Chapter 822 Silver Car

"Wenqi..." Cheng Mengxian no longer had the usual shrewdness, and her expression was quite moved: "The old lady was thinking about the most during her lifetime, and I, the uncle, was useless..."

He was full of guilt when he heard his words. Han Jiang said, "How could my uncle blame him when he was young? The niece was willful and stayed away from his hometown. She could not always be filial to her uncle. It was her niece's fault."

Both of them took the mistakes to themselves, but they could not help each other, which made them even more heartbreaking.

Cheng Mengxian felt a little embarrassed when he heard the word "filial piety". When he was a child, the old lady favored this granddaughter, and his uncle had been jealous and cried.

Han Jiang had already held Hui'er's hand and said to Cheng Mengxian: "Uncle, this is the little girl Hui'er..." As he said that, he said to Hui'er: "This is uncle, kowtow to my uncle."

Although they haven't seen each other for several years, the uncle and nephew have always kept their letters from home. Cheng Mengxian had already heard of her niece adopting a daughter.

Seeing Hui'er being well-behaved and cute, he personally helped Hui'er up and said to Han Jiangshi: "He is a good child, Wenqi is so lucky."

Han Jiang looked at Hui'er and looked quite relieved. He thought he was extremely satisfied with this daughter.

Cheng Mengxian had something to say to Han Jiang, so he called a maid and took Hui'er out to play.

The uncle and nephew sat down in the hall. The two met again after a long separation, but for a while, they didn't know what to say.

It was still Han Jiang's side, put away his sadness and asked, "Is my uncle going to Beijing this time to do business or visit friends? It would be great if I could stay for more days, and Wenqi could also be filial to her."

Cheng Mengxian replied: "I went to Beijing to handle some business after my cousin's order. Now that I have done it almost. I will leave for a while and I will set off to the south." He said this with a little shame: "As your biological uncle, I should have protected you, but over the years, I have taken on a lot of your care."

"It's all my close relatives. What's the uncle saying?" Han Jiang said with his head down.

Cheng Mengxian continued, "I am older now, not as good as in the past. I have also asked me to get the dowry of the old lady who was occupied a few years ago. My eldest brother, the second brother used the imperial concubine to invade his mother's inheritance, and planned to marry his niece. The matter was exposed and his reputation was ruined. Now he is all like a person with his tail. Wenqi, he is a shameful person, otherwise you will go back to Yangzhou with your uncle this time?"

Cheng Mengxian said the truth, and Han Jiang was very moved when he heard it, but he could not accept it.

"My uncle is pity and his niece is very grateful. But after all, the niece is not the daughter of the Cheng family. When she goes back to rely on the Cheng family, she is not well-known and has a bad reputation. Besides, Yangzhou is not far from Jiangning, and it is also related to the Jiang family and the Han family, which will only make people upset. Let's forget it." Han Jiang said.

It’s not that he doesn’t believe in this uncle, but that in the Jiangnan region, ethics are more prosperous and he is very harsh on women. Even if Han Jiang has millions of wealth and only has one woman, he loses the qualification to speak.

Besides, although my uncle is close, my aunt is an outsider. Moreover, there are also the clan leader Cheng Mengkun and Han Jiang clan depend on the Cheng family, so there are a few more people who make decisions.

At that time, Han Jiang will be used to being alone and can't stand the long-windedness.

When Cheng Mengxian heard this, he could only feel sorry for him and remembered something and said, "By the way, I remember Wen Qi's letter mentioned in his letter a few days ago that he was at the back of Mrs. Cao Zhizao and was protected by the Cao family. My cousin also mentioned many times that you can settle in the capital and owe a lot of favors to the Cao family."

Han Jiang nodded and said, "That's true. My niece was young in the past. She was plotted by her uncle, second uncle and several cousins. Her cousin left her hometown in anger, thinking that she could find some livelihood in the capital. Unexpectedly, the powerful and powerful entrenched in the capital. It was really difficult for me to gain a foothold. It happened that the fourth cousin was in Beijing and had an old friend with the Cao Mansion, so she entrusted me to the Cao Mansion. Over the years, Mrs. Li and the eldest grandmother of the Cao Mansion have treated me well. Before the New Year, the eldest grandmother was the decision, and I recognized the wife as her adopted mother."

Cheng Mengxian heard the word "Li" and was a little stunning, saying, "Madam Li? Who is from the Li family of Suzhou weaving?"

Han Jiang said: "That's right, my adopted mother was born in the Li family in Suzhou."

Cheng Mengxian thought about the Li and Sun families who had been in contact these days, and also felt a little curious about Cao Yong, the head of the Cao family whom he had never met.

Cao Yong is Sun Jue's cousin and Li Cheng's cousin, but he doesn't know which of these two families is closer.

Thinking about the fact that every time my cousin Cheng Mengkun mentioned Cao Yong, his expression changed, and he only said "it is a character and should not be offended." As for what is extraordinary, he did not mention it.

"We must be grateful to the Cao Mansion. This time we went to Beijing, my uncle brought a lot of local etiquette. Although it was not worth a lot of money, he was also a little bit of heart. Can Wenqi send a letter to the Cao Mansion on behalf of my uncle? My uncle wants to invite a wife to the wife." Cheng Mengxian thought for a while and said.

Han Jiang hesitated for a moment and said, "My adopted mother is not a capital city. In March, she went to Changping Zhuangzi with the Cao family and the eldest grandmother."

Cheng Mengxian said: "Changping is not far away, so I will send you a post. If you agree, go over to pay tribute to the old lady; if they are impatient to meet foreign guests, we will worship filial piety, which is not a short etiquette."

After hearing this, Han Jiang knew that what his uncle said was reasonable.

Thinking about the last time I went to pay my respects to Li, or before the Dragon Boat Festival, Han Jiang said, "Since that's the case, I'll go to Changping tomorrow to pay my respects to my adopted mother and mention this matter. If there is news, I'll tell my uncle again."

Cheng Meng smiled and replied casually: "I heard about the three major weavings of Cao, Li and Sun in my early years, but I didn't expect that the situations of these three families in the capital were different."

Han Jiang was in Jiangning in his early years and was a member of Jizhu Society. He was an old acquaintance with the three sisters of the Cao family. In recent years, he was in the capital, and because of his visits to the Cao Mansion, he also knew the recent situation of the three sisters.

When he heard his uncle mention the Li and Sun families, thinking of Cao Ying's snobbish look, Han Jiang could only shake his head at the Sun family's old man...

Sun's house, inner courtyard, main house.

Cao Ying looked at her husband sitting on the kang and looked at her, feeling nervous, not knowing that her husband was going to pick on what he was wrong.

Early yesterday morning, the husband took the two concubines away. Zhixian said leisurely: "My sisters, even if they are ignorant, they make me angry. At least because of the love between the mistress and the little one..."

After hearing this, Sun Jue was furious and stood up and shouted angrily: "I will tell you, just do it! What are you talking about?"

Cao Ying was so scared that he didn't dare to speak anymore. Sun Jue frowned and looked at her, but still hummed twice, and went out to go to the concubine's room.

Cao Ying fell to the edge of the kang, his mind was covered in mucus.

Although "to be married after marriage", if you bear this bad reputation, you will never be able to be washed away in your life.

She remembered clearly that in her early years, her mother was not favored by her grandmother because of her "jealousy" and "dominate" reputation. She was also a bit picky when she mentioned her mother.

It is my father who was ridiculed by his colleagues outside and he would irritate his mother when he came back.

Relatively speaking, the uncle Li is virtuous and virtuous, and no one can get out of the box.

Since childhood, Cao Ying thought that he could not learn from his mother, which would ruin his reputation and make people look down upon him; he should be like an aunt, with his parents-in-law caring, his husband respected him, and his sister-in-law envied him.

Sun Jue is a lonely man, sometimes like a child, and loses his temper randomly. Cao Ying endured it, just thinking about not making public his family's shamelessness, thinking about the four words "virtuous, kind and kind".

If you lose your reputation, what is the endurance of the years?

Cao Ying bit his lip hard, walked to the dressing table and sat down, opened the jewelry box that was mostly empty, took out a gold-covered hairpin on his hand, and showed a bit of self-deprecating on his face.

In the Cao family, even a decent girl can't use gold jewelry. She has been married for more than ten years, and her son is about to marry a wife, but she is not even as good as a maid.

Thinking of her son getting married, Cao Ying held the hairpin in her hand hard. Not for others, but for her son, she said that she was a good friend. Her reputation as a "virtuous" must be maintained...

No matter how Cao Ying thought, Sun Jue was determined to sell the person.

The next morning, Sun Jue went to the yamen and specifically reminded Cao Ying not to delay and quickly find someone to get someone. He also said, asking someone to change their old clothes, jewelry, etc., and half of them are not allowed to be taken away.

Cao Ying responded, sent Sun Jue away, called his companion, Qiao, and asked her to take her handwritten letter to the Duke's Mansion.

But when Sun Jue arrived at the yamen, he couldn't sit still when he was in a yamen.

The deadline for the Cheng family is before dark today, and the remaining 6,000 taels of silver in the Cao family was agreed to take it at noon this year.

Sun Jue felt that life was like the New Year. After half a day of suffering, at the beginning of noon (eleven o'clock in the afternoon), he hurried out from the yamen and rode his horse to the Cao family.

On the Cao family, Zheng Hu and Wu Sheng had already sent the account to withdraw 6,000 taels of silver from the bank treasury and waited for Sun Jue to come.

Yesterday, the three thousand taels were not used for a cart, only two mules were held and sent to Sun's house. Today, the six thousand taels of silver, several hundred kilograms, were loaded with a mule cart.

After the matter was about to come, Sun Jue developed a little careful thought. He looked at the two Changsui he had with him, and then looked at the big and thick Zheng Hu.

These two Changsui were newly selected in the past few days. When the two Changsui saw Sun Jue’s ugly incident, Sun Jue would not even be in front of him and sent him directly to the small village outside his city.

Although the emperor was at the foot of the emperor, Sun Jue was still a little worried and coughed, saying, "It's a few thousand taels of silver, not a small amount, so please ask Manager Zheng to follow him."

Zheng Hu was very happy when he heard this.

He was originally ordered by Cao Yong to secretly follow Sun Jue and track the whereabouts of the nine thousand taels of silver. Unexpectedly, Sun Jue asked him to send him to him openly.

Zheng Hu pretended to be a servant and bowed, "Young man follows the instructions of his elder brother-in-law."

Seeing him so respectful, Sun Jue looked up at the plaque of "Bo Mansion", and his body was a little light. Yes, he was the "son-in-law" of the Cao family, and he was the prince of the county, the prince was his brother-in-law, and he was also a person with status...

Fangjia Hutong, Duke's Mansion.

Cao Yi sat on the kang and listened to the reply from the housekeeper's wife.

Early in the morning, I received a letter from Cao Ying. This half-sister asked for the first time. She, the sister, was naturally very careful. She asked the housekeeper to go out to find a familiar person. When she arrived at Sun's house, she wrote her body contract and took out the two Zhixian and Yexian.

However, the identity of these two people was hindered, so it was not easy to ask someone to take him to the Duke's Mansion directly, so Cao Yi asked someone to take him to the village outside the city by carriage.

Now that everything has been handled properly, Cao Yi nodded and asked the wife, "What do you say about the eldest grandma of the Sun family?"

The wife replied: "Grandma Sun even thanked her wife and said that she would come here to thank her in person a few days later."

Cao Yi was a little curious and said, "Have she said why they wanted to sell these two concubines?"

The wife shook her head and said, "Grandma Sun didn't say anything. But after she came out of the Sun family, I asked the sister two words. The girl just cried and said nothing. The sister stammered, as if she had annoyed their grandfather because of something."

Cao Yi had a bad impression of his corrupt brother-in-law. After hearing this, he thought that Sun Jue was so heartless and was so disgusted with his concubine who had been in charge of the house for several years.

At this moment, the Cao family's mule cart had arrived at Sun's mansion.

Sun Jue was anxious to go to Cheng's house, but he didn't even change the car, so he just carried the other three thousand taels on horseback and headed to Shichahai.

As for Zheng Hu and several leaders of the Cao family followed, Sun Jue did not avoid it. He was talking about what he said in front of Cao Yong that his colleagues borrowed it, and he couldn't pick it up wherever he sent it.

However, Zheng Hu and Wu Sheng were even more surprised when they rode a horse and followed the mule cart.

I thought that the money was sent to the Sun family and Sun Jue would change the carriage and send them back, but I didn't expect that this eldest son-in-law was so "open".

The two looked at each other, and they were a little confused. Is their uncle thinking too much?

Sun Jue rode on the horse and finally felt at ease. He looked back at the silver cart and the Jianfu behind the cart, feeling confident.

After the fatigue of the past few days was wiped out, Xia Chan's snow-white body and watery eyes appeared in his mind.

After selling fairy branches and the two sisters of Leaf Branch, they certainly have the ingredients to vent their anger, but they are also for the summer cicada to scramble to the place.

His house is not big, but he has six wives and concubines. One of the older concubines has no place to settle and has moved to the back room. When Xia Chan came to the Sun family, she could not live in the back room with her maid and her mother.

Nine thousand taels, Sun Jue felt really distressed at this moment.

Thinking about it, when he arrived in front of Cheng's house in Shichahai, Sun Jue sighed and asked someone to go up and knock on the door.

Cheng Mengxian's side, because today was the deadline agreed with Sun Jue, people also paid attention in the front yard. When he heard Sun Jue coming, he opened the door and let the silver cart enter the yard.
To be continued...