Jiangmen Tianjiao: Reborn with funny ancestors

Qi Rong said to the woman: "Auntie, this is the eldest lady of Liyang Hou Mansion. She came here specially to visit you."

When Qi Nanyan heard the words "Li Yanghou Mansion", his hands shook imperceptibly.

Qi Nanyan was only 30 years old, but his face already had a look of vicissitudes of life, and he was only wearing a linen dress that had been washed white.

But the nobility she had cultivated since she was a child has not diminished at all, and she is still dignified and majestic in her movements.

Qi Nanyan put away his astonished expression, with a full smile, walked around the counter, walked to the center of the drug store five steps away from Chu Tianjiao, knelt down and saluted Chu Tianjiao.

"Meet the princess."

Chu Tianjiao quickly stepped forward to help her up and said:

"Aunt Qi doesn't need to be polite."

Qi Nanyan did not deliberately keep a low profile because of the disparity in status among everyone. Instead, he pulled Chu Tianjiao and said with a smile:

"The princess has grown into a big girl. If we meet her on the street, my aunt will not dare to recognize her."

Listening to Qi Nanyan's self-proclaimed statement, he recognized that the two families were still close friends.

Chu Tianjiao was very pleased.

This Aunt Qi has not lost her integrity because of the changes in current events.

Qi Nanyan invited Chu Tianjiao to sit at home.

Chu Tianjiao politely declined because he was short of time, saying that they could just chat in the drug store.

"Aunt Qi, I will leave Yangguan tomorrow. I will visit you next time I come to Yangguan."

Qi Nanyan didn't force it.

Chu Tianjiao asked some about the situation of the Qi family in Yangguan, and then he learned that there were not many Qi family members left.

Apart from the women, only a few young masters are still there.

As the aunt who was divorced and returned home, Qi Nanyan was responsible for the livelihood of the Qi family by relying on this pharmacy.

Lu Yu, who had been listening to the two people talking quietly, suddenly asked: "May I ask Aunt Qi, are the two brothers Chang Wei and Chang Ping also in Yangguan?"

Qi Nanyan pointed to Lu Yu and asked, "Who is this?"

Lu Yu then announced his family status.

Qi Nanyan had naturally met Lu Yu, but he didn't expect that Lu Yu, the prince of Nanning who was very ill and was rumored to not survive until the age of 17, would actually appear in Yangguan in good health.

Lu Yu has now made up his mind to join the army and will write a letter back to Beijing later.

On the surface, he was reporting to his father, King Ning, but in fact, he was telling the emperor that it was his own idea to join the army.

In order to atone for his father's sins due to Prince Ning's fault, he went to the northwest to join the army, determined to go into battle to kill the enemy and make up for his mistakes.

Lu Yu's imprisonment has been canceled by the emperor, and he is free.

The emperor was afraid of him because of the dragon-shaped birthmark on his body, so he wanted to assassinate him.

Now that he has joined the Chu family army as a soldier, it will be difficult for the emperor to kill him.

You don't necessarily have to praise him openly.

In this way, Lu Yu finally no longer has to hide in Tibet.

Therefore, he did not hide his identity from Qi Nanyan.

After all, Lu Yu was from the royal family, so Qi Nanyan and Qi Rong could only salute him and say hello.

After that, Qi Nanyan replied: "I didn't expect that the prince would still remember my two naughty nephews. When they were young, they followed the young master of the Wang family and played with the prince.

Fortunately, they were both still young when the family was in trouble, and now they have grown up.

Chang Wei begged the deputy commander and entered the barracks.

Changping is studying at home. Why don't I call him over so that we can catch up with the prince? "

Lu Yu said with a smile: "Aunt Qi, you don't have to be polite. I will stay in Yangguan temporarily and we will have time to meet."

Qi Rong has been standing silently beside Qi Nanyan, occasionally looking at Chu Tianjiao and Lu Yu, but there is no hint of intimacy in her eyes.

Chu Tianjiao and Qi Rong had played together when they were young. They wanted to reminisce about old times, but Qi Rong said she had forgotten them.

Qi Nanyan felt a little embarrassed, so she took Qi Rong's hand to smooth things over and said, "Rong'er, this child, has suffered a lot since our family changed. My pharmacy is thanks to her helping me support it.

Rong'er has a reserved temperament, so the princess should not be overly worried. "

Naturally, Chu Tianjiao would not blame Qi Rong. Speaking of which, not many of his childhood playmates could get along with each other when they grew up.

What's more, now that there is a huge disparity in status, Chu Tianjiao can understand Qi Rong's alienation from him.

It wasn't until a customer came to buy medicine from the drug store that Chu Tianjiao stood up and left.

After leaving the drug store, Chu Tianjiao asked Lu Yu: "A Yu, do you know why the Qi family was convicted in the first place?"

Lu Yu shook his head and wondered.

Shi Po on the side interrupted and said, "Miss, I heard it from the Fourth Master."

Chu Tianjiao asked him to elaborate.

Shi Po said: "I heard that it has some relationship with our Chu family army in the northwest.

At that time, the old man of the Qi family was still serving as the Minister of Household Affairs.

Our military rations and salaries are all allocated by him.

Because the two families have a good relationship, they have always allocated funds on time and in sufficient amounts.

After Jinshang ascended the throne, he began to cut military expenditures and asked Qi Shangshu to reduce the supply of military rations to the Northwest Army.

Qi Shangshu openly opposed it in the court and angered His Majesty many times.

Later, for some reason, someone from the Ministry of Household Affairs reported that Qi Shangshu colluded with the Marquis, emptied his salary, made yin and yang accounts, withheld military rations and military salaries, and enriched his own pockets.

This matter involves Mr. Hou, and something will happen to the Chu family.

The Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Ministry of War all sent people to the northwest to audit the accounts.

It turned out that over the years, the Chu family not only did not embezzle money from the imperial court, but instead had been using their own pockets to supplement the shortage of military pay and pensions.

Over the years, the imperial court owed the Chu family several million taels of silver.

This incident severely slapped His Majesty and the court in the face.

In anger, his Majesty took out his anger on Qi Wenyan, the Minister of Household Affairs.

Qi Shangshu was demoted and became the Minister of Household Affairs.

Soon after, Zhou Changan, who replaced Qi Shangshu, reported that Qi Shangshu had withheld disaster relief funds when he was in power. His Majesty ordered the Qi family to be confiscated, and a huge amount of millions of dollars was actually confiscated from the Qi family.

His Majesty believed that the evidence was proven and had Qi Wenyan imprisoned.

The Marquis was in the northwest at the time. When the Marquis rushed back to Beijing to rescue him, Qi Wenyan had already hanged himself in prison.

The Marquis went to the palace to intercede on behalf of the Qi family. His Majesty then exiled the Qi family in consideration of Qi Wenyan's past achievements. "

After listening to Shi Po's narration, Chu Tianjiao turned pale and cursed:

"If I think about it, Zhou Chang Anpan must have framed the Qi family's embezzlement of disaster relief funds.

The man on the dragon throne was afraid that the courtiers would be close to my Chu family, and Zhou Changan's frame-up would play into Lu Yunkui's hands. "

When Shi Po heard Chu Tianjiao call the emperor by his first name, he turned pale with fright.

Shi Po continued: "The fourth master said the same thing. The biggest evidence for the Qi family's guilt is actually the huge sum of one million taels found out from the Qi family.

But according to the fourth master, the Qi family was good at business. Their ancestors were wealthy businessmen in Shanxi. Later, because of their merits in serving the dragon, they left their business status and began to take the imperial examination.

However, Qi Wenyan's businessman blood has made him outstanding in performance since he entered the Household Department, and he has repeatedly turned corruption into miraculous financial management skills.

It took only a few decades for him to gradually be promoted to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

It is actually not surprising at all that the Qi family has a fortune of millions.

It was either the family's ancestral property or the income from the Qi family's business.

It is a pity that His Majesty did not give the Qi family a chance to prove their innocence. "

Because it had been a long time ago, this was the first time Chu Tianjiao heard about it.

After hearing this, he cursed with an angry look on his face: "Hunjun!"

In the Qi's pharmacy, when all the medical customers left and only the aunt and nephew were left in the shop, Qi Nanyan asked Qi Rong:

"Rong'er, you treat the princess coldly, but you still have resentment towards Liyang Hou Mansion?"

Qi Rong looked ugly and said bluntly: "Auntie, how come my grandfather repeatedly made remarks to offend Your Majesty for the sake of the Chu family and was finally convicted.

As a result, my grandfather died unjustly in prison, and our Qi family was ruined and became a criminal nation.

But the Chu family is still aloof and enjoying all the glory and wealth? "

Qi Nanyan said seriously: "Rong'er, you kid just loves to get into trouble.

Your grandfather was wronged back then and was framed by Zhou Changan.If you don’t hate the Zhou family, how come you hate the Chu family who saved us?

You were young at that time, so you may not know that if the Marquis had not come to the palace to beg His Majesty, our Qi family would have been more than just exiled. "

Qi Rong was particularly unconvinced and retorted:

"It's not because of our Chu family that my grandfather is feared by His Majesty. Their Chu family owes us the Qi family!

Now they are pretending to be benefactors, which makes me sick! "

Qi Nanyan had a headache after hearing Qi Rong's words.

She also knew that because of a family tragedy when she was young, the child saw his grandfather and parents die one after another, and had a mental problem.

She had no choice but to persuade him with kind words: "Rong'er, your grandfather repeatedly argued with His Majesty in the court and became suspicious of Your Majesty, not because of the Chu family, but because he was loyal to his duties.

What he did was to leave the country and for the people.

Your grandfather knew very well that Li’s country needed the protection of the Chu family’s army.

You have to believe that your grandfather is definitely not a clique and selfish person. How could he contradict His Majesty for the sake of the Chu family? "

Even though Qi Nanyan's words were very clear, Qi Rong still couldn't figure it out.

She and Chu Tianjiao were indeed childhood playmates.

She couldn't figure out why the sky and the earth had become one and the same. Why should she be the one who became a criminal?