Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 311 Acting
"Wuuuu... Xiaohe! Your sister can't live like this anymore! Today... Wuuuu... Today she got angry just because the cook cooked the white pork too sweet... Isn't it because he likes sweet food normally? She even said that your brother had ulterior motives , Wuuuu... Can you all give me some judgement!" Cai Shuang cried to Cai He and others in the Cai Mansion.
Cai He, who looked still quite young, was at a loss as to how to deal with his sister's crying. At the same time, he looked awkwardly at the other people in the hall - yes, Kuai Yue, Pang Ji and other people from other Nanjun families were also present!
This also made Cai He feel embarrassed...
After Cai Feng passed away, Cai Mao was the one in charge of the Cai family. Now that Cai Mao is gone, Cai Hecai has stepped in to take over. How can he suppress the tantrums of "Mrs. Cai"?
At this time, the people of the Nanjun nobles had gathered together to discuss the unfavorable rumors about Cai Mao. Cai Shuang happened to come to cry at this time, and they also wanted to take the opportunity to find out Liu Biao's reaction, but...
"What? You are all silent now? Who made me marry that heartless man? You are so... wuwuwu ... After daddy died, you teamed up with that heartless man to bully a woman like me!" Cai Shuang and Cai He were not satisfied with making a scene, and started to cry to other people.
Kuai Yue and others were also embarrassed, and given Cai Shuang's identity, they couldn't scold her!
In name, she is their mistress, but in actual value... no matter how stupid Cai Shuang is, she is still an important bond of unity among their Nanjun family and the representative of the Nanjun family's interests in Jingzhou Prefecture.
Therefore, the others could only comfort her with kind words, like coaxing a child, and coax Cai Shuang back first. They promised her one by one that they would persuade Liu Biao later, and at the same time they were secretly reasoning with Cai Shuang - don't bother with him, that position will be your son's sooner or later... and this requires our joint efforts!
Cai Shuang felt like she had taken advantage of the situation, and she went back to the governor's mansion, but...
Others would not know that as soon as Cai Shuang returned to the car, the expression of a shrew that was seven points of arrogance and three points of aggrieved disappeared instantly, and was replaced by an indifferent .
And... the coachman and the maid didn't show any strange expression, but there was another person in the carriage - Huang Chengyan!
"Brother-in-law, I pretended as you asked me to." Cai Shuang said indifferently.
"I'm sorry to have wronged you...If they don't think you are easy to fool, how can they feel at ease to support Cong'er?" Huang Chengyan consoled in a gentle voice.
"Yeah." Cai Shuang's response was simple.
This made Huang Chengyan even more embarrassed, so he had to whisper in a voice that Cai Shuang might not be able to hear: "This time... I will definitely not fail again!"
"Yeah." Cai Shuang responded simply again.
On the other hand, in Cai's residence, Cai He carefully apologized to others. After all, he was not the head of the Cai family, and now was the time when Cai Mao was suspected, so it was inevitable that his momentum would be weakened a bit.
However, Kuai Yue and others tried to comfort him and assured him that they were all in this together and would not watch Cai Mao being suspected...
They naturally understood that the reason why Liu Biao was so angry was because too much sugar was added to the Baigong meat.
Liu Biao associated the influx of white sugar and rock sugar into Xiangyang City, as well as the large appearance of white glass, with the commercial activities in Nanjun and Yangzhou, and then with the "truce" in Jiangxia.
How could a woman like Mrs. Cai understand why a man is angry...
Only someone as "naive" as Cai Shuang would think that Liu Biao was angry simply because Bai Gong's meat was too sweet!
However, they did not know that the "naive" Cai Shuang, in addition to deliberately acting stupid and aggressive, had also invisibly used the art of language to exaggerate Liu Biao's reaction.
This made Kuai Yue and others regard Liu Biao's slight suspicion as uncontrollable dissatisfaction...
Perhaps Liu Biao's suspicion was more than just "a little bit", but what is certain is that he was just losing his temper at the dinner table. If Kuai Yue, Cai He and others were present, Liu Biao would most likely not have lost his temper.
Liu Biao's suspicion of Cai Mao had not at least reached the point where he would make the matter public and argue with the Nanjun gentry.
But according to Cai Shuang's description, Liu Biao was almost ready to kill someone with a knife, and even accused Cai Mao directly in front of Cai Shuang...
The relationship between Liu Biao and Cai Shuang is not just that of an ordinary couple. Every word he says to Cai Shuang cannot be regarded as a simple private conversation or family matter!
After Cai Shuang's exaggeration, Kuai Yue and others misjudged the situation. At the monthly meeting two days later, they were more active in making excuses for Cai Mao. The result... naturally made Liu Biao even more angry.
Originally, Liu Biao was still concerned about the Nanjun gentry. Although he had not become a puppet under his management over the years and he also had his own confidants and influence in the Jingzhou government, seeing the Nanjun gentry banding together now made him even more suspicious of the people of Nanjun!
When Kuai Yue saw that Liu Biao's eyes were full of anger but his face was pretending to be calm, he realized that he was being controlled by him.
However, when he wanted to secretly remind others not to mention Cai Mao to Liu Biao for the time being, it was already too late...
Although Liu Biao did not accuse Cai Mao of collaborating with the enemy, he smiled and mentioned that Mrs. Cai missed her brother, and used the excuse to transfer Cai Mao back to Xiangyang. At the same time... he appointed his eldest son Liu Qi as the prefect of Jiangxia, in charge of Jiangxia's military and political affairs!
Mrs. Cai's excuse that she missed her brother was very lame.
However, at this juncture, everyone knows that if they do not accept this decent statement, it will only lead to more undignified consequences.
Apparently Liu Biao no longer trusted Cai Mao and wanted to forcibly remove his military power...
Even... this distrust has spread to the entire Nanjun gentry. The person who replaced Cai Mao was not any member of the Nanjun gentry, but Liu Biao's eldest son who had already fallen out of favor!
A group of staff members who came from the Nanjun gentry secretly observed Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang. When they saw that the two brothers remained silent, they had to temporarily agree with Liu Biao's statement and let Cai Mao come back to reunite with his sister, and even handed over a navy that was cultivated with the efforts of the Nanjun gentry.
There was no other way. The Kuai brothers judged that they could not further intensify the conflict with Liu Biao now. It would be fine to hand over a navy to Liu Qi first. There would be a chance to make up for it in the future. But if they lost their composure now, the consequences would be disastrous.
Liu Qi didn't expect that such a good thing would happen...
Originally, in the past few years, under the instigation of the Nanjun gentry, Liu Biao's idea of deposing the eldest son and enthroning the youngest son had become increasingly obvious. His eldest son did not have any real power, and even...now that Liu Biao was in poor health, he had not been given any power at all.
As the eldest son in name, Liu Qi could do almost nothing in Xiangyang except "fulfilling his filial piety"...
Unexpectedly, Cai Mao's sinister intentions would lead to such a change. Liu Qi's previous filial piety was not in vain. After suspecting the gentry of Nanjun, Liu Biao still chose to believe his son.
At the same time, this was also a warning to the gentry in Nanjun - I, Liu Biao, am still alive, and I can still make the decisions in Jingzhou!
However, this warning also made the Nanjun nobles even more nervous. They did not want to see Liu Qi succeed to the throne, even if it was just a sign now...
