The day before Mrs. Xie San came to visit, Cao An and Cao Wen were taken to the execution ground. The Embroidered Uniform Guards seized a total of 1.2 million taels of silver, 130,000 taels of gold, countless jewels and jades, and countless tributes from the inner treasury from Cao Wen's house.
If you count the items in Emperor Longqing's inner treasury, you will find that half of them were taken away by him.
Over the years, Cao An has been extorting money everywhere. Officials from other places who come to Beijing to do business have to pay their respects to him, otherwise he will make things difficult for them.
The people in the three camps had no idea how much suffering they had suffered from him.
Now that he has finally fallen, not only do the people applaud, but even Emperor Longqing is happy.
After all the seized items were deposited into the national treasury, Emperor Longqing also ordered the cabinet to investigate all the officials in various places who had built ancestral temples for Cao An.
This shows his resentment towards Cao Anzhi.
Mrs. Xie San hated Cao An even more bitterly - Cao Wen was so aggressive that he wanted to put Mr. Xie San in jail just for a painting. This was how the Xie family was taken advantage of. If Wei An had not come to the rescue, even if Cao An and Cao Wen were brought to justice, Xie Liangqing would have been dead.
Therefore, she was extra polite to Old Lady Wei, thanked her profusely, then reached out and pulled Xie Liangqing to her side, asking him to kowtow to Old Lady Wei.
Xie Liangqing had a chubby face, and after taking care of himself for so many days, his skin color had returned to normal, as white and tender as a big meat bun. When he heard Madam Xie San calling him, he opened his confused eyes and laughed.
Old Madam Wei and the Third Lady could see that the child was probably a little mentally retarded, so they quickly asked him to leave.
He sighed again. He had thought Wei An was too nervous before. He was already ten years old and was born in a family of officials. It was possible that he couldn't even say his parents' names. But now he knew.
In this situation, if Wei An did not ask Manager Lin to investigate it with all his might, he would probably really die in the Jimin Institute.
Mrs. Xie San refused and sighed, "No matter what, I should thank you for saving my life."
He insisted that the maid help Xie Liangqing to kneel before he would give up.
Xie Liangqing was not considered good-looking, at least not in comparison with his extraordinarily handsome brother. However, he was honest, had extraordinarily clear eyes, and was fair, tender, innocent, and naive, which made him very likable.
Mrs. Wei didn't wait for him to kowtow, and hurriedly asked Qingyu to help him up. She looked at him carefully again, reached out and took a jade pendant with auspicious words from Aunt Hua, and put it on his waist with her own hands. She turned around and said to Mrs. Xie San, "I wish the young master a smooth life."
The third lady also had gifts to give.
Mrs. Xie was extremely grateful and felt deeply that Mrs. Wei was kind and gentle. She sighed softly, "Thank you for your good words. As long as he lives a peaceful life, I have nothing else to ask for."
After the greetings, they talked about business. After the Third Madam went out to arrange the banquet, Mrs. Xie turned her eyes to Wei An, who had been very quiet the whole time: "Is this the Seventh Miss?"
Old Madam Wei smiled and replied, "I couldn't say anything when you praised me before, but now I can. I really feel ashamed to thank you, because the young master's life was saved by me, your granddaughter."
Mrs. Xie San had heard about this from Xie Liangcheng a long time ago, so she was not surprised. She looked at Wei Qi calmly, as if she was a little puzzled: "Miss Qi seems to know a lot about our family?"
As soon as Xie Liangcheng took Xie Liangqing home, he started by checking the servants in the house.
But he was not too suspicious, he actually found out something fishy - the nurse who asked for leave to go home that night was not sick, but deliberately absent, and the servant who followed her was also bribed...
Thinking of this, Mrs. Xie San couldn't help but shudder again.
I am not afraid of tigers and wolves outside, I am only afraid of ghosts at home. The old saying always makes sense.
These questions should be what Mr. Xie San and Xie Liangcheng outside wanted to ask. Wei An understood their fear and vigilance very well, and had been prepared for it. He admitted it without hesitation. Seeing Mrs. Xie San's complicated expression, he patiently explained to her: "To be honest, when I said that I learned some ** by chance, it was false."
She looked up at Mrs. Xie's slightly surprised expression and curved her eyes cunningly: "I have memorized the genealogy of the Xie family, so I know the situation of the Xie family."
Mrs. Xie was a little slow to react.
How can something like a family tree be shown to outsiders at will
Even within the direct branch of the Xie family, there are rules for competing for the genealogy. Every three years, they have to agree on a date to compete in the ancestral hall. Only those with strong strength will be qualified to preserve the family tree.
Normally, even the girls in the Xie family are not qualified to read the family tree. Wei An is just an outsider, how could she know
Even Old Lady Wei looked at Wei An again, as if thinking about something.
Wei Anzhen knew that Xie Liangcheng regarded the Xie family genealogy as his life and never left it. She and Xie Liangcheng were friends for life and death, and of course she remembered Xie Liangcheng's enemy very clearly.
Seeing Mrs. Xie San was surprised, she paused for a moment before saying, "I saw it in Cao Wen's hands."
Anyway, what he said was not entirely false. It was just that in this life, Fifth Master Xie had not yet had time to gain Cao Wen's favor. Wei An had no psychological burden in framing him: "The day before the young master got into trouble, Cao Wen was looking for trouble with me in Tongzhou. Perhaps because he thought I was young and was not on guard against me, I overheard some things."
Mrs. Xie frowned, looking unhappy: "Is it Lao Wu?"
In fact, what we have found out these days is already very clear, but Mrs. Xie San still couldn't help but ask.
Wei An nodded: "I heard from Cao Wen that Master Xie Wu had already had a way to deal with the Third House, so Cao Wen did not take Xie Sanye seriously. He heard Master Xie Wu say that the Third House had a priceless painting of green pines, so he had an idea and asked one of his Jinyiwei to testify against Master Xie Sanye for dereliction of duty and other crimes... Master Xie Wu's people probably saw an opportunity, so they took advantage of Cao Wen's attack and took action in advance."
Mrs. Xie San felt a chill running up her spine. Master Xie Wu actually wanted misfortune to happen to their third room and was deliberately trying to get them into trouble.
But she had to admit that Master Xie Wu's plan was almost successful.
If it weren't for Wei Qi, Xie Liangqing would have died, and if Xie Liangqing died, she herself would definitely not be able to survive... ..
If Cao Wen was not unlucky, then Master Xie San would naturally be finished as well. Even if he was not finished, he would be eaten alive and dismembered by Master Xie Wu sooner or later.
And what about Xie Liangcheng by then
Where is your daughter
She exhaled after a long while, sneered, and her eyes were filled with coldness: "You really think highly of us and even try to curry favor with the Cao family. If the Cao family doesn't fall, we will be finished sooner or later..."