Yun Xu looked at her young lady with a strange expression. "Miss, what did you see? Why are you so happy!"
"Yun Xu, the Bai family has hope!"
Feng Jin Yao said happily, holding her hand. If the occasion were not inappropriate, she would have laughed to the sky three times!
"Go to the Bai family, oh no, go home."
"Yes." The coachman, who had been waiting for a long time, finally received her order and whipped his horse towards the north of the city.
Inside the carriage, Feng Jin Yao, who had calmed down, realized that in her previous life, the Bai family had no idea of this cousin's existence, and she only learned of it from Wen Meng Sheng after the Feng and Bai families had fallen into ruin.
"Such talent is being wasted by the Bai family. A Yao, it's outrageous that heaven doesn't punish the Bai family."
Wen Meng Sheng said this with a hint of schadenfreude in his eyes. Feng Jin Yao didn't understand at the time. No one in the Bai family, from her maternal grandfather to Bai Si Ruo, knew of his existence. Why would he want the Bai family to fall?
Now she understood. It must have been Madam Shen who had manipulated things from behind the scenes, causing the Bai family to take the blame and incur the hatred of this cousin.
Madam Shen, she really is a person who causes endless harm.
Thinking of this, Feng Jin Yao's eyes deepened.
The carriage drove straight towards the north of the city. When they passed Chang Chun Tower, the wind inadvertently blew open the curtain of the carriage. Feng Jin Yao looked up and happened to see Feng Jin Lin, who was leaning against the pavilion, clinking glasses with Su Cheng and others.
Instantly, she became angry.
Was he determined to let the Eldest Princess of Chang Lin discover him? Why was he still so high-profile? Moreover, shouldn't he be studying at home now? The day before, he had boasted that he would surely pass the imperial examination, and today he was here drinking and feasting. Feng Jin Yao was disappointed and her face turned cold.
"Stop the carriage. Yun Xu, you go down and escort Second Brother back."
Hearing Feng Jin Yao's command, Yun Xu looked a little hesitant, but she could not disobey her young lady's orders, so she replied, "Yes."
She braced herself and walked into Chang Chun Tower, knocking on the door of the private room where Feng Er was.
Feng Er, who had been loud and boisterous, wilted like a beaten eggplant as soon as he saw Yun Xu, and asked tearfully, "A Yao sent you?"
Yun Xu nodded, pointing bitterly out the window.
Feng Jin Lin stuck his head out and saw that the Feng family's carriage was indeed parked quietly below.
How could he be so unlucky? He had come to socialize for "business" today, and unexpectedly, his own sister caught him red-handed.
Su Cheng teased, "You brat, you've finally found your match. Look at your face, it's turned pale with fright."
A group of people burst into laughter. Even the arrogant Second Young Master Feng could be flustered, and they were very happy to see it.
He picked up a cup of wine from the table, drank it down in one gulp, and said with a rather tragic air, "We'll meet again next time." Then he sheepishly followed Yun Xu downstairs.
Getting into the carriage and smelling the wine on him, Feng Jin Yao's expression became even uglier.
"Drinking and having fun in broad daylight, Second Brother, your courage is growing bolder. Do you think your elder brother and father have been so busy that you've found an opportunity to slack off?"
"It's a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding! Really, I didn't want to come, it was... it was that scoundrel Su Cheng who insisted on bringing me."
Su Cheng, who was toasting and drinking at the moment, seemed to feel someone talking about him and sneezed, startling everyone.
Feng Jin Yao knew that he was always uncontrollable, but she didn't know how to remind him about the Eldest Princess of Chang Lin so that he would remember and not be so ostentatious. She was in a dilemma.
"If you have nothing to do recently, help me with something."
"What is it?"
As long as A Yao didn't pursue him for drinking, he would do anything for her, even go through fire and water.
"There is a family surnamed Qiao living in Shuang Gui Lane in the west of the city. There is a boy there, about fourteen or fifteen years old. You can inquire about his background, his experiences over the years, and whether he has any other relatives. In short, the more detailed everything related to that person is, the better."
Only with enough detail could she find a breakthrough and persuade him to become an ally of the Bai family, rather than someone who would kick them while they were down.
"Why are you investigating him?"
"If nothing unexpected happens, he is likely a child of the Bai family."
Feng Jin Lin's eyes widened when he heard this, as if he had heard some ancient secret.
He thought of the two maternal uncles of the Bai family and couldn't help but swallow. He couldn't help but ask, "Whose?"
The eldest uncle had no heir. If the child was his, the eldest branch would have hope. But this would be too unfair to the eldest aunt, and she would surely be heartbroken.
The fourth uncle and Princess Wen Yi had been deeply in love for many years. If such a son suddenly appeared, wouldn't it hurt their marital relationship? It might even lead to discord. Would the peace of the Bai family be shattered?
He didn't think of the third uncle at all.
In fact, it was not Feng Jin Lin's fault. After all, he had been an official in another region for so many years. It was unlikely that such a grown son was hidden in Dong Du City.
Unexpectedly, Feng Jin Yao revealed the truth softly.
"If nothing unexpected happens, it's the third uncle's."
Feng Jin Lin was so shocked that he was speechless. He thought of Madam Shen's face and realized that the third branch was in for a big scene.
"How do you know this?"
Feng Jin Yao told him about what happened today, hiding the part about her past life memories. She only said that the child's eyebrows and eyes were very similar to her third uncle's, and besides, Madam Shen would not have met an unfamiliar outsider, would she?
This made sense. Feng Er did not suspect anything.
He became interested in this cousin of the Bai family whom he had never met and said playfully, "If he is indeed the third uncle's son, what do you think the third aunt will do?"
What else could she do? Either kill him or ruin him. In any case, she would never allow him any chance to surpass Bai Si Han.
The brother and sister were preoccupied with this matter and discussed it in low voices on the way home.
Yun Xu, standing by, did not dare to interrupt and listened quietly.
She was also shocked by the identity of the young master, but she always felt that it was not as simple as her young lady described.
And why did her young lady so easily determine the young master's background? What did she mean by "the Bai family is saved"? These were all questions, but she was not a talkative person. If her young lady wanted to tell her, she would, but if she didn't want to, she wouldn't deliberately ask.
When they returned to Ning An Courtyard, La Mei was already waiting there.
Feng Jin Lin also knew about the matter and naturally listened to La Mei's reply with her.
"Where did Madam Bai San go?"
She asked directly as soon as she arrived, eager to know if her guess was correct.
"Madam Bai San went to our Yi Yuan Pawnshop and came out after a long while. I was afraid she would see me, so I kept my distance, but I could tell she was very happy!"
La Mei's words enlightened Feng Jin Yao. That's right. Madam Shen must have tricked something valuable from that person, used the excuse that it was related to the Bai family, and then pawned it for money in private to subsidize Bai Si Han.
In this way, everything could be connected.