After being reborn as a man, the woman improved her family's fortunes through education.

Dong Jin and Li Haisheng received the letter one after the other, and their reactions were almost identical.

However, when he was looking at the new product, Jiang Xiwen was putting the child to sleep, so he just glanced at it first.

This sight nearly caused him to knock over his teacup and wake his son, who was just about to fall asleep.

After receiving a big eye roll from his wife, he quickly wiped the letter dry with his sleeve, but the handwriting still blurred quite a bit.

Fortunately, the rescue was timely, and at least the general content could still be seen.

Jiang Xiwen covered her son with a blanket before moving to the daybed, where the letter was placed on the daybed table.

"What's wrong with you? You're so clumsy while reading a letter. It was so hard to get Tuantuan to sleep. If you wake him up, you're in charge of getting him back to sleep."

"No, no, Madam, how can I handle that little devil? You have to do it."

Jiang Xiwen didn't banter with Dong Jin and directly picked up the letter from the Luohan table.

What caused Dong Jin to lose his composure was this letter from his father. Had something happened at home?

Li Haisheng in the capital knew that his father-in-law was accompanying the river patrol team, but Dong Jin and Jiang Xiwen, who were far away in Linhai County, did not.

Since the matter was sudden, Jiang Wenqing felt there was no need to inform him in advance. He was just going on a business trip; why should he announce it to the world?

Besides, he was just a bystander, not the team leader.

Jiang Xiwen then realized that something had happened in the capital and hurriedly read the letter.

However, the more you look at her, the stranger her expression becomes. She didn't lose her composure like Dong Jin, but her furrowed brows indicated that she was in a bad mood.

What fourth prince? A mere thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, searching everywhere for a boy who looks like himself and his second sister?

They also made the boys dress up as girls and style their hair in girlish buns to serve them. There were five or six boys in total, and they all had very similar facial features.

Hmm, they all look familiar on their own, but when put together, they seem like a complete fantasy.

Jiang Xiwen looked at Dong Jin, then at the letter, then at the letter again, then at Dong Jin again.

Feeling uneasy under his gaze, Dong Jin said, "Don't be afraid, Madam. I'll protect you, and the entire Dong family will protect you!"

Jiang Xiwen chuckled, and Dong Jin finally relaxed. He was terrified that his wife would pick up a forty-meter-long sword and storm into the palace to demand justice.

Yes, Dong Jin never doubted his wife. On the contrary, he was afraid that his wife would massacre the palace in a fit of anger.

Oh my god, that's a huge problem. Dong Jin has just planned out the whole family's escape route.

Linhai County is named Linhai County because it is located by the sea. It may lack many other things, but it has no shortage of seagoing vessels.

In the six months since he took office, he has had two more large ships built, mostly funded by the Dong family. After all, the county government was too poor, with less than a thousand taels of silver in its accounts.

The Dong family did not build ships for poverty alleviation purposes, but rather Dong Jin decided to develop the maritime transport industry.

For this river transport project to have greater potential, it needs experienced crew members and sturdier ocean-going vessels.

The Chiang family built the ships themselves, and they are currently recruiting and training crew members.

If the lady really needs to, she can board a ship and run away at any time. The whole family can escape overseas and no longer be bound by the laws of the Great Zhou.

Although Jiang Xiwen was unaware that her husband had already planned out an escape route in his mind, she still approved of his attitude.

Dong Jin: Nonsense, if I don't trust my wife, do you think I should trust that damn Fourth Prince?

Jiang Xiwen chuckled and shook her head. "Husband, there's no need to be so nervous. This matter is rather strange, so we shouldn't jump to conclusions too soon."

It was just a letter from his father; it wouldn't warrant a bloodbath in the palace.

Dong Jin also found the Fourth Prince's behavior utterly absurd. If he was just inspecting the river, he should have just done so. It would have been one thing to indulge in pleasure along the way, but to be so dissolute was another.

After passing the imperial examination, Dong Jin was appointed as a county magistrate. Of the five members of his family who passed the imperial examination, he was the only one to leave the capital to serve as an official. However, he was content with his lot and did not envy the fortunes of others.

He knew very little about royal affairs; the fourth prince was only fourteen years old this year, just two years older than his brother-in-law.

This royal is not only precocious, but also incredibly unscrupulous.

While his wife and sister-in-law were indeed exceptionally beautiful, the royal family was never short of beauties.

It wasn't that he was being modest on behalf of his wife and sister-in-law; they were both beautiful and had dignified bearing, but to say they were breathtakingly beautiful...

It's not true, it's really not true. Even if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Dong Jin would not lie and say that his wife is a peerless beauty.

The royals were used to seeing beautiful women from a young age, from plump to slender, from vibrant to delicate. Even the palace maids serving the princes were not ugly.

And among the princes' mothers, how many of those who bore children for His Majesty were ugly? Unless His Majesty was drunk.

As Dong Jin's thoughts wandered, a sudden burst of flames startled him.

Oh, so it was the lady who burned the "family letters," then it's alright~

"Alright, it's getting late, go wash up and go to bed!"

As soon as Jiang Xiwen spoke, Dong Jin immediately got off the daybed, slipped on his shoes, and went to the next room to wash up.

Jiang Xiwen fanned the window a few times, then opened it a crack to let the burnt smell of the burning letter dissipate.

While Jiang Xiwen appeared nonchalant in front of Dong Jin, she had been thinking a lot. Although her father was unreliable most of the time, he wouldn't speak without reason.

What good would it do for your family to frame a prince and smear both the prince and your own daughter?

Besides, she and her second sister were already married, so there was absolutely no possibility of them entering the palace. Her grandfather would not allow any woman from the Jiang family to enter the palace as a slave, maid, or even a concubine.

My father might have done something foolish in the past, but he wouldn't do it now that he's passed the imperial examination and become an official.

It wasn't that Jiang Xiwen trusted her father too much; rather, she trusted the advisors her younger brother had arranged for her father.

"Looks remarkably like me and Xiyue?"

Jiang Xiwen muttered to herself. At this moment, she and her younger sister Jiang Xiyue, who was far away in the capital, were equally certain that they had never seen any princes or princesses.

It was impossible before marriage, and it's even more impossible after marriage.

Why is that? Why are there six boys who look like the two of them on the official patrol boat on the river...?

He's a boy, why not a girl?

Does the fourth prince prefer men or women, or is he bisexual?

Jiang Xiwen felt like she was about to grasp something, but she was still a little short, and drowsiness overcame her thoughts.

It can only be put on hold for now, since it's impossible for this so-called fourth prince to come to their Linhai County to inspect the river.

After all, Linhai County has no rivers; it's the sea! It's a boundless sea where you can set sail anytime!