buying, can let the head of her family also buy together, those tea merchants dare not ask for high prices, when it is shipped back, the officials along the way did not make it difficult to ask for tolls, and the saved tolls and the like are profits.

And what she did for Dingwangfu was almost all trivial things, such as placing the maids and singers from Dingwangfu, helping to pull the line or find a job.

And she did it at the beginning, unlike some of the right family, such as the third old lady of Quan, who hurriedly thought about how to get a piece of the pie when the princess had not officially married, and first wanted to say that the princess of Dingding accepted a girl from the right family to marry into the palace as a concubine, and after being rejected, she simply found a way to send the beauty who didn't know where to get it into the palace.

Mrs. Quan Si still can't understand what the third old lady thought at the beginning, not that the matter of sending beauties is wrong, sending beauties to the powerful is always such a thing, and it is also one of the most effective means, which is more effective than sending gold, silver and jewelry, etc., because gold and silver utensils can't speak, and beauties can blow the pillow wind from time to time, so that the people behind them can get greater benefits.

It's just that since the third old lady of Quan has this kind of thought, why didn't he send it early? Why bother to do this kind of thing to dismantle his family's platform after the Dingwang Mansion was engaged to the Meng family? Or in other words, there are a lot of lustful magnates in Yancheng, and there is no need to stare at the king of Ding, can you send it to another family, where is the third old lady of the right to do this, where is the relative to do it, I don't know how much enmity the third old lady has with the Meng family.

It's no wonder that later Dingwangfu or the Meng family attacked the third old lady of Quan so fiercely, almost making them unable to stay in Yancheng, the approach of the third old lady of Quan is no different from the enemy's family, not to mention that after that, he also moved to marry the Meng family, but then regretted it.

is also a knot, the experience she gained from mixing with the ladies of the house, whether it is charcoal in the snow or icing on the cake, she can't be too eager, take her time and do what she can, otherwise it will only outweigh the gains.

After calculating it, Mrs. Quan Si set her sights on Mrs. Dong.

I can't help but guess what is the purpose of Mrs. Dong coming in such a hurry to tell Mrs. Meng such news? I heard that Master Dong was demoted by the official level before, because King Ding stood by and watched, and then Mrs. Dong went to the Dingwang Mansion several times, but Princess Ding sent someone to suggest that she came up when Mrs. Dong came to the door, and she had something to ask for.

After she went, the princess didn't have a big deal, and later she vaguely guessed that it might be that Princess Ding wanted a companion, so that Mrs. Dong couldn't say what she wanted.

This Mrs. Dong is not particularly broad-minded to go there. Isn't it because of this incident that you have some grudges? Running to tell this news today is it a kind reminder or schadenfreude?

Forget about the kind reminder, if it is schadenfreude, Mrs. Quan Si feels that it is necessary to remind Mrs. Dong that they are not at the same level as Princess Ding, and it is better not to provoke the Dingwang Mansion, so as not to end up with the third old lady Quan, but looking at Mrs. Dong's appearance, Mrs. Quan Si finally decided. Just remind Mrs. Meng vaguely later. After all, they are sisters, lest Mrs. Dong can't hear and become a wicked person in vain.

I made an excuse to leave.

Mrs. Quan Si finally took advantage of Mrs. Meng to send her out, and quietly reminded Mrs. Meng. Madame Monte was also a wise man. immediately thanked Mrs. Kwon for the reminder.

In fact, even if Mrs. Quan Si doesn't remind him. She'll also persuade her sister.

Some things are better to be careless, even if they are between close relatives, involving the court. If you can mention less, you should try to mention it as little as possible.

……

When the soldiers were guarding outside, the disappearance of family members was a major event, involving the safety of the country.

In the palace, the emperor also heard the news and urgently summoned Lian Yufeng into the palace to inquire.

Shao Li is also one of the emperor's henchmen, now in this situation, the emperor is very anxious, if General Shao's wife really has an accident in Yancheng, no matter what the reason, the court will always be responsible, and if the generals have no family to stay in Yancheng, it will be difficult to make the emperor feel at ease.

After listening to the emperor's words, Lian Yufeng didn't say a word for a long time.

The emperor couldn't help but be anxious and asked, "What does Qing think about this matter?"

Lian Yufeng said: "The younger brother doesn't know much about the things in the backyard of the Shao family, and he can't judge it for a while, so for this time, let's send someone to investigate first and see if there are any clues." ”

There is no need to even remind Yufeng of this, the emperor has already issued an order, and ordered the governor Yamen to also Yancheng Mansion to find it secretly, but it can only be secretly, because the Shao family has not officially reported this matter, and the matter is very important, so it cannot be investigated with great fanfare, so as not to make people uneasy.

But what worries me now is Shao Li's reaction.

To be precise, he was worried that Shao Li would have any changes, the heart of the Son of Heaven has always been suspicious, when Lian Yufeng led the troops to guard the border alone, the emperor was suspicious of Lian Yufeng, so he sent Shao Li to check and balance.

And after Lian Yufeng was urgently summoned to Yancheng, Shao Li became a dominant force at the border, if Shao Li had any different intentions at this time, the consequences were unimaginable.

Thinking that Shao Li might have a different heart here, the emperor couldn't help but secretly regret it, and only sent people to stare at the Dingwang Mansion, but forgot about the Shao family.

always thought that he trusted Shao Li a lot, regarded him as a confidant, and treated him well, Shao Li had no reason to betray, so he didn't watch out too much, but now it seems that nothing is impossible.

It was only about Lian Yufeng's expression that the emperor thought that it seemed inappropriate to discuss this matter with Lian Yufeng, after all, Lian Yufeng and Shao Li were a little incompatible, and some words were natural for others to say, and even Yufeng would make people feel more hearty if they said it.

The emperor, who was accustomed to discussing some tricky issues with Lian Yufeng, asked him to step back for the time being after realizing the embarrassment of Lian Yufeng's position.

After Lian Yufeng retreated, the emperor sat on the dragon chair and pondered for a long time, before asking Yu An, the chief eunuch beside him, "What do you think about this matter?"

Yu An cautiously asked, "Your Majesty is talking about the disappearance of General Shao's wife?"

"Nonsense, is there anything else right now?" the Emperor was a little impatient.

Yu An said: "The slave has never seen General Shao's wife, this matter is really difficult to judge, but it is inferred according to common sense that if a woman with a child, if she just has some conflicts with her family and runs away from home, she can find out with a little investigation, if she can't find any clues within a day or two, I'm afraid that something is wrong." ”

What Yu An said was exactly what the emperor was worried about.

If it's just an ordinary family discord and a woman runs away from home, then it has nothing to do with the imperial court, after all, this is the Shao family's housework, and it is difficult for a Qing official to decide the housework, unless General Shao's wife asks for help, there is no reason for outsiders to interfere in the Shao family's housework.

But if General Shao's wife didn't take the initiative to run away from home, this matter would be a bit serious, and he couldn't help but think more, even if he felt that Shao Li had no reason to rebel, he was also wary of what others grabbed Shao Li's wife and children to blackmail, and it was always known how much Shao Li was deeply in love with his wife.

Now, in addition to sending people to find Shao Li's wife and children, shouldn't we also take some other precautions?

The emperor wondered if he would send Lian Yufeng out again to check and balance Shao Li? But in this way, it would be too obvious, and it would be easy to chill the courtiers.

It's a dilemma.

A henchman who can be trusted by the emperor, Yu An is naturally not a slave who can only make promises, seeing that the Son of Heaven is worried, his brain quickly turned, and he said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the slave thinks that it may be necessary to make more preparations now." ”

"Be clear. The emperor frowned and waited for Yu An.

Yu An didn't dare to hang the Son of Heaven, and hurriedly said: "What the slave means is that now you should keep an eye on the Shao family, mainly Uncle Shao and his wife, this Uncle Shao and his wife are too disagreeable, and they actually take advantage of the fact that their younger brother is guarding the border and is not at home, and they have repeatedly embarrassed their brother and daughter-in-law, which is really hateful." ”

"A waste, it's also worth bothering to stare at?" The emperor is really too lazy to care about Uncle Shao, Uncle Shao is such an unsuccessful child, which family does not have it, there is a Shao family law to deal with it, what grievances has this General Shao's wife really suffered, and when Shao Li comes back, he will naturally dispose of it, if Shao Li cares about brotherhood and is unwilling to hurt his brotherhood for a woman, why should they be this wicked person.

Seeing that the emperor didn't seem to understand the hint, Yu An gritted his teeth and said, "The slave thinks that he should set up cards on various traffic arteries to find General Shao's wife...... In addition, Uncle Shao also has to be strictly interrogated, if it is really their husband and wife who killed General Shao's wife, the court will naturally have to make decisions for General Shao, who is guarding outside. ”

The emperor was stunned for a moment, and slowly, he understood Yu An's hint, Yu An really hinted that if it was just an ordinary family conflict, General Shao's wife really ran away from home with her child. But if there is a case, General Shao's wife and children are held hostage...... If not, you have to be ruthless when necessary, and you can't let Shao Li's family fall into the hands of the enemy...... Afterwards, this matter had to be pushed to the heads of Uncle Shao and his wife, whether it was to Shao Li or the courtiers, there was an explanation. ”

After thinking about this, the emperor nodded slowly and instructed Yu An to do it, this matter cannot be made clear, and he can only let his henchmen do it privately.

However, this is always the next policy, and now it is an eventful time in the court, and the emperor really doesn't want such an incident to happen again. (To be continued......)