Su Yuanqing refused, saying it was inappropriate, but the more he refused, the more the two wanted to go.

In the end, no one knew how, but the three of them got on a carriage and headed towards the outskirts of Beijing.

As the cold wind blew outside, Master Li and Master Liu became more conscious. They regretted it in their hearts. Why did they go to the mountain without lying down in bed with a good girl?

But the words have been spoken, and I can't change them. It would be embarrassing to go back on my words now.

The two of them followed Su Yuanqing to the foot of the mountain in a daze.

On the way up the mountain, Su Yuanqing kept talking about the dispute between the Su family and the Lin family over this piece of land. He also talked about how the Lin family offered 200,000 taels of silver before they were willing to sell the mountain. Although there were wild ginseng in the Lin family's mountain, it shouldn't be worth so much silver.

Young Master Li and Young Master Liu listened and cursed the Lin family all the way.

The three of them crossed the dense forest and arrived at the Su family cemetery.

Su Yuanqing looked around but did not see the group of people who had held the funeral in the morning. He thought they were probably just passing by.

Then he looked at the two graves that he had dug up, revealing the coffins.

He fell to his knees with a thud, his knees touching the cold ground and his face twisted in pain.

"Grandfather, great-grandfather, who was so cruel as to dig up your graves?"

Young Master Li and Young Master Liu also saw it, and both of them were surprised.

"What's going on? Who is so bold as to touch the ancestral tomb of the Marquis of Pingning?"

Master Liu's mind moved, and he slapped his thigh hard, "Could it be the Lin family?"

"Because of what happened last time, I am deliberately taking revenge on you."

Su Yuanqing raised her head with tears on her face and said hesitantly, "No way? Master Lin San doesn't look like such a sinister person, right?"

Young Master Li snorted, "These merchants are the most cunning. Brother Su, don't be fooled by his appearance."

"What wouldn't they do for money?"

"Did your Su family offend someone else? If it weren't for the overwhelming hatred, who would do such a wicked thing?"

"People who do this kind of thing are not afraid of having no descendants in the future."

"Brother Su, rest assured. I will help you curse this man every day from now on. Whoever digs up the Su family's ancestral grave will go to hell, have their tongue pulled out, and be thrown into a frying pan."

Young Master Li cursed one after another, which made Su Yuanqing terrified.

He quickly spoke up to stop him and said, "Brother Li, stop talking. This matter needs to be investigated in detail. Although the Lin family hates the Su family the most in the capital, this mountain also belongs to the Lin family, and we just had a dispute. But it cannot be proved that this grave was dug by the Lin family."

Young Master Liu said angrily, "Brother Su, why are you being so fussy? This is an obvious matter, what else is there to investigate?"

"No matter if it was done by the Lin family or not, the grave is on the mountain where the Lin family lives, right? If something goes wrong, he will be held responsible."

Su Yuanqing seemed to be persuaded. He stood up, suppressing his sadness, and walked around the grave.

Suddenly he bent down, "What is this?"

Young Master Li and Young Master Liu also walked forward and looked at what Su Yuanqing was holding.

Young Master Liu suddenly exclaimed, "I recognize this thing. It's called a deer bone skewer. It's used to dig ginseng."

Su Yuanqing was stunned. "Deer bone skewers? How could there be such a thing here?"

Young Master Li snorted, "Brother Su, haven't you figured it out yet? This must have fallen when the Lin family was digging the grave."

Su Yuanqing looked sad, and then he clenched his fists and said angrily, "I'm going to settle the score with them right now."

Young Master Liu and Young Master Li were also very righteous. They said at the same time, "We will go with you and serve as your witnesses."

After the three of them added soil to the grave, they went down the mountain together.

As soon as they left, the group of mourners came over from not far away.

The middle-aged man walked to the grave, frowned, and said, "Third uncle, I don't know who filled up the grave of the old marquis of the Su family."

They had discovered that the grave had been damaged and wanted to fill it up on the spot. However, since they had also calculated an auspicious time for their own burial and the coffin could not be placed on the ground, they thought about coming back to help fill it up.

He looked around but saw no one.

The old man looked at the filled grave and said, "Since it's filled, let's go. We still have to clean up the house in the capital."

"Also, send a message to the palace. I will be in the palace to see the emperor this afternoon."

The middle-aged man nodded and respectfully stepped forward to support the old man.

At this moment, Su Yuanqing and the two men were almost at the bottom of the mountain. They went down the mountain, got on the carriage and returned to the capital.

Upon arriving in the capital, the carriage did not go directly to Lin's Business, but went to a shop selling funeral supplies.

This was also what the few people discussed in the car. The matter had to be made a big deal in order to make the Lin family look bad.

Afterwards, Su Yuanqing, dressed in mourning clothes, stood at the door of Lin’s Trading Company.

Before he even opened his mouth to speak, a lot of people were already watching.

Young Master Li and Young Master Liu were not idle either. One went to the Su family to report the news, while the other followed Su Yuanqing and responded to the situation as needed.

When Lin Wuchen got the news, Su Yuanqing was explaining the whole story to the onlookers.

It started with the Lin family asking for two hundred thousand taels of silver, and continued all the way to today when the Su family’s ancestral grave was dug up.

Su Yuanqing was dressed in mourning clothes, crying. When he mentioned his deceased ancestors, he wished he could run his head into the Lin family's gate and die.

The people who were watching the excitement were all whispering to each other. Disturbing other people's ancestors and digging up their ancestral graves, only a very evil person could do such a thing.

Someone said, "The Lin family is not like this kind of family. The third young master is a handsome man, how could he possibly dig up someone else's ancestral grave?"

Then someone said disdainfully: "What you said is just what you see on the surface. You can only know a person's face but not his heart. If the merchant is not cunning, how can he make so much money?"

All the faces that hated the rich began to agree with this man.

They don't care about the truth of the matter, or whether someone is wrongly accused. They just know that the Lin family is rich, and they feel good if they can get a foothold in it.

Lin Wuchen stood at the door of Lin's Trading Company, watching Su Yuanqing jumping in the crowd with cold eyes.

Today, Su Shunci happened to come to see him, and she followed him out. Seeing that it was Su Yuanqing who was making trouble, her pretty face turned cold as ice.

She told Jinyun beside her, "Go to the Shen family and ask the elder sister to come over."

Jinyun was brought out of the Su family by Su Qingyu during the Chinese New Year and followed Su Shunci again.

Su Yuanqing heard the voice and turned to see Lin Wuchen and Su Shunci.

He took a few steps forward and asked sadly and angrily, "Third Young Master Lin, even if my family can't afford two hundred thousand taels of silver, you won't dig up my Su family's ancestral grave, right?"

"You're not afraid of doing this..."

He wanted to say God may you be struck by lightning, but after thinking about it, he changed it to, "Aren't you afraid that the Su family will come after you?"

At this moment, in the inner house of the Shen family, Shen Zhizheng was changing clothes.

Su Qingyu stepped forward to help him straighten his clothes and asked him casually, "Third Master, why did you suddenly change your clothes? Is there something wrong?"

Shen Zhixiu said, "The third master of the Xie family is back in Beijing, I will go to meet him."

Su Qingyu thought for a moment, "Is it Mr. Xie, the former president of the Hanlin Academy who later founded the Jinling Academy?"

Shen Zhixiu nodded and said, "Yes, it's him. The Xie family is full of scholars and has great prestige in the officialdom. I didn't expect that the fourth master of the Xie family suddenly gave up literature and took up military service, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Zhenbei for his military exploits."

"A few days ago, the Marquis of Zhenbei suddenly passed away due to illness. However, the Liaodong Campaign is at a critical moment right now, so the news has not been made public."

"This time, Third Master Xie returned to the capital to pick up the remains of Marquis Zhenbei and bury him quietly."

"Speaking of which, your grandfather had a very good relationship with Third Master Xie when he was alive."

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