Chapter 544: Closing the net
Originally, Nie Jinliang wanted his sister to think of a way to see if any of the relatives of the Wei family could help. After hearing that Wei sent the Wei family's concubine Ru Niang to the Ding Prince's Mansion as a concubine, he suddenly felt that it was a good opportunity.
If we talk about the ways of border trading, who can compare with Dingwang? If there is positioning support, what kind of goods cannot enter and exit freely, it will be a booming source of wealth.
Nie Jinliang couldn't help but pin all his hopes on the marriage of his sister's family. But seeing that things were not as smooth as expected, he couldn't help but get anxious. Both the Wei and Zhu families could plan slowly, but he couldn't. His goods could not be put away for a long time. They had to be sold as soon as possible and exchanged for money for turnover. Otherwise, the goods would rot and the capital chain would break. He would not say that he would lose everything and would be in trouble.
Therefore, Nie Jinliang instigated his sister to make trouble with Wei.
Nie's mind was really gone. Now he calmed down and thought about it. He felt that he was being used by his brother and there was a rift between his brother and sister. At that time, Nie Jinliang encouraged his father to marry her into the Wei family as a successor. She was a pretty girl's family, so she naturally hoped to marry a handsome young man who was quite old. However, she married a man who was over ten years older than her and had a lot of children. There were a lot of troubles at home and outside the family, and was looked down upon everywhere. Only he could experience the pain and sadness.
She had no choice but to face Wei Shi for a while, but she could still deal with Nie Jinliang.
Seeing that his sister didn't speak for a long time, Nie Jinliang thought the situation was serious and urged: "What did you say... Forget it, it doesn't matter anymore. Go and apologize to her quickly and lower your attitude."
After quickly planning, Nie slowly said: "Brother, I offended someone. Sorry, can he still be kind and behave like a beggar on the street? Even if you scold him, you can't just apologize."
"You, aren't you harming me?" Nie Jinliang beat his chest and stamped his feet.
"Brother said this. What did I mean to harm you?" Nie clasped his handkerchief and pressed the sweat that was not even on his temples, saying, "You gave me the idea to find Wei, right? The words are also what you taught. You have no contact with Wei, but I also told you on weekdays that Wei is a person. My brother travels around the world and has a wide range of knowledge. I am a little confused. I only know how to listen to my brother. Now something is wrong. Brother does he want to leave it all out? Is it reasonable?"
In terms of verbal skills, Nie Jinliang, who was born in a businessman, is really a little worse than Nie, who came out of the struggle in the inner house, and he couldn't speak. He could only ask softly, "Sister, brother is wrong, brother shouldn't let you make this point. After all, we are a family. You can't watch your parents' home be vented, right?"
Nie Jinliang actually knew a little about the women of the Wei family. Revenge is the characteristic of the Wei family. He still remembers that when his younger sister first got married, he was a little disrespectful to Wei's sister-in-law. At that time, Zhu Zhifeng, whom Wei married, was a sixth-rank official. The younger sister sarcastically said a few words at the time. Wei didn't say anything at that time, but turned around and didn't know what path he had taken, and deducted a batch of fruits that the Nie family had just transported into the city.
The Nie family struggled to make a fuss, and then found out that it was Wei Shi's actions. He was so angry that he went to the Zhu family to question. Wei Shi didn't even let them in. He only sent a sentence, saying that his husband was just a sesame and mung bean official, so how could he make things difficult for the wealthy Nie family?
This kind of thing was found out, and there was no certain evidence that it was instructed by Wei Shi. The Nie family suffered a loss and watched the whole ship of fresh fruit rotting and had no place to make sense.
After the fight, Nie did not dare to take Qiao in front of Wei anymore. In addition, Wei would not bully people unreasonably. After she was a little bit low, Wei was rewarded and helped the Nie family with some help, which was considered to make up for the loss.
There were so many young things. At that time, Wei was probably young and energetic and could not practice. Later, Wei became much more tactful in his work, so everyone gradually forgot about this matter.
However, the country is easy to change and its nature is difficult to change. Wei always revenges.
Nie Jinliang understood Nie’s hint, didn’t he just ask for money?
Now that we can only save money from disaster, otherwise Wei or his sister would not be willing to swallow the loss.
Nie Jinliang endured the pain and went home to hand it over to Nie's 10,000 taels of silver notes. He asked Nie to pick some things that Wei's favorites and sent them over, which was an apology.
After that, Nie Jinliang felt bad. He knew in his heart that there might be many of these ten thousand taels of silver notes that could be given to Wei. His sister was also a geese who wanted to pluck her hair and asked for money.
That night, Nie Jinliang stayed at his concubine, and tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep, so the concubine asked him what was wrong.
Nie Jinliang acted as venting and told the concubine the whole story. If she had to deal with a woman, then the concubine had a lot of ideas. She turned her eyes and immediately gave Nie Jinliang an idea...
A few days later, there was another circulating on the streets and alleys of Yancheng that a second-rank official in the court was shameless. In order to cling to the powerful, he treated his wife's niece as a singer to a powerful person. The erotic story was added to the qiu. The people like to hear this. The focus of the rumors was not on which second-rank official he was, but on how beautiful the niece looked.
This kind of news that you dare not name a name is true or false. One is released in a few days, which means that ordinary people joke a few times, and no one takes it seriously. After all, this has nothing to do with the lives of ordinary people. At most, a few sour scholars criticized the shamelessness of this second-rank official.
The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional. Others laughed at it and no one took it seriously. But Zhu Zhifeng, who is the person involved, was different. When he learned about this rumor that someone was regarded as a joke from his colleagues, he couldn't help but sweat. This is what he was most worried about.
Although the rumors are exaggerated, in general, it is still somewhat true. It is a fact that the wife sent her niece to the Dingwang Mansion. Although she is not like a singer in the first song, this nameless person is not much different from the singer in the name.
In a hurry, Zhu Zhifeng quickly found Wei and asked her to find a way to settle the matter as soon as possible. Either let King Ding determine his status or take out her niece from her parents' family. As long as the person is not in the Ding Palace, the rumors will not be true.
Wei looked bitter and could only go to Dingwang Mansion with a tough forehead.
This time I went to the Ding Palace and seemed a little different from before.
It was the flower hall last time, but the maids and mothers around Princess Ding were twice as many as last time, lined up, each of them was very serious, invisibly setting off a momentum.
Wei secretly complained. It seems that Princess Ding is also prepared. I am afraid that today's affairs cannot be simple and good.
But no matter what, we should say, and Wei gritted the bullet and said a polite word first: "I haven't seen each other for many days, so the princess has always been good?"
"It's okay." Su Yiqing's words were very indirect, just to eliminate Wei's slutty and she had no time to go around with Wei.
"I wonder if my niece Ru Niang is okay?" Wei asked and added, "My sister-in-law misses her daughter very much."
Su Yiqing didn't answer, but just held the tea cup and gently plucked the tea leaves with the lid.
The green vine next to him stepped forward and said, "Ru Niang is living a good life in the mansion. Please don't worry about your wife."
When a servant talks to the guest, he obviously looked down on this guest. He came from a noble family of Wei and paid the most attention to rules. He was extremely angry at the moment, just looking at the posture of the maid behind Princess Ding. He did not dare to have anger, so he just held back his anger: "Speaking of this, Ru Niang has been in the palace for a while, and has not returned to her parents' home for a long time. I don't know if the princess can be kind enough to let Ru Niang go home to meet her mother."
"How can our princess answer Mrs. Zhu's words?" Lu Teng said with a smile, "Madam, don't know yet. The royal palace has the rules of the royal palace. Girls who enter the royal palace cannot go out at will. This is the rule and it is not easy to break. Otherwise, there are so many people in the royal palace, and I will go back to my parents' home today and I will go out for a walk tomorrow. What are the rules? Do you think so?"
Wei was furious. She had never been insulted like this in her life. She asked a maid to talk to her, but she could not get into trouble in the Ding Palace. She even disdained to talk to a maid, so she gave her maid Xiaoyu a wink.
Xiaoyu understood it carefully, and took a step forward and said with a smile: "This sister, rules are dead, people live, there is always a way to achieve both worlds, right?"
Green Teng said: "Our prince is a leader of the army. He must strictly enforce military laws in the military camp and not break the rules at will."
In terms of momentum, Xiaoyu is far inferior to Green Vine. Seeing that Green Vine is so stern, she can't speak, and she is even more afraid of saying something wrong. Wei will take his anger on her later, so she dare not continue to say more.
Wei looked at Su Yiqing who was drinking tea on the other side as if nothing had happened, and gritted her teeth with hatred. Isn’t she just a low-ranking concubine? She became proud as soon as she flew up to the branch and didn’t even listen to the elders’ words. She was so negligent that the concubine was born without education.
Before Wei could say anything, Su Yiqing put down the teacup and stood up and said, "Since Mrs. Zhu is concerned about her niece, Lu Teng, please take Mrs. Zhu to meet Ru Niang."
After saying this, Su Yiqing turned around and left without waiting for Wei to say anything. The maid and the woman beside her followed her. The flower hall suddenly became empty, leaving only Mrs. Zhu's master and servant and Green Vine.
Lu Teng said with a just right respectful expression: "Madam Zhu, please."
Wei Shi couldn't, so he couldn't leave now, so he had to follow Green Vine.
When Lu Teng saw Ru Niang’s master and servant, she left first by using the excuse to ask their aunt and nephew to speak well.
As soon as Lu Teng left, Wei asked Ru Niang anxiously: "Ru Niang, you have been so long as Ru Wang's Mansion. Have you... seen King Ding?"
Ru Niang shook her head, "Auntie, I have never seen the prince."
Mo'er beside him pouted and said, "It's not just that I haven't seen the prince. Apart from the gatekeeper and the maid Lu Teng, we lady basically haven't seen outsiders."
In fact, although Wei was mentally prepared, he was still disappointed and said, "Ru Niang, you have never mentioned to the princess... I mean that since you have entered the prince's mansion, you are from the princess Ding's mansion, you should go over to pay your respects to the princess sooner or later."
Ru Niang lowered her head and said, "The princess did not let me go over to pay my respects."
"The princess didn't say it, wouldn't you take the initiative to ask?" Wei was so angry that this Ru Niang looked good, but she was a little dull and ignorant. When she entered the palace, she should try every means to see the prince. How could others just leave herself in the small yard and ignore it?
Ru Niang lowered her head, just listening respectfully as if she was scolded by her legitimate mother on weekdays.
Still Mo'er said: "I have advised the lady, but it's a lady... I can't blame the lady for this. The people in the royal family deliberately let the lady die on their own in this yard. The lady cannot leave the yard at all, and she cannot ask for any requests."
"Then let them do this?" Wei said, "If someone asks you to stay, will you really stay honestly?"
Mo'er glanced at Ru Niang and didn't dare to say anything.
She was not that honest, but she was just a little maid, the prince's mansion was as big as that, and occasionally sneaked out, and couldn't tell the difference between the east, south, west and north. Once again, she was caught by the woman in charge and scolded for a lot.
He was also scared to say that the next time, he would have to deal with family law. The so-called family law is to be beaten.
In this way, Mo'er dared not move around.
And the lady, like a face-to-faced person, let others roll round and pinch flat without saying a word.
"This won't work." Wei Shi said, "Ru Niang, if you want to fight, you either try to make tea for the princess to determine the title, or... go home."
Ru Niang lowered her head and said, "As long as my aunt tells you everything."
What does it mean to obey my instructions? Wei was even more dissatisfied.
In a blink of an eye, she thought that there seemed to be something wrong with this. If she really annoyed Princess Ding, wouldn’t she have made enemies with the Ding Mansion and sent them in herself, hoping to get through the Ding Mansion and let King Ding use his strength to his husband’s position and make his husband rush forward, but he would not have made enemies with the Ding Mansion.
If Ru Niang makes a fuss and leaves the mansion, Princess Ding will definitely not be happy. Even Princess Ding will feel that he has been wiped out. At that time, he will take his anger on the Zhu family. Wouldn't the Zhu Jia family cause trouble?
When Wei thought of the appearance of Princess Ding just now, he felt that Princess Ding was not easy to mess with. Why was she so careless last time? She thought she was a person with a soft personality and forced her to take Ru Niang off.
Now it's a big deal, it's so difficult.
If Ru Niang is forced to take back, it is equivalent to slapping the face of Prince Ding's Mansion. But if Ru Niang is not taken back and there are rumors outside, there will definitely be troublemakers who will inquire about the Zhu family and then attack their husbands through this matter.
Chapter completed!