Chapter 308: Heading South
When Rong Shaotang heard this, he was silent again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info When he was in the Li family, he had already heard the implication from Ji Yuan's words, what he was afraid of was just the Rong family to sow discord, so that the Zhang family would be suspicious of the Li family, and then suspicious.
In the past, this is like his style of acting, for the sake of the interests of the Rong family, breaking up the alliance between the Zhang and Li mansions is beneficial to their Rong family, and if the Li family is recruited as an ally of the Rong family, it will be even more powerful.
It's a pity that this time it was indeed Li Jiyuan and Li Wanchun's brothers and sisters who misunderstood him, although he intended to make the Rong family army enter Beijing, but not to coerce the Zhang family to agree to Ji Yuan to take charge of the Li family army, but just wanted to leave himself and Wanchun a way to completely retreat from the old capital. As for the people of the Rong family making trouble in Sijiu City, it was even more not his intention, he trained the troops very strictly, there was no commander to command, and the officers and men in the army would never dare to use the name of the Rong family army to make trouble outside. But Ji Yuan's appearance didn't look like he was lying, it was very probable that Shen An instructed someone to do this.
As a friend and superior for many years, Rong Shaotang naturally knew his intentions about Shen An's behavior, and he was nothing more than standing in the position of the Rong family, wanting to sow discord between the Zhang and Li families, and try his best to promote the relationship between the Rong and Li families. His intentions were good, but he was in a hurry.
Of course, in the face of Wan Chun, Rong Shaotang would never confide in Shen An what he had done, since Wan Chun was already suspicious of him, even if he told the truth, in her opinion, it would inevitably be a prevarication, so he calmly admitted this trumped-up charge.
Wan Chun saw that he was silent twice, and he was very disappointed, and the little good impression he had when he came disappeared in an instant.
The husband and wife returned to Nanjing silently all the way, Wanchun naturally still wanted to go back to her mountain house, Rong Shaotang still had something to ask Shen An, so he asked someone to send her away first, and he waited for Shen An to leave the station, and Fang converged to go back to the barracks, and on the way he had to tell him the reason for going south in a hurry.
Shen An was shocked, he didn't want his kindness, but there were so many accidents, and he was about to take Jing to ask Wanchun for the blame, Rong Shaotang waved his hand to stop him: "That's it, let's come back safely, there are still many things to deal with in the army, let's wait for her to dissipate her anger in two days." ”
His trip to Jiujing was not without gain, at least he had a general understanding of the current division of forces in Jiujing, since the death of Li Lanfeng, the Zhang and Li families looked as calm as a pool of stagnant water on the surface, but there were turbulent waves inside. Originally, there was no room for others to sleep next to the couch, compared to the Li family's century-old foundation in the old capital, the Zhang family, who had only been in Beijing for 20 years, could barely confront the Li family immediately, but it was far inferior to the Li family in terms of prestige and majesty, so it is no wonder that the Zhang family would be noisy. Li Jiyuan was so eager to expel Wanchun and him back to Nanjing, just to reassure the Zhang family's heart, so as not to act rashly and destroy the stable situation in Beiling for no reason.
In other words, when he failed to fully grasp the Li family's soldiers and horses, he would probably be like Ji Yuan and drive Wanchun back to Nanjing as soon as possible. In the past, he underestimated the third young master of the Li family.
Rong Shaotang secretly thought to himself, and after going back, he had to rethink the current strategy and pattern. Let's say that when Wanchun was sent back to the Yulan Mountain House, it happened that Minzhu came back from school, and when she saw her running and jumping, she took her arm and looked at her with a smile.
Wan Chun had already thought about countless situations when she was about to face Minzhu on the way here, she thought that her sudden departure would inevitably annoy Minzhu, but she didn't want to meet again, Minzhu would be so intimate. Immediately, as soon as Minzhu spoke, she was puzzled: "Sister Wan, how did you go home to visit relatives this time?" Do you have...... Is there anything interesting happening? ”
Wan Chun was stunned and asked her, "What, do you also know the news that I went home to visit relatives?" ”
Minzhu said with a smile: "Who in the entire Rong family doesn't know, I used to see that the sixth brother had no contact with you, and when he didn't have you in his heart, this time I changed my mind." When the **** woke up, he couldn't find you everywhere, or the seventh brother came over and said, the sixth brother thought that after you married into our family, you didn't return to the door for several months, which is really against the tradition, so I booked a ticket for you and went back to Ning with you. ”
"Oh?" Wanchun's eyes lit up, and it turned out that Rong Shaotang had already lied to himself.
Oh no, he lied not just for her, but for himself. Thinking that he was kicked out of the house by the third brother because of his behavior, the breath that Wanchun swallowed unconsciously came out again.
Seeing that Minzhu asked if there was any new progress between Tongrong Shaotang, he shook his head and said: "After two or three days of hard work, I can barely go home, where is there any progress with him, he ...... He has important things to do. ”
"Huh? Is this still the case between you? Minzhu was surprised, so she specially ran back to Rong's house to show off, only saying that Wanchun and Rong Shaotang must have a relationship, so that those who can't beat the eight poles die of heart. Unexpectedly, Wanchun still had the same painless attitude as before, Minzhu sighed, then took her arm, and walked into the courtyard while saying, "When will Meng Guang take over Liang Hong's case?" ”
Wan Chun made her laugh, scratched the bridge of her nose and said, "Last time, I really asked your brother to burn the books in your study, so as not to read some ridiculous stories at a young age." ”
"Hey, "The Legend of the West Chamber" is so exquisite, it has become a ridiculous story in your eyes, you are so vulgar." Minzhu twisted her head, raised her head, and refuted Wanchun very arrogantly.
Wanchun was in a good mood when she saw her, and the two sisters-in-law had already arrived in the room while talking, Xiu'er and Li Hui were in the living room, and they were taken aback when they saw Wanchun coming back, but they couldn't explain the words in front of Minzhu, and Xiu'er had no choice but to let people serve Wanchun and Minzhu to eat first.
After the meal, the master and servant returned to the room and closed the door to say some intimate words, Wanchun talked about the situation at home, but did not say a word about being driven back by Ji Yuan, and only asked Xiu'er what happened after she left with Zhou Xiang that day.
Xiu'er told Rong Shaojin about the play in the mountain house, and said: "Not long after the seventh master came, he said that he wanted to see Miss Four, you and Miss Nine, and Li Hui and I told him that Miss Nine was asleep, and it was inconvenient for you and your friends to talk in the room to see the male guests, so he left." I couldn't walk for a long time, but I turned around and came back, and just as I was about to end, he asked me a few words. ”
"What did he ask you?"
Xiu'er said: "Ask me when did Qin Xuelian and Jin Yunu leave?" ”
Wan Chun said: "How did you reply to him?" ”
Xiu'er said: "I said that he left at seven o'clock, and the seventh master didn't say anything more, but I saw that his face was terrible, and he seemed to have encountered something bad." ”
Wanchun lowered her eyes, it was her and Zhou Xiang who left at seven o'clock that night, presumably Rong Shaojin met the real Qin Xuelian and Jin Yunu when he was gone, and it was only then that he learned the news that he and Zhou Xiang had escaped, and then told Rong Shaotang.
It is not surprising that Rong Shaotang would lead the troops to stop their train in such a timely manner.
For this reason, Wan Chun breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it wasn't the people around her who betrayed her and leaked the news, as for Rong Shaojin, sooner or later she would have to settle accounts with him. (To be continued.) )