Dong Rouer, Shen Zhaoshu inexplicably felt that this name sounded familiar. Wasn't this the woman who had come to the house to look for her son?
It happened many years ago.
As soon as Dong Rouer showed up, she was pinned down by Wang Lingyi. Although Wang Suwen felt pity for Dong Rouer who was beaten by her former lover in the street, he later obeyed Wang Lingyi's arrangement and let his sister place Dong Rouer on the farm.
Later, Dong Rouer ran away from the farm and sought help from Ren Jiayu to deal with the Wang sisters and Wang Suwen's wife Zhao Xinran.
But Ren Jiayu didn't think much of Dong Rouer. Even though they met, he didn't want to join forces with her. He felt that she was of little value in dealing with the Wang sisters. After all, Wang Suwen didn't do anything to Dong Rouer.
Dong Rouer waited for a while but received no response, so she secretly ran to Wang's house to find Wang Suwen. She was seen by Shen Zhaoshu who went out. She thought it was the woman her son had offended while on business in Yangzhou who had come to visit.
After calling his son over and scolding him, Wang Suwen explained that it was a gift from the Six Families of Yangzhou and it would be bad not to keep it. He accepted it, but only as a geisha appearing in occasions where the Six Families were present. He had no relationship with her.
When he left, he left her a small house and some money for her to live on.
Later, Dong Rouer found a lover in Yangzhou, but was often beaten by him, so she ran away to Kyoto to find Wang Suwen. When her sister Wang Lingyi found out, she settled Dong Rouer on the farm, but she ran away again.
After hearing this, Shen Zhaoshu went to ask her daughter Wang Lingyi. Although Wang Lingyi was still poisoned at the time, she had a nightmare that her brother would force his sister-in-law to death because of this woman, so she sent Xuan Mo Huang Xiang to Yangzhou to investigate Dong Rouer.
After investigation, her daughter Wang Lingyi felt that Dong Rouer was not seeking refuge because she was beaten, but had an unusual feeling for Wan Luo from the Wan family among the six families.
The eloquent Huang Xiang and the calm and careful Xuan Mo found the group of skinny horses trained by the six families. These girls had lived and eaten together since they were little girls and were trained and cultivated into skinny horses by the six families.
After the fall of the Six Families of Yangzhou, these women were scattered everywhere due to their different personal experiences, but everyone said that Dong Rouer was obsessed with Wan Luo, which was almost an open secret among them.
Wang Lingyi speculated that the truth behind Wan Luo's death was probably revealed as her brother gained the emperor's favor and became famous in the court.
I'm afraid Dong Rouer is here to seek revenge.
After hearing this, Shen Zhaoshu forbade her son to have any contact with this woman. She could not give her money, settle her down, or send her away. She simply prohibited anything from happening.
Since she has already run away from her daughter's farm, then she has run away. There is no need to look for her or chase her. As long as she comes to Wang's house, Shen Zhaoshu will arrange a group of beggars to surround her and ask for money and chase her.
Seeing that the Wang family was impenetrable, Dong Rouer gradually gave up the idea of looking for Wang Suwen. Somehow, she got involved with the Rongguo Mansion again and became the concubine of Duke Rong. Duke Rong was really old enough to be her father.
Shen Zhaoshu wondered: Is he still trying to deal with the Wang family? Or is it just a coincidence?
Was she unwilling to give up? Was Wang Suwen at his wit's end, so he decided to start with his own half-sister? If that was truly her plan, then it had taken her nearly ten years.
From the time when Duke Rong didn't care about her to now valuing her very much, he is really patient.
Fortunately, Ren Jiayu had been pulled down from the position of royal daughter-in-law by an unknown pusher, and she went to the border to suffer the consequences. Otherwise, if these people became powerful and secretly joined forces, it would be really hard to guard against.
Since it is this woman, we have to investigate. Checking the accounts first will give us a legitimate reason.
Upon investigation, it turned out that the Yongding Marquisate had indeed spent a considerable amount of money. And just as Jiang He had said, this son of Chen Yu had truly betrayed his own mother.
Even the house that Dong Rouer lives in now was bought with money from the Yongding Marquis Mansion.
He fell in love with the big house and coaxed Shen Yu to go back to her parents' home to find Yongding Hou. Yongding Hou bought it and it was registered under Shen Yu's name. Then his biological son coaxed Shen Yu to transfer the house to his own name.
After Chen Yu transferred the house to his son, the son transferred it to his biological father. Duke Rong took the house and "sold" it to Dong Rouer. There was a formal business contract signed by both parties, and a backup was kept in the business contract office.
It said that the house had various problems and was therefore being sold at a low price, and that the method of payment chosen by the buyer and seller was to pay on their own, without going through a money exchange.
The business contract included a receipt from Duke Rong, indicating that the payment had been received. The business contract office would then issue a document to change the ownership of the house.
After a long journey, the house ended up in the name of Dong Rouer. This meant that her biological son and husband had deceived Chen Yu into giving her money, bought a house that her mistress liked, and gave it to her.
Following this method, which is similar, a lot of the property under the names of Dong Rouer and her seven-year-old son is now equivalent to the money of the Yongding Marquis Mansion.
No wonder my father, Marquis Yongding, a military commander who had no demands for life, received many rewards from the previous emperor for his military exploits, all of which were real estates and manors, but he spent a huge amount of money in more than half a month and had to find me to make up for it.
Moreover, my father was really protecting Chen Yu at that time. I wonder if he was worried that Zhao Shu and Zhao Ming, whose life and death were unknown, would cause trouble for Chen Yu in the future. Yongding Hou tried every means to erase all traces of the money spent on Chen Yu.
It's like secretly feeding meat to your favorite child and then quickly wiping the grease off her mouth for fear that other children will find out.
If we hadn't already got the clues from the other side and the help from the old housekeeper, there would have been nowhere to investigate.
Shen Zhaoshu pondered: How can I get this money back? And what exactly is this woman planning?
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