The carriage stopped beside the exiled team. After the steward got off, he clasped his fists to the official and said, "I am here on the orders of the Duke to deliver some things. I hope the official will be lenient with me."
The officer who escorted the prisoner was just a low-ranking official. How could he dare to offend the people sent by the Duke's Mansion, not to mention the two thin pieces of paper hidden in the sleeves of the steward and quietly handed to him.
Could it be two hundred taels of silver?
The smile on Jie Guan's face suddenly became much more sincere. "No problem, no problem. It just so happens that the sun is still bright right now, so we can rest for a while before setting off again!"
There was no emblem on the carriage, and many people speculated which family it was targeting.
Then the steward walked straight towards where the Wei family was.
It turned out that the person who came was the steward of Duke Xu’s mansion!
The Wei family has caused such a big mess, but Duke Xu's Mansion has not yet distanced itself from them?
"Manager Xu." Wei Maolin was also a little surprised.
The fact that he was able to save his life and be exiled to Beiguan was the result of the intercession of the virtuous concubine in the palace. He thought that the Duke's Mansion would not send anyone else...
"You have suffered a lot. If my old lady were still alive, I don't know how heartbroken she would be." Manager Xu sighed, took the bundle handed to him by the servant behind him, and handed it to Wei Mingxuan and Gao beside Wei Maolin.
The "aunt" mentioned by Manager Xu is Wei Maolin's mother, Xu, who passed away many years ago. She was from the Xu Guogong Mansion and was a sibling of the current Xu Guogong.
The virtuous concubine in the palace was the eldest daughter of Duke Xu and the cousin of Wei Maolin. As she grew older, she had long since fallen out of favor, but because she gave birth to the eldest princess who married into the Northern Barbarians, she still had some influence in front of the emperor.
But the weight of this matter is probably not that great, otherwise why would the emperor trust the Second Prince's lineage and confiscate the property and exile Wei Maolin who wrote a letter to advise the emperor?
However, thunder, lightning, rain and dew are all blessings. No matter how the emperor acts, they cannot comment on it.
Didn’t you see that Manager Xu even spoke the words “You’ve suffered” in a very low voice?
"It's cold in the north, so there are some warm medicinal herbs in the bag. The Duke was afraid that you wouldn't have enough time to prepare, so he also put in a few thick clothes." When saying this, Manager Xu deliberately glanced at the bag twice.
Wei Maolin nodded in understanding, his eyes burning, "Please ask the steward to thank my uncle and cousin on my behalf. It is thanks to them that our family is still together."
"The Duke said that you should stay in Beiguan and wait until the Emperor calms down, then he will think of a solution."
Manager Xu continued, "As for Young Master Mingyi, the Duke will also send people to continue looking for him. If there is any news, he will send someone to deliver it to Beiguan."
Wei Maolin didn't know what to say anymore. His heart was filled with emotion. Wearing the wooden yoke, he looked in the direction of the capital, then knelt down with difficulty and kowtowed.
The one he was knocking on was not the supreme emperor in the city, but his uncle's family who were sincerely helping him.
Steward Xu helped the man up and took a smaller bundle from the servant. "This is what Third Master Tong gave me at the gate of the Duke's Mansion just now."
"He asked me to tell you that my cousin wanted to come and see you off, but she couldn't help herself... Please don't blame my cousin, blame him if you want to blame someone."
There was also a faint scent of flowers and snacks emanating from the bundle. Wei Yunlan knew as soon as she smelled it that it must contain flower cakes baked by her aunt, Madam Tong San.
Her aunt was weak and gentle, and her uncle was quite bookish and gentle, but the elders in the family were not easy to deal with. It seemed that they were being locked up in the mansion by Lord Tong and Old Madam Tong.
Wei Maolin could naturally think of what Wei Yunlan could understand, "How can I blame her? Jingyi's temper... After we leave Beijing, I'm afraid she will have a hard time in the Tong family. I'll have to trouble my uncle to take care of her a little more."
"Of course. The Duke is in the capital, so don't worry." Steward Xu whispered a few words that Duke Xu asked him to convey, and then went to the side to greet the official.
I could vaguely see that something seemed to be handed out from the sleeve.
At this time, a woman wearing a veil got off the second carriage.
His body was so thin that he seemed like he would fall down if the wind blew.
Two maids beside her, one was supporting her, and the other was holding a goose yellow cloak embroidered with white plum blossoms.
"Yuying!"
Wei Yunlan recognized her immediately; this was Xiang Yuying, her childhood friend.
In her previous life, she had never left the capital, so naturally, this had never happened. Yuying had been weak since childhood and rarely left the house, but today she took a carriage to come outside the city to see him off.
Wei Yunlan felt warm in her heart. Seeing Xiang Yuying being supported by a maid, still gasping for breath, she hurried forward to support her on the other side. "If you have anything to say, just ask the maid to tell her. Why bother coming here in person?"
"How can I feel at ease if I don't see you in person?"
Xiang Yuying's face was pale, and the corners of her eyes were red. "When I heard that you and the prince had divorced, I guessed that you would leave the city."
"Thanks to the carriage from Duke Xu's mansion that I met at the city gate, otherwise I really wouldn't know where to find you. I came here in a hurry and didn't prepare anything else. Take this cloak and remember to put it on when it gets cold at the North Gate."
The maid beside Xiang Yuying stepped forward and handed the cloak to Wei Yunlan.
The cloak feels heavy when I first hold it.
Wei Yunlan gently pinched the patterned area twice, and indeed, he pinched out a few hard lumps.
"Did you embroider the plum blossoms yourself?"
Wei Yunlan looked into Xiang Yuying's eyes and said seriously, "I will definitely carry this cloak with me and wear it all the way to Beiguan."
Seeing that Wei Yunlan understood what she meant, Xiang Yuying slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and then whispered: "Yunlan, I won't say more, you must hold on in Beiguan, and let Lord Wei hold on as well."
"There has never been a censor who was demoted and exiled. My father said that his colleagues in the Inspectorate were very angry about this. Now is not the right time. If there is a chance in the future, we will definitely find a way to get Lord Wei back to the capital."
His voice became quieter and quieter, and by the last two sentences, only his breath remained, and only Wei Yunlan could hear it.
Yuying's father, Mr. Xiang, was the Left Censor-in-Chief at the time. He had worked with Wei Yunlan's father for many years and they were also close friends in private.
After the two of them finished talking, Manager Xu also finished greeting Officer Jie. From Officer Jie's satisfied look, it was clear that Manager Xu had done a lot for him.
When they set off again, the two mule carts brought by Wei Yunlan were tacitly allowed to stay, just like the Liang family's horse-drawn carriage next to them.
Perhaps it was because the carriages of Duke Xu's mansion and the Xiang family were still parked there, so the official Jie whipped him much more lightly, and his scolding was only directed at the Feng and Bai families in the team who had no carriages or mule carts.
When he looked at the Wei family, there was less contempt and more consideration in his eyes.
The banknotes in his arms were not even warm yet, and the steward of Duke Xu's mansion kept trying to win him over and threaten him, which made him have to be more cautious.
Even though all the children of the Wei family were broken off from engagement and divorced, they were still related to the Duke's Mansion after all, and Duke Xu and the virtuous concubine in the palace were both thinking about them.
Who knows, one day when the emperor’s anger has subsided, they might be able to bring this family back to the capital!
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