Chapter 180 Letter
Bi Yue'er's mother, Tang, ran around everywhere but failed to get her father and two brothers out. She was so anxious that bubbles appeared on the corners of her lips.
"Your grandfather and his men have always been very careful in their actions. How did they suddenly get caught with evidence of a crime and thrown in jail?"
Bi Yue'er felt that this matter was related to the person who controlled her grandfather and forced him to tamper with Ji Changqing's painting, but she didn't dare to speak out.
After all, they had not told her about this before in order not to worry her mother.
Just as they were worried that the fire might implicate them, the Hengchang and Yulong were simultaneously seized, and the owner, manager, court attendant, and their employees were all thrown into jail.
The Bi family was under strict guard, and no one was allowed to go out except the servants who were doing the shopping.
She was terrified and stumbled to find her grandmother.
"Grandma, why is there something wrong with our family?"
Moreover, they colluded with casinos, lured others into gambling, lent money at high interest rates, forced others to mortgage assets, and sold stolen goods for corrupt officials, committing such serious crimes.
Yu Shi was so frightened that she had a heart attack. Just as she recovered, she said weakly, "I guess the person behind this is taking revenge on us."
Bi Yue'er's face was as white as paper.
"What can I do? This is a serious crime punishable by confiscation of property and exile!"
Not only would their grandfather, father, and brothers be beheaded, but they, the women, would also be exiled to a wild place.
Yu Shi also wanted to know the answer.
She knew everything the Bi family was doing and understood the pros and cons.
Now her husband and children and grandchildren are all in prison, and they are trapped in the mansion. I am afraid they cannot escape this disaster.
But how could she sit there and wait for death?
"Qi may be able to help us."
She said to Bi Yue'er.
Bi Yue'er was astonished: "But, doesn't that person have you and grandfather's..."
"Qi Shi has never even met her aunt's brother, how could she recognize his handwriting?"
Yu gritted her teeth.
"As long as we firmly deny it, the bloodline issue will remain in doubt, and she won't be able to watch your father and brother die."
Is this really the case?
Bi Yue'er had a question in her mind.
If the evidence was insignificant, why did her grandparents treat it as a serious threat and order her to go undercover in the Ji Mansion?
Yu Shi took in her expression and said angrily, "Do you think your grandfather and I will obey him just because he produced some old evidence? Hengchang's private accounts are all in his hands!"
The private account records all of Hengchang's shameful financial transactions.
Bi Yue'er suddenly understood.
Immediately frowned.
"But we're all surrounded and can't get out. How can we ask Qi for help?"
"Can't the procuring agent go out?" Youshi replied, "Write a letter and give it to the procuring agent, asking him to find a way to deliver it to the Ji residence."
Bi Yue'er nodded quickly: "Granddaughter will write it right away."
Half an hour later, she presented the written letter to Youshi.
"Grandma, do you think it's okay to write like this?"
Yu Shi glanced at it briefly and said, "It's OK."
Then he sent for the purchaser and entrusted the letter to him.
The next day, Caimai brought a reply letter back home.
Yu Shi couldn't wait to open the letter and read it.
After just one look, he froze on the spot.
The letter slipped from her hands.
Bi Yue'er quickly picked it up and was stunned when she saw it.
"How did this letter end up in Qi's hands?"
Mrs. You's face was ashen. "I'm afraid we are wrong. The calamity that befell the Tang and Bi families this time was not the work of the person behind the scenes, but the work of Ji Changqing."
Bi Yue'er's face turned pale.
"Then this letter..."
"The person behind the scenes must have sent it to Ji Changqing out of anger."
That's a wrong guess.
At the Ji Mansion, Feng Qingsui threw a piece of cut duck meat to Peregrine Falcon.
"Thank you for your hard work this time. You did a great job."
The peregrine falcon caught it accurately and swallowed it in one gulp.
"quack!"
——When I take action, I will achieve success immediately.
Feng Qingsui smiled slightly.
She had previously thought of using peregrine falcons to track carrier pigeons to find the shadow guard base set up by Zhao Bixiang in Beijing.
Unfortunately, the carrier pigeon was never found.
This time, when the queen was deposed, the carrier pigeon from Fengyi Palace was sent to the imperial kitchen. Ji Changqing secretly saved the nail buried in the palace and sent it out of the palace.
She released these carrier pigeons one by one and ordered the peregrine falcons to track them, and found all the strongholds of the queen's secret guards.
Wuhua and Zhuying not only captured the secret guards alive, but also found a lot of physical evidence collected by the secret guards from those strongholds.
Among them was the letter that Shen Dalang wrote to Aunt Shen.
He wrote the letter after he hid in the valley of his hometown.
It describes how he and Yushi escaped.
And after moving into the valley, Youshi said that she had no means of livelihood and went to work as a housekeeper in a wealthy family in the county, but in fact she was having an affair with Bi Siquan.
He discovered this by chance when he went to the county restaurant to sell prey.
At first he was extremely angry and wanted to break into the house and beat the adulterous couple to death with one punch.
But when he thought about the fact that the other person had servants to protect him while he was alone, he calmed down.
Then I slowly remembered things that I had never paid attention to before.
The person who initially instigated him to go to the casino was his brother-in-law, Yu's younger brother.
At that time, he had just taken over the restaurant and was extremely busy.
Yu's younger brother often brought a group of friends to the restaurant for dinner. Seeing that he was busy all day, he advised him to go to the casino to relax.
It is said that a little gambling can bring pleasure.
He listened to it once or twice and didn't take it seriously, but after listening to it three or four times, he became a little uneasy.
After all, he is now the owner of a restaurant and his status is different from before.
The guests who came to the restaurant to eat knew everything about eating, drinking, and having fun, but he, the owner, knew nothing about it and couldn't keep in touch with anyone. He seemed too dull.
Yu Shi also always said that he was like a wooden man and had no sense of romance at all.
He followed his brother-in-law to the casino several times.
There are wins and losses, it's really fun.
At first, he only made small bets, but after winning more and more times, the amount he bet became larger and larger, from a few taels of silver to a thousand taels of silver notes.
Gradually, he lost more than he won. In order to turn the tide, he took the money lent to him by the casino and continued to bet.
Later he found out that the casino lent him money at extremely high interest rates, and the interest compounded into a huge debt in the blink of an eye.
He sold all his land and shops, but it was just a drop in the bucket.
People from the casino came to collect debts every day, and the restaurant's business was affected and plummeted.
Even so, he never thought of mortgaging the restaurant.
This is the Shen family's ancestral property and cannot be lost in his hands.
Even if he has to pay off his debts for the rest of his life, he will never sell out his family property.
At this moment, Youshi cried to him, saying that she was almost humiliated by the debt collector.
She said the villains threatened that if he didn't pay back the money, they would capture her and his sister and sell them to a brothel.
He was defeated, so he walked into the Yulong and mortgaged his own restaurant.
Yulong was recommended to him by Youshi, who said it had an excellent reputation and would be easy to redeem in the future.
Therefore, even though the valuation of Yulonghao was much lower than that of other pawnshops, he still mortgaged the restaurant to them.
He thought the proceeds from the mortgage were enough to repay his debts, but the casino produced another IOU, saying that he still had debts to pay.
He couldn't even remember how many IOUs he had signed when he lost everything, and he had a hunch that he would never be able to pay off his casino debts in his lifetime.
He then made up his mind to sell his sister to the son of Marquis Wenyuan, and then left the capital with Youshi.
Who knew...
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