Chapter 127: Snitch
The person who lost his temper late at night was none other than Zong Hebai's ex-fiancée, the fifth lady of the Guide Marquis's Mansion, Fu Ruoyu.
Fu Ruoyu has been dissatisfied with the marriage arranged by the old man since she was a child.
Why would she, the daughter of a noble marquis, marry a peddler with no title or rank and who was obsessed with money?
Which of her four older sisters didn’t marry into a duke’s or earl’s house?
They all became noble ladies, but she wanted to be a peddler?
How can she live her life in the future?
Fortunately, her father also did not agree with this marriage and wanted her to run for the third prince's wife.
But the old man owed her a favor, and Zong Hebai had waited for her to reach the age of 15 for so many years. If they took the initiative to cancel the engagement, they would probably be scolded to death.
The only way is to find another way.
Zong Hebai had given her many things, including a white fox fur coat.
The white fox fur coat had not a single stray hair and was uniquely tailored. When worn, one could recognize it at a glance even from a distance.
On the day she went to Taiheyuan for a visit, she wore it specially when she went out.
Then, on the stone boat, he found an excuse and exchanged fox fur coats with Chen Lingyi.
Chen Lingyi is the fourth daughter of the Huaiyuan Marquis's family. She is more than qualified to be a match for Zong Hebai. Zong Hebai should be content to marry Chen Lingyi.
While everyone was enjoying the scenery on the second floor of the marble boat, she pushed Chen Lingyi into the water.
Zong Hebai was drinking tea on the first floor of the stone boat. When he saw someone wearing a white fox fur fall into the water, he would definitely think it was her and jump into the water to rescue her.
Once the two of them had physical contact, she would be generous enough to allow it.
Everything was as she expected.
Chen Lingyi fell into the water, Zong Hebai also went into the water, and her maid pointed out their inappropriate behavior in front of everyone.
The accident happened suddenly.
——The one who rescued Chen Lingyi was not Zong Hebai, but Madam Ji Feng’s maid!
The interference of Feng's maid not only ruined all her previous efforts, but also caused her to suffer revenge from Zong Hebai.
Zong Hebai, this petty-minded man, actually plotted against her and her cousin at the old man's birthday party.
The cousin just drank a few too many glasses and couldn't control himself. He held her hand and insisted on giving her the hairpin. He didn't do anything out of the ordinary.
Zong Hebai attracted a group of guests to watch, and accused her of having an affair, and canceled the marriage in public.
Her good reputation was ruined by him, and she didn't even make the list of candidates for the Third Prince's wife.
But his own niece got in!
He clearly stepped on her to get to the top!
She couldn't swallow this insult no matter what she said.
She endured for a long time, keeping a close eye on the clan's mansion, and discovered Qiu and Yin Shi, a greedy mother and son. She deliberately approached Qiu and instigated her to attack the clan's mansion.
Qiu and Yin Shi really couldn't help it and went to the door to blackmail them.
She specifically asked them to come when Zong Hebai was not at home. Except for Zong Hebai, all the other members of the Zong family were wooden men. If they met scoundrels like the Qiu mother and son, they would definitely not know how to deal with it.
Things turned out just as she expected.
The Zong family was scolded by Qiu for an incense stick of time and did not show up.
Just when they were about to confirm that Yin Shi and Zong Yantang were secretly engaged, bringing shame to the Zong family, Cheng Yaojin suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
It’s Feng again!
The person she sent to keep an eye on the clan mansion reported that not long after Feng entered the mansion, a brothel owner showed up and, in a few words, accused Yin Shi of fraud.
After the yamen runners took away Qiu's mother and son, they actually sentenced them.
This Feng is simply her nemesis!
She couldn't sleep without Feng.
After being angry for half the night, she came up with an idea. She wrote a letter by lamplight at night and gave it to her maid.
"Tomorrow morning, find a beggar to wait at the gate of Ji's house. When Prime Minister Ji leaves, hand him this letter."
She yawned.
The maid said hello.
Thinking about Feng's miserable plight, she fell asleep with a happy look on her face.
The next day, when Ji Changqing went to court, a little beggar stopped his carriage and handed a letter to Baifu.
After Baifu tested the poison, he presented the letter to him.
Ji Changqing scanned the entire page at a glance, his face suddenly darkening.
"Zhuying," he called his secret guard, "find out the person who wrote the letter before the court is dismissed."
The candlelight agreed.
The little beggar was immediately dragged back to Ji's house and interrogated in detail.
The little beggar was only doing the work for money and did not know the identity of the messenger, but the candlelight could draw a portrait based on the description.
With the portrait, it would not be difficult to look for people in various prefectures.
After Ji Changqing left the palace after court was dismissed, he learned the identity of the person who wrote the letter - Fu Ruoyu, the fifth daughter of the Guide Marquis's Mansion.
He was not surprised at all.
Long before the Ningguo Mansion collapsed, he had warned Feng Qingsui not to get too close to Zong Hebai, lest he be targeted by the notorious Miss Fu Wu.
Feng Qingsui listened with one ear and ignored it with the other, and became closer and closer to the Zong family.
As expected, Miss Fu Wu started to cause trouble for her - she sent him a letter of denunciation, falsely accusing her of being unfaithful to her husband and having an affair with Zong Hebai.
He frowned and tore up the letter.
He then ordered Shi An to compile evidence of the Guide Marquisate's occupation of people's land and oppression of innocent citizens, and submitted a secret report.
After reading the memorial, the emperor immediately summoned Marquis Guide into the palace.
He was stripped of his title, ordered to return the occupied land to the people, hand over the servants who had abducted the women, and hand over the illegal gains to the national treasury.
This decree was like a bolt from the blue for Marquis Guide.
"Which of you offended Ji Changqing? Tell me the truth!"
After returning to the Marquis's Mansion, he summoned all his sons and nephews and questioned them harshly.
Although the emperor never revealed the person who made the accusation, everyone in the court knew that Ji Changqing was collecting evidence all day long to help the emperor confiscate his property.
The men of the Fu family looked at each other, all with confused expressions.
Who would bother to mess with that plague god?
They all stay away from people with the surname Ji, okay?
Marquis Guide, oh no, his title had been stripped. Fu Hongtian couldn't find the root of the problem and could only attribute it to his bad luck of being targeted by Ji Changqing.
After giving his sons and nephews a severe scolding, he resigned himself to his fate and ordered his men to count the family property and hand it over to the state treasury.
When Fu Ruoyu woke up, he heard the news that his family's title had been stripped. It was like being struck by lightning, and he was so shocked that he couldn't recover for a long time.
When she learned what her brothers had been questioned by their father, she almost screamed.
Is Ji Xiang sick?!
After receiving a secret letter that his widowed sister-in-law and Zong Hebai were having an affair, instead of dealing with his widowed sister-in-law, he dealt with her as the informer?
What kind of train of thought is this!
It's simply unreasonable!
A letter of accusation deprived the Fu family of their title and ruined the future of all their children.
Fu Ruoyu didn't dare to tell anyone a single word about such a heavy secret. She knew that the maid and servant who delivered the letter to Ji Changqing were secretly sold out by her.
Even so, she was still worried all day long.
She was afraid that one day she would be exposed and her father would find out. Given her father's temperament, even if he didn't strangle her to death himself, he would send her to the family temple and let her suffer for the rest of her life.
As for the tribesmen, there is no need to mention them.
He must have wanted to tear her apart with his bare hands.
Just when she was as anxious as a mouse or rabbit, she woke up one day and found a note beside her pillow.
"Want revenge? If so, do as I say..."
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