When Su Fengyi saw the people Wutong brought back, an old woman and a one-year-old child, she understood why Wutong said that this was the perfect grandson she had found for the factory owner.

The child's eyes looked smart and kind, exactly like Qiao Gui's. Even if he was his biological grandson, he wouldn't look so similar.

Over the years, Qiao Gui has used such a pair of defenseless eyes to pretend to be an honest man for twenty years, and thus has been deeply favored by the emperor and has continued to enjoy great favor.

Su Fengyi asked Wutong to go to Jiangnan to find Qiao Gui's wife, and told Wutong the location where the old woman assassinated Qiao Gui in the original book, and asked her to look for her with that point as the center.

Since in the original book, the old woman will appear there soon, then now, she should not be too far away from there.

Wutong arrived in Jiangnan and went to the place indicated by the princess. He settled down there and began to look for someone.

The methods used by Wutong and Dongchang to find people are completely different.

The East Factory was looking for someone, so they started from the place where Qiao Gui was separated from his wife.

That place is in the northwest, thousands of miles away from Jiangnan. So many years have passed, and the Dongchang runners have gone from house to house to inquire and look for clues. However, the noise is loud and the results are slow, so they are naturally unable to find the clues.

Wutong was looking for someone, but she didn't care about any clues. Since the princess said that the person was probably nearby, she used what she was best at, the tactic of solving a large number of questions.

If you want to gather the elderly people around you as quickly as possible, in modern times, the best way is to distribute eggs for free. In ancient times, the best way was to distribute food for free.

Nowadays, as long as eggs are distributed, the elderly within dozens of miles around will come to the rescue.

The elderly can take a free bus that makes three trips in just over an hour, then listen to a three-hour lecture on health products, and then take the free bus back home three more times in just over an hour.

To get a box of eggs, I came regardless of weather conditions.

In ancient times, the same principle applies: when a wealthy family did charity and distributed food for free, anyone who could breathe, from the surrounding counties, would run and crawl to get a share.

Wutong first used the Jinyiwei token to get the list from the county magistrate, and then issued a notice to distribute food to women and children over 40 years old and under 7 years old, with each person limited to one portion.

They sent out a list and marked a name on it. On the third day, someone who looked like Qiao Gui’s wife appeared.

Wutong sent someone to follow her, a woman who looked like Qiao Gui's wife, named Xiu Gu.

Then, after spending three days secretly investigating all of Xiu Gu's relationships, Wu Tong laid his cards on the table with Xiu Gu.

On the fourth day, Xiu Gu and Wu Tong left the area and went to charity halls in the neighboring province one by one, looking for orphans who looked like Qiao Gui.

On the seventh day, Wutong and Xiugu set off for Beijing with a one-year-old orphan who was abandoned in a charity hall and named him Xiaohu.

Wutong arranged Xiu Gu in a secluded little house, and then took Su Fengyi to meet Xiu Gu.

Xiu Gu held Xiao Hu in her arms and bowed to Su Fengyi.

Su Fengyi looked at Xiu Gu, who gave her a very incongruous feeling.

Qiao Gui is in his forties this year, so Xiu Gu should also be around forty years old.

Judging from her face and hands, the years have not left too many traces on Xiu Gu's face, nor have her hands left too many traces of hard work, which shows that her first half of life was not painful, and was even relatively rich.

Xiu Gu had a face that looked younger than her age, but her hair was completely white.

It is because of this white hair that the original book describes her as an old woman.

What kind of pain would cause a person who lives a good life to turn gray overnight?

Su Fengyi said to Xiugu:

“The choice Wutong gave you is not the only way out.

With the factory owner's current power, if you recognize him, you will enjoy endless wealth and glory.

I will give you a chance. Go and meet him alone without Xiaohu.

"Xiao Hu will be raised by me. From now on, you, me, Wutong, and Xiao Hu will just pretend not to know each other when we meet. Are you willing?"

Xiu Gu shook her head:

"The factory owner and the woman had a grudge against each other for killing her husband, son and daughter-in-law. If this deep hatred is not avenged, the woman will not be at peace day and night.

The woman's husband, son, and daughter-in-law were all killed by the factory owner's robbery. How could the woman recognize the thief as her husband and enjoy wealth and luxury when their bodies were still warm?

Even if Your Highness is unwilling to make arrangements for me, I will find another opportunity to take revenge.

I will entrust Xiaohu to Your Highness."

Xiu Gu's eyes were determined. Xiao Hu was probably very sensitive because he had been abandoned before, and he felt Xiu Gu's mood of abandoning him.

Although he was only a year old and could not speak clearly, Xiaohu stretched out his little hand to touch Xiugu's face and hugged her tightly:

"Grandma, grandma, little tiger, little tiger."

Xiaohu's call of "grandmother" broke Xiugu's originally firm expression on the spot. Xiugu hugged Xiaohu and broke down crying:

"Xiao Hu, Xiao Hu, my grandson, if you could be born, you would be this big! Wuuuuuuuuu..."

Su Fengyi walked out of the house. Xiu Gu's heart-wrenching cries, mixed with Xiao Hu's babyish voice trying to comfort his grandmother, echoed behind her for a long time.

Wutong followed her out, Su Fengyi glanced at her and asked her:

"Did you ask?"

Wutong shook his head.

Wutong did not ask whether Xiu Gu's dead son was the bloodline left by the factory master. He could not ask.

Su Fengyi sighed:

"It doesn't matter, it's all the same. Send a message to Envoy Zhu. I want to give him another great merit."

……

August 26th was an auspicious day, and the whole capital city was bustling with activity.

In the East City, at the Princess's Mansion, it was a good day for the Marquis of Zhenbei and the Marquis of Dingyuan to entertain guests.

In Xicheng, at the factory lord’s residence, it is a good day for the factory lord to find his biological grandson and to hold a memorial ceremony for the ancestors.

They are all good days, they are all auspicious, which one should I go to?

Today, the ministers and nobles in the capital are really in a difficult situation. The eldest princess and the factory manager are both very popular with the emperor, and they are both enjoying the emperor's favor.

It would certainly be inappropriate to go to one without going to the other, and it would be even more inappropriate not to go to both.

There were smart people, such as Zhu Zhihui Tongzhi, Zhu Qi, who was promoted two levels because he found his grandson for the factory master. He came to express his loyalty to the princess in advance:

"Your Highness, I am in Cao's camp but my heart is with Han, Your Highness."

The rest of the people looked at each other and wondered who would receive more favor from the emperor.

Finally, everything was settled after the emperor personally visited the Qiao Mansion and conferred the title of Marquis Cheng'en on Qiao Gui's grandson.

Qiao Gui's favor has reached its peak, and no one in the world can compare to him.

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