Xiao Yuanshi looked at the second prince waving his sleeves and leaving, and his face darkened.
He folded the paper the second prince didn’t take away, put it in his sleeve, and returned to the general’s mansion.
He went directly to the courtyard where Ge Chunru was.
Ge Chunru was looking at the account book. Recently, because she had moved most of the money to subsidize her younger brother and sister, the expenses of the general’s mansion had shrunk a lot.
The money in the account was not enough to pay the monthly allowances of the maids and servants.
But she didn’t want to use the little private allowance she had, and she didn’t dare to ask Xiao Yuanshi for it.
Last month, she only paid half of the monthly allowance. If she paid half again this month, she was afraid that the servants of the general’s mansion would talk about it privately.
That’s why she was a little anxious now.
Seeing Xiao Yuanshi come in, she immediately closed the account book, smiled, and stood up: “The general is back.”
Xiao Yuanshi sat down with a rare gloomy face.
Ge Chunru walked behind him and pinched his shoulders considerately: “Who made you unhappy again?”
Xiao Yuanshi asked: “Did you ask Zheng Tongfeng to save Baili?”
Ge Chunru was stunned: “I didn’t!”
It was indeed her idea to save Xiao Baili, but seeing Xiao Yuanshi’s bad face, she naturally couldn’t admit it.
“I just went to the Zheng Family’s house to match him with Baili.”
She asked, “What’s wrong?”
Xiao Yuanshi sneered: “Baili saw through it at a glance.”
It can be seen how clumsy it was to save a beauty with his weak and simple daughter.
“Because of this heroic rescue, not only did Zheng’er and his wife find out that Zheng Tongfeng’s purpose was not pure, but it happened to be seen by the fifth prince and the legitimate son of the Duke of Ying on that day.”
“The second prince was very angry.”
When Ge Chunru heard the last sentence, her heart tightened: “How could this be? Zheng Tongfeng doesn’t look like such a reckless person.”
That idiot failed at the first move.
Even Xiao Baili could see the problem, which shows how careless that idiot was.
Xiao Yuanshi turned his head and looked at her: “Do you know Zheng Tongfeng? Is he a good match for Baili?”
Although he and his daughter didn’t have much affection, and they were no longer related, the other party was his child after all.
He never thought of pushing his daughter into the fire pit.
Seeing him like this, Ge Chunru felt a little nervous and guilty: “His father is a powerful fourth-rank official in Beijing. Although he is not the eldest son, he is also a legitimate son and a scholar.”
“It is possible that he will pass the imperial examination and become a juren or jinshi in the future.”
She avoided the key point and said: “And their family is willing to marry Baili, so I made the connection.”
Then she asked back: “Why? Is there something wrong with Zheng Tongfeng?”
Seeing her like this, Xiao Yuanshi felt disappointed.
How did she become like this? She was full of lies and was so cruel to push his daughter into the fire pit.
Xiao Baili was a woman, she was so soft and weak, that it couldn’t hinder her.
Where was the innocence, simplicity, and kindness of his wife?
He suddenly felt tired, and took out the paper from his arms and handed it to Ge Chunru: “You can read it yourself.”
Ge Chunru took it and opened it, and her face changed again and again after reading it.
She didn’t expect that the second prince would go to investigate these.
She also found out about her investigation of several unmarried men in secret, and the conversation in which she instigated Madam Zheng to let Zheng Tongfeng marry Xiao Baili.
Because she checked it and there was a conversation, it can be proved that she knew that Zheng Tongfeng kept a prostitute as a concubine.
There was nothing wrong with keeping a concubine.
The conversation between Zheng Tongfeng and the concubine was heard by the second prince’s people.
This was very ugly.
She held the paper and was a little flustered.
What she was thinking about was not what would happen to Xiao Yuanshi, but whether her sister would be implicated in the Second Prince’s residence, which would give the Second Prince a bad impression of her sister.
Seeing her distracted, Xiao Yuanshi asked: “What are you thinking about?”
Ge Chunru used to be not very defensive against Xiao Yuanshi, and she was distracted by deep thought.
So she blurted out: “I’m worried that the Second Prince will be angry with my sister.”
Xiao Yuanshi: “……”
This woman is thinking about her sister now.
Why doesn’t she consider whether the Second Prince will be angry with him?
This made him angry, and the wordy old lady and other words came to his mind again.
Ge Chunru regretted it after blurting it out.
After all, she always knew that Xiao Yuanshi was the kind of person who wanted others to take him to heart.
She hurriedly made amends: “I’m also worried that the Second Prince will be angry at you.”
Xiao Yuanshi: “……”
Too late.
“The second prince has taken his anger out on me and told me not to contact him recently.”
He looked at Ge Chunru with disappointment: “I didn’t expect you to push Baili into this fire pit.”
“If Baili married into the Zheng Mansion, Zheng Tongfeng would probably deliberately lose his wife for that concubine.”
Only when a wife was lost, the requirements for identity to marry a step-wife would not be too high.
Zheng Tongfeng just needs to make up the prostitute’s identity and said she was a young daughter from a small family.
But his daughter became a victim.
This was the first time Ge Chunru saw Xiao Yuanshi looking at her with such eyes.
She couldn’t help but panic again. The evidence was solid, and the second prince was already angry. If she quibbled, it would only make Xiao Yuanshi more angry and disappointed.
One of the things he liked about her was that she didn’t hide it from him.
So she burst into tears: “I, I was wrong.”
“Husband, I’m jealous of Kong because she can have so many children with you.”
“I don’t like her children, so I can’t help but be jealous and angry.”
“It’s a privilege for Xiao Baili to marry into the Zheng family, so I want to promote the marriage between the two families.”
“I thought that even if Zheng Tongfeng had someone outside, with you, the general, suppressing him, the people of the Zheng Family would not dare to do anything to Baili.”
She cried: “I didn’t know that Zheng Tongfeng would want to get a concubine’s eldest son out and want to make his concubine his wife.”
However, Xiao Yuanshi didn’t pity her as much as before, because what she did was unkind.
“I have repeatedly stressed to you that you should not do anything to Baili’s disadvantage in this matter, but you turned a deaf ear to it.”
“I divorced Kong and severed the relationship with my three children for you. Why do you envy her? Isn’t that enough?”
“The main point is that this is no longer my business. It also involves the second prince and your sister.”
“Husband, I know I was wrong. I will never do it again.” Ge Chunru also regretted it. She didn’t expect that such a thing would be discovered, and the second prince would investigate it in depth.
In her opinion, even if Zheng Tongfeng had someone in his heart, it would be a big deal for Xiao Baili to marry Zheng Tongfeng.
Xiao Yuanshi shook his head in his heart. There was no future.
In the future, he would never let Ge Chunru do such things again.
His wife was born into a small family. She used to behave well, but now she was becoming more and more petty.
He glanced and saw the account book on the table.
He reached out took it and flipped through it casually.
Originally, he was just planning to look through the account book to think about how to save the situation, but after seeing the accounts for the past two months in the account book, his face couldn’t help but darken.
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