Xiao Ji finished the county government, and went back to the house, originally wanted to find his father first, but his father was not in the house, Xiao Ji went to Ling'er's room, Xiao Ji saw that his sister was quietly embroidering patterns, the corners of his mouth smiled, and shouted: "Ling'er." ”

"Brother?" Ling'er raised her head, put down the needle and thread in her hand, took the sweat towel handed over by Xiaosha, and wiped her hands, "You went home so early today?" Is there nothing going on with the county government? ”

"It's fine." Xiao Ji replied lightly.

"Oh." Ling'er also knew that her brother had never liked to talk to her about his business, so she didn't ask.

Xiao Sha brought two cups of tea, Xiao Ji took a sip, the tea was fragrant and clear, just to relieve the headache of last night's drunkenness, put down the teacup, Xiao Ji took out one thousand two hundred taels of silver tickets from his arms, and asked, "Ling'er, when did you lend so much silver to the Lian family?" ”

Ling'er was stunned for a moment, only said the word "I", lowered her head and stopped talking.

Xiao Sha wanted to speak and stopped, the words she wanted to say were swallowed in her throat, Xiao Ji looked around, understood in her heart, and asked, "Can you redeem those things that should be out?" ”

"Yes, eldest prince." Xiao Sha is an anxious child, and when she heard her son ask, she quickly replied, but there was one thing, Xiao Sha was distressed, "Everything else is easy to say, it's Miss's wedding dress......"

"Miss also took the wedding dress?" Xiaoji has seen the wedding dress, Ling'er personally embroidered it for herself, Ling'er's embroidery skills are among the best in Zhongshan County, in order to help Lian Hao, she actually took a year to embroider the wedding dress? Let him say what's good about her?

"If you do, you can redeem it for a little silver, Miss sold her wedding dress to Miss Xuan'er of Liu's Mansion." Whenever Xiao Sha thinks about this, she can't help but talk about it in front of her own young lady.

"What?"

Xiaoji was about to get angry, Ling'er stared at the teacup indifferently, and murmured: "That wedding dress was originally embroidered when I wanted to marry Ruyi Langjun, but now, I have a heart, but I can't marry him, what is the defense of whether to wear that wedding dress or not." ”

"Ling'er." Xiao Ji is really going to be angry with this sister.

"Brother, I can see it, but it doesn't mean that my heart doesn't hurt." Ling'er sighed, and her eyes turned red.

The Duan family that her mother chose for her is not bad, she has also met that Duan Chang, gentle as jade, thin in stature, compared with Brother Lian, it is a world of difference, except for the right family background, which point is what she wants?

So she didn't want to wear that wedding dress, the woman was the one who pleased herself, and she only wanted to be the eldest brother in her heart, Duan Chang, if she married, she would be in harmony with his husband and wife, and respect each other like guests, this is her duty.

Xiao Ji came over and hugged Ling'er in distress, didn't know how to comfort her, caressed her back and said, "We should all forget." ”

"Hmm." Ling'er nodded, leaned against her brother, and laughed with tears in her eyes.

Xiao Ji came out of Ling'er's room and met Steward Lu looking for him: "Childe, the master is in the study, let you go." ”

"I see." Xiao Ji learned that his father had returned home, and strode towards his father's study.

Father stood tall and turned his back to him, Xiao Ji made a junior salute, "Father." ”

Xiao Heng turned around and said with his jaw bowed, "Get up." ”

"Yes." Xiaoji straightened up.

"Did you receive the letter today?" Xiao Heng's brows furrowed slightly when he asked.

"Roger." Xiao Ji replied very respectfully, raised his eyes and saw his father's expression, Xiao Ji asked, "Father can't figure out why Liu Xiang refused to marry?" ”

"Hmm." Xiao Heng did not hide in front of his son, "The emperor promised Princess Luxuan to Liu Xiang's third son, Liu Linzhi, as his wife, but he was rejected by Liu Yuan on the spot, which is also unusual. ”

"The child is also puzzled, I heard that after Princess Luxuan learned about it, she ran to Liu Xiang's house and made a big fuss, and Liu Xiang had a headache." Xiao Ji thought it was funny.

"This matter is indeed abnormal, with Liu Xiang's person, it is undesirable to be able to marry the royal family this time, he actually refused to marry, because his father was afraid that he would give birth to other conspiracy." Xiao Heng's brows furrowed even tighter.

Xiao Ji knew that his father had always paid attention to Liu Xiang's movements, so he asked, "Does my father know that Liu Xiang has a daughter who is in foster care?" ”

"A daughter in foster care? My father hasn't heard of it, Liu Xiang has played with power all his life, only married one wife and two concubines, and four sons and two daughters under his knees, all of whom are still alive, why do you ask such a question? Xiao Heng was puzzled.

"The child also heard Lian Hao say last night that Yueniang is Liu Xiang's foster daughter, so I want to ask my father if he knows about it?" Xiao Ji didn't dare to hide it from his father, and said truthfully.

"You said Yueniang her?" Xiao Heng couldn't believe his ears, Yueniang was the daughter of Liu Xiang? This amount of information is too much, he has to think about it, when did Liu Xiang have a daughter in foster care? Is it an illegitimate daughter?

Even if she is an illegitimate daughter, it is impossible to foster her daughter outside as Liu Xiang?

What's more, after Xiaoji told him what happened to Yueniang, he felt that this matter was difficult to solve.

Although Liu Xiang is ruthless, he still loves his children, could it be that Lian Hao made a mistake?

Wait, Xiao Heng thought that eighteen years ago, Liu Xiang's wife Liu Rushi gave birth to a daughter, and I heard that she died when she was raised to the age of five, didn't this woman die?

It's impossible, Liu Rushi gave birth to two sons in front of him, and the third child finally gave birth to a daughter, it stands to reason that Liu Xiang and Liu Rushi are regarded as the pearl of the palm, how can it be said that they died prematurely and were fostered outside? And let Yueniang marry Cao Yong as a concubine?

This can't be explained, Xiao Heng couldn't understand it, and asked: "Lian Hao said that Yueniang is the daughter of Liu Xiang, does he have evidence to prove it?" ”

Xiao Ji shook his head, "Lian Hao and Yueniang also listened to what the Shen family said. ”

"Where are they? Ask for the Father. Xiao Heng also wants to know if Yueniang is the daughter of Liu Xiang, if so, it is cruel to abandon her own daughter and let her marry a merchant as a concubine.

The emperor learned that he would reprimand Liu Xiang, and he was adding fuel to the fire and helping Lian Hao restore his identity, which was not a bad plan.

"Shen Jiazhuang stole Zhou Yuanwai's silver and ran away as a thief, but the child is already wanted, and he is ready to arrest him, and then ask about this matter carefully." When Xiao Ji and Zhou Yuanwai came back, Zhou Yuanwai told him about it, the Shen family's character was so bad, he couldn't be sure that Yueniang's identity was true or false?

Maybe they deliberately invented it to elevate their identity? It's not out of the question.

"When you catch this person, you have to interrogate him carefully, and my father will secretly investigate this matter." Xiao Heng commanded.

"Father, it was not Shen Jiazhuang who said that Yueniang was the daughter of Liu Xiang at that time, but Shen Bizhu, the daughter of Shen Jiazhuang, said to Yueniang in person, this person is being locked up in prison by the child, and the child will go back to interrogate her." Xiao Ji didn't want to mislead his father, but his father attached great importance to whether Yueniang was the daughter of Liu Xiang.

"Come with you for the Father's sake." Xiao Heng thought for a while and said.

In the dungeon of Zhongshan County.

Xiao Ji sat in the middle, Shen Bizhu knelt on the ground, looking at the handsome Xiao Ji with a face, she knew that it was impossible for Lord Xiao to make him suffer, and the adult looked really handsome quietly.

"Shen Bizhu, the official asked you, why did you say that Shen Yuehe is the daughter of Liu Xiang?" Xiao Ji glanced at his father, who was hiding elsewhere, and when he saw his father nodding at him, he asked Shen Bizhu.

Shen Bizhu was stunned, but soon became smug again, look, Lord Xiao really cares about her identity, with Shen Yuehe, I am afraid that she will not be able to marry Lord Xiao.

"Don't you believe me?" Shen Bizhu said to Xiao Ji charmingly: "I listened to my father and my mother, Shen Yuehe was carried to my house by a woman when she was five years old, and then promised to give my family five taels of silver every month, and my father took her in." ”

"You were only three years old that year, how did you know that Shen Yuehe was Liu Xiang's daughter fostered in your family?" Xiao Ji asked.

Lord Xiao really cared about her, and even calculated how old she was at the time, Shen Bizhu was even more happy, and pretended to be more and more flattering: "It was the woman who said that Shen Yuehe was Liu Xiang's biological flesh and blood, so my father and my mother must treat her well, my father and my mother naturally didn't dare to slack off, but Shen Yue and the meal had to eat big fish and meat, how could five taels of silver be enough for her to eat, my father put his own silver into it."

"In the first few years, the woman who hugged her would give more silver, and then when Shen Yue was thirteen years old, the woman didn't come to give the silver, my father came to ask for it, but was driven out by the subordinates of Liu Xiangfu, saying that there was no daughter in Liu Xiangfu's foster care, my father was naturally angry, and wanted to go to them for comment, but Shen Yue and the woman who came to my house came out of the Xiangfu, and took dozens of taels of silver to my father in a panic, let's go quickly. But unexpectedly, Liu Xiang came back from the court, took the silver from my father's hand, and asked his subordinates to lock up the woman, and warned my father that if we dared to come and ask for money again, we would break my father's feet. ”

Her father still regrets that he shouldn't have been with that woman for too little money at that time, and pulled the woman unforgivingly, otherwise he wouldn't have been threatened by Liu Xiang's subordinates to leave the capital and return empty-handed.

"This doesn't prove that Shen Yuehe is Liu Xiang's biological daughter."

"Why can't you prove that when Shen Yuehe saw Liu Xiang that year, he cried and called Liu Xiang's father, but Liu Xiang was very disgusted with Shen Yuehe, and only glanced at Shen Yuehe who called him and entered the house, which was quite ruthless." This Shen Yuehe's mother must have not won Liu Xiang's favor, and even Shen Yuehe was disgusted by Liu Xiang to this point.

"Then do you remember what the Liu Xiangfu called that woman at that time?" Xiao Ji wondered if Yueniang would be the daughter born to that woman? Otherwise, why was the woman willing to give the silver to Shen Jiazhuang?

"I remember that the subordinates in Liu Xiang's mansion called her Mama Huang." Shen Bizhu recalled.

Xiao Ji looked in the direction of his father, and when he saw his father get up, he had nothing to ask Shen Bizhu, and raised his hand to let the jailer take him down, Shen Bizhu didn't understand what Xiao Ji meant, so he broke free of the jailer and said, "My lord, do you really want to detain me?" ”

"You stay in prison for a few days first, I will let them take good care of you, and when I finish the matter at hand, I will discuss with Yueniang how to arrange you." Xiaoji is also very annoying to Shen Bizhu, but she really can't do it, just give her some silver and let her go.

"That's pretty much it." Shen Bizhu happily followed the jailer down.

In the county government study, Xiao Ji respectfully asked his father: "Father, is Shen Bizhu's words credible?" ”

"Where's Yueniang? What did she say? Xiao Heng fell into deep thought.

"Yueniang has amnesia, and she is also at a loss about the daughter of Liu Xiang." Xiao Ji didn't know how to tell his father about Yueniang's resurrection.

"Mama Huang has met once or twice as a father, and it was Mrs. Liu Xiang's maid who had followed her for many years, but I heard that she died of a violent illness five years ago." The more Xiao Heng thought about it, the more he felt that Mama Huang's death might be related to Yueniang's identity.

"Dead?" Xiao Ji was very surprised, and said in a daze: "Then just based on the words of the Shen family, it can't be proved that Yueniang is the daughter abandoned by Liu Xiang?" ”

Yueniang herself has no memories of Shen Yue and the past, and Mama Huang, who can prove Yueniang's identity, has also been dead for five years, and Liu Xiang will not admit her sins.

"Or maybe there's one more person who can prove it, Liu Ru's." Xiao Heng didn't believe it, if Liu Rushi knew that her biological daughter was still alive, would she be indifferent?