The little village girl dressed as a disaster star led the whole village astray
Chapter 85 Caution, Caution
That day, Feng Tianyou and Hu Jinyu kept the letter that Li Xi sent them, and handed it to their family after school. County Magistrate Feng and Hu Jinyu were both busy people, and Feng Tianyou and Hu Jinyu were still young, so they were usually raised by their mother and grandmother.
Therefore, they were not the first people to see the letter.
Hu Jinyu was thinking about his friend who had transferred to another school and his sister Li Xi who cooked delicious food. The first thing he did after returning home was to go to his grandmother with the letter.
Although children are small, they know best who loves them the most.
"Grandma, grandma!"
Grandma Hu was talking to Mrs. Hu in the room. Before she saw anyone, she heard Hu Jinyu's voice approaching from afar.
Mrs. Hu shook her head, frowning slightly, "Jin Yu, this kid, how many times have I told him to be more steady, more steady, but he is still so reckless."
"No matter how old a child is, he or she should be more stable," said Grandma Hu, who obviously disagreed with her words and gave her an unpleasant look, "Children should do what they should do at their age.
When he grows up, he will naturally know how to be steady."
Mrs. Hu also knew how good her mother-in-law was to Jin Yu, so she naturally did not argue with her mother-in-law, "Yes, you are right."
However, she still decided to privately advise the naughty boy she gave birth to. He was already old enough to go to a private school, so how could he still look like a child?
Grandma Hu obviously understood her daughter-in-law, but she just glanced at her and said nothing more. She was neither deaf nor blind and was not in charge of the household, so there was no need to take everything too seriously. After all, Jin Yu was her son, so she would not harm him.
As for other things, as a grandmother, she could only say a few good words for him on the surface.
As he was speaking, Hu Jinyu had already run into the house.
Mrs. Hu looked at him sweating and panting, frowned, pulled him over unhappily, and wiped the sweat off his head with a handkerchief.
"Look at you, you're sweating all over. What important thing happened that made you run like this?"
Grandma Hu taught him a lesson, "Your mother is right. Look at you, you are sweating all over. If you run and the wind blows, you will catch a cold and drink bitter medicine soup. You will regret it."
Hu Jinyu let his mother wipe the sweat off his face without moving. He took the purse from his waist with his little hands and pulled out a folded letter from it.
Mrs. Hu, who had already wiped him, put the sweat-stained towel aside and looked at the letter in his hand with some surprise, "Where did you get this letter from?"
"It was given to me by Sister Huzi." Hu Jinyu held the envelope in both hands, shaking her head and saying, "This was given to me by Sister Huzi. She said that after I read this, I can go to school with Huzi again!"
Mrs. Hu and Grandma Hu looked at each other. They had eaten the fried chicken legs and sweet potato fries that Jin Yu brought back from the Li family before, and had a general understanding of the situation of Hu Zi and his sister.
Jin Yu has been depressed these days because of Hu Zi. They learned from Jin Yu that Hu Zi's sister moved away with him, and Hu Zi also dropped out of the private school.
What is the situation with this letter?
Mrs. Hu looked at the envelope in Jin Yu's hand. Could it be that he wanted to ask for something?
This idea made Mrs. Hu lose her favor towards Li Xi. She looked at the innocent and happy smile on her son's face. If she wanted to use her son's kindness to achieve some purpose, she would be miscalculating.
"Jinyu, give the letter to me. I'll see what's written on it."
"Here!" Hu Jinyu handed the letter to Mrs. Hu with both hands, and then stood on tiptoe beside her, "Mom, please take a good look at it. Sister Hu Zi said that if you read the letter, Hu Zi and I might be able to go to school together again."
"Mom, look quickly!" Hu Jinyu urged.
Grandma Hu looked at her grandson who was jumping up and down anxiously and laughed out loud, "Just look at how anxious Jin Yu is."
Mrs. Hu glanced at Hu Jinyu unhappily. "What are you talking about? I've told you so many times to keep your composure. Look at what you're doing now!"
Hu Jinyu was also unhappy, and pouted her lips and said, "You look anxious, mother, please take a quick look.
If Sister Huzi hadn’t told me to take the letter home to show my family, I would have opened it myself.”
He knew quite a few words, so he could definitely understand the contents of the letter. Yes, he could read it himself. Jin Yu's eyes lit up, "Mom, why don't I read it myself? I'll give it to you after I finish reading it!"
As Hu Jinyu spoke, she stood on tiptoe to reach the letter in Mrs. Hu's hand.
Mrs. Hu silently repeated three times in her heart that this was her biological son before she could resist taking action. Both his father and herself were smart people, so how could they give birth to such a stupid son?
"Why are you in such a hurry? Just read it now!" Mrs. Hu gave him an unpleasant look, tore open the envelope, and took out the letter. She wanted to see what was written on the letter.
After reading the contents of the letter, Mrs. Hu couldn't help but widen her eyes.
"What!" Mrs. Hu exclaimed.
Hearing Mrs. Hu's exclamation, Grandma Hu was a little surprised, because her daughter-in-law seemed to be a steady person.
Hu Jinyu was also aroused by her mother's exclamation, and she climbed up her arm to grab the letter in her hand, "Mom, what's written in the letter?
Let me see, let me see!"
Mrs. Hu's thoughts were all on the letter and she didn't hear Hu Jinyu's voice at all. She stood up with the letter and read the contents, feeling very suspicious.
The letter said that Jin Yu was invited to attend classes at the clan school at the General's Mansion in Zhenbei, Jiayuguan.
She had sent people to check the identities of the Li siblings before, and they were just ordinary farm boys, and they had no father or mother, and had a miserable life.
How could they with their identities have any connection with the Zhenbei General's Mansion? The letter said that there were too few people in the clan school, only Hu Zi and a person of the same age. Hu Zi felt a little lonely and missed his previous good friends.
So he thought of asking Jin Yu if she would like to go with him.
If this is true, she would definitely be willing to let her son go. That is the Zhenbei General's Mansion. Is that a place where anyone can go?
Although their family has a big business and considerable assets, they are at the bottom of the hierarchy of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, and the real aristocratic families would not look down on them.
Why did she and Jin Yu's father send Jin Yu to a private school? It was so that he could pass the imperial examination and change his family's status in the future.
The teachers in the clan school of the Zhenbei General's Mansion must be very knowledgeable. If Jin Yu could go there, it would definitely be better than staying in a private school in a small place like Jiangning City.
But the question is, is this true?
She read the contents of the letter and found it so unbelievable.
Madam Hu looked down at her jumping son and said to the maid, "Go tell the housekeeper to take someone to notify the master to come back immediately.
Just say it’s an urgent matter.”
Hu Jinyu's father is Hu Zhenjiang, a businessman with a big business. He needs to go out to take care of it every day. He happened to be out at the shop in Lin County in recent days. According to the plan, he should be back in a few days, but Mrs. Hu, who had read the contents of the letter, did not want to wait for a moment.
Mrs. Hu followed Hu Zhenjiang in business in his early years and she knows best that opportunities are hard to come by and will never come back.
Although she didn't know whether the content of the letter was true or false, she felt that she could give it a try. After all, even if it failed, there would be no loss. If it was true, Mrs. Hu looked at her son again, then her son's good luck would come.
The same situation also happened in the home of County Magistrate Feng.
Unlike Hu Zhenjiang who was far away in Lin County, Mrs. Feng immediately sent someone to the yamen to inform County Magistrate Feng after reading the letter.
When County Captain Feng saw the servant coming to call him in a hurry, he thought something big had happened at home. He asked the servant, but the servant could not explain it, so he could only rush home in a hurry.
As soon as he got home, he saw his wife waiting in the yard.
Without even taking the time to sit down and rest, he strode over and asked, "Did something big happen at home?"
"It's not a big deal." Mrs. Feng handed him the letter in her hand. "Tianyou met a liar."
County Magistrate Feng took the letter from Mrs. Feng with a puzzled look on his face. Liar? What kind of liar could make her call him back in such a hurry?
Before County Magistrate Feng had time to look at it, he heard his wife say indignantly, "This liar is so hateful that he dared to deceive Tianyou under the guise of Zhenbei General's Mansion.
I guess it’s because Tianyou is young.
She also mentioned inviting Tianyou to study at the Zhenbei General’s Mansion. She was so arrogant, as if the Zhenbei General’s Mansion was owned by her family.
I have lived in Jiayuguan for so many years, but I have never heard of any clan school in the Zhenbei General's Mansion!"
Mrs. Feng’s real name is Jiang Xinmiao. Her father was a deputy general in the Zhenbei Army. She had been living in Jiayuguan before her marriage. Most importantly, her mother was once a maid to the general’s wife, so she knew more about the Zhenbei General’s Mansion than others.
So as soon as she saw the content of the letter, she firmly believed that the sister Hu Zi mentioned by Feng Tianyou was a liar. She grew up in the border area, and her father was the deputy general of the Zhenbei Army, so she has always had a special feeling for the Zhenbei Army and would not allow anyone to discredit them.
The reason why she notified County Captain Feng to come back was to let him catch this guy who dared to deceive people under the guise of the Zhenbei General's Mansion.
After listening to what Mrs. Feng said, County Lieutenant Feng felt a little confused. Only after reading the letter in his hand did he understand what she meant.
However, his opinion was different from Mrs. Feng's. The letter said that Tianyou was invited to attend the clan school at the General Zhenbei's Mansion. The authenticity of this matter was easy to expose. Just send someone to Jiayuguan to inquire and you would know whether there was a clan school at the General Zhenbei's Mansion.
There is really no need to deceive people with something that can be easily broken.
County Captain Feng glanced at his indignant wife. He understood best the position of the Zhenbei General's Mansion and the Zhenbei Army in her heart, so he did not mean anything by her behavior.
There was a name written on the letter. County Magistrate Feng had eaten the food his son brought back from the Li family before, so he knew the identity of the writer after reading the name.
"It's a bit too early to say she is a liar now. I will ask someone to go to Jiayuguan tomorrow to ask and we will know whether the clan school story is true or not." said County Lieutenant Feng.
"Why do you need to ask this? The Zhenbei General's Mansion has never opened a clan school!" Mrs. Feng really didn't understand why her husband would go to the trouble of finding someone to go to Jiayuguan to verify the authenticity. It was really a unnecessary effort.
County Magistrate Feng pulled his wife to sit down and comforted her, "It's better to have someone investigate the truth of the matter. If it's false, we can tell my father-in-law and ask him to remind the general."
"If it is true, we will have offended you."
If this news is true, then Li Xi, who wrote the letter, is definitely not an ordinary person. With just one sentence, she was able to send Tianyou to the clan school of the Zhenbei General's Mansion. Her relationship with the Zhenbei General's Mansion is definitely not ordinary.
From County Lieutenant Feng's heart, he hoped that the contents of the letter were true. After all, that was the clan school of the Zhenbei General's Mansion. If Tianyou could study there, he would have an invisible connection with the Zhenbei General's Mansion. That was the Zhenbei General's Mansion, an existence that many people wanted to establish a relationship with but could not.
Although Mrs. Feng did not think the letter was authentic, she did not refute it after hearing what County Captain Feng said. She just wanted to investigate it. After the investigation was thorough, she wanted to see what kind of person dared to cheat people in the name of the Zhenbei General's Mansion.
Early the next morning, County Magistrate Feng sent people to Jiayuguan. Just as he was about to go out to report to the yamen, he was blocked at the door by Hu Zhenjiang, who was called back from Lin County overnight by Mrs. Hu.
"Lord Feng." Hu Zhenjiang bowed to County Magistrate Feng.
"Boss Hu." County Captain Feng was a little surprised to see the person coming. Hu Zhenjiang was a famous businessman on the border. He knew that Tianyou was very close to his son. He had met him on other occasions before, but the two of them did not have any personal relationship. What on earth was the reason for him to come to his house so early in the morning?
"I'm so sorry to bother you so early in the morning."
"Mr. Hu, you are too polite. Please come in." County Magistrate Feng invited him in, then told the servant to go to the yamen to ask for leave.
"Sir Feng, I have an important matter to discuss today. I am really sorry for wasting your time." Hu Zhenjiang apologized sincerely.
County Magistrate Feng led him to the main hall, and after he sat down, he told the servant to serve tea.
"I wonder why Mr. Hu came here today?" County Lieutenant Feng had been thinking about it all the way, but he really couldn't figure out what was going on between him and him.
"My son came home from private school yesterday and brought back a letter."
As soon as Hu Zhenjiang said this, County Captain Feng felt familiar. A letter, could it be the same one that Tianyou brought back?
As expected, he then heard Hu Zhenjiang say, "I heard from my son that your young master also received a letter."
Hu Zhenjiang had been looking at County Captain Feng while he was speaking, and naturally noticed the surprised expression on his face when he heard him talking about a letter.
His eyes flickered slightly, and it seemed that he had also read the letter.
"Does the letter invite your son to study at the Zhenbei General's Mansion?" Although he had already guessed the content of the letter, County Magistrate Feng still asked cautiously.
Hu Zhenjiang did not answer, but took out a letter from his arms and handed it to him with both hands, "Master Feng, this is the letter."
County Lieutenant Feng took the letter, read it and returned it to him in silence. The two letters were exactly the same, except that one invited Feng Tianyou and the other invited Hu Jinyu.
At this point, County Magistrate Feng did not hide it from Hu Zhenjiang, "The letter that Tianyou brought back is exactly the same as this one. The content of the letter is too unbelievable. I have already sent people to Jiayuguan.
We will make plans for the follow-up after we find out the truth.”
Like County Magistrate Feng, Hu Zhenjiang also sent people to Jiayuguan to investigate.
"County Magistrate Feng and I have the same idea. Let's wait until the results of the investigation come out before we decide."
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