Xiao Yuanshi left the yard and called the housekeeper over.
He asked: “Has anyone from Prince Jin’s Mansion come here?”
The housekeeper was Xiao Yuanshi’s confidant, who followed him from the General’s Mansion. He replied respectfully: “When the master was out one day, the concubine of Prince Jin’s Mansion sent a maid to deliver a housewarming gift, and Madam received it.”
“After the people left, Madam put the gifts sent by Prince Jin’s Mansion into the warehouse. They were not rare things, just a few pairs of porcelain and some cloth.”
Because this was an exchange between the backyards, and Xiao Yuanshi was very busy those days, he didn’t take the initiative to say it.
Xiao Yuanshi thought briefly: “You secretly bring the maid next to Madam here.”
He emphasized: “Don’t let Madam find out.”
The housekeeper was stunned, but did not ask more: “Yes!”
After the housekeeper left, Xiao Yuanshi looked through the account books in the mansion. There was something fishy, but it was just a matter of a few hundred taels of silver.
It looked like Ge Chunru had taken it for private use.
He also felt a little disgusted because of this. It was too petty for Ge Chunru to do this.
But it was only a few hundred taels of silver, so he was too lazy to pursue it.
After a while, the housekeeper secretly brings in the most trusted maid around, Ge Chunru.
The maid trembled when she saw Xiao Yuanshi: “This slave greets the deputy governor.”
Xiao Yuanshi said: “Look up and look at me.”
The maid trembled as she carefully looked up at Xiao Yuanshi. Her eyes seemed to be uneasy.
Xiao Yuanshi’s heart skipped a beat. This was a sign of guilt.
“Let me ask you, when the concubine of King Jin sent someone to send a housewarming gift, what else was there besides the things in the warehouse?”
As soon as these words came out, the maid’s facial expression became even more flustered.
Xiao Yuanshi released all his might and slapped the table: “Tell me, or I will sell your whole family to mine.”
The maid knelt immediately in fear when she heard it.
She thought the deputy governor already knew about it, and she didn’t dare to drag down the whole family.
So she said tremblingly: “There is also another box, which was kept by the Madam separately.”
Xiao Yuanshi tightened his grip on the account book: “Is there a banknote in the box?”
The maid was panicked, the deputy governor knew about it.
That’s why she didn’t make excuses: “Yes.”
Xiao Yuanshi’s anger was rising: “How many silver notes are there?”
The maid answered truthfully: “50,000 taels of silver.”
Xiao Yuanshi’s eyes shrank: “Did Madam keep this money? What did she use it for?”
The maid felt Xiao Yuanshi’s anger and trembled with fear: “Madam kept 10,000 taels for herself, and the remaining 40,000 taels were sent to the capital to Concubine Ge.”
*Bang* Xiao Yuanshi couldn’t help it, he stood up and kicked the chair towards the maid.
The chair hit the maid heavily.
She screamed and was knocked unconscious.
Xiao Yuanshi opened the door of the study and walked quickly toward Ge Chunru’s yard.
At this time, Ge Chunru had just finished her meal with Ge Chunyi and sat chatting.
Ge Chunyi began to complain about how much he had suffered before.
Hearing this made Ge Chunru feel so distressed that she became even more resentful towards Xiao Yuanshi.
*Bang!* Suddenly the door was kicked open.
Ge Chunru was about to get angry when she saw Xiao Yuanshi walk in with a sullen face.
She thought Xiao Yuanshi was provoked by the Xiao family and Shi Qingluo again.
In addition, she was angry after just listening to her brother’s complaints.
She didn’t stand up, but sat down and looked at him with a somewhat sarcastic tone: “The deputy governor is so powerful!”
Seeing her like this, Xiao Yuanshi laughed angrily: “Not as powerful as you, the wife of the deputy governor.”
He glanced at Ge Chunyi and Mrs. Niu with a cold look: “You two get out.”
Xiao Yuanshi had been on the battlefield, and his aura was very sharp and fierce, and he also had a bit of murderous aura.
So Ge Chunyi and Mrs. Niu were both shocked.
Seeing him like this, the two didn’t dare to ask more questions and went out in disgrace.
As for Ge Chunru in the room, neither of them cared about her.
Ge Chunyi knew how much Xiao Yuanshi liked and cared about his sister, so he didn’t think he would do anything.
After coming out, he was furious.
Xiao Yuanshi had just told them to get out, which was too much.
But he didn’t dare to go in and question him. Even when Xiao Yuanshi’s attendants asked them to leave, he could only take Mrs. Niu back to the room.
After Ge Chunyi and the others left, Xiao Yuanshi turned around and closed the door.
Ge Chunru was also shocked to see him like this.
“General, what’s wrong with you?”
“Did the old lady and Shi Qingluo tell you something about me again?”
Xiao Yuanshi did not answer but asked: “The concubine of the Jin Palace sent silver notes as a housewarming gift, why didn’t you tell me?”
Hearing this, Ge Chunru panicked for a moment and was even shocked.
How did Xiao Yuanshi know?
“This, this is a housewarming gift. I saw that you were very busy those days, so I forgot to tell you.”
Xiao Yuanshi already knew about the silver notes, and she had no choice but to admit it.
Xiao Yuanshi stared at her coldly: “Where are the silver notes?”
Ge Chunru’s eyes flashed, and soon she showed a look of guilt: “Some of the silver notes were lost.”
Xiao Yuanshi squinted his eyes and asked: “Lost? How could the silver notes be lost?”
Ge Chunru was a little afraid of Xiao Yuanshi, so she didn’t dare to tell the truth: “I put them in my purse when I went to find Chunyi. Who knew that on the way back, the purse with 40,000 taels of silver notes disappeared.”
“I suspect that someone from the Xiao family took it. After all, Chunyi’s 30,000 taels were stolen by them before.”
“But I dare not tell you, for fear of affecting your relationship with the old man and the old lady.”
She thought to herself that since Xiao Yuanshi knew about the money, it was most likely revealed by Prince Jin’s Mansion.
Xiao Yuanshi was so angry that his face became even uglier: “Ge Chunru, you are great.”
“You can lie without blinking an eye. You gave those 40,000 taels to your sister but put the blame directly on my family.”
“Why, in your eyes, everyone in our Xiao family looks like a thief?”
He was full of anger: “Don’t forget, you secretly embezzled the 30,000 taels from the general’s mansion to give to Ge Chunyi.”
He didn’t expect that Ge Chunru was not only so bold. She took so many silver bills from Prince Jin Mansion without telling him, sent them to Ge Chuyi, and then accused his parents and brothers of stealing them.
It turned out that his natal family was thieves, while her natal family was kind.
For the first time, he found that he didn’t seem to understand his wife Ge Chunru.
If he hadn’t asked her maid privately just now, he might have been fooled by her.
Ge Chunru’s eyes widened in shock. She didn’t expect Xiao Yuanshi to know that she sent the 40,000 taels to her sister in the capital.
She couldn’t help but panic.
But she thought it was nothing, after all, she had borrowed 20,000 taels from her sister before, so it was okay to pay it back double.
But now Xiao Yuanshi was very angry, so she had to appease him.
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