Chapter 253 Thanks to My Wife

"My husband, life is very leisurely."

Song Jin had a smile on his face, but there was a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

Qin Chi stood up and bowed deeply to Song Jin, "It is all thanks to my wife that I can have a moment of leisure."

Song Jin was slightly stunned.

She couldn't help laughing and said, "When did you become so smooth-talking?"

"I am sincerely grateful, my lady, please don't wrongly accuse me." Qin Chi smiled and poured a cup of tea, gently pushing it in front of Song Jin.

Song Jin took out a letter from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Qin Chi, "A letter from Yuan Shipeng."

Qin Chi was surprised. "I sent someone to sneak into Yuan's house to look for it, but they couldn't find it. How did the lady get it?"

“I bought it with money.”

Song Jin said it lightly, but it took some effort. "When I first arrived in the capital, I asked someone to contact a servant of the Yuan family. That person was the son of Madam Yuan's trusted nanny..."

The nanny followed Madam Yuan and did many unscrupulous things. She had been prepared for a violent death. As long as she stole a letter, she could get a large sum of money to settle her family. The nanny readily agreed and used the money to redeem her family. When the Yuan family learned what Madam Yuan had done, the nanny committed suicide that night.

Qin Chi opened the letter and read it.

After reading it, he sneered: "As expected, people like Yuan Shipeng will push their misfortunes onto people who are better than him without any evidence."

Song Jin wanted to nod after hearing this.

But why does this sound a bit weird?

After stepping on Yuan Shipeng, he still didn't forget to praise himself? The matter of the Yuan family's killing of Qin Chi continued to ferment under the instigation of the Yang family. If it was just Qin Chi, it wouldn't be a big deal. The Yang family also found out that the students secretly plotted by Yuan Shipeng were not only Qin Chi.

During the same period, several outstanding candidates missed the exam due to various accidents before the provincial examination, and one of them even lost his life.

According to the investigation, they are all related to Yuan Shipeng.

This incident caused a great stir among scholars, especially the powerless poor students, whose lives were not even guaranteed. If Yuan Shipeng had not been expelled from the Yuan family long ago, someone might have gone to the Yuan family to make a scene. Even so, the reputation of the Yuan family was greatly damaged.

Because Shangshu Yuan was an official appointed by the imperial court and the Minister of Works, few people dared to act like a demon in front of him. However, there were some, for example, his political enemies were making all kinds of insinuations about him in the hall.

Minister Yuan returned to his mansion.

When he met his eldest son in the study, he angrily said, "You said that Qin Qi'an's affairs were handed over to you, and look at what you did. You can't even handle such a small matter. Is it necessary for the Yuan family to be handed over to you in the future? And the letter written by Shipeng was lost, and it has not been found yet!"

"Father, I..."

Uncle Yuan lowered his head, looking very depressed.

In the past, his father said that he had limited talent, but he was never convinced. He worked very hard over the years, but still did not get a single word of praise from his father.

The Yuan family has no successor.

This is what worries Minister Yuan.

Yuan Shipeng, the only grandson who was somewhat intelligent, was led astray by the women in the back house. When they found out, they couldn't change him.

Uncle Yuan said angrily, "Father, it was the Yang family who intervened. They were the ones who spread the rumors outside. The most despicable one is that Yang Yingrong, who has been ruining the reputation of our Yuan family everywhere."

"He is a scoundrel, but he has never brought disaster to the Yang family. Your son is a good person, but he has ruined the reputation of the Yuan family for a hundred years."

Minister Yuan has not seen Yuan Shipeng yet. If someone were in front of him, he would probably kill him.

Minister Yuan decided: "Let that vicious woman die of illness."

"This, this matter is difficult to explain to my father-in-law." His family and his father-in-law's family are deeply entangled.

My father-in-law also knows some of the secrets of the Yuan family.

Minister Yuan said angrily, "What time is it now? Do you think Yang Zhengkai will let us go? He has made up his mind to break up with us, and he still has the evidence! Go and tell him clearly that the vicious woman is doomed to die. I can't even save myself, so I don't have the ability to save her."

Uncle Yuan really wanted to ask you, do you want to go meet his father-in-law?

His father-in-law is a daughter slave.

A few days ago, he said that his wife was seriously ill. Originally, the Yuan family planned to let her die of illness, but the father-in-law came several times and insisted on saving the life of that vicious woman.

Uncle Yuan told this matter.

Yuan Shangshu was very disappointed and said, "Go and ask him to come over. Tell him that I have something important to discuss with you. If we continue to waste time like this, it will not benefit anyone."

"Son, I'll go right away."

Uncle Yuan went out in a hurry.

The news that Master Yuan went to invite the Yue family soon reached Song Jin.

After Song Jin talked with Qin Chi, "The Yang family is really cautious. They didn't suffer any serious injuries in the fight with the Yuan family."

It was impossible to bring down Minister Yuan based on the previous charges.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

The investigation of the case showed that it was all done by Madam Yuan. Yuan Shipeng had been expelled from the family long ago, so the Yuan family had every reason to distance themselves from the matter. Minister Yuan was at best considered to be lax in managing the household, and with the emperor's current favor towards him, he would probably be fined a few months' salary, or be confined at home for a period of time to reflect on his mistakes.

If they want to inflict serious damage to the Yuan family, they have to find other things, such as evidence of Shangshu Yuan's corruption and abuse of power.

Song Jin thought about it carefully.

The thugs who killed them in Zhulin had no evidence pointing to the Yuan family. Rumors were flying everywhere, but no one mentioned the ambush in Zhulin that day. Even Yang Yingrong did not mention it to outsiders.

Yang Yingrong has been particularly popular recently.

Posts flew to him like snowflakes.

I just wanted to ask him about the post station and inquire about the situation from him.

With Yang Yingrong appearing to speak personally, Qin Qian'an's reputation is now very good and many people sympathize with him.

Some students from the academies in the capital, once they have gained some fame, like to say: "I am not Qin Qi'an, you don't have to be jealous."

Don’t mention it, as soon as this sentence came out.

The jealous look plummeted.

So what if he was powerful? He couldn't compare to Qin Qi'an, who was too outstanding and was often killed.

Sometimes people have all sorts of ideas.

It was precisely because Qin Qi'an was so outstanding that people were recruited to kill him, which made people think he was very powerful. Even there were legends about him among the people. In any case, he became a rare genius that only appears once in a century.

His reputation was rising rapidly, and he became almost a household name.

Song Jin knew that Qin Chi must have known about the outside developments for a long time, but Song Jin still couldn't help but often come to him and tell all the jokes about him.

Who told Qin Chi to close the door and refuse visitors?

Others guessed that he was retreating and was oppressed, but only Song Jin knew that he lived a comfortable life every day.

He is so leisurely and comfortable that he makes others jealous.

"My wife, I won't go to see the results when they are announced tomorrow." Qin Chi swayed on the drunkard's chair, eating glutinous rice cake.

Song Jin asked, "Do you have anything else to do?"

Is there anything more important than looking at the rankings?