Queen Flower

Xia Henqiu thought for a moment, got up and left, and returned to Jiang Lan's room.

"Do you have any doubters?" he asked.

"Yes," Jiang Lan said one by one the people she suspected, "the key seemed to be a secret room murder case at the time, the door was closed when I woke up, and it was just me and Shen Lian until they broke in. According to Zhang Kuai, there is no tunnel in that room, and there are no traces on the roof." She laughed at herself, "Actually, when they arrived, the scene was already destroyed, what traces can be found?"

Xia Henqiu carefully pondered the information provided by Jiang Lan and said: "So, someone killed Shen Lian because of jealousy and blamed you, and the reason for this jealousy is partly because of Shen Qun, and partly because of Shen Qun. Is it because of Chu Qingcheng, or maybe both?"

Jiang Lan nodded.

"I don't see that you are quite provocative." A sneer appeared on Xia Henqiu's face, "Caihuan, Hongling, Jinzhi, Liu Shi are all suspects, including Chu Huaiyu."

Jiang Lan ignored his sarcasm, she suddenly thought of something, "Chu Huaiyu asked me to find something important in Chu Qingcheng at the very beginning, but I never found it."

"What important thing?" Xia Henqiu asked.

Jiang Lan shook his head, "She didn't say it." But she put her hand on her chest. If you guessed correctly, this important thing is Zuo Xianye, the order of the head of the Chu family. Could it be that everything was designed by Chu Huaiyu? ? Does she want this patriarchal order? And she still hates Jiang Lan so much, so did she set a trap? She got rid of herself, made Shen Qun hate her, and took the opportunity to pull Chu Qingcheng down.

However, aren't Chu Qingcheng and Chu Huaiyu well-known good siblings?

Xia Henqiu looked at the woman with an unpredictable face but was silent, and was unhappy, "If you hide it again, don't blame me for being ruthless."

Jiang Lan raised his head, "I want to see Lan Sheng."

Xia Zi helped Jiang Lan to sit down in front of Lan Sheng.

Lan Sheng looked at the culprit in front of him with a complicated expression, and finally reluctantly called out, "Patriarch."

Jiang Lan's pale face immediately showed shame, and she said with difficulty, "Don't call me the head of the house, call me Jiang Feng."

"Madam." Lan Sheng lowered his head.

Jiang Lan didn't object anymore, the wife is just the wife. Anyway, it's just a title, and it is estimated that the name Jiang Feng will not be used in the future. She looked at him, looked at Xia Henqiu again, and hesitated.

Lan Sheng immediately said, "Master Xia has been your friend for many years."

Jiang Lan nodded, saying that this person can still be trusted, at least it should not harm Chu Qingcheng. She said, "What is the relationship between Chu Qingcheng and Chu Huaiyu?"

"It should be pretty good." Lan Sheng thought for a while and then said, "I'm not too sure, no one knows what the young master thinks, but what everyone sees is that the relationship is very good."

"So what is it that Chu Huaiyu has always wanted, but Chu Qingcheng is unwilling to give?" Jiang Lan continued to ask, and it was very meaningful.

Lan Sheng thought for a moment and then suddenly realized, "Is the head of the family ordered? But even if the young lady wants it, it is the meaning of the old lady and the master."

Then Lan Sheng explained that Jiang Lan finally knew the secret of the Chu family.

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More than 20 years ago, during the peaceful period after the war between China and Nanman, the two countries were relatively friendly. At that time, Zhuang Mei, a well-known beauty in the southern barbarians, met Chu Zhaoping, the handsome young master of the Chu family, by chance. The two fell in love at first sight and tied the knot. Married life is also happy and sweet. Zhuang Mei is not only a beautiful woman, but also a talented woman.

Unfortunately, a happy life is always short-lived. Soon after Chu Qingcheng was born, Chu Zhaoping showed the nature of three wives and four concubines as a man in the Celestial Dynasty. Even if Zhuang Mei's beauty is unmatched, it can't change his romantic nature, so the Chu family began to have concubines, but Zhuang Mei was a woman who grew up in Nanman. Under the social situation, she could still face Chu Zhaoping wholeheartedly. She could not bear this kind of betrayal, not only against her concubine, but also against Chu Zhaoping, resulting in no child being born smoothly.

Later, for some unknown reason, Chu Zhaoping's cousin was pregnant, and Chu Huaiyu was born. Zhuang Mei was disheartened and divorced Chu Zhaoping. Since the actual control of the Chu family has always been in her hands, it is logical that this has become Chu Qingcheng's private property. Even though Chu Zhaoping always wanted to intervene, he actually had no ability to control the Chu family, and Zhuang Mei and Li Hou did not leave Chu and Chu Qingcheng behind, so the Chu family grew stronger and stronger, and Chu Qingcheng followed Zhuang Mei. He has actually mastered the Chu family since he was a child, and has shown more and more talent. Later, one person finally made the Chu family the number one merchant in the heaven.

Zhuang Mei also returned to Nanman to establish the Nanman Chu Clan, so that the Tian Dynasty Chu Clan and the Nanman Chu Clan were two giant commercial organizations that were independent and connected. Later, Zhuang Mei had an accident on his way back to the Heavenly Dynasty. I don't know if it was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster. In short, the carriage fell into the cliff, and the whereabouts were unknown. As a result, only Chu Qingcheng of the Chu family in the Celestial Dynasty was in charge of the door. He was still young at that time, but all the elders of the Chu family stood by him. In addition, the Patriarch's Order was in his hands, and the Chu family in the Celestial Dynasty really only obeyed him. However, due to the loss of the patriarch's order, the Nanman Chu clan acknowledged Chu Qingcheng's bloodline inheritance, but did not obey him, so it became more independent and less connected.

This was the model set up by Zhuang Mei at the beginning. In the inheritance of the industry, the decree of the patriarch **** the bloodline. This was to ensure that the successor with outstanding ability was given priority, but she did not expect that her accidental death would make the Nanman Chu family lose their inheritance.

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Hearing this, Jiang Lan admired this woman named Zhuang Mei, not only because she was able to build such a huge business group, but also because of this inheritance model, which is not a natural transmission of the son's stepfather's business, but the order of the head of the family. The ceo was selected based on merit. Could it be that this person is actually a traveler or a professional? You know, what we Chinese like most is to leave our family property to our children and grandchildren, regardless of whether they have the ability to inherit it or not.

It's just that no matter how good a woman is, she can't fight against the system of the whole society. Maybe she is a business genius, but her ability to fight at home is very poor, so she retired sadly and put all her mind and body into her career, but Chu Qingcheng's mother is indeed a good woman. strong woman.

Jiang Lan thought about it, what else did this information tell her? Does it also mean that there are two pieces of the Chu family's patriarch order, one is in his own hands, and the other has disappeared. So that means that the patriarch of the Nanman Chu clan is the right string leaf?

Jiang Lan felt a little nervous, the situation was too complicated, she wanted to rescue Chu Qingcheng, which was her own conscience. But at the same time she's also looking for the right string leaf, which now sounds like a fantasy.