Ball Ball Cultivation

Chapter 461 Light and Dark11

Qiuqiu said helplessly, "In order to maintain the reputation of the Duke's Mansion, I even found a loophole in the Zhang family's rule of not taking concubines. In addition to my legal wife, I also married Zhu Wanwan and Song Lanzhu, a total of three wives. Only then did I maintain the prosperity of the Duke's Mansion."

Xie Ying'an: "Song Lanzhu is an orphan of the previous dynasty. She is a legitimate princess and her children are all descendants of the previous Qing emperor. As descendants of the dynasty, they are always blessed with good fortune. So what is the background of this Zhu Wanwan?"

"Zhu Wanwan, there was a Jin clan in the previous dynasty, a branch of the Treasure Island clan. When Treasure Island sank, the people on it fled, and the clan members spread across the country.

The Jin and Yin families were born with a knack for trade, and during their heyday they controlled the nation's economic lifeline.

Later, the men of the Jin family who were doing business outside disappeared one by one, and the women died of illness one after another. The Jin family disappeared silently, and their property was divided up. Within a few years, the huge property fell apart.

Zhu Wanwan is a descendant of the Jin clan, her original surname is Jin Zhu. The family that raised her also valued her wealth.

Grandfather found Jin Wanwan and negotiated with her adoptive parents, casting a spell to exchange their existing wealth for official luck, and in return, they got Zhu Wanwan.

Ji Zhi: "No, our family is not short of money, is it necessary to marry a concubine to make money?"

Qiuqiu explained: "She, Xie, and Song all have the same birthday, the same horoscope, and similar fates.

Xie's grandmother saved Song's grandmother's life, and then did the evil thing of exchanging children. All we can say is that she was just paying for her karma!

Xie's fate simply couldn't suppress the fortune of a Duke's wife, and with Lang Ge'er, they welcomed Zhu into the family to break her fate of early death. Together, the two of them could barely extend her life as a Duke's wife for another ten years."

Wen Yuanzhi understood the hidden meaning: "Does this mean that in a dozen years, the Duke's Mansion will no longer exist?"

Qiuqiu nodded slightly, but it was difficult to explain that he had used the power of time and space of the Horcrux to see some scenes of the future.

I can only postpone the prediction of the future until Zhang Minzhi finally hangs up:

"My father predicts Ji Zhi's fortune and uses divination every year.

But this year, he calculated a glimmer of hope. It was also a glimmer of hope for the descendants of the Duke's Mansion!

To grasp this glimmer of hope, my father and mother sacrificed their lives to find a solution."

When Ji Zhi heard this, tears streamed down her face. Xie Yingan came closer and gently wiped her tears.

Qiuqiu was forced to eat a bowl of dog food. Seeing that his sister was in a stable mood, he told her the final calculation result:

"Within three years, Langzhi became disabled, and Ruizhi, after inheriting the title, impulsively reclaimed the title of Duke. The Song family was framed and exiled to the miasma-ridden lands of the south. The Zhang family was sent back to their ancestral homeland, forced into the mountains, and perished from wild beasts."

Wen Yuanzhi almost spilled the brewed tea: "What about you, brother? You are in charge of the Duke's Mansion, how could this happen?"

Qiuqiu sighed helplessly: "I'm gone a long time ago."

Xie Yingan held Ji Zhi's hand to prevent her from hurting herself: "Who did this?"

Seeing that Qiuqiu didn't react, he pointed upwards.

Qiuqiu nodded and shook her head: "I guess it was Concubine Xi who did it, and he just acquiesced after knowing it."

Xie Ying'an took the teacup, drank it in one gulp, and after calming himself down, he asked softly, "Of the four founding dukes, three have almost been eliminated. Not to mention the original Song family, they were, after all, members of the previous dynasty's royal family. Although they were members of a branch of the Song clan, they didn't originally have a royal title. Conferring them a dukeship showed their generosity. The Song family is not up to par, and they still think that they were extravagant and bullied men and women during the previous dynasty, so it's understandable that they were stripped of their titles.

The descendants of the Huo family, who made their fortune through military merit, were almost all plotted to death, but he still refused to show mercy!

As for your Zhang family, I heard that it was the Li family who pushed out the eldest princess who had combed her hair and refused to marry in order to keep Old Master Zhang. That's how this line of the Zhang family survived!

Your Zhang family has no luck in officialdom and no power in the court. How can you get rid of the Zhang family?

"Could it be that the higher-ups conferring upon your Zhang family the title of Duke is contrary to your destiny? This is also a form of flattery!"

Qiuqiu sighed, "The Rong family is the most chaotic. The Rong family's mistresses all had their marriages arranged by the higher-ups. This fully demonstrates that an unvirtuous mother can ruin three generations. Now they're fighting like black-eyed chickens every day, and all their descendants, regardless of whether they're legitimate or illegitimate, have become playboys."

Wen Yuanzhi suddenly spoke up: "Our Rong family is one of the escape routes left by the Rong family of the Rongguo Mansion. Rong Ci's father is the youngest legitimate son of Old Master Rong."

Xie Ying'an gently stroked his forehead and asked, "Who is Mr. Rong Qi, the man who frequents the brothels and brothels in the capital every day?"

Wen Yuanzhi: "Speaking of brothers, I prefer the concubine to give birth to a son."

Qiuqiu stroked her forehead gently: "That old lady from the Rong family didn't even realize that her child had been swapped."

Wen Yuanzhi sighed, "She's really a fool. Last year, she saw Rong Ci and loved him so much that she insisted on giving him a jade pendant passed down from the Rong family. At that time, Ci'er's father had just finished mourning. She must have sensed the pain of losing a son! "

Xie Ying'an: "It seems that the only one left of the older generation is Duke Rong. He is quite shrewd."

Four dukes, one of whom is Duke Song An of the previous royal family, to appease the descendants of the previous royal family;

A civil official, and the eldest princess's husband, Zhang Yunzhi, Duke of Anguo;

Two military commanders, one from the aristocratic Huo family, the Duke of Zhenbei;

Finally, the Rong family, who came from a humble background, became the Duke of Wu.

Qiuqiu looked at Wen Yuezhi and asked, "Grandfather agreed to let you marry into the Rong family, a family of merchants. Did he know about the relationship between the Rong family and Duke Wu?"

Wen Yuanzhi nodded: "You should know something, but I didn't tell you. My husband told me before he died that if I encountered a crisis, I could ask for help from the old Duke Wu."

"What about the Rong family?"

"It's nothing, it should be a branch of the Nanyang Rong family branch, there are no close relatives within the fifth degree of mourning."

Xie Ying'an: "Duke Wu lost his military power a long time ago, and his wealth has been almost completely squandered by his worthless descendants! I heard he's been living off his wife's dowry for a long time.

Therefore, the wives they marry are all women with generous dowries, and they are not very good at educating their children, so the rules of the family are very chaotic!"

Qiuqiu: "You can't say that. Even if your wife isn't very smart, you can just teach her slowly. As long as you don't take concubines, keep your home peaceful, and raise your children well, there will always be one or two who will become successful."

"To rise from humble beginnings to the position of Duke single-handedly, how could he be so foolish? In order to maintain his position in the Duke's Mansion, the old Duke Rong allowed the Rong family to be in chaos so that those above him could rest assured."

"Well, I'm afraid the higher-ups don't want to see the Wu family in harmony.

I guess Duke Wu also saw it and agreed with the above. It's just that things got out of hand and we couldn't control them. Now we have to save as many people as we can!

Xie Ying'an still had some feelings of loyalty to the emperor: "Should we give the emperor some advice?"

Qiuqiu looked at Xie Ying'an as if he were a fool: "You know the emperor's character. If he recovers his memory of being saved by Ji Zhi, let alone whether he will trust us, his attitude towards Ji Zhi, even a Concubine Xi is not something we can deal with right now."