"I am very grateful to the Second Young Lady for bringing me out of the Sun Mansion and avenging the Eldest Young Lady. I will never be able to repay this kindness in my lifetime. How could you be afraid of hardship and refuse to make progress? I am just worried that if such a large estate were handed over to me, how would I explain to you if there were any losses?"
Xu Yixing felt bitter. It was not Si Wen who should be grateful to him. It was clearly he who should be grateful to her.
"Don't worry about that. The shop is managed by the owner and accountant. I'm not asking you to do the accounting. All you need to do is help me check every year to see if there are any major discrepancies in the dividends they pay."
"I understand and will try my best. But Miss, why don't you let Siqin do it?" Si Wen always believed that Siqin should be closer to the second young lady.
"She's not very smart." This was the truth, not meant to be disparaging. Siqin was indeed loyal and caring, but she was just a child, and was far less experienced than Siwen in these matters.
"Uh..." Si Wen held his forehead, having not expected the reason to be so straightforward. "So, Miss, do you want to take to heart what Grandma He said last time?"
As a witness to the entire process, Si Wen was well aware of the harm that General Xu and Mrs. Gu had brought to those ladies, but he didn't know what the second young lady thought about this matter.
Xu Yixing was silent for a long time before he spoke: "Si Wen, what do you think of me pretending not to know about these things?"
"It's a matter of the previous generation. Besides, the Second Miss has already killed Mrs. Gu for Aunt Liu, so there's nothing to worry about."
"You only talked about Aunt Liu, but what about Madam Bai? Can I just turn a blind eye to her plight?"
Si Wen squatted down and analyzed for Xu Yixing seriously: "Don't mention you, even if the eldest lady asked me this question, I would answer like this.
Grandma He herself said that it was her own guess that the master did not remind Madam Bai that the fetus was too large. Perhaps the master simply wanted Madam Bai to eat and drink well, or perhaps Grandma He simply did not remind her and was just shirking responsibility.
As for the labor-inducing drug, you heard that it was only used as a last resort. There is really no evidence to prove that it is related to the master."
Xu Yixing listened carefully and understood her attitude: "So you are trying to persuade me to keep quiet?"
"It's not about settling the matter peacefully, but it's not certain whether this happened or not, so how can we talk about settling the matter peacefully? Besides, you are going to marry the Seventh Prince, and your family will be the greatest support. We can't let the old matter ruin your father-daughter relationship, right?"
Xu Yixing understood that Si Wen had said so much, but the last sentence was the key point. A strong mother-in-law would definitely bring more benefits than disadvantages to him.
"Okay, I understand. Go do what I just told you. Call Yingwu in. I need to ask him something."
Si Wen retreated, and Ying Wu followed in: "Master, Ying Ba has gone back. This time the matter was not handled properly, and Ying Yi has punished him according to the rules."
"Yeah." Xu Yixing figured it out yesterday. What happened that day was purely a coincidence. The two people who were arguing in front of him were the ones he hired.
Maybe they felt that I was walking too slowly and had not yet reached the agreed location, so they deliberately made trouble and tried to take the opportunity to get close to me, but they didn't expect that someone else got there first.
"Did you get my two thousand taels back?"
"Kagehachi brought it back."
"Okay, as long as the money is fine. Remember to report it to the authorities and hand over those bandits. We will rid the people of this evil."
"yes."
"You were there when Granny He happened last time. What do you think of this? Do you think I should turn a blind eye or continue to find out the truth for the young lady?"
Ying Wu didn't want to get involved in this matter. The decision should be made by the master, and they were only responsible for execution: "No matter what the master plans, we must do our best."
"Hahahaha, that sounds nice. Let me check first to see if what happened back then is exactly what Grandma He said, and then I'll make a decision."
"Yes. How do we check?"
Xu Yixing stood up and walked around the table twice, stretching his legs and waist. "How are we going to investigate? Why don't you start by telling me who gave you the money?"
Ying Wu was shocked. He never expected that his master would actually investigate his own people.
"I know you Shadow Guards have independent financial channels, but even if you have channels, there has to be someone to connect this matter, right? I have sent all of you out before, and it's obvious that even without any of you, the money will still be paid, so the contact person is not one of you nine."
In Xu Yixing’s previous missions, he sent people back and forth again and again, changing them back and forth several times before he finally figured out the pattern.
"No one gave us money. We all went to the bank to collect it on the due date."
"Which bank?"
"It's the Tianyuan Silver Bank in Beijing."
Oh! Just as Xu Yixing thought, Tianyuan Silver Bank is the largest bank in the Great Xia Dynasty, bar none.
There are a lot of people opening accounts and trading there, and no one knows what identity the other party uses to deposit money, so it is extremely difficult to check. This should be the reason why they chose Tianyuan Silver Bank in the first place.
"To save me the trouble of searching, why don't you tell me what you think the source of this is? If I have to investigate, I'll definitely let you guys do it. You can imagine how much work that would be."
Ying Wu thought about it briefly. If he really wanted to investigate the Tianyuan Silver Bank, he said without hesitation: "Master, you can ask the Bai Mansion."
"Huh?" How did it come around to the Bai Mansion again?
"You said you only had to guess, and this is my guess."
This time it was Xu Yixing's turn to have a headache. If the Bai family supported the people and paid for them, then of course it was right.
But now my grandfather has passed away, and even Nanny Bai is gone. In this situation, is my cousin still willing to provide such a large financial support to the Shadow Guard?
Of course, it is also possible that these banknotes were spent under the names of businesses, ancestral property, etc., but my cousin's family has been in charge of the Commander's Mansion for almost twenty years, so it is impossible that they don't know anything about it.
"Okay, I understand. By the way, did you find Gao Yao?"
"They've been intercepted and are still on their way to the capital."
"Okay, remember to tell me as soon as she gets here. My birthday is the sixteenth of next month, but I'll be married by then, so I think Dad will definitely celebrate it for me in advance. Then we can ask Dad if he did anything to offend Mom."
"Yes. So how do we cooperate?"
"No rush, wait until I've been to the Bai Mansion. But if possible, please prepare some sleeping pills for me, just like the ones I used on my grandson You."
"yes."
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