Chapter 58

Lin Ruzhen cried: "Brother, how can you say that about me? Didn't you always say before that Lin Qingyue is not worthy of being your sister? Didn't you say that Zhen'er is the only sister you recognize? How..."

"I'm talking to Father, how is it your turn, an adopted daughter, to interrupt?" Lin Rufeng ordered coldly, "Someone, send the young lady to the ancestral hall to reflect. Before she marries, she is not allowed to come out!"

Lin Rufeng, as the eldest son of the Lin family, had the right to dispose of the inner house affairs. So, when he wanted to punish Lin Ruzhen, Lin Xiao wouldn't refute his face.

After the servants pulled away the crying Lin Ruzhen, Lin Xiao said to Lin Rufeng:

"Zhen'er can only be a secondary consort, but she is also marrying Prince Jin, aren't you afraid she..."

"Not afraid!" Lin Rufeng said indifferently.

Lin Rufeng had received Lin Qingyue's favor before, and knew the stinginess of the Lin family before, so he would definitely help speak at such a time.

"It is said that distance cannot separate relatives, but Lin Ruzhen has repeatedly alienated the relationship between the Lin family and their biological daughter, her heart is as evil as a snake or scorpion!"

"Father, you despised sister Qingyue before, not because you felt she hadn't read books, hadn't received aristocratic education, and were afraid she couldn't sit firmly in the position of Princess Jin. But the other day, the son saw Prince Jin and her raising the eyebrows together, and even for the sake of the sister, he talked to the son very kindly for a long time."

"This is enough to show Prince Jin's regard for the sister! So what you should do now is to try your best to maintain the father-daughter relationship with the sister. Instead of letting your biological daughter feel cold for the sake of an adopted daughter without blood relationship."

Lin Xiao nodded: "It makes sense. Then what do you think we should do about the marriage between Zhen'er and Prince Jin?"

"Since it's a secondary consort, the specifications certainly can't exceed the proper wife." Lin Rufeng thought for a while and said, "On that day, just lift a small sedan chair from the back door."

"Wouldn't this be too shabby?"

"That's what I want, shabby."

Lin Rufeng had quietly sent someone to ask Lin Qingyue, if she didn't want Lin Ruzhen to enter the Prince's mansion, he would help her solve the future troubles.

But Lin Qingyue said: "No need."

Although Lin Rufeng didn't know what Lin Qingyue was planning, even if he wanted to marry off Lin Ruzhen, he couldn't let her steal Lin Qingyue's limelight magnificently.

"Prince Jin has always valued order and status the most. Otherwise, he wouldn't have demoted her to a secondary consort after knowing Lin Ruzhen's background. If Father handles it with great fanfare, it will be counterproductive."

"That's fine, let's do it."

Lin Xiao was very satisfied with Lin Rufeng's performance now.

Ever since being possessed by the snake demon, he no longer went out to mess around, and his speech and actions were becoming more and more like the future head of the family. It could be considered a "blessing in disguise"!

At this moment, Lin Qingyue was brought to the Gu family by Dami.

When she stood at the gate of the Gu family, she thought Dami had taken the wrong road:

"Isn't the Gu family an imperial merchant, the richest man in Da Qi? Why is the Gu family's eldest daughter parked here?"

In Qi Guo, the status of merchants is the lowest, but imperial merchants and official merchants are exceptions.

For example, the trade of important materials such as salt, iron, tea, and rice is monopolized by aristocratic families, and the money earned is immeasurable.

The Gu family mainly does tea business, from the fragrant tea on the tables of imperial relatives and nobles, to the tea foam in the cups of commoners in street teahouses and rural villages, all the good tea and bad tea in the world are in the Gu family's business.

Besides being rich, the Gu family is also very noble.

Twenty years ago, Da Qi suffered a famine, and people were starving everywhere. At that time, Qi Zhaodi had just ascended the throne, the national treasury was tight, and it was the Gu family who took the lead in donating money and goods, helping to survive this difficulty together.

Afterward, Qi Zhaodi conferred the title of "Wen Shang Hou" on the Gu family head, Gu Huai, although it was not a real position, it was a manifestation of honor.

Therefore, when Lin Qingyue pushed open the old wooden courtyard door and saw the simple courtyard, as well as the simple mourning hall, she thought she had gone to the wrong place.

She didn't go to the wrong place, Xie Shouzheng brought people to welcome them out.

He appeared somewhat helpless: "Another one who became an 'Evil Fiend', the previous Wang Ling'er at least made a request, letting us know her obsession, so it was easy to resolve. But this one, no matter how this official asks, she just refuses to answer, it's really hard to figure out what her obsession is."

"There's no way, this official had to ask Dami to invite you over. Deputy Envoy Lin, why don't you use your dream-tracing shadow to reproduce the deceased's memories before death, to give us some reminders."

Lin Qingyue nodded, walked to the coffin, and couldn't help but ask: "Isn't the Gu family very rich? Why let their own eldest daughter live in such a place? And the coffin, it's thinner than that of ordinary commoners with solid family conditions."

Xie Shouzheng said: "I heard that Miss Gu was crazy after being divorced back to her maiden home. She always did some things different from ordinary people. A while ago, she suddenly woke up, but she fell in love with her family's slave, which angered her father Gu Huai, and in a fit of rage, she was kicked out of the house."

"This courtyard is the property Miss Gu bought herself after breaking up with her family. It was originally prepared to live together with the slave, who knew she was abandoned miserably. Miss Gu was heartbroken and hanged herself."

Lin Qingyue asked again: "Where is her family? Why are there only a few maids and old women watching the spirit?"

Xie Shouzheng said: "Wen Shang Hou has not been in the capital for a while, Miss Gu's matter has already been reported by fast horse, and it is estimated that he will be back soon. As for the Gu family madam... she said that it is inauspicious for the white-haired person to send off the black-haired person, so she didn't attend the funeral. So she sent a few maids and old women to manage it."

"It seems that the relationship between this eldest Miss Gu and the Gu family is indeed not good."

It seems normal, a woman divorced back to her maiden home, she must not be welcomed in her maiden home. And she suddenly fell in love with a slave, which is simply a disgrace to the family.

That the Gu family could send people to help manage the funeral can be considered as Gu's affection.

Lin Qingyue gave a look, Dami hurriedly stepped forward and pushed open the coffin lid, revealing Miss Gu who had been dead for seven days.

There were scratch marks on the coffin lid, and there were wood chips on Miss Gu's fingernails, but her fingers were blue and black, which was the trace of the fingers being stiff but still falling down hard after death.

Lin Qingyue said: "She has indeed jumped the corpse. Before the time was up, the evil spirit was not heavy, so she couldn't break out of the coffin, only leaving some traces in the coffin. But tonight is her seventh-day soul-returning day, if not handled properly, I'm afraid it will be very fierce."

Xie Shouzheng said: "This official also means the same, send her away early to avoid causing trouble."

Lin Qingyue was about to use the dream-tracing shadow, when the courtyard door was pushed open with a "Bang," and two middle-aged men came in.

"Who is it?" The guard shouted.

One of them bowed to Xie Shouzheng and said: "Are you people from the Xuanjing Division? This humble person is the Great Steward of the Wen Shang Hou Gu family. The person beside me is a folk expert specially invited by our Gu family to resolve Yin matters, here to chant scriptures and perform rites for the young lady, letting the young lady enter reincarnation early."

Xie Shouzheng said: "Stay aside for now, wait until we resolve Miss Gu's obsession, then you can chant scriptures however you want!"

Steward Gu said: "The meaning of our Madam is that this matter will no longer trouble the Xuanjing Division."

Saying this, he took out a bag of silver and offered it.

Xie Shouzheng took the silver and smashed it over, scolding: "What do you think our Xuanjing Division is? Are we people you can call when you need us and wave away when you don't? Actually taking money to humiliate us, it's simply abominable!"