The husband and wife of Hutong waited for two, and more than a month passed. In the end, they did not wait for the reply from Princess Ming, but instead waited for the imperial edict from the court.

It turned out that the Censor of the Minhai area reported to the court, listing the crimes of Hutongzhi accepting bribes, committing favoritism, fraud, affair with salt merchants, and forcibly taking women. The evidence was conclusive. In particular, a concubine of Hutongzhi was taken during the filial piety period of the state. The emperor was particularly furious after reading it and issued an order to dismiss the Hutongzhi and his family were exiled for three thousand miles.

Not only did the Hutongzhi and his wife feel that the incident happened too suddenly, but even the entire Fujian Hai officialdom was shocked by this. Hutongzhi is a fifth-rank official, and among civil servants, he is also considered the third in charge of the Minhai side. Although this person is a little greedy and lustful, it is not a big problem in the eyes of everyone.

After all, the old saying goes, in three years, the Qing magistrate has 100,000 snowflakes. How many officials can be greedy? Why did the magistrate of Hutong quietly let the court do it?

Especially after sending someone to inquire, Governor Su went back to the county lord Yongxing and said, "Fortunately, we were smart and did not continue to oppose the Wen family. Otherwise, we might end up worse than the Hutong Zhi family."

Because the Hutong Zhi didn't have long been an official and was timid, he had never been involved in the matter of being a human life. But Governor Su was different. This man was quite cruel in his work. In order to climb up, he had done several things that were harmful to the law of nature.

After hearing her husband's words, County Lord Yongxing felt a little scared: "Young master is sure that this matter was taken by the Wen family? Their family is very generous among the nobles in the capital and is a bit decent. Could it be that the Wen family has won a lot of civil servants?"

Governor Su sighed: "You are right. This matter really cannot be counted on the Wen family. It should be Mrs. Wen's doing it."

County Lord Yongxing exclaimed when he heard this: "How could it be her? She doesn't look like someone who can do such things."

Governor Su replied seriously, "Why can't it be her? Don't you think about where she came from? If the couple of Hutong knew about the idea of ​​hitting Miss Yun without knowing how to kill Miss Yun, they would probably not have caused this disaster! People only focus on Mrs. Wen's maid, but forget that they came from Duke Cheng's mansion. Mrs. Xu's capable maid has always been in and out of the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion. As far as I know, Mrs. Wen has a good relationship with the third wife. The third master of the Xu family is the Minister of Personnel. Putting aside Xu

The Secretary of State not to mention that the matter of a fifth-rank official like Hutongzhi would probably not be in front of him. It would be enough for her to know the children from the Xu family and the Fu family to be born. Wen Tingzhou is Fu Qingbai's closed disciple and has countless classmates in the court. Even if he is a military officer now, the Qingliu civil officials in the court are willing to make friends with him. It would be fine if Hutongzhi was clean, but he was still wearing a small braid. Isn't it easy for him to deal with him?"

After hearing her husband's words, County Lord Yongxing nodded in fear and said, "You are right. Fortunately, we stopped in time, otherwise we would definitely not be able to fall into trouble now. But if I had to say that the Hutong Zhi's fate today was purely due to his own fault. What a gentle and gentle person, Madam Yun almost made him lose his reputation. Moreover, he said that he saw it in our backyard. I don't know when our backyard will let him come and go freely like this? If this matter is spread, our family's reputation will also be affected."

Governor Su hurriedly comforted him, "Okay, isn't this matter over? Let's not talk about them anymore, they are just a couple. It is expected that this ending will happen. We don't have the same knowledge as them."

After saying that, Governor Su reached out to touch the belly of County Lord Yongxing: "Are our children good today?"

Mu Yun didn't intend to hide this from Hutongzhi. In just a few days, everyone who should have known about the Jiangcheng officialdom had already known it. This time, everyone had truly seen the methods of the governor's wife.

This lady looked very low-key and humble on weekdays, but she was quick, accurate and ruthless in her actions. Almost when everyone was not aware of it, she would rub a fifth-rank Tongzhi without any effort. The reason she found was still so open and had no way to refute. Now, no one in the entire Jiangcheng officialdom dared to underestimate Mu Yun anymore. Many female members of all kinds of imperial decrees saw Mu Yun again when they saw Mu Yun again, and they were a little more careful in their words.

Even the little girl Shuhua joked, "As soon as my aunt happened, I gained a lot of money. No one dared to disrespect me when I went out. A while ago, the ladies here thought that our orphans and widows didn't interact with me, and now they have posted a post for me. Even the grocery store of Xiao Nanzhu and me has added orders from many wealthy families. These people are really... In the past, when we were polite to them, they all looked at people with their eyes. Now they are lazy to pay attention to them, but they are all posted on them. Isn't this just like a slutty bone?"

Hearing this, Mu Yun smiled faintly: "Many people in this world are like this, and the world is prosperous for profit. In the past, they thought that it would be of no benefit to have a good relationship with us or that it would be no loss if we offended us, so they did not act discouraged. Now that we see our family's strength, we naturally dare not underestimate us anymore. These snobs don't need to have a deep relationship with you, don't care too much, just go through the big picture."

Shuhua nodded and said, "Auntie, I understand. I'm not stupid. Last time we went out to play, Xiao Nanpu and I were ridiculed by Miss Zhang's family, no one except the eldest girl of the Su family said something to me. Even Miss Xie gave me something to me and Xiao Nanpu to comfort me. Even if these two people don't know the truth, at least they can try to get along. For the others, forget it."

Little Pumpkin nodded from the side and said, "Yes."

Mu Yun caressed Shuhua and his daughter's hair lovingly: "We Shuhua and Xiao Pumpkin have grown up and have an idea in our hearts. I'm so happy to see you so outstanding."

Shuhua was a little embarrassed by Mu Yun's praise, and stood up and said, "I'll go and see if my new rouge is ready." After that, he turned around and ran away. Little Pumpkin held his mother's arm and looked at Shuhua who was running away in a panic. "Haha" size.

Mu Yun clicked his daughter with joy, looked at Shuhua's back as she ran away, and chuckled: "You, you are so giggling about your sister Shuhua, and you are not afraid that she will ignore you."

Little Pumpkin chuckled and said, "Sister Shuhua is not so stingy." After the meal, he lowered his head and continued to eat the newly made fruit ice from his mother.

Seeing her daughter heartless, Mu Yun was both happy and angry. Her daughter was so good that she was ruined by the villains of the Zhang family. Fortunately, she was still young, and if she was a little older, she wouldn't know how ugly they said. Thinking of this, Mu Yun couldn't help but clench the fist in her hand: If she let the Zhang family go in vain, she would be really unwilling to accept it.

Mothers are the ones who shame their children to be wronged.

The Zhang family naturally knew about the Hutongzhi. When they first heard the news, Mrs. Zhang muttered in her heart: I didn't expect that Wen Qiao's method was so powerful that she would knock Hutongzhi off the horse. She had a hard time with her family last time, and I don't know if she would be unfavorable to her. However, Mrs. Zhang thought that her husband was a third-rank military officer and had been in the Fujian-Guangdong area for many years, so naturally it was not something that Wen Qiao could easily defeat. After thinking about this, she immediately felt relieved.

However, Lord Zhang was quite worried. The people he sent to the capital had been away for a long time, so why is there no news yet? He sent people out to inquire about the situation. On the one hand, he secretly contacted his confidants and searched everywhere for "evidence" of Wen Tingzhou in the army.

But one of his subordinates said in a bit embarrassingly: "Master Qi, the young man has been staring at Governor Wen for a long time, but he really hasn't found any handle for him. Whether in the yamen or in the military camp, all the accounts are clear. He doesn't take money or promote them randomly. The young man really can't find any evidence."

General Zhang spitted him in anger: "Bah, are you a fool? Is this general to teach you this little thing? Isn't you going to create some evidence without evidence? This is not the first time, why are you pretending to be cowardly?"

The subordinate shrank his arms, opened his mouth and said nothing more. He was secretly complaining in his heart. In the past, he had helped General Zhang to frame others by fabricating evidence, but those people were all rude men with no foundation, and their military positions were under the fifth and sixth rank. Now he was asked to frame the first-rank governor, he really didn't have that courage!

What General Zhang didn't know was that his approach had long been told to Wen Tingzhou one by one by the nails buried by Wen Tingzhou.

Therefore, no matter what kind of conspiracy he wanted to do, he was under Wen Tingzhou's surveillance. Wen Tingzhou felt a little heavy when he heard the spy's secret report. He had already asked someone to collect General Zhang's evidence of crime and sent it to the capital. However, the emperor obviously did not want to attack General Zhang at this time. He pressed a memorial letter and wrote a secret letter to Wen Tingzhou. He only said that now that Japanese pirates are rampant at sea and the generals on the seaside are united in resisting foreign enemies, so they must not fight internally. In order to avoid shaking the morale of the army, General Zhang, as a year-old general on the southwest coast, should not have any trouble at this time.

Although the emperor said something was a big deal, how could Wen Tingzhou not know that the emperor was also guarding against him to monopolize the military power in the southwest. Little did he know that he was not interested in the military power here. General Zhang thought he had won a lot of people in his hands and opposed him everywhere. He didn't want him to have the power in the army, but he forgot that the real local snake in the southwest was the Minnanbo Xie family who was filial. Seeing that the Xie family was about to be filial, the emperor probably had the idea of ​​letting his family compete with the Xie family.

Wen Tingzhou was even more disappointed with the emperor.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, remembering the secret letter from the Empress to himself that Hong Xi, the commander of the Jingji camp, was old and his old illness relapsed, so he might have lived soon, so he asked him to make plans early.

He reached out and knocked on the table. Since the emperor did not want him to monopolize the military and political power in the southwest, he insisted on showing him. Thinking of his wife's letter to him, he snorted coldly, and it was time to avenge his daughter!

If the Zhang family wants to take action first, Wen Tingzhou naturally won’t sit still and wait for death. He just sent someone to keep an eye on General Zhang’s actions and prepared to take a plan.

On the Su family, when the county lord Yongxing saw that his husband was a little depressed for several days, he was a little puzzled. He saw that he had returned home early this day, and did not do anything serious. He leaned against the window and read a miscellaneous book, which was very different from his previous simplicity and busy appearance.

County Lord Yongxing waved his maids back and couldn't help but go forward and ask, "Husband, what's wrong with you? I see you're quite absent-minded these days, but what's the problem?"

Lord Su shook his head gently: "Just as soon as the matter of the hutong guru has just happened, and now all the officials are honest and tight, and everything is in order. How can there be any difficult things?"

County Lord Yongxing was even more confused: "Since that's the case, why are you so lost?"

Lord Su smiled bitterly: "I am just lamenting the impermanence of the world. I think I am from a noble family and I am quite capable. But when I first came to Jiangcheng, I was quite helpless in the complex situation here. Especially when the late emperor was still there, the Ming King still had some hope of fighting for the throne, and I was suppressed by the Hutong Master. Later, after the late emperor went, he gradually calmed down. Even if I had to deal with him with my ability now, I could not be as calm as Mrs. Wen. However, people did it. I have to admit that I am not even as good as a woman or a child."
Chapter completed!