To say that this matter should actually be on Su Jiang.
Now he is the eldest son of Yongshun uncle's mansion, he has a favored concubine sister, and he has a errand who is almost a white-collar salary with few trivial matters.
To say that Su Jiang is actually a simple person, with few thoughts and no ambitions, the most important thing is to have self-knowledge. He knew his details well, and he didn't think too highly of himself. After receiving the errand, he worked as usual every day, and went out of the office according to the order.
Perhaps because of the environment he was in, the yamen he was in was a place called Senglusi. To put it bluntly, it was the yamen that managed all the monks in Dazhou.
Local prefectures and counties have low-level monk officials, most of whom are monks acting as officials. The Senglu Division in Beijing is different, and they are all serious officials. But if there is anything wrong, it's really nothing, and he is a Youyijue from the eighth rank, so it's even more nothing.
After all, with this status, colleagues and even superiors will not push the affairs of the yamen to him.
He has less official duties and more free time. After all, he also has an errand, so it is impossible not to socialize with others. However, the Senglu Department where he works is a cold yamen, and his official position is not high, and he makes friends with low-ranking officials. them.
It's not that there are no high-ranking officials to make friends with him, but he generally stays away from him, and he is really low-key, so no one comes to him over time.
Su Jiang's daily life is also very simple, two o'clock and one line in the yamen's mansion, at most, he will go out for a drink with his friends occasionally, and the places he goes to are all those inconspicuous small restaurants.
He met Chen Cai in this kind of place, but he didn't know Chen Cai's identity at that time, and Chen Cai would not tell the truth, but lied that he was a small merchant. We drank together a few times.
He didn't know that Chen Cai was actually sent by Chen Pingwu. Chen Pingwu was also quite conflicted. Since his daughter didn't intend to admit it, why should he think more about it? That's why Chen Cai pretended to be a small merchant to get close to Sujiang.
Good for the small shopkeeper, it means that he has no wealth, so it is not suspicious to appear in such a small wine shop, and the shopkeeper can also explain why Chen Cai only shows up once in a long time.
Su Jiang regards him as an acquaintance, even a confidant, but he doesn't know that his identity is fake.
But after Chen Cai's accident, he was repeatedly thankful that he had left such a way out, because when he came out of the Chen family, he thought of Sujiang without thinking about anything.
He asked Su Jiang for help, saying that he ran into robbers on the way to the capital and took away the goods and money. He had delivered a letter back to his hometown, and soon his hometown would send someone to deliver the money to him. Su Jiang's family stayed for a period of time.
Seeing him in a mess, Su Jiang brought him back without thinking too much.
So when the second wife sent people to look for Chen Cai everywhere, and did not hesitate to use her natal family's power, Chen Cai hid in Su's house and found nothing, which became her heart disease.
As for the Su family, Su Jiang never discovered Chen Cai's identity. Chen Cai went out from time to time, making him mistakenly think that he was inquiring about goods, and even wanted to help him report to the government, but Chen Cai refused.
It was Miao Cuixiang who found something abnormal.
Now Miao Cuixiang is most afraid of two things, being sent back to Yangzhou by her mother-in-law, and her husband taking a concubine.
She didn't live a good life before, so she just wanted to buy a few maids to serve her when she was rich, and eat bird's nest and ginseng one by one.
To be a lady, you not only need to learn how to act, but also learn to control your mouth. For those ladies from aristocratic families, it is as easy as eating and drinking tea, but for Miao Cuixiang's background and personality That said, it's not easy.
Because she said something wrong, she was reprimanded many times by her mother-in-law.
After finally being able to go out and meet people, she found that every household has more than one mistress, and there are many concubines.
She occasionally listened to the stories of the fight between the mistress and the aunt, enough for her to listen to it for several days without getting tired of it. But after listening to it, he turned his head and looked. To Su Jiang, he was a bad wife. What if Su Jiang wanted to take a concubine
Can the mother-in-law manage it? She definitely... definitely won't care, after all, her mother-in-law always dislikes her for giving birth to two brats, who can't even give birth to a girl, and the concubine happens to give birth to a girl.
So for a while, Miao Cuixiang paid special attention to dressing and dressing, and went to the rouge and powder shop to buy some balm and rouge, and then came back to dress herself up.
She felt good about herself, she would be a big show in Yao Jinzhi's eyes, so she was told to wash her face quickly and don't go out to embarrass herself.
After all, Yao Jinzhi turned his head and told Pan'er, and invited Huo Momo to the mansion again, and taught her how to dress for a few days.
After all, Miao Cuixiang is not too old, it's normal for women to have hobbies, and it's not a problem to take care of them.
That's why Miao Cuixiang paid special attention to Su Jiang's movements, and she usually kept him under strict control, but when she suddenly saw her husband was fine, she ran into the side yard. She guessed that Su Jiang had raised a bed warmer girl at home, and she didn't want her to know about it. Who knew that Su Jiang raised a big man in the mansion.
That's why Chen Cai came into the eyes of the Su family.
Su Jiang was a man, he was careless, and he was away from the mansion most of the time during the day, but Yao Jinzhi was different from Miao Cuixiang, within a few days Yao Jinzhi felt that there was something wrong with this man.
A small merchant who came to the capital from other places to do business, and had few acquaintances in the capital, why did he always run out of the mansion and watch him sneaky
After calling the eldest son to ask, he found out that this man named Chen Jiang was acquainted by the son in the tavern.
We haven't met many times, and even don't even know where the other party's hometown is, so you dare to go home? Yao Jinzhi wanted to drive people out without saying a word, but Su Jiang didn't want to, because he felt that he had hurt his face, and the mother and son lost their temper before.
But Yao Jinzhi has always been a person who prefers softness to toughness, and was originally suspicious, but seeing this sojourner was even more distasteful. When she watched Su Jiang go to the Yamen, she personally came forward to chase him away.
Before changing jobs, Chen Cai naturally left, but the second wife couldn't find Chen Cai, so she asked her natal family for help.
The Liu family of Dingping Bofu can only be regarded as a lower-middle family background in the noble circle of Jingzhong. In the past few years, the Liu family has not produced a few particularly promising men. The Liu family can be regarded as a local snake in the capital.
One of the second wife's brothers was on duty in Wucheng's army and horse department, and he made good friends with a lot of people from different religions, so catching a small escaped servant would be more effective with less effort. Not only that, but the second wife also linked Chen Cai's disappearance with Chen Pingwu's missing belongings, and reported the matter to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion.
So now there are people arresting Chen Cai, both openly and secretly, which is why he dared to go out a while ago, but has stayed behind closed doors these days.
At this time, Yao Jinzhi chased him, didn't he force him to die
At the beginning, Chen Cai moved his mind to seek Sujiang, just to leave a way out for himself. He actually didn't know the cause of Chen Pingwu's death at the time. He only realized that something was wrong, and deliberately hid it, just to find out the truth.
Although the truth has not been found out yet, it is almost clear that it has something to do with the second wife. Otherwise, why did the Liu family rush to arrest him
As for why the second lady attacked the master
Chen Cai felt that this matter was inappropriate at the beginning, and he had persuaded the master not to hide it, but Chen Pingwu refused to listen to his advice, but he did not expect to die at the hands of a poisonous woman.
Chen Cai has been going out all the time these days, just to check on the nursing home and Aunt Bai's family. There is nothing unusual about Aunt Bai's family, but she is distressed that her daughter can't think about it, but the family in the nursing home disappeared inexplicably.
Chen Cai also hesitated whether to go back to Chen's house, tell the old man and the old lady about this matter, and let them make decisions for the old man, but he was suppressed as soon as the thought arose.
He has been a domestic servant of the Chen family for many years, and he has some understanding of the behavior of the Chen family. Chen Pingwu's death has been regarded as a sudden death of a heart attack. How about Madam, after all, the Second Madam has two sons and a daughter, the Empress.
Once the matter was exposed, Empress Chen would bear the brunt, and the Chen family would naturally not be willing to face such a loss, so he had only one end to return to the Chen family, and that was death.
Yao Jinzhi was secretly scolding this person in his heart, who looked quite honest, why was he so thick-skinned, she had already said it clearly, the Su family did not welcome such unknown people.
And here Chen Cai was going through... a lot of struggles, and finally his desire to avenge the master and protect himself prevailed, and he knelt down in front of Yao Jinzhi with a plop.
He didn't hide anything, since when Chen Pingwu found out the clues back then, he couldn't bear to reveal it. He only asked people to check Pan'er's identity in the palace, and told what happened afterwards.
Chen Cai's thinking is actually very simple and practical, the enemy of an enemy is a friend, the Su family and the Chen family are opposites, and there is such a complicated relationship between them.
Even if nothing else is mentioned, Concubine Su Gui must want to bring down Empress Chen now, and he is the sharp weapon to bring down Empress Chen.
In fact, if he could do it all over again, if he knew that he just felt something was wrong and hid it subconsciously, which would trigger so many things later, maybe Chen would hesitate.
But there are not so many ifs in the world, and the current if is that he is kicked out of Su's house, which is a dead end, even if ants survive by stealth, he is no exception.
But he didn't expect Yao Jinzhi's reaction to be—
"You are really unpredictable. Your master will die when he dies. You want to seek revenge for him and find other places. What are you going to do at our house?!"
Yao Jinzhi left behind these words and hurried away.
Before leaving, she didn't forget to let people watch Chen Cai, so as not to let him run away, then she called the whole family over to discuss important matters.
"Why don't you report this to your empress?" said Su Datian, who has been an uncle for two years and is now very rich.
Although Su Jiang was in a complicated mood, he nodded accordingly.
"I can't say it!" Yao Jinzhi slapped the table and said: "Not to mention that the empress is in Xiyuan at the moment, we can't deliver letters there. If the empress knows about this, will she tell His Majesty or not?" ? I told His Majesty that His Majesty must punish the Empress. If you punish the Empress, you will harm the First Prince. Maybe it will be fine for a while, but after a long time, what if Your Majesty complains about your Empress?"
"Anyone can poke this matter up, but it can't be the empress, let alone the Su family!" Yao Jinzhi made a final decision, and the rest of the Su family dared not speak.
As he was talking, Yao Jinzhi hated his eldest son again, and scolded: "I see that you are honest all day long, so you have hidden something in your stomach, and you dare to take people home without saying a word. If you bring back a robber Bandit, killed your family, you don't even know!"
What she said would definitely not happen. After all, it was the Bo’s mansion, and now there are several guards guarding it. How can a single robber break into the Bo’s mansion? Su Jiang also had this kind of mind, so he was careless and didn't think too much. Of course, it was also related to his trusting people too easily.
"Now that we have brought back such a curse, shall we pretend not to know or know? If we don't know, His Majesty will find out about it later, and it will be assumed that it's what the empress and us are doing behind the scenes! You haven't understood it after watching it for two years, Empress doesn't need our help now, just don't make trouble for her!"
Su Jiang was so dejected by the scolding that neither Su Datian nor Miao Cuixiang dared to speak out.
"No, this person can't stay for long, he has to be kicked out immediately." Yao Jinzhi stood up.
"But mother, if you drive him away, he will definitely die." Su Jiang hesitated.
"If you lose your life, you will lose your life. This is his life. Anyway, he can't stay here, and he can't stay in Su's house anywhere."