Chapter 68 The Impact on Family Members
When the topic turned to Lord Mei's family, Clover immediately had something to say.
"Lord Mei was sentenced to exile three thousand miles away, and the Mei family mansion was confiscated early on, with all the people in the Mei family being imprisoned."
Logically speaking, when Lord Mei was sentenced, his family members should have been sold off.
The servants and maids were all sold by the government to human traffickers.
As for those young ladies and gentlemen, they should all be sent to the brothels!
Hearing what Muxu said, Shangguan Jin felt a little emotional.
If one person does something wrong, the whole family will be implicated.
Therefore, this also illustrates that one should not blindly take sides.
Thinking of this, Shangguan Jin became even more cautious and more determined to live a quiet life behind closed doors.
Safety is the most important thing; don't let a moment of impulsiveness drag your whole family down with you.
Chongqing may seem very big, but when someone wants to run away, there's no escaping it.
"Miss, what are you thinking about?" Dongmai asked hurriedly when she saw that Shangguan Jin was not speaking for a long time.
"Oh? I was feeling sorry for Madam Mei!"
Such a beautiful woman, alas... what a pity." Shangguan Jin said casually.
"What's there to regret? That Lord Mei embezzled so much, she must have benefited from it too."
"Perhaps the jewelry she wears and the brocade she's dressed in are all ill-gotten gains!" Dongmai has always despised such corrupt officials.
Shangguan Jin smiled.
Dongmai is right. If Lord Mei embezzled, his family must have benefited as well.
But having embezzled so much, it's unlikely that it was all for his own benefit.
Everyone knows that the Ministry of Revenue used to be practically the King of Qin's money bag!
"However, Madam Mei is indeed very beautiful. Even though she is old, she is still eye-catching wherever she goes."
Before I entered the Duke's mansion, I saw Madam Mei a few times, and I still can't forget her appearance.
Aunt Xin stopped embroidering and put down her embroidery frame to gossip.
"You've seen her? She's really beautiful? Then her fate will probably be even worse." Dongmai stopped embroidering.
Aunt Xin nodded.
"Yes, I saw him before I entered the Duke's mansion."
Madam Mei and our headmistress were old acquaintances, and the two had a very good relationship; they were both from Jiangnan.
I heard that Madam Mei was raised by the old lady of the Duke of Anguo, so she is considered an adopted daughter.
She was extremely beautiful.
Dongmai understood; it must be another marriage arranged by the Empress Dowager's side!
Haha, I don't know what's wrong with the Empress Dowager's family, they just like to send people to their subjects' families.
Shangguan Jin, however, was overthinking things.
Outsiders say that Madam Mei has an excellent upbringing and is a rare lady from a prominent family. She was raised under the care of the old lady of the Duke of Anguo and is said to be a descendant of an old friend of the Duke of Anguo.
But Aunt Xin said that Madam Mei and her governess were old acquaintances.
this......
Others might not know about Aunt Xin's nannies, but Shangguan Jin did.
When Shangguan Yao entered the palace before, he secretly told Shangguan Jin.
Stay a little further away from those discipline mothers.
They were not proper palace governesses, but rather came from special places in Jiangnan.
These discipline mothers were quite different from the governesses of the princesses in the palace.
The palace governesses were so skilled that they never made a mistake in any rule, and their behavior was as if they were cut from the same mold.
They taught the princess how to display royal demeanor, and that she could not afford to make even the slightest mistake.
But what about the nannies who were specially hired by the Empress Dowager to teach the young maids...?
Those are all about teaching those young girls how to seduce men, which is clearly not the right approach!
However, as everyone knows, most of the girls trained were given by the Empress Dowager to her ministers as concubines.
Being a concubine doesn't require managing the household affairs; all you have to do is serve those men well.
However, Madam May knew those nannies...
This is where things get interesting.
Before Shangguan Jin could figure it out, the alfalfa and daylily that had been standing there spoke again.
"Yes! We overheard everyone talking about Lord Mei's house."
I heard that on the day her house was ransacked, Madam Mei hanged herself.
"I guess she didn't want to be sold to a brothel and humiliated!" Clover said.
"Yes, Madam Mei hanged herself, and it seems that the young masters have all been imprisoned."
There were also three young ladies: a pair of twin daughters born to Madam Mei, and a concubine's daughter. All three of these young ladies have disappeared.
"The soldiers who raided the Mei family's house turned it upside down, but they couldn't find these young ladies," Xuancao added from the side.
“They must have escaped!” Aunt Xin and Dongmai said almost simultaneously.
The alfalfa and daylilies both nodded in agreement.
They both thought so too; those three young ladies must have escaped, and Madam Mei must have arranged for someone to secretly send them away.
Madam Mei herself was too conspicuous to escape, so she arranged for her daughters to escape.
Alas, the hearts of parents are always full of love and worry.
If I had known this would happen, why couldn't I have been less greedy in the first place!
Shangguan Jin remained silent.
Escaped? Not necessarily. They were probably picked up by people sent by the Duke of Anguo!
After all, Lord Mei took all the blame, which saved Duke Anguo a lot of trouble.
That doesn't make sense either. If the Duke of Anguo and the Prince of Qin took the people away, why didn't they take away Lord Mei's two sons as well?
The current situation is that the young masters and noblemen are locked up, and the young ladies have disappeared.
What puzzled Shangguan Jin even more was that if it was indeed Madam Mei who arranged for the people to be sent away, then it was only her two daughters who were sent away.
As for that illegitimate daughter...
Shangguan Jin had met Madam Mei several times.
Every time he mentioned the illegitimate daughter in his family, he made no attempt to hide his disgust.
Therefore, it was definitely not Mrs. Mei who sent the person away; rather, someone else took her away.
As for why they didn't pick up the young master and son, but instead took the young lady away?
Hehe, Shangguan Jin couldn't think of that for the time being either.
Is it because those women are more vulnerable to humiliation?
Don't be silly, there are quite a few male brothels in the capital!
Many powerful and wealthy people have a peculiar habit: instead of going to brothels, they frequent these male prostitutes.
Many powerful and wealthy people specifically waited for the families of disgraced officials to be sold off, and even bought those young masters to humiliate them.
In their eyes, these pampered young masters from wealthy families were more appealing than the young ladies...
Shangguan Jin shook her head.
She couldn't think about it anymore; if she kept thinking about it, she would start to want to take all her valuables and flee to some remote mountain forest with her whole family.
"Madam! What are you thinking about!" Aunt Xin asked in a low voice when she saw Shangguan Jin's serious expression.
"Oh! I'm thinking about how to be a law-abiding and good person," Shangguan Jin said with a smile.
Dongmai and Aunt Xin both smiled.
They weren't worried about anything.
Even if the Duke's mansion wanted to do something illegal, they couldn't do it, okay?
The old are old, the young are young, and there isn't a single person working in the court.
The Shangguan family is impeaching people every day!
However, the practice of officials criticizing others was established by Emperor Taizu, and no one dared to find fault with the officials.
As for the servants in the house who might abuse their power and bully others...
It's even more impossible now. Including the steward, no one has dared to do anything bad since the time of the Duke.
Now that Shangguan Jin is keeping a tight rein on things, they dare not do it anymore.
Dongmai wanted to sigh again, but when she saw Shen Qingyue coming over with two account books, she quickly shut her mouth.
We mustn't let the young lady hear about these things; we don't want to frighten her.
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