The Evil King's Favorite Concubine: Genius Perfumer

Chapter 220 Family ugly ([-])

Fang Xuezhen traveled abroad for decades, served as magistrate three times and magistrate twice, then went to Beijing to join the Ministry of Household Affairs as a servant, and finally became an official in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.Although he failed to become Ge Lao in the end and ascended to the pinnacle of power in Daxiao's officialdom, he was already a rare high-ranking official in the history of Deling County.

Mrs. Jin has been raising Fang Xuezhen's eldest son, Fang Shaobai's grandfather Fang Zhicheng in the countryside.Fang Zhicheng did not have the exam luck of his father, and his fame stopped as a scholar, but under the care of the old lady, he is still a very good family heir.

The Fang family's land and property were carried forward in the hands of Fang Zhicheng, and of course it was also due to the aura of kindness of Fang Shangshu in the capital.

And Mrs. Wen, who accompanied Fang Xuezhen in the capital, always had only one son, Fang Zhijun.Mrs. Wen's naturally harbored resentment in her heart, and Fang Xuezhen always felt ashamed of their mother and son, so she could not help but indulge her second son too much.When Fang Zhijun was young, he was still able to study, and after becoming a scholar, he went to the Imperial College to study because of his father, but he caused many disasters because of his indulgence.

Fang Shangshu wiped his spoiled young son's ass again and again, and over time, he also suffered from headaches, fearing that he would make another major incident that would affect his official reputation.So after Fang Zhijun failed the exam again, he found him a county magistrate in a wealthy place in the south of the Yangtze River through the back door, and sent him away from a distance.

Fang Zhijun is Fang Shaobai's "Second Grandpa".

Fang Zhijun is several years younger than his half-brother Fang Zhicheng, but he married earlier, and his son is a year or two older than Fang Zhicheng's eldest son.His branch settled down in the south of the Yangtze River, and never returned to Deling to worship their ancestors.After Fang Shangshu became an official, Mrs. Wen refused to follow him back to Deling for the elderly, even though Mrs. Jin had passed away at this time.

For Wen Shi, Deling is a place of shame in her life.She stubbornly went to the south of the Yangtze River with her son, and died of old illness a year later.

People are dead, and they have to go back to their hometowns for burial.

"I heard that when the second grandfather Fu Ling came back that year, there was a big mess... Fortunately, the great-grandfather is still alive, so he insisted on suppressing it."

Fang Shaobai sighed and said: "Oh, my lord does not allow discussion, but I still heard my father say it once in private, and it also meant that I would take more care of the Jiangnan branch in the future... There is no way, Mrs. Jin's burial can only be done. It's according to the rules of the concubine's house."

Although it was very embarrassing to know the identity of his mother, after all, Fang Zhijun had never faced it directly for decades.After admitting his mother's status as a concubine, he became the son of a concubine. Fang Zhijun would be a ghost if he wasn't angry.

"Second grandfather's name, how is it written in the genealogy?"

"Oh, it's actually written under Mrs. Jin's name, and she's also a legitimate son... But this can only be used to deal with outsiders..." Fang Shaobai was very helpless. He didn't like to comment on the elders. In fact, Han Rui didn't know this. The root cause of the old affairs of the Fang family - who wants to mention this bad debt?

What's more, Fang Xuezhen's status and status are "unclear" on the issue of marriage, which severely discredits his perfect life history.The Fang family wanted to bury this past in the wind, until one day, the Jiangnan branch appeared in front of the Fang family again.

After Fang Zhijun's death, his eldest son Fang Zhengcai, the cousin of Fang Shaobai's father Fang Zhengkai, returned from Jiangnan with his family and said that he wanted to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors.

They are far away in the south of the Yangtze River and will not come back. The Fang family can pretend that nothing is wrong, but everyone is here...We can't drive them out, can we?

"When did it happen?" Han Rui asked.

"end of last year."

Fang Shaobai counted the days: "It's been eight or nine months. After they came back, the elders in the family said to keep a low profile as much as possible. Fortunately, the family didn't make any demands. They only asked the family to share some of their houses and land... that one My uncle's two sons are both children, and my father once asked them if they would like to study in the Fang family, but they were declined."

"After they settled down, they almost never went back to their house, right?"

Han Rui thought about it seriously, and made sure that he had never seen the legendary Jiangnan branch family in Fang's house.And the masters of the Fang family must have ordered their servants not to talk about the family's affairs indiscriminately. Han Rui, who rarely entered the inner court, naturally didn't know about it.

"I haven't been back. In fact, they hate to have less contact with the family except for the New Year's Day and birthday celebrations. Even if it's the New Year's Day, the family often complains of illness or other excuses, and only sends servants to give gifts to say hello."

"I didn't think it was wrong at first, but today you said this..."

Fang Shaobai shook his head and said, "There is such a group of people hidden in that uncle's house, but we don't know anything about it. It seems that I have to investigate thoroughly."

"Now there are two problems."

Han Rui held up two fingers and counted: "One, what is the origin of these people; two, what Fangzheng wants to do."

He is a majestic little prince. When he is in a good mood, he calls Fang Zheng a cousin. When he is in a bad mood, he calls him by his first name and no one dares to say anything about him.

Especially now that Han Rui was extremely suspicious that Fang Zhengcai and the group of men in black had something to do with the people who attacked him and Fang Shaobai outside the city, and he was even more furious.

"Sorry, I can't answer these two questions for now."

Fang Shaobai spread his hands helplessly: "Before tonight, I didn't notice anything strange about their family... Speaking of which, it was also dark under the lights."

"Well, it's dark under the lights."

Han Rui leaned on the chair, ate the fruit one bite at a time, thoughtfully: "What we are most afraid of now is the darkness under the lamp."

After being attacked, they thought in the direction of Concubine Jiang and Jiang's family, but ended up in a dead end.Gan Tiantian's reminder made Han Rui start to consider other possibilities, and by coincidence, he ran into the group of men in black entering the city.

"A Rui, let me say that aside from those two issues that still need further investigation. If they are really related to the people who attacked us, or are the masterminds, then what is their purpose?"

"Purpose..."

Han Rui remembered Gan Tiantian's words.

That day, in his small courtyard, Gan Tiantian once said that someone might use his affairs to attack the Fang family's direct descendants.

Thinking of the decades-long entanglement between the branch of the Fang family that came back from the south of the Yangtze River and the current head of the family, Gan Tiantian's thinking may be very close to the truth.

"Tada said so?"

Fang Shaobai was not too surprised by Gan Tiantian's intelligence, although it is not good to think that Han Rui is still in close contact with Gan Tiantian, but it is inconvenient for him to say more about this at this time.

"Well, Tiantian's suggestion makes sense... When the second grandfather came back to bury Mrs. Wen, it is said that he said a lot of cruel words in front of the clan."

The immediate priority is to find out what's going on in the other courtyard!
Fang Shaobai couldn't wait for a moment, regardless of the darkness of the night, he immediately began to gather people to do things.

In the orchid courtyard, Gan Tiantian finally decided on a strategy to deal with the Tan family.

(End of this chapter)