"That doesn't make sense." Old Madam Wei's eyes were firm, and her tone was equally decisive, with sarcasm but more determination: "Whoever bullies us, we should let them know what the consequences of bullying us are. Since they dare to raise their hands, we will chop off their hands as you said."
Anyway, she is half a body away from being buried in the ground, and she has already seen through the world. Everything she says is empty talk, and the most important thing is to be happy.
When you have the ability to take revenge, you should do it instead of hiding from it.
Feelings are cultivated. In the previous life, Wei An had limited time to spend with Old Madam Wei, so it was impossible for her to say such heartfelt words to her. But now, Old Madam Wei is trying very hard to point out the direction of every path for her.
Wei An pursed his lips, feeling happy and relieved. He hummed and said softly, "I have asked Tan Xin and Qingfeng to go to Jingxi first, and then to Datong. I have also asked my uncle to send a letter..."
Send a letter to Datong? Old Madam Wei glanced at her, thought about it carefully, and then asked, "Many of the prince's connections in the Beijing camp have gone to the northwest. Do you mean that you want the prince to use his connections?"
Wei An hummed, and was about to ask Old Madam Wei to explain her purpose in detail, when Nanny Hua came in through the curtain and told them that Han Bo had returned.
Wei An stood up and said, "Grandma, I'll come back and tell you later. I think Censor Chen has some news."
Madam Wei nodded and watched Wei An go out. After thinking for a while, she turned to look at Aunt Hua and said, "An An is very busy with this matter, and Shen Chen is in the palace now and has no way to deal with it. I can't just watch her busy all by herself, so how about this, you go and give me a message."
Old Madam Wei paused for a moment before continuing, "Isn't the tea party in our mansion about to start? The wife of the Marquis of Ping'an is going to introduce Fourth Miss Xu to us. We haven't seen her for a while. You can bring a few boxes of snacks and four-color gifts and go to ask the wife of the Marquis of Ping'an when Fourth Miss Xu will arrive."
Aunt Hua understood, agreed and said, "Today is the first day of the new year, and you can't go into someone's house on the first day of the new year. I'll go there tomorrow morning."
Old Mrs. Wei hummed.
Ping'an Hou also rose to prominence through military merit, and he was also recently transferred back from the northwest. If the Tatars abducted Xie Liangcheng to Datong, then they could look for Ping'an Hou, and the role he could play could not be ignored.
Moreover, Marquis Ping'an has another advantage - he is very familiar with the northwest and the power of the Tatars. If we go to him, things will have an extra layer of security.
Han Bo, on the other side, had already told Wei An all of Censor Chen's reply. Seeing Wei An standing still, he was a little puzzled: "Princess, I know you are very capable, but even though you are very capable... aren't you a little too calm?"
How could Wei An be so calm and composed in such a big matter
It seemed like nothing serious happened.
Wei An smiled and raised his eyebrows, revealing a sly expression: "Because I have done everything I can, what will happen next depends on God's will, and God's will is unpredictable. No matter how we guess, it is useless. Since it is useless, we might as well wait for the result, don't you think?"
Have you finished what you need to do
How can it be considered completed? Han Bo didn't understand. He felt that there were many things he could do, such as using his connections to find out how far the case had progressed, or trying to get close to Lord Xu to see what the escorts from the Ping An Escort Agency had said.
There's still so much to do, and it's better than doing nothing, right
He looked at Wei An hesitantly, but finally couldn't help but persuade her: "Princess, should we..."
Wei An knew what he meant and knew that he was worried, so he calmly shook his head and whispered, "No need. We have already done everything we can and should do. If we continue to reach out, it will be easy for something to go wrong."
Nothing can be done perfectly. She didn't understand this at first, but she gradually understood it later.
Just like in this incident, the Xie family must be left with some real faults, otherwise Emperor Longqing would still doubt the Xie family's ability to get away with it so cleanly.
Han Bo was stunned and didn't quite understand what Wei An meant.
But he soon understood.
Because after a few days of calm, a major incident broke out in the capital.
Some ministers took the lead in writing a letter before the three-court trial came to a conclusion, accusing the Xie family of being scum and colluding with the Tatars, and also accusing Xie Liangcheng, the son of the current patriarch of the Xie family, of negotiating a deal with the Tatars in Datong.
A single stone stirs up a thousand ripples. Before Emperor Longqing could make a statement, another minister came up with additional evidence, saying that the darts lost by the Ping An Escort Agency were not accidents, but were intentional by the Xie family because they had an agreement with the Tatars, and that was why they chose these girls and sent them to the Tatars.
When these memorials were submitted, the entire court was shocked.
Colluding with Tatars. For some reason, recently the means of framing people seem to be either accusing them of colluding with Tatars or accusing them of colluding with Japanese pirates.
As if the charge of treason is so useful.
You never get tired of using it.
The Xie family, although they have a minister who holds a high position, the middle-aged generation has no promising ones, and the younger generations have not even started their official careers. How could they be able to stir up such a big storm, not only to abduct people from all over the country through layers of checkpoints, but also to quickly send them outside the border
Not to mention that local governments didn't pay attention to it, let's first think about where the border guards were placed
Why did they guard the city? To stop the Tatars. If the Tatars were really in collusion with the Xie family as those ministers said, and often sneaked into the territory of Da Zhou, and could send people and ironware to the outside of the pass without restriction, then what were these guards doing
What do they think of the border of Da Zhou? !
It would be fine if they just said that the Xie family was smuggling, but they also pointed out that the Xie family gave the goods to the Tatars, which really seems to be a bit of a fabrication.
If the Xie family had such ability, they would be all-powerful.
This thing sounds like a fairy tale.
But evidence kept coming out one after another.
Even the testimonies obtained by the three judges said that the escorts all admitted that they were instructed by the Xie family to deliberately cry thief, lose the escort, and then quickly transport it outside the customs through a special route.
And things continue to ferment.
I don't know who first dug out the fact that the Xie family had a good relationship with Shen Chen, and wrote it in a memorial and presented it to Emperor Longqing as if it were a treasure.
Soon after, rumors spread that the reason why the Xie family was so rampant was entirely because Shen Chen and the Wei family's Prince Zheng were backing them up. (To be continued)