Inside the inner chamber, Yin's face instantly darkened. Qingyan not only covered her mouth but also laughed unkindly. Tongjia had caused Consort Tong and Yin a lot of trouble.
The person outside the screen actually shared similar thoughts with Longkodo: Yin had to serve the Tong family like a slave.
Could it be that in Tong Guowei's lineage, only Consort Tong is a good person, while the rest are basically arrogant?
"Get back here!" Yin shouted. "Su Peisheng, find two nannies and send this Tongjia woman away."
Yin was really annoyed. Tong Guowei's lineage was not something to be proud of; he was a troublesome bunch.
"Little darling, what do you think we should do?" Yin wanted to consider Consort Tong's feelings and try not to hurt their relationship too much.
Yin was furious. To even mention his mother in front of him was utterly ridiculous.
“Mother is their shield. As long as they can’t persuade us, they will definitely push everything onto her. Does Tong Guowei value this deputy commander position?” Qingyan advised Yin not to simply refuse, otherwise, it would be very difficult for Consort Tong.
Yin nodded: "Tong Guowei no longer has military power, and his relationship with Tong Guogang is not good. After Consort Tong was ordered by Kangxi to change the family genealogy, the two sides became even more irreconcilable."
At this moment, Yin was also troubled. Tong Guowei's residence was a piece of land that no one could touch. In the eyes of outsiders, even if the family genealogy was changed, Consort Tong would still be filial to her biological parents.
Fortunately, Emperor Kangxi had taken precautions for Consort Tong by issuing an imperial edict forbidding her from contacting her family again, thus avoiding further trouble.
"Fourth Sister, should we take this opportunity to dig out the Tong family?" Qingyan likes Consort Tong, but doesn't like Tong Guowei's lineage. She has always remembered how Fourth Sister almost smashed up Linglong Pavilion.
"Now?!" Yin had considered it for a long time and felt that he should consider suppressing Tong Guowei's lineage. "Mother certainly wouldn't be able to bear it!"
Before leaving Beijing, Kangxi had a private conversation with Yinzhi, during which he specifically mentioned the Jueluo clan and the Tong Guowei lineage. He knew that once Yinzhi fell silent, these two families would definitely come out and cause trouble.
"Now, what should we do?" Qingyan asked.
Since the matter was of great importance, Qingyan wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of the entanglement of Tong Guowei's faction. In Linglong Pavilion, Tong Guowei's faction had really caused a lot of trouble. Consort Tong had said that they should no longer be given preferential treatment, and Qingyan obeyed the order and stopped giving those people any discounts, but they still spent money to buy them.
Every time they inspect jewelry, they nitpick and look for all sorts of flaws.
The headdresses made by Linglong Pavilion are flawless, yet Madam Tong Guowei actually sent her illegitimate daughter to the shop to cause trouble.
"What happened?" Yin noticed that Qingyan's tone was off. Could it be that the Tong family had gone to cause trouble again?
"Fourth Brother, I think Madam Tong Guowei is a bad example, so the people she raises are also bad," Qingyan complained.
Everyone knows that Consort Tong rarely returned to Madam Tong's side, except when she was by Empress Dowager Tong's side or at Tong Guogang's residence with the old woman.
Qingyan recounted Madam Tong Guowei's actions, and Yin frowned. Back then, he sensed Madam Tong's resentment; every time she saw him, she would put on an air of superiority. Out of respect for Consort Tong, Yin had never refused her. Now it seemed that Madam Tong Guowei was not a clever woman.
"Still making a fuss?!" Yin thought that once Consort Tong finished speaking, these people would stop causing trouble.
"This has happened several times already; some upper-class officials' wives are keeping their distance from Tong Guowei's daughters," Qingyan chuckled.
Every time the Tong family came to cause trouble, how could Qingyan let it go? Taking advantage of the large number of people, he directly resolved all these troubles.
Over time, many officials' wives felt that the daughter raised by Tong Guowei's wife was somewhat petty.
"It's you who's up to this!" Yin inquired and learned that Tong Guowei's daughters hadn't married well; several of the ladies had married men with relatively low-ranking official positions.
"Hmph, with them selling their daughters like this, who would have any faith in them!" Qingyan disliked the Tong family.
Every time she went to pay her respects, Madam Tong would look at her with hostility, as if she were blocking Madam Tong's path to success.
"Fourth Prince, do you think Madam Tong is going to find you a female relative?" Qingyan asked, looking at Yin.
"Yes, they have. Since I was ten, they have been nagging me to find someone for me!" Yin was very annoyed. Qingyan was a girl he had personally raised, so he had always taken good care of her.
Pfft!
Qingyan chuckled. From the moment she was born, Kangxi had already planned out her future. What was Tong Guowei's family planning to do?
"Fourth Prince, the noble ladies you've been assigned to must be quite good, right?" Qingyan was a little jealous.
If Consort Tong hadn't held firm back then, wouldn't I have ended up being treated like a sister by those people?
"No, Mother would never agree, and it won't work with Father!" Yin poked Qingyan's little head to stop the little guy from thinking nonsense.
"Let's figure out how to deal with this mess," Qingyan said, rubbing her temples.
Yin immediately ordered Liu Yangshi to be thrown into jail and interrogated to find out who had given her the audacity to attack him at the banquet.
Yin was also annoyed. Qingyan wasn't usually one to cause trouble, yet someone had actually targeted her.
"My elder brother said that Liu Yangshi said it was someone arranged by Madam Tong Guowei who instigated it." Yin squeezed her little hand, telling her not to keep looking at Ha Feng.
"By the way, I've noticed something. The Deputy Commander is from the Han Banner?" Qingyan discovered that the Deputy Commander had a Han surname.
"Yes!" Yin nodded. Tong Guowei always valued power and status, and would never agree to his daughter marrying someone who was not a member of the Manchu banner.
Qingyan breathed a sigh of relief. If it were someone from the Han Army Banner, it would have been even better if she had taken action.
"Fourth Prince, can we deal with this person?" Qingyan asked Yin. "Won't Mother be in a difficult position?"
Qingyan hopes there won't be any more trouble; since arriving in Guangdong and Guangxi, problems have arisen every day.
"No, we'll take care of everything and send all the evidence to the higher authorities. Let's see what Madam Tong Guowei has to say then!" Yin was also annoyed; Madam Tong Guowei was meddling too much.
Qingyan breathed a sigh of relief. Since they wouldn't cause trouble for Consort Tong, Qingyan didn't care about anything else. These people were just trying to curry favor with the powerful, and if they weren't forceful enough, they might cause trouble for the two of them.
"Let's think about how to handle this!" Qingyan blinked, letting Yin make the decision.
"Let them observe for a few days first. My elder brother said there are still some things we haven't clarified!" Yin said with emotion.
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