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At the counter of a restaurant on the side of the road, a middle-aged man wearing a fur coat and the attire of a rich man looked at the two figures slowly blending into the crowd on the street with an obscure expression.

Similar! It was too similar! That young girl's appearance was almost eighty to ninety percent similar to that person!

"Master Li, all the things you need have been prepared. Please take a look." The shopkeeper placed a few boxes on the table with a wide smile on his face, trying to curry favor with them.

Li Wei snorted lightly and instructed the attendants behind him to pick up the items. He pretended to be unconcerned and asked, "What's new in this town recently?"

"Master Li, what do you want to hear?" "Recently, a pair of twin sisters from Hundred Blossom House has arrived. That's truly a beauty …" The shopkeeper said with a slobbering expression.

Li Wei frowned. "Your Master Li … I look like that lustful and lustful guy?" The shopkeeper immediately bowed and said, "I don't dare to, Lord Li can tell from one look that he's someone who's doing big things." Li Wei's expression relaxed a little. "Tell me some interesting stories about the countryside."

The shopkeeper hurriedly invited this old man to sit down and personally served tea and snacks. Only then did he stand to the side and pour out the gossip that he knew.

For example, the county magistrate's father, who was sixty years old, had recently given the county magistrate a twenty year old stepmother. Zhang Fuhu wanted to marry his wife, but the charming guest had an owner. Also, there was a travelling Taoist priest who passed by here last month that claimed that there was a treasure within the mountain! Now that the mountain had been bought by Zhang Fuhu, it forced that delicate guest, who had transferred face from Zhang Family, to have no place to rest …

No place to stay? So, the person I saw earlier was indeed that woman?

Li Wei — — Manager Li from National Duke Lee thought to himself.

The matter with the Zhang Family had caused a huge ruckus. He felt that he had let down his pride, and avoided the matter for a while, so he sent a message back to National Duke's Mansion to tell them the truth. Yesterday, National Duke's Mansion sent a reply, saying that in Assistant Minister Ren, there was indeed an unknown son of a bitch who was currently travelling, and as for whether or not he was engaged, that was a family matter, so it was not easy to find out. The Ren Family Mistress was the big miss of the Shen Family, the blood sister of the Duke Xinyang. If there really was a betrothal between the bastard and the Tian Family, then according to the etiquette, the Duke Xinyang was indeed the uncle of the bastard.

In that case, wouldn't the things that Matriarch Li was worried about disappear without a trace?

Then why was he sitting here?

Li Wei felt that the matter was a little tricky and his heart was filled with doubts.

If one were to say why Matriarch Li was so insistent on interfering in the Tian Family's young lady's marriage, it was all because of the direct daughter of the Great Master, Li Canting, the Madam Hou of the Xin Yang, who came home to wail and complain. It was said that the Duke Xinyang had arranged a marriage for the second son. It was this daughter of the Tian Family that had entered the Marquis' eyes somehow. A dignified second son of a marquis married to a peasant girl. If the family wasn't right, how could they make it happen? Madam Hou couldn't take it anymore. She turned the matter over to her parents and asked the matriarch to come forward and resolve it. However, Duke Xinyang was resolute after taking the weight, so he decided to keep his word and set his sights on Miss Tian.

Tai Jun had asked around in private and found out that the root of the problem lay with Duke Xinyang's sister! Duke Xinyang had Shen Yingwu's first blood related brother and sister. He had long since ignored the rest of his brothers who had given birth to his, but this sister of his had been pained to the bones by the people from Shen Family!

This inappropriate marriage was tied by the Duke Xinyang's sister, Shen Xuan! She said that the Tian Clan had saved her life in the past. She had given the ancestral jade pendant to the Tian Clan and had engaged a child to repay the Tian Clan for saving her life. This matter looked like it was set by Shen Xuan and the Tian Family, and logically speaking, it should be the marriage of Shen Xuan and her children, and it should not have anything to do with the Duke Xinyang.

It's fine if they don't have anything, but they still have a concubine! Her son also called Shen Xuan her mother, so the marriage was in Shen Xuan's hands! But how did Shen Xuan do it? She had actually begged his elder brother, the Duke Xinyang, to marry the second son of the Marquis family to that Tian Miss! The Duke Xinyang was right on point!

Since he didn't want his grandson to marry such a disgraceful thing, he planned to disrupt the marriage in secret. That was the reason why he had the Zhang Family to propose marriage to the Tian Clan. Chief Steward Li Wei was the mastermind behind this.

But now, a person who claimed to be Young Master Ren Family suddenly appeared. He wanted to marry that Miss Tian, and even had a marriage certificate …

This matter... No matter how you looked at it, there was something fishy about it! Should he tell Matriarch He and have them take this matter to heart?