Chapter 22 Those who obey her will be hurt, those who disobey her will die
"...I thought she would die at the hands of those bandits, but I didn't expect..."
Wu Yuanqing sighed deeply, his face full of regret.
Sun curled her lips and said, "What's the point of regretting it now? I told you to root it out and you didn't listen. I told you to accept the deposit and you didn't listen. You deserve to be ripped off to death."
"What's the matter with the deposit?" Feng Qingsui asked.
"At first, a man who claimed to be the chief steward of the Rongchang Marquis's Mansion came to him and ordered a large batch of Shu brocade from him without paying a single penny as a deposit. I thought it was inappropriate, so I asked him to ask for the deposit."
Sun vented all the resentment that she had suppressed for a long time.
"He went to the Rongchang Marquis' Mansion and came back to tell me that there was no precedent for advance payment in that mansion. All settlements were made quarterly. He hadn't even delivered the goods yet, so it was impossible for him to pay."
"Our shop doesn't have that much Shu brocade. Purchasing it would require a large sum of money. We don't have enough cash in the shop, so he went to the bank to borrow money. The bank refused to lend him money, so he went to the loan shark to borrow money."
"I felt the risk was too great and advised him to give up the deal. He laughed at me for being timid and said that if you don't take risks, you won't make a lot of money."
"Well, he bought some Shu brocade, but the Rongchang Marquisate refused to acknowledge it, saying they had never placed an order with him."
"He showed them the contract, and they said the seal on it was fake, and the person who signed it wasn't the official in charge of the house. They said he was cheated."
"He was dumbfounded. When he went to the Rongchang Marquis's mansion to look for someone, he was even invited in for tea. The servants were also very respectful to him. How could he suddenly become a liar?"
"He didn't dare to report it to the authorities, and after suffering this loss, he planned to sell the Shu brocade slowly to pay off his debts."
"But then the shop caught fire, burning all the stock. The moneylenders came knocking on his door, forcing him to sell his house, shop, and farm."
"Later, I wanted to make a comeback, but I couldn't make it because I had no capital. I could barely afford three meals a day. I broke my back carrying bags and could only lie down..."
"Now I make a living by washing clothes for others."
After listening to this, Feng Qingsui gave the couple a piece of advice: "You'd better leave the capital as soon as possible."
Wu Yuanqing smiled bitterly: "I'm almost reduced to a beggar, she should finally stop."
Feng Qingsui said calmly, "You sold her to bandits, causing her to become a skinny girl. Do you think, with her character, she would let your daughter go?"
A look of panic crossed Wu Yuanqing's face.
"She, she wouldn't be so crazy..."
His tone was so weak that it was obvious that even he himself didn't believe it.
Feng Qingsui stopped there.
Cuiqiao is a person with a heart as vicious as a snake and full of evil. Those who obey her will be hurt, and those who disobey her will die.
Before the purse theft incident happened, her sister took good care of her, but she didn't appreciate it at all. Before being adopted, she even released a poisonous snake into their dormitory.
Wu Yuanqing adopted her and then sold her. How could she just let them go without doing anything?
At least the family will be broken up.
Thinking of this, a trace of gloom flashed across Feng Qingsui's eyes.
My sister's family was destroyed when she was young and drowned in the Rongchang Marquis Mansion.
Xiao Yu was born with a love for water. When she was just one year old, she learned to swim with the doggy paddle under the guidance of her brother-in-law. When she was three years old, her sister said that she could swim continuously for half an hour.
Even if she accidentally fell into the lake at Rongchang Marquis Mansion, she could swim to the lakeside by herself.
Even if she failed to save herself, with so many servants inside and outside the banquet hall, right by the Moon Lake, how could they not even have time to rescue a child who fell into the water?
There was a fireworks show arranged at Yuehu Lake that night!
Xiaoyu's death was definitely man-made.
And it is very likely the work of Delphinium.
But Cuique was just a concubine who was not worthy of being on the stage. Logically, she had no right to attend the birthday banquet. How could she, who was staying in the backyard of the Marquis of Rongchang, do something to Xiaoyu?
And why did they choose to attack Madam Rong’s birthday party specifically?
Did she set up the plan in advance, or did she do it on impulse?
…
Wuhua drove the donkey cart back to Ji's house. Feng Qingsui was still thinking about these questions, so when she got off the cart and heard someone calling "Feng Sui", she didn't respond.
Only when he saw Ji Changqing's tall and straight figure did he show a hint of surprise: "What did the Second Master just shout?"
"I was reciting a poem: 'The moon descends with the clear frost, the wind follows the gentle waves.'"
Ji Changqing replied.
His eyes flickered to Feng Qingsui's face.
Feng Qingsui glanced at the clear moon hanging diagonally on the treetops and nodded, saying, "It's a poem that fits the occasion."
"Second Master, take your time to enjoy the moon. I'll go back to the courtyard to have dinner first."
She left with Wuhua, and Ji Changqing stood there, watching her disappear around the corner of the corridor.
Among the eleven girls with the surname Feng that he asked Shi An to investigate, four were still unmarried and were being well raised by their adoptive families, while six were already married, and the husband of one of them was none other than Jiang Jiyan, the former Minister of Rites.
There is also a boy named "Feng Sui" who was adopted by Jiang Jiyan and his wife, and his whereabouts are now unknown.
His intuition told him that Feng Qingsui was "Feng Sui".
However, according to the account books of the orphanage, Feng Sui was born blind and could not see - this was the reason why the orphanage made an exception and allowed Feng Xi and Jiang Jiyan to adopt her. When the other adopters heard that Feng Sui was blind and that the couple who adopted her had both died, they immediately refused the adoption. In order to take care of her, Feng Xi had always refused to be adopted - but Feng Qingsui's eyes were fine and there was no problem at all.
Ji Changqing had heard about the Jiang family's affairs and knew that their deaths were somewhat strange, but Jiang Jiyan was thrown into prison for disrespect and was posthumously labeled as "committing suicide out of fear of punishment". No one would bother to investigate the deaths of their family.
He was not the Jingzhao Yin, so this matter was not his responsibility, so he naturally just listened to it and let it go.
If there is anyone who cares about the death of the Jiang family, it is probably only Feng Sui, who is not on the Jiang family's death list.
After Feng Sui was adopted by the Jiang family, he disappeared after only a month, and Feng Xi handled all the follow-up visits to the orphanage.
This is certainly not compliant.
But Jiang Jiyan won the third place in the imperial examination and used his official career as a guarantee to assure the orphanage that Feng Sui was safe and sound.
The Salesian Home did not pursue the matter out of his consideration.
Ji Changqing felt that Feng Sui had probably been sent somewhere to treat his eye disease in recent years, which was why he could not show up.
This explains why Feng Sui couldn't see it but Feng Qingsui could.
After returning home, he waited outside the stable. When Feng Qingsui got off the car, he suddenly called out "Feng Sui" and then carefully observed her reaction.
What he didn't expect was that Feng Qingsui didn't react to the word "Feng Sui" and his expression didn't seem fake.
Is her acting so good, or did he guess wrong?
At night, Yan Chi reported to him that after Feng Qingsui left the orphanage, he went to find a former silk merchant named Wu Yuanqing.
"What do you want to do with him?"
Ji Changqing asked.
Yan Chi lowered his head and said, "I was stopped by that greedy girl. I was a bit far away and didn't hear their conversation clearly."
Ji Changqing: “…”
Just as I was about to curse, "What's the use of you?", I suddenly remembered that I seemed to have seen the name Wu Yuanqing somewhere.
After thinking for a moment, he remembered.
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