became the righteous daughter of the Shi family, and life has not changed much for Fu Zhangzhu. In front of the old couple of the Shi family, she never mentioned half a word about the Xie family.

After being silent for a while, Zhangzhu asked Liao Kai to help investigate the affairs of Li Huaibi's family, and later found out that the Li family's thousands of acres of land on the outskirts of the city were actually a gift from the Cai family.

"The Cai family is so rich, as soon as they sell, it is a thousand acres of land?" Zhangzhu expressed suspicion.

Liao Kai said: "The Cai family is indeed rich, I heard that there are two shops in Yangzhou with the surname Cai, and they also say that there is a merchant ship in Quanzhou. ”

"Merchant ships? The Xun family also has merchant ships, and I heard that I made a lot of money by running sea trade. She knew it when the Xie family had not officially married the Xun family, and she remembered that once the Xun family wanted to join forces with the Xie family to do business, but the Xie family did not agree because of the risks at sea, and the Xun family went back to find another family.

Liao Kai said: "There is such a thing, it is said that in the past two years, the Xun family and the Cai family have joined forces, and almost all of the pieces on the sea are theirs, and the other families can only scoop up the leftovers of their two families." ”

"Xun Jian is the secretary of the ministry, and he is a member of the cabinet, he controls the life and death of the officials of Dachu, and other families only have his share, so Xun Shao is the commander of the Zhenfu Division, and he is the minions of the imperial court, who dares to provoke them? The Cai family and the Xun family became in-laws, and naturally they also wanted a piece of the pie. Zhangzhu sorted out the interests of several families, as well as the relationship between several families and the Xie family.

Later, she analyzed with Liao Kai: "Do you think the fall of the Xie family will be related to the trade of the Xun family?" ”

"But that's just a girl's guess."

Zhangzhu said: "Yes, it's just my guess, everything has to be about evidence, but also about motives." I can't see the original file and can't investigate it thoroughly. The original presiding judge was dead, and he died unexplained, all of which was too suspicious. ”

"Miss Fu, all we can investigate now are inconsequential, peripheral things. If you want to go deeper, it will only be quite difficult. Under the supervision of the Pacification Division, we did not dare to make many moves bigger, for fear of arousing suspicion, and if we really offended anyone, we were afraid that we would invite trouble. Even if you find the Shi family to rely on, you must be cautious. ”

Zhangzhu nodded and said: "You are very right, you must not act rashly without a perfect guarantee, and you must not take risks easily, so the action really can't be big, otherwise you don't know how to die." ”

"If you want to investigate thoroughly, unless it is only possible to retry the Xie case with the opening from above, otherwise the things hidden behind it will not be able to dig out, and the details of how the Xie family was convicted in the first place can be exposed."

"It's impossible to retry this situation now, the conviction of the Xie family at the beginning claimed that the evidence was conclusive, but now it's pushed back to start over, isn't it a slap in the face of the emperor? Even if the emperor knew that it was an unjust, false and wrongful case, it would be impossible for the Xie family to overturn the case. Before, Zhangzhu still had a glimmer of hope, but after she returned to Beijing, she gradually understood it after coming into contact with it for a while.

Her current identity is not enough, and she does not have the ability to make the emperor open his mouth for a retrial, so she can only think of other ways.

"If I could, I'd like to go to the camp north for a while to gather some evidence."

Liao Kai did not support this idea of Zhangzhu: "It's not so easy to get into the barracks, and if a girl wants to get out, I'm afraid it's not so easy." ”

"I don't want to be a pawn of Xun Shao here, threatening the second son, if I don't do anything, I won't be able to move forward." Zhangzhu wants to move forward. She didn't want to sit still.

"Miss Fu really wants to go out of Beijing?"

Zhangzhu said: "I can't find anything in the capital, so I want to go out and have a look, go to the place where General Xie once stayed, maybe I can find evidence to clear the Xie family, and come back when the time comes." ”

"Miss Fu has to think about it, it is said that there is a lot of chaos in the north now, and those golden people are all murderous without blinking. Your journey must be dangerous. ”

Zhangzhu said: "I will plan well, the most important thing at the moment is to get rid of Xun Shao's surveillance, otherwise I will not be free to do anything." ”

Zhangzhu only told Liao Kai about wanting to go to the north, and she didn't tell Yansheng and Zhang Niangzi. The medical clinic is doing good business now, and Zhangzhu is busy treating people every day, except for sleeping at night, she has almost no time to rest.

Time passed, and she had already passed her eighteenth birthday.

In a blink of an eye, it was the beginning of April, and Mrs. Shi was the tenth birthday of the first month of April. After Zhangzhu knew about this, she asked Zhang Niangzi to prepare a generous gift for her and send it to Shi's house. On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the historian sent a sedan chair over to take the palm beads over for dinner.

She is now the righteous daughter of the Shi family, and she can't shirk it, so she has to pack up her makeup and go to the Shi family's sedan chair.

Because it's a normal birthday, it's not a whole birthday, so there are no big banquet guests. However, several families who were close to each other in the capital came to congratulate them.

After Fu Zhangzhu got off the sedan chair, Mrs. Shi's Hua lady next to her came to greet her, took Zhangzhu's hand and said with a smile: "The girl has worked hard all the way, the old lady and the old lady have been talking about you all morning, and finally invited you over." ”

The Shi family treated her very politely.

This season is when the peony flowers are in full bloom, and a lot of peonies are also planted in the garden of the Shi family, and the stage is also set up in the garden.

Zhangzhu entered the Shi family garden under the guidance of the servant, she stepped forward to greet Mrs. Shi's birthday, and saluted the old lady, Mrs. Shi liked it very much and let her sit in front of her.

On the right hand side of Mrs. Shi sat a woman wearing a stone blue gown, the woman looked about forty, shrewd and exposed, looking at Mrs. Shi There was a young girl beside her, and she could hear the palm beads and call her mother, the woman was a little surprised: "When did the sister-in-law of the Shi family have such a young daughter?" ”

Mrs. Shi replied with a smile: "This is my newly recognized daughter." ”

When the woman heard this, she looked at her palms from head to toe, and said with a smile, "This is a great joy, and I wish my sister-in-law good news." ”

Seeing Zhangzhu's doubts, Mrs. Shi hurriedly introduced her: "This is Mrs. Guo of Dali Temple." ”

Is it Guo Fukang's wife?! Zhangzhu was surprised in her heart, but her face was not obvious, and after listening to the old lady's recommendation, she stepped forward and saluted Mrs. Guo.

Mrs. Guo grabbed the palm beads, looked at them carefully and said, "What a Peugeot character, such a delicate little girl likes to keep it by her side and look at it." Or the sister-in-law of the Shi family is blessed. Then he asked Zhangzhu Fangchen by the way.

Zhangzhu didn't have any scruples, and replied directly: "Eighteen." ”

Mrs. Guo couldn't help but be shocked when she saw that her palms were combing her braids, not a woman's makeup, she hadn't married herself off at the age of eighteen?! That's an old girl.