He then sent Granny Zhou back to the palace to get the money.
As they waited, the atmosphere in the hall became tense. Consort Han hated the person who stole the reward money and resented the Loyalty Bureau for not protecting it properly. She was filled with resentment.
She silently planned that once the matter was settled, she would clean up the Loyalty Bureau and recover her losses, thus killing two birds with one stone.
Thinking this way, I felt somewhat comforted.
Liu Shang was sipping tea, raising his eyelids for a moment before lowering them again. The person opposite him had their face veiled, but he could still discern their intentions.
In the decades since the Loyalty Bureau was established, many employers have tried to betray it after using it, but none of them have succeeded.
If the Loyalty Bureau didn't have this ability, it wouldn't have been able to survive in the capital for so many years.
Hiring someone to commit murder is a huge leverage point. You give me a bounty, I'll complete the mission for you, and then we'll both disappear from the scene and never have anything to do with each other again. That's the wise thing to do.
Some people are so attached to personal gain that they invite trouble upon themselves.
Granny Zhou arrived, carrying a box, panting and covered in sweat.
This box is exactly the same as the one that was delivered last time. Qiao Lian'er stood to the side and released a few more birds from her spatial storage.
Birds flew over the eaves on the side, drawing the attention of everyone in the hall.
Then Qiao Lian'er quickly replaced the box.
"Birds often fly over the Loyalty Bureau; Your Excellency need not be surprised." Liu Shang had no doubts.
Granny Zhou opened the box and proudly announced, "Thirty catties of gold bricks and five hundred taels of silver notes are all inside. Please have the Loyalty Bureau check them."
The butler will have to take a good look at him this time.
He picked up the gold brick and looked at it, then picked up the silver note on top. There was nothing wrong with it. Just as he was about to put these things down, his expression suddenly changed.
He instructed the waiter, "Bring me the logbook for the last two weeks."
The servant went to fetch it, and the steward opened the record book, flipped to a page he had written down half a month ago, and compared the gold bricks and silver notes, his expression growing increasingly solemn.
"Master, look."
Liu Shang stood up and followed the steward's finger across the banknotes and record book. He immediately understood and his expression changed.
Looking at Consort Han, his eyes were already cold and filled with deep sarcasm.
"Your move was clever, but our Loyalty Bureau was prepared. Your speech was eloquent and seemed very believable, but even so, the best acting skills are pale and powerless in the face of facts, and seem ridiculous."
He clutched the few silver notes, almost about to throw them in front of Consort Han, but he managed to restrain himself.
"What do you mean? What do you mean by this?" Consort Han was completely baffled as to why the Loyalty Bureau was reacting this way.
She didn't even care about the stolen bounty, and even sent another one, just wanting to complete the mission as soon as possible. Why are they still making things difficult for her?
Now, her eyes were blazing with fury, and she felt that the Loyalty Bureau was deliberately making things difficult for her.
The steward said, "The reward money was delivered half a month ago. To make it easier to compare and identify in the future, I copied down the serial numbers of the two gold bricks and the serial numbers of the five silver notes placed on top."
"The bounty was clearly stolen last time, but now I've seen this batch of bounties again, and it's genuine. You know, the serial numbers are unique, which is to distinguish between real and fake."
"Now you have no way to deny it, do you?"
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