Chapter 373

After Jiang Mu scape left, Song Yixiao pursed her lips and fumed for a while, before listlessly calling in people to serve.

She actually didn’t really want to take advantage of Jiang Muzhe–exactly this Jiang sister, although unlike Yuan Xuexie, she grew up with her, but in these two years of interaction, they also treated each other with sincerity.

Just she cast too many places, even suspect Yuan Xue Pei, do not dare to rashly probe, not to mention the use of her husband’s power, can only through Jiang Mubai, bit by bit to piece together the news.

However, a few times down the condescension. Still stayed in the stage of suspicion, did not get substantial ironclad evidence, but in turn made her more and more depressed because she felt that she could not afford to Jiang Muzhe.

“Yuan Xue Pei recently are not in the mansion, occasionally in the mansion, when sister Jiang went to send food, also all see him in the account book …” Song Yixiao took the tea handed over by Pink Roses sip, staring deep in thought, “this can be really strange. Husband hasn’t come to the back to see us mother and daughter recently, so it’s obvious that he’s not very busy. Yuan Xue Pei’s earlier busyness, in addition to participating in the seizure of the Crown Prince, that is to help his husband to share the public affairs! Now that it’s been a year since the new ruler ascended the throne, what business does he have that requires him to go out so often?”

With this in mind, she waited for this day when Jian Xu Bai came to the back to visit his wife and daughter as usual, and then deliberately said, “Have you been pushing things to Boling Hou lately?”

“Xue Pei?” When Jian Xu Bai heard the words “Marquis Boling”, his heart skipped a beat, but he didn’t move to hide it, “Recently, the Ministry of Public Works has been very idle, otherwise, how would I have the time to come here as soon as the court is dismissed? And how would I bother him?”

Song Yixiao mused, “Didn’t Sister Jiang come to see me this morning? She mentioned that the Marquis of Boling has not been in the house much lately, although it was just a casual remark, I listened to it and felt that she was a little disappointed! In the end they have been married for many years, there is no heir yet, the elders above are not kind, Sister Jiang is always alone in the mansion think also lonely!”

“I wonder what you are asking about Xue Pei all of a sudden?” Only after hearing this did Jian Xu Bai feel relieved, and said with a dumbfounded smile, “Is it because you are afraid that Xue Pei has wronged your sister Jiang? It’s not a big deal, I’ll politely mention it to him later, I think he’s just negligent!”

“You still don’t want to talk about it.” Song Yixiao knit up her brows, thinking that if you go to speak, if the couple confronted each other, Sister Jiang would think that I was too nosy, but Yuan Xue Pei would be in trouble if she got suspicious!

I’m not sure what she meant,” she said, “Sister Jiang just said that I heard about cousin Xie’s sister-in-law and felt something, but she didn’t necessarily mean it! If you go and talk about it, maybe Marquis Yuan will think that Sister Jiang came here to talk to me about her grievances! That would mean that we’re instigating their love for each other.”

Jian Xu Bai is not particularly interested in interfering in the affairs of other people’s couples, but he is used to obeying his wife, and at this moment, he heard the words since he did not insist, “Around Xue Pei is not deliberately cold-blooded his wife, since this is the case, then it is better to let them go!”

Only then did Song Yixiao relax and talk to him about his daughter’s performance today.

However, what she didn’t know is that before dark, Jian Xu Bai returned to the front study, but immediately summoned Lv Qinghong to speak, “What has Xue Pei been busy with lately, labor Uncle Lv to check it out!”

“Did Your Excellency find anything?” Lu Qinghong asked.

“Just now Shan Mei said that she heard from Mrs. Jiang that Xue Pei has been very busy lately, so busy that he’s left his wife out in the cold.” Jian Xu Bai walked around the chamber with his hands folded, his face darkening as he said, “I want to know exactly what he’s busy with?”

Lu Qinghong said, “That three hundred thousand taels of silver in the field …”

“The industry Xue Pei didn’t dare to put his own name directly, and didn’t want the fields near the imperial capital, how could he be openly busy about it?” Jian Xu Bai shook his head and said, “Besides, I have instructed him not to reveal any cracks here, I think he dares not disobey out of fear of the Good Mysteries! So what he’s busy with at the moment probably has nothing to do with this matter, at least not on the surface!”

He is staring at Yuan Xue Pei, but he doesn’t mean anything else, he is just thinking that Yuan Xue Pei has just made a fortune from the Song family, so don’t eat smoothly, and then hit on other people’s ideas – of course, Yuan Xue Pei has the merit of the Dragon, and there is the backing of Jane Xubai, as well as Jiang’s family as the family of wives, so he can afford to take the trouble, but similar things are inevitable to do more! But if you do more similar things, you will inevitably reveal the cracks, and then even if he can retreat in one piece, he will not be able to do without some gray face!

The point is that Jian Xubai thinks, Yuan Xue Pei is not lack of wealth and fortune, the good years to put their minds on money, really too much to live up to his talent, or to take advantage of the discovery of early, the friend’s mind towards the right way to lead the good.

Thinking of this, he could not help but feel that his wife was right, and sighed softly, “It’s also because Xue Pei has no heir yet, or else although he himself is not good enough to go out for a career, he can always put his mind on cultivating the next generation, in that case he won’t be able to do things in a messy way either!”

“The Marquis is cold-bloodedly neglecting his wife, yet where will this heir come from?” Lu Qinghong joked and said, “Don’t worry, Your Excellency, a certain family will be able to give you an accurate letter in less than three days!”

Jian Xu Bai nodded slightly, and began to think about the words to persuade Yuan Xue Pei three days later – unexpectedly three days later Lu Qinghong came over to report, but let his face suddenly changed, “This is true?!”

“This is a big matter, how dare I talk nonsense?” Lu Qinghong also completely lost the ease of leading a mission, and looked grave, “And a certain person also went to the third master’s place just now, and the third master heard about it, and then provided a few more news …”

Along with his statement, Jian Xubai’s face became more and more ugly, after a long time it was already gloomy and wanted to rain, “Is there anyone else who knows about this now?!”

“In the words of the Third Master, both are ministers of the Dragon, yet Marquis Boling was unable to join the civil service due to his illness, and was destined to spend his life as a rich and noble idler, so who would have suspected him? If it wasn’t for the Duke’s word to investigate him, we would have been kept in the dark.” When Lu Qinghong said this, he pondered and said, “May I ask what your lordship intends to do next?”

Not waiting for Jian Xu Bai to answer, he followed up with, “If you plan to meet with Marquis Boling openly and honestly, a certain family is very disapproving!”

After a pause he added, “The Third Master doesn’t approve either!”

Jian Xu Bai frowned, he and Yuan Xue Pei is since childhood friendship, in the Wuhuan when we shared difficulties, not to mention, Yuan Xue Pei’s disability is also because he refused to betray him – so no matter Yuan Xue Pei do what treacherous things, he always hope that the other side can come to their senses.

However, Lu Qinghong and Jian Li Miao did not hold a light position in his mind, so he pondered for a moment, did not object directly, and only said, “Why?”

“At that time, Master Gong hadn’t yet learned to walk for a long time, and it’s not strange that you don’t know about this kind of old history.” Lu Qinghong said leisurely, “All in all, from now on, you just know what’s in your heart!”

… This inside information Song Yixiao is not aware of, she is more and more feel Yuan Xue Pei suspicious, but also more and more feel purely rely on with Jiang Mu scape set of words progress is too slow, and may even have not been able to get a breakthrough in progress, but suffering from no suitable manpower available.

After all, although Yu Shiheng’s stream is shrewd and capable, it is ultimately Jian Xubai’s beloved.

She was going to use the can, but it also meant that she couldn’t hide it from her husband.

And biological parents kill each other this kind of dishonorable thing … Even if she knows that Jian Xubai will not look down on her because of this, she really does not want to tell him.

To say that Song Yixiao hadn’t failed to train his own manpower over the years, the problem was that Yuan Xue Pei wasn’t an ordinary person.

As a hereditary marquis, but also with the army has gone out to conquer the gold plating, he can not go out to the civil service can not go out to the civil service, under the hand of the guards are not a dry rice.

Song Yixiao tried to send someone to follow him at the earliest – and ended up being picked up by the neck and carried to an alley for questioning after only half a day of following him down the street.

Luckily, her underlings are not capable of loyalty is enough, was beaten to death also refused to confess, Boling Marquis people do not want to make a scene in the imperial capital, Fang let him go.

Song Yixiao didn’t really dare to act rashly after that.

“If only I could use this token!” At her wits’ end, she couldn’t help but take out the token of the Song family’s secret guards and choke on it, “The Song family’s ancestors are much more powerful than the Yuan family, if I can use these secret guards to check on an idle Marquis Boling, what’s the point of saying that?”

Unfortunately, thanks to her own father and mother, she simply did not receive the Jiangnan Hall first daughter should be taught, the understanding of these things is not as good as the outsider Su Shaoge, according to Su Shaoge’s statement, the secret guards have always been only the head of the family can be used, and her half-brother has not yet arrived at the age of use.

Judging from the current situation, Mrs. Pang’s main reason for hiding the truth about Song Yuan’s death was to take revenge on Wei Mengying while at the same time trying to preserve the Lu family as much as possible and leave a legacy for the Song family. So when Song Yiyao grows up, he may be told the reason for his father’s death, just like how Bo’s mother confessed to Song Yixiao immediately after Wei Mengying’s death, but hasn’t told Lu Guanyun’s siblings about it yet.

By that time, it would be good if Song Yiyao didn’t hate Song Yixiao, so how could she help her eldest sister track down the cause of her father’s murderer’s death?

At the moment it’s just a thought.

Just think so a token to hold is not much use, put in front of the eyes to see more and more call people angry, is not earlier thrown back to the Song family to see the clean – pink rose but came to report, “Yu Guo aunt is here!”

“Quickly please!” Song Yixiao was stunned, and busily got up, “Chi-Qiang go get a plain colored tunic with me!”

A few moments after the jade fruit came in, greeted after, straight to the point to explain the intention, “Duanmu old lady this day to visit the Empress Dowager in the Palace, it happens to be the Nuan Tai Fei with His Majesty King Qing, as well as Miss Pei are in the Empress Dowager to talk in front of the Empress Dowager, in the middle of the Empress Dowager to think of Ms. Jane, said that a number of days have not seen, so they sent a servant girl to pick up Ms. Jane into the Palace to stay for a few days! ”

“The Dowager Empress Dowager is going to lift up Qing Yue, this is her blessing.” Song Yixiao heard very surprised, although she knew that the Dowager Empress Dowager is unlikely to be unfavorable to Jane Qing Yue, however, her daughter is actually still small, so sent to the palace, since it is not assured, so politely said, “But this child is still young, in case of naughtiness, disturbing the Dowager Empress Dowager … ”

“Why should Your Ladyship worry? It’s not as if the male master hadn’t been naughty when he was with the Dowager Empress Dowager earlier.” Yu Guo smiled and said, “Furthermore, the several Grand Princesses and the late Emperor, were all raised by the Dowager Empress Dowager herself, what is the appearance of such a small child, is the Dowager Empress Dowager still not clear? Is it hard to still blame Miss Jane?”

And sighed, “I do not hide from the lady, because the late emperor last year is not here, this year the empress dowager originally could not bear to come here to avoid the summer heat. It is really too hot in the imperial capital of the day, His Majesty and the Empress Dowager are afraid that the Empress Dowager is already old, using ice to avoid the summer heat is easy to be attacked by the cold, persuade the Empress Dowager nodded – spare me, since this came back to Cui Hua Mountain, the Empress Dowager brow has been heavy!”

“The party showed some smiles this morning at the mention of Miss Jane!”

“Otherwise, the slave girl wouldn’t have come to take this trip right away – if your ladyship doesn’t feel at ease, why don’t you let the manpower that was originally serving the young lady go over as well?”

When it comes to this, if Song YiXiao refuses again, she will not be sympathetic to the Empress Dowager’s suspicions, so she can only say, “QingYue is going to dip into the Empress Dowager’s blessings, so what else is there to be worried about? However, this child is still small, can’t be separated from people to take care of, in order to avoid the Empress Dowager’s worry, or ask the original service her people to go with!”

This day Jian Xubai came back to learn that his daughter was the Empress Dowager to pick up, unexpected, but not very worried, “Yu Guo aunt is to watch me grow up, has always been very good to me, there is a saying is to love the house as well as the crow’s feet, and how will treat our daughter? What’s more, the Royal grandmother is not likely to stay in Qing Yue for a long time, at most three to five days will certainly send her back.”

See Song Yixiao is still sullen, think of his wife is still in mourning, inconvenient to go out, detained in the mansion, the only fun is probably to tease the daughter, now the daughter was the Empress Dowager to pick up, she is not only not at ease, I think it is also boring.

After a moment’s contemplation, he said, “Either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, we’ll ask Elder Sister Yi to mention it when she enters the palace, so that Qing Yue will come back earlier?”

“Righteous sister?” Song Yixiao was a bit surprised at her words, “Has righteous sister gone to see the Dowager Empress often lately?”

Just listened to the jade fruit said Pei Yourui today also in the Empress Dowager’s heel, she thought it was by chance, this will listen to her husband’s tone, Pei Yourui recently often into the palace?

This is strange, this sister in law is their own heart, when the jewel in the palm of the treat, but with the palace is not very familiar with, how out of filial piety not a few months, suddenly to the Empress Dowager to offer up attentiveness to?