Chapter 39: The Stone Mansion must have some secrets!
On the other hand, because Qin was pregnant, Ishida applied for Qin to stay in his mansion to give birth, and then send her back to the government for disposal after giving birth.
Now Song Wanyun inexplicably has a brother who is the Minister of Dali Temple. Even if Ishida wants to protect Qin, he has no way to do it.
The carriage was filled with dark clouds.
Ishida frowned and slapped Qin: "You poisoned the Song family all these years? Who gave you the courage?!"
Qin shed tears and stroked her belly as if she was about to faint. She did not dare to refute at all, knowing that Ishida was her only support now.
"Xiulian was blinded by greed. It's all because I care too much about the master. Xiulian knows that in the master's heart, only the one from Qingfeng Courtyard is the most important. But I have also borne three children for the master, and now there is another one in my belly. Xiulian is just afraid that the master will not want me one day."
Ishida exhaled deeply, "Then you have a reason to harm her? Qin Xiulian, I dote on you too much."
Qin Shi really regretted it. "I should never have hurt anyone. Master, I have a child and I cannot die!"
Ishida closed his eyes and asked, "What about the dowry? I gave you the right to be the housekeeper, but you still think it's not enough and you want to take Song's dowry?"
Qin kept calculating in her mind, "I was wrong. I really know I was wrong. Since last year, the harvest at the mansion has been getting worse year by year. The one in Qingfeng Courtyard is almost dying. That's why I'm thinking of selling the shop to make some money."
Hearing this, Ishida burst into laughter, and tears came out of his eyes.
"Retribution, retribution! Now that the truth has been exposed, how will the entire capital view me, Shi Tian, and the Shi Mansion? How will they view Prince Yu's concubine? How will they view Brother Tao?"
Qin covered her face and cried without saying a word.
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After returning to the Shi Mansion, Song Wanyun and Jiang Yunzheng each went back to the yard to pack their things.
These days, one thing was finally settled, and Jiang Yunzheng felt a little relieved.
Hongyu, Wuyou and Wulu also had smiles on their faces. Finally, they didn't have to suffer humiliation in this broken house.
There weren't many things in Jiang Yunzheng's Qihuaju. Three boxes were full of clothes and jewelry, and the remaining things mostly belonged to Shi Chaoqing.
Shi Chaoqing's study is very large, and books take up most of it...
In the corner of the bookshelf, there are several books related to Western Xia.
Jiang Yunzheng frowned slightly.
She left the study and looked at the cenotaph under the osmanthus tree.
She called Wu Lu and said, "This osmanthus tree is growing well. Let's find someone to move it."
Wu Lu nodded, "Anything else?"
Jiang Yunzheng stared at the cenotaph and pursed her lips. "Go to Hanshan Temple and find a monk to come over and chant sutras and pray for blessings. I want to move the cenotaph along with it."
Wu Lu paused, "Okay, Madam."
On the other side, Xu Qingsong and his sister went to Qingfengyuan.
When Xu Qingsong saw where Song Wanyun lived, he couldn't help but frown.
The yard was bare, with only a solitary tree standing in the corner, and there was not much decoration in the room.
Song Wanyun said to her brother, "Qingsong, it's all in the past. Besides, these are just external possessions. We still have a long life ahead of us."
Xu Qingsong sighed in his heart, thinking that his sister was open-minded.
However, Song Wanyun's next words made Xu Qingsong stunned for a moment.
"Qingsong, I need to borrow some of your people to dismantle the mansion and move things."
From Shitian to the capital for the imperial examination, including the examination expenses, the social interactions, the renovation and purchase of the mansion... all of these were done with Song Wanyun's personal support.
If you want to divorce, you must do it cleanly.
Xu Qingsong clapped his hands in approval, quickly called his servant, went back to the mansion and called over twenty or thirty guards, and sent someone to tell Madam Xu that a banquet would be held tonight, and to look for a suitable house in the capital.
The guards first arrived at the Shi Mansion and moved many antique paintings, calligraphy and furniture from the front yard, Shi Jingtao, Qin and Shi Xiaoya's yards, and even the room of the married Shi Xiaoge.
The housekeeper wanted to stop them but couldn't. Seeing so many strong men, he finally waited for Ishida and Qin to return home.
As soon as Ishida came back, Xu Qingsong threw a piece of paper over to him.
"Eight thousand six hundred taels of silver, plus the three thousand taels that Qin Xiulian wants to compensate my sister, to be paid on the spot, a total of eleven thousand six hundred taels."
Ishida was stunned: "What?"
Xu Qingsong is much taller than Ishida and is very strong. Ishida had done something wrong and didn't have much confidence.
Xu Qingsong frowned impatiently: "Over the years, all the money my sister used to manage the mansion and the things she bought must be moved out, including everything in Chaoqing Courtyard."
Ishida's face was burning, and Qin screamed in his ear: "No! How can there be so much silver???"
Xu Qingsong frowned. He didn't hit women. He ordered the servant, "Go get a bucket of water."
The two people opposite stared at Xu Qingsong in surprise.
Xu Qingsong also didn't know how Ishida became the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. He looked dull and stupid, uneducated and completely unable to make any judgments!
The servant quickly fetched some water, and Xu Qingsong picked it up with one hand and soaked Qin thoroughly.
Xu Qingsong shouted, "Get lost."
"You, you, you, I'm going to kill you—"
Qin's whole body was dripping with water, just like she was running naked in front of people with only her undershirt on. Qin was so angry that she fainted.
Seeing this, Ishida didn't react much. He said to Xu Qingsong in a dull tone, "I'll ask the accountant to give you the money."
Xu Qingsong: "Okay."
Watching the guards carrying things back and forth, Ishida felt empty inside. He turned around and wanted to see Song Wanyun again.
As soon as he turned around, Xu Qingsong kicked him into the artificial river.
Xu Qingsong scraped the soles of his shoes against the ground and said disdainfully, "Bad luck."
The housekeeper quickly took people to rescue Ishida. Ishida could not swim and fainted after choking on too much water. Now the two people in charge of the mansion are both unconscious.
The housekeeper could only watch as Xu Qingsong's men emptied the mansion.
After Jiang Yunzheng packed up her things, she came to Qingfengyuan to help, and a man rushed in at the gate of the courtyard.
Shi Xiaoya had lost a lot of weight after not seeing her for two or three days. On the way here, she heard the maid tell her what happened today.
Shi Xiaoya glanced at Xu Qingsong in the courtyard, then fixed her eyes on Jiang Yunzheng: "What are you going to do? Why are you moving my things out of my room?"
Jiang Yunzheng said calmly: "We're going back to where we came from. We have to return what we stole."
Whether it was jewelry, paintings and calligraphy, or antique decorations... whatever the Qin mother and daughter liked in Qingfeng Courtyard, they would shamelessly ask for it.
At that time, Mrs. Song was bedridden and had no energy to deal with it, and Mrs. Yang was busy taking care of others, so there were always times when she was careless. After a few times, Qingfengyuan was mostly empty.
Shi Xiaoya seemed to be going crazy: "No, those are all mine, you are not allowed to touch them!"
"This is not enough. You and your mother haven't paid back the money they took from Qingfeng Courtyard in the past few years."
Song Wanyun also missed this piece of silver.
In the past two or three years, whenever Qin was short of money, she would come to ask Song for it, and Song gave her nearly five thousand taels of silver.
Shi Xiaoya didn't react immediately: "What?"
Jiang Yunzheng was too lazy to say more: "If your ears are not feeling well, just go back and lie down."
Fortunately, Mrs. Yang remembered it in detail. Jiang Yunzheng took Wuyou to the front yard to find the accountant. The accountant inside was startled and quickly closed the drawer.
"Young Madam, is there any problem with the silver?"
Jiang Yunzheng did not miss the panic in the accountant's eyes. She narrowed her eyes slightly and handed the booklet over without changing her expression.
"This is the money that Qin's mother and daughter have asked Qingfengyuan for over the years. I'll pay it all at once and we'll settle both our debts."
The accountant had already heard of Song Wanyun's true identity and did not dare to delay or be careless. He honestly sent someone to get the silver for Jiang Yunzheng.
After getting the money, Jiang Yunzheng turned and left.
On the way, her face darkened.
Shi Xiaoge had long been married to King Yu as a concubine and was now pregnant. Before the affair between King Zhou and Shi Xiaoya was exposed, the Shi family was undoubtedly in King Yu's camp.
Prince Yu has no military power. Apart from the power he has built up over the years, the Xu family represented by Prince Yu's wife Xu Yinlin and the Shi family behind his concubine are both his two major supporters.
King Zhou went to great lengths to ask for Shi Xiaoya to be his concubine. She had previously thought that King Yu wanted to remove Shi Fu, his right-hand man.
Now that I think about it, I'm afraid there is something in the Stone Mansion that King Zhou wants.
Jiang Yunzheng pursed her lips and gave Wu You a few instructions.
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