"On the other side of the second room, the second wife, Hong, was born in Suningbo Mansion and is the second daughter. Suning Bofu was originally a powerful family in the capital, and the elder brother was still quite angry when he studied, but the first emperor was accidentally involved in the case of fraud in the imperial examination when he was in power, and he was implicated, and his future was lost. Otherwise, the Hong family would not be able to marry the second master."

In the Gongsun clan, the eldest son Gongsun Jingzhi is such a brilliant Miao Miao, the second and third masters are not very good at civil and military affairs, and they have no strengths, and the Hong family was still married at that time.

Li Qingyi nodded.

Mother Jiang continued: "On the third side, the third wife's Yuan's maiden family is now prosperous, but it was a donation official before, so the network is limited, and it took a lot of effort to marry the third master, and now the third wife's brother is the governor of the sixth grade, and he is a real power, if he can be promoted, the promotion to the fifth grade is a matter of these two years, and then the Yuan family will get rid of the hat of donating officials and stand firm."

When Jiang's mother said this, Qin Zeng glanced at her in surprise, as if she didn't expect that Li Qingyi's housekeeper mother was so powerful and understood the Dajing official system.

Mother Jiang saw him and said with a smile: "Let the uncle see and laugh, the old slave is following the second lady in the Li Mansion, and he is just touching it."

There is no separation between officials and businessmen, the Ruan family's business is big, and they naturally understand the doorways in the officialdom.

Qin Zeng did not hesitate to praise, "If you don't say it, a good daughter-in-law, three generations of good descendants. With her in charge, even the servants in the family are so sensible and well-informed, the children and grandchildren of the Li family can't make mistakes."

Li Qingyi looked at him with a smile: "Don't worry, I will convey this to the second aunt for you."

The girls covered their lips and giggled, but Qin Zeng said, "No, I'll prepare a generous gift another day, and personally go to the door to thank the second aunt for raising a good daughter-in-law for me."

At this time, even Jiang's mother couldn't help laughing.

Li Qingyi glanced at him with disgust, "How did you become a relative, people have become narrow, and they have become more talkative."

Qin Zeng put a delicate shrimp dumpling in her bowl and said, "Could it be that you like me to treat you coldly?"

Li Qingyi gave him a look that he didn't bother to pay attention to, and said to Jiang's mother: "The second wife is from a noble background, but her mother's family is in a recession, the third wife is not from a high background, but her mother's family is thriving, one is low-married, one is high-married, one is going downhill, and the other is raising his eyebrows, I am afraid that these two have a lot of contradictions in private."

"What grandma said is that there are signs of differentiation everywhere in the open and in the dark, but there is a princess who mediates in the middle from time to time, and there has been no big storm."

Princess Zhenbei's methods of manipulating people are indeed very clever.

Li Qingyi had never seen a woman who was eaten by men, women and children to such an extent, and couldn't help but be even more curious about her origin.

Qin Zeng saw her looking at him, so he knew what she was going to ask, put down his chopsticks and said: "I have made great efforts to check her origin, but I only found out that she is the only daughter of Lin Jianyue, who was the former prince of the country, Lin He, was taken out of the house by Lin He when she was three years old, and was lost at the temple fair, Mrs. Lin was sad and depressed, Lin He did not remarry because of guilt in her heart, and tried her best to find her daughter, and finally seven years later, she found her daughter's traces in a nunnery, in order to make up for her daughter, Lin He resigned from the official position and went home to concentrate on teaching her daughter, However, he had only been with Lin Jianyue for four or five years before he suddenly fell ill."

Li Qingyi also put down his chopsticks, dipped his lips with a handkerchief, and asked sensitively, "When did Lin He die of illness?"

The emotion between Qin Zeng's eyebrows became inexplicable, "Just three months before my father was deeply involved in the rebellion case."

Li Qingyi's eyes deepened, "What did Lin Jianyue do in those three months?"

"Both parents died, she was an orphan girl who had just reached the end of her life, facing the elders who thought differently in the center of the clan, the situation can be imagined, after dealing with the funeral of her father Lin He, Lin Jianyue spent a month to get back the dowry of her deceased mother who had been taking care of her aunt, and resold the land and house left by her father, and left the Lin family alone."

Li Qingyi took a light breath, "I can take my own

It would not be easy to get things back, not to mention that she could leave the Lin family without a single leaf. But after leaving the Lin family, she was alone, where did she go?"

"She returned to the nunnery where she stayed when she was a child, copied scriptures and prayed for her deceased father, and led the retreat."

Li Qingyi was surprised, "It's really smart."

Returning to the nunnery to pray for her father, even if she leaves the family, she will not let people forget her origins, and she has a reputation for filial piety, and because in the nunnery, her reputation will not be doubted because she is outcast. And when she has a way out, she can leave at any time.

Qin Zeng also nodded, "She stayed in the nunnery for seven hundred and forty-nine days, and during this process, my father had an accident, and the old lady inquired in many ways, and knew about Lin Jianyue from others."

"It's a bit too tight."

"Indeed."

"Then you said before that you spent a lot of effort investigating, and you only found these, which means that all this is just the surface. In the seven years since Lin Jianyue disappeared, maybe there was some chance that made her a pawn of someone? Or is she not really Lin Jianyue at all, but she just knew that Lin He was looking for her daughter, so she took advantage of this identity?"

Qin Zeng said: "I prefer the latter, after all, the timing of Lin He's death is too coincidental, it is likely that he died of his killing, if Lin Jianyue is his biological daughter, she may not be so ruthless. However, Lin Jianyue was lost at the age of three and was found at the age of ten, I don't know what happened to her, what kind of feelings she has for her father, who knows? The human heart is complicated, so I can't be sure."

Li Qingyi frowned and thought for a long time, "It seems that only by finding more details can we find out her details."

Seeing that the conversation between the two had come to an end, Mother Jiang reminded loudly, "Uncle, grandma, the time is almost up."

Li Qingyi stood up, cleaned up a little, and walked out of the courtyard with Qin Zeng.

The sky was bright, but the shadows in the courtyard were still dark, so the girls lit the lamps in the eaves corridor.

Qin Zeng looked left and right and asked Li Qingyi, "It's all your dowry?"

"Hmm." Li Qingyi knew what he was going to ask, and said, "Mother Tong, they came to help before, but later there were not enough people on the dowry side, so they had to be transferred out."

The two of them smiled.

As long as it is in their own yard, what they say or do will never be able to get out.