The end of the letter stated that the people from Prince Duan's Mansion who were escorting them north had already reunited with Princess Daning under the intentional guidance of Tianshu Pavilion, and under the orders of Princess Daning, they had tied up Song Changke.
While dodging, Song Changke injured an arm and a leg...
There is a high probability that Song Changke is not qualified to be the governor of the three northern states.
Wei Yunlan folded the stack of letter papers, placed them on the lit candle, and watched them burn to ashes bit by bit.
Ningshuang extinguished the candle and cleaned up the ashes. She glanced at the sky outside the carriage and whispered to Wei Yunlan, "Miss, Jiang Wu and the others should have arrived at Beiguan by now, right?"
Yes, the Wei family’s team heading to Beiguan did not set out at the same time.
They were divided into two groups. The group that Wei Yunlan was in consisted of only her, Gao, Wei Mingxuan, Cheng Yue'e and their two children, as well as several servants who had followed them from the capital, and the fourth Miss Bai who they had taken in on the way.
The carriages they rode were all pulled by ordinary horses. They looked ordinary and were the kind that could be seen everywhere.
The guards of Tianshu Pavilion who had escorted them all the way north also returned to their initial state, staying not too far behind the convoy and not showing themselves in front of others easily.
The other team, led by Jiang Wu, left Lihe Village half a day earlier than Wei Yunlan and his team, having already left last night.
In the team, in addition to Jiang Wu, who was entrusted with an important task by Wei Yunlan, there were also brothers Tang Chuan and Tang Hai, as well as Shen Yuan and several other girls who were rescued from the Cao family villa by Wei Yunlan.
The people in the north are tough, and in order to protect the safety of several people, Suihe was temporarily sent by Wei Yunlan to Jiang Wu.
The carriages in the team were connected in a long line. Except for the first three carriages which had people sitting in them, the five carriages at the back were all carrying goods bound for the North Gate.
When exchanging letters a few days ago, Wei Yunlan had already asked Wang, the steward beside Wei Maolin, to privately inquire about a house with two courtyards in the south city close to the northern half of the city, and a storefront located in the busiest area of the north gate city.
Before noon, Jiang Wu and his party had entered the city.
After spending hundreds of taels of silver, he successfully acquired the courtyard and storefront that Manager Wang had taken a fancy to.
Then we started to make arrangements without stopping.
The storefront was located on the main street in the south of the city, with a lot of pedestrians coming and going. Even in the afternoon when the sun was at its highest, there were still many people passing by the storefront.
The new storefront, which has not yet opened, is flanked on its left and right by a tea shop and a clothing store selling winter clothes.
The tea shop is located on the corner of the street and its business is very good.
On the other side, the clothing store was crowded with customers as winter was approaching.
Two women carrying baskets were about to enter the clothing shop.
I stopped when I saw a new shop with a red silk hanging between a clothing shop and a tea shop, and the plaque on its door had not yet been unveiled.
"Are you going to open a new shop here?"
The clerk in the clothing store poked his head out and said, "Yes, the shop next door just changed its owner these two days. I heard that the new owner is a big business from another state, and they want to sell some items that we don't have in Beiguan!"
"Oh? I don't know what it is?"
The women standing in front of the door were very interested, and some even came forward and tried to look inside through the crack of the tightly closed door.
"Did you see anything?"
"I didn't see it clearly, but it seemed to me that there was a lot of silk."
"Hiss... that's something only the rich can use. There aren't many families in South City that can afford it. If you open a silk shop here, I'm afraid it will be hard to do business!"
The women were talking at the door, and the clerk in the clothing store who had spoken to them earlier poked his head out again and said, "How can that be possible? I heard from the clerk who just came to hang the plaque in the shop next door that the things they sell in their shop are all affordable for ordinary people like us."
"Auntie, think about it, how could a big business from another state let you lose money? Don't they know where to put things and sell them?"
"That makes sense." The women gathered at the door nodded repeatedly, and they couldn't help but become more curious about the things sold in this new shop.
Those who could afford winter clothes were mostly from the southern city, families that lived fairly well and had a little money on hand.
If you like what’s sold in a new shop, you might buy something just to try something new.
Except for the women in the market and the vendors on the street, no one noticed that a new shop was about to open in South City.
Especially the nobles in the northern half of the city would not focus their attention on such "trivial matters".
In recent days, everyone's attention has long been attracted by the family who entered Beiguan in a high-profile manner and settled next to the Qiu family...
He started large-scale construction, renovated his mansion, hired matchmakers, and hired servants.
Others saw that whenever the women of this family traveled, they would use a carriage pulled by two horses, with more than a dozen servants following in front and behind the carriage.
It has been a long time since there has been a family in Beiguan City that is so particular about pomp and circumstance. The pomp and circumstance is so grand that even the women's families in several generals' mansions in the city cannot compare to it.
Needless to say, this family who acted in a high-profile and extremely particular about pomp and circumstance were the Liang family who had just arrived in Beiguan three days ago.
In contrast, Wei Maolin, who behaves very low-key, still maintains a life that goes back and forth between the City Government Office and his residence.
Apart from the one meeting with Old Madam Bai that day, he had never met anyone in private since then.
However, he did not socialize with others, but he was well aware of what had been going on in the city in the past few days.
In particular, the movements of the Liang family were mentioned every day in the City Affairs Office.
Just after lunch, when I started to organize documents, I heard people whispering.
"Who is this Liang? He is clearly a criminal who was brought here. I heard that he was assigned the job of supervising account books right after he reported to the government office. He only needs to sit in the room and drink tea every day."
"As for his female relatives, I heard they are even more incredible..."
"When the wife of our Lord Gong travels, she only has a sedan chair and two servants. The wife of the Liang family often has more than ten people. I'm afraid that the princesses and princesses in the capital will have the same amount of ostentation when they travel, right?"
"That's not the case, but I heard that Madam Liang's status is not ordinary. She can't compare to a princess or a county lady, but she's not much different."
"That one, it seems, is the niece of the Empress Dowager! I think that the Liang who committed a crime and was demoted to Beiguan can still live such a comfortable life, most likely because of the influence of his wife's family. But think about it, how could the Empress Dowager let her niece suffer in Beiguan..."
When it comes to matters concerning the royal family, these local clerks are always a little more curious.
As they were talking, everyone remembered that there was someone nearby who had also come from the capital, and they all looked over there.
"By the way, Brother Wei, you all came from the capital. I wonder if you are familiar with Madam Liang's family?"
Wei Maolin shook his head decisively, "Not familiar."
Not cooked at all.
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