After I traveled through the book, I was spoiled by five little villains

"Your Highness, the old lady of Duke Ningguo has passed away!"

"what?!"

Qin Yaoguang stood up suddenly and asked anxiously: "What happened? Tell me in detail!"

She never thought that after waiting for so long, she would receive such shocking news.

The old lady of Duke Ningguo is the biological mother of the Empress Dowager and Qin Yaoguang's grandmother.

A blood relationship that couldn't be closer.

"Yes."

Qing Bai agreed and recounted the whole story in detail, starting from the day when she arrived in Beijing with two letters written by Qin Yaoguang herself.

She first went to Jingzhao Prefecture and handed the letter to the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture.

There were thieves with powerful crossbows in the suburbs of Beijing who intended to kill the eldest princess. To put it more seriously, this was a crime of treason.

The prefect was shocked and immediately wrote a memorial to report to his superiors. At the same time, he ordered the bailiffs to rush to the scene of the incident at the imperial farm.

"It's just that the roads are difficult to travel in the snow. I guess we have to wait until the snow melts before we can come."

Just because Qingbai can travel in such weather conditions doesn’t mean that ordinary people can do the same.

She took out a piece of official document from her bosom: "Your Highness, this is a letter of guarantee issued by Jingzhao Prefecture."

With this letter of guarantee, the migrants who were stranded in the imperial farm due to hail and thieves would not be held accountable for exceeding the prescribed time limit.

Qin Yaoguang took it, read it carefully, and confirmed that the contents of the guarantee letter and the big red official seal of Jingzhao Prefecture and the private seal of the prefect were correct.

She thought about it, and asked Hanlu to take out her private seal and stamp it with a big red seal belonging to Princess Leyang.

It's no wonder she is so cautious, because this official document determines the fate of the relocated residents.

They have been displaced enough, and now they are used as cannon fodder and buried here.

Perhaps the people in power in this world are used to treating the common people like ants.

But Qin Yaoguang couldn't do it.

When she encountered this, she would lend a hand to take care of it.

It's not for anything else, I just hope that one day in the future when I think about it, I won't feel guilty.

In the Dajing Dynasty, where imperial power was supreme, the eldest princess's seal was more effective than the two seals from Jingzhao Prefecture.

Qingbai and Hanlu saw this nearby. Although they did not show it on their faces, they were quite moved in their hearts.

Her Highness, she has been so considerate of the migrants she met by chance.

After stamping the seal, Qin Yaoguang handed the guarantee to Hanlu and instructed: "Go and give them the guarantee. I'll give them one more word of advice. Once this matter is settled, leave as soon as possible."

Relocation of households was the court's policy. As the eldest princess, she could provide convenience, but she could not let them think they were being relied upon and break the rules.

"It's saved for me."

Hanlu understood what she meant and left with the guarantee letter.

After handling this matter, Qing Bai said that he had sent a message to the steward Zeng, asking him to prepare the supplies first and transport them to the imperial farm as soon as the road was easy to travel.

After reporting all this, Qing Bai began to talk about the most important matter.

Not long after she handed in Princess Leyang's nameplate and asked for an audience, the Empress Dowager summoned her.

After the Empress Dowager read Qin Yaoguang's letter, she was furious.

Immediately afterwards, the old lady and the eldest lady from the Ningguo Mansion were summoned into the palace.

"The Queen Mother ordered her subordinates to go back and wait for news, but until dark, there was no movement."

Qingbai reported back: "I didn't expect that before dawn today, we heard the news that the old lady of the Ningguo Mansion had passed away."

"Just as I was thinking about what to do, the Empress Dowager sent someone to tell me to return to the capital immediately."

After listening to this, Qin Yaoguang fell into deep thought.

She had a rough idea of ​​the whole story.

The Ningguo Mansion, also known as the Cui family, was secretly planning something, which led to a shortage of silver and money.

As a result, the first wife, Mrs. Wang, cried poor everywhere and even coveted the fifty taels of silver from Zhufengyuan.

Fang Ting said that the dead bandit leader was a disciple he had taught in the Cui family.

After seeing the powerful crossbows in the hands of the Cui family's assassins, Qin Yaoguang had a vague understanding in his heart that this money might have been used to equip weapons and food.

Everything in the world, even the dandy who squanders money every day, is not as expensive as maintaining an army.

Apart from this beheading incident, what else could have destroyed the Cui family, a century-old family?

After taking a sip of tea, Qin Yaoguang suddenly understood the logic behind Wang's behavior.

I'm afraid she discovered something, but because she had married into the Cui family and was tied to a pirate ship, she had to cry poor and borrow money to attract the attention of outsiders.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for others to discover what the Cui family was hiding.

That makes sense.

Otherwise, how could either the Cui family or Wang’s family be short of a mere fifty taels of silver?

This is so abnormal.

However, the original owner had not discovered the trick until he arrived, when he realized that the Cui family was short of money and told the Empress Dowager.

Now that the world is at peace, what on earth does the Cui family want to do? !

Qin Yaoguang couldn't think of it, but it was definitely not a good thing.

The Empress Dowager knew about this and asked herself and Chun Ning to leave the capital to negotiate with the Cui family and force them to give up.

The situation remained at a stalemate these days until the Cui family sent out their assassins to attack the imperial farm.

When the Empress Dowager found out, she was furious.

Next, the old lady of Duke Ningguo passed away.

After sorting it out in his mind, Qin Yaoguang felt that perhaps there were some key points that he had not figured out, but the whole thing should not be much different.

But what exactly happened in between?

Why did the old lady suddenly die after returning to Ningguo Mansion from Xining Palace?

She did not have very close contacts with the Ningguo Mansion, and had not met the old lady since she came here.

But in the original owner's memory, he met the old lady once at the beginning of autumn.

At that time, the old lady was still in good spirits.

The timing of his death was so coincidental that it couldn't have been due to illness. Moreover, if it was due to illness, he wouldn't have been able to enter the palace to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager.

Qin Yaoguang glanced at the snow outside the window and asked Qingbai: "Is it feasible for me to leave immediately and return to Beijing?"

Even if the Empress Dowager didn't say it, as the granddaughter of Duke Ningguo, she should go to the Duke Ningguo's Mansion to pay her condolences immediately if she was in the capital.

She needs to meet the Empress Dowager to find out the truth behind the twists and turns.

Now, Qin Yaoguang wished he could grow wings and fly back to the capital immediately.

Qing Bai knew she would ask this question and had thought of the answer in advance: "If it is just the master, I can escort you back to the capital, but the journey will be very hard."

Heavy snow blocked the mountains and the official road became a dangerous one.

Especially the road from the villa to the official road, it is difficult to travel even on horseback, let alone by carriage.

There are not many people who can control it.

"go!"

Qin Yaoguang made a prompt decision and asked Guyu to bring another set of Hu clothing.

Guyu's foot injury had basically healed. He helped her change clothes and said with some concern: "Your Highness, it's freezing cold, you..."

"I will go back first. When the snow melts, you can return to Beijing later."

But you can’t just leave.

Qin Yaoguang lowered her head to adjust her belt, and suddenly remembered something.

"Send someone to invite Chang Zhen here. I have something to ask him."

Yan Changqing once said that if you have something to tell me, you might as well ask.