Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

However, the person who could snatch people away from the Second Assistant Zhuangzi was of similar strength to him, so how could he possibly find out anything from the investigation?

Of course, those who abducted her shouldn't be too happy yet. Several families had witnessed Grandma Jiang being taken away, and the owners had made arrangements to abduct her. Now, seeing that others had already taken Grandma Jiang before they could even act, it was a classic case of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. The second-in-command, who didn't know who had taken her, had been monitoring the other families in the village and followed the abductors. Naturally, he knew where they had taken Grandma Jiang. So, the abductors would soon lose Grandma Jiang as well.

The conversation between the person who kidnapped Grandma Jiang and Grandma Jiang was similar to that of the Vice Minister who had previously captured Grandma Jiang.

This person's reaction was similar to that of the Second Assistant. Upon hearing that Granny Jiang San said that the use of the ability was limited, he could only give up helplessly for the time being.

However, considering that he could abduct Grandma Jiang from someone else, and that someone else might abduct her from him as well, that person was much more cautious than the Vice Minister. Instead of arranging for Grandma Jiang to stay at a suburban estate, he arranged for her to stay directly at his own family home.

In the outskirts of the countryside, in the desolate wilderness, he dared to take action, killing so many people and abducting Grandma Jiang.

He placed the person in his home. He held a high position of power, and his residence was located in the most secure and prosperous area of ​​the dynasty. Who would dare to run to his home and snatch the person?
The most dangerous place is actually the safest. After all, he won't be like the kidnapper before, who arranged for the person to be taken away by someone like himself in a suburban village.

He arranged for the person to stay in his mansion in the city. Firstly, his mansion had many servants and was heavily guarded, making it difficult to snatch the person. Secondly, the mansion in the city was located in a bustling area, so if anything happened, the Five City Garrison would definitely come to check immediately, making it much safer than the manor in the suburbs.

There's one downside: if it's arranged at home, and someone is watching you and you can't shake them off, then others will immediately know who caught Grandma Jiang.

Unlike the previous kidnapping of Grandma Jiang, he was very cautious. Although his men tracked them to the manor, they couldn't find out who owned it.

However, if he brings people back to his home, then others will know who he is, and it's hard to say whether this will have negative consequences in the future.

However, we can deal with the future later. At least for now, after he did this, sure enough, the people who were following him didn't dare to do anything after they discovered that he had taken the person into a house in the city.

After all, the other party is a family of dukes, and they are powerful nobles with high-ranking officials in the court. Who would dare to touch their family?

The reason this family arrested Granny Jiang was not for their own sake, but for the sake of their daughter in the palace.

After all, they already possessed the highest rank a subject could attain, such as Duke, and were also high-ranking officials of the third rank in the imperial court. Their power was already sufficient. As for climbing further, regardless of their abilities, even the emperor would not want their power to become too illustrious and would not agree. In other words, their family's official positions had reached their limit. Even with the help of Granny Jiang, they had no interest in climbing higher, because they had a greater goal: the throne.

The daughter of this family was a Noble Consort in the palace and gave birth to the Third Prince. He was the youngest of the three adult princes. Logically speaking, the throne should not have been his, since there were two princes ahead of him.

But now that they have Grandma Jiang as a cheat code, they feel they can compete for it again. Their goal is simple: to brainwash the emperor into making their grandson the crown prince. As long as their grandson becomes emperor, they will benefit from it in the future.

However, they are not the only ones who know about Grandma Jiang's affairs, so he has to be extremely cautious.

He had already planned to openly bring Third Madam Jiang into his mansion, but secretly he would move her away, making others think that Third Madam Jiang was still in his mansion, when in fact she was no longer there at all.

In this way, even if those people figure out a way to get rid of Granny Jiang from his mansion, they won't be able to get rid of her if she's not actually there.

This is called "openly repairing the plank road while secretly crossing the Chencang pass".

As long as those people can't take Grandma Jiang away, once he finds out who wanted to steal her, and Grandma Jiang has accumulated enough power, he can kill or brainwash that person.

Once he has brainwashed everyone who knows about this, and no one in the world knows about it anymore, he can safely and slowly use Grandma Jiang to bring benefits to his family.

Then I thought, that mail carrier was such a jerk, why did he have to deliver to so many places! If only he was the only one who knew!

—Isn't that obvious? If we only send it to one family, what if that family is honest and doesn't react? If we send it to several families, there will definitely be ambitious people who want to get rid of Grandma Jiang.

Leaving aside the fact that the Second Assistant Minister's family is looking for the person who stole Granny Jiang, and that the Third Prince's maternal family has taken Granny Jiang away and is planning how to hide her, and that others are thinking about how to take Granny Jiang away from the Third Prince's maternal family, as well as Granny Jiang's efforts to accumulate energy in preparation for escaping from her place of confinement so that she can deal with these people in the future, let's just talk about Linlang's side. With Granny Jiang, this time bomb, no longer in the mansion, her mood has improved considerably.

In other words, the Dowager Princess Qinghe felt sorry for Third Master Jiang again. Third Madam Jiang had not yet been found, but she was already heartbroken that her son had suffered such a thing and said she would find him a new wife.

I wonder which girl is so unlucky to be targeted by that old hag, the Dowager Princess Qinghe, and then forced to marry that trash, Master Jiang.

Of course, none of this concerned Linlang. There was only one thing she was concerned about: the Dowager Princess Qinghe planned to ask for 10,000 taels of silver from the public treasury, just like when Third Master Jiang got married for the first time. Linlang rejected the idea immediately, citing examples from other families in the capital. She said that for the second wedding, the public treasury usually only gave a token amount. If they wanted to hold a grand wedding, they had to pay for it themselves. Otherwise, some families had many sons, especially many illegitimate sons, so how could they possibly make a fortune from the public treasury by constantly getting married? How could they allow such a loophole to be exploited?
When the Dowager Princess Qinghe saw that Linlang had rejected her request, she was furious and cursed Linlang for being a scoundrel. But cursing was useless because the Prince of Qinghe was also on Linlang's side. He directly said that he and Third Master Jiang had already separated their households. Now Third Master Jiang lived in the mansion, ate his food and used his money, and had turned the mansion's public funds from a surplus into a deficit. He hadn't said anything about that, but to ask him to spend 10,000 taels to help him get a second wife was a bit excessive. No one could understand that they were in the wrong, and he would never agree to it.

When the Dowager Consort Qinghe saw that the Prince of Qinghe also disagreed, she was at a loss. After all, the money required the Prince of Qinghe's approval, and what could she do if he didn't approve it? (End of Chapter)