"Madam, if we stop so much at once, if the Marquis blames us..."
Uncle Chen bowed and spoke in a trembling voice.
He didn't finish the rest of the words, but Shen Ningyuan immediately guessed what he was thinking.
He replied directly in a cold voice: "If he wants to blame me, just let him come to me!"
Then he continued, "I've only looked at one account book, and I've already got so many questions. If I look through all the account books here, it won't just be this money that's stopped!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Uncle Chen was speechless again.
He really didn't expect that the usually good-tempered Shen Ningyuan would have such an aggressive side.
Or have they all been deceived by Shen Ningyuan's gentle appearance over the past year?
Even so, Uncle Chen still wanted to fight again and push Chen out.
"Young Madam, many of the expenses you requested to stop were requested by Madam. Why don't you inform Madam first and see what she says? That way it will be easier for me to handle the matter, right?"
Hearing this, Shen Ningyuan sneered, "Oh? Uncle Chen, are you trying to use my mother-in-law to pressure me?"
"Of course not!" Uncle Chen said with a forced smile, "Young Madam is still young after all. She doesn't know how expensive it is to be in charge of a household. Especially for a large family like ours, some reasonable extra expenses are necessary to keep the Marquisate respectable!"
"Face?" Chen Ningyuan laughed out loud. "If I remember correctly, when I married into the Marquis' Mansion a year ago, the people there couldn't even serve a bowl of bird's nest porridge. Why didn't you mention that face was important back then?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Uncle Chen's face immediately turned dark.
"Young Madam, that was all in the past. Why are you bringing it up again?"
"What? How could one forget one's roots?"
Uncle Chen: “…”
Shen Ningyuan retorted faintly, and Uncle Chen immediately became speechless, staring at Shen Ningyuan intently.
Finally, Shen Ningyuan asked again: "One last time, can these expenses be stopped?"
"You can stop, but the lady..."
Uncle Chen was still determined to use the Chen family to suppress Shen Ningyuan.
But he had just said half of his words when Lan Yin's voice came in through the curtain.
"Miss, I have counted and brought back all the things that Madam moved away."
As soon as he finished speaking, a group of servants came into the room one after another carrying things.
Lan Yin was standing by to help, fearing that these servants would be careless and break things.
"Put this here, don't put it in the wrong place!"
"That vase is easily broken, be gentle when you put it down!"
"And these calligraphy and paintings, you can't make a mistake, just put them here, I'll do it myself!"
“…”
Uncle Chen's eyelids twitched in shock as he looked at the things being moved in one after another.
He was very familiar with each of these things.
Because these things were moved out by him personally and his men not long ago.
I didn’t expect that Shen Ningyuan would get these things back so soon!
Could it be that Chen Ningyuan had some evidence against him?
Thinking of this possibility, Uncle Chen's face became even more panicked, and he looked at Shen Ningyuan with a little horror.
At the same time, Shen Ningyuan also raised an eyebrow and looked at him, and asked quietly: "If those expenses can't be stopped within three days, there is no need for my dowry to be merged into the Marquis' Mansion."
After saying this, Shen Ningyuan no longer looked at Uncle Chen. She picked up the teacup and drank tea by herself, with no intention of speaking anymore.
Seeing this, Uncle Chen had to swallow what he wanted to say and bowed to Shen Ningyuan, "I will follow the young lady's arrangements."
Shen Ningyuan said nothing.
Uncle Chen didn't want to bother himself any more and turned away dejectedly.
At this time, Lan Yin took the list and walked up to Shen Ningyuan.
"Miss, I have taken back almost all the items on this list. There are only a few items that were reportedly damaged by the servants. I roughly calculated their value and they are worth 10,000 taels of silver."
"Was it broken by the servants?"
Shen Ningyuan took the list and took a look, obviously not believing this statement.
"These things that can't be retrieved are all calligraphy and paintings, wood carvings, or gold items. They're not fragile vases or jade. How could they have been damaged? I'm afraid Ji Zehai took them as gifts or favors!"
Lan Yin lowered her head and said nothing, which was considered as her agreement.
"Forget it, I'll find a way to get these things back." Shen Ningyuan narrowed her eyes, "Send someone to check, to find out whose house these things were sent to!"
Lan Yin nodded, with a smile in her eyes and brows.
"Yes, miss!"
She was happier than anyone else that Shen Ningyuan could stand up again.
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On the other hand, Chen was still feeling the pain over the things that Shen Ningyuan had taken back.
Ever since Lan Yin brought the servants to move the things away, she has been lying on the couch, sighing constantly.
"That little bitch Chen Ningyuan is trying to make trouble for me as soon as she comes back!"
"No wonder she agreed to return to the Ji family so easily. It turns out she came here for the dowry!"
Chen held her forehead, looking like she had a headache. "Oh my, those treasures were all carefully selected by me, and Chen Ningyuan took them all away without leaving a single one... Doesn't she even have the slightest intention of showing respect to me as her mother-in-law?!"
Chen became more and more angry as she spoke. She stroked her chest and almost couldn't breathe.
Qi's originally pale face became redder and redder.
Chen quickly called the maid Caiyun and asked anxiously, "Have you bought the blood ginseng for this month in the Marquis' Mansion?"
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