Yuan Qingling accompanied Rong Yue until the evening, thinking that the sixth child would have gone home from get off work, so she went to Prince Huai's Mansion.
Sure enough, King Huai had come back and was playing with his children. When they saw Yuan Qing coming, they ran towards her and called her uncle.
Rong Yue's children combined the advantages of Rong Yue and King Huai, and they were very good-looking. Yuan Qingling liked them very much, and held their hands and asked them a few words before letting them play.
King Huai came forward and said in a polite voice: "Why is the fifth sister-in-law here?"
"I have something to ask you!" Yuan Qingling looked at his evasive eyes and knew that he was guilty, so she couldn't help but frown, "Lao Liu, do you really have a woman outside?"
King Huai said bitterly: "Fifth sister-in-law, you think so highly of me, how can you think so? Rong Yue has misunderstood."
"Then what happened? Who was the woman she saw with her own eyes?" Yuan Qingling asked.
King Huai invited her in, but his eyes began to dodge again, "Let's talk after we get in, we'll talk after we get in."
Yuan Qingling followed him in. After King Huai sat down, he sent his servants away and asked: "Did the fifth sister-in-law just come from the Chu Palace? How is Rong Yue? Are you still angry?"
"She must be angry. You didn't explain it to her. Since it was a misunderstanding, why can't you explain it clearly?" Yuan Qing Ling said.
King Huai suddenly fell down, "Are you still angry? I just wanted to wait until she calmed down before explaining to her. You know she has a bad temper, and she won't listen to anything I say when she's angry. I thought I'd let her calm down for a few days."
God, she will calm down."
Yuan Qingling couldn't laugh or cry, "This kind of thing, the more you don't explain it, the angrier it becomes. How can she calm down? Since it's a misunderstanding, just explain it well. However, I do want to know, are you alone with a woman?"
Why are you drinking in the private room?"
King Huai confessed truthfully.
It turned out that this woman was the adopted daughter of Zhang Yujiang, the salt and iron envoy, and Sun Yingying, the eldest daughter of Sun Qi, the salt and tea envoy in Dujiang Prefecture.
King Qi of Jingzhao Prefecture joined forces with him to investigate the illegal salt matter. It happened that Sun Yingying came to the capital to visit relatives and stayed at the home of Zhang Yujiang, the iron salt envoy. It also happened that King Qi and King Huai came back from doing errands that day and went to a teahouse to eat together.
During the tea ceremony, he encountered Miss Sun Yingying who was being treated lightly. King Huai came to the rescue, and Sun Yingying had a good impression of him.
Because the investigation was stuck in a bottleneck and unable to break through, King Qi came up with a plan to let him get close to Sun Yingying to find out the news.
Yuan Qingling was so shocked that her jaw dropped, "Then does Sun Yingying know your identity?"
King Huai shook his head, "I really don't know. She is new to the capital and has never seen me."
"But the girl in the boudoir may not know about his father and adoptive father!"
"We just want to know whether her father has contacts with private salt dealers, how their friendship is, and whether the contacts are frequent. Don't think that Sun Yingying is a boudoir lady, but she has been helping her father to do things outside in the past two years. Sun Qi has no son, so
He raised her as a son and left many things to her, so he is almost thirty and has not yet gotten married."
Yuan Qingling sighed softly, "Since she is not an ordinary boudoir lady, how could she reveal these fatal things to you so easily? And she has been helping his father with things, so how could she be treated lightly and not know how to counterattack?
I'm just afraid that if you set up a trap, you will be the one who ends up being fooled."
King Huai was startled, "This...can't be right?"
"Why not? You'd better stop doing this. Go and coax Rong Yue first, and let the case be investigated separately. In recent years, you have been on errands for the court and have been in and out of government. She may not know about you."
Yuan Qingling suddenly thought of something. Rong Yue had been in Lenglangmen for so many years. What troubles had she never encountered? How could she lose her temper because of this?
Moreover, she actually said that she did not know the identity of Sun Yingying. The Lenglangmen had the best information. How could she not find out the identity of a woman who drank with Lao Liu?
If the investigation is clear and she knows her husband's temperament, but she still gets angry like this, then she must have a plan. I'm afraid she is the one who really wants to investigate the case.