Before arriving in Fengxian, King Guangping and his entourage stayed in Suzhou for two days.

This is not only to rest the team, get off the boat and take the car to hurry, but also to wait for news. King Guangping traveled south, and the original destination was Shanghai. Shanghai, as the royal family of this dynasty, was built immediately after Emperor Taizu ascended the throne, and Jiading and Fengxian were all counties under its rule. Although neither the deceased Emperor Taizu nor the current emperor ever returned, Shanghai has remained highly regarded for many years. In the previous dynasty, there was a rebellion of the Japanese people, and many places in Shanghai suffered from it, and since the 12th year of enlightenment (1662 AD), the south of the Yangtze River has been flooded one after another, and Shanghai is no exception, Taizu proposed to overhaul water conservancy and build a sea dam. It's just that at the beginning of the founding of the country, a hundred ruins were waiting to be revived, the Zhu royal family of the previous dynasty wanted to make trouble and take back the throne, and the Qing people in the north did not stop, and the treasury was not abundant, so it had to be postponed for the time being.

Originally, according to Emperor Taizu's intentions, the water conservancy along the south coast of the Yangtze River should be rebuilt, and the treasury has been much richer than at the beginning of the founding of the country. But in this way, the amount of work is too large, and all aspects involved are too complicated, so we can only start with Shanghai first, after all, it is the land of Longxing. So, starting from the year before, the coastal defense dam was built along the coast of Shanghai, and according to the will of Emperor Taizu during his lifetime, a large harbor was built. This was originally a very easy errand, just go through the motions, the emperor thought that no one would dare to do anything about the coastal defense project in the royal family's hometown, so he allowed his beloved son to take his wife and children to go on a tour of the mountains and rivers.

The official team of King Guangping and his entourage actually left Beijing only one day earlier than the Zhao family, which happened to be August 16, just after the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion banquet of the royal family. This is the prince's official trip, the honor guard is indispensable, and the walk is slow, the king of Guangping was impatient, so he brought his wife and children to escort him, and the micro-service light car took the first step, and made an appointment to meet the large army in Suzhou, but he didn't expect to meet the Zhao family. He had the intention of meddling in his affairs, so he sent a message to the large army, asking them to speed up, and he stopped in Suzhou at this time to wait for them.

But the king of Guangping did not forget the Zhao family, he had previously sent a few people to the Fengxian Zhao clan with Wang Siping's ship, and at this time there was news back, and he planned to act randomly according to these news.

After receiving the third piece of information from his subordinates, he went to the Zhang family with the princess and told her about the current situation of the Fengxian Zhao family.

After Wang Siping arrived in Fengxian, he excused himself by saying that he could not find the remains of Zhang's family and two children, as well as Qiu Ye and Pearl Sister-in-law, and the rest of them were all buried in coffins.

Jiannan Hou Zhao Jiong was not suspicious at all, and directly ordered someone to find three empty coffins, one large, two and three small, put some heavy objects, and serve as the corpses of Zhang and the two children. However, he still scolded Wang Siping, saying that Wang Siping shouldn't have come back in a hurry, the two children are nothing, but the Zhang family must see people in life and corpses in death, and hand them over to the locals to take care of, what if the secret is leaked? Even if the secret is not leaked, the body of the old county duke's wife has not been found for a long time, and the Zhao family's face is not good-looking. Even if the days drag on, it doesn't matter, and now it is the old county prince and Aunt Qian who are going to be buried on the auspicious day, not the Zhang family, and the big deal is to dig another crypt when burying her in the soil in the future. He trusted Wang Siping to let him do such a big thing, but Wang Siping actually dealt with it hastily and hurried back, leaving such a big trouble, which really betrayed his trust.

Wang Siping bowed his head very obediently and admitted his mistake, and also pleaded guilty to Zhao Jiong. In fact, he knew in his heart that he had done this kind of unsightly thing for his master's family, and even if he was not extinguished, he would not want to continue to be in the position of the chief housekeeper, Zhao Jiong's reaction was simply what he expected, so when he was removed from the position of the chief housekeeper and ordered to go home for reflection, there was no protest at all, so he retired, and met the arrogant new housekeeper Gao Cheng in the courtyard, and in the face of the other party's cynicism, he didn't say a word.

Of course he won't say anything, Gao Cheng is no different from a dead man in his eyes. Even his decades-old qualifications were put into idleness because he knew the ugly things of the master's family, and Gao Cheng was not the henchman of the main cow's family, but he just got the blue eyes of the Hou Ye Zhao Jiong for a while, and it didn't take long to be proud, besides, the king of Guangping and the old lady were coming soon!

Zhao Jiong was not interested in the coffin in that place, but he alone ordered someone to pry open the coffin of his younger brother Zhao Zhuo, and after confirming that it was really the other party, he breathed a sigh of relief. Since the birth of this younger brother, he seems to have a sharp blade hanging over his head, and he doesn't know when he will lose the position of the prince of Jiannan Hou. Fortunately, what he should have gotten is still his after all, now he is the justifiable Jiannan Hou, but his younger brother died young, even if his younger brother won the examination, the world praised his outstanding talent, and his father also doted on his younger brother, but he Zhao Jiong still became the final winner after all.

Zhao Jiong was in a good mood, and he didn't even care about covering up, so he laughed at his brother's coffin in the courtyard, and the servants in the old mansion were dumbfounded, but they didn't dare to say anything, as for whether there would be some gossip in private, it was difficult to say.

The Zhao family lives together, but the second room is a prince in the capital, and the big mansion built in the hometown 20 years ago is only occupied when the owner returns to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and it is usually empty, and the servants in the old house are just in charge of some farm property, but they have a very high status in the countryside, and even the ordinary people in the nine rooms outside the Zhao family have to respect them for three points. They have been without a master to control them for many years, and they are very careless, and there is never a rule in their minds not to gossip about the master's house.

Zhao Jiong didn't know what the servants around him thought of him, he had lived in the Marquis Mansion in the capital since he was born, since he could remember, his former mother-in-law Qin and later stepmother Zhang, the housekeepers were very good, and the servants in the house were quite well-behaved, so he was not wary at all. He just thought that the old father and mother would be officially buried the day after tomorrow, so he simply buried it together with Zhang's mother, son, daughter-in-law and grandson, and saved another funeral silver, and the dead were put into the ground, and there was no need to mention the matter of dividing the family and property, and there must be no two words in the clan.

But before her death, her biological mother had been thinking about being buried with the princess, and as a son of man, he really wanted to fulfill her last wish. However, the people of the He clan are watching, he can't openly do anything to mess with his concubine, he can just do something small, he can disguise his deceased mother's coffin as Zhang's, and then bury her in the seat of his father's stepfamily, as for Zhang's, let her be buried forever in the concubine's room, and when everyone disperses, he will change the surnames on the tombstones of the two, and then send someone to guard the tomb, and no outsiders are allowed to trespass, so naturally there will be no trouble.

To change the coffin and change the inscription, it is not something that Zhao Jiong can do alone. He instructed Gao Cheng to do it, and Gao Cheng called a few helpers. Wang Siping had been the chief butler in the Hou Mansion for decades, and he was very well-connected, and he soon got the news, and passed the letter through the guards sent to him by King Guò Guangping.

When Zhang learned the news, she trembled with anger again, and she sneered: "Zhao Jiong is a good dog! I want to see what he is in the coffin he buried in the graveyard of the county grandfather! ”

Princess Guangping hurriedly stepped forward to comfort, but Zhang waved her hand: "Don't worry, princess, although my wife only has this one bone left, even if it is for the sake of a bad breath and for the sake of my two grandchildren, I will not let myself fall lightly!" ”

When King Guangping heard this, he knew that she had made up her mind, and said, "Since the old lady has an idea, this king will help you." The Qincha honor guard had just arrived in Suzhou, and I waited here to accompany the old lady to Fengxian to expose the true face of Jiannanhou. ”

Zhang was very grateful for his kindness, but politely refused: "The prince was originally ordered by him, and when he arrived in Shanghai, he should ask about official affairs first, and the Zhao family's housework, and the old body can take care of it himself, but he needs to borrow some manpower from the prince." Although the Zhao family is numerous, most of them are vassals, and they may not dare to offend the Marquis of Jiannan, in order to suppress Zhao Jiong's arrogance, the old body has to fake the tiger. ”

King Guangping laughed, agreed to her request, summoned his own personal guard commander, and ordered him to bring eight good soldiers, all of whom must be official military attachés with rank, to accompany the Zhang family to Fengxian.

Seeing this, Princess Zhong of Guangping secretly breathed a sigh of relief, she was really worried that her husband would leave his official affairs and help the Zhang family solve the trouble of the Zhao family first. Although the emperor respects the old county prince of Zhao and will not blame his son for the widow of the old county prince, there will always be some people who are jealous when they see the favor of the king of Guangping and throw all kinds of charges on the king of Guangping. Helping the Zhang family, at best, is to take care of the bereaved family of the hero, but if it is bad, it is because of selfishness and forgetfulness, if the king of Guangping wants to compete for the throne in the future, this will inevitably become a handle. Princess Quang Binh was willing to help Zhang, but she didn't want her husband to get into trouble.

Zhang's knowledge and interest, Princess Guangping was happy, and she also proposed: "The old lady took her two children back to her hometown, how inconvenient, right?" Brother Wei is a man, it is right to go with the old lady, Sister Xiu is a girl, it is useless to go, it is better to leave it to me to take care of, and when the old lady solves the matter, I will send the child over. ”

Zhang was overjoyed: "Thank you, princess." ”

Zhao Xiu never expected that he would be deprived of the opportunity to watch a good show. But no matter how reluctant she was, there was no mercy to talk about it. Zhang knows that this granddaughter has been "dialed" by her deceased grandfather, and she is far smarter than ordinary children, but no matter how smart she is, she is not yet two years old, and children are children, and they can't participate in things that shouldn't be involved.

So Zhao Xiu could only watch his grandmother and his little brother, together with a large group of powerful helpers (or thugs), embark on the road back to their hometown.

On the fifth day of October in the first year of Chengqing of Great Chu, Zhao Zhu and his second son and wife of Jiannan County entered the soil in their hometown, and the ceremony was huge, and the gentry of Shanghai Susong rushed to set up a road to worship. Zhao Jiong, the new Marquis of Jiannan, wore linen and filial piety, and rode a horse to send his parents and brothers' coffins to the family cemetery outside the county. But when the procession reached the gates, it suddenly stopped. He was riding on a horse and raised his sleeves to cry bitterly, and after noticing something wrong, he put down his sleeves and asked Gao Cheng blankly: "What's wrong?" Why don't you go? ”

Gao Chengzhi stared at the road in a daze, his teeth chattering.

Zhao Jiong followed his gaze and was suddenly frightened.

Zhang, who he thought was dead, was standing on the road in front of him, glaring at him with a gray face.