Chapter 408 Stealing the Land Deed
Li Jiaojiao couldn't refuse, so she had to bite the bullet and learn how to manage accounts from the wife of Duke Pingguo.
She studied for the whole morning the next day and finally found an excuse to go outside to look at the wedding dress, then turned around and went out.
When passing by an alley, he was suddenly dragged in by someone.
"Ah, help—Ngh!"
Li Jiaojiao widened her eyes and saw three big bearded men surrounding her, one of them was covering her mouth.
"Don't make a sound! Or I'll kill you!" The big man who was covering her mouth opened his mouth.
Li Jiaojiao was so scared that her face turned pale: "What do you want to do? I am the third daughter of the Duke of Pingguo's Mansion! The future fiancée of the Marquis of Ningguo, don't even think about touching me!"
"Touch you?" The three big men looked at each other, then said in unison, "You wish!"
Li Jiaojiao: “…”
The leading man said, "We just want you to do us a favor. Do you know Liu Xiawei?"
Li Jiaojiao was so frightened that she dared not say a word and just nodded woodenly.
"He owes us thirty thousand."
"That's his business... It has nothing to do with me..."
"He can't pay it back now. We could cut off one of his hands, but what use would we have to his rotten hand? Liu Xiawei said that he would take all the farms, land deeds and shop deeds in his family and give them to us as collateral."
Li Jiaojiao's face changed. This was too much. She had to notify her mother immediately and ask her to be on guard!
But why should they tell her?
The big man explained her confusion in the next second: "But Liu Xiawei is useless and can't steal anything. If you can help him steal the land deeds and shop deeds, we will give you 10,000 taels."
Li Jiaojiao widened her eyes in disbelief: "What?"
The big man snorted and laughed, "As long as he steals the land deed and the shop deed, then his debt will be paid, we will get the money, and you will also get a reward of 10,000 taels."
Li Jiaojiao was tempted, but then shook her head: "Am I crazy......"
The big man said, "Don't worry, you can help Liu Xiawei secretly without letting him know. We won't tell him either. Only you and I know about this."
"If you like, send this to Deli Bank tomorrow."
As the big man said this, he stuffed a white jade token into her hand and left.
Li Jiaojiao stared at their backs in a daze.
She felt that she should tell the wife of Duke Pingguo immediately, but... her mind was in a mess!
Li Jiaojiao hesitated for a moment, but the next second a hint of hatred flashed in her eyes.
She will never forget the moment when she was beaten to the ground at the Shen family's house and when she reached out to her mother, her mother took a step back...
In fact, her mother didn't have much sincerity towards her. She just thought that she was going to marry into the Ningguo Marquis's Mansion soon.
Besides, the Duke of Ping's mansion is no longer in good shape. The old man spends money recklessly every day, and the young man gambles away money every day...
Sooner or later, all the things my mother has will be consumed by them.
Instead of being defeated by them, why not let her Li Jiaojiao make some money first?
If it is discovered later, it will be Liu Xiawei who stole it!
After counseling herself, Li Jiaojiao decided to give it a try!
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Li Jiaojiao returned home and shook off her morning laziness with afternoon study. She became more active in learning accounting.
Lady Pingguo was very pleased to see this.
Li Jiaojiao said, "Mother... can you give me all the dowry now? Put it in my room first, I want to enter it in the register myself. And the ten thousand taels... it's time to collect them. After all, the Gu family case will be over in a few days."
Lady Pingguogong smiled and said, "What you said makes sense."
Li Jiaojiao breathed a sigh of relief and her smile became more genuine.
She had to get her dowry out first, and she had to hold the ten thousand taels in her hands first. Otherwise it would be stolen by Liu Xiawei.
During the whole afternoon's study, Li Jiaojiao paid special attention to matters concerning land deeds and pavement deeds.
Finally, it was discovered that all the deeds were placed in a box.
The box was recessed into the wall, just behind the bedside table of the wife of Duke Pingguo, and was locked with an iron lock.
The next morning, she went to Deli Money House and gave the jade token to the big man from yesterday.
The big man invited her to sit in the inner room.
Li Jiaojiao said, "The title deed and the shop deeds are placed behind the bedside table in mother's room. But there is a lock there and the key is with Yu Ma. This old woman is very difficult to deal with. I can't get the key."
The big man said, "It's easy. You just need to use a ball of flour to copy the key and then make another key. As for how to give it to Liu Xiawei, you can figure it out yourself."
Li Jiaojiao said: "Why can't I give you the key and then you give it to him?"
The big man crossed his arms and said, "I'm sorry, we are honest businessmen, how can we steal the key? When Liu Xiawei is caught, he will say that we gave him the key, how can we explain it?"
Li Jiaojiao gritted her teeth and went home angrily.
Return to the Duke Ping’s Mansion.
The wife of Duke Pingguo had already gathered the ten thousand taels and was preparing to move Li Jiaojiao's dowry to a room in her yard.
Li Jiaojiao looked at the small pile of things with disdain. It was just a small amount of things, not even 20% of what Ye Caiping had.
After lunch, Li Jiaojiao continued to check the accounts with the wife of Duke Ping.
Lady Pingguogong flipped through the account book and asked, "Where did you go this morning? Why didn't you bring Xiaolu with you?"
Li Jiaojiao smiled and said, "We didn't go anywhere. We just went out to relax. We didn't buy anything. Why did we bring her?"
Lady Pingguogong didn't ask any more questions: "Don't be distracted anymore. I heard that the Gu family's case will be solved in the next few days. You have to marry into the Gu family as soon as possible."
After hearing this, Li Jiaojiao became even more anxious. If she got married, she would have even less chance.
Li Jiaojiao was unwilling to think that the 10,000 taels she could have earned would be wasted.
Li Jiaojiao rolled her eyes and said, "Mother... I will also be in charge of the manor when I arrive at the Ningguo Marquis's Mansion, right? I haven't even seen what a land deed looks like..."
"It's not that easy. Madam Yu, please take out the shop deed and the land deed."
"Yes." Nanny Yu was about to turn around.
Li Jiaojiao said anxiously: "I'll go get it..."
Nanny Yu said coldly: "No need, just leave this matter to me."
"Mammy, do you still hate me so much?" Li Jiaojiao raised her eyebrows and pouted her lips in grievance, "I can't touch this key?"
Nanny Yu’s face turned black.
The Duke's wife rolled her eyes at her and said, "Just let her take it."
Seeing so many people present, and knowing that nothing could happen if she followed them, Yu Ma said, "Okay, take it!"
Then he gave the key to Li Jiaojiao.
Li Jiaojiao was delighted and quickly turned around and walked into the room.
Upon seeing this, Nanny Yu hurriedly followed her.
Li Jiaojiao glanced at her out of the corner of her eye, not letting her go for even a moment.
Fortunately, the people in the bank taught her a way.
She deliberately walked a few steps faster, and when she clasped her hands together, she pressed the key into the dough in her left hand, and then let the dough slide into her sleeve pocket, all in one go.
After taking out a few shop deeds and land deeds, she returned the keys to Yu Mama. After looking at them with the Duke's wife for a while, Li Jiaojiao gave all the deeds to Yu Mama: "Put them all back!"
He looked like I didn't care.
Nanny Yu had a gloomy face the whole time.
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Liu Xiawei has been so anxious these days that he is getting angry.
The people from the money house were collecting the debt very aggressively, and he tried to harass the wife of the Duke of Pingguo several times, but she drove him away every time.
He wanted to steal the land deeds and shop deeds, but was unable to get in.
In the morning, the people from Deli Money House secretly told him that there was a box embedded in the wall behind the bedside table of the mansion of Duke Pingguo, and the shop deed should be placed there.
Liu Xiawei was happy but at a loss as to what to do. What good was it if he knew the place? He doesn't have the key!
If we break the lock, wouldn't that attract everyone here?
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