Favoring Concubines and Destroying Wife: Reborn, I Married to a Rich Man and Destroyed His Whole Fam

After listening to the maid's words, Aunt Xie became even more angry.

If Gu Zhao had helped her before, there would have been a way to prevent Liu Ruyan from marrying Prince Heng. As long as her great-uncle and Gu Zhao helped her, she would have become Prince Heng's concubine, not Aunt Xie as the maid called her now.

When she thought about the future when she would see Liu Ruyan kneeling down to worship her, she became extremely angry.

If her grandfather was Lord Xie, then her status would be higher than Gu Zhao's. Liu Ruyan was the second daughter of a junior official of the Dali Temple, so what was she? She should be kowtowed to.

After a few months in the mansion, Xie Xin was no longer as arrogant as before, and she also knew how to attract the attention of Prince Heng. Her mother was also a concubine's daughter, and later became a legitimate daughter. Although she was the daughter of a minor official, she was considered a family with some wealth and background in Jiangnan.

Her mother also asked a woman from a brothel to teach her, but she didn't use it. If Liu Ruyan had been seducing Prince Heng, she would definitely use this.

Now the eyes of the concubines and maids of Prince Heng are all on Liu Ruyan. She will wait and see them fight. Then she can reap the benefits.

Qinhou Mansion.

Gu Zhao learned about what happened at the court meeting. When he heard the emperor's decree ordering Qin Chen to investigate the matter with the prefect of the capital and people from the Ministry of Justice, Gu Zhao felt that the emperor might be aware of this matter and was doing this now just to find out how much power the Qin Hou Mansion had in secret.

This emperor stole the throne from the former crown prince and was afraid that Prince Chen would come back and take the throne away. Or, the emperor himself did not gain the throne legitimately, so he kept targeting these generals with military power and plotted all kinds of schemes against these generals and their families.

Isn't he afraid? If he kills all these generals, will there be no one to guard the border?

Gu Zhao collected his thoughts and decided to pay closer attention to this matter and find out who was behind the scenes.

"Eleven, what has Princess Tuya been doing these days?"

After hearing his master's words, Qin Shiyi replied.

"My Lord, Princess Tuya has been shopping in the capital these days and has not done anything else."

Still shopping? Not doing anything else.

Could it be that Princess Tuya's move was made openly, while in secret, there were other people in Mobei and the Northern Territory carrying it out in secret?

Thinking of this, Gu Zhao gave some more instructions.

"I obey my orders."

After the court session, Qin Chen, Lord Song, and Lord Lu, the Minister of Justice, went to the house.

The house had been burned to ruins, and many people from the Ministry of Justice and the prefectural government were checking out the situation.

"Greetings, Mr. Prefect."

Lord Song asked when he saw his men.

"Have you found any clues?"

"In reply to Lord Song, the secret passage we found has collapsed. We have sent people to clean it up. Only after the cleaning will we know where the secret passage leads to..."

Lord Song and Minister Lu of the Ministry of Justice both looked at Qin Chen.

"Does Prince Qin have any suggestions?"

Qin Chen shook his head.

"I'm not good at investigating this case either, so I'll just listen to Lord Lu and Lord Song."

Hearing what the Prince of Qin said, Minister Lu and Prefect Song looked at each other. They understood that Qin Chen was trying to avoid suspicion.

In fact, deep down, they both felt that it was impossible for the Qinhou Mansion to have done this. The Qinhou Mansion had a century-old foundation and a huge fortune. When the wife of the Qinhou's son married into the Qinhou Mansion, she also brought a dowry of 200,000 taels.