Marriage of the Di Daughter

Chapter 101: Bloom

Xiangyang city was peaceful for the time being.

Li Zheng Tang shut their doors. Whether it was by coincidence, or the result of the Ye family's silver, in the next two to three days, there were no commoners coming to Li Zheng Tang or the Ye residence to cause trouble.

The Ye residence was calm. On the contrary, Tong Zhi Yang, the magistrate of Xiangyang, had run into some trouble.

"What, madam and young master disappeared?" Tong Zhi Yang slapped the table and stood up. 

He and the Madam Tong in the residence, the wife he bound hairs with, treated each other as honored guests. However, the people in Xiangyang knew him as being henpecked. Tong Zhi Yang was very clear, if it weren't for his wife's family promoting him, afraid he wouldn't even be sitting in this prefectural magistrate position. Therefore, after so many years, Tong Zhi Yang did not dare to disobey his wife's commands.

But in the end, he couldn't hold back his loneliness. Though he did not visit the brothels, he raised an outer room at the edge of the city walls. The outer room was someone smart, gentle and considerate, much more adorable than the tigress at home. Privately, Tong Zhi Yang let his subordinate call the outer room as "madam". He actually had feelings towards this outer room. After many years, he insisted on keeping her by his side even when facing so much danger. In particular, because his primary wife did not birth a son for him, while the outer room gave birth to his descendant. Tong Zhi Yang was even more reluctant to leave the mother and son.

He concealed the mother and son very well. Apart from his trusted aide, nobody knew about them. Otherwise he would not have been able to keep them from the people around for so many years. Now suddenly hearing the disappearance of the mother and son, he nearly shouted in alarm.

"What's going on? Did He-shi discover it?" He-shi was precisely the magistrate's wife. Thinking of this, cold sweat came out from Tong Zhi Yang's whole body. If the existence of the mother and child was known to this snake scorpion woman, including his son would most possibly be killed.

That is his only descendant!

His trusted aide promptly shook his head to deny: "No! Master, it's still unknown who this person is, but a letter was left behind, saying to borrow madam and young master for a few days and will return them later."

"Preposterous!" Tong Zhi Yang exploded in anger, "What does he treat me as? Is it a commodity?" Tong Zhi Yang examined in a stern voice: "What's their plan? Demanding money? Or have a complaint?"

"This....." His aide also could not tell the reason why. Supposed that the party was seeking money, there was no mention of silver in the letter. If having a vendetta, should just kill at the scene, it's not necessary to retain them. It looked like blackmail, but it's not known what it's blackmailing for. The most important thing was, the mother and son's existence were concealed so much, yet how did these people discover? Could there be an enemy within their own ranks?

"Grabbing people in my territory, I think they are tired of living!" Tong Zhi Yang snorted coldly. Then he commanded: "Search! Dig one meter down, must bring madam and young master back to me!"

The aide accepted his order, then saw Tong Zhi Yang paused before continuing to say: "Don't move too big, don't let He-shi find out."

In the end, he was still refraining from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vase.

......

Jiang Li learned that Tong Zhi Yang's outer room, Ruan Su Qin, and her son were already settled through Ye Ming Yu's mouth.