Lu Yan nodded and said, "Please tell Her Majesty that I will return the cloth as soon as possible."
The emperor was disgusted by the appearance of the scene and was afraid of discouraging the military generals, so he ordered people to carry Lu Yan to the Imperial Hospital for treatment and then send him back home.
At the Marquis of Pingyang's Mansion, Bai Wanyi was exhausted from checking the accounts. He thought Qi Jing would embezzle the money, but who knew that Qi Jing kept the accounts so flawless.
Not to mention anything else, the price of some fruits and vegetables is higher than outside. When Bai Wanyi sent someone to ask, the buyer said that the masters in the mansion eat and use the best things. Even on the day of the wedding, there were many nobles in the mansion, so they could not pass off inferior products as good ones.
There are different grades of bird's nests, and naturally there are also different grades of dishes.
The purchases were well prepared, and the vegetables were displayed to Bai Wanyi one by one. It was true that you get what you pay for, leaving Bai Wanyi speechless.
Bai Wanyi was about to get angry when she heard someone say that Lu Yan was carried back. She hurried out to meet him and saw that it was someone being sent back from the palace. She also saw that Lu Yan was being supported by someone, so she quickly ordered someone to bring a sedan chair over and asked the people in the palace what was going on.
The accompanying eunuch gave Bai Wanyi the medicine prescribed by the imperial physician and told her how to use it, but did not answer her questions.
Bai Wanyi had doubts in his mind, so he sent the eunuch away and hurried to the inner house.
The young eunuch looked at his empty hands, shook his head, and was about to leave when Chu Yun grabbed his arm.
Chu Yun smiled and stuffed a purse into his hand: "Take this and have some tea."
The young eunuch then put on a smiling face and gave Chu Yun some instructions: "His Majesty is very angry, so be careful in your service."
Chu Yun immediately felt relieved. She smiled and sent the eunuch away before returning to the inner courtyard. When she saw Bai Wanyi, she didn't say anything. She just stood quietly by the side waiting to be ordered around.
Bai Wanyi saw the blood stains on the bedding and couldn't help but frowned: "What happened? Didn't you go to court to defend yourself? And you were injured?"
At this moment, Lu Yan felt hot and cold, his head began to feel dizzy, and he felt extremely uncomfortable.
However, he didn't get any concern from his wife, only questions, and he was also angry: "Don't you know what's going on?"
"I didn't go to court, so how would I know?" Bai Wanyi said unhappily. But seeing that he was sweating profusely, she took a handkerchief to wipe his sweat and lifted the quilt to look at the wound. Although the bloody wound had been treated, it still looked a bit hideous. She frowned and whispered, "Why did you hit him so hard?"
Bai Wanyi's tone improved, and Lu Yan's anger also eased a little. He asked the servants in the room to leave, and then said: "The accounts at the border are in disarray. There are more than 100,000 taels of silver that cannot be reconciled."
Bai Wanyi frowned, "The materials consumed in making gunpowder are countless. Silver wasn't enough, and you added a lot. How come the accounts don't add up?"
Lu Yan turned his head and looked at Bai Wanyi: "You are in charge of the accounts. Think carefully about what is going on."
Bai Wanyi's eyes flickered. Lu Yan, who was familiar with her, knew that this look showed that she was guilty. It seemed that she had really embezzled more than 100,000 taels of silver.
Lu Yan was so angry that veins on his forehead were throbbing. For her, he divorced his original wife and was embarrassed in the court. But she plotted against him from head to toe.
She also exchanged the spoils brought back from the border for silver. Where did the silver go?
Just as Lu Yan was about to get angry, Bai Wanyi tearfully said, "What could be the problem? Don't you know it yourself? I know you just want to see my private account. If you are really curious, I will show you my account book."
Meeting Bai Wanyi's gaze, Lu Yan's heart trembled. He didn't even dare to look at the account book he had in his hand. He forced himself to take out the fire starter and set the account book on fire. Looking at the dancing flames, his heart gradually calmed down: "Why didn't you tell me?"
Bai Wanyi clutched her handkerchief and sobbed, "How can I tell you? Back then, you were fighting outside, narrowly escaping death several times. If I told you, how could you go to the battlefield with peace of mind? The swords on the battlefield are merciless. If anything happened to you, what would Ping'er and I do?"
Lu Yan heartbrokenly grabbed Bai Wanyi's hand and apologized, "I'm sorry. I was reprimanded by His Majesty in the court today, and questioned by the Censor and the Ministry of Revenue. I was panicked."
Bai Wanyi sighed with tears in his eyes: "In the final analysis, you just don't trust me. I took such a huge responsibility for you, and yet you still treat me like this."
Lu Yan was helpless, and he apologized and tried to comfort her. After a while, Bai Wanyi wiped her tears and said, "Hurry up and lie down. I don't know when this injury will heal. Whoever attacked me didn't know how to be gentler."
When Lu Yan thought of the two people who had attacked him, he suddenly felt guilty. They were brothers who had been through thick and thin with him, but he didn't let them eat well at the banquet.
He brushed the matter aside lightly: "No one dares to neglect His Majesty's order."
After saying this, Lu Yan became worried again: "His Majesty not only ordered me to be beaten, but also ordered us to pay back 200,000 taels of silver. If we can't pay it back, he will really punish us this time."
Bai Wanyi stood up in shock: "Two hundred thousand! Isn't it only a hundred thousand that's wrong?"
Lu Yan said, "We must also pay a fine of 100,000. From your Majesty's perspective, we embezzled military funds, a serious crime. The minimum penalty is dismissal from office and loss of title, and the worst is execution."
hiss!
So serious!
Bai Wanyi gasped. She had not intended to tell others that she had found a lot of silver in the Qitongju warehouse, but now she had no choice but to tell them.
She said softly, "Don't worry about the silver. I went to open my mother-in-law's storehouse today and found some silver."
Lu Yan was surprised and delighted: "How much?"
Bai Wanyi said, "The silver notes plus the cash should be close to 100,000 taels."
Lu Yan was already worried about money, and now he had tens of thousands of taels to fill the gap. Naturally, he was ecstatic: "I didn't expect that my mother would save so much money for me."
Bai Wanyi's eyes turned and he said, "I looked at the account books Qin Wan sent me, and it seems one of the accounts is missing. Who knows, she might be able to come up with tens of thousands of taels of silver."
Lu Yan was puzzled: "She gave me all the account books for the past eight years. Which one are you talking about?"
Bai Wanyi calculated with his fingers, "The account books for the farm and shops under my mother-in-law's name. You don't have to worry about the ones before she passed away, but what about after? What's the annual revenue of these shops? Are they rented out or run by themselves? Who is in charge of the shops? What is the annual income from the farm?"
Lu Yan was short of money now, so naturally he would do whatever Bai Wanyi said. He immediately asked someone to ask Qin Wan to come and ask about the matters of these farms and shops.
Qin Wan looked at Chu Yun, who had come to deliver the message, and was speechless. "Are these two trying to disgust me again? On the first day Marquis Lu returned to the capital, I gave him the account books from the old lady's room."
Chu Yun knew the inside story and told him about the reprimand Lu Yan received from His Majesty today. She then added, "I have inquired about this and found out that His Majesty was furious, but he only gave him a caning and ordered him to return 100,000 taels of silver within three months and another 100,000 taels within six months."
Qin Wan immediately became curious. This had never happened in her previous life. Two hundred thousand taels of silver!
Her eyes sparkled as she asked, "You're being fined so much? Your wife didn't tell you how you're going to pay it back. Can you afford to pay back two hundred thousand in six months?"
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