When Zhao Fengnian and his party returned to Xie's house, it was already dark.

Xie Pu got the message from home, and he also found time to rush home for dinner. Today's government affairs were handled quite smoothly, and he could barely squeeze out an hour, but he needed to go back to the yamen to work overtime at night.

Xie Pu sat on the big kang in the warm pavilion of the upper room with his own dinner, and Wen sat opposite him across the kang table, carrying dishes for him. Except for Xie Yingrong's absence, the girls all sat in the warm pavilion, listening to the reports of several male servants outside through the beaded curtain, while the four Xie Xianzhi brothers stayed outside.

Zhao Fengnian replied to the master's family: "When the Cao family went to see Fang Wenshan, Fang Wenshan probably knew that it was difficult for him to escape, and he did not refuse to reconcile with the Cao family, but only asked her to promise to return to her hometown to take care of her parents, brothers and children, as well as the concubines who had followed him for many years. As long as Cao agreed to his request, he would not only immediately write a letter of reconciliation and leave to draw a line with her, but would also hand over a sum of money he had hidden to Cao and let Cao use it to support his family. But the Cao family was too temperamental, and he still hated his concubines and children in his heart, refused to take care of them, and didn't want to go to the Fang family's old mansion in the southwest. Fang Wenshan's parents and family used to be just servants of the Cao family, and they could pass it away with more silver, and the Cao family didn't feel that they needed to leave the prosperous place of the capital and go to the southwest countryside to live, let alone serve their in-laws who used to respect themselves as the Lord. As for the belongings hidden by Fang Wenshan, the Cao family didn't care about it. She has seen the world's great wealth, and she has lived in the Fang family for a few years, where will she take Fang Wenshan's private house to heart? ”

The couple who had been grudges for a long time quarreled in the prison. The main reason is that Cao Shuqing said something too much, Fang Wenshan was in the panic of knowing that he was guilty of death, that is, he had a deep affection for his wife, which also aroused anger at this time. The two parted unhappily, Fang Wenshan refused to leave, and Cao Shuqing went to her mother's brothers to help.

This is different from the previous situation, in the past, the Cao family was fine, Fang Wenshan was fine, she was clamoring to reconcile, whether it was Queen Cao or Cheng Enhou and his wife, they all felt that she had lost the face of the Cao family and didn't want to help her. But now that the Cao family is already eventful, Fang Wenshan has also been convicted, if the Cao family is implicated, wouldn't it be even worse? Therefore, the Cao family must be more willing to help her reconcile now. And this kind of thing doesn't take much effort, just need to touch the yamen and find an official of the military department to put pressure and hint at Wenshan with heavy punishment; or Cheng Enhou came forward to threaten Fang Wenshan to back down with the safety of the husband and wife of the old Fang family; Unfortunately, if Cheng Enhou has a master of forging documents, it is okay to forge a document and leave it! It's a big deal that they will go to prison again, and the secret party will Wen Shan, press him to press his handprint, and fake documents can also become real documents!

Cao Shuqing is a daughter who grew up in the prince's family, and she has been in contact with various conspiracies and tricks from her biological mother, Duchess Chengen, and her brother Ping Nanbo, and she has long been experienced, so she really didn't think there was any great difficulty in this kind of thing.

However, as soon as Cheng Enhou heard her request, his face immediately changed drastically, forbidding her to mention forged letters and the like again, and forgetting the fact that this trick had been used when the Pingnan Bo Mansion attacked the Xie family. He also asked her to agree to all the requests of Wenshan below, and strive to reconcile and leave as soon as possible. Anyway, if Fang Wenshan is a capital crime, as soon as someone dies, Cao Shuqing promised that anything could be treated as if it had not happened, why can't he bow his head once? Obviously, it couldn't be easier, but Cao Shuqing made the two sides break up unhappily, which is extremely stupid!

Mrs. Chengenhou was even more unhappy, and her sister-in-law Cao Shuqing asked for help from the second room of the Cao family before. Although Cheng Enhou was always suspicious of the betrayal of his cousin, whom he had always trusted, his wife firmly believed that this was true. With her current disgust with the second room, she thinks that her sister-in-law's closeness to the second room is a betrayal of her family, so she ordered Cao Shuqing not to go to the second room again.

Cao Shuqing was angry with her brother and sister-in-law, and she was unwilling to succumb to Fang Wenshan's conditions, so she wanted to drag it out, and then took advantage of this time to try to find another way, find an official from the Ministry of War to intimidate Fang Wenshan, and force him to write and leave the book.

However, she later handed the words to the prison twice, and Fang Wenshan gritted her teeth and refused to back down, she must agree to her request. After two more days, the officers and soldiers came to the door and raided several properties and shops in the capital under Cao Shuqing's name, as well as the granges in the rich areas around the capital. The government's reasons are also above board, Fang Wenshan's property has been confiscated, and the property in his wife's name is naturally no exception. Now that the final trial result of Fang Wenshan has not yet come out, it is very likely that he will raid his family and exile his family. If his wife's mother's family is more powerful, and it is expected to keep part of the dowry, but his wife's mother's family is now standing by and watching, and many of Cao Shuqing's private properties are not on the dowry list - many of them were purchased with cash in her hand after she returned to the capital to join her mother's family - then these properties are owned by the Fang family, how can the government let them go?

At this point, Cao Shuqing really felt anxious, and regretted it in her heart. Now that her brother refuses to make a move, if she doesn't reconcile with Fang Wenshan, not to mention whether these confiscated properties can be recovered, and she herself can't get rid of the identity of the "criminal official's family", okay? In case Wenshan is finally sentenced to exile from his home, wouldn't she, as his wife, also have to be exiled?! Even if Cheng Enhou buys it for her for the sake of the Cao family's face, she will continue to live as a criminal dependent, so what dignity is there?!

Cao Shuqing finally chose to bow her head and give in, went to see Fang Wenshan in prison again, agreed to his request, gritted her teeth and coaxed him to say that she would agree to any of the conditions he proposed.

However, by this time it was too late.

Because another force contacted Fang Wenshan in advance. As long as he can meet the other party's conditions, even if his own life is not guaranteed, his parents and family will be safe and sound. His crime will be limited to the original and will not harm his family and future generations. His parents, children, and concubines can continue to live a prosperous and stable life in their hometown with rich ancestral property. The forces promised to provide them with refuge and would not involve them in his connection.

This is also because Cao Shuqing's previous attitude made Fang Wenshan's heart cold, so that he no longer pinned his hopes on this woman he once loved, and the family behind her, his former master, chose to turn his back on the other party and do something that might endanger the safety of the Cao family in order to protect his family and relatives.

He confessed the secrets of the Cao family's past to the officials who interrogated him, and they had supported a man who was good at forging documents and seals, and had also used this method to frame Xie Pu. But Xie Pu can only be regarded as an add-on, the Cao family will find such a person, it has a bigger plan.