Originally, the funeral of the youngest daughter of the in-laws was carried out smoothly, but who knew that at the most critical moment, there would be such a heartfelt incident?

This bad news can't be worse, not only did the in-laws who made her health better, fall ill again, but even the in-laws who had always been in good health were in a hurry.

The whole family is anxious, and there is a gloomy fog up and down.

In such a situation, Miss Cui Jiu was able to ask him to come and ask him to be this peacemaker, and Master Dai was still quite complacent.

shows that there is still something outstanding about his personality, otherwise why didn't Miss Cui look for him and just look at him?

He privately thinks that this is a great opportunity given by God to the Dai family, if this matter can be done, it will definitely make the Cao Cui family look at him differently, such a good thing, can it be properly received?

When even though he happily nodded and agreed, and after sending Cui Wanqing away, he immediately asked the housekeeper to prepare some good gifts and took a sedan chair to the house of Xu Ze, the patriarch of the Xu clan.

Jiangyuan County is a county seat, and it is such a big boundary, and the number of prestigious people in the county is no more than two hands, and who doesn't know whom?

Master Dai thought in his heart, with the Cui family's money to open the way, and with the Dai family's prestige in Jiangyuan County, as well as his friendship with Xu Ze in the past playing chess, this old acquaintance would definitely open the net.

But who knows, when the two met in the first day, Xu Ze still gave him a warm welcome, but when he said what he meant. Xu Ze's smiling face immediately sank, and even his tone began to pick up his tone.

Master Dai is a businessman who travels from south to north, and he still has the ability to observe words and colors, and when he saw Xu Ze's posture of being on guard, he secretly screamed that it was not good.

Sure enough, Xu Ze moved out the words he said at Xu's house that day.

It stands to reason that Xu Ze's attitude is already very clear, and it is clear that people are not cooperative.

The most important thing for Master Dai to do at this moment is to say a few words of greeting and then leave. In this way, the two of them do not have to tear their faces. He can also be regarded as having an explanation for the Xu family and Cui Wanqing.

However, who called this Xu family the in-laws of Master Dai? What's more, there is also a niece of Ming Anhou, who is helping the Xu family?

Under such a dual relationship, where did Master Dai dare to be perfunctory? I must do my best to help make peace.

However, he is full of good words. There are more than a dozen stakes at stake. But Xu Ze gritted his teeth tightly. I was stunned and didn't eat it.

Just a few words in the past, just holding the family rules, and refusing to let Xu Ruofang enter the ancestral grave.

to the end. Master Dai made Xu Ze unbearable, but he simply stood up, looked at him to the end, and begged: "Brother An Rong, for the sake of the friendship between the two of us in the past, you don't have to embarrass my brother and me anymore." ”

"I understand that the Xu family is your in-laws, and I am also his cousin, but I am also the patriarch of the Xu family, this is a matter related to the honor and disgrace of the family, how dare I turn a blind eye?"

"To say something offensive, brother, you are also the patriarch of the Dai family, if your Dai family has nothing to do with this, how should you deal with it?"

Master Dai immediately wanted to reply to him, "It must be handled as appropriate, a little girl, who has a pitiful background, a good young lady, was abducted by a kidnapper, and has been wandering like duckweed outside for more than ten years, and now if you want to return to your roots, why can't you fulfill the child's last wish?" ”

But he can't say this, if he dares to say it like this, Guan Baoming'er will spread it all over the city, so how can he straighten his waist and manage the affairs of the clan in the future?

Xu Ze's trick is really decisive, it really makes Master Dai so faceless and angry, where can we talk about it again?

Immediately, he had a dark face, arched his hand casually, and walked away, which can be regarded as a complete bond with Xu Ze.

The next thing can be imagined, the most face-saving person in Jiangyuan County came out, and Xu Ze saved face, who else can persuade Xu Ze to open the net?

The matter was so helplessly deadlocked

Fang's mother goes in and out of Xu's house every day, and the mourning hall is a must-pass place, looking at the coffin behind the curtain, she always can't help but think, "Fortunately, what is in the coffin now is only Brother Li's urn, otherwise, on this hot day, it will really be a person who will die in a hurry."

Cui Wanqing was also indispensable in private, and discussed this matter with Fang's mother, Xu's mother, and Aunt Huang.

Why did Xu Ze target the Xu family like this?

There is clearly a cat in this, and it is really unconvincing to only speak with clan rules.

Who doesn't know that in such a place where the emperor is far away, the authority of the patriarch is even greater than the authority of the imperial court?

They can judge people to life and death at will with a thin set of clan rules, and they don't need to get the consent of the government at all, and no one will blame the patriarch for his life.

On the other hand, isn't this good thing or bad thing just a matter of the patriarch's words?

If he really held the sign of the fair director and came to block the general, it would be really funny, and Cui Wanqing would not believe it if he was killed, Xu Ze was a fair patriarch.

For this reason, Cui Wanqing also specially sent Gong Keshun to take people out to privately inquire about the news of the two families, and see what old entanglements there are in the bones of the two families.

This Xu family is only a middle-class family in Jiangyuan County, and most of the people in the family live in Minghan Village outside the county, and now, even the old and the young, there are nearly 200 people.

And the most capable person in the family is Xu Ze's eldest son Xu Sheng, who is only in his early forties, and has already served as the deputy head of Qinghui Academy, and among the bachelors in Jiangnan, he is also a very prestigious person.

A stroke of scribble is very good, so people are very high, and it is rare to see his masterpiece on the market, but as long as there is, it must be a high price.

Many people are talking about it in private, looking at Xu Sheng's momentum in Qinghui Academy, it's not good. The next mountain chief of Qinghui Academy will be Xu Sheng.

Don't look at the current patriarch of the Xu family, it is Xu Ze, but the original patriarch of the Xu family is not him, but the grandfather of Xu Mao Xu, that is, the eldest uncle of Xu Ze's relatives.

However, the heirs of Xu Mao's family are not prosperous, Xu Mao's grandfather gave birth to his only son in his fifties, and Xu Mao's father is also very difficult in terms of heirs.

It's still nothing in their thirties, and then it's a coincidence. I have to meet a miracle doctor. Under the conditioning of the old doctor, it took more than a year to get Xu Mao's unique seedling.

When Xu Mao was three years old, his grandfather and father both went to Hongruo Temple to worship the Buddha. On the return trip. On the Lianyun River, he was attacked by water bandits. Both died unexpectedly.

Xu Mao, who was supposed to succeed the patriarch, was too young to perform his duties. After the election, the position of patriarch was given by Xu Ze's father.

Xu Mao's orphans and widows, and guarding the family business of Nuoda, is simply a piece of big fat meat, not only the people with the surname want to get a bite of meat, but even Xu Mao's uncle's family began to covet his nephew's family property.

Fortunately, Xu Mao's mother was extremely smart, and even if she took out most of the family property and donated it to the family education in the clan, she only left some fields around her, which left her life in the wolf's mouth and was able to raise her young son to adulthood.

I heard that Xu Mao was at his worst, except for the ancestral house of Wujin, when everything that could be sold was sold, and the most powerful time was when his youngest daughter was lost.

If it weren't for this, as Dai San's grandmother, she would not have married into Shangjia's family and became the wife of a concubine.

After Cui Wanqing heard this, she couldn't help but speculate first, the previous Xu Mao family's family was already in trouble, and none of the children in the family were particularly outstanding.

But after Dai San's grandmother married into the Dai family, this smart man did not bring his maiden family with him, not only did his mother's family situation change, but the two older brothers were also able to enter Qinghui Academy after Master Dai's maneuvering.

It can be said that the entire Xu family has entered a good situation because the eldest daughter married a good family.

Could it be that because of this, Xu Ze became jealous? Deliberately looking for the Xu family is not happy?

This doesn't make sense, Xu Ze is now the patriarch, and the eldest son is so promising, and Xu Sheng is not an official position, so even if he becomes the dean of Qinghui Academy in the future, he can also serve as the head of the Xu family.

It can be said that whether Xu Mao's family is good or bad has little impact on Xu Ze's family.

These two families, that is the blood of the relatives, such as the Cao family, the Cui family, and the brothers are all affectionate, and they don't even have a family.

But looking at the Xu family, not only was the family separated, but when Xu Mao and their family were the most pitiful, Xu Ze, an uncle with a lot of money, did not lend a helping hand.

Xu Mao's two sons still relied on the help of Master Dai to enter Qinghui Academy, and their cousin Xu Sheng is the deputy head of Qinghui Academy!

There must be something wrong with these two, what Cui Wanqing needs to do now is to find out the crux of the problem, so as to prescribe the right medicine, right?

It can be seen from this that Xu Ze must be hiding some selfish intentions, he is not handling family affairs according to the family rules, and he is by no means impartial and straightforward in matters concerning Brother Li.

Listening to Cui Wanqing's speculation, Mother Fang and Mother Xu both sighed, "Obviously they are all a family, why did it become like this?" ”

"As the saying goes, if you break a bone, you still have tendons, why should your family suffer for your own family?"

Aunt Huang, who had been immersed in needlework, couldn't help but smile coldly when she heard these words, raised her head and asked, "If Master Xu's grandfather and father hadn't been killed by the bandits, would Xu Ze's father still be the patriarch of the Xu family?" ”

"If Mrs. Xu, who has a clear mind and knows how to make trade-offs, doesn't donate that large amount of property in time, what kind of situation will their mother and son face?"

"And the most important question, why did the brothers of the Xu family get their share of the family in the first place?"

When Mother Huang said this, she couldn't help but snort coldly, and said: "People's hearts are the most greedy, this old lady Xu can raise old man Xu with all beards and tails, and she is really not a simple backyard woman." ”

She entered the palace at the age of nine, and has spent most of her life in the harem, what dirty things have she never seen?

To tell the truth, these small methods of civil fighting are really not enough in the eyes of the people in the palace.

This Xu Ze must be afraid that Xu Mao and the nobles in the capital will have a relationship now, and if he is powerful in the future, he will take back the position of the patriarch, after all, Xu Mao is the one who is right.

The reason why Cui Wanqing didn't see this was not that she wasn't smart enough, but that her foothold was too high, and from her point of view, the position of the patriarch of the Xu clan was really nothing worth looking at.

But from the point of view of Xu Ze, who was only a middle-class family, the status of the patriarch was all that their family had.

Seeing that the most noble thing in the family is about to be preserved, can he sit back and watch from the sidelines?

The answer is, no way!

Therefore, if it weren't for Aunt Huang's expectations, someone would soon blow the wind on the Xu family's side and provoke their relationship with Cui Wanqing.

The purpose is to make the two families fight each other, and completely cut off the possibility of the Xu family attaching to the nobles of the capital.

Aunt Huang didn't say the latter words, but as long as she started, Cui Wanqing could think of it herself.

She really didn't expect that the grievances between the two families would start so long ago.

If this is the case, then, was Brother Li's abduction accidental or premeditated?

The small Jiangyuan County and the small Xu family have so many unknown secrets hidden inside, which is really too unthinkable.

Cui Wanqing couldn't help but secretly wonder, if only Mrs. Xu hadn't passed away, she, as the person concerned, would definitely know something about the cause of death of her husband and father-in-law.

If the incident of the Jiang bandits was premeditated by someone back then, then it would not work to say it with empty words, and it was necessary to come up with solid evidence.

It's a pity that after many years, most of the original parties have passed away, but Xu Ze is still there, but how can this person tell the truth?

For now, I can only ask Xu Mao directly.

But right now, it is not the best time to ask about these old things, Cui Wanqing has the intention to wait a little longer to see what kind of response Xu Mao's family will have after being provoked.

And this point is directly related to Cui Wanqing's attitude towards dealing with this matter in the future, Xu Mao's family has to go through this test first, and after getting Cui Wanqing's affirmation, Cui Wanqing can have the heart to plan for their family.

Fortunately, the waiting time was not too long, and what Aunt Huang said was quickly fulfilled.

The next day, Xu Mao's family came to her mother, saying that her master had invited Cui Wanqing to come over to talk about it.

Although Cui Wanqing has been prepared in her heart, it is inevitable that she will feel sad when this day comes.

People's hearts have always been the easiest to be swayed.

Thinking that the Xu family, who has always been magnanimous, kind and compassionate, would be provoked to resentment, so he asked her to come over for questioning so bluntly.

Cui Wanqing can only sigh, flesh and blood affection has always been the most fragile existence in everyone's heart. (To be continued......)