Xiao Yuanshi saw the accounts of the mansion in the past two months. Not only could the income and expenditure not be balanced, but even the monthly wages of the servants were not enough.
Where did the money go?
At this moment, Ge Chunru’s maid came in.
“Madam, Concubine Liu is asking for an audience at the door.”
Ge Chunru always felt that Tao Liu must have heard that Xiao Yuanshi was in her yard and had no good intentions when she came here.
Just as she was about to refuse to see her, Xiao Yuanshi spoke first: “Let her in.”
The maid naturally did not dare to disobey his order.
Soon Tao Liu came in, with a pale and tired face, looking sick.
She saw that Xiao Yuanshi seemed surprised, and immediately saluted with a weak posture: “I greet the general and the lady.”
Seeing her vixen look, Ge Chunru gritted her teeth: “The general and I have something else to do. If you don’t have anything important, please leave first.”
Tao Liu stood up with red eyes, looking like she wanted to say something but hesitated.
But she still nodded: “Yes, then I will withdraw.”
Since Xiao Yuanshi allowed her to call herself “I”, she has never changed her words in front of Ge Chunru.
Xiao Yuanshi looked at his concubine like this and couldn’t help but frown slightly: “Are you sick?”
Tao Liu looked at him with tears in her eyes: “I, I’m fine.”
“Since the general and the lady are busy, I won’t disturb them.” She was sensible and tactful.
Xiao Yuanshi said: “We have finished talking about our business.”
He asked: “What do you want to see the lady for?”
“I!” Tao Liu showed a look that was a little difficult to say: “No, it’s nothing.”
Ge Chunru: “……”
This woman must be doing it on purpose, pretending to be so that Xiao Yuanshi would ask.
As expected, Xiao Yuanshi asked: “Don’t worry about me, just say it directly.”
Tao Liu bit her lip and looked at Ge Chunru, with trepidation and pleading, “Madam, can I advance the monthly allowance for this month and next month?”
Ge Chunru said coldly: “The general’s mansion has no precedent for advance monthly allowance.”
There was no money in the account, and she was also taking an advance on the monthly allowance. What was Tao Liu thinking?
Tao Liu felt aggrieved: “Then Madam, just pretend I didn’t say anything.”
“I’ll leave first.” She bent her body, but when she stood up, she looked shaky.
Seeing this, Xiao Yuanshi hurriedly got up and walked over to support her: “Why don’t you rest in the yard when you are sick?”
“Also, why do you want to advance the monthly allowance?”
Tao Liu leaned softly in his arms but did not answer immediately, but kept looking at Ge Chunru.
Seeing this, Xiao Yuanshi frowned even more deeply: “I’m asking you a question?”
Tao Liu then revealed a weak yet strong look: “I’ve spent all my money on medical treatment recently, and I only got half of last month’s allowance.”
“But the doctor said I still need to take medicine, but I don’t have the money to buy more medicine, so I’m thinking about whether I can advance this month’s and next month’s allowance.”
Xiao Yuanshi was stunned. He was a little busy these days, so he didn’t go to Liu Ru’s yard.
That’s why he didn’t know she was sick.
“Why don’t you ask the court doctor to see you?”
Tao Liu pursed her lips and said: “The family doctor won’t treat me.”
Xiao Yuanshi’s face looked a little bad: “Why doesn’t the family doctor treat you?”
Tao Liu sighed: “I am of low status, how can I be qualified to ask the family doctor to treat me.”
Xiao Yuanshi’s face became darker: “You are the master of the general’s mansion, who said you are of low status and not qualified to ask the court doctor to treat you?”
Tao Liu glanced in the direction of Ge Chunru: “Yes, it was Madam’s order.”
She hurriedly added: “This is none of Madam’s business. There is no order without rules. It is normal not to let the family doctor treat people of low status like us.”
“Please don’t blame Madam.”
“It’s all my fault. I will pawn some of my jewelry when I go back to see a doctor.”
Ge Chunru: “……”
This is called a person who knows to retreat to get in, this shameless bitch.
Xiao Yuanshi turned his head and looked at Ge Chunru with a cold face: “You ordered it?”
Ge Chunru used this to ridicule Tao Liu, so she was stunned by the question.
Xiao Yuanshi was getting angry: “Ge Chunru, I gave you the general’s mansion, and you manage it like this?”
“You don’t let the family doctor treat the people in the mansion.”
“When the concubines in the general’s mansion are sick, they have to pawn their jewelry to see the doctor. How will people outside think of you if it gets out?”
Ge Chunru choked: “I!”
Just as she was about to explain, Xiao Yuanshi threw the account book in his hand on the table: “And what’s the matter with this account book?”
“The silver in the mansion is not even enough to pay the servants’ monthly wages. You only paid half last month.”
“Where’s the money?”
Ge Chunru’s eyes flickered: “I, I bought a hot spring manor.”
Xiao Yuanshi narrowed his eyes and asked: “Where’s the deed to the manor?”
Ge Chunru bit her lip: “I give it to Chuyi as a dowry.”
She heard that another concubine who entered the second prince’s mansion had a rich dowry and a hot spring manor in the suburbs.
Therefore, not wanting to let her sister down, she took the remaining silver in the general’s mansion’s treasury and bought a manor as a dowry.
This time, Xiao Yuanshi was furious and threw the teacup on the table to the ground with his hand: “Bang!”
Ge Chunru was frightened by his sudden action: “Ah!”
Tao Liu reacted quickly and stepped forward to support the angry Xiao Yuanshi.
“General, don’t be angry, it’s not good for your health.”
Then he remembered the tea talk taught by Shi Qingluo.
So he looked at Ge Chunru with a face full of condemnation: “Madam, the general has worked hard enough for this family, and it’s not easy to accumulate some wealth because of military merits. How can you give it all to your sister as a dowry?
“A daughter who is married is like water spilled out, not to mention that this is just a sister-in-law.”
“The general worked hard in the court, and after returning home, he worked hard to make us eat and dress well. He is so good, how can you be so heartless with him? ”
After saying this, Xiao Yuanshi also felt wronged and heartbroken.
Liu Ru knew that it was not easy for him to accumulate these properties, and she knew that she felt sorry for him.
And Ge Chunru, as a wife, put him as a husband, where?
“Are you uncomfortable if you don’t empty this house to give it to your brother and sister?”
“You have to prepare 180 dowries for a side concubine.”
“The Crown Princess only had so many dowries when she got married, while the Second Prince’s wife only had 160 dowries. I said this was against the rules and asked you to reduce the number of dowries.”
“You are still not happy, thinking that I am reluctant to give it away.”
“But you still insisted on using the silver, jewelry, porcelain, ancient paintings, farms, shops, land, and furniture made of high-quality wood from the General’s Mansion to give your sister a dowry of 120 dowries.”
“And there are 30,000 taels of silver for your brother.”
“This has almost emptied the General’s Mansion. ”
“I didn’t expect you to go behind my back and divert the money from the expense account to buy a hot spring villa for your sister.”
“Now you can’t even pay the servants’ monthly wages, and even the money for the concubine’s medical treatment is deducted.”
“Ge Chunru, you might as well change the surname of the entire general’s mansion to Ge.”
The old lady often ridiculed him before, saying that the general’s mansion should be named Ge.
He didn’t care at the time, but now he feels that the old ginger was still spicy, and his mother was very foresighted.
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