The Dingguo Mansion is still heavily surrounded, and it is not only the Dingguo Mansion that is surrounded, but also the mansions of many nobles and important ministers.

After seeing Xiao Changdun, the old lady took Zhou Tong to the next door.

"Tongtong, are you going back to Baoding Mansion?" The old lady asked with concern, she had already prepared a lot of precious medicinal materials and supplements, and wanted Zhou Tong to bring Xiao Fu back.

Zhou Tong didn't intend to hide it, and said directly: "Don't go back first, I brought someone out of the palace, that is, Jiao Shengqi's niece, the Jiao family's house in the capital has long been sold, she has no other relatives, and she can't show up, I want to go to Luoyang first and hand her over to Jiao Shengqi." ”

The old lady frowned and asked, "Jiao Shengqi's niece?" By the way, I remember, Jiao Shengqi has a niece in the palace, but her position is not high, is she a beauty or a talent? ”

"It's a beauty, a scorched beauty. That's a fool, she was almost wiped out in the palace, and I rescued her, and now the palace thinks she was burned to death, although the emperor is a big deal, but her identity can't be revealed, so she can only be sent to Jiao Shengqi, with Jiao Shengqi's ability, she can protect her. Zhou Tong said.

The old lady's brows tightened even deeper, she thought for a while, and said, "You are also a good child, and in such a dangerous situation, you have to save an insignificant person." Alas, if the second master is alive, he will definitely like it, and he will do such a thing. ”

The second master in the old lady's mouth is Xiao Ren's father, Xiao Changhou.

Zhou Tong said with a smile: "How can I be so kind, I just have a few encounters with Jiao Shengqi, so I will be a favor." But when I saw Xiao Qi in the future, the old lady wanted to talk to him more about the second master, he had no impression of the second master, and he had always regretted it. ”

The old lady patted Zhou Tong's hand and said, "Okay, I remember." It's just that the good thing you did didn't necessarily really save the woman. ”

"Why?" Zhou Tong was puzzled.

The old lady sighed: "Although the emperor is very popular, but the identity of Jiao Meiren can see the light?" No, never. Since everyone in the palace thinks she is dead, then she can only be a dead person, and even I, an old woman who doesn't have much contact with the Jiao family, all know that the Jiao family has an aunt and grandmother in the palace, so she can't hide her identity. Now that the overall situation is clear, Prince Qin is definitely going to enter Beijing, since Jiao Shengqi has followed Prince Qin and has a heavy army, a title cannot run. Qin Wang Ye is a descendant of the Zhou family, after he ascended the throne, not only will he not belittle the Daxing Emperor, but will praise the Daxing Emperor as a benevolent and virtuous Mingjun, do you think about it, does this Jiao Niangzi still have a way to live? ”

Zhou Tong was stunned, she really hadn't thought about this: "The Jiao family is her maiden family." ”

The old lady said: "I hope I'm thinking too much, but don't forget, the Mao family is still the maiden family of Concubine Mao." Do you think about how Jiao Shengqi climbed to his current position? He is different from the son, everything he has now depends on himself, such a person is ruthless. Before Jiao Shengqi took refuge in King Qin, his wife committed suicide, and since then there is nothing in the court to hold Jiao Shengqi hostage, maybe his wife is willing to commit suicide, but it is also for him, if he hadn't sent someone to deliver a message to his wife in advance, his wife is far away in the capital, how do you know that he wants to take refuge in King Qin? So, it's a ruthless one. ”

Zhou Tong was silent, she thought that it was a good thing to send Jiao Meiren to Luoyang to Jiao Shengqi, but she didn't expect that Jiao Shengqi would be willing to accept a niece who was still alive.

She thought for a while and said to the old lady: "Since you rescued her, there is no reason to send her back." I asked someone to send a letter to Jiao Shengqi, saying that his niece is still alive, in my hands, ask him to ask for more silver, this is the person, and I have to find a place to raise it. ”

The old lady smiled, this is to find Jiao Shengqi to cheat money!

"You've decided?" The old lady asked.

Zhou Tong nodded and said, "It's decided, there's nothing wrong with it, my mother's family has been a bandit, isn't it common for bandits to kidnap people and ask for silver?" He gave out the money, and I raised my niece for her, even if it was known, it didn't matter, he just had to say that he didn't know, anyway, his niece was not rescued from the palace by him, nor was he raised in his family, he was full of the love of being an uncle, and he would not be affected, how good? What can be solved with money is not a big deal. ”

The old lady stroked her palms and laughed, this little nephew is too much to her liking, whether Jiao Shengqi is ruthless to her niece or not, it doesn't matter.

At most, they won't see each other for the rest of their lives, but if Jiao Meiren stays in the palace, isn't it difficult to see each other for the rest of their lives?

Soon after, the old lady heard the news from the palace, that night Shuning Palace went to the water, although it was the concubine who set the fire, but it was the emperor Chrysostom Yuyan, not to let the fire out, the emperor was going to burn down the palace where King Qin's biological mother lived, that is, to burn Jiao Shengqi's niece alive.

Jiao Meiren was ordered to be executed by the emperor.

Of course, that's an afterthought.

Now the old lady doesn't know about it, she thought about it, and said to Zhou Tong: "You and Xiao Qi haven't married yet, and it's a drag to carry such a burden, so let's hand her over to me, I'll find a place to place her, if she wants to marry again one day, let the prince get her a new identity, and then find a lover for her to marry." ”

Zhou Tong felt that this was also good, so he said: "When I ask for silver from Jiao Shengqi, I will let someone send it over." ”

The old lady laughed and said, "Isn't it just to raise one more person?" The Xiao family can still afford it, and you and Xiao Qi keep the silver for their own use. ”

The next day, Zhou Tong asked Mrs. Jiang and Second Sister Jiang to send Jiao Meiren over, and the old lady found a remote empty courtyard for Jiao Meiren to live in, and then found another place for her to live after this while.

Zhou Tong asked Xu An and Lu You to go to Luoyang, and Jiao Shengqi knew the two of them.

On the third day that Zhou Tong took Mrs. Jiang and her second sister back to Baoding Mansion, Xu An and Lu You came back, and they brought back 10,000 taels of silver given by Jiao Shengqi.

Zhou Tong took 5,000 taels out and asked the flatbread to be sent to the capital to hand over to the old lady, and the other 5,000 taels were collected by himself.

She asked Xu An: "Did Jiao Shengqi say anything?" ”

Xu An said with a smile: "Jiao Shengqi asked me to thank the girl on his behalf, and also thanked the Dingguo Mansion, and said that he wrote down this favor." ”

"He didn't say that he was going to take his niece to Luoyang?" Zhou Tong asked.

Xu An's smile deepened: "I didn't say a word." ”

Zhou Tong sighed, sure enough, the old lady was right, fortunately, she didn't send people over directly, otherwise not only would she not be able to get 10,000 taels of silver, but Jiao Meiren's life may not be easy, and it is difficult to say whether she will survive or not, who knows if she will die of a sudden illness?