Chapter 426 If You Can’t Do It, I’ll Do It Myself
There was a loud "boom" and Xiang Hua Lan was so frightened that her heart rose to her throat and she was completely stunned.
The lock on the warehouse door was kicked down, and the two doors opened by themselves with a creak.
"lantern."
Xiang Hualan handed the lantern in her hand to Su Ying, who walked in with the lantern and illuminated a corner of the warehouse.
"Go." Su Ying turned and looked at Xiang Hualan.
Xiang Hualan came back to her senses and nodded. She walked to the box where the silver bills were placed and opened the box, but she found that the silver bills in the box were gone.
Xiang Hualan thought she had remembered it wrong, and searched the small box in the warehouse again, but there was no banknote inside. She clearly remembered that she saw her grandmother put the banknote she gave her in with her own eyes last time, so how could it be gone?
Xiang Hualan looked at Su Ying, only to see that Su Ying was standing at the door with no intention of coming in. People had followed her here, and if she had nothing to give back to others, she would lose face.
Xiang Hualan planned to give Su Ying some gold, silver and jewelry to use as collateral for the five thousand gold.
She opened another jewelry box. She remembered that it contained the sea pearls that the emperor had rewarded her with last time. Each pearl was as big as a baby's fist.
But when the box was opened, it was empty.
This, how could this happen?
Xiang Hualan opened several boxes again, but they were all empty. The boxes that contained valuable jewelry and antique jades were all empty. The only things left were some large items. She couldn't let Su Ying carry away a vase that was as tall as a person? Besides, this vase wasn't worth five thousand gold coins!
Xiang Hualan's face became increasingly ugly.
The old lady soon got the news about the big noise in the warehouse. After learning that it was Xiang Hualan who brought people to smash the warehouse door, she was so angry that she almost choked.
"This is really outrageous, outrageous!"
"It seems that the eldest sister is determined to follow the Sixth Prince. She even wants to move out the Xiang family's things and give them to the Sixth Prince." Xiang Shule added fuel to the fire. These words made Madam Xiang even angrier.
"Let's see if this evil grandson dares!" Old Madam Xiang stood up angrily and led her people to the warehouse.
Su Ying stood outside the warehouse door and looked up to see the Xiang family rushing over in a menacing manner.
"Xiang Hualan, you are rebelling. You actually dared to smash the Xiang family's warehouse. What on earth do you want to do!" Old Madam Xiang roared angrily as she looked at the broken warehouse door.
Su Ying leaned against the door frame without saying a word, but turned to look at Xiang Hualan, who was still in shock.
Xiang Hualan looked at the empty boxes, came back to her senses and walked out the door, "Grandma...where are my things?"
"What is that?" Old Madam Xiang glared at Xiang Hualan and said in a vicious voice.
Xiang Hualan frowned, "The things I put in the storeroom, my banknotes, the things the emperor gave me before, and the jewelry and deeds left by my mother are all gone. Where are those things?"
She glared at the old lady without any hesitation and said, "Those things were all in the warehouse. You saw it with your own eyes. Why, you asked someone to break down the door of the warehouse, and now that the things are gone, you are blaming me. How can this be absurd!"
Su Ying had to admit that these women in the backyard were really good at biting back. This was very much like the arrogance of Xiao Jiang Yuanji before he was beaten.
Xiang Hualan never expected that she had trusted this family so much before and gave them all her money without hiding a single cent from them, but in the end she got such a result!
"Grandma, I owed money to my friend. I originally wanted to ask you to get the key to the storeroom and pay it back to my friend, but Grandma said she was not feeling well and would talk about it tomorrow. I was worried that my friend couldn't wait, so I brought him here. But as soon as I entered, I found that everything was gone!"
"You stole the property and now you want to slander grandma. You are such a conscienceless bastard. Your parents passed away so long ago. I, your grandma, raised you with all my heart and effort, and now you repay me like this!"
The old lady slapped her thighs and started howling with a manner that would make any shrew in the market feel ashamed of herself.
Xiang Hualan was speechless when it came to this. She was a person who valued filial piety, but she couldn't betray her friend because of this.
"Now the storehouse is empty, and I still owe my friend five thousand gold. Grandmother, please lend me five thousand gold so that I can pay my friend back first."
"What kind of friend could make my elder sister owe him so much money? Could it be that the money was given to someone else through someone else's hands?" Xiang Shule knew clearly where the things in the warehouse had gone. Only the box of Dongzhu was still lying in her room. It was impossible for her to take it out.
"Five thousand gold? Why did you borrow so much silver from others?" The old lady screamed in shock.
Xiang Hualan pursed her lips and said, "I was in danger before, and it was this friend who came to my rescue. I promised her that I would give her five thousand gold coins, and I cannot break my promise."
"Since we are friends, how can I ask for so much money after saving you?"
Su Ying originally had no intention of interfering in other people's family affairs, but since this remark would obviously harm her own interests, she had to say it.
"You think it's natural for me to help others?"
Su Ying had been hiding in the darkness behind the door. Only when she stood up and spoke did the Xiang family notice her.
The old lady looked Su Ying up and down with her snobbish eyes. Seeing that she was wearing low-quality coarse linen clothes, she did not hide her contempt on her face.
"I thought he was some kind of friend, but he must be from some village trying to blackmail me. Five thousand gold, you can actually say that, aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning?"
Curse her?
Su Ying's mouth sank, and everyone who knew her knew that she was unhappy.
She came here just to get the money, but not only did she not get the money, she was even cursed.
Oh!
Are you kidding her?
Su Ying glanced at Xiang Hualan coldly, and this look instantly made Xiang Hualan's hair stand on end. She had a premonition that someone was about to be in trouble.
"Can't you solve this problem?"
Xiang Hualan swallowed and said, "What do you think?"
"What I mean is, if you can't solve it, I'll solve it myself."
"How are you going to solve this?"
"Is it okay to take something worth five thousand gold from this mansion?"
Xiang Hualan felt that if she nodded, something terrible might happen, but if she shook her head, the consequences might be even more terrifying.
Xiang Hualan looked at Old Madam Xiang and said, "Grandma, I promised to give Miss Su five thousand gold. If we can't take it out, then I will have to ask Miss Su to move the things in the warehouse."
"You dare!" Those are her Xiang family's things, who dares to take them!
However, Su Ying ignored the domineering Madam Xiang and turned into the warehouse.
"How dare you! How dare you! Hurry and catch this country girl!"
(End of this chapter)
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