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Chapter 346: At the same time

"Brother! Do you know that scaring others can be fatal?" After Yu Hongdou came to her senses, she slapped the arm that was hugging her hard, but was still carried away for a distance before being put down.

"You are so young and you don't learn your lessons well, you even eavesdrop!" Yu Song had a smile on his face, but his tone was a little stern.

Parents are open-minded and can tell their children anything, but they will never allow their children to do anything secretly. Not to mention how obscene and improper such behavior is, since it is a secret, it naturally cannot be known to others. If someone were to discover the eavesdropper, what good would the outcome be?

Yu Hongdou was stunned for a moment, then reacted and immediately admitted her mistake: "I'm sorry, brother, I was wrong, I shouldn't have eavesdropped."

Yu Song raised his hand and slapped his sister on the head as a punishment: "Don't do it again."

Yu Hongdou nodded obediently, and the brother and sister reconciled. She hugged her brother's arm and whispered about what she had just heard and seen.

"What could possibly go wrong between the eldest prince and a prostitute? Could it be that they have a past?" The first thing Yu Hongdou thought of was the story of Xia Yuhe by the Daming Lake.

After saying this, he thought of the evidence of the princess-for-prince exchange (replica) that was sealed in the system, and frowned slightly.

"Not likely." Yu Song shook his head and denied his sister's guess.

Qingyi is about the same age as the eldest prince. If she really had a past, she would be too happy to be happy in her current situation. How could she possibly hide like this and even want to enter their backyard?

Since this reason doesn't make sense, there is most likely another answer.

Yu Hongdou planned to wait for her father's answer. If it was really related to the princess-for-prince exchange, she would give the evidence directly to her father. If there was no connection, she did not plan to expose the evidence for the time being.

This thing is a hot potato. She is afraid of affecting her father and brother's affairs, and is also worried about their safety.

There is no completely impenetrable wall in the world. Just like what my father told my brother before, if you don’t know something, you won’t care about it. But once you know it, you will unconsciously care about it.

The brother and sister sat in the backyard, basking in the sun and chatting casually while waiting for their parents.

"Brother, I will go to Beijing with you after the New Year?" Yu Hongdou felt worried when she thought that her brother would go to Beijing to take the imperial examination after the New Year.

She believed that her brother was capable of taking care of himself, but now there was Qingyi, who was related to the eldest prince.

"If you go to Beijing now, Tan Mengao will definitely look for you, and I will be worried." Yu Song rejected his sister's kindness.

Before leaving, Tan Yan specifically explained to Yu Song that his seventh brother's marriage was a serious matter and might not be handled in a short time, so he and Hongdou should not get involved.

Although Yu Song suspected that Tan Yanlin had ulterior motives, he also knew the seriousness of the matter and it was better to avoid some troubles as much as possible.

Yu Hongdou knew that her brother did not agree and it was useless for her to resist, so she stopped struggling. She just thought in her heart that when the time comes, she would ask her father to bring a few more people with her brother.

Soon, Yu Sanlang and Xu came back from the front hall. Both of them had serious expressions on their faces, but they relaxed when they saw their children talking to each other.

"Dad, Mom, have the guests left?" Yu Hongdou stood up, walked to Yu Sanlang and took his arm.

"This Qingyi is different from what I thought. I thought she was that kind of..." Yu Hongdou held her father's arm and used her flying facial features to describe her imagination.

"She is not a simple person." Yu Sanlang laughed. He knew that his daughter was explaining in disguise why she eavesdropped.

He tapped his daughter's forehead, took his wife and children into the house, and asked his daughter and his wife's maid to go out. Then he told his family the whole story of Qingyi's incident.

Foreigners came one after another, and accidents occurred frequently in and outside the city. As the county magistrate in charge of the county's public security, Yu Sanlang was really busy. Every day, he took people to the major scenes in person to mediate, investigate and solve the problems, but the scene he met with Qingyi was premeditated.

"These foreigners deliberately stir up trouble, and many women suffer from it. I thought Qingyi was one of them. Later, she came to me several times, and I felt that she had ulterior motives. I thought... But one day, she suddenly hid a piece of cloth in the things she sent me."

Yu Sanlang paused deliberately at this point and looked at his children and wife.

After seeing two identical pairs of eyes with the words "what is what" written on them, he couldn't help but smile triumphantly, then gave his speechless son a Yu-style eye roll before continuing.

The first time Qingyi sent him a piece of ordinary coarse cloth, he didn't understand it and didn't take it seriously.

Yu Sanlang was busy at that time and didn't want to have anything to do with this scheming woman, so he ignored her.

Less than two days later, Qingyi brought the second piece of cloth. This piece was different. It was the royal tribute satin.

Before, when Tan Bailu was commended and the palace came to deliver the reward, Yu Sanlang had seen the tribute satin with his own eyes. At that time, he just thought the fabric was beautiful and was a little jealous that he wanted to get some to make clothes for his wife and daughter.

Later I learned that such gorgeous and beautiful material was exclusively used by the royal family.

As soon as Yu Sanlang got the cloth, he knew that this was not just a simple romantic entanglement.

"The material is really good. If I have the chance, I will definitely make a set of clothes for you and my daughter." Thinking of this, Yu Sanlang felt regretful.

Without waiting for Xu and Hongdou to urge him, he continued talking about the things Qingyi had given him.

When Yu Sanlang was holding the tribute satin and thinking about how to inquire and deal with Qingyi's matter, Qingyi probably couldn't wait any longer and sent a third piece of cloth.

This time, there was an exquisitely embroidered four-clawed golden dragon on the turmeric-colored satin.

Yu Sanlang was similar to his daughter. His first reaction was that Qingyi was the lost lover of some royal family. Just when he was about to find Qingyi to learn more, he discovered a "tail" following Qingyi.

When Yu Sanlang said this, he looked outside the door. Qian Simei was sitting alertly at the door of the front hall of the inner courtyard, and his wife's maid Xiaoju was sitting on the porch embroidering. He turned his head and lowered his voice.

"Do you remember the play about the cat replacing the prince that we watched in front of the City God Temple?"

Yu Sanlang's words were like a thunderclap that left the mother and her two children dumbfounded.

No matter what Xu and Yu Song thought, Yu Hongdou was really frightened. Her father always seemed to be able to find a reasonable reason for her to expose and deal with the things in his hands when she was hesitating about whether she should do so.

Yu Hongdou knew that both Master Shang and Xu Da thought that she was the benefactor of Yu Sanlang and his son, but Yu Hongdou felt from the bottom of her heart that her father and brother were her benefactors.

"Dad, this matter is of great importance. It's hard to tell whether it's true or false just based on her words." Yu Song looked at his father seriously, feeling a little uncomfortable.

Normally, for such a big matter, they shouldn't have brought a small official like Yu Sanlang to the scene. They might have been used as a pawn.

"Well, we've just sent her to Grandpa's place. Even if we want to take care of her, we don't know if anyone will believe us." Yu Sanlang gave his son an affirmative answer, feeling a little unhappy.

If his status was not too low, making him powerless and easily implicated, he would have intervened long ago to deal with the Imperial Concubine and the eldest prince who coveted his daughter's property.

Yu Hongdou coughed lightly with a subtle expression, attracting the attention of her parents and brother, and reached her right hand into the sleeve of her left arm and began to rummage around.

The three members of the Yu family looked at their daughter's (sister's) familiar movements, and their hearts skipped a beat at the same time.