Chapter 852: Worry
Even if Xie Yingfen already knew that her aunt was secretly entangled with the Cao family, colluding with her inside and outside, and she even sent someone to keep an eye on her aunt, but this matter is still secretive on the whole, as long as there are not many people who know, no matter how embarrassing it is, it is limited.
She never imagined that Aunt Wanqin would follow her habitual thinking and practices when she was in Jiangnan in the past, and bribe the maids and servants around her in an attempt to contact the outside world.
In the case that Wanqin can't go out easily, this approach is not wrong. She was born in the family of the noble prince, and she was used to this kind of atmosphere of calling people to do things. As long as the servants of the ordinary rich and noble families can serve the master and receive rewards, nine out of ten will seize the opportunity and do their best to do the best thing, and the remaining one is too stupid to understand the master's meaning, and it is not that he is unwilling to do it.
But the problem is that the Xie family now lives in an official residence, and not all of the male and female servants and women working in the mansion are private servants of the Xie family, and many of them are good people hired from local families. Not to mention that the employer could not easily beat and scold them, if the good citizen himself was not happy, he would not necessarily be willing to listen to the dispatch of the master's family. If the host violates the law, he will often be the first to complain. This system was originally jointly conceived by senior local officials in Beiping and the Yanwang Mansion in the early years to control officials and supervise officials.
If she is a newcomer to a foreign official and treats her rough mother-in-law in the courtyard as a little person who can be bought, and asks her to do something unruly, she will not hide it for others for a little reward! If the government finds out that the government finds out the lawlessness because of greed for money, the good people who have made mistakes may lose the qualification to continue working in the official residence, and even their relatives and future generations will no longer be able to engage in this decent job with a relatively easy and high salary, and it will be a great loss!
Wanqin thought that she had made a bloody investment, and used a lot of money to buy her rough mother-in-law in the yard to do some errands, but she was not allowed to tell others, but she didn't expect that the mother-in-law felt that she was sneaky and very problematic, and because of the matter of Shi Pozi, she didn't have much good impression of Wanqin, so she simply told her mother Wen with her backhand......
Xie Pu got the news over there, and the second daughter Xie Mulin and the fourth daughter Xie Yingfen reported in advance, and they had already ordered someone to secretly keep an eye on Wanqin, just waiting for her to contact the eyes and ears of the Cao family, so that she could secretly make a fuss, use those Cao family minions to send some specious information to the capital, and mislead the Cao family's ill-intentioned people. Wanqin didn't realize anything, and was only worried about the delay in finding the Cao family's shadow in Beiping.
However, thanks to the blessing that she couldn't get out, she wanted to call other people to help find out the news, so naturally she had to tell those people who she was looking for. So, Xie Pu knew that the Cao family had a shop in Beiping City as a station, which was to buy and sell all kinds of silk and satin clothes, and the name of the store was "Qiluofang".
Wanqin didn't remember where Qiluofang was located, but she knew that the shopkeeper's surname was Luo. When she asked the mother-in-law in the courtyard to help find someone, she said that the lady of the shopkeeper was her fellow villager. As soon as Xie Pu heard about it, he guessed that the wife of the shopkeeper of Naluo was also from the Cao family.
He served in Beiping for more than three years, and most of the official affairs he handled on weekdays were related to civil affairs, and Wen often gossiped with him, so he knew what the origin of the "Qiluofang" was earlier than Wanqin - it was a silk shop located in the prosperous area of Zhengyangmen Street, which had been open for two or three years, and the business was very good, and many officials and eunuchs were regular customers of his family. Although most of the clothes and materials used by the Xie family are taken from their own shops, the materials used for gifts are not less patronized in Qiluo Fang, and the Wen family once asked his shopkeeper to deliver them to the house for his own selection. The shopkeeper and his wife often go in and out of various official residences, if they are really the eyes and ears of the Cao family, it is really a trouble.
Xie Pu immediately told Wen's that this shop was most likely the Cao family's property, and reminded her not to call them to the door in the future. The Wen family was also a little afraid, but they didn't dare to speak up, so they only mentioned it to Xie Yinghui, Xie Mulin and Xie Yingfen, asking them to avoid this family as much as possible if they want to go out shopping to buy clothes to make clothes in the future. As for Xie Yingrong, she didn't have this kind of freedom in the first place, and it was useless to tell her.
After knowing the truth, Xie Mulin was first worried that all kinds of news about Beiping might have been transmitted to the ears of the people in Qiluofang through the mouths of various officials, and then leaked to the Cao family, and he didn't know that the Yan Wangfu and the Xie family had suffered several losses in the past.
Xie Yinghui was extremely angry in her heart, she thought that she would be able to get rid of the Cao family completely after arriving in Beiping, but she didn't expect the Cao family to be so difficult, and immediately thought that if the Luo shopkeeper and his wife were ordered by the owner to spread some gossip about the Xie family to the official eunuchs in Beiping, wouldn't it hurt their reputation? ! This is something to be careful about. It would be nice if there was a way to simply block the mouths of the people in Qiluofang, so that they could no longer spread rumors. It's a pity that her father Xie Pu may not be able to do such thunderous methods, she can only be secretly worried.
Xie Yingfen's first thought was Wanqin's unscrupulous behavior, which not only affected the whole family, but also possibly killed herself. She probably thought that she was just talking to the old Cao family for a letter and meeting with the old people of the Cao family, right? Because she was ordered by the Wen family to apologize to a rough mother-in-law, even her own children were not on her side, thinking that she had done something wrong, and the apology should be done, she felt deeply humiliated in her heart, and remembered the glorious days when her status in the back house was only under the master's mother Cao Shuqing, and even her wife Wen was not in her eyes, so she wanted to find the old man in the past, hoping to get the powerful support of the old master, so as to change her current situation......
But this is wrong! The Xie Cao family has long turned against each other, but in the Xie family, they want to use the power of the Cao family to put pressure on the monarch and the mother, how stupid is it?! If Wanqin is just a stupid person, it's fine, but the Cao family is not easy to get along with. The Cao family has been afraid of Yanwangfu for a long time, how can it be trivial to be able to insert the eyes and ears in Beiping City? Just looking at the daily behavior of the people in Qiluofang entering and leaving various official residences, Xie Yingfen knew that once this matter was exposed, it would definitely make a big fuss. At that time, even if the Yan Wangfu disdains to deal with the women's family, Xie Pu sees that if Wanqin is not killed in front of his children, other officials may not be willing to spare her! It's good to be able to die quietly without disclosing the charges, just using a white silk. If you can't even get such kindness, and you want to be dragged by the government to Ming Zheng, Xie Pu and his wife will never stop it, then it is really better to die than to live!
Xie Yingfen sat on pins and needles every day, and at the same time had to take care of her sick brother, but she didn't dare to tell the secrets she knew. The eldest sister Xie Yinghui who knows about her hates her because of iron and steel, and thinks that she doesn't need to have any more nostalgia for her biological mother Wanqin, and naturally there is no need to torture herself. The second sister Xie Mulin, who knew about it, could only persuade her to be relieved, but she was more inclined to let Wanqin confess and be lenient, saving others from having to stalk and follow, but Xie Yingfen knew that this was impossible, her aunt was not such a smart person, and she could clearly understand which side she should be on......
Seeing that Xie Yingfen's spirit is getting worse day by day, the sisters have all said good and bad things, and they can't persuade them. Finally, Song was shocked. After she discussed it with Xie Meijun, she ordered someone to invite Xie Pu over at night: "About Fen girl, I have something to ask you......