Feng Yuheng's words "the clear sky" were a recognition of Jing Zhao Yin's handling of the matter. [This website has changed to a new domain name.. first letter, previously registered accounts can still be used]
Jingzhao Yin finally put his mind at ease and ordered his men: "Throw the criminal into jail!"
"Let's see who dares!" Shen cried out, "You are only a third-rank Jingzhao Yin, and I am the eldest wife of the current left prime minister. You knew that he was my cousin, yet you dared to detain him? Lord Li, how many heads do you have?"
Jingzhao Yin was also unhappy. He didn't expect that the wife of the dignified Zuo Xiangfeng would be like this? When he thought about the recent news about the Zuo Xiangfu's legitimate son, he felt a few regrets.
What’s the point of being a high-ranking official? The legitimate son is useless, and the wife... is a little too useful.
He flicked his sleeves, turned around and sat down behind the desk, "Madam Feng, this is the government office, not the backyard of your Feng Mansion!" He spoke with anger and brought out the same momentum he had in the lobby, which really scared Shen.
"Master." Shen wiped her tears and turned to Feng Jinyuan for help. "It's not easy for my cousin to help run the shop for the family these years. If we investigate this kind of thing carefully, which shop wouldn't have this kind of thing? Why do you want to lock him up for three years?"
How could Feng Jinyuan have any sympathy for her? He had long disliked Shen's cousin, and that kind of relative simply lowered the status of the Feng Mansion.
"Lord Li!" He clasped his fists towards Jing Zhao, "I feel that three years is too short. My wife just said that this kind of thing probably happens in every shop. In this case, I, the Left Prime Minister's Mansion, must set an example and sacrifice relatives for the greater good. Lord Li, I ask you to detain him for ten years as a warning to others."
Shen fell to the ground and looked at Feng Jinyuan as if he were a stranger. For the first time, she realized that she seemed to have married a wolf, and a wolf that could never be fed.
How much did her Shen family spend for the Feng family? When Feng Jinyuan went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, the Shen family was only living a relatively better life in that village. Because she liked Feng Jinyuan, she forced her father to spend all the family wealth to support him in the imperial examination. But when he ranked first in the imperial examination, he married Yao Qianrou, the daughter of the Yao family.
The more Shen thought about it, the more she hated him. The more she thought about it, the more she felt wronged and unworthy for herself. Feng Yuheng, who was sitting on the side with his head covered, was like a thorn in her eyes. She swore that she would pull out this thorn no matter what!
"Okay!" Jingzhao Yin suddenly shouted, shocking everyone in the hall. "Prime Minister Feng sacrificed his relatives for the sake of justice, which is truly a model in the capital! Then I will sentence the criminal to ten years in prison!" After thinking for a while, he added: "No visitation, no commutation of sentence!"
Shen closed her eyes tightly, no longer interested in listening to the trial. Unexpectedly, Feng Yuheng, who was originally sitting and crying in pain, suddenly spoke again, saying faintly: "A small shopkeeper dares to sell fake medicinal materials such as ginseng and ganoderma. I really don't know if he is too bold or is being instructed by someone."
"Ah Heng." The person who spoke was Feng Jinyuan. He frowned, obviously a little impatient, but he didn't dare to say too much, so he whispered: "Family disgrace should not be made public, so stop it now."
She nodded and gave Feng Jinyuan this face.
The doctor was called in quickly. Feng Yuheng was actually not injured at all. When Shen Shi pulled her hair, she had already pinched Shen Shi's wrist pulse, and the other party could not exert any strength at all.
But the doctor was obviously smart. On the way here, he heard the little official say a few words about what happened here, and then he warned Feng Yuheng seriously: "Miss, you must be careful in the future. If someone pulls your hair with such great force again, it will easily cause a small area of hair to stop growing!"
Feng Jinyuan's face darkened a little, and his glare at Shen became more fierce.
When the three of them left the government office and returned to Feng Mansion, it was almost the evening hour.
The old lady had been waiting in the main hall of the Peony Courtyard with her three granddaughters and three concubines. When they heard that Feng Jinyuan and the other two had returned, they quickly invited them over.
Shen was so angry that she couldn't hold it back any longer when she saw Feng Chenyu. She hugged her daughter and burst into tears. "Chenyu! You have to help your mother! Your cousin was sent to prison by that evil woman Feng Yuheng. He will be in prison for ten years!"
Chen Yu was shocked.
When the government officials came to invite Feng Jinyuan and Shen to the court, they briefly explained their purpose. She knew that something was wrong with her cousin. But she thought that it was a family matter after all, and at most they would just scold him when they got home, and it would definitely not be too ugly. But she didn't expect that he would be sentenced to ten years.
The old lady was also stunned for a moment, but then she asked, "Is the shopkeeper of Baicaotang really your cousin?"
After waiting for a long time and seeing that Shen was just crying and didn't answer, he asked Chenyu: "You say."
Chenyu had no choice but to nod: "It's my cousin."
"Stupid!" The old lady pointed at Shen with her scepter: "How dare you send such a relative to your family's shop? Shen, oh Shen, how long are you going to take advantage of our Feng Mansion?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone curled their lips. Although everyone despised the Shen family's people, when it came to taking advantage, it was clearly the Feng family that took advantage of the Shen family, right? The Feng Mansion could grow to this level in just over twenty years, which was inseparable from the Shen family's wealth.
But since these words were said by the old lady, no one dared to refute them. Moreover, the person she was scolding was Shen. Even if she was wrong, no one was willing to stand on Shen's side and say a word for her.
Shen was almost out of breath because of the old lady's anger, and her hand, which was tightly grasped by Chenyu, was shaking constantly.
"Did you hear that?" She didn't argue with the old lady directly. Instead, she said to Chenyu, "My daughter, remember what they said today! In the future, get it back little by little!"
"What does mother want?" Feng Yuheng asked while covering her hair with her hands.
The old lady noticed something was wrong and asked with concern, "Ah Heng, do you have a headache?"
Feng Yuheng said to the old lady aggrievedly: "When I went to the government office before, my mother rushed over to beat and scold me as soon as she saw me, and she pulled my hair desperately. The Jingzhao Yin invited a doctor, and the doctor said that if I continue to tear my hair like this, I'm afraid that I won't be able to grow hair in this area in the future."
The old lady got angry when she heard this: "Shen! Even though you are the mistress, you have no right to beat a concubine's daughter!"
An said with concern: "What should we do? The second young lady is the future Princess Yu. What if Prince Yu finds out about this..."
Feng Jinyuan also remembered this matter and quickly asked Feng Yuheng: "When I met Prince Yu today, did he say anything?"
Feng Yuheng sneered in her heart, thinking that this father was only concerned about what kind of disaster Xuan Tianming's attitude would bring to himself from the beginning to the end, and he really didn't care about her, his daughter, at all.
"Don't worry, father. His Royal Highness Prince Yu only asked if Ah Heng was doing well and if he was bullied in the mansion. He didn't say anything else."
Everyone wiped their sweat, and you still said that you didn't say anything? Didn't you, Feng Yuheng, get bullied in the mansion?
Feng Jinyuan was too embarrassed to ask Feng Yuheng how she answered. He had no place to vent his anger. Shen happened to sob again, so he turned around and slapped her in the face - "You vicious woman, how dare you cry?"
Shen was beaten so hard that she completely lost her temper and just held Feng Chenyu tightly, holding on to her only lifeline.
Feng Chenyu didn't dare to turn against Feng Jinyuan. If she wanted to turn things around, she had to rely on her father who was the prime minister. Relatively speaking, her mother didn't seem that important.
But she didn't care that much about Feng Yuheng. She couldn't help but turn her head and said to Feng Yuheng bitterly, "Second sister, why are you doing this? A happy family brings prosperity! After all, that man is our cousin. Even if he made a mistake, he shouldn't be sent to the government office. You are embarrassing your father in front of the court officials by doing this."
Feng Jinyuan was touched. Chenyu still knew that she missed him. If he hadn't made this statement today, I'm afraid that Jingzhao Yin would have made up a story about his Feng family in front of his officials. Now he can at least gain a good reputation for sacrificing his relatives for the sake of justice.
Feng Yuheng listened to Chenyu talking about Feng Jinyuan, so she naturally followed suit and said, "I feel sorry for my father. Everyone knows that my father gave the position of mistress to my mother because he felt guilty about my mother's subsidies to the Feng family. But I didn't expect that my mother's money came from this way." As she spoke, she looked at the old lady again, "Grandma, my father is really wronged."
In a word, the source of the Shen family's money was directly changed.
Shen was fed up with this, and she didn't care about crying. She turned around and scolded Feng Yuheng: "Bitch! With those few shabby shops of yours, the most you can earn in a year is only 50,000 or 60,000 taels. Look at the food and daily necessities in your house, and then ask how much the good things your father sends to the palace every year are worth? Even if I take all your shops, I still can't feed this family!"
Feng Chenyu frowned helplessly. It was really terrible to have a mother who held one back.
"Didn't mother say that all my three shops were negative assets?" Feng Yuheng asked in confusion, "It turns out that there are 50,000 or 60,000 taels a year! And this money is not actually used for the Feng family, so where did it go?"
Feng Jinyuan was also dumbfounded. How could those shops make so much money? Fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver, his annual salary was only ten thousand. Shen had controlled those shops for so many years. Just like Feng Yuheng asked, where did the money go?
For a moment, everyone cast questioning eyes towards Shen.
Shen also knew that Feng Yuheng had tricked her into revealing the truth, but once the words were spoken, it was too late for her to take them back.
"Of course, they were all filled into the public middle school." She found a way out for herself, "They were all filled into the public middle school."
"Humph!" How could the old lady be fooled by her? "This item is not included in the public account book you handed in. Moreover, many of the expenses are too vague. I was thinking of checking it again after a few days when I feel better!"
Feng Fendai, who was standing next to Han, was always a talkative person. When she heard that Shen had made so much money, she was ready to fight again. "Last year, on my birthday, my grandmother said she would give me a nice dress made of Shu brocade, but my mother only gave me ordinary brocade and told me that the emperor was in a tight spot and asked me to understand. I didn't expect my mother to hide all the money."
This was the first time Feng Fendai hit the nail on the head and directly accused Shen of hiding some private money.
Feng Jinyuan pointed at Shen's nose and asked her: "50,000 or 60,000 a year, how much money have you hidden in the shop for so many years? Tell me!". ..
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