The eldest daughter is not easy to bully

"What's going on?" Qian Rong was on his way to the backyard. After being reminded by the housekeeper beside him, he looked up and saw the sky in the southeast direction, faintly bright.

"Master, that's the direction of the City Lord's Mansion."

Qian Rong's eyes widened in disbelief, and the guessing in his heart became chaotic.

At the same time, Qian Rong's younger brother, Qian Shao, was also found to be abnormal in the City Lord's Mansion.

I saw that he was just looking at the direction of the fire, and fell into deep thought.

Zheng family.

"Father! Father!" Zheng Lin yelled and rushed to Zheng Yuan's study, and pushed open the door of the study with a bang: "Father, something happened to Ling's residence!"

Zheng Yuan, who was practicing calligraphy and meditating, was taken aback, and his calligraphy was crooked.

"Daughter, you are about to get married, and you are so flustered when things happen. If you marry into the Ling family, what do you want others to think about our Zheng family?!"

"Father, let's put this aside for later." Zheng Lin said worriedly: "Now the Ling Mansion is on fire, we have to hurry to see what happened."

Zheng Yuan put down his pen, walked out from behind the desk, stepped out of the study and looked up towards the direction of the City Lord's Mansion. The dark night sky was flickering.

"Father, why are you standing there? Hurry up and send someone to find out what's going on!" Zheng Lin thought, but luckily Ling Zhao wasn't at home, otherwise, she would have gone directly to Ling's mansion to find out for herself.

Ever since the flower viewing feast, I heard that Jiang Qing was sent back to her aunt. The situation must be very different from when she was the wife of the city lord.

Zheng Lin will come to tell Zheng Yuan now, just for Ling Zhao's sake, and to take care of her future mother-in-law by the way.

"Lin'er, don't worry."

"Why don't you rush, if Ling Zhao comes back and finds out that the Ling Mansion has changed, and we don't help, he, he will be sad."

Zheng Yuan really couldn't do anything about his naive daughter, and responded, "That's someone else's housework, we outsiders can't take care of it."

"Why can't I control it? Jiang Qing is still my future mother-in-law!"

"Silly boy." Zheng Yuan pondered, and looked in the direction of the Ling Mansion again: "We have no right to control, and we are not qualified to control, but there will always be someone who will come out to control. Maybe it will be better to stop it than if we intervene."

In the Gu family not far away, most of the courtyards in the mansion were completely dark.

In the only courtyard, a candlestick was lit.

There was a man sitting in front of the candlestick, his indifferent profile flickered in front of the faint light.

He was looking in the direction of Ling's mansion, as if he wanted to keep going, so he just sat still.

Not only the homes of the four elders could see the flames.

In the city, almost every household noticed it.

Especially the slums on the west side of the city.

Although it was the farthest from Ling's mansion and the flames could not be seen, the sky over there was brighter than the surrounding sky.

"Grandpa Xin, I want to visit the Ling Mansion." Xinghe's eyes were full of worry: "I don't feel relieved if I don't take a look."

Xin Mo, who was standing beside Xinghe with a full head of white hair, leaned on a cane and stared at the east, his white brows slightly frowned: "Xinghe, we can't help with this matter. If you want to help, grandpa won't stop you."

"Grandpa, I'm going to visit Ling's mansion now."

"Be careful in everything!"

Xinghe responded while running: "I know."

"Elder." A 17-year-old boy walked behind Xin Mo: "There has been movement in the Xuanji Hall on the east side of the city. Many new city residents have gathered there, and there are more patrolling soldiers around."

Xin Mo stroked his long beard and murmured: "Qi Min, do you think they are going to start fighting?"

Qi Min suddenly became angry: "Their plunder of Ducheng has never stopped!"

Ling Mansion, in front of Qingpu Hall.

The fire dwindled.

The maids, servants and mothers-in-law rushed towards Ling Qing with anger on their faces.

Zhu Xin wanted to defend Ling Qing, but was protected by Ling Qing first.

Wei Chun appeared and drew his sword to draw the line, scaring them from crossing the line, but the anger on his face remained undiminished.

"You obviously took away all the money in the account room. How could you have no money to send us monthly money? You obviously want to take it all yourself!" Xiaosha pointed at Ling Qing, and despite Lao Qin's obstruction, he still wanted to express his dissatisfaction in his heart. Confidentially.

Originally, he didn't know what to do to get the monthly money back, but someone just happened to tell him what happened in the accounting room, knowing that Ling Qing had swallowed their monthly money all by himself, so he couldn't sit still, so he immediately began to vent his anger.

Ling Qing stared sharply, and the boy who told Xiaosha about the accountant shrank his head in fright, and slowly retreated to the back of the crowd.

"That's my family's money, not for me, but for you?" Ling Qing asked back.

"That's our monthly money. Mr. Chen said that it's okay to reconcile the accounts, and we'll share our monthly money first, but what about you! Just swallow it!"

"Should I ask Mr. Chen to come out and ask him to confront me face to face, whether he gave me the money or not?"

When everyone heard this, they desperately searched for Chen Xing from the crowd. After a long while, they couldn't find even a single strand of Chen Xing's hair.

But suddenly heard a howl.

Everyone followed the reputation, and it was Chen Xing who they were looking for.

After a day and night of tossing, Chen Xing's beard was unshaven, and his meticulously combed hair was already messy.

Then, a cloth bag was thrown out by Wei Chun, and the mouth of the bag was loosened, revealing the gold bars and silver again.

All of a sudden, the maids, servants and mothers-in-law who were so talkative all shut their mouths tightly.

The meaning of the scene in front of me couldn't be clearer.

It turned out that Chen Xing took all the money by himself.

"Now you can see clearly? Who is the one who swallows it all!" Ling Qing folded his arms and took a good look at the people present.

"No! It's not what she said!" Chen Xing tried desperately to explain, and pushed the burden towards the crowd: "I managed to get these together by myself, and this is the monthly money I'm going to send to you."

"Chen Xing, are you sure you managed to get it together?" Ling Qing's question made Chen Xing, who was so frightened that he wanted to panic, his heart skip a beat.

He was locked in the back hall, and he had heard clearly what was going on in the front hall long ago.Before, he thought that Ling Qing was just trying to teach him a lesson by making disturbances in the accounting room, seizing money, and checking the account books.

He taught Xu An to be locked up for half a day, and even hit him. He wanted to frame Xu An for changing accounts and stealing money, and confiscated the money he got, so that this month's monthly money could be distributed normally.

Now, he has a new discovery.

Ling Qing's making such a fuss was just looking for a legitimate reason to get rid of the step-wife's person!

"is it?"

Chen Xing didn't dare to look into Ling Qing's eyes, even if it wasn't true, he still had to bite the bullet and say, "Yes."

But after a while, several old and young women and children came out of the back hall obediently, followed by a young boy with a muffled voice and an immature appearance.

Without making a sound, the coercion emanating from the whole body was enough to scare a few old and young women and children to come out independently.When they saw Chen Xing, they ran over crying and shouting, hugging him and crying softly.

The young man and Wei Chun nodded in greeting, walked up to Ling Qing and said, "Subordinate Wei Dong, the master ordered Chen Xing's family to be brought here, saying that the girl might need it."

After hearing this, Ling Qing lowered her eyes and pursed her lips with a smile, and when she raised her eyes, it was her who was full of sternness again.

At the same time, Wei Dong threw the burden of Chen Xing's family in front of everyone just like Wei Chun did before, and when the bag was loosened, a pile of gold bars and silver poured out, most of which were jewelry.

The gems are so bright that they can blind everyone's eyes.

"Now, do you all understand?" Ling Qing pursed his lips: "These are the money that really belong to you!"

The next day, it was bright.

Zhu Xin hurriedly walked to Ling Qing's bed and called out in a low voice.

Ling Qing opened his sleepy eyes, and at the same time a sentence came from his ear: "Girl, the city residents gathered at the gate of our house early in the morning, clamoring to see the city lord, and you, my lady."