Old Madam Wei signaled to Madam Hua to let Feicui Qingyu and the others leave. She took Wei An's hand and asked her to sit next to her. Then she looked at Wei Yangqing who came in from the back to greet her. She nodded slightly to accept his greeting and asked him to sit down beside her.
Wei Yangqing felt a little nervous.
For some reason, he always felt that since he married Princess Changning, everything he did was wrong, and his position in this family was extremely embarrassing.
The second and third masters were clearly born out of wedlock and not from the old lady's womb, but they were much closer to old lady Wei than he, her biological son. He was the only one who felt awkward and always acted cautiously like an outsider.
The more he cared about something, the more mistakes he made. The more he tried to make up for his mistakes, the more problems he encountered. Now, even his friends have become trouble.
He felt very uneasy. He looked at Old Madam Wei, rubbed his hands on his knees again and again, and wiped a layer of cold sweat. Then he looked at Old Madam Wei cautiously and called her "Mother".
Seeing the mother and son behave like this, Mrs. Wei sometimes feels sad herself.
She felt that she had never done anything wrong in her life, but her family had become like this.
In fact, if nothing like that had happened to the Ming family, and if the family hadn't encountered any misfortunes, she and her youngest son wouldn't necessarily have ended up in the situation they are now - as long as Ming Yu had a good life, the knot in her heart wouldn't have become stronger and stronger.
Unfortunately, it’s meaningless to say all this now.
She nodded to Wei Yangqing, then slowed down her tone and asked him, "Has Peng De continued to want to see you these days?"
When the Peng family first started to get into trouble, Peng De came to Wei Yangqing again and again.
Just a few days ago, after Tao died, Peng De came to the house and made a big fuss. Afterwards, he still sent an invitation to Wei Yangqing, wanting to invite Wei Yangqing to Tianxiang Garden for a drink and watch opera.
Speaking of Peng De, Wei Yangqing's eyebrows twitched violently.
Although Peng De was a very good friend to him before, after Peng De said those words, they could no longer be called friends.
He shook his head: "My son disdains to associate with such people. All the posts he received have been burned."
This is more like Wei Yangqing's style.
Mrs. Wei did not continue to ask, but turned to ask: "Has he been working in the ministry recently?"
The Peng family had such a huge scandal that everyone couldn't help but point fingers at them, not to mention that even Queen Fang had issued an imperial decree to reprimand Madam Peng.
Wei Yangqing found it a little strange. After encountering such a big thing, Peng De had originally asked for a long vacation of more than a month, but somehow, he came back to the department in the past few days.
They said that the batch of weapons from Fujian was too important and the soldiers on the front line were waiting for them, so the war could not be delayed.
Because of this incident, his reputation in official circles has improved a bit recently, and a few imperial censors who were eyeing him covetously did not dare to do anything to him.
Since his mother asked so, he told Mrs. Wei the truth.
After she finished speaking, she saw Old Lady Wei glance at Wei An again, and her heart skipped a beat. She looked at them suddenly, swallowed her saliva, and then asked hesitantly, "What's wrong? Is there anything else going on with the Peng family?"
The Peng family has caused too many troubles.
Scandal follows scandal.
Although they are not big bad things, these endless little things that affect people's perceptions are enough to make people feel annoyed when they are connected one after another.
Old Madam Wei hummed, raised her eyebrows and looked at Wei Yangqing: "When you were in Nanchang, you helped the Peng family a lot, right?"
Wei Yangqing nodded truthfully.
When he had just arrived in Nanchang City, the Peng family helped him a lot. As a result, they developed such a deep friendship.
Mrs. Wei threw a letter in front of him and sneered: "Look, this is how people repay your help and kindness."
Wei Yangqing reached out his hand suspiciously and took the letter from the small table. As soon as he read the first line, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
This is a letter written to the Yi family.
The Yi family was the chief envoy of the transportation department from the capital to the Zhejiang coast. All the food, fodder and weapons were transported to Zhejiang through them.
And working in the coastal area of Zhejiang was an absolutely lucrative job, and the Yi family became rich because of this job.
But now, Wei Yangqing realized that their sudden wealth was not just due to this job.
He held the thin piece of letter in his hand with some disbelief. His lips trembled before he stammered, "This is... This is..."
This is a letter written from the Peng family to the Yi family.
There are even Master Peng’s signature and his private seal at the bottom.
It cannot be forged, and it is to prevent the letter from being secretly tampered with.
This is different from Wei An's previous forgery of Madam Peng and Peng Caichen's handwriting. This cannot be forged.
In other words, the Peng family has been secretly colluding with pirates to sell weapons made by the imperial court and making huge profits from it.
In other words, the Peng family has always been ambitious and ambitious.
"It's a letter from Master Peng II to the Yi family." Old Madam Wei was much calmer than him. She glanced at Wei Yangqing calmly and pouted at him: "Did you see the private seal engraved at the bottom? No one else can forge it. This is Peng Huai's handwriting. Now the Peng family is forced into a desperate situation, so they plan to... ...frame us for what they did so that they can completely wipe us out."
She laughed sarcastically, "Can't you see?"
Can't you see
This letter is full of murderous intent.
If this letter had not been intercepted, then... Wei Yangqing closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, there was no trace of hesitation or pain.
He treated the Peng family as friends, but the Peng family treated him as a sucker.
No wonder I was trying to curry favor with him like that before, it turns out I had such big intentions towards him all along.
This is not surprising. Before a butcher kills a pig, he has to feed it well for a while.
Wei Yangqing smiled self-deprecatingly.
It's ridiculous that he actually thought Peng De wanted to marry Wei An just to strengthen his relationship with him.
It turns out that he really is more of a failure than a success.
He tried hard to adjust his breathing and emotions, took a breath and asked Wei An: "An An, how did you get this letter?"
The Peng family won’t find out, right
If they find out, their plans will probably have to be changed, which will be very troublesome.
Wei An looked at him quietly and said, "I bribed a pair of Peng family's servants, and it took some effort to get the news, and then I intercepted this letter."
Wei Yangqing nodded, his knuckles turning white as he held the letter. He looked at Old Madam Wei and said, "Mother, what should we do now?"