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Chapter 509 A Dream of Red Mansions - Wang Xifeng 36

"If you don't want to fall behind, then what do you want to do? Build a garden for your mother's visit?"

"Let me make it clear first. If you want to build a garden for your mother's visit, the materials, site, and decoration will cost a lot. Where will you get so much money?"

Jia She had some ideas about Jia Yuanchun's promotion to a princess consort and her visit home, which was why he was willing to renovate Rong Xi Hall and a large back garden. However, he did not expect that Mrs. Wang would not be interested in it.

Jia She didn't want to care about it now. Anyway, Jia Yuanchun was a girl from the second wife's house, not his daughter. Even if something really happened, the people from the second wife's house would benefit, not their first wife's house. So for Jia She, it was okay to show up and make good connections, but giving money was out of the question.

However, Jia She was unwilling to pay but could not persuade Grandmother Jia. Grandmother Jia was persuaded by Jia Zheng and tried her best to mediate. In the end, half of the task of building a garden for Jia Yuanchun to visit her parents fell on Jia Lian.

At the beginning, the construction of the garden went smoothly. However, during the process, Jia Zheng, Jia Lian and Mrs. Wang could not help but embezzle money, and gradually there was not enough money. Jia Zheng spread his hands and said he had no money, and Jia Lian was from the next room, so even if Mrs. Wang wanted him to pay, she had no reason to do so.

So they had no choice but to turn their attention to the Xue family.

Just like in her previous life, Mrs. Wang used the engagement between Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai to "borrow" 200,000 taels of silver from Aunt Xue. However, after spending the 200,000 taels, the garden for the imperial visit was not completed.

With Jia Yuanchun's visit to her parents just a few months away, the garden was only half built and everyone in Rongguo Mansion was getting anxious. At this moment, Lin Daiyu's father, Lin Ruhai, sent a letter to Grandmother Jia, saying that Lin Ruhai was terminally ill and was waiting for Lin Daiyu to return to Gusu to see him for the last time.

If the Xue family is wealthy, then the Lin family is naturally not bad either. When they learned that Lin Ruhai was going to die and that Lin Daiyu was the only orphan left in the Lin family, the people in Rongguo Mansion immediately became cautious. Even Jia Mu, the biological grandmother, was no exception. She specially arranged for Jia Lian to accompany Lin Daiyu back to Gusu.

At this time, at the foot of Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, a new manor with a sleight of hand had just been built.

After leaving the capital, Wang Xi chose Gusu as her first stop. Firstly, it was because she was more familiar with the place, and secondly, it was the most prosperous place besides the capital. Generally, the more prosperous a place is, the more likely it is to harbor filth and dirt.

After Wang Xi arrived in Gusu, the first thing he did was to build a shelter as he did before. After the shelter was built, he began to inquire about the current distribution of power in Gusu, and at the same time began to search for the hideouts of human traffickers.

However, the process was somewhat difficult. Gusu was too close to Jinling, and Jinling was currently the territory of the Zhen family. As the local emperor of Jinling, the Zhen family was allied with several other large families and completely controlled the Jiangnan area in their hands. It would be difficult for Wang Xi alone to find a gap.

Fortunately, the Zhen family will fall in a few months, and Wang Xi plans to wait for a while longer to collect the list of evidence in advance.

While Wang Xi disguised himself as a man in black and collected evidence every night, Lin Daiyu returned to Gusu accompanied by Jia Lian. However, Lin Ruhai died before the Zhen family could confiscate their property, leaving Lin Daiyu alone with millions of family fortunes and several letters written by Lin Ruhai before his death.

With the millions of fortune brought back by Lin Daiyu, Jia Yuanchun's garden for her visit was finally successfully built before the date of the visit. Jia Zheng named the garden Grand View Garden.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month was the Lantern Festival, which was the day when Jia Yuanchun came home to visit her parents. Early in the morning, Jia's grandmother and a group of female relatives from the Rongguo Mansion dressed up, put on imperial robes, and waited at the gate of the Rongguo Mansion, but they did not see Jia Yuanchun's carriage until the evening.

Jia Yuanchun was very excited to see her parents and relatives. She wanted to tell them about her doubts and warn her family countless times, but was stopped by the female officials around her in the name of rules. Jia Yuanchun did not dare to disobey, even though she was crying just now. After being reminded, she could only hold back her tears and put on a decent smile.

While sitting at the top like a puppet, Jia Yuanchun tried countless times to signal Lady Jia and Lady Wang with her eyes, but when they looked at each other, she could only see the joy, pride and complacency in the eyes of Lady Jia, Lady Wang and others.

After trying many times, no one noticed anything wrong until the last moment, and Jia Yuanchun could only leave with a dead heart.

"Forget it, forget it, this is fate."

Jia Yuanchun felt unwell after returning to the palace. She didn't dare to die when she thought that as long as she was still in the palace, the emperor might think more about it. She held on to her last breath and didn't dare to die even though she was sick and dizzy.

Everyone in Rongguo Mansion felt that the Jia Yuanchun they saw today was adorned with pearls and jades on her head, and she was dazzling, like a fairy concubine. They also felt that the Grand View Garden was built magnificently, which greatly brought honor to the Jia family. They also felt that with the virtuous concubine in the palace, their Jia family had a backer again.

Everyone was in a state of joy and pride, and no one noticed that Jia Yuanchun was helpless.

Wang Xifeng in the palace was in confinement at this time. Some time ago, she gave birth to a daughter and did not give birth to a prince as she wished. Wang Xifeng was a little disappointed, but fortunately she was a good mother and did not have any bad emotions towards her little daughter.

The emperor was very satisfied when he learned that Wang Xifeng had given birth to another daughter. He did not want the Wang family to have another prince because he already had plans to settle accounts with Wang Ziteng.

Although Wang Ziteng had some talents, he was too ambitious. He had committed many acts of corruption and bribery and served as a backer for others. The emperor originally wanted to spare Wang Ziteng's life, but he did not expect that the people who were monitoring Wang Ziteng discovered that he had contacted the Zhen family without the emperor's knowledge.

The emperor had long been preparing to take action against the Zhen family. Contacting the Zhen family at this time would be like walking into the emperor's trap. In order to prevent the news from leaking out and giving the Zhen family a chance to fight to the death, the emperor could only regard Wang Ziteng as an accomplice of the Zhen family.

Since they are in the same gang, they should be punished with the same crime.

"Let's find an opportunity to give Wang Ziteng some respect."

In consideration of the fact that Wang Xifeng had been in the palace for so many years and had given birth to two daughters for him, the emperor planned to deal with Wang Ziteng privately. In order to compensate Wang Xifeng, the emperor gave Wang Xifeng a favor on the day of the little princess's full moon, allowing her to be promoted from Concubine Xi to Imperial Concubine Xi.

A few days later, Wang Ziteng died suddenly on the way back from a business trip.

After Wang Ziteng's death, the Wang family collapsed completely. Even if there was still a royal concubine, Wang Xifeng, in the palace, it could not support it. There was no other reason. Wang Ziteng and Zhen had no children, and Wang Ziteng's elder brother died early. For so many years, the Wang family only had two younger generations, Wang Xifeng and Wang Ren.

However, Wang Ren had been married for many years but still had no children. Wang Ziteng once secretly examined Wang Ren and found that Wang Ren's condition was the same as his, which was not conducive to fertility.