Chapter 276 Double
Ginkgo turned around and went to the front yard to ask Manager Zhou.
Xie Guimo was in the study, so Chen Tang went to the study to find him.
In the study, Xie Guimo was reading a military book.
Knowing that it was Chen Tang who came in, he forced himself not to look at Chen Tang. After all, Chen Tang glared at him several times when he went out in the morning.
Chen Tang had completely forgotten what happened in the morning. She walked to the desk and looked back at the door when she spoke. Qiu Tong went out and closed the door behind her.
Xie Guimo raised his eyebrows and continued to flip through the book.
Chen Tang reached out and pressed the book in his hand down, "Don't read for now, I have something to talk to you about."
Xie Guimo put the book down and asked, "What's the matter?"
Chen Tang said, "You should find a way to arrange for the eldest young master of the General of the Cavalry Mansion to return to the capital."
Xie Guimo was stunned for a moment before he spoke, "Why did you arrange for Young Master Huo to return to Beijing?"
Chen Tang said, "In his previous life, Young Master Huo had an accident in Guzhou and died unexpectedly. Your cousin miscarried out of grief, leaving two lives. Madam An couldn't bear the blow, so she left a letter and hanged herself..."
"I don't know what kind of accident happened to Young Master Huo in Guzhou, so let's bring him back to Kyoto."
Guzhou is guarded by the General of the Cavalry, so the absence of Young Master Huo would just make things a little more difficult. But if Young Master Huo were to die, General Huo would have to bury his young son, and Madam An would have no hope of living. Once Madam An died, the Zhenguo Mansion would be completely gone.
Xie Gui Moxin raised his head, "When did the accident happen?"
Chen Tang said, "The accident happened ten months later in my previous life, but your cousin was pregnant in one month. I was afraid she couldn't stand the bumpy ride back to Beijing with the pregnancy."
We have to go back to Beijing anyway, so the better to go sooner rather than later.
She had been reborn for a long time, and now many things were different from her previous life. Perhaps Young Master Huo would not encounter any accidents in this life, but Shen Tang did not dare to gamble. What if he failed to avoid it? Or maybe because of her rebirth, this unavoidable accident happened earlier...
Chen Tang didn't dare to gamble, and Xie Guimo was even less so. "Just call Young Master Huo back to Kyoto. It's not difficult."
After hearing what Xie Guimo said, Chen Tang felt relieved.
All she could do was tell Xie Guimo everything she knew; she couldn't help with the rest.
It was already time for lunch. Chen Tang and Xie Guimo talked for a few words, and Qiu Tong said, "Master and Princess, it's time for lunch."
Xie Guimo and Shen Tang went back to the house and sat down to have lunch.
Halfway through the meal, Gingko came back, jogging all the way back, exhausted and out of breath, and even more angry, "The servants in the outer courtyard were negligent and sent the reward for the prince and his wife to Wutong Courtyard to the old lady!"
Ginkgo came back angry all the way.
The old lady gave the Crown Prince's wife a sterilizing drug and also shifted the blame to the palace to prevent the Crown Prince from getting to the bottom of the matter. It was so hard that the palace stopped giving the old lady a special reward, but in the end, the servants gave the old lady the reward that was supposed to go to the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess.
Chen Tang didn't believe that the servants of Prince Jingyang's Mansion would be so negligent, and he was afraid that it was not intentional.
She glanced at the gift list, which included some silks and pastries. They were not rare items, and as the Crown Prince's Consort she had no shortage of them, and the old lady would not be short of them either.
The servant accidentally sent it to Wutong Courtyard, and she sent someone to get it back. She was just ignorant.
After all, the old lady is the elder, so even if she, a junior, gave those things to the old lady as a gift, she should ask for them back. If the cakes have all been eaten, would she eat the leftovers from the old lady?
The old lady was the second wife given to the old prince by the late emperor, so even the prince and princess had to respect her. Although it was the princess who was in charge of the household expenses in the palace, the old lady had spies throughout the palace. Usually, one of the double rewards was given to the old lady, but now it was changed to her and Xie Guimo. Such a big change would definitely spread like wildfire in the front yard, and the servants would have to be very stupid to send them to Wutong Courtyard.
The old lady clearly wanted to use this incident to make up for the damage to her reputation caused by the infertility drug incident.
Ginkgo asked, "Should we send someone to get it back?"
Chen Tang said, "We definitely can't send anyone to ask for it."
Ginkgo was very unwilling, "You just don't want it?"
Although those things are not lacking, the emperor's grace is so great that if we cannot keep the things that the emperor has bestowed on the prince and the princess, we would be betraying the emperor's favor.
Chen Tang said, "Isn't there another copy? Manager Zhou will ask Mother to deal with this matter."
The emperor gave double the reward, but did not specify which one was for her and Xie Guimo.
That share was given to the old lady, and my mother did not share the remaining share. Although there was some loss, it was not much.
She and Xie Guimo would not be so willing to get a reputation as unfilial for that little reward.
Such a mistake would only happen once. In the future, when there were rewards given to her and Xie Guimo separately, Manager Zhou would send them not only himself but also a trusted servant.
As Chen Tang expected, Steward Zhou reported the servant's "negligence" to the princess. The princess was in no mood to distribute the rewards, so she directly asked Steward Zhou to deliver the portion to Chen Tang and Xie Guimo. As for the servant who was so negligent that he didn't even know where to deliver the things, the princess did not let him off easily.
He was beaten with thirty strokes of the cane and exiled.
Chen Tang and Xie Guimo didn't take such a small matter seriously. While they were eating, Chen Tang told Xie Guimo about the incense burning at the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion and the tablet being turned upside down. Xie Guimo asked, "Are you scared?"
How can I not be scared?
She has never been very courageous. Chen Tang said, "I heard from Madam An that Grandfather had a younger brother. I don't know if that lineage has been passed down. If we can find it, there will be someone to inherit the Zhenguogong Mansion."
It's a pity that the title, which was earned by sacrificing blood on the battlefield, was taken back because there is no successor.
Xie Guimo said, "My great-grandfather searched for it for so many years but couldn't find it. How easy is it to find it now?"
As he spoke, Xie Guimo thought of Chen Tang looking for his eldest and second brothers.
...It doesn't seem to be that difficult.
Not to mention Xiao Huan, Chen Tang's second brother, the old man had come to their doorstep, but the Pingyuan Marquisate just thought he was trying to take advantage of the situation and sent him away again and again.
Only Chen Tang was concerned. With the idea of being prepared for the worst, she did not dare to miss any possibility. She thought it was a good deed and helped investigate the case of Envoy Lu Xuanfu. As a result, God treated her well and found out that the third young master of the Lu family was really her second brother whom she had not seen since she was born.
Even Xie Guimo couldn't help but admit defeat.
With Chen Tang's ability to find people, maybe he can really find his great-grandfather's relatives. After all, ordinary people can't die and can live again from the beginning.
Xie Guimo said, "Try to find it. With the blessing of my great-grandfather in heaven, maybe we can find it."
Shen Tang nodded.
Xie Guimo picked up a piece of fish and put it in Chen Tang's bowl. Chen Tang also picked up some vegetables for him. Before he put them in, Si'er ran in from outside, panting, "Master and Consort, it's bad! The Eighth Young Master has been poisoned to death!"
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