Chang Qing frowned. He looked at the painting in front of him. This painting was a fake one, and he couldn't go against his conscience and say that this painting was real.

"Sir." Just when Chang Qing didn't know how to make a decision, the teacher beside him gently tugged at the hem of Chang Qing's clothes.

"From Miss Tai's dowry list, the painting that the Tai family took to the Gu family was indeed a painting by Master Wu Daozi. However, this one, in my opinion, is a fake, not an authentic one." Chang Qing put down the dowry list in his hand and said slowly.

"How is that possible?" Gu Huaizhi's face was full of disbelief.

He naturally knew that the painting was not real, but if it was a fake, then where was the real painting?

"This painting..." Tai Jingwan also looked at the painting in her hand with confusion.

"Zhenzhu, did you change this painting privately?" Tai Jingwan suddenly looked at Zhenzhu and asked.

"Miss, I don't have it. The key to this warehouse has always been kept by you, and I can't enter the warehouse on weekdays." Zhenzhu said with a look of grievance.

"Are there any other keys to the warehouse where Miss Tai's dowry is stored?" Chang Qing thought for a moment and asked.

"Of course there is. My eldest sister's dowry is stored next to the warehouse. If I remember correctly, my mother-in-law has the key." Jiang Jinyue said excitedly.

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...

"Sir, what we are talking about now is that Niu San beat up my third brother and damaged my wife's dowry!" Gu Huaizhi reminded with a frown.

After all, the Gu family had used up a lot of Tai Jingwan's dowry. If this matter were to be exposed, it would cause great damage to the Xuanping Marquis' Mansion.

He wouldn't allow that to happen.

"Sir, it's unfair. It was clearly Gu Mingzhi who deceived me with the fake painting!" Niu San refused to accept it when he heard it.

Chang Qing frowned when he heard this. If what Niu San said was true, then it was not unfair for Gu Mingzhi to be beaten.

"Niu San, you said that Gu San deceived you with a fake painting, do you have any evidence?" Chang Qing thought for a while and asked again.

"Sir, I have evidence. I just took the fake 'Heavenly King Delivering a Child' to Xuanbaozhai, but the appraisal master there said personally that the painting is fake." Niu San said angrily.

"Where is the painting? If you say it's a fake painting, just take it out. I'm going to suspect that you have replaced something in our Xuanping Marquis Mansion!" Gu Huaizhi said coldly.

"The painting...the painting is still in Xuanbaozhai." Niu San felt a little guilty. He was just busy settling the score with Gu San and forgot to take the painting back.

"Go to Xuanbaozhai." Chang Qing said to the yamen runner beside him.

Wei Xiuyuan signaled Mingli to go to Xuanbaozhai as well. After all, that was his property.

Although he didn't know what Tai Jingwan wanted to do, he wanted to lend a helping hand.

Mingli sighed and thought to himself, his master also dotes on his wife, but unfortunately, this wife belongs to someone else.

I don’t know if my master will have the chance to get married in this life.

However, he just had to follow his master's orders.

In the Mansion of Marquis Xuanping, inside the Qimengxuan.

Tang Wan'er's face darkened as she listened to Qingye telling her the news he had heard.

She didn't expect that after she left, Gu Huaizhi actually wanted to consummate his marriage with Jiang.

What made her even angrier was that Gu Huaizhi actually slept with Luo Xinyue and was going to bring her back home soon.

"Please pack up for me. I want to go see my aunt." Tang Wan'er said with a dark face.

"Miss, no, you are still in confinement after giving birth." Qingye was shocked when he heard this and quickly advised.

"Are you the master or am I the master?" Tang Wan'er glared at Qingye.

Qingye was shocked and knew that he could not change his master's mind, so he could only quickly dress up Tang Wan'er.

"No need for this, let's just leave it like this." Looking at Qingye holding those makeup things, Tang Wan'er refused.

She knew, of course, that she looked bad, but she wanted to take advantage of the old lady's guilt towards her to get what she wanted.

She thought about it and realized that her cousin was going to take the daughter of the Naluo family as a concubine. If she didn't do something, she might no longer have a place in the Xuanping Marquis's Mansion.

So, she decided to be Gu Huaizhi's concubine!

But to do this, I must have the support of my aunt.

Tai family.

"Master, the Gu family actually used Wan'er's dowry. How are you going to deal with this?" Lou said to Tai Hesong with a cold face.

"What they eat, they will definitely vomit out." Tai Hesong clenched his fists when he thought of this. Gu Huaizhi, you are really great.

He married his own daughter but didn't know how to cherish her.

His Tai family is not so easy to bully.

"What does the master plan to do?" asked Mrs. Lou.

"I plan to promote Gu Huaizhi." Tai Hesong said slowly.

"Master, are you crazy?" Upon hearing this, Lou looked at Tai Hesong in disbelief.

Promote him? They used their daughter's things, and their family should give them benefits?

Are you crazy?

"Madam, don't worry. Marquis Xuanping has been in the position of fourth-rank ceremonial official for long enough. It's time to be promoted." Tai Hesong thought that only by standing high can one fall harder.

However, when he fell, he would naturally pick his daughter clean.

Zhou Zhongan felt like he was going crazy. He had searched everywhere he could but couldn't find his jade pendant.

Finally, Zhou Zhongan had no choice but to try his luck with Wei Xiuyuan.

As luck would have it, when Zhou Zhongan found Wei Xiuyuan, Wei Xiuyuan was hiding aside and watching Chang Qing trying Niu San in the case of Xuanping Marquis Mansion.

Chang Qing looked at the letter handed over by Lord Tai in his hand and was really puzzled. Lord Tai actually wanted to punish Gu San of Zheng Xuanping Marquis's Mansion.

After thinking about it, Chang Qing felt that maybe Lord Tai had some plan for this matter. Besides, apart from the fact that Niu San shouldn't gamble with others, Niu San was really right.

Thinking of this, Chang Qing coughed lightly and slammed the gavel.

"After this official's investigation, it was found that Gu Mingzhi first deceived Niu San with a fake painting, and then Niu San beat Gu Mingzhi. As for the incident in which Niu San tore up the ancient paintings in the Xuanping Marquis Mansion, after this official's investigation, they were fake paintings. Now, this official makes the following judgment. Gu Mingzhi is fined to return 10,000 taels of silver to Niu San within three days. Since it is true that Niu San beat Gu Mingzhi and injured him, Niu San is fined to pay all of Gu Mingzhi's medical expenses until Gu Mingzhi recovers. In addition, it is true that Niu San damaged the paintings in the Xuanping Marquis Mansion. Now, this official orders Niu San to compensate Miss Tai for the cost of the paintings, a total of 100 taels of silver." Chang Qing slammed the gavel and announced his judgment.

"What?" Gu Huaizhi did not expect that the Shuntian prefect would make such a judgment.

"Does Lord Gu have any objections?" Chang Qing glanced at Gu Huaizhi and asked in a cold voice.

"How come my young lady's dowry turned out to be a fake painting worth only a hundred taels of silver?" Pearl fell to the ground and started crying sadly.

[Oh wow, the Xuanping Marquis Mansion is going to bleed heavily.] 】 Jiang Jinyue thought with a sense of schadenfreude when she heard this.

Tai Jingwan twitched the corners of her mouth when she heard that. If her father hadn't just sent her a message, she would have made a fuss about today's incident. However, in order not to ruin her father's plan, Tai Jingwan could only put the matter aside for the time being.

"My jade pendant!" Zhou Zhongan happened to see the jade pendant on Jiang Jinyue's waist.