Chapter 122: Ask for help
Looking at the back of the little guy, Huang Chuan immediately guessed that the person behind him was Zhang Xuehai.
After standing there for a moment, he turned to leave.
The little guy returned to Zhang's mansion as fast as he could.
"Sir!" As soon as Xiao Si returned home, he immediately rushed to the study where Zhang Xuehai was, and told Zhang Xuehai what he saw in the village. This is true, Zhang Xuehai Strawberry, his eyes are obviously full of distrust of Xiao Sihua, it is true, his subordinates saw it with their own eyes, Xiao Si was a little emotional, how dare he deceive Zhang Xuehai.
From this, Zhang Xuehai concluded that the purchase of sugarcane was related to Ye Zhen, he knew that the brown sugar decolorization method of the county order was obtained from Ye Zhen, and he was sure that the other party would definitely not want to share this business with others, so he went out to see the county order.
With this bargaining chip, the county magistrate must have looked at him a few more times.
When Zhang Xuehai went out, he happened to bump into Song Wen, who stepped forward to bring food to Zhang Xuehai, because he was too anxious, Zhang Xuehai hit Song Wen's shoulder, and the things in his hand were scattered all over the ground, making a crisp sound, and some fragments even cut Song Wen's hand.
"Husband, what are you going to do?" Song Wen frowned, although it was a little injured, she still pretended to be in pain, and put on a pitiful look.
"I've got something to go out for, you take care of yourself at home." Zhang Xuehai glanced at the wound on Song Wen's hand, looking indifferent.
Thinking of the collusion between Ye Hao and the county order, Zhang Xuehai couldn't stop laughing, and before Song Wen could ask a few more questions, Zhang Xuehai had already rushed out.
Song Wen saw her boyfriend's excited appearance, and seemed to guess that he was in a hurry, she silently watched Zhang Xuehai's back until Zhang Xuehai completely disappeared from her sight.
"Go back to the house."
With Xiaocui's support, the two returned to the courtyard.
"Madam, your hand ......" Xiao Cui looked at the wound on Song Wen's hand distressedly.
The concubine of the Song Mansion, what kind of beautiful existence? Even if he was outside, Song Wen had never been wronged at all, but now it is good to marry into Zhang's Mansion, not only does he not have the same treatment as before, but he will even suffer from the inhuman treatment of the master, just thinking about it, Xiaocui feels that it is not worth it for Ye Hao.
"It doesn't matter." Song Wen waved her hand and looked at the wound that Xiao Cui had bandaged for her.
After thinking about it, Song Wen asked Xiaocui to bring a pen and paper and write down Zhang Xuehai's situation, and because it was inconvenient to meet, he turned the previous contact information into a flying pigeon biography.
After tying the letter to the pigeon's leg, Song Wen reached out and threw the pigeon into the sky.
The carrier pigeon quickly turned black and disappeared into the clear blue sky.
Thinking of what Zhang Xuehai and Song Wantong did, Song Wen wanted to take advantage of the gap between Zhang Xuehai and Zhang Xuehai's study to search, maybe he could find some useful clues.
After simply changing into light clothes, Song Wen asked Xiaocui to wait in the room, and he went to the study alone.
As if expecting someone to come, there were two little guards at the door of Zhang Xuehai's study, they were all Zhang Xuehai's henchmen, seeing that Song Wen was about to enter the room, he hurriedly stepped forward to stop her, "Madame, you can't enter the study without the permission of the master."
Song Wen was stunned, there was no such rule before, but now it was suddenly set up, could it be that there are some unsightly things hidden in the study? No, she still wants to go in and have a look today.
"I'm just going to go in and have a look." Song Wen spoke.
The two people at the door showed embarrassed expressions on their faces, "Madam, don't embarrass us, we are just doing what the master orders."
If Song Wen is let in without permission and let Zhang Xuehai know, they are afraid that they will be punished.
"The master works weekdays, no one cleans the study, and I can't help the master in other things, so I want to take this opportunity to clean up for the master." Song Wen lowered his head, forcibly endured the disgust in his eyes, and his tone was extremely sincere, hoping to impress the two people present.
The two little guys glanced at each other, Song Wen, as Zhang Xuehai's wife, is also the Ye Zhen of this Zhang Mansion, how Zhang Xuehai treats her on weekdays, everyone can see.
Everyone agreed that Song Wen had lost Zhang
Xuehai's favor, the little guy thought that Song Wen wanted to take this opportunity to please Zhang Xuehai.
After hesitating, they agreed, and they opened the door of the study and motioned for Song Wen to enter.
When passing by the two of them, Song Wen's eyes obviously flashed a trace of success, and this is what she wanted.
After entering, Song Wen detained the study from the inside to prevent someone from suddenly coming in.
Looking around, this is not the first time she has come to Zhang Xuehai's study, recalling the last time she came, Zhang Xuehai beat her, Song Wen secretly clenched her fists, and felt resentful in her heart.
Zhang Xuehai's study is not large and neatly placed, and the books are on the shelves, which are marked one by one very clearly, and it is also very easy to find.
Song Wen still knows Zhang Xuehai well, and there are some more important things that Zhang Xuehai will not put on the surface, and after looking around, Song Wen did not find anything useful in the study.
Could it really be that she was overthinking?
Song Wen frowned, always feeling that something was wrong.
She walked to Zhang Xuehai's bookshelf and observed the furnishings on the bookshelf, because the bookshelves had not been cleaned for a while, a lot of dust had been deposited on them, but there was only one place without dust.
It was a bronze statue made of bronze, the bronze was not large, and the appearance looked extremely delicate, but strangely there was no dust accumulation around the bronze object, and the traces around it seemed to have been twisted by people.
Song Wen leaned over to look, and driven by curiosity, Song Wen put her hand on the bronze, and with the mentality of trying, she twisted the bronze hard.
"Squeak—"
With the sound of the door opening, Ye Hao's eyes looked in the direction of the desk.
I saw that the wall where the Chinese paintings were placed instantly recessed, and a secret room appeared in front of Song Wen.
Zhang Xuehai really left a way out for himself.
Song Wen stopped what he was doing and walked over lightly.
As soon as she entered the secret room, Song Wen felt a cool breeze, and she subconsciously hugged her arms, but despite this, it still did not change her heart of wanting to go in and find out.
The interior of the chamber is extremely simple, with only a table and bookshelves behind it.
Song Wen found an account book on the shelf, this account book was different from the account book she saw in the house, and when she opened it, although it recorded the expenses and income of the house and all the industries under Zhang Xuehai's name, the consumption on it was more exaggerated than the account book in the house.
Presumably this is the real account book of Zhang's mansion, and the one you saw in the mansion is just a fake account book made by Zhang Xuehai.
It seems that Zhang Xuehai has a lot of things to hide from her, if she doesn't find out what's wrong, I'm afraid she will be hidden by Zhang Xuehai for a lifetime.
Song Wen continued to observe the rest of the chamber.
In the drawer of the desk, the female match found a jade pendant.
When he saw this jade pendant for the first time, Song Wen felt familiar for no reason, but he couldn't remember where he had seen this jade pendant for a while.
Before Song Wen could react, there was a knock on the door from the little guy, out of respect for Song Wen's identity, the little guy didn't push the door in directly, but opened his mouth and asked, "Madam, have you cleaned up?"
It had been half an hour since Song Wen entered the study.
"Alright." Song Wen hurriedly responded.
When the two people outside the door saw Song Wen answering, they didn't have any disagreement.
Song Wen returned the furnishings in the secret room to the way he saw it at first sight, and then withdrew from the secret room and scolded.
Before going out, she took a deep breath and swallowed the contents of the chamber in her stomach, and she walked over to the bronze vessel and closed the door of the chamber.
After everything was ready, Song Wen left the study.
"It's been packed, thank you." As he spoke, Song Wen took out a few taels of silver from his arms and handed them to the two people guarding the door.
Taking advantage of the opening of the door, the two looked into the study, which was indeed much cleaner than before.
The two hurriedly waved their hands, "Mrs. Xie, but you haven't done anything worthy of reward."
But Song Wen insisted on stuffing these taels of silver into their hands, and the two of them couldn't resist Ye Hao, so they could only take it, "Thank you, madam."
Song Wen didn't answer, and after leaving a smile for the two, he turned around and left.
What Zhang Xuehai did, Song Wen couldn't make up her mind alone, so she thought of Mrs. Wu.
Now the only person who can help her is Mrs. Wu.
Thinking of this building, Song Wen immediately asked people to prepare a car and go to Wu's mansion.
Hearing that Song Wen was coming, Mrs. Wu personally led someone to greet her.
"Why didn't Mrs. Zhang say it in advance before she came?" Mrs. Wu held Song Wen's hand with a kind smile on her face.
"I have something to counsel with you." Song Wen got straight to the point and said the purpose of his trip.
"Go in and say." Mrs. Wu brought Song Wen into the mansion and asked people to build a pot of tea.
After retiring from the subordinates around her, Mrs. Wu spoke, "Mrs. Zhang is here for Lord Zhang's business this time, right?"
"Exactly." Song Wen didn't hide it, and took out the things she found in Zhang's Mansion and put them on the table, "This is what I found in the secret room in the mansion."
After Mrs. Wu picked up the account book and flipped through it slightly, her pupils shrank, Zhang Xuehai made a mistake, at least to strip off the official body, and at worst to even the nine clans, he really dared to take such a big risk.
"It's not just Mrs. Wu, can you think of a countermeasure?" Compared with Song Wen's actions today, he will be told to Zhang Xuehai by the two little guys as they are.
If Zhang Xuehai is suspicious of her, if she wants to go to the study in the future, I am afraid it will not be so easy.
"Don't worry, I'll show you someone." After learning about Song Wen's matter, Mrs. Wu calmed her emotions.
Song Wen was puzzled.
Mrs. Wu raised her hand and summoned a little maid, she asked the little maid to come closer, and then after the maid whispered a few words, the maid left the Wu mansion.
"Mrs. Wu?" Song Wen didn't understand Mrs. Wu's purpose in doing this.
"You'll find out later." Mrs. Wu deliberately sold a pass, taking advantage of this short time, Mrs. Wu asked her subordinates to bring safflower oil, and she lifted the clothes on Song Wen's arm.
A few days passed, and these bruising marks on his arms disappeared a little.
"It hurts, doesn't it?" Mrs. Wu's fingertips gently brushed over Song Wen's skin.
"It doesn't hurt anymore." Song Wen shook her head, maybe it would hurt at first, but in the end, after her whole person became numb, it didn't hurt so much.
Mrs. Wu sighed, and evenly applied safflower oil to Song Wen's wound, pressing while applying, which would help promote blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis, and also make Song Wen's injuries heal faster.
About half an hour later, Ye Hao's figure appeared above the Wu Mansion.
Under the leadership of the maid, Ye Hao quickly found the two.
"It's not just my sister who called me here this time, what are you talking about?" Ye Hao smiled lightly, and seeing that Song Wen was also present, the surprise in her eyes flashed, but she quickly regained her calm.
She could roughly guess the reason why Song Wen came to Wu Mansion.
"Come and sit." Mrs. Wu warmly invited Ye Hao to sit beside her.
Song Wen observed, she remembered that before, at the birthday banquet, she had seen Ye Hao once.