Chapter 039: The Fall of the Meng Family
"Miss!" The graceful woman cried out, holding up her skirt and ran towards Wen Yan.
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The graceful woman knelt before Wen Yan and kowtowed deeply, "Su He thanks you for saving my life, Miss!"
Wen Yan quickly helped her up: "What nonsense are you talking about? We grew up together and are as close as sisters. Of course I have to find you!"
Su He is Wen Yan's personal maid. She was sold to the Wen Mansion at the age of ten and served as master and servant to Wen Yan for seven years.
Su He has always been loyal.
After Wen Ruyue returned to the Wen family, she has been targeting Wen Yan. In order to protect her, Su He was sold out of the house.
Because of her beauty, she was passed on to a traveling merchant.
The merchant treated her as a plaything and sent her to the beds of different men to get business for him.
It was not until a few years later that Huo Yaoxing was sent abroad to serve as an official.
In order to obtain a "salt permit", the merchant sent Su He to Huo Yaoxing's bed.
The master and servant were reunited.
The humiliating experiences over the years have made Su He suffer a lot, but he has also learned a lot of business skills.
Wen Yan knew that she was a good person and was assigned to the right position, so he arranged for her to manage business outside and give full play to her strengths.
Su He did not disappoint her.
She managed Wen Yan's business in an orderly manner and became Wen Yan's indestructible backing.
After being reborn, Wen Yan immediately wrote a letter to Meng Chifei, asking her to help find someone.
Looking at Su He's condition and the whip marks on his wrists that had not yet healed, Wen Yan knew that she was still too late.
She held Su He's hand tightly and said, "I won't let any of those who bullied you go!"
Su He looked into her eyes firmly: "Miss, let Su He avenge himself!"
"Okay!" Wen Yan held her hand tightly.
Wen Yan looked at the carriage again and asked, "Where's the godmother? Why doesn't she get off the carriage? Is she sick?"
Meng Chifei's voice suddenly became much lower: "My father was injured, and my mother stayed in the north to take care of him."
"It's not serious, right?" Wen Yan asked worriedly.
"It's not serious. He will be back to normal after resting for a while." Meng Chifei felt relieved again.
Wen Yan's heart sank.
In her previous life, it was not until General Meng's death that she learned from her adoptive mother that General Meng's assassination had already laid hidden dangers.
General Meng was injured and poisoned.
The poison was overbearing and insidious, and it seemed to have been cured on the surface.
In fact, there are more insidious toxins lurking quietly in the patient's body.
Over the course of several years, it slowly eroded his internal organs.
By the time the outbreak happened, it was too late to recover.
In her previous life, she sought out famous doctors from all over the world and medicinal herbs worth thousands of gold, and fed them to General Meng like food, but he only lasted a year before passing away.
From then on, the Meng family fell into complete decline and moved out of the capital.
Meng Xiyan, who had lost a leg and an arm, was taken back to his hometown by his stepmother.
Meng Chifei is even more...
Thinking of the Meng family that protected and loved her falling apart, Wen Yan felt heartbroken again.
She secretly swore in her heart that she would never let them make the same mistake again in this life.
Pressing down her thoughts, Wen Yan smiled and asked everyone to find a seat: "You must be hungry after a long day of traveling. I have prepared some food for everyone."
Wen Yan turned around and called Pei'er: "Pei'er, is the food ready?"
"Miss, it will be ready soon." Pei'er responded crisply and casually opened the lid of the soup.
The overbearing aroma spread instantly.
Meng Chifei's eyebrows lit up: "It's my favorite pig stomach and chicken soup!"
The cooked rice noodles were served on the table, and the first bowl was Meng Chifei's.
A large bowl of snow-white and tender rice noodles, a full bowl of broth, and topped with shredded chicken.
Meng Chifei held the bowl, took a sip of the soup, and sighed with satisfaction: "This is the taste. I have been thinking about it day and night at the border, and today I finally got to eat it.
Woohoo... so happy!"
Everyone else was so busy eating that they didn't even have time to chat.
For a moment, the only sound in the teahouse was the slurping of rice noodles.
Wen Yan waited until they had almost finished eating before asking, "Did you pass by Jinyang Prefecture on your way back?"
Meng Chifei shook his head: "No, is there any unusual movement over there?"
Wen Yan thought for a moment and then said, "I heard that Jinyang Prefecture suffered a drought last year and a small-scale locust plague occurred.
It is said that after a severe drought there will be a locust plague. If the drought continues in Jinyang Prefecture this year, I am afraid we must prepare for locust control early..."
This is not an exaggeration.
But it was her personal experience in her previous life.
This drought, accompanied by a locust plague, lasted for four full years.
The first two years were small and sporadic.
Officials concealed the facts in order to advance their careers.
It will break out completely this year and next year, spreading all the way to the capital.
After the emperor learned about it, he sent people to investigate the situation.
Only then did they learn that Jinyang Prefecture was already plagued by starvation and the people were living in dire straits.
The emperor was furious. He sent people to provide disaster relief and ordered an investigation into the matter.
Huo Yaoxing was one of the three recorders, so Wen Yan knew it very clearly.
After the disaster was brought under control, so many people were killed in Jinyang Prefecture that the blue bricks paving the Caishikou were dyed brown.
If the Meng family were to report this matter.
First, it was natural for the Meng family to know about this matter when they returned to the north, which would also make it more likely to arouse the emperor's vigilance.
Second, it can bring credit to the Meng family.
"Do you have any evidence?" Meng Xiyan asked, "There is little rain in the north, so occasional drought is normal. If there is no solid evidence, Your Majesty may not believe it." Meng Xiyan said.
"We have to wait a while for the evidence..." Uncle Lin and Uncle Tian's investigation data have not arrived yet, and she wants to give the emperor a heads-up first.
Meng Chifei saw that Yan looked anxious and it didn't seem like a joke.
He said, "Let me tell you about this. I met some people from Jinyang Prefecture on the road and heard about this. I pestered His Majesty to investigate. Even if there had been no drought or locust plague, he would have scolded me at most."
Wen Yan held Meng Chifei's hand: "Thank you, Sister Chifei."
Afterwards, they chatted about some recent developments.
Seeing that it was getting late, Meng Chifei and his sister had to rush back to Beijing to report, so it was inconvenient for them to stay any longer.
"You go back to Beijing with Sister Chi Fei first to take care of your health. I will go back to Beijing to open a shop in a while, and you will be busy then." Wen Yan gave Su He a reassurance.
Then he took out a note and gave it to Su He: "Find a chance to personally give it to Mei Yi Niang from the Huo family's first house."
They have made arrangements here.
Brother Chen led his men to move several boxes onto Wen Yan's ox cart.
"These are all newly found pigment ores." Meng Chifei said to Wen Yan reluctantly, "I'll come find you in a couple of days when I'm done with my work."
After saying this, she rode away.
Wen Yan stood in front of the tea stall and watched them leave.
Not until the team completely disappeared from her sight did she turn back to look for Old Niutou: "Uncle Niu, let's go back too."
The old bull head looked at Wen Yan and seemed to be hesitant to speak.
He had just seen and heard it all.
The young general in red not only behaved intimately with the scholar's wife, but also asked her to divorce Ying Zhilin.
Even if the young general in red is handsome and has military merits, it is still too much to poach his talents like this.
Wen Yan also thought that no matter how deep the friendship was in the past, now that she was married, she should cut it off completely.
But he was just an unrelated neighbor and had no right to speak out.
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