Jiao family.

"The burnt sacrifice wine stays, stays."

Shi Zhoumo, the chief minister of Prince Zhongshun, smiled with a smile on his face and walked backwards out of the courtyard with his body tilted. He clasped his fists and cupped his hands to say goodbye: "I don't dare to send the sacrifice wine far away, so I will take my leave."

After watching him disappear around the corner with his two followers, Jiao Shun turned around and returned home.

As soon as he entered the east chamber, he saw Yu Chuan holding two cups of residual tea, looking at the land deed on the coffee table. Then he stepped forward and patted her on the head, and ordered: "Go and give this land deed to my aunt to put it away -

-Also, for the snacks I brought back from outside, send two to the main room, put one in the aunt's room, and you and Qingwen will divide the rest among you and Wu'er."

After hearing this, Yuchuan quickly put the tea bowl aside and went to the south room holding the land deed as if it were a treasure.

Jiao Shun sat back on the main seat, tapping the armrest with his fingers and silently said nothing.

As the saying goes, when things go wrong, there must be a monster.

At that time, Mrs. Wang came up with this idea, but it was just a perfunctory response. In fact, he himself had no idea whether it could scare King Zhongshun.

It was a blessing to be able to scare him. King Zhongshun also changed his past domineering attitude and gave the shop to himself in an almost surrender gesture. There must be something fishy in this!

While pondering.

Suddenly, I heard a report from a maid outside, saying that Mr. Zheng had sent the housekeeper to invite him.

This combination is also quite strange.

With his status as Lai Da, how could it be his turn to personally handle this errand?

"Let him in."

Jiao Shun agreed, and not long after, Lai Dada walked in with a smile on his face, and said servilely: "Sir, our master would like to invite you to have a drink in the garden."

Jiao Shun was not surprised that Jia Zheng suddenly entertained him.

After all, Zhou Mo had just vividly described Jia Zheng's clownish act of mistakenly believing that King Zhongshun was sending someone to question him, so he was eager to distance himself from the relationship.

Naturally, Jia Zheng had to find a way to make up for such things that he could not hide.

Especially with Jia Zheng's cowardly nature, he didn't dare to offend himself when he saw that even King Zhongshun took the initiative to bow to him.

Then again...

Jiao Shun didn't feel any resentment about this.

Wife, sister-in-law, concubine, daughter, daughter-in-law, nephew-in-law...

As long as he still has a little bit of conscience, he should be worried about someone who is ashamed of Jia Zheng.

Therefore, Jiao Shun agreed without hesitation, saying that he would pack up and change into normal clothes before leaving.

Lai Da bowed and agreed, but he was not in a hurry to go back and report. Instead, he said cautiously: "Sir, we have collected the money. I wonder if it would be appropriate to send it to you early tomorrow morning?"

"Did you get it all together so quickly?"

Jiao Shun looked at him in surprise and asked, "Didn't you say last time that you have to wait at least half a month?"

"this……"

Lai Dali hesitated for a moment, but he didn't dare to hide it from Jiao Shun. He said with a smile: "Your Excellency is busy with official duties. I guess you haven't heard that King Nan'an has announced that he will take the lead in funding engineering studies..."

Jia Zheng has been paying no attention to what is going on outside the window recently, so he still doesn't know about it until now.

The Lai family had been paying attention to news related to engineering, so they got the news first.

At that time Lai Da and his son were in a panic.

If Jiao Shun's contribution to Lai Shangrongding's initiative was overtaken by those nobles, then he was neither the first nor the one who donated the most, so why should he compete with the nobles' relatives?

Therefore, Lai Da made a decisive decision and decided to borrow a wave of loan sharks at high interest rates first, and to win the initiative as soon as possible.

As for conveying messages to Jia Zheng, it was just a job that was easily accepted.

In fact, when Jiao Shun asked about it just now, Lai Da had also thought of hiding it from the public and killing it first and telling the story later.

But after all, this was not a one-time deal. In the future, Lai Shangrong would have to serve as an official under Jiao Shun, so he could keep it a secret for a while. There would be a time when the secret would be revealed, and then it would be doubly uncomfortable.

Therefore, after hesitating, he chose to tell the truth.

After Jiao Shun learned about what happened in Zhenguo's palace, he suddenly realized that it was no wonder that King Zhongshun would act like this. It turned out that it was just to get out of touch with King Nan'an.

However, I heard that King Nan'an was also a domineering playboy. The two princes had been going straight for a while, but suddenly they suddenly thought of using roundabout ways, but it didn't seem like their style of doing things.

Could it be...

In Jiao Shun's mind, the image of Jia Yucun, who was full of uprightness and full of evil intentions, suddenly turned around and began to please the emperor through himself. If anyone was to benefit the most, besides himself, it was this old fox.

Moreover, he had just accepted the emperor's mission two days ago, and he wanted to drag himself into the water. Obviously, he did not want to be involved in the fight between the two princes at all, so he resorted to this method of diverting trouble to the east. It is not surprising.

Hum~

This guy's professional skills are not good, but he is just a thief who is just having fun!

After Quanqi recorded this matter, Jiao Shuncai focused his attention on Lai Da's head again and asked coldly: "Since the King of Nan'an and the Duke of Zhenguo are interested in helping, what use do I need from you?"

"grown ups!"

Seeing that Jiao Shun really wanted to cross the river and demolish the bridge, Lai Dabao knelt down in front of him with a bang and grabbed the ground with his head: "The villain and the dog will definitely follow the adults' lead in the future. If they disobey, they will be killed!"

"Destroyed by heaven and earth?"

Jiao Shun sneered, shook his head and said: "I only believe that the legal network will be wide open and will not leak out."

Lai Da knew that it was a critical moment. He gritted his teeth and kowtowed: "I will sacrifice my money and my life early tomorrow morning!"

Jiao Shun's mention of the restoration of the law at this time was precisely implying that Lai Da had given him enough leverage to control his father and son - risking his family and life at the same time. This was definitely an exaggeration, but at least it had to be enough to cause Lai Shangrong to be dismissed from office.

The handle of being trapped in a cage.

Seeing that the old dog was so polite, Jiao Shun said nothing more and only picked up the tea cup to see off the guest.

The honorable relatives were willing to take the initiative to get closer to engineering. Although there were many benefits, it would inevitably weaken Jiao Shun's control over engineering, so he agreed to still let the Lai family join the game.

Jiao Shun didn't have much expectations for Lai Shangrong, but in terms of management ability, especially the ability to deal with trivial matters, it's not an exaggeration to say that Lai Da is outstanding - of course, the premise is that he can be controlled.

Lest he deceive the superiors and deceive the inferiors.

There are so many things involved in the start-up of engineering studies, and now more noble relatives are involved in it. We need such a capable person to supervise and take care of it.

Alas~

Not to mention that things are unpredictable, when the Lai family tried to seize the title by force and the two sides were at odds, who would have thought that one day Lai Da would be regarded as one of his own?

…………

the other side.

Wang Xifeng also hurried to the Qingtang thatched cottage. When she entered the door, she saw Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue, and the second wife of the Xue family, standing around a round table preparing to eat.

Seeing this hottie coming in from the outside in a hurry, Mrs. Wang immediately stood up and asked: "How is it? How is the matter?"

In fact, according to common sense, when it comes to matters involving estrangement between husband and wife, one should avoid the two sisters-in-law of the Xue family - at least the second Mrs. Xue should be avoided.

But firstly, Mrs. Wang had completely broken up with Jia Zheng; secondly, she was anxious to know the impact of this matter on Jiao Shun; thirdly, it was Aunt Xue’s suggestion to let people inquire about the news, and she looked at her with her ears pricked up.

With a concerned look on his face, how could he be willing to avoid it obediently?

It's not easy to avoid one person in person and let the other one listen, right?

So she simply stopped hiding it from Mrs. Xue Er.

Seeing Mrs. Wang's attitude, Wang Xifeng naturally wouldn't cover up anything for Jia Zheng. She immediately told the story in a lively and jealous manner, and finally said: "We have wasted our worries. Not only did the monkey's hair not fall out.

One stick, but you get two shops for free!"

Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue focused mainly on Jiao Shun, and they were relieved when they heard that he was fine.

The second wife of the Xue family listened on the sidelines, but couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

She had heard the name of Prince Zhongshun in Jinling and knew that he was the most domineering prince in the dynasty. Unexpectedly, she surrendered in front of Jiao Shun and even offered him two prosperous shops!

"This Master Jiao..."

She couldn't help but ask her sister-in-law: "You are only in your early twenties now, right?"

"Where!"

Aunt Xue and Yourong Yan corrected themselves: "Brother Shun is twenty this year, and he has only been an official for three years!"

If you can achieve such greatness in your twenties, won't you have to join the cabinet and worship the prime minister when you are thirty?

The second wife of the Xue family was speechless. At the same time, she couldn't help but secretly regret that if Jiao Shun hadn't settled down to get married, he would be with his own daughter...

But then I thought again, if we don't consider the background, with Jiao Shun's current prominence, the second wife of the Xue family is already in a high position. In addition, Bao Qin has just been divorced by the Mei family. Although Qu is in the Mei family, according to the agreement

The established customs are still somewhat devalued in marriage affairs. I am afraid that even if Jiao Shun does not get engaged, it will not be his turn to be the rich son-in-law.

but……

She subconsciously looked at the sister-in-law on the side, thinking that Changfang was connected with Rongguo Mansion and Wang Taiwei's family, and she was barely a good match for Jiao Shun, but why did the sister-in-law not win over such a person, but wanted Baochai to marry that person?

Jia Baoyu?

Although she had just arrived in the capital not long ago, she had already seen Baoyu several times among women. He was obviously a romantic and passionate dandy. Not to mention that compared with Jiao Shun, a rare young talent in the world, even if he was
To be continued...