"Your Highness, I wonder if the key to the warehouse is lost. I'll look for it first, then..."

Xu Jinyi's eyes sharpened, and he called over several guards in the courtyard: "Open the door for me, Your Highness. I want to see what you are trying to hide, Mr. Accountant? You are so flustered."

No one expected that Xu Jinyi, who usually didn't care about anything, would make trouble today. The accountant and the housekeeper were not prepared at all.

After the door was kicked open, Xu Jinyi stared at the half-empty warehouse with a gloomy face.

"Come here, capture these two people for my highness."

"How dare you embezzle my money?!"

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, you spent all the things in His Highness's storehouse? You keep so many servants, and the daily expenses are a huge sum of money."

"And your Highness requested that all the plants in the mansion be planted with precious flowers, which would also cost a lot of money."

"And the pillars in the mansion are also made of gold. All the money has been spent."

"I really didn't take your money. Please investigate."

"Oh--"

"Your Highness, although I don't know the total amount of silver, but there must be five or six hundred thousand taels. Do you think Your Highness doesn't know the current prices?"

Xu Jinyi reached out and took the account book on the table and started flipping through it. He read it very quickly, almost reading ten lines at a glance.

One book after another.

Then, he closed the account book and slammed it heavily on the table.

"Okay, a dou of rouge rice is five thousand three hundred coins, and a dou of white rice is five hundred yuan?"

"Ten kilograms of vegetables, seven hundred and eighty coins."

"A piece of ordinary cloth, ten taels of silver, very good, very good."

Xu Jinyi looked at the outrageous price and grabbed the inkstone on the table and threw it heavily at the accountant's head.

The inkstone was not light, and it broke the accountant's forehead, with blood gushing out.

"Butler? Do you think this price is reasonable?" Xu Jinyi asked?

The prices recorded in the account book of the accountant were all tacitly agreed upon by the housekeeper, so it is difficult for him to escape responsibility.

The housekeeper panicked when he saw Xu Jinyi's serious look, and his palms were full of sweat.

He muttered to himself, how could Xu Jinyi, such a pampered person, know the prices of things outside?

How could an uneducated fool possibly understand the account book?

But the way she looked made his heart rise to his throat.

He could only tremble and say, "Your Highness, prices outside are rising day by day, you..."

Before he could finish, Xu Jinyi kicked him.

"Come, go to these two people's homes, search them, and bring all their belongings back to me."

There were so many things, many of which were rewards from the palace. Xu Jinyi didn't believe that they had spent them all.

Moreover, as slaves, they did not dare to spend money lavishly, as it would make people notice that something was wrong.

Everything was probably hidden.

While people were searching, Xu Jinyi cleared out all the relatives in the house.

But what the guards brought back made her confused.

It is definitely impossible to have such a small amount. If you don’t spend the things, you can only hide them.

"Your Highness, I was wrong. I was possessed by the devil, but we only took a small amount. Please spare my life, Your Highness!"

Xu Jinyi looked at the two of them and said, "If you want to live, hand over everything you have. Otherwise, I will let you experience what it means to live a life worse than death!"

The two shook their heads and refused to acknowledge him.

Xu Jinyi quickly thought of something and looked around the warehouse.

The butler widened his eyes and began to beg for mercy even louder, hoping to divert Xu Jinyi's attention.

As all the jewels, precious objects and boxes of silver were carried out of the tunnel.

The housekeeper and the accountant both looked gloomy.

"It's all your fault. I told you not to sleep. We just need to work hard for a few more days and the goods will be shipped out." The accountant shouted angrily.

"You still blame me. If you hadn't been corrupt and dragged me into this, how could this happen?"

Xu Jinyi didn't want to listen to their dog-eat-dog fight, so he ordered the guards to drag the two men to the door and beat them to death with sticks.

It’s not that she is cruel, but these two people are her second sister’s men.

In her previous life, the second child was able to ascend to the throne, and this money helped her a lot.

So these two people must die.

Her second sister also needs to know about this.

It was not acceptable to have so many people missing from the mansion all of a sudden, so Xu Jinyi could only spend an entire afternoon to fill in the gaps.

It was evening when the smoky palace was finally cleaned up.

The silence in the dead of night is the loneliest. Gu Chen was still thinking about what Xu Jinyi said when she left, and couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

When he thought about that beautiful woman who would marry his principal husband and take a concubine after she returned, his heart could not calm down.

They say that you think about something day and night, when Gu Chen fell asleep unknowingly.

He fell asleep—

In a dream.

Xu Jinyi was still wearing her wet, transparent inner garment. She lay on the bed with a smile on her face, and beckoned him with a sweet and tender finger: "Master monk, didn't you say you wanted to change my clothes? Come here quickly..."

She pouted her pink lips and said coquettishly, "Big monk, please bring me some clothes. It's so cold."

Xu Jinyi blinked her big eyes and looked pitiful.

The woman has a rosy face, a faintly visible plumpness, and skin that is so smooth that it makes people worship her.

Gu Chen's throat rolled, his breathing became disordered, and his whole body became hot.

"Master, please come here quickly..."

Hearing Jiaoren's urging voice, Gu Chen's nose broke out in cold sweat and his back was wet.

"Donor, I can't..." Gu Chen's voice was wavering and tense.

Xu Jinyi chuckled softly, stood up and walked towards him, cupped his face, stood on tiptoe and kissed him on the face.

"Master, can you help me change my clothes? My clothes are soaked through, I feel so uncomfortable..."

Gu Chen watched her pull his hand up, grab the string of his clothes, and pull slowly.

The white light that caught his eyes made Gu Chen's heart beat faster and his mouth dry.

Gu Chen gasped and wanted to refuse, but how could he easily send Xu Jinyi away or escape from the dream?

"Master, am I beautiful?"

He saw the other person holding his hand and leading him step by step towards the bed.

Those fox eyes stared at him straight. He wanted to escape, but his body seemed out of control and let her push him onto the bed.

Xu Jinyi smiled charmingly at him, and with a pull of her small hand, the last piece of clothing that covered her body fell to the ground.

She just crossed her legs and sat on it: "Don't move! If you don't want me to do something, please don't move..."

"Shi..."

"Good girl...you should call me wife now..."

Gu Chen's face was terribly hot. The word "wife" seemed to burn the tip of his tongue, and his heart felt itchy and numb.

"Master, you are sweating. Let me wipe it off for you..."

Gu Chen stared at the plump figure approaching his cheek with wide eyes, his eyes turning bloodshot.

I stretched out my hand with a trembling hand and did something I had never dared to think about, but I did the beautiful thing over and over again in my mind.