He asked, "Has anyone from Prince Jin's Mansion been here?"
The butler was Xiao Yuanshi's confidant who had followed him from the General's Mansion. He replied respectfully, "When you were out one day, the concubine of Prince Jin's Mansion sent a maid to deliver a housewarming gift, and it was Madam who received it."
"After they left, Madam put the gifts sent by Prince Jin's Mansion into the warehouse. They were not rare items, just a few pairs of porcelain and some cloth."
Because this was an exchange between the backyards, and the deputy governor was very busy those days, he did not take the initiative to say it.
Xiao Yuanshi thought for a moment and said, "You secretly bring the maidservant who is close to the Madam here."
He stressed, "Don't let the lady find out."
The housekeeper was stunned, but did not ask any more questions: "Yes!"
After the housekeeper left, Xiao Yuanshi looked through the account books in the mansion. There was something fishy, but it was only a matter of a few hundred taels of silver.
It seems that Ge Chunru has gone down to work as a private servant.
He also felt a little disgusted by this. He thought that Ge Chunru's behavior was too petty.
But it was just a few hundred taels of silver, and he was too lazy to pursue it.
After a while, the housekeeper secretly asked someone to bring in Ge Chunru's most trusted maid.
The maid shuddered when she saw Xiao Yuanshi, "Meet the Deputy Governor."
Xiao Yuanshi said, "Look up and look at me."
The maid trembled again and looked up at Xiao Yuanshi carefully, but her eyes seemed to be filled with uneasiness.
Xiao Yuanshi's heart skipped a beat. This was clearly a sign of guilty conscience.
"Let me ask you, when Prince Jin's concubine sent someone to send a housewarming gift, what else was there besides the things that were put into the warehouse?"
After these words were spoken, the maid's expression became even more flustered.
Xiao Yuanshi released all his might and slapped the table, "Tell me, or I will sell your whole family to mine."
When the maid heard this, she was so scared that she immediately knelt down.
She thought the deputy governor already knew about it, and she didn't dare to drag the whole family down.
So he said tremblingly: "Also, there is another box, which was kept separately by the lady."
Xiao Yuanshi tightened his grip on the account book, "Is there any banknotes in the box?"
The maidservant was extremely panicked, as the deputy governor really knew about it.
So she didn't make excuses, "Yes."
Xiao Yuanshi was furious, "How many banknotes are there?"
The maid replied truthfully: "Fifty thousand taels of silver."
Xiao Yuanshi's eyes narrowed, "Madam, did you keep the money? Or did you use it for something?"
The maid felt Xiao Yuanshi's anger and trembled with fear. "Madam kept 10,000 taels for herself, and sent the remaining 40,000 taels to the capital to Concubine Ge."
"Bang!" Xiao Yuanshi couldn't help it, he stood up and kicked the chair towards the maid.
The chair fell heavily on the maid.
She let out a scream and was knocked unconscious.
Xiao Yuanshi opened the door of the study and walked quickly towards Ge Chunru's yard.
At this time, Ge Chunru and Ge Chunyi had just finished their meal and were sitting down chatting.
Ge Chunyi began to complain about how much suffering he had endured before.
Hearing this made Ge Chunru feel extremely distressed, and she became even more resentful towards Xiao Yuanshi.
"Bang!" Suddenly the door was kicked open.
Just as Ge Chunru was about to get angry, Xiao Yuanshi walked in with a sullen face.
She thought that Xiao Yuanshi was instigated by the people of the old Xiao family and Shi Qingluo again.
Plus, I had just listened to my brother's complaints, so I was feeling angry.
She did not stand up, but sat down and looked at him with a somewhat sarcastic tone, "The deputy governor is so majestic!"
He glanced at Ge Chunyi and Niu with a cold gaze, "You two get out."
Xiao Yuanshi had been on the battlefield, and his aura was very fierce, and also carried a bit of murderous intent.
So Ge Chunyi and Niu were both shocked.
Seeing him like this, the two men didn't dare to ask more questions and walked out of the door in shame.
As for Ge Chunru in the room, neither of them paid any attention to her.
Ge Chunyi knew how much Xiao Yuanshi liked and cared about his sister, so he didn't think the other party would do anything.
After I came out, I was very angry.
Xiao Yuanshi actually told them to get out just now. That was really too much.
But they didn't have the courage to go in and question them. Even when Xiao Yuanshi's personal followers asked them to leave, they could only take Niu back to the room.
After Ge Chunyi and the other person left, Xiao Yuanshi turned around and closed the door.
Seeing him like this, Ge Chunru was also shocked.
"General, what's wrong with you?"
"Did the old lady and Shi Qingluo say something to you about me again?"
Xiao Yuanshi did not answer but asked: "The concubine of Prince Jin's Mansion sent me silver notes as a housewarming gift, why didn't you tell me?"
Hearing this, Ge Chunru felt flustered and even shocked.
How did Xiao Yuanshi know?
"This, this is a housewarming gift. I saw you were very busy those days and forgot to tell you."
Xiao Yuanshi already knew about the banknote, so she had no choice but to admit it.
Xiao Yuanshi stared at her coldly, "Where's the banknote?"
Ge Chunru's eyes flickered, and soon she revealed an expression that she had done something wrong, "Part of the banknotes were lost."
Xiao Yuanshi narrowed his eyes and asked, "Lost? How could the banknote be lost?"
Ge Chunru was a little afraid of Xiao Yuanshi, so she didn't dare to tell the truth. "I put the money in two purses and took them to find Chunyi. Who knew that on the way back, the purse containing the 40,000 taels of silver notes disappeared."
"I suspect it was someone from the Xiao family who took it. After all, Chunyi's thirty thousand taels were stolen by them before."
"But I dare not tell you, for fear of affecting your relationship with the old man and the old lady."
She thought that since Xiao Yuanshi knew about this money, it was most likely revealed by Prince Jin's Mansion.
Xiao Yuanshi was so angry that his face became even uglier. "Ge Chunru, you are really great."
"You lied one after another, and even put the 40,000 taels that you gave to your sister directly on my family."
"Why, in your eyes, everyone in our Xiao family is like a thief?"
His chest was filled with anger, "Don't forget, the thirty thousand taels that Ge Chunyi gave to him were secretly embezzled from the general's mansion's public account."
He really didn't expect that Ge Chunru was not only so bold, but also took so many silver bills from Jinwang Mansion without telling him, and sent the silver bills to Ge Chunyi, and even pointedly accused his parents and others of stealing them.
It turns out that everyone in their family looks like thieves, and only the people in their family are good?
For the first time, he realized that he didn't seem to understand his wife Ge Chunru.
If he hadn't asked her maid privately first, he might have been fooled by her.
Ge Chunru widened her eyes, obviously not expecting that Xiao Yuanshi actually knew that she had sent the 40,000 taels to the capital to her sister.
Only then could I help but panic.
But when she thought about it, it was nothing. After all, she had borrowed 20,000 taels from her sister before, so it was nothing to pay it back double.
But now it is obvious that Xiao Yuanshi is very angry, and she has to coax him into submission.
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