Linniang's body trembled slightly, and although her voice was soft, she was firm and clear, "My lord, just go and investigate. If there is a lie, Linniang will be struck by lightning."
Song Guogong nodded and asked to call the steward who was out in the outer courtyard to do some business.
Guanshi Fu specializes in outside matters and is very shrewd. If you leave this matter to him, Song Guogong can rest assured.
Because Guan Fu is his loyal steward and will not be bribed by anyone, just let him do it.
Manager Fu was waiting outside the main room and asked for the address, but he still asked a few more questions, such as how old Liniang was, what county and village in Baoding Prefecture was her birthplace, who was in the family, what was everyone's name, how old they were, etc.
wait.
Liniang answered fluently.
Manager Fu thought for a moment and said, "Can I ask the girl to show her face?"
Liniang knew that he wanted to see what she looked like so that she could go to her hometown to find out if she was right.
She was not afraid, so she nodded, and then Mrs. Cui asked her to stand at the door and asked Manager Fu to take a look.
Manager Fu raised his eyes to look at Liniang, then bowed his head and stepped back.
Song Guogong said: "You said you were betrayed by your aunt, then focus on checking her aunt. If necessary, just bring her back for questioning."
Manager Fu responded.
Wen Songzhi said: "Dad, if she really has such an aunt who plotted against her, and originally sold her to get money, if now she has achieved her goal and may even get more, how can she deny it?"
Song Guogong seemed right when he thought about it. If Liniang was a local, it would be easy to solve the problem. She could just ask someone directly. However, because she was an outsider, it would take time to get back and forth, and they were not very familiar with it.
Another problem is that the waiter in the shop escaped, otherwise he would have found out once he was caught and asked about the two waiters.
In Song Guogong's impression, Mrs. Cui came back to interrogate them that day. The young man insisted that he had done nothing and it must have been framed by the young man.
Then Mrs. Cui got angry and sent them away for not taking good care of the crown prince.
Now that I think about it, I really need to check it out.
Song Guogong thought about it and blamed Wen Songzhi. When the incident happened that day, he didn't even think of defending himself. Now he brought up the old matter again, which made it more difficult to handle the case.
There was no conclusion for a moment, so Song Guogong asked everyone to go and have a rest, waiting for Manager Fu to come back.
Wen Songzhi didn't bother too much. Anyway, the Chi family's matter had been settled. If Liniang was left to be settled, he would be free.
In the future, with Mrs. Chen Sun's help, I will be careful in everything. If I find a serious job, it will not be so easy for Mrs. Cui to plot against me.
The capital is not far from Baoding Prefecture. A trip to Baoding is about the same as a trip to Tongzhou, so it won’t take much time to hurry up.
However, it still took two days for Guanshi Fu to go there. After noon on the third day, Guanshi Fu came back dusty.
It was a hot day and he was covered in stinky sweat. The road was very dusty and his whole body smelled bad.
He hurriedly washed up and changed into clean clothes. Not daring to waste time, he took two mouthfuls of dry food and went to see the Duke and his wife.
Song Guogong was instructing several children in archery, and Wen Songzhi was accompanying them.
Wen Songzhi didn't go anywhere in the past two days while waiting for the news. He only had someone send a letter to Shen Mingzhu, telling him about the news in the Duke's Mansion.
Shen Mingzhu wrote back and told him to keep everything as usual and not to be nervous. She had arranged everything.
