I fought back after reselling my engagement

In the flower hall, only Su Jingzhai and his son and Zhen Su were left.

Zhen Su continued, "I hid in the dark and heard my eldest sister say that she wanted my father to produce the evidence of the Rong family's crimes and force Prince Rong Wei to marry her. My father angrily asked: How did she know this?"

Zhen Su raised her eyes, unable to hide the surprise she had heard when she heard that. "It turns out that since my father was in the Ministry of Justice, he had obtained evidence from a death row prisoner that could have convicted the Rong family of a serious crime by checking the charges and determining the ranks of the criminals. But I don't know what the evidence was. My eldest sister has seen the evidence. From their argument, I know that my mother did not die of illness, but was angered to death by my father's indulgence of Yu.

My father regards the mother and son of the Yu family as his closest relatives, and I am an outsider in the Zhen family. The secrets that my eldest sister knows, I cannot know. A son should not blame his father, but if I stay in the capital, I will die. That night, when no one in the Zhen mansion noticed, I took Chunyan and slipped out of the Zhen mansion to seek refuge with my grandfather..."

Seeing and hearing with her own eyes the plots and calculations of her stepmother and elder sister, her father not only did not punish them, but even condoned them. In Zhen Yuan's heart, this daughter who grew up in the Su family was far less important than Zhen Zhen who was raised by her.

Su Shao said, "My second brother-in-law used his official position to collect evidence of officials' crimes for his own benefit?"

Su Jingzhai and the old marquis of Leda Marquis's Mansion had worked together in Jiangnan when they were young and had a life-and-death friendship. Since that period, the two have always been friends and regarded each other as close friends.

Zhen Su said: "After my grandfather left the capital, the old marquis told his descendants about the engagement. In the following two years, Marquis Rong's wife sent people to keep an eye on me. The longer they kept an eye on me, the more they knew about the Zhen family. The emperor conferred the titles of county lady and princess on me because I saved some people after my grandfather left the capital..."

She introduced herself to the beggar brothers Li Damao and Li Ermao, and always looked after them, because they knew other beggars, and the beggars had their own information channels. On several occasions, when they knew someone was doing evil and wanted to save people, they passed the news to her. She saved the grandson of Prince Gong and the only beloved daughter of Princess Qingchun. She did many such things, and she didn't think much about saving people at the time.

"Beggars still have compassion and the heart to help those in need. I was raised by my grandfather and my uncle, so I didn't know. But they passed the message to me, and I had to save people. I just wanted to do these things quietly. But I didn't expect that Le Dahou Mansion was always watching me, and Miss Rong Yin, the legitimate daughter of Le Dahou Mansion, took a small notebook and wrote down everything I did..."

Zhen Su then told the story of how he spent his time studying calligraphy and painting after his grandfather left the flower-viewing banquet. He learned some techniques in calligraphy and painting, and became famous because of them, but this led to Rong Wei's bullying.

Su Shao heard this and said, "The old marquis is a man of integrity, but Prince Rong is really a jerk. He has already been engaged to my third niece, and he still wants to threaten Su Su. If I were at home, I would definitely beat him up."

Su Jingzhai said, "The old marquis has already apologized for this matter, saying that his grandson was a bastard and he was sorry for Su Su, so there is no need to worry about the past."

But he really didn't expect that the mother and daughter of the Rong family were also quite peculiar. Because they were dissatisfied with their marriage, they had been keeping an eye on Zhen Su for more than two years, and they knew more about Zhen Su's affairs than Zhen Su himself.

The capital's reputation as a "soft dumpling" became known to everyone because of this mother and daughter.

Su Jingzhai was of course angry, but his reputation had already spread, and he could not change it. His granddaughter encountered bandits on the Yueyang ship, and in order to protect her reputation, she jumped into the river, which earned her a reputation for her steadfastness and fortitude. After hearing this, the queen, the ninth princess and the emperor interceded, and only then was the imperial decree issued to promote the county princess to the princess princess, and the Qingdi County in the north was granted to Princess Jiarou as a land of food and property.

The imperial edict was handed over to Su Jingzhai, and Rong Yin took a small notebook and reported all the messy things in the Zhen family to the emperor and the empress, telling them as stories. The emperor and the empress knew that Zhen Yuan was a man who favored his concubine and neglected his wife, and ignored the legitimate daughter born to his first wife, and the second wife was an unvirtuous woman who promoted the concubine to the first wife.

The emperor was dissatisfied and felt that this "softie" could not keep his own fiefdom of Mu. He handed the imperial edict to Su Jingzhai, who was in charge of the fiefdom on behalf of his granddaughter. Su Jingzhai was better than Zhen Yuan, who was unreliable. At least he did not have to worry about the public resentment caused by the Zhen family.

The emperor conferred the title of county lady on Zhen Su because he had conferred the title on Rong Yin who helped to finish the matter, and Zhen Su who had done the real good deeds also had to be conferred the title. Not only did the emperor think that Zhen Su was a strange person, but even Su Jingzhai and his son thought that "the one who had done so many good deeds and saved such a powerful person must be my granddaughter (niece)" and they were afraid that she would be promoted to a county lady in the future.

It must be Prince Gong who helped behind the scenes. Prince Gong hated to owe favors to others. Since Zhen Su saved his grandson, he had to repay her by saying something good and asking for a Mu food fief, so that the princess could be worthy of the title.

Cui took the guests to the guest house and came back. She stood beside and listened to Zhen Su talking. It was like a dream. After thirty-two years of separation, her niece had actually saved so many people in the capital.

Zhen Su did not want to hide the truth from her grandfather, so she told him that she was respected by the beggars and was elected as the elder of the Beggars' Sect. However, when she left Beijing, she gave the elder's card to the second prince.

Su Shao didn't know what the use of this Elder Sect was, but he felt that it was something extraordinary.

Su Jingzhai said: "You give the elder card to the second prince, and the second prince will definitely present it to the emperor. With the elder card of the Beggar Gang, the emperor can control the Beggar Gang in the capital. This time the court cleaned up the banditry on the canal and used the forces of the underworld. If I am not mistaken, the Luoyang Beggar Gang has been controlled by the court..."

The power of the Beggars' Sect should not be underestimated. His granddaughter alone saved so many people with the help of the beggars' news. With the emperor's wisdom, he will surely guess that there is a mystery and opportunity hidden in this. His granddaughter's position as a princess was obtained by her own ability.

Those local tyrants seized the interests of the imperial court and the fat of the people. Emperor Gaozu hoped until his death that the current emperor could completely control the canal. All the local tyrants were connected with the underworld forces. When the imperial court sent troops, they regarded themselves as local families; when the imperial court did not send troops, each family had its own faction or school, with many names.

Luoyang's Daowang Sect and Liufeng School were uprooted. Only a few minor officials were left in the Wang family of Daowang Sect, and the Liufeng School was accused of exterminating the entire Wang family. Two of Luoyang's "jianghu sects" were eliminated overnight, and afterwards, gangs at canal docks in various places suffered heavy losses one after another. Their methods were quite similar to those of the Wang family of Daowang Sect and the Liu family of Liufeng School, but some were even more ruthless.

The Wan and Hua families in Baihua County, one relied on the birth of Concubine Wan and the Fourth Prince, and the other was the Hua family in Fanhua Village in Baihua County. The Wan family was severely punished and fined 10 million taels of silver. The entire Wan family had to pay the fine in order to save their lives.

The Hua family was even more miserable. All the men who were twelve years old and above were demoted to military service, and all the unmarried girls between the ages of three and eighteen were demoted to official maids and sold by the government. All of the Hua family's property was confiscated.

The four people then talked about the three major local families in Baihua County.

Zhen Su asked, "Is the Bai family okay?"