After she finished speaking, she calmly sat down opposite Su Rong and Su Yao and smiled calmly, "Master and the Fourth Miss, are you here for the jade pendant?"
She behaved so calmly that the siblings Su Rong and Su Yao did not say a word for a while.
Su Rong couldn't help but look at her face and said slowly, "I have already given the jade pendant to Prince Consort Tang."
Mrs. Li finally smiled a little, and said, "Then I have to thank you for your help, my Lord. I have no way to repay you. If my wish comes true one day, I will definitely repay you with a gift of grass and a ring."
She was neither humble nor arrogant, and was very calm and relaxed, as if she was facing an overwhelming force and was ready to die.
Su Yao suddenly felt absurd. She looked at Sister Li seriously. After a long silence, she asked softly, "Sister Li, you are not an ordinary person, right? If I say I can help you, do you believe me?"
Sister Li chuckled.
She looked at Su Yao and sighed, "County Lady, you are a good person. You don't come to the charity hall very often, but the children inside are looking forward to your coming. The children's reactions are not deceiving. Even they like you so much, you are certainly not a bad person. But do you know who I am?"
"I can roughly guess it." Without waiting for Sister Li to continue, Su Yao smiled faintly. Seeing Sister Li's eyes wide open in shock, he felt more certain in his heart, so he simply brought up the topic: "Young Lord Li is anxious to go to Yunnan to supervise the army. It is said that if he can succeed in this battle and do things well, this young Lord will become a real Lord and get the title of Earl. Under such circumstances, the only thing that can make the Li family so anxious is the matter in Yunnan. If it is also related to the Tang family and the Princess Yongning's Mansion is also involved, if I am not mistaken, it can only be the rebellion in Yunnan."
She remembered what Sister Li said in her previous life, that she would wait until she died of old age before leaving, and her voice became even softer: "The Li family is so anxious to find you, and the jade pendant in your hand is so important, and you want to hand it over to Prince Consort Tang. It must be a proof of identity. What do you want to prove? I have also consulted Marquis Guangping about the current situation in Yunnan..."
Su Rong was going to Yunnan to suppress the rebellion, so how could she not make preparations? She had already asked Song Xiangyu and Song Che to tell her in detail about the situation in Yunnan.
She also knew that the situation in Yunnan was in chaos.
There are many indigenous people in Yunnan, including the Miao people, who are divided into raw Miao and cooked Miao, and the relationship between them is very difficult to clarify. And the chieftains of Yunnan also have disputes between orthodox and side branches.
Just like the previous chieftain was the legitimate son of the Mu family, but died of illness in his prime, leaving behind only a daughter, who was said to have also died of illness. In the end, his illegitimate brother ascended the throne.
Now Yunnan is in chaos again, and it is because the current chieftain was pointed out to have come to power illegitimately, and supporters of the previous chieftain have come out to resist. The situation on both sides is getting bigger and bigger, and neither side is willing to submit to the other. The imperial court's troops intervened, but the people on the old chieftain's side believed that the court was unfair, so the people on the old chieftain's side rose up in resistance, and even used the terrain advantage to kill more than 3,000 imperial court soldiers.
The matter became a big deal and was reported to the capital.
Such a chaotic situation is both a crisis and an opportunity.
If she was Princess Mingchang, in order to help her grandson become famous, she would definitely start from the root of the matter and then talk about the military affairs, so that she could take a two-pronged approach.
With this guess, isn’t the reason why Sister Li was being tracked by the Li family so obvious
Sister Li was stunned. Although they had not met much, she already knew that Su Yao was smart.
In particular, she knew very well that Mr. and Mrs. Shen were almost bankrupt this time. If it weren't for Su Yao's powerful means, an ordinary person would have been eaten to the bone by a minister. However, Mr. and Mrs. Shen managed to find a way to survive.
You can see what’s different about this girl.
But she was still surprised by Su Yao's perceptiveness.
After the accident, Sister Li recovered quickly. She nodded and admitted frankly: "You guessed it right. I do have a special identity. I am the biological sister of the old chieftain. My surname was not Li originally. I changed it to Li because I followed the former Duke of Chengguo, Xu Yonghong, to Beijing. In order to avoid being seen, I changed my surname to Li. The wife of the Duke of Chengguo was surnamed Li. They announced to the public that I was the cousin of the wife of the Duke of Chengguo."
There is even a matter about Xu Yonghong! Su Rong opened his mouth and couldn't help but sigh at the impermanence of the world.
But when you think about it this way, everything makes sense.
Xu Yonghong must have known Sister Li's identity a long time ago, and the reason why Xu Yonghong was able to temporarily pacify Yunnan and stabilize the relationship between the two sides must have been because of his relationship with Sister Li.
So he brought Sister Li to Beijing...
There is no need for Sister Li to say more, Su Rong and Su Yao have already sorted out the relationships involved.
Su Yao asked directly: "You came to the capital to find Prince Consort Tang, right?"
"Yes." Sister Li was also very frank: "It can't be said that it is completely true. I came to find my nephew. They said that my brother only had one daughter left, which was originally a fallacy. My brother had a posthumous child, but my sister-in-law and others sent him away for refuge in a critical moment. When I went there, it was too late. It was too late to find out where my sister-in-law was sent. I had to slowly investigate, and this investigation took more than ten years... Later, it was with the help of Duke Cheng that I found some clues from that year and followed him to the capital."
"So you have found out now, right?" Su Rong asked. Thinking of what Prince Consort Tang said at that time, he understood everything: "The person is with Prince Consort Tang."
Sister Li hummed, "Yes, but at this time, Princess Mingchang's Mansion also came to me and wanted to get my nephew. How could I let them get my nephew?"
Not to mention that the imperial court has already recognized the status of the current chieftain, it is still unclear who will be chosen as the orthodox one to support this time.
Sister-in-law Li felt uneasy just because she was told that her nephew would be handed over to Princess Mingchang's mansion.
So she had always kept her distance from Princess Mingchang's Mansion, but who knew that Princess Mingchang's Mansion would not give up and kept chasing her. She originally wanted to go to the Tang family to confirm her identity, but it did not happen in the end. If she did not trust Su Rong's actions and was not forced into a corner by Master Li, she would not have risked handing over the jade pendant to Su Rong to take it to Prince Consort Tang to test his reaction.
"You don't trust the Li family?" Su Yao raised his eyebrows, looking at Sister Li with mixed feelings: "Why?"