Chapter 375: Go all out
In the end, Liu Qingyi walked in with gritted teeth.
The other two were looking at her expectantly at the door, but no sound came from the study for a long time.
Finally, Liu Qingyi came out, but her expression was very embarrassed: "Grandma, there doesn't seem to be any signs of missing calligraphy or paintings..."
"How is this possible? So many servants saw it!" Liu Zhi was a little surprised. "Why don't you go back and take another look?"
Liu Qing thought she didn't believe him, and angrily said, "I said it wasn't lost, so it wasn't lost! Besides, I didn't know what was in the study anyway."
The old lady lost her patience: "If you keep dawdling like this, the master will be back soon!"
Liu Qingyi felt aggrieved: "This is not the result I wanted to see. You two adults pushed a little kid like me into this. I saw it all and told you the result. You don't believe it. Who can I blame?"
The old lady glared at her and said, "How can you talk to your elders like that?"
Liu Zhi quickly protected Liu Qingyi behind him: "Mom, Yi'er is young and naive, please don't bother with her."
Liu Qingyi was very unconvinced. How could she be ignorant? She felt that she knew a lot!
Liu Zhi turned around and winked at her: "Do you still want your own dowry?"
Liu Qingyi thought of her marriage and dowry, and shut up.
Liu Zhi whispered again, "Mother, it seems you're the only one who should go in. After all, we don't know what's in the study. Even if Hu Xin'er stole the calligraphy and paintings inside, we wouldn't be able to tell."
The old lady sighed: "It seems that this is the only way."
She touched her head unconsciously. The swelling from the beating by the old man last time had disappeared, but the scar on it was still there.
These days she can only live with a jeweled headband to avoid being laughed at by others.
She walked into the study, opened her eyes wide and looked around carefully. Since the study was simply decorated, she finished looking around quickly.
However, she didn't notice anything was missing.
"Isn't this strange?" The old lady frowned, opened all the drawers in disbelief, and then looked through all the calligraphy and paintings and decorations in the kitchen.
Liu Zhi looked anxious: "Mom, Dad will be back soon, have you found any clues?"
"Why are you rushing?" the old lady said unhappily, "What if that girl Hu Xin'er switched the calligraphy and paintings? Don't I have to take a closer look?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Qingyi felt that her grandmother was absolutely right, and could not help but say angrily, "This Hu Xin'er is truly too treacherous and cunning!"
After a while, the old lady came out with a dark face.
Liu Zhi and Liu Qingyi hurried over and asked, "What's going on? Which paintings and calligraphy were swapped?"
The old lady said with a sour face: "They are all authentic, and there is no sign of theft at all."
"What?!" Liu Zhi and her daughter exclaimed in surprise at the same time.
The old lady looked at Liu Zhi suspiciously: "Are you sure your source of information is true? Has anyone really seen Hu Xin'er around the study?"
Liu Zhi choked. She had been very confident, but now she was a little doubtful.
Seeing her like this, the old lady said angrily, "You... I really don't know what to say to you!"
Liu Zhi sighed: "Since nothing in the study was stolen, we can only give up this clue. Let's go, but don't let Dad find out."
But the old lady said, "Wait a minute!"
Liu Zhi's eyes lit up: "Did you come up with some new discovery?"
The corners of the old lady's lips slowly curled up into a gloomy smile: "No discovery, but we can make a discovery."
Liu Zhi was very intelligent and understood immediately: "You mean -"
The old lady snorted and laughed: "Since we are here, we might as well go all out and just take the painting and push it onto Hu Xin'er!"
"Grandma, are you confused?" Before Liu Zhi could say anything, Liu Qingyi rolled her eyes. "What do we need calligraphy and paintings for? We can't eat them or use them, and if we get caught, we'll be punished by Grandpa."
The eldest old lady scolded him, "Fool! The calligraphy and paintings in this room are so precious! Do you know that the original painting by Wang Xizhi alone is worth a fortune?"
Liu Qingyi muttered softly, "So what? We can't sell the calligraphy and paintings in our Liu Mansion."
The eldest old lady sneered, "We can't sell the paintings and calligraphy ourselves, so why not sell them under Hu Xin'er's name? Then we can ask the maid in her yard to go, and after the transaction is completed, we can take some of the blame and put all the blame on Hu Xin'er!"
In this way, the reputation of the first wife was not damaged, Hu Xiner was not left with any consequences, and additional income was generated for the first wife.
The old lady thought her idea couldn't be better.
But Liu Zhi said worriedly, "Mom, is this possible? If Dad finds out, I'm afraid..."
Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by the old lady.
The old lady said with dismay, "You are always afraid of this and that. When will you ever accomplish anything?"
"I think grandma is right!" Liu Qingyi also came out to express her agreement. She had long been fed up with Hu Xiner's arrogant and domineering attitude just because she had some money.
Liu Zhi said angrily: "You are young, what do you know?"
The eldest old lady said, "My daughter, please don't be confused. If we don't get rid of this evil Hu Xin'er as soon as possible, if anything happens to her husband, the Liu family will also be implicated."
Liu Zhi was still a little hesitant: "But mother, what if father finds out?"
The eldest old lady shook her head and said, "When the nest is overturned, how can the eggs remain intact? The Liu family is destined to be implicated by Hu Xin'er. We are expelling this burden from the house at this time. This is helping the Liu family avoid catastrophic disaster! The old man will thank us in the future!"
As the three of them were talking, a familiar snort came from the side: "What are you doing? Why are there so many people around?"
The three people who were plotting turned around in horror, only to see Old Master Liu, leaning on a cane, suddenly appear at the door. They didn't know how long he had been listening.
Liu Zhi was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, his voice trembling: "Dad? Why are you here?"
Old Master Liu walked over slowly and said unhappily, "I was just about to come in when I heard you mention me. Can I come over and take a look?"
He saw Liu Zhi's guilty conscience and narrowed his eyes: "But you...what are you doing at the door of my study?"
Because he was caught doing something bad, Liu Zhi, who was usually eloquent, was speechless for a moment.
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