After hearing this, Li Duan's face turned pale.

He slammed his hands on the table, his eyes reddened and he growled through gritted teeth: "What on earth is he trying to do?"

Lin Jue's face also looked ugly.

Only Li Jun didn't know what happened. He looked at Li Duan and then at Lin Jue, and thought it would be better for him not to get involved. He was silent for a while and said, "Brother, cousin, I'm going to go see mother. If you have any questions, just let the servant tell me."

Wei Xiaoshan's incident was like a huge rock that broke the peace of the Li family and made Li Jun see the strange rocks and mud hidden under the lake. He could not turn a blind eye, nor could he kill his relatives for the sake of justice. He had to be a quail with his head hidden under his wings, numbly drifting with the flow.

Li Duan was upset by the bad news brought by Lin Jue, and he had no mood to care about Li Jun. Hearing Li Jun's words, he was more than happy. He immediately waved his hand and said to Li Jun: "The wound on mother's forehead has not healed yet. She used to love you the most. I won't say more when you are not at home. Since you are at home, you should accompany mother well and stop making her sad."

Li Jun nodded, said hello to Lin Jue, and left the study.

Lin Jue looked at his cousin, who looked like an old man. When Li Jun left the study, he couldn't help but whisper, "What happened to Jun? What did my uncle say? I heard that my uncle might be transferred to Yungui. Could it be true?"

If it was true, the Li family would be in danger - Yungui's side was filled with poor mountains, bad waters, and frequent poisonous miasma, and not many people could come back alive.

Of course, if the Li family is finished, the Lin family will not have a good life either.

Li Duan's face turned pale when he heard this, and he asked, "Who told you this?"

Lin Jue curled his lips secretly, but didn't show it on his face, and said, "I heard it from the Song family."

Ever since the Peng family confirmed that the Yutu sold by the Pei family was the same as the Yutu in "Songxi Diaoyintu", they turned against them. Although they did not explicitly accuse them of failing to do their job well, they refused to mention the conditions they had promised before and even asked them to find out how the Pei family got the Yutu.

The implication is that they are suspected of having two feet in one relationship.

But how could they possibly find out how the Pei family got that map?

If they had this ability, they would have replaced the Pei family long ago. Why would they still try to curry favor with the Peng family?

Isn't this embarrassing for them?

Li Duan agreed verbally, but he did not take any action.

Maybe the Peng family sent someone to monitor them. Two days ago, they even sent a steward to threaten him, saying that if he couldn't do the job well, they would find someone else.

He had never been humiliated like this in his life, so he fought back on the spot.

Unexpectedly, a rumor spread in recent days that his father asked his younger brother to send back a large amount of silver.

Lin'an City is the root of the Li family. Their family was established and raised here, and their descendants will have to live here in the future. If their reputation is ruined and they are pointed at by others, can they really leave their hometown?

What he didn't expect was that there were rumors that his father was going to work in Yungui.

If I get promoted and am sent to Yungui to work, although it would be dangerous, it is still worth a try for my future. I'm just afraid that this news was released by the Peng family to warn their family... and in the end it backfired and became true.

Li Duan frowned and asked Lin Jue, "Have you talked to the Song family?"

The Song family is now doing business with the Peng family, and the Song family and the Pei family are in-laws. If you want to ease the relationship with the Peng family and the Pei family, it would be most appropriate to find the Song family to be the middleman.

His cousin is really smart and reliable.

Thinking of this, he looked at Lin Jue with a little more intimacy.

Lin Jue always thought that his cousin was good in every way except that he was a little arrogant and liked to act in a pretentious manner. Many of the relationships that could have been established with a little effort were ruined by him.

This may be the nobleness of scholars.

He looked down on us and envied us, and said, "Isn't it that I have no other choice? The Peng family has now determined that we are betraying them. We are weak and nothing we say will work. I suspect that they cannot explain to the elders of the Peng family, so they put the blame on us. In my opinion, there must be something wrong with the Peng family. And the Pei family, do you think Pei Yan has discovered what we did? He didn't hold an auction earlier or later, but he held one when we found the "Songxi Diaoyintu". It must be targeting us.

"Don't think that I've been strolling outside these days. In fact, I'm asking about Pei Yan. He is different from Old Lady Pei. I think he is a man-eating wolf. He swallowed you into his stomach, but he thinks you are too hard for him to digest..."

Li Duan felt more and more upset as he listened, and said unhappily, "Is it not possible that the Yu family is behind this?"

Lin Jue was stunned and said, "That's impossible! The Yu family is small, and apart from Yu Wen who has read a few books, no one else can be looked up to. If they discovered the secret of the "Songxi Diaoyintu", they would have to find a way to sell the map!"

As they talked, their eyes met.

If the Yu family wanted to sell the painting, to which family would they sell it?

Of course it’s the Pei family!

Both of them were startled, as if an invisible hand had pushed away the dark clouds and revealed the sunshine, and some things suddenly became clear.

They planned so much, how come they missed the Yu family?

Especially since Pei Yan took charge of the Pei family, the Yu family suddenly became close to the Pei family and even began to gain influence in the Pei family.

If you say that this matter has nothing to do with the Yu family, they will never believe it even if you kill them.

Lin Jue jumped up at once and said in surprise: "Let's hand over the Yu family!"

That way they can pick themselves out.

Li Duanxian was also happy at first, but he immediately shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Not appropriate! If the Peng family asks us how the Yu family knew the secret of "Songxi Diaoyintu", how should we answer?"

Lin Jue said: "Say they discovered it accidentally?"

"Then how do we know that the Yu family discovered this?"

"Afterwards we checked ourselves again and found this?"

“Why should we examine ourselves?”

Lin Jue said nothing.

Li Duan said: "Is it because something is wrong on our side? Isn't that admitting that there is a problem on our side?"

Of course I cannot admit it.

Once they admit it, it becomes their responsibility.

Lin Jue paced back and forth in the room irritably, saying, "This won't do, and that won't do. We can't just sit there and wait for death, can we? And I'm sure that this matter is absolutely related to the Yu family. We can't just let the Yu family plot against us, can we? I know that a lack of patience will lead to big plans, but I have to endure this matter like this, I can't swallow this..."

Li Duan ignored Lin Jue and was thinking about this matter.

Why did the Yu family do this? Most likely it had something to do with Wei Xiaoshan's death.

They did this wrong from the beginning.

If they had encouraged the Lu family to go to the Yu family to ask for the relics after killing Lu Xin, perhaps all these things would not have happened.

But at that time, they did not expect that Lu Xin had already sold the painting to Yu Wen, and they did not expect that Yu Wen would generously return the painting to the Lu family as a relic.

One wrong step leads to all wrong.

It's too late to say this now.

The most urgent issue now is whether his father will be transferred or promoted.

He asked Lin Jue: "Is the news from the Song family reliable? Did they hear it from the Peng family? The Song family has been doing well in the past two years, but few of the educated children are in the central government. If my father was really transferred to Yungui, how come our family didn't receive the news?"

His father is not a fool. If such a change happened, he would definitely inform his family as soon as possible so that they can deal with it in advance.

Lin Jue understood. He thought for a moment and said, "That shouldn't be the case. However, I didn't feel comfortable asking the Song family where they got the information at that time."

Li Duan sighed and said, "Don't you realize that the Peng family is trying to force us to submit?"

But what happens after they give in?

What exactly does the Peng family want to do?

Both of them were puzzled.

The Peng family was also puzzled when they heard the news.

The manager who reported to Peng Shiyi said, "I don't know who is spreading these things. I'm afraid the Li family will suspect us. Then we will be in trouble and we will have to find someone else to help us."

Peng Shiyi was so angry that the veins on his forehead were throbbing. He said gloomily, "Investigate, investigate thoroughly. I want to see who dares to do this behind our Peng family's back!"

The steward asked hesitantly, "Could it be the Pei family?"

"No." Peng Shiyi said without thinking, "I met him at Uncle Seven's house. He probably doesn't remember me, but I still remember him." When he said this, his expression became fierce. At that time, he thought he and Pei Yan would become colleagues, but who knew that now they were in a dark ditch. "He is a very arrogant person. If he wanted to mess with the Li family, he would never use such means."

The manager thought about it and agreed. This time, the Li family had challenged the Pei family's position in Lin'an City. The Pei family wanted to deal with the Li family to make an example of them. What was the point of doing it in such a sneaky way?

"Whose family is left?" the steward murmured.

Peng Shiyi ignored all this and said, "Have you checked carefully? The Yutu incident has nothing to do with the Li family?"

The manager said hurriedly, "We have checked it out. This incident has nothing to do with the Li family. They got the things and asked a painter to verify the authenticity of the painting. The painter's body is still at the bottom of the Suzhou River. There is no way the Li family has any problems."

That means there is a problem with the Peng family.

In recent years, the internal strife in the Peng family has been so intense that even the seventh uncle Peng Yu, who was an official in the capital, could not stand it anymore and wrote a letter to ask the eldest master of the Peng family to restrain the children of the family. Maybe the traitor is one of their own family members!

"Let's put this matter aside for now." Peng Shiyi said, "You keep a close eye on Li Duan - if he breaks off the engagement with the Gu family, there's no need to keep him around."

The steward shuddered when he heard this, bowed his head respectfully and said "yes".

Peng Shiyi took a sip of tea with an indifferent expression, thinking about Gu Chang who was still in Lin'an City.

I don’t know what this guy’s intention is?