Although Your Majesty issued a decree after ascending the throne, promising that disciples of merchants could also enter the officialdom through imperial examinations, the low status of merchants was deeply rooted. Li's brother wanted to do business, but had to give up because of the Li family's reputation.
Li also smiled and said, "My brother often feels sorry that he cannot realize his ambitions and can only help the family manage the ancestral property."
Not long after, Li's brother Li Jing came. He was not her eldest brother, but her second brother.
He was tall and thin and very handsome. He brought two or three servants with him, and each servant was holding a lot of boxes. Tao Le led him here. When his uncle Tao Yuan heard about it, he also came and personally examined Shen Xihe.
Li Jing was very tactful and calm when facing Shen Xihe, but when Tao Yuan mentioned that he would personally check for Shen Xihe, his smile obviously became a little forced.
Tao Yuan has been a business traveler for many years, so he naturally has a keen eye. He didn't notice anything at first, but after looking at it for a while and finding that there were more than one or two old items, he frowned, but didn't think too much about it. Instead, he told Li Jing: "My dear nephew, when you collect things in the future, don't go for the old ones. There are not so many unworthy descendants in this world who are so poor that they have to sell off their ancestral things."
This was a subtle reminder to Li Jing that Tao Yuan felt that Li Jing had been deceived and that was why he accepted so many things that might be unclean.
In fact, there were thirty-four items brought by Li Jing. Shen Xihe roughly estimated that there were only four or five unclean items, and it was just a guess. Whether they were really unclean had not been verified. It was just that Tao Yuan had enough experience and was kind enough to remind him.
"Third cousin, please ask my uncle to come over." Shen Xihe said to Tao Le.
She couldn't just stand by and watch this matter. The imperial court was now thoroughly investigating the case. In the future, no one involved in the case would be able to escape. Li Jing was now related to the Tao family by marriage. If she didn't sow discord now, the Tao family would also suffer a great loss if Li Jing got deeper and deeper into trouble.
The only solution now is for Tao Cheng to discover something fishy and instigate Li Jing to rebel, and for Li Jing to make amends for his crime, so that both the Tao family and your family can escape unscathed.
Although Shen Xihe's expression remained calm, Li was very perceptive and always felt that something bad was going to happen. Seeing her uneasiness, Shen Xihe said to her, "Cousin, this matter has nothing to do with you. You are meeting your parents-in-law today, and I can't invite Mr. Li to come. Outsiders will only gossip about you if they see you."
On the first day after the bride got married, her husband's family invited her parents to visit. How would outsiders think of the Li family and the Tao family
Shen Xihe is a person who does not care about false reputation, but only for herself. This era does not allow everyone to be as willful as she is.
"Princess..." Li was grateful to Shen Xihe for thinking about her, but she was also worried about her brother. Especially when she turned around and saw her brother's face tense, her heart sank to the bottom, "But did my brother offend me?"
"Your brother did offend me, but the person he offended was not me, nor a living person." Shen Xihe glanced at Li Jing indifferently.
Not a living person...
That was the dead person. Speaking of the dead, everyone knew about burial objects. Li looked at the objects on the table again, her face turned pale, her body softened and she almost fell down. Fortunately, Taoler supported her in time, held her hand tightly and gave her support.
There was a knock on the door. Shen Xihe asked Zhenzhu to open the door. Hongyu brought Tao Cheng in, closed the door, and stood guard outside with Zhenzhu.