Chapter 2337 It's really an acquaintance.
Zhao Xi was somewhat surprised by Shu Yu's reaction. "What? You know this person?"
Shu Yu frowned and asked Wei Qin for confirmation, "The young master of the house you mentioned is named Cheng Wenbao, so the young lady of the house is probably named Cheng Jiatong?"
"Yes, his name is Cheng Jiatong." Wei Qin was truly shocked this time. They not only knew the owner of the beaded string, but also the young master and young lady of the house.
Zhao Xi stroked his chin. "Is this really an acquaintance?"
Shu Yu's expression was complicated as she said in a low voice, "They are from the Changjin family. You know Gan Rui, he's A-Yun's future cousin-in-law. At the beginning of last year, the Gan family and the Meng family met to arrange the marriage between A-Han and Gan Rui. This Cheng Jiatong likes Gan Rui. She mistook me for the person who was to be engaged to Gan Rui and even had her maid find someone to ruin my reputation, but Xia Yan stopped her."
"Is that so?" Zhao Xi looked at Xia Yan, who was guarding the door, and the latter nodded.
Zhao Xi: "And then what happened?"
"Later, we took that thug directly to the Cheng family. Cheng Wenbao doted on this younger sister and naturally sided with her. But when Master Cheng Feng came out and realized that I was the county princess, and that they couldn't afford to offend me, he reprimanded the two of them and, without waiting for me to say anything, severely punished them and sent them to... the Southwest."
At the time, Master Cheng said that the Cheng family had shops in the southwest, and he wanted his brother and sister to come and manage them so that they could gain experience and temper their tempers.
Cheng Jiatong was so angry that she cried, saying that Master Cheng must have been instigated by Concubine Gao to treat her and her brother like this, in order to make room for Concubine Gao's child.
Shu Yu felt that Master Cheng's punishment was indeed a bit strange, but Cheng Jiatong's explanation could also explain it.
She had no interest in the internal conflicts within the Cheng family, nor had she ever imagined that the Cheng family would be involved with the black market.
Zhao Xi clicked his tongue upon hearing this. "So, they used the fact that you offended them to brazenly send people to the southwest? When others ask about it later, you'll become their shield."
Shu Yu, "..." Her eyes flashed like daggers at Zhao Xi.
Meng Yunzheng, who had remained silent all along, thought even deeper. The Cheng family were from Changjin Prefecture, and it was likely that they had been working for the black market there from the very beginning, but they had kept it well hidden. So many people from Changjin Prefecture had fallen from grace, yet they remained unscathed.
After the black market in Changjin Prefecture was exposed, Master Cheng ordered the eldest son of the Cheng family to come to this black market in the southwest. No wonder he made a big fuss about it and exiled the two siblings to such a remote place.
“But according to what Wei Qin just said, does Cheng Jiatong not know that her brother is a bad person?” Zhao Xi asked.
Shu Yu smiled wryly, "Whether she knows or not is not important. What is important is that Cheng Jia is a distant relative of Master Cheng."
Zhao Xi gasped sharply, "Is he a relative of Lord Cheng? Then Lord Cheng is..."
He abruptly stopped talking, glanced at Wei Qin out of the corner of his eye, and didn't continue.
Their conversation had focused entirely on Wei Qin's identity and the reason for her injury, without mentioning the existence of the black market. Since this was their first time meeting Wei Qin, there were some things it was better for her not to know.
Shu Yu didn't elaborate further. She turned to another matter, "I didn't think much about it before, but now I understand some things. After I finished my business in Changjin Prefecture, I passed through Huajiang Prefecture on my way back and even saw the Cheng siblings at the dock."
(End of this chapter)
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