Taiyuan He family
Song Heng said meaningfully, "Is she the mother of He Er who is in trouble now?"
Although he had not been to the capital for many years, he had already found out everything he needed to know before returning. Naturally, the He family's big incident was among them.
Besides, others didn't know why He Er was involved, but he knew it.
Song Heng sighed, looking at the many daffodils in the pavilion, and suddenly stood up and patted his jade-colored straight robe with gold weaving on him, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "That makes sense, the old fox surnamed Wei has always been a phoenix that will not land without treasures. He came to the Wang family to see Mrs. He, it must be about the matter of the tribute satin from the weaving bureau this time. The Pang family is not slow to react."
Liu Jie scratched his head, peeled the chestnut and threw it into his mouth, agreeing with a smile: "Of course, Mr. Wei is the number one strategist after all. Who else can spend so much effort to deal with the fifth prince? You can guess who it is with your toes. But Mr. Wei came to see Madam He, so he will definitely not push the blame to Second Master He. Second Master He has escaped this time."
The shed was warm, the stove was crackling, and the chestnuts were popping as they were roasted. Song Heng seemed to be thinking about something, and after a while he told Liu Jie: "Keep a close eye on Cheng Dingan."
Liu Jie quickly agreed: "Don't worry, we have sent people to keep an eye on them. But the Cheng family is slippery now. The group of people who tried to assassinate the young master of the Su family were dealt with silently in the end. Our people spent a lot of effort but failed to dig them out. It's a pity."
"Take your time." Song Heng showed a subtle smile on his face: "Everything has just begun, you have to be patient when doing things."
Liu Jie took the tongs and searched for the chestnuts in the stove. He had just pulled out a few when he felt a gust of cold wind rushing in. He shivered involuntarily. When he looked up, he saw Mrs. Wang Wu rushing in angrily. He stood up subconsciously, but before he could say anything, Mrs. Wang Wu had already passed by like a gust of wind and walked straight towards Song Heng. She asked angrily, "Why are you running around again? Do you have to make trouble for everyone to be happy?"
Mrs. Wang Wu's tone was very bad. It sounded like she was talking to an enemy instead of her brother. Song Heng was used to it and didn't find it strange at all. Seeing how angry Mrs. Wang Wu was, he sat on the chair as if nothing had happened. "You didn't agree to my having some fun. Now I can't just sit here quietly. Since you don't like me so much, why don't you just let me come over? Why did you have to ask me to come?"
The two siblings were on edge when they met. Liu Jie stood up tremblingly, threw away the pliers in his hand, and hurried over to mediate: "Aunt, the Sixth Young Master has no intention of causing trouble this time. Really, you see, it's quite cold today, the Sixth Young Master just came to the shed to avoid the wind..."
"Who knows when he will go crazy again?!" Mrs. Wang Wu was furious. She looked at her brother with disgust and anger on her face. "If you hadn't made the family restless, I wouldn't have let you come here. Song Heng, don't think that just because your father dotes on you, you can do whatever you want!"
Liu Jie couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Song Heng was two years old when he was brought home by Marquis Guangping. Everyone said that he was an illegitimate child born to a concubine, so one can imagine his family's attitude towards him.
The old lady of Marquis Guangping was always brooding over this matter and refused to acknowledge her grandson until her death.
Marquis Guangping did accept him, but was only indifferent to him.
The prince of Guangping Marquis always kept him by his side, even to the battlefield. He was in Yunnan for seven or eight years, which caused his relationship with his family to become increasingly worse.
It has only been about a year since they came back, but the Song family has indeed been involved in several incidents.
Needless to say, the Crown Prince's wife wished that Song Heng would disappear. She found him annoying to see. Even her brothers and sisters at home were very disgusted with Song Heng.
Song Heng was not one who would tolerate any injustice, and every time he would make the kids who bullied him scream and wail. As time went by, the atmosphere at home became a little weird.
This time, Mrs. Wang Wu went back to her parents' home and saw that her mother was worried, so she insisted on having Song Heng come to stay for a while, even under the pretext of letting Song Heng study with the fifth master of the Wang family.
Mrs. Wang Wu raised her hand heavily and then put it down. Finally, she looked at him coldly and said, "Come on! Come with me to pay respects to the old lady. You have been here for two or three days, but I haven't been able to find you for a single day. How can you expect the old lady to think of the Song family's tutoring?"
Liujie coughed, lowered his head and tugged at Song Heng's sleeve. Seeing Song Heng frown, he quickly let go and unyieldingly smoothed out the wrinkles on Song Heng's sleeve.
Song Heng walked out without saying a word.
Liu Jie hurriedly smiled at Mrs. Wang Wu: "Aunt, actually the Sixth Young Master didn't mean anything else. He has been following the Fifth Master these past two days and didn't cause any trouble..."
"No trouble?!" Mrs. Wang Wu sneered and retorted: "Just one foot, someone from my fourth sister-in-law's family came, and the next foot, he pushed them down from the rockery. You still say that there was no trouble? I think he is too good at causing trouble!"
She walked out angrily, and when she saw Song Heng's expression, she was furious: "How could you go to the backyard without a female relative? Do you know any rules?"
Song Heng stopped and looked at her, and Mrs. Wang Wu turned around and walked ahead like a peacock with high morale.
Liu Jie saw the opportunity and slid forward, whispering to Song Heng to restrain himself: "Can't you just hold back? I don't know what you're thinking. You clearly care about them, but you always have to pretend to be like this, making a scene with them until your face turns red and your neck gets angry..."
Song Heng stood still, looking at Mrs. Wang Wu's back and seemed to sigh softly.
Because I care, this is the best way.
They should not treat him as a family member, so that if something happens, perhaps they can be saved because of their relationship with the royal family.
If they really loved each other, it would be possible that they would be harmed.
He followed Mrs. Wang Wu silently to Mrs. Wang's yard. Before the maid went in to report, he saw the curtain being lifted and a girl of about fourteen or fifteen was led out by the maid.
It was the girl who had followed Mrs. He just now. Song Heng kept his gaze on her for a moment, remembering that Mrs. He had also brought this little girl with her when she went to negotiate with Mr. Wei. The look in his eyes when he looked at Su Yao was filled with a bit more scrutiny and speculation.
Su Yao seemed to sense something, and when he looked up, his gaze met Song Heng's.
There was a slight scrutiny on his handsome face, but his eyes turned cynical again, as if the person who showed his edge just now was not him.