The following day, the members of the Xiao Family almost made Ge Chunyi collapse.
Xiao Dalang and his men took turns to make trouble.
They would accidentally spill tea or soup on Ge Chunyi’s injured leg.
Or they would pay someone to catch rats and snakes and throw them into Ge Chunyi’s room at night.
They would also play tricks by pouring water into the brazier that Ge Chunyi used.
The next day, it was impossible to light it in the carriage, or it would choke.
Ge Chunyi asked the people of the Xiao Family for charcoal, but they naturally refused to give it to him.
So Ge Chunyi could only wrap himself in a quilt and a fur cloak and shiver in the carriage.
The further north you go, the colder the weather becomes. Even the members of the Xiao Family shiver with cold when they have a brazier to use, not to mention Ge Chunyi who often cannot warm himself in the brazier.
His injured leg hurts a lot every day.
He couldn’t help but regret it. He should have waited until spring to come to Northern Xinjiang.
Fortunately, he brought a doctor with him to apply medicine to his legs from time to time, otherwise, he felt that he would die on the way to Northern Xinjiang.
He was grateful to his sister and brother-in-law for this.
He didn’t know that his good brother-in-law was afraid that he would die on the way and couldn’t explain to the Emperor and Ge Chunru, so he invited the good doctor.
At the same time, Ge Chunyi hated the Xiao Family to death.
After more than 20 days, the group finally arrived in Northern Xinjiang.
Because of Xiao Yuanshi’s instructions and operations, Xiao Dalang’s handover to the county magistrate was very smooth.
The county magistrate was also very polite to them and arranged a courtyard behind the county government office for the family to stay.
However, the members of the Xiao Family, who had so much money in their hands, looked down on such a small courtyard.
So they spent money to rent a large courtyard with several entrances and exits.
Ge Chunyi took the initiative to propose to live in the courtyard arranged by the county magistrate.
First, he was scared by the Xiao Family on the way. He didn’t want to stay together, and second, he wanted to improve his impression in front of the county magistrate.
That night, Ge Chunyi asked the servants to pack up and asked them to carry the bookcases into the room.
After the servants left, he used his crutches to take out the books in the bookcases and pried open the bottom layer with a dagger.
He was going to take out some silver bills first and get connections in the county government.
But he didn’t expect that after opening it, he found that there was nothing inside.
His face changed, and he immediately opened the other ones.
Similarly, he saw with his own eyes that the silver bills, gold, silver, and jade ornaments that his sister put in disappeared.
He recalled that his sister had someone carry the bookcases that night, put them in person in front of him, and taught him how to take them out.
They didn’t remove them to his room, and just simply put them on the carriage the next morning.
So it could not have been lost in the general’s mansion.
He remembered that his sister had specifically told him not to let the people of the Xiao Family know about it.
Ge Chunyi roughly guessed that the money in the bookcase must have been discovered and stolen by the Xiao Family.
After all, after they set out on the road, the other party secretly turned over his bag and even touched his cotton-padded clothes to see if there was any silver or money hidden in it.
Ge Chunyi was so angry, that was thirty thousand taels.
So he could not help it and ran to the yard rented by the Xiao Family that night with his servants.
At this time, the Xiao Family was eating boiled mutton. After having money, they ate, drank, and dressed for free.
Seeing Ge Chunyi come in, Old Lady Xiao looked at him coldly.
“What are you doing here?”
Ge Chunyi asked with a sullen face: “Did you steal the money in my bookcase?”
Old Lady Xiao pretended to be surprised, “What money?”
Ge Chunyi had been with Xiao Yuanshi for quite some time and had learned how to read people.
So he found that Old Lady Xiao seemed surprised, but she was not surprised at all, and he concluded that the other party had stolen the money.
“That’s the silver my brother-in-law prepared for me to use for bribery. You’d better hand it over.”
He looked at Xiao Dalang meaningfully and continued: “Otherwise, my brother-in-law may not take care of you in the future.”
Old Lady Xiao was so angry when she heard this, “Bah, you, little bastard are threatening us.”
“What silver? We didn’t see it.”
“You said we took it, so show us the evidence!”
Old Lady Xiao said: “There is no evidence, you are just throwing dirty water. Tomorrow we will go to the county magistrate to sue you.”
Ge Chunyi was relentless: “You don’t admit it, but I’m sure you took it.”
He said irritably: “Hand it over quickly.”
Without that silver, how could he manage activities in Northern Xinjiang?
He was also planning to prepare some generous gifts in a few days to give to his brother-in-law’s friends in the army.
On the way to the northern border, the Xiao Family had separate meals and accommodation from him.
He had already spent dozens of the three hundred taels of silver on him, so there was no room for gifts.
Old Lady Xiao was so angry when she saw him like this.
Who did this little bastard think he was? It was not a good thing for him to lose the silver of the old Xiao family.
She waved her hand, “Dalang, send this little bastard away. I feel upset just by seeing him.”
Ge Chunyi was so angry when the old lady kept calling him “little bastard”.
“Don’t go too far. Don’t think you can be arrogant when my brother-in-law is not here.”
“I’m going to write a letter to tell him how you treated me along the way.”
Xiao Dalang hated the Ge siblings because of the disease he was infected with and because Ge Chunyi occupied so many resources.
Hearing this, he sneered, “Go ahead, write it quickly.”
“Do you think this is still the general’s mansion, and you can be so arrogant?”
Then he stretched out his hand and hugged Ge Chunyi’s neck and dragged him out.
Xiao Erlang and others also stood up.
Soon, Ge Chunyi’s screams of being beaten were heard outside.
He brought a servant to help, but there were many men in the Xiao family. Old Lady Xiao also listened to Shi Qingluo’s advice and asked Xiao Yuanshi for a few martial arts soldiers to protect her before leaving.
So the two sides fought, and Ge Chunyi was completely defeated.
After being beaten, he was thrown out of the yard.
After being carried back to the yard by the servant, he immediately wrote a letter to Ge Chunru to complain and asked someone to send it to the post station and send it back to the capital.
Who knew that the letter was intercepted as soon as it arrived at the post station?
Those who did such things were naturally Xiao Yuanshi’s people.
Ge Chunru sent the servants around Ge Chunyi to his brother, but two of them were Xiao Yuanshi’s people.
Then the letter, along with what happened on the way and the northern border, was sent back to the capital. This time, the recipient changed from Ge Chunru to Xiao Yuanshi.
Xiao Dalang went to take office the next day. Because he had silver and was very free, he soon mixed with the people in the county government.
Ge Chunyi was so frustrated that he was going crazy.
He felt that this should have been his, and it was shameless for Xiao Dalang to use his silver to build a good relationship.
However because he was beaten twice and continued to be bullied frequently, he learned to be smart and stopped mocking Xiao Dalang.
Every day he hoped that his letter would be sent back to the capital as soon as possible, and his sister asked her brother-in-law to deal with the members of the Xiao family.
But before Xiao Yuanshi could stand up for him, Xiao Dalang listened to the instigation of his guards.
He colluded with a merchant’s son in the county town, and that man came to report that he had lost money.
Finally, Xiao Dalang took people to search Ge Chunyi’s yard.
Xiao Dalang took the opportunity to bribe the county magistrate, convicted Ge Chunyi, and sent him to the place where the exiles on the northern border were to mine.
Ge Chunyi was unwilling and made a big fuss, but it was useless, and the yamen runners directly took him away.
Every day was spent in torment and complete collapse, and he suffered a lot.
And Ge Chunru, who was in the capital, knew nothing. She was thinking of various ways to raise more dowry for his sister.
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