Chapter 41 The Jiang Family of General Guangweis Mansion
"Fifth sister, why does that old man look at you like that?"
"Because I look good, he thinks I'm amazing, and then he's stunned?"
Hearing this, Li Qilang and Li Erya all rolled their eyes, looking at Li Wuya holding her face and giggling narcissistically, with speechless expressions on their faces.
The three siblings were not far away from the carriage. The old man also heard what they said, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
Jiang Sheng looked at Li Wuya and felt very uneasy. It looked so similar. The little girl's eyebrows and the two pear dimples at the corners of her mouth looked so much like the third lady when she was a child.
Thinking of the mission he was assigned this time, Jiang Sheng calmed down and walked towards Li Erya and his third sister with a kind smile.
Seeing him approaching, Li Erya stepped forward and stood in front of Li Wuya and Li Qilang. He looked at Jiang Sheng warily: "What's the matter with you?"
Jiang Sheng saw the three people's precautions and immediately said: "Don't be nervous, little friends. I went to Dieling Pass to visit my friends. I finished drinking the water I brought with me on the way. I passed by the inn and wanted to come down to get some water. I'm not a bad person.
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After hearing this, Li Erya did not relax his guard: "Just bring water to the inn." With that, he pulled Li Wuya and Li Qilang away.
Jiang Sheng quickly stopped the person: "Wait a minute."
Li Erya frowned: "Do you have anything else?"
Jiang Sheng tried his best to smile as kindly as possible: "I haven't been here for a long time, and I don't understand many things, so I want to find three friends to find out about the situation."
Li Wuya laughed out loud and looked at Jiang Sheng: "Grandpa, if you want to inquire about the situation, you should go to the inn and ask the adults. We are still children and we don't know anything."
Li Qilang nodded in agreement: "That's right, I have to ask the adults." He frowned and looked at Jiang Sheng, who was smiling, "Don't laugh like that, you don't look like a good person.
It's like...like..."
Li Wuya took over: "It's like a human trafficker who abducts children."
Li Qilang nodded fiercely: "Yes, yes, just like a human trafficker."
The smile on Jiang Sheng's face froze: "...I am really a good person." His tone was slightly pale.
Li Erya glared at his younger brother and sister: "Grandpa, my younger brother and sister are joking with you. If you want to find someone to inquire about the news, you should go to the inn. We have something to do and have to go home."
After saying that, before Jiang Sheng could react, he pulled Li Wuya and Li Qilang away.
Looking at the retreating figures of the three siblings, Jiang Sheng was a little silent. When he saw the waiter at the door of the inn, he walked over with a smile: "Brother, whose family do those three children belong to? They look really energetic."
The waiter glanced at Li Erya and the other three, and said with a smile: "They are from Li Changsen's family. Li Changsen is the commander of Dielingguan's forward camp. With his salary every month, the children will naturally be energetic."
Jiang Sheng's expression perked up when he heard Li Changsen's name. Seeing that the man was easy to talk to, he immediately got close to him. It didn't take long before he found out everything about the situation of the Li family in Tianling Tun.
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Rongcheng.
Guangwei General's Mansion, Jiang Family.
Jiang Antai saw his wife returning to the room with a tired face, frowned and asked: "The second brother and sister are still making trouble over there?"
Mrs. Jiang glanced at her husband, took a sip of the tea handed by the maid, and then said: "At least I can finally calm down, but Master...you have to tell me the truth. Is it okay for my second brother to be away?"
Is there really an illegitimate child?”
Hearing this, Jiang Antai's face became angry: "What nonsense are you talking about? Don't you understand the character of my second brother? Is he the kind of person who raises an illegitimate child outside?"
Mrs. Jiang: "I don't want to believe it either, but... the man I saw with my second brother and sister on the street that day looked so much like my second brother. Apart from being an illegitimate child, I can't think of any other possibility.
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Jiang Antai was silent.
Mrs. Jiang looked at her husband, thinking of her second younger brother and sister who had become physically haggard these days, and felt a little resentful towards him: "The second younger brother and sister are a bit temperamental, but they are quite understanding of the cold and hotness of the second brother."
"The second brother lives in the military camp all year round. It's not easy for her to raise her children and take care of the household alone at home. Even if the second brother wants to take a concubine, why should he tell her directly that he can't? Why do he have to give birth to an illegitimate child?"
"Look at that man's appearance. He's not much younger than De Ming and the others. Isn't this just a slap in the face of the second younger brother and sister?"
Jiang Antai became irritated when he heard this: "I told you, that is not the illegitimate son of the second brother."
Mrs. Jiang: "It's not my second brother's illegitimate son. Then tell me, sir, who is that person?"
Jiang Antai sighed heavily: "Haven't you ever heard that your nephew is like your uncle?"
Mrs. Jiang was stunned: "My nephew looks like my uncle? Master, what do you mean? You mean that man is not the illegitimate son of the second brother, but the younger sister's?"
Jiang Antai's face turned blue when he saw that his wife was getting more and more outrageous: "Can you stop thinking about illegitimate children all the time?"
Mrs. Jiang was really confused: "But if he is not an illegitimate child, could he be his biological son? How come he is still related to the younger sister? The younger sister..."
Suddenly, Mrs. Jiang's expression was shocked, and she looked at Jiang Antai blankly: "When my father passed away, my little sister came back to attend the funeral while pregnant with Liujia. It happened that Rongcheng was raided, and the frightened little sister had to give birth in advance in the ruined temple...
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"Later, I heard from my little sister that when she gave birth to Zhengkun, a man came over to ask for help with his wife who was about to give birth. The brother-in-law couldn't bear it, so he asked a servant in the family to help the woman deliver the baby. Could it be...
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Mrs. Jiang suddenly looked at Jiang Antai, her face full of verification: "Isn't that what I think?"
Jiang Antai leaned back on his chair with a headache: "I can't tell exactly what the situation is now. I have sent Jiang Sheng to investigate. I'll talk about it when he comes back."
"How could such a ridiculous thing happen?"
Mrs. Jiang was completely dumbfounded. She originally thought that her second brother had caused the illegitimate child because of his bad behavior. She never thought that her sister-in-law was actually involved.
"No wonder..."
"What's the wonder?"
Mrs. Jiang looked at Jiang Antai: "No wonder when Zhengmao got married, I went to the capital to attend the wedding, and I felt that Zhengkun was a little different from other children. You forgot, I told you specifically when I came back."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Jiang Antai really couldn't remember it, and quickly asked: "What are the differences?"
Mrs. Jiang immediately said: "Our Jiang family, as well as the Shi family, are all families of military commanders. Most of the children in the family like to practice martial arts, but Zheng Kun can't even draw a bow."
"Forget it, Zhengmao and the others are all tall and straight, but Zhengkun is half a head shorter than them all."
"My little sister blames herself very much for this. She thinks it was because she was frightened when she gave birth to him, which made Zhengkun's body and bones relatively weak. She has always been partial to him since she was a child."
Thinking of the tall, dark man she saw on the street that day, Mrs. Jiang's face was very complicated: "But looking at it now, it turned out that the child was carried by the wrong person?!"
Jiang Antai didn't speak. After a while, he said, "We'll wait until Jiang Sheng comes back."
A few days later, Jiang Sheng, a member of the Guang family of Jiang Fu, came back.
Upon hearing that he was back, Mrs. Jiang quickly put down what she was doing and came to Jiang Antai's study.
Jiang Sheng first saluted Jiang Antai and Mrs. Jiang, and then told the two of them one by one the news he had learned during this period.
"Sir, madam, I secretly went to take a look at Old Man Li and Old Mrs. Li. The fourth master Zhengkun of the Shi family has shadows of them in his face and eyes."
Shi Zhengkun looks like the old couple of the Li family, and Li Changsen looks like the Jiang family. What does this mean? It means that the child may have been wrongly held.
"By the way, there is also Li Changsen's little daughter. She looks very much like the third girl when she was a child. She is a little girl."
As soon as these words came out, Jiang Antai immediately remembered the little girl he saw in Xining City five years ago when he accompanied Prince Rong to search for the old man Tianchi.
Immediately, Jiang Sheng began to talk about how the Li family treated Li Changsen.
"The Li family treats Li Changsen very badly. Li Changsen joined the guard station as a soldier at the age of thirteen."
"Some time ago, people over at Dielingguan thought that Li Changsen died in the Gobi Desert, so they sent people to the Li family to report his funeral. On the same day, the Li family reported Li Changsen's eldest son, Li Sanlang, to the guard office."
"The Li family also treated Li Changsen's four children very badly. They thought Li Changsen was gone, so they kicked them out of the house..."
As Jiang Sheng recounted in detail the harsh treatment of Li Changsen by the Li family, both Jiang Antai and Mrs. Jiang became extremely angry.
Because of the shock and premature birth, everyone in the Shi family was partial to Shi Zhengkun, but the Li family actually treated Li Changsen and his wife and children like that.
"This Li family is so abominable!" Mrs. Jiang looked angry. She really couldn't imagine if her son was miscarried and treated so harshly by the Li family.
Jiang Sheng also agreed with his face: "Isn't it true? When I heard this, I was really angry and blocked."
Mrs. Jiang suddenly frowned: "No, how could the Li family treat their son so harshly? Even if it is partiality, it shouldn't be so excessive!"
As he said that, he suddenly looked at Jiang Antai.
"Did they already know that Li Changsen was not their son? Was there an error and the child was carried by the wrong child, or was it deliberately switched?"
Jiang Antai's brows knitted into knots and he remained silent without speaking.
The more Mrs. Jiang thought about it, the angrier she became: "Master, what should we do now? Do we want to take that child back?"
Jiang Antai glanced at his wife and spoke after a long time: "This matter... don't rush it yet."
Mrs. Jiang thought about it and nodded repeatedly: "We can't be anxious. We have to inform my younger sister and brother-in-law about this first and ask their opinions."
Jiang Antai: "...Don't tell my little sister yet."
Hearing this, Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Sheng were both surprised.
"why?"
Jiang Antai raised his hand and rubbed his swollen temples. In front of his wife and the old housekeeper, he did not hide it and directly expressed his thoughts: "Last year, the emperor added Enke, and Zhengkun passed the top three imperial examinations. Now he has
Entered the Hanlin Academy."
Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Sheng immediately understood what Jiang Antai meant, and looked at each other, both of them silent.
Jiang Antai looked at the two of them and continued: "Since the new governor came to the northwest, he has supported many people. Our family has become increasingly speechless. If this continues, it won't be long before the Jiang family is completely destroyed.
Already."
Hearing this, Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Sheng were also a little worried.
Jiang Antai sighed: "Our family has no strong support in the capital, so we can only rely on the Shi family. And the Shi family..."
"Because of the Prince Regent's case, the Shi family has always been ignored. In addition, in the brother-in-law's generation, the title of the earldom will be taken back. If we don't plan for the future, in the capital where power is intertwined, the Shi family will be worse than Jiang.
Homes fall faster.”
"Now that the new emperor has succeeded to the throne, he has chosen Zhengkun, which shows that he is no longer holding on to the past. This is an opportunity for the Shi family!"
"If it is revealed now that Zhengkun is not a child of the Shi family at all, all the resources the family spent on him will be in vain."
"Whether it's the Shi family or the Jiang family, we all need someone to speak for us in the court. Zhengkun has entered the Hanlin Academy. He is our hope."
Listening to these words, Mrs. Jiang and Jiang Sheng were both extremely silent.
After a long time, Mrs. Jiang finally spoke: "Then... what should Li Changsen do?"
Jiang Antai sighed: "Don't blame me for being cruel. Even if I recognize him, my family will only have a few low-grade generals. But is our family short of low-grade generals?"
With these words, Mrs. Jiang completely understood what her husband meant. Although she couldn't bear it, thinking about the situation of the Jiang family, she stopped speaking.
Jiang Antai looked at Jiang Sheng: "When you went to inquire about the news, you didn't alert them, right?"
Jiang Sheng quickly shook his head: "No."
"That's good." Jiang Antai nodded: "Maybe it's best for them to never know the truth. I've been out for more than half a month. Thank you for the hard work. Go down and rest."
Jiang Sheng thought of the situation of Li Changsen's family and felt a little unfair to them. However, the master had made a decision. As a slave, he couldn't say anything, so he bowed and retreated.
When he was about to reach the door, Jiang Antai spoke again: "I remember that the Qin Guards at Dieling Pass have some friendship with our family. I will write a letter later and you can send it over, so I can take care of you more or less."
Jiang Sheng immediately responded with a smile.
As soon as he left, Jiang Antai looked at Madam Jiang: "Does Madam think she is cruel to her husband?"
Mrs. Jiang: "...I understand that I am doing this for the future of the Jiang family and the Shi family." She said with a long sigh, "As long as the child suffers."
Jiang Antai was a little silent: "You can't let the second brother know about this matter. You know the second brother's temperament. If he finds out about this, he has to tell his little sister. Please comfort the second brother and sister and don't let her mention this matter again.
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Mrs. Jiang looked hesitant: "Are you really not going to tell my little sister about this?"
Jiang Antai did not answer immediately: "That's it for now!"