Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Chapter 283 Don’t Make Trouble

Early the next morning, Ding Mingyi arrived at Tai Shang's camp in high spirits. He ran around and suddenly felt much more motivated.

Tai Shang and Dai Quan looked at each other and smiled.

Feng Tang was at a loss.

Dai Quan then explained with a sly smile: "Governor Ding went home to sleep last night..."

Feng Tang suddenly realized and laughed, whispering, "It looks like he slept well!"

Dai Quan chuckled and quickly told Tai Shang in a low voice.

Tai Shang stroked his beard and laughed loudly towards the sky.

Before the laughter died down, Ding Mingyi opened the tent and came in, his face full of solemnity: "Everything is ready outside, please come up, Your Majesty!"

The three of them looked at him and laughed. They couldn't help but look at each other and burst into laughter, rocking forward and backward.

Ding Mingyi looked puzzled.

Feng Tang suppressed his laughter and strode over, put his arm around his shoulders, and said, "Come on! I'll go out with you!"

Ding Mingyi let out a cry and quickly turned around to look at Tai Shang.

Feng Tang grabbed him and dragged him out: "What are you looking at! Dai Xiang is helping the emperor change his clothes!"

As they watched the two of them leave, Tai Shang and Dai Quan laughed even harder and harder.

However, once he got outside, he let the guards on duty pass, walked a few steps forward quickly, turned a corner, and found a place where he could be secluded from others.

Feng Tang asked Ding Mingyi seriously, "What did your wife say when you went home last night? What does the Zhen family want?"

Ding Mingyi was stunned for only a moment, then quickly told the truth: "The Zhen family is very reluctant. They still don't want to admit it publicly. They also threatened my wife to stop interfering with her children's marriage reputation."

Feng Tang was slightly stunned.

Ding Mingyi said frankly: "My wife is the youngest illegitimate daughter in the family. Like Hui Niang, she is not liked by my mother.

"The Zhen family married her to me because I was a poor scholar.

"However, my wife was gentle and virtuous. She took care of my parents until they were old and raised several children without any complaints.

"I have not taken a concubine in these years. My wife and I are equals and we have a deep love for each other..."

At this point, Ding Mingyi's face turned red, and after thinking for a while, he said hurriedly, "My mother died during childbirth.

"When Hui Niang was in the Zhen family, she lived up to the saying 'eldest sister is like a mother'.

"My wife and I have agreed that if the girl from the Zhen family is willing to leave the Xue family, I will adopt her as my adopted daughter and find another good match for her!"

Feng Tang heaved a sigh of relief, slapped Ding Mingyi on the shoulder, and praised: "A real man should be like this! You are great! I, Old Feng, will make you my friend!"

Ding Mingyi bowed deeply and said, "Thank you, General Feng, for your favor!"

"I'm telling you!" Feng Tang pulled him up and whispered, "The Supreme has been dissatisfied with the Zhen family for a long time.

"But he is an old minister after all, and he has already abdicated, so it is not appropriate to criticize him too much. These people will naturally be left to your Majesty to deal with.

“So, please advise Madam to be patient for the time being.

"Since Princess Zhaoqing is involved in this case, there is no need for you and your wife to confront the Yue family right now.

"Just wait and see. No rush."

Ding Mingyi frowned subconsciously: "Isn't the Supreme Afraid that the tail will be too big to be removed?"

Feng Tang smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "You are the son-in-law of the Zhen family, and you still think so. Then how big is his family? Don't you know it in your mind?"

Ding Mingyi came to his senses and nodded with a smile: "Yes. I will listen to Brother Feng! Let Jiangning County handle this case! If Princess Zhaoqing fails to handle it satisfactorily, it won't be too late for me to step in."

Feng Tang nodded deeply, smiled and pulled him back to serve Tai Shang.

However, what Feng Tang didn't know was that they had just moved their camp to the next stop, set up camp, and everyone was resting.

Ding Mingyi immediately wrote two more letters and ordered his personal guards to secretly go to Jiangning County, one to Cao Yu, and the other to Princess Zhaoqing Lin Daiyu!

After a day of rest and a day of play, on the third day, the Queen Mother was too lazy to go out, so Aunt Meng took Daiyu and Tanchun out with her.

But as soon as she left the house, the two sisters smiled and let her go on her own. Daiyu even gave her a purse containing two hundred taels of silver:

"Go and have fun, Auntie. Have fun as much as you want. As long as you don't get into trouble, you can play however you want! You can also go to places that are not suitable for us girls to go to!"

Aunt Meng was overjoyed and happily took the money and left.

Daiyu hurriedly said to Feng Ziying, who was following her and was already dumbfounded, "Master Feng, send two guards to follow Auntie!"

Feng Ziying woke up as if from a dream and hurriedly did as he was told.

Then Daiyu also looked at Tanchun: "Why don't we play separately? Don't you want to go to Jia's house?"

Tanchun smiled and said, "Sister Lin is very considerate."

Daiyu smiled and looked at Feng Ziying: "Yimin has to be accompanied by Master Feng himself. The Jia family is powerful, I'm afraid they will bully Yimin."

Feng Ziying hurriedly agreed, looked at Daiyu, and hesitated again: "What about the princess?"

Daiyu smiled and said, "I will go to the county government office to ask about the case. Originally, the county magistrate of Jiangning was supposed to come to the weaving house to do the work in the afternoon.

"I'll go to the restaurant or teahouse next to the county government office, listen to books and music, and wait."

Feng Ziying then felt relieved and ordered two guards to follow Daiyu, Qingwen and Xueyan. Then he took two guards and accompanied Tanchun to the Jia Mansion.

Daiyu ordered the carriage to move slowly, and it was not until noon that they arrived at the county government office.

Yin asked the imperial guard, "Go and ask if Magistrate Cao is at the county office today or has gone to Yingtian Prefecture."

The guards didn't have time to think about it and agreed to go and ask. When they came back, they looked very surprised: "The princess is so good at predicting things. Magistrate Cao really went to Yingtian Prefecture."

"Then let's go to Yingtian Prefecture as well." Daiyu remained calm.

The guard was about to retort, but Xueyan smiled and said, "Yes! Let's go meet him!"

"Otherwise, if Magistrate Cao comes out of Yingtian Prefecture and goes straight to the Queen Mother's Palace instead of coming back here, won't we have to wait from dawn to dusk?"

The guard thought about it and agreed, so he quietly accepted the order and went to drive the carriage.

By the time we arrived at the Yingtian government office, it was almost noon.

Daiyu looked around and saw that there were several restaurants nearby. She ordered one of the guards to book a private room and another to go to the government office to find Cao Yu.

"Tell him to finish his errand and come over for dinner. You three are right next door to me, that's just fine."

The guards nodded repeatedly and went to do their tasks separately.

When the restaurant heard that there were five or six of them and wanted to book two private rooms, they immediately told them that the private rooms were already booked!

Most of the guards of Taiji Palace were the sons of military commanders in the capital. They were used to being spoiled and became angry when they heard this: "Even if there are none, give them to me!"

"Oh! You don't even bother to ask whose business this is? How dare you, a outsider, be so rude here!" The waiter in the restaurant was not afraid at all.

Qingwen had sharp ears, so she could hear the noise from inside while sitting in the carriage outside the door. She smiled and said to Daiyu, "There's a quarrel going on!"

Daiyu shook her head: "Go and tell them not to cause any trouble."

Qingwen smiled, jumped out of the car, and walked gracefully into the restaurant.

She was already gorgeous and charming, and now she walked in a swaying manner, and everyone in the store stared at her in amazement.

Qingwen ignored all this and went straight to the guard, glared at him and shouted, "What are you making a fuss about? It's so difficult to book a private room!"

The guard was suppressed by her spirit and couldn't help but feel aggrieved: "I asked if there were any private rooms, and he said yes. I said there were six or seven of us, and we wanted two private rooms next to each other. He said there were none."

Qingwen smiled and said, "If the guests are too big, they will bully the inn; if the inn is too big, they will bully the guests. If they don't want to entertain us, we can go somewhere else."

"In such a huge city like Yingtian Prefecture, isn't there a restaurant with two private rooms? Let's look for one.

"The master said that we are outsiders and cannot cause trouble."