Wen really sent people to the outside world to inquire about the recent news in the market afterwards, and found that there were indeed many people discussing the matter of the official family members putting the money in the seal, and the Zhou family was also taken out as a typical example.

Fortunately, when the second elder of the Zhou family came out of the funeral a year ago, Mrs. Zhou and Mrs. Wednesday accepted Wen's proposal and set up a soup kitchen on the side of the road to help the poor, and earned a good reputation for charity for the Zhou family a little. I really don't know how such household chores got to the market.

Wen also thought that except for their close neighbors, as well as a few relatives and friends who were invited to Zhou's house to witness the separation of the family that day, no outsiders would know these many details. Could it be that it was the wind released by Mrs. Thursday again? But it is rumored that she doesn't have any good evaluation, will she be stupid enough to tear down her own stage?

However, Zhao Fengnian, who was sent out by the Wen family to inquire about the news, has always been an experienced and careful person. He inquired outside for two days, and when he came back, he reported to Wen: "Madam, I am afraid that this matter is indispensable to the help of Mrs. Wanjia." It is true that the second wife and the fourth wife of the Zhou family put the money outside, but because the Zhou family has a funeral, they will send the spirit back to their hometown in the near future, so the silver released by these two wives has been withdrawn one after another since before the lunar month, and they will no longer lend money. By this time, at least seventy percent has been recovered. Compared with the officials and dependents of several other lenders in Beiping City, their amount is really nothing. There will be so many people staring at his family to discuss, because the Zhou family is not as majestic as in the past, but it is also indispensable for Mrs. Wan to order people to deliberately stir up rumors in secret. ”

Wen was speechless. Why is Mrs. Wan so resentful of the Zhou family? It's just because she wants to marry her daughter to Zhou Yazheng, but she is not taken seriously by Mrs. Zhou? Although this mother-in-law is not a vicious person, she is narrow-minded and calculating, and she can't tolerate people's actions, which is enough to make people speechless.

Wen did not expose Mrs. Wan's meaning, but when he met with other officials and relatives of the political envoy Si Yamen, he mentioned it slightly, saying that some people in the outside world spread the gossip of his family because of the Zhou family's filial piety and great power as before, and they were all people from the Yamen, so they should not participate in it, so as not to make outsiders see the joke.

Wen had also advised the wives of her husband's subordinates not to spread the gossip of the Zhou family outside for the same reason, so the edicts and edicts were not surprised, and they all smiled and said that they would obey the orders. Recently, they can't eat the melons in the capital just by eating them, who has time to pay attention to the affairs of the Zhou family? It's not a new anecdote to put the money in the print, what if the daughter of the Zhou family releases it? It's not that no one among them quietly lends money, at most, the money they put out is not as rich as the Zhou family. There are people in the market who talk about the money in the market, and they are also very annoyed, worried that it will involve them. The boss's wife said not to talk about it, and she was in their arms!

Mrs. Wan was weak-minded, but she was sure that Wen was a fool and would never find out what she was doing, so she calmly followed the crowd. Anyway, she has already done what she should do, and now she doesn't need to send someone to make trouble, and there are still many people talking about the Zhou family's words about putting money in print. She took the opportunity to stop, and she could still watch a wave of good shows, and she didn't have to worry about others finding out about her, so why not?

Rumors about the lending of officials and their relatives are spreading more and more. After the year when the political envoy opened the yamen to do business, the first thing Xie Pu did was to summon the officials under him to give a lecture, take it out and talk about it, and ordered them to go home and ask if the officials and dependents of each family had done such a thing. If the past is not investigated, this kind of thing cannot happen again under the political envoy in the future. Once someone catches the evidence and sues, Xie Pu, as the chief official, will not shield his subordinates.

The officials also knew the seriousness of the matter, and no matter what they thought in their hearts, they were willing to do a good job on the surface, and they all agreed to it. After they went home, they didn't know how to operate, anyway, since February, the number of people who put Yinzi money in Beiping City has indeed decreased a lot. The number of people talking about such things in the market has also been greatly reduced.

After all, spring sowing is coming soon. In terms of the imperial examination, the county examination is also about to begin. After the beginning of spring, people also have to change out of heavy winter clothes and wear lighter spring clothes. There are also people who want to eat spring cakes, spring vegetables or something. There are so many things that everyone has to be busy with, and an old topic that has been discussed for a long time, and no new changes have happened, it is impossible to keep people interested all the time.

However, in the circle of officials and relatives, they still maintain their interest in the assassination of the queen of the capital. The news from the capital is endless, providing everyone with enough fresh and delicious and attractive melons, where are you willing to just throw away your hands?

The Xie family entrusted the blessing of their future son-in-law Wan Long, and they also received letters from the capital one after another, and they knew some inside information. Coupled with the news that Xiao Rui brought from Yanwang's Mansion, Xie Mulin and the others were about to be killed by melons.

Even the people in Beiping City can hear about Xiao Lin and the third prince's affair, and know that the former was pregnant unmarried and then had a miscarriage, and the people in the capital will only know about it earlier. And it was no one else who exposed this matter, but it was related to the Xue family. The world speculates that it is because Mrs. Xue's family believes that the Xiao family has to be tied up with the three princes because of the loss of their daughter, and in order to help the three princes ascend to the throne, the queen and the prince must be pulled off the horse first, so Xiao Guifei came forward and provoked Lin Zhaoyi to assassinate Queen Cao.

The Xue family must not be convinced by the sinister intentions of the three princes and the Xiao family, so they also have to expose the scandal of the Xiao family, so that the emperor can clearly understand that the Xiao family is no longer the loyal courtiers of the past, Xiao Mingde is selfish, and he has already betrayed the emperor's trust!

After the truth was exposed, Xiao Lin's reputation was ruined, and the Xiao family also lost face. Even if Mrs. Xiao wanted to defend her daughter, and even severely punished Aunt Ma who ruined her plan, she couldn't reverse the public opinion of the outside world. Xiao Lin cried to death several times, but she still managed to hold on, and she didn't have any thoughts of suicide. She has already identified the three princes, and she will hold on until the third prince ascends the throne and accepts her into the palace no matter what. Without her reputation, she probably won't be able to become the queen of the main palace, but it doesn't matter, it's okay to be a concubine. As long as she can give birth to a son for the third prince in the future and inherit the throne, she will still have one day to be righted! As for Lan's? What's that? She didn't pay attention to it at all!

Xiao Lin is so strong that many people are surprised. Mrs. Xiao and Xiao Cong scolded the Xue family for being nosy, and at the same time, they were also rejoicing in Xiao Lin's strength.

However, at this time, Mrs. Xue had an accident.

On his way to the imperial city in the early hours of the morning, he was attacked not far from his home, was hit in the back of the head, and fainted covered in blood. According to eyewitnesses at the time, the person who attacked him was wearing the uniform of a soldier of the Jingxi Battalion, which happened to be the soldier in charge of Xiao Mingde and his son!

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