The destiny of all heavens begins in the Red Chamber

Unless the direct descendants of the Ning and Rong families are all dead, and the collateral branches of the family have no ambition or ideas.

Is this realistic?

It would be better to maintain the status quo and let the demented Jia Rong continue to be the head of the family!

Chapter 182 The Aftermath Was Not Easy (Please Subscribe)

As evening approached, the Second Master Zheng left the yamen at the usual time.

I couldn't skip work again today, but I'm in a pretty good mood.

For some reason, the once quiet Honglu Temple has recently been visited by other officials who have been saying all sorts of random things.

Most of them didn't understand the meaning, but the Second Master Zheng managed to brush them off.

Riding in the family carriage, swaying back to the mansion, I suddenly felt a bit irritable for some reason, with a feeling that something bad was going to happen.

Suddenly the carriage stopped, and the Second Master Zheng swayed, asking with displeasure, "What's going on?"

"Master, the Third Young Master's servant is blocking our way!"

The driver quickly explained, "Judging from his appearance, it seems like something urgent has happened?"

"Oh, tell him to come see me!"

Upon hearing that it was Jia Huan's personal attendant, Master Zheng relaxed and greeted him casually.

"Master, the Third Young Master requests your immediate presence at the Ning residence; he has urgent business to discuss!"

Zhao Guoji didn't mind being misunderstood by the coachman and Master Zheng, and walked to the carriage window to whisper.

"What happened? Where is he? Why didn't he come?"

The Second Master Zheng frowned slightly and said in a deep voice, "Quite the airs!"

Zhao Guoji was startled and hurriedly explained, "Master, please don't misunderstand. The Third Young Master really couldn't get away. You'll know when you get to the Ning Mansion. It's not that he's being arrogant!"

"Oh, then let's go to the Ning residence and see what exactly happened."

Master Zheng was naturally not angry; he had only said it casually. He knocked on the carriage window and called out, "Let's go to the Ning residence first and check on the situation!"

The coachman, having received his orders, drove the carriage slowly forward.

Zhao Guoji and the servants beside Master Zheng followed on foot beside the carriage.

Two other guards stood silently behind the carriage, ready to intervene immediately if anything seemed amiss.

Zhao Guoji secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He hadn't expected that his own nephew and the Second Master Zheng's relationship had become so close. He hadn't heard anything about it from the mansion.

In the past, if Jia Huan had dared to be so arrogant, he would have been punished severely upon returning home, in addition to the wrath of the Second Master Zheng, who valued such rules above all else.

"Old Zhao, what exactly happened that even you had to get involved?"

While the Second Master Zheng was unaware, the servant beside him certainly knew that Zhao Guoji had already left the manor and was reportedly running a general store outside, living a rather leisurely life.

The sudden appearance of the carriage that intercepted Master Zheng's carriage on the way clearly indicates that something big has happened.

"Don't ask too many questions, you'll find out when we get there!"

Zhao Guoji was not an assertive person, and seemingly afraid that the servant would misunderstand, he continued, "This is not the place to talk. Something big has happened at the Ning residence!"

The servant beside Master Zheng Er was startled by these words and indeed kept silent.

When the carriage arrived at the Ning residence, Jia Qiang, with bloodshot eyes, came forward to greet them and personally led the Second Master Zheng and his servants inside, while the guards were left outside.

The Second Master Zheng did not notice anything amiss, but the servant who followed him was secretly alarmed.

The men guarding the ceremonial gate and the side gate were not the same ones they had seen before; on the contrary, they seemed to have seen them around Jia Huan before.

"What's going on?"

Upon arriving at the main hall of the Ning Mansion's front courtyard and seeing Jia Huan sitting there, Master Zheng said in an annoyed tone, "Why are you being so mysterious? Where is Rong-ge'er?"

"Master, Rong-ge'er has been beaten senseless by Brother Zhen!"

Jia Huan lowered his voice and said, "Brother Zhen still wants to force Brother Rong's daughter-in-law to her death!"

"what?"

The Second Master Zheng, who had just sat down, suddenly jumped up from his chair.

His eyes widened as he looked at Jia Huan, his face filled with disbelief and incredulity.

"Master, this is what happened..."

Jia Huan didn't keep anyone in suspense and recounted the somewhat dramatic events that had occurred in the Ning Mansion in just a few words. Finally, he said, "This matter is too big to be true, so we have to ask Master to come and oversee things!"

"How could it come to this? How could it come to this!"

The Second Master Zheng was deeply shocked and muttered to himself that he could not accept it for a while.

What he couldn't understand the most was that Granny Lai had gotten involved, and the implications of that were self-evident.

In her heart, she felt a growing resentment towards her mother. How could she do such a thing?

After a long while, and after drinking the entire cup of tea that Jia Huan had handed him, Master Zheng Er finally regained most of his composure and said in a deep voice, "So, in other words, Zhen-ge'er, in collusion with... caught Rong-ge'er off guard and even knocked Rong-ge'er senseless?"

There was a hint of disbelief in his tone.

Jia Huan didn't waste any more words. He led Master Zheng to the back bedroom so that he could see for himself what Jia Rong's injuries looked like.

Sure enough, after seeing Jia Rong's miserable state and whispering with the two renowned doctors for a while, Master Zheng Er returned to the main hall with Jia Huan, his face ashen.

"What is Zhen-ge'er trying to do?"

Even after sitting down for a while, he still couldn't understand Jia Zhen's way of thinking and his way of doing things.

Despite his aggressive and sometimes violent demeanor towards Jia Baoyu, and his occasional use of family discipline, he always only ever targeted Jia Baoyu's buttocks.

He was also afraid that if he hit other places, he might hurt Jia Baoyu.

Who would have thought that Jia Zhen would be so ruthless as Jia Rong's own son?

"They've been blinded by greed!"

Jia Huan coldly said, "I think Jia Rong is an unfilial son. I sent him to the manor outside the city to suffer for more than a year. My anger is running high, so I naturally want to vent it!"

"In addition, she probably thought she was still young and strong, and that even if she was paralyzed on one side, she would still have a chance to give birth to a son, so she didn't take Rong'er's life seriously!"

After a moment of silence, Master Zheng suddenly said, "Zhen-ge'er deserves to die!"

"Damn it indeed!"

Jia Huan coldly said, "However, he cannot die at our hands. We must gather the clan elders to discuss the matter and publicly execute him in the ancestral hall!"

This is also the main reason why he didn't take direct action; he was determined not to give the old lady a chance to distort the truth.

If Jia Zhen is killed directly, and Granny Lai is also dead, then there will be no way to verify the facts!

Given the old lady's personality, there's no way she would admit it. Could Jia Huan possibly force her?

The key point is that if the old lady is to be completely marginalized, both Master She and Master Zheng must agree.

They are all rare examples of blind filial piety in the Dream of the Red Chamber. If their own lives were not at risk, why would they do such unfilial things?

But this time, the old lady can only dream about staying out of it!

Master Zheng nodded, agreeing that this was indeed the proper course of action. After all, Jia Zhen was the previous head of the Ning Mansion and still held some prestige within the clan.

"The Ning family has no choice but to keep this a secret!"

Suppressing his displeasure, he continued, "Once the news leaks out, the Ning family will likely become a laughingstock throughout the capital. We must be on guard!"

"Master, not only the Ning family, but the Rong family won't escape either!"

Jia Huan said helplessly, "Has Master considered what the consequences would be if something happened to Rong's wife?"

If the Second Master of the Imperial Household Agency doesn't want to mention the Old Madam, he won't agree.

What could be the consequences?

Master Zheng Er instinctively felt displeased, but as he pondered Jia Huan's words, his expression grew increasingly grim, and his body began to tremble slightly, terrified.

"what do you mean……"

He looked at Jia Huan with an unreadable expression in his eyes, but his burning anger was very obvious.

"That's right, secretly harming members of the royal bloodline, heh heh!"

Jia Huan's face was full of sarcasm as he coldly said, "Do you think life is too easy and leisurely, and you want to find some excitement? Are you planning to drag the Ning and Rong mansions, and even the entire Jia family in the capital, down with you?"

The Second Master remained silent; in the past, he would have immediately erupted in anger and reprimanded him.

But at this moment, his emotions were like boiling water, churning and surging, and he couldn't calm down at all.

They are secretly harming members of the royal bloodline!

These words were like a heavy mountain, pressing down on Master Zheng so much that he could hardly breathe.

Even though he usually ignored outside affairs, he had heard rumors about Qin Keqing's background.

Master Zheng Er naturally knew that those rumors circulating in the streets were all true!

Qin Keqing was the illegitimate daughter of the deposed crown prince, but she was not listed in the imperial genealogy. However, her background was tacitly acknowledged by the royal family, a fact he was well aware of.

At this moment, he found it hard to understand his mother's thoughts!