The Weight of the Red Mansion Walks the Road of Life

Chapter 57

Of course, no matter how smart Daiyu is, she is still just a child. Even if she has thousands of auras, she can't hide her lack of experience and common sense in many aspects.

Although the Zhen family is mainly active in the south of the Yangtze River, because of the empress and prince in the palace, the influence of the Zhen family is enough to radiate the whole country.Moreover, there are tens of thousands of officials across the country, and those who are of similar rank to Zhen Yingjia or who are quite influential in front of the Holy One don't say three digits, there are always dozens of them, which is not a small number at all.

Although the matter seems to be very simple according to what Daiyu said, but if you really want to investigate one by one, let alone whether the Xue family's ability is enough, it is absolutely not enough in terms of time.

But Daiyu's words also inspired Aunt Xue. If she only shifted her attention to the Jiangnan officialdom, then there would be only three or five suitable families at most, and the workload would undoubtedly be greatly reduced.

——It's not that the Zhen family has no influence in other places, but the foundation of the Xue family has always been in the Jiangnan area, and Xue Pan is the head of the young family. It is understandable that the current Xue family's power in other places is temporarily weaker.If the first thing happened in another place, it would make sense for the Xue family to not know about it.Moreover, the Holy Majesty handed over this matter to the Xue family, with the intention of testing the Xue family's ability, and presumably it was not because of something too difficult.

After getting the inspiration, Aunt Xue helped her son start to investigate possible matters related to the Zhen family in the near future, and the letter from the Lin family arrived around this time.

The Xue family and the Lin family can be regarded as having some friendship.At the beginning, they were also daughters of the four major families. Jia Min and Aunt Xue had some friendship when they were in the boudoir, not to mention that Aunt Xue's elder sister married Jia Min's elder brother later, and the two could be regarded as relatives.But later the Wang family married Aunt Xue into a merchant's family, but Jia Min married Lin Ruhai and became Mrs. Tanhua, so the contact was lost.

If the two parties have not been in touch since they got married and left the capital, that's all. After all, the friendship in the boudoir is different from that after marriage. However, because the Lin family got the prescription for the monks and Taoists, they matched it with the hands of the Xue family. After getting something, it can be regarded as connecting Jia Min and Aunt Xue's friendship.

Although there is a difference between officials and businessmen, the social status of the Lin family and the Xue family is still not equal, but because of the personal relationship in the boudoir involved, at least on the surface it is considered equal, at most it is Aunt Xue who is more attentive.

Although Jia Min reluctantly forgave her natal family who was used by the Zhen family because of her relationship with her mother, Jia's mother cared about her family's reputation and didn't tell Jia Min about the twists and turns.But since Jia Min was praised for being beautiful, he was by no means stupid, so how could he not be aware of it? Although the Zhen family is not small, the Jia family is also a skinny camel that is bigger than a horse, so there is no need to rely on the Zhen family matter.And with his mother's love for him, even if he wanted to show his affection to the Zhen family, at most it was just a letter to tell him, it was absolutely impossible for him to let the Zhen family harm his only son without saying a word.

Don't say anything but being used by the Zhen family, there must be someone from the natal family's cooperation.There are only a few masters in the Jia family. If it wasn't the mother's intention, then who else could it be?Even leaving aside emotional factors, the eldest wife's wife, Mrs. Xing, was not from a high family background, had no children and was never favored.

As a married woman, Jia Min has affection for the Jia family and cannot take revenge, so is she not allowed to have any opinion on the Wang family?As for the reason for Mrs. Wang's doing this, Jia Min didn't bother to care about the left and right things already happened.

Although the Xue family is just a merchant family, even Jia Min doesn't know the secret connection between the Xue family and the superiors.In the eyes of outsiders, it was the Xue family's financial support that allowed the Wang family to marry the concubine daughter to Xue Jiatu at that time, and this financial benefit was not only available to the Wang family, but also not insignificant to the married daughter of the Wang family.

And what Jia Min did was to break Mrs. Wang's arm, at least to make Mrs. Wang feel uncomfortable.

Don't say anything about closeness, there is still a saying in this world that the county magistrate is not as good as the present.Now that the Xue family is at its weakest, unless Aunt Xue is a fan of Mrs. Wang, anyone can see that Mrs. Wang who is far away in the capital can help the Xue family far less than the Lin family who is gaining power in the south of the Yangtze River.

In short, the Lin family wanted the Xue family to choose between breaking with Mrs. Wang or completely offending the Lin family.

Of course, it is impossible to say too many secrets in the Lin family's letter. At most, it is about Mrs. Wang's attack on the Lin family, and she didn't even mention a word about the Zhen family.

But if so, it is enough.

Aunt Xue and Mrs. Wang have been sisters for more than ten years. It can be said that she doesn't know Mrs. Wang, or that the daughters of the Wang family are almost unprofitable and have a premature temper.Regardless of the fact that Jia Min had some quarrels with Mrs. Wang when she was not married, whether it is as a daughter of a boudoir or after becoming a sister-in-law, the two of them are not in harmony. In the past, it was undoubtedly impossible to offend the Lin family as a price to make Jia Min uncomfortable, unless Mrs. Wang could get some benefit from it.

What happened to the Lin family some time ago was not a secret, and the Xue family naturally knew that several masters of the Lin family fell ill one after another.Because of his weak body and too young age, the young master of the Lin family barely survived this time.

Considering Lin Ruhai's current age and the situation of the Lin family, if something happens to the young master of the Lin family, the Lin family can basically be judged to be extinct. Compared with the death of a child in an ordinary family, this is really not a trivial matter.

Based on the concept of these days, if the Lin family were extinct, no one would think that it was because the Lin family, which had been passed down for several generations, had difficulties in offspring. They would only think that Jia Min was not virtuous and could not have children.It was Jia Min's own daughter and the daughter of Jia's family who were the first to bear the brunt of being implicated and ruined her reputation.

Even if Mrs. Wang hated Jia Min deeply, this move would hurt others a thousand and hurt herself eight hundred. After all, Mrs. Wang herself has a daughter of her own, and Yuan Chun was not married but just entered the palace. If her reputation is ruined, there will be consequences serious.

Under such circumstances, Mrs. Wang was still able to attack the Lin family, no doubt because of greater interests.

Mrs. Wang has given birth to two sons and a daughter since she married into the Jia family. Now the eldest son died early and the second son is young. The one who can get more attention from Mrs. Wang is undoubtedly her daughter Yuan Chun, especially now that Yuan Chun has entered the palace as a female official, and her future is uncertain. This is when help is most needed.

At the cost of ruining Yuanchun's reputation, unless someone can give Yuanchun a better future.Yuan Chun has already entered the palace, just for the purpose of fighting for a career in Qingyun through entering the palace, but Yuan Chun has no definite future for the time being due to various reasons, and those who can help Yuan Chun...

Anyway, Concubine Zhen, as the No.1 in the current harem, is definitely one.

Because she recently received an errand related to the Zhen family, Aunt Xue couldn't help but contact the Zhen family with the matter, and then found that it made sense.

It is true that the Zhen family lives in luxury, but it is also true that they are short of money, especially since they have to support the eldest prince to win the heir apparent but are unwilling to give up the ostentation of life, even if the Zhen family manages the richest Jiangnan and manages the most lucrative errands , and is still desperately short of money.

Before Lin Ruhai, although the Yan family was not in charge of the Yan family, because of the low family background of the other party, it was inevitable that some people would join forces and provide the Zhen family with a lot of convenience.Although the Zhen family didn't care about the Yan government, they also got a lot of benefits from it, which was no worse than being in charge of the salt government.And since Lin Ruhai took charge of the salt administration, although the Zhen family could still get some oil and water from the salt merchants, it was much less than before.

In fact, there were some fluctuations in the capital this year. The crown prince was reprimanded by the emperor for everything, and the eldest prince will inevitably act a little more aggressively because of this. The only reason is that the Zhen family is really desperate for this. It's past.

The Zhen family has done a lot of things to ruin people's families for the sake of money. For example, it is not uncommon for other people's families to be destroyed for a few acres of land, not only for ordinary people, but also for some small officials. He has paid a painful price for this, but the Zhen family did not directly hate a family like the Lin family before.

However, unlike the previous Zhen family confrontation, the Lin family can also directly submit a letter to the saint. With Lin Ruhai's ability and temperament, since it can be found that someone has tampered with it, it may not be impossible to find out about the Zhen family... …

I am afraid of associations in everything. In many cases, if you do not associate things that are irrelevant, if you must think about them together, even if they are really irrelevant things, they can be logically justified.

Judging from the Xue family's news, this year the Zhen family did take advantage of Lin Ruhai's upset to get another fortune from the Yanzheng, and the money they sent to Beijing several times this year is also much more than in previous years...

Although it's just a guess, it doesn't prevent Xue's family from boldly assuming and carefully verifying it.

Especially what the Xue family can find out, the Zhen family did send people to the Jia family several times this year, and even the correspondence with Mrs. Wang can be used as evidence. Went to Beijing with the Zhen family, thinking of using the authority of the officials to ensure their safety on the road.

At that time, I didn't think there was any problem, but now that I really have some suspicions, I can find that the Zhen family has indeed visited Jia's house more times this year than in previous years, and even stayed longer.

Of course, it is impossible for the Xue family to find out why the Zhen family went to the Jia family. To provide the Xue family with a direction, it is impossible to directly write it into the secret book, and at most it is to make the Xue family suspicious of the Zhen family.