Jinghong Tower

Chapter 317 Dong Jinzhen (two chapters in one)

In this matter, if anyone is the most surprised, it must be Lu Chang.

Although Lu Chang had been designated as the successor by Li Jinxiu a long time ago, she had only officially taken over Jinghong Tower for a few months, and this was the largest business she had ever handled.

Who would have thought that the business would actually enter the palace. If He Ran had not discovered the secret passage in the house in Zaohua Hutong, Lu Chang would never have imagined that Dong Jinzhen would have been sweeping up fallen leaves in the palace.

He Ran said in a calm voice: "With that secret passage, you can come and go freely in the palace, why do you have to suffer in the palace? The Lin family's house should be tidied up and lived in more comfortably than the palace."

Even though it is a palace, the place where the maids live is equivalent to, maybe even worse than, the maids of wealthy families.

Although the Lin family's house is dirty and messy, it is a private house and it would be a good house to tidy up.

Dong Jinzhen smiled bitterly, the secret passage was still discovered.

"For a civilian girl, there is no safer place in the world than the imperial palace."

He Ran: "Your family has been looking for you."

Dong Jinzhen lowered his head. Suddenly, she leaned over and kowtowed three times. When she raised her head, her forehead was red and swollen.

"The head of the family is a daughter of the people. A daughter of the people doesn't want to see the Dong family. A daughter of the people only wants to die."

He Ran: "Want to die? Your crime is not worthy of death. If I kill you, I will still bear the infamy of indiscriminate killing."

Dong Jinzhen: "The women of the people don't dare to do it. The boss should lock up the women of the people. The women of the people are willing to sit through the jail."

He Ran
The world's great wonders.

He Ran: "Tell me, why did you run to the capital because the cousins ​​of the Qi family framed you? Or did you just use the trick?"

Dong Jinzhen was exposed by He Ran's words, and his pretty face changed color slightly.

She had been in the palace for a long time, and although she spoke little and tried to keep herself away from the public eye, she still often heard the chambermaids discussing the master in private.

She knew that this great master had done many amazing things. As a woman, she commanded thousands of troops, captured the king of Jin, destroyed the king of Kaizhou, and defeated the imperial army to pieces.

She also heard that there were many female soldiers under the head of the family, and she also appointed many female officers. Most of those women were not married, and they lived a colorful life under the wings of the head of the family.

Dong Jinzhen slowly raised his head and said word by word: "The Dong family is proficient in the art of ingenuity, and every generation will have a person with extraordinary talents.

Min's grandfather's name is Dong Qiying, and she and Dong Ruoying are twin brothers.

Although they were brothers from the same father and mother, their grandfather was extremely talented. He was a gifted person of that generation. He was not only proficient in strange things, but also accomplished in gardening, civil engineering and Qimen Dunjia.

As a twin brother, Dong Ruoying has made no achievements in this regard.

When my grandfather came to the capital to take part in the imperial examination, he happened to meet Emperor Taizong who was visiting privately incognito.

Emperor Taizong appreciated his grandfather's talents and ordered him to build a library against all objections.

This library and the secret passage were all the work of my grandfather, but this was based on the oral instructions of Emperor Taizong. Emperor Taizong ordered his grandfather to build a secret passage in the palace in case of emergency.

The house in Zaohua Hutong belonged to neither the Lin family nor the Dong family, but belonged to Emperor Taizong. "

He Ran frowned slightly when he heard this. Mr. Dong, the former minister of the Ministry of Industry, was named Dong Qiying.

According to Dong Jinzhen, the real builder of the library is Dong Qiying.

Sure enough, Dong Jinzhen continued: "After my grandfather became an official, Dong Ruoying came to seek refuge. My grandfather was happy to keep him in his house, but this man was so cruel that he actually killed my grandfather and assumed his identity as my grandfather's!"

He Ran was startled: "Are you saying that the later Mr. Dong Qiying is actually Dong Ruoying?"

Dong Jinzhen nodded: "Yes, he is Dong Ruoying!

After my grandfather was replaced, my grandmother found out. She was pregnant at the time and had no choice but to compromise in order to keep the child in her belly.

But that beast Dong Ruoying gave her an abortion pill, and her grandmother had no choice but to run away. Dong Ruoying announced that she had died of miscarriage and replaced her grandmother with the body of the maid. They had no other relatives in the capital until the grandmother's family found out about this. It was already several months later.

After my grandmother gave birth to my father, she raised him and later married and gave birth to a civilian daughter.

When Min's daughter was four years old, her grandmother had passed away, but someone sent by Dong Ruoying suddenly appeared. He threatened the lives of the entire village, and our family had to follow them.

Along the way, our family was treated like prisoners, and when we arrived in the capital, we were imprisoned in a dungeon.

Not long after, my father was tortured to death by them. My mother knew that she was not going to die soon. Before she committed suicide, she told me that she asked the civilian daughter to pretend to be frightened and lose her memory.

Although the girl was young at that time, she understood her mother's words, so she cried loudly, just as her mother had told her, and she really fainted after crying.

Due to excessive grief and fear, the girl became seriously ill.

After she recovered from the illness, Min Nu pretended not to remember anything. At that time, Min Nu was only four years old. Dong Ruoying did not raise any suspicion and kept Min Nu close to her, claiming to the public that Min Nu was the daughter of his concubine in her hometown. "

He Ran asked: "Before you were four years old, you must have lived in Wei Village? Is it the Jinshi Village?"

Dong Jinzhen's face changed greatly: "How did you know?"

He Ran didn't answer but asked: "Dong Ruoying's people can find Wei Village in Yudi. Is there any relationship between Wei Village and the Dong family?"

Dong Jinzhen never expected that even Wei Cun, the leader of He Da family, knew about it.

She had no choice but to say: "In the previous dynasty, there was a Jinshi Wei from the Wei family. The whole family was executed. But in fact, the Wei family received the news in advance and quietly sent away a pair of brothers. The elder brother was three years old and the younger brother was still in his infancy. .

The younger brother among them is Minnu's great-grandfather.

Therefore, the Dong family’s original surname is Wei.

The other great-grandfather is a figure like a wandering cloud and wild crane, traveling around the world with an unpredictable whereabouts.

After her grandmother learned of Dong Ruoying's treacherous plot, she would have asked the elders of the family to make the decision, but there were no elders in the Dong family, so her grandmother fled to Wei Village to seek protection from her fellow clan members.

Dong Ruoying also sent people to Wei Village, but Wei Village had many agencies. He found no trace of his grandmother, so he thought that her grandmother had died on the road.

This also allowed our family to live a peaceful life for twenty years. "

He Ran had already guessed who the other great-grandfather Dong Jinzhen was talking about.

Wei Xuanji!
He Ran asked: "Why didn't Dong Ruoying kill you on the way to Beijing? Did he want something? What was it?"

Dong Jinzhen's heart felt cold. No wonder she was the head of the family. She was obviously about the same age, but in front of others, she was like a child, revealing all the secrets in her heart in just a few words.

Seeing Dong Jinzhen bowing his head and saying nothing, He Ran smiled: "Dong Ruoying is not good at academics, 50% of it is due to his talent, and the other 50% is probably because the Dong family's inheritance has not been passed on to him.

The Dong family, no, it should be said the Wei family, is it only passed down to the direct eldest son?
There are a pair of brothers who escaped from the Wei family. It is the elder brother who inherits the mantle, and the younger brother, your great-grandfather, has only scratched the surface.

However, the elder brother who inherited the mantle had no heirs, so he passed all his skills to his younger brother's eldest son, Dong Qiying.

Dong Ruoying, the second son, is just like his father. Although he understands the Jikuo construction industry, he is not good at it. He has never learned any of the unique skills passed down from his family. "Dong Jinzhen nodded with tears in his eyes. What else could he hide? The boss even knew that the other great-grandfather had no heirs.

He Ran: That’s because I know Wei Xuanji. Wei Xuanji became a Taoist priest, and it’s still true!

Isn’t it normal for a Quanzhen Taoist priest to have no children?
The fact is just as Ran guessed. The Dong family, or the Wei Jinshi lineage, are good at construction and organization. However, although most of the Wei family's children know a little bit, they have no access to the essence. Every Wei family's unique skills are Only the direct descendants are passed down from generation to generation.

As for the things left by the ancestors of the Wei family, only the eldest son can open them.

Wei Xuanji was opened, and so was Dong Qiying, but Dong Ruoying couldn't open it after decades of work.

The reason why Dong Ruoying brought Dong Jinzhen's father to the capital instead of killing him on the way was to give him a try to see if he could open the inheritance.

He Ran smiled: "Your father didn't open it?"

Dong Jinzhen nodded: "No."

Whether it really couldn't be opened or whether the father deliberately didn't open it, only the dead father himself knew.

He Ran asked: "What about you, can you open it?"

Dong Jin was really speechless.

He Ran chuckled: "Although Dong Ruoying replaced Dong Qiying's identity, he could not open the inheritance of the Wei family. I think he also asked all his children and grandchildren to try, and no one could open the inheritance.

But he only left you out, because you are a woman, and the Wei family's inheritance has never been given to women, even the eldest daughter is not qualified to try it.

However, for some reason, the inheritance was lost. At that time, Dong Ruoying's collusion with the bandits was discovered and the matter was brought to the court. Dong Ruoying was very worried. But at this time, the inheritance was lost again. He had a guilty conscience and suspected that someone was messing with him. , he was worried that the impersonation of his identity would be found out, so he took the opportunity to become an official.

Only by returning to his hometown and staying away from the public eye could he have time to find the lost inheritance.

The reason why he was stranded on the road was not because of his illness, but because he was looking for something.

But you know exactly where that thing went, and maybe you are also responsible for it. The thing is placed in Ruyiju, among the four boxes you bought from Ruyiju for a thousand taels.

Ruyiju is owned by the Shan family to the outside world, but in fact, the former boss Shan was just the son-in-law of the Wei family, and the real head of the family is the Wei family.

You went south to Jinling with the Dong family. You didn't know what method you used to get the Dong family to send you to the Qi family.

At this time, in the eyes of the Dong family, you have no other role except marriage.

And you were in the Qi family, and with the help of your cousins' scheme against you, you used the scheme to leave the Qi family and went all the way north to the capital.

Although Dong Ruoying took Dong Qiying's identity, he didn't know the secrets in the library and the Lin family house.

When you arrived in the capital, you took advantage of the chaos in the palace and entered the palace through a secret passage, taking the identity of Chun Yan'er, Li Daitao. "

He Ran looked at Dong Jinzhen and asked, "Can you tell me now, where did the real Chun Yan'er go?"

Dong Jinzhen plopped down and sat on the ground. She was startled, and hurriedly knelt down again: "Chun Yan'er left, and the girl gave her a sum of money. She took the money back to her hometown in Qingxian County."

He Ran asked again: "Have you learned the inheritance of the Dong family?"

Dong Jinzhen gritted his teeth and nodded: "People's girls are stupid and have only learned a little bit."

He Ran: "Okay, very good."

Lu Chang suddenly realized: "No wonder the Dong family is willing to pay such a high price. It turns out that what they are looking for is not Miss Dong, but the Dong family's inheritance!"

Yes, He Ran could guess Dong Jinzhen's thoughts. Even if Dong Ruoying didn't guess it at the time, she slowly thought of it as time went by.

Later, someone saw Dong Jinzhen in the capital, and Dong Ruoying understood everything. She knew that he had been fooled by Dong Jinzhen over the years.

Those inheritances are still in the eldest house. Even if he kills Dong Qiying and replaces Dong Qiying's identity, he still can't get the inheritance that belongs to the eldest chamber.

Lu Chang was unhappy. This was the first big business she had handled since becoming the shopkeeper.

But now that Dong Jinzhen has been found, the boss obviously has a love for Dong Jinzhen.

This business can no longer be done.

He Ran saw the little girl's thoughts and said with a smile: "They are looking for Dong Jinzhen, haven't they already found Dong Jinzhen?
Whether she wants to return to the Dong family or not is her business, but it is absolutely true that Jinghong Tower found Dong Jinzhen. "

Lu Chang's eyes lit up, yes, why is she so stupid?
You don’t have enough experience in the arena!
The next day, Jinghonglou notified the servant of the Dong family that Dong Jinzhen had been found.

When the servant arrived at Jinghong Tower, he immediately saw Dong Jinzhen, who had been missing for several years.

Lu Chang pointed at Dong Jinzhen and said to the servant, "Is this your young lady?"

The servant was surprised and happy. As soon as he called "Miss", Dong Jinzhen said calmly: "Dong Xi, your son just got married the year I left. Does he have a grandson now?"

Dong Xi hurriedly said: "Yes, she is my granddaughter."

This is Dong Jinzhen. When his son got married, Dong Jinzhen returned a share of five taels of silver.

Lu Chang said: "Have you verified your identity?"

Dong Xi: "Yes, this is my young lady."

Lu Chang waved his hand, and the two accountants walked in.

Dong Xi still doesn't understand. The person has been found and it's time to get the money.

This was Jinghong Tower, and even if he had some courage, he wouldn't dare to default on it.

The two accountants took out the documents they had written before, and Dong Xi signed and stamped them, confirming that Jinghong Tower had completed the entrustment.

One of the documents was brought back by him. He took out the banknote he had brought with him. Just as he was about to hand it over, his hand retracted. He looked at Dong Jinzhen and said, "Miss, you didn't bring your luggage with you?"

Dong Jinzhen sneered, bullshit luggage, are you asking where the inheritance is?

Dong Jinzhen: "My luggage? It's been placed in a reliable place. Don't worry, it won't be lost."

Dong Xi wanted to say something else, but when he glanced around, he saw the people in Jinghong Tower staring at him with unkind expressions. He quickly handed over the thick stack of silver notes in his hand.

The two cashiers carefully inspected the banknotes and said to Lu Chang, "Master, the silver deed has been cleared."

Lu Chang waved his hand and said, "Send him out!"

Dong Jinzhen walked out first without saying a word, and Dong Xi quickly followed.

After leaving Jinghong Tower, Dong Jinzhen got on a carriage that had already been parked there. Dong Xi was startled and chased after him. Dong Jinzhen lifted the car curtain and said to Dong Xi: "I won't let you be embarrassed. Please hand over this letter." To Dong Ruoying, just tell him that everything is fine with me and let him not worry."

As soon as Dong Xi took the letter, the carriage sped away. He chased for a few steps, but he couldn't catch up and could only watch the carriage go away.

Fortunately, there is still this letter. With this letter, the old man will not doubt him.