After Su Yiqing gave Mrs. Meng a few words, she went back home.

After returning to the mansion and taking a short rest, Lu Teng stepped forward and said, "Princess, do you want to deal with the Hu family?"

During the conversation with Mrs. Meng, Su Yiqing did not deliberately avoid Lu Teng. Lu Teng was not far away from where he was standing. If you were careful, you could overhear the general idea.

Su Yiqing had no intention of hiding anything from Lu Teng, she just raised her eyebrows: "Do you have any objections?"

"No, Princess, it's just that I have a better way. I don't have to go through Master Meng. If Master Meng does this, I'm afraid it will take some time and things will change easily over time." Lu Teng said something that made Su Yiqing a little bit.

If it's unexpected.

"Tell me about it?" After Su Yiqing was surprised, she didn't refuse or say anything suspicious. People in Prince Ding's Mansion like to play tricks, make traps, play hard to get, etc. In other words, people who like to play tricks are like this.

She has a small problem, so she can't trust the other person, but she always has the chance to tell people everything.

Lu Teng said: "The main reason why Hu Shilang's family is constantly fighting among themselves and falling apart is because Hu Shilang's wife, Mrs. Hu, was unfair in dealing with things before. Her eldest son was more promising, so she favored her younger son and often used her private money to supplement her.

Younger son, this is human nature. They say that more children mean more blessings. In fact, this is not necessarily the case. If there are more children, there will always be more promising ones and relatively less promising ones. Mothers always hope that their sons can keep pace with each other, so they always press forward.

He asked Shilang Hu to help his younger brother. Because Mrs. Hu was better at pleasing Mrs. Hu, Mrs. Hu’s natal family also took care of him.

Over the years, can Mrs. Hu be convinced? She is also the daughter-in-law of the Hu family. Her natal family tries to pull out her husband-in-law without getting anything in return, but her husband's family has to suppress her husband's natal family to take care of her younger siblings. When this grudge reaches a certain level, there will be

Out of revenge, Mrs. Hu devised a plan to trap Mrs. Hu San’s family and have a large source of corruption in her hands, in order to threaten Mrs. Hu to obey her orders. She was not a very good person.

Being able to tolerate it, holding such a handle would not cause her to get angry. She only occasionally warned Mrs. Hu San not to go too far. It wasn't until Miss Hu's incident came out that she gave the big handle and some of Mr. Hu San's personal information that she had collected on weekdays.

The evidence of the crime was brought out to threaten Mrs. Hu San to marry Miss Hu San instead of Miss Hu. One is the life and future of the whole family, and the other is her biological daughter. Although it hurts to abandon anyone, in the end, it is better to abandon one biological daughter than to abandon the entire family.

It is more beneficial. If there is no mother's family, let alone the daughter in the future. Even the son cannot be kept. What's more, there are some things that Mr. Hu San cannot escape. Mrs. Hu San can only agree to marry her daughter on his behalf."

Su Yiqing guessed it was the same. As the saying goes, happy families are all similar, and every unhappy family has its own misfortunes. This is not always the case. The misfortunes of many large families are similar. The Hu family today is just like the Yuanping family back then.

Generally speaking, in the uncle's house, the parents deal with things unfairly and favor the children and grandchildren of one family, even at the expense of the interests of the children and grandchildren of the other family. This leads to dissatisfaction with the other family, which gradually turns into resentment, and various fighting techniques are used in endlessly.

She was not surprised that Lu Teng was able to obtain evidence of the crimes of the Hu Shilang family. With the way the Hu Shilang family behaved, if they really wanted to arrest them, they would certainly be able to catch them, especially when the Hu family was torn apart.

After thinking for a while, he said: "In that case, just go ahead and do it."

Putting aside all possible conspiracies and calculations, since there is evidence of a corrupt official, it is the common people's duty to expose it. It is pointless to always wonder if it is a trap by others.

Lu Teng is very efficient at doing things.

On the first day, she heard that there was evidence that could bring down Shilang Hu. On the second day, she heard that a royal censor was involved in the investigation of Hu Shilang's crimes of corruption, dereliction of duty, shielding relatives and other crimes. The evidence was conclusive and could not be questioned.

In this case, Hu Shilang was stripped of his official title on the spot and sent to prison. He was just waiting for the case to be found out before dealing with it.

There was no news at all that officials from the DPRK and Central Government were imprisoned before they even came to court. There had been very few in the past few decades. Suddenly it became a topic of conversation in the streets. Hu and the Hong family were in-laws.

Ordinary people don't know what's going on between these two families. They only know that these two families are in-laws.

A few days ago, there was still talk in the streets that the small businessman Chu family was now running rampant in the countryside with the help of favorable in-laws, but now the in-laws of the former Hong family were imprisoned. The evidence was complete, and other crimes were involved. Some of them were involved in corruption.

The case was particularly hated by the people. After all, some of Tanmo's projects involved the lives of ordinary people and had a great impact. There were also some taxes that the emperor had decreed to reduce or reduce in disaster years. This Hu Shilang also covered up local officials and hid it. Not only

Taxes were not reduced or reduced, but increased a lot, making people's livelihood difficult.

Naturally, the common people hated it even more. Compared with these crimes, the so-called bullying of the Chu brothers on a street and molesting civilian women was simply insignificant.

If one party to the dispute makes a major mistake, the other party will naturally get the support of public opinion. So some people begin to question the so-called Chu family's bullying and domination. Some people start to peel back the cocoons of the previous rumors and find that many things do not make sense. If the Chu family

If they use their advantageous in-laws to dominate and gain fortune, then their in-laws must be a snobbish and corrupt official. Since he is a powerful and corrupt official, why would he give the girl to the Chu family?

The Chu family is just an inconspicuous small businessman. In the eyes of ordinary people, they have a little money, but definitely not too much. Who has ever seen a truly wealthy businessman still selling cloth in person to compete with the neighbors for a little bit of money?

Small profits?

Then, those who were usually jealous of the good business of the Chu family and followed the trend in the past few days often told people about how good the Chu family's business was and how they shoddy the good ones. When they saw that the limelight was wrong, they immediately changed their tune.

, also kept silent. When someone asked, he would not swear that some of his relatives bought defective products from the Chu family on that month of that year, or even deny that he had said such things a few days ago.

As for the witnesses, they immediately said that they did not actually see who was molesting the woman that day.

The Tofu Xishi mother and daughter have never appeared from the beginning to the end. Those who said they had noses and eyes before either did not admit that they said it, or they said they heard it from others. I don’t remember who said it specifically.

The trend has changed so much, what else is there to say?

The Hong family, who hated the Chu family the most, also shrank at this time.

As an official in the imperial court, what is absolutely incorruptible? If you can raise a prodigal son who molests good women in the street, Hong Daotai is certainly not an honest official.

Looking at the fate of the Hu family now, they are afraid that they will be followed and find out what happened to them. Officials like them will be fine if they are not strictly investigated. Once investigated in detail, there will be many mistakes.

Hong Daotai was frightened and couldn't help complaining about the Hu family, and then blamed Hu Dongmei. As a father-in-law, he couldn't directly confront his daughter-in-law, so he asked Mrs. Hong to take the lead.

Mrs. Hong didn't like Hu Dongmei at first and was very picky for a while. Later she saw that she didn't know why. Hu Dongmei slowly won her son's heart. The son begged her not to embarrass his wife, and finally he knelt down and begged her.

.

As a mother, she couldn't defeat her son no matter what. How could she bear her son kneeling down and being indifferent, so she had no choice but to give up. Later, Hu Dongmei tried her best and gave birth to a big fat boy. Even if it wasn't for her son's sake, she still had to look at it.

For the sake of my grandson, I endured this tone.

When the accident first happened, Mrs. Hong was thinking about how to take revenge on the Chu family and make the two brothers of the Chu family and even the entire Chu family pay for her son's life. Hu Dongmei's natal family also has some power. If they want to fight against the Meng family, the backstage of the Chu family, they must use the Hu family.

Because of his strength, he was relatively gentle towards Hu Dongmei. Now that the Hu family could not protect themselves, and seeing that the Hong family would be implicated, they naturally no longer had to endure it.

Immediately and with a large group of maids and women, they angrily arrived at the small courtyard where Hu Dongmei lived.

Hu Dongmei's whole body is in plain clothes, with no makeup on her face. She looks sad, but her complexion is indeed very good, not pale and haggard at all, her lips are still rosy, and she is holding a cup of unknown soup, and she is slowly

While drinking, he was surrounded by a bunch of maids and women.

When Mrs. Hong saw this scene, she was even more furious.

When the maids and women around Hu Dongmei saw this, they were a little timid.

"Mother-in-law." Hu Dongmei didn't seem to notice Mrs. Hong's anger at all, and only lazily bowed slightly.

Mrs. Hong took a step forward and looked at the soup Hu Dongmei put on the table. It was indeed a cup of Babao Sweet Soup. Now she found the reason for the attack and sneered: "Your husband's body is not cold yet, but you are starting to become popular."

It’s spicy.”

Hu Dongmei just said softly: "Mother-in-law, let alone my poor health. The past few days have been too much for my body and have made me weak. Just say that I am still breastfeeding the child by myself. If I don't eat, the child must also eat!"

At the mention of her precious grandson, Mrs. Hong's heart softened for a moment, but when she looked up and saw Hu Dongmei's red lips, her anger rose again and she scolded: "You are greedy yourself, stop using the child as an excuse, there are so many

The wet nurse is taking care of you, is there any need for you? Why don’t you keep watch for your husband-in-law and hide in the house all day to enjoy yourself? You also come from a scholarly family, do you know any etiquette? Why don’t your parents teach you any rules on weekdays?

"

After hearing such harsh words, Hu Dongmei didn't feel angry at all. She just stared at Mrs. Hong's eyes. The seemingly calm eyes seemed to be shining with a dangerous light.

Mrs. Hong's heart felt a little pounding for some reason, and then her anger overcame everything. Her tone became more severe: "What are you looking at? Why don't you go to the ancestral hall and kneel down to pray for your husband?"

Hu Dongmei glanced around and ordered the maids and women beside her: "You all should step aside."

"Yes." Those maids and women were eager to leave immediately to avoid suffering disaster later.

Seeing Hu Dongmei like this, Mrs. Hong started to feel a little proud. She thought she was scared and wanted to kneel down to beg for mercy. She didn't want to embarrass herself in front of the maid and mother-in-law, so she said, "What's wrong? Are you scared? Why don't you hurry up and go to the ancestral hall?"

Hu Dongmei just looked behind Mrs. Hong and ordered: "Will you also step back?"

The people brought by Mrs. Hong did not obey her orders and stood still.

Mrs. Hong became angry again: "What? You still want to control the people around me?"

A weird smile suddenly appeared on Hu Dongmei's calm face, and she said with some pity: "No, I just pity these maids and women. Many of them are loyal to you, mother-in-law. Now I am afraid that a disaster is about to happen. Originally, I wanted to

Showing them a way out seems to be impossible now, but it's still too late to quit now, so those who are smart should leave quickly."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Mrs. Hong's face was ashen. If it hadn't been for her years of upbringing, she would have stepped forward and scratched Hu Dongmei's ears.

"Mother-in-law, do you know that the government has investigated Lingfutang Pharmacy?" Hu Dongmei's tone was calm, as if she was chatting with someone.

"So what? When Mrs. Hong heard what Hu Dongmei said, she suddenly felt relieved. She also knew about Lingfutang Pharmacy. It was not a secret now, but there was no evidence that her son had taken that medicine.

Planting medicine, even if the shopkeeper and clerk of Lingfutang Pharmacy come forward to testify, they can insist that there is no such thing.

Hu Dongmei said slowly word by word: "Your son used to prepare a medicine at Lingfutang Pharmacy, an aphrodisiac called Gujing Bolan. You can tell by the name that even Gujing can cause waves. If a woman takes it, she will

A chaste woman can turn into a slut in an instant. Your son has been paired with him more than once, and I don’t know how many people he has used it on. The only one I know of is my seventh sister..."

As soon as these words were spoken, the maids and wives behind Mrs. Hong immediately looked horrified and deeply regretted that they had not left when Hu Dongmei told them to leave, and now they heard something they shouldn't have heard.

"You're crazy, you're crazy, you're talking nonsense." Mrs. Hong pointed at Hu Dongmei and shouted, "Quick, shut her mouth."

Those maids didn't want to listen any more, lest the more they knew, the worse it would be. However, as soon as they took a step forward, Hu Dongmei quickly said, "Do you know why the two concubines that Madam gave to the Second Young Master are not necessarily the same?"

?”

Just such a sentence made the maids and women hesitate a little.

Hu Dongmei had the opportunity to say the next sentence, "They all knew things they shouldn't know and were taken away by the Second Young Master. Where do you think the Second Young Master will take them? Now you also know things you shouldn't know.

, and what will be the outcome?”

The fear on the maid's face became even worse. They had seen Mrs. Hong's methods before, and she was not a merciful person.

Hu Dongmei smiled again: "Why don't you just listen to me and beg me again, maybe I can save your lives."

The group of maids and women stood still even more. They had only listened to half of it, so they simply listened to them all. At least they would be aware even if they died, instead of being half-informed. Even as the third young lady said, maybe I would like to ask for three

Young Madam, the Third Young Madam can still save their lives. (To be continued...)
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