Chapter 362

Song YiXiao was very depressed and left the Song Mansion.

She had come out today under the banner of visiting Yuan Xuexie, so despite the fact that she would not be in much of a mood, she still went to the Zhaodebu Mansion.

Lu Guanlun’s heir father is a premature death, died when only twelve years old, is the old Hengshan King sad about his own heir thin, commoner son died early, which helped him to the Royal Court to ask for a marquis posthumously – but a holy decree, of course, that is no match with the title of the mansion and so on.

And Lu Guanlun succeeded to the name of this uncle who died early, if not for the fact that he is the first cousin of the blood of the Emperor Duanhua, and the King of Hengshan also has some pity for this son, even the succession of titles is difficult.

That is why the place where he lives at the moment is just an ordinary three courtyard house.

Although there is a vermilion door and animal ring, but generally look up with an ordinary rich family, no power and noble family should have the momentum.

If it weren’t for the plaque on the door, Song Yixiao would have to think that she had gone to the wrong place.

“How come you’re not here until now?” Yuan Xuexie received the news and had been eagerly waiting for her, and when she got out of the car, she greeted her and grumbled, “I waited until now in the morning, and the almond tofu and almond blossom cake that I made with my own hands are going to be cold!”

“It’s my fault, I met someone on the road and exchanged pleasantries, but I was delayed!” Song Yixiao casually made a perfunctory remark, and while walking inside with her, she asked, “I heard from Sister Jiang that Mr. Bo is planning to go down to the field this year?”

Yuan Xuexie first angry, “You are also not do not know cousin, why shouting so out of the ordinary? According to me, although you have not formally done my uncle Wang’s daughter, cousin has also been when you are a sister to see, you just do not want to call him a ‘brother’, call the voice of the ‘Lu third brother’ is also a matter of course! After all, we have to often communicate, you so shouting, others still think we face and heart and not it!”

Fucai said, “Exactly! Originally we planned to come back last year, just think of the manor on the clean, for him to concentrate on books have the benefit, which is why live a few months, the first two days before the return. Now also in the closed door thank you, only waiting for cousin out of the examination room to say other.”

Shaking her arm again, he laughed, “You’re family, so you can’t be considered a guest!”

“Who’s still being outgoing with you?” Song Yi looked at her with a smile, pursed her lips and said, “Where’s the almond tofu and apricot cake? Hurry up and bring them, I’m really hungry – wait! Why are they both apricot? That’s a good flavor!”

Because of the season, the list of the spring exams is also called the apricot list, Yuan Xuexie will make almond tofu and apricot cake for her friend, in addition to entertaining Song Yixiao, there is no doubt that it is not the intention to give her husband a good luck.

This time, she really smiled, “I knew I couldn’t hide it from you! In fact, cousin doesn’t care, on the contrary, it’s me who is not sure in my heart, and I always need to do something to settle down.”

“Third Brother Lu has always been calm and steady, and since he is determined to go down, I expect there will be no problems.” Song Yi smiled and comforted, “Otherwise, he’s so young, why not wait for another section?”

Yuan Xuexie talked with Yuan Xuexie for most of the day, and asked about the situation of Zhiqin – Yuan Xuexie this trip would have brought Zhiqin, just think of the couple in the manor to live for two or three years, this will be back, Lu Guanlun down before the field can still excuse to concentrate on books closed, after the examination, the house must be lively.

“Zhiqin and his wife are just fine, their child is still small, they are afraid of being noisy if they follow them, furthermore, people coming and going is always bad for children, and our place is not big.” Yuan Xuexie explained, “So it’s better to let them stay at the manor for a few more days.”

Seeing Song Yixiao’s desire to speak, he said with realization, “Are you trying to get the couple to go to your place?”

“I do miss Zhiqin.” Song YiXiao sniffed and didn’t hide it, when she let the ZhiQin couple go to Yuan XueCalyx’s place, it was mainly because she was afraid that the storm of the dispute over the Crown Prince would affect them as well.

But now that the new ruler had ascended to the throne, that layer of worry was naturally gone, and Song YiXiao certainly wanted to be able to personally take care of ZhiQin’s family in close proximity.

Yuan Xuexie mused, “I don’t have any intention of stealing people from you, but after the Zhiqin couple has lived in the manor for these days, the people there are used to them and get along with each other very well. If you take them to your mansion, I’m afraid you’ll have to start all over again.”

Song Yixiao sniffed, thought for a moment, and said, “Then in a few days I’ll send someone to check on them, and ask them what they themselves want to do before making a decision – early next month is Qing Yue’s full week, but that day is off in time for Lu Sango’s entrance, so I don’t know if you’re free to go and have a glass of watery wine?”

“His entrance was to get up early and go out.” Yuan Xue Calyx laughed, “He had already said he didn’t want me to send him off, so how could he not have the time to go to Qing Yue’s full week banquet? Speaking of which, you actually didn’t bring her here this morning, how disappointing for me!”

The two have been separated for a long time, although Song Yixiao eyes full of heartache, but also hovered for most of the day, to the sun’s shadow in the west, Fang got up to say goodbye.

After leaving the Zhaodebu Mansion, the worries about her biological father and mother came back to her mind.

In the sound of the windlass, Song Yixiao looked at the pedestrians outside the car, and was feeling sad, when she suddenly glimpsed a store not far away, Su Shaoge leaned over slightly, arranging the lapel of a young man sitting in a wheelchair – she hesitated for a moment, but couldn’t help but ask the driver to drive over, “Mr. Su, I wonder if I can take a step back to to talk?”

“Madam has orders, how dare I disobey?” Su Shaoge was very surprised at his words and pondered for a while before he gently said.

At that moment, Song Yixiao took the maid to hand over the hat to wear, got off the carriage, towards the young man nodded slightly, as a gesture, and Su Shaoge went to a few steps away, took out the token in the sleeve, “My late father left this with me before he was born, but the second gentleman also knows that I left the Song family at a young age, and I don’t know anything about it, unknown to the second gentleman can you teach me a little bit?”

In fact, this question should be more appropriate to find Jane Li Miao ask, but Song Yixiao really do not want to let her husband’s family know their own parents between the entanglement. In addition, although Jian Li Miao was taught by Old Lady Duanmu according to the standards of the Jinxiu Hall, in the end, it is not the real six valves.

So today, when she bumped into Su Shaoge, Song YiXiao thought for a second and thought it would be better to ask him – Fufeng Hall’s legacy is the most complete of the six valves in the sea, and as long as Su Shaoge is willing to help her solve her problems, what he can tell her must be much more than what Jian LiMiao knows.

Moreover, the Su family was now preoccupied with their own affairs, and it was thought that Su Shaoge didn’t have that kind of effort to pursue the reason why she was asking these questions.

“This should be related to the Song family’s dark guard, ‘Follow the Wind’.” Su Shaoge sized up the token and pondered a little before saying, “If my guess is right, this is only half of the token, merge it with the other half in the hands of the dark guard leader without error before ordering.”

“What the second prince means is that this token is now in my hands, so no one else will be able to dispatch the secret guards?” Song Yixiao was shocked at his words, “Is it possible that there are several other similar tokens?”

Su Shaoge shook his head and said, ”As far as I know, it’s impossible to have extra of this kind of token. Dark guards have traditionally only been under the control of the family head, even if the family head favors a sibling or child and divides a portion of the dark guards for him to drive, it is impossible to hand over the token directly or make another one for him – there was a family head who did this in the past, but it was later discarded by the elders of the clan joining forces to establish his brother instead. After that, no one broke the rules again.”

“Then what if it’s lost?” Song Yixiao thought for a moment and then asked, “It’s impossible to lose the token and never be able to instruct the secret guards again, right?”

Su Shaoge said, “This naturally won’t be – let the family master order that another piece be made and that’s it. In the end, the dark guards are ultimately the power of the family master, as long as there is a family master, the existence of this token is mainly for fear of someone falsely transmitting the family master’s order.”

“According to what the second prince said, this token is for the use of the family head, and no one else, not even siblings or children, may overstep it without authorization?” Song Yixiao asked in disbelief, “Then why did my late father give it to me?”

“There have been such examples before.” Su Shaoge did not want to think about it, “The main reason is that Fourth Duke Song is still young, and according to the rules, he can’t personally take charge of this token until after he ties his hair. Until then, it is necessary to find a reliable person to take charge of it for him – this kind of candidate is either a trusted world servant or a sibling.”

Song Yi smiled unexpectedly, “But my maternal grandmother and maternal stepmother are still alive!”

Even if Song Yibao and Song Yijiao were too young, with Lu’s mother and Mrs. Pang’s grandmother, Song Yuan’s trusted and reliable person wouldn’t be his turn, would it?

This token in particular was given to her by Song Yuan when she was only pregnant with Jian Qingyue and Song Yuan had Lu give it to her in the middle of a pile of silver bills and deeds. At that time, Song Yuan hadn’t yet shown her eldest daughter any favor!

“Mrs. Song doesn’t know, this is mainly because of the fear of a weak son and strong mother.” Su Shaoge gently said, “So this token, even if it is handed over to you who has already left the pavilion for safekeeping, it will not be handed over to your grandmother, your stepmother for safekeeping – of course this is not to say that your grandmother, your stepmother is not virtuous, but also that there have been similar things in the past, and summarized the experience, and along the way it has also become a habit. ”

In the past, the six valves in the sea only intermarried with each other to be considered as the right family, self-esteem is so high, then the requirements of their own body is not low. So even in the generation of open culture, this kind of family also pay attention to the good woman not two husbands.

So once there is a young widow in a family like theirs, those who have children let her raise their children; those who don’t have children wait for the right time to give her an heir – the problem with this kind of mother and child dependence on each other results in that although most of them are still good, there are a few, and those who are mothers are used to being in charge of the household, resulting in the head of the household still being overpowered even after he has reached adulthood.

There were even some people who were so devoted to their mother’s family, or who wanted to use the support of their mother’s family to consolidate their power in their hands, that they went to the expense of their husband’s family in order to add to their mother’s family’s interests. After a few similar incidents, each family decided to decentralize the power of the head of the family when the head of the family was young, with several people taking over, so as to avoid a situation where one person only had one hand to cover the sky, holding the head of the family hostage in order to order the family.

The mother and grandmother of the head of the family were even more clearly restricted to prevent them from dominating the head of the family through filial piety and affection.

Su Shaoge briefly explained, “I think your father went suddenly, so he was not able to explain all this with Mrs. Song.”

Song Yixiao sniffed, his heart shook, “So father gave this token to me for safekeeping, according to the rules! Just he gave me this thing when I was pregnant with Qing Yue – could it be that at that time father had killed mother? And it’s very likely that Father also intended that after killing Mother … would go with her?!”

Otherwise, how could Song Yuan, who was in a good place at the time, feel that he would not live to see the day when his youngest son would become an adult and personally pass on his ancestral trade?

And the silver tickets and other things given along with the token piece, even including the trousseau that Song Yuan had personally handed over to Jian Qingyue before his death, might not be, or might not be all, compensation for the eldest daughter.

Most likely it was also because she wanted her eldest daughter to take care of her youngest brother – Song Yixiao recalled that before, when Song Yuan took the initiative to find her door, she had mentioned that she had transferred the compensation given by the Hengshan Royal House to Lu Guanlun without taking a penny.

At that time, she didn’t pay much attention to this matter, but now that she thought about it, the reason why Song Yuan took the initiative to come to the door, I’m afraid that the real reason, however, is here!

–Song Yixiao even as a state lady, in the eyes of Song Yuan also belongs to the hands of the strapped, but she still equivalent to a small half of the State Duke’s estate with Lu Guanlun, just because Lu Guanlun once on a very good care of her!

With such a character, Song Yuan was not worried that she would withhold the token from Song Yiyao in the future.

And as long as she was coaxed back into the fold and reunited with her mother’s family, it was unlikely that she wouldn’t be able to dish it out for her half-brothers and sisters in the future!

If this speculation is true, then in the end – Song Yuan has never truly loved her as the eldest daughter, to give money to the field to give things, seemingly remorseful at the beginning, in fact, but for the son’s future to pave the way.

For a while Song Yixiao had a mixture of flavors in her chest, and she didn’t know what it was like, she tried to fix her mind before confirming, “So, my maternal grandmother, my maternal stepmother, can’t use these secret guards?”

“This is natural.” Su Shaoge said without thinking, “To be precise, like the Song family’s current situation, if there are no accidents, before your brother’s hair is tied up, the dark guards will only be in charge of guarding the Song family and will not care about the rest of the things.”

He never asked Song Yixiao why she was asking these questions — finally Song Yixiao explained herself, “I thought that if my mother’s grandmother and stepmother could use this token, should I return it to them? After all, the two elders are both virtuous people, and will not suppress my brother. Now the Song family is full of orphans and weak, really call me uneasy!”

Su Shaoge smiled, “Your Ladyship is kind.”

The two men had nothing else to say next and said goodbye.

“Is that Mrs. Yan?” After Song YiXiao boarded the car and left, Su ShaoGe returned to the wheelchair boy’s side, and before he could speak, the boy asked, “Yan GuoGong is a member of the Emperor’s inner circle, and is not on the same path as our family, so what is her problem that she would ask for help from you, Second Uncle, in full view of the public?”

“Just a few words.” Su Shaoge said gently, “Just asking about the secret guards, I think there is something wrong within her mother’s family, so it has nothing to do with us – it’s getting late, let’s go back!”

The teenager sniffed, but was thoughtful for a while before saying, “Good.”