Chapter 8: Rectifying the General's Mansion
After the master and servant had eaten, they slowly came to the front yard. Uncle Qiu, the steward of the Ling Mansion, had already received a notice from Ruan Yiyu and brought everyone here to wait.
Uncle Qiu also heard about what happened in the backyard in the past two days.
However, he and Ruan Yiyu had the same idea at the beginning, thinking that it was the ignorant woman in the backyard who was making a fuss.
How big a splash can a daughter abandoned by her family make?
So he brought people here to wait, not to listen to Ling Chan's lecture, but to... teach Ling Chan a lesson.
This was also Ruan Yiyu's purpose. When she came to inform Uncle Qiu, she deliberately exaggerated Ling Chan's bad behavior and cried for a while.
Uncle Qiu is an old man in the Ling Mansion and an old man around Ling Rui.
He knows Ling Rui's thoughts best.
"Ling Chan." Uncle Qiu looked at Ling Chan and called her by her name.
Ling Chan didn't waste any words with him. She pointed the pendant in her hand directly at the rockery behind Uncle Qiu.
The laser shot from the ring passed by Uncle Qiu's ear and shattered the rockery behind him...
The gravel splashed and fell all over the ground. The maids and servants all hid everywhere in panic, holding their heads.
Uncle Qiu was dumbfounded. What kind of kung fu is this? Just a light finger...
Ling Chan lowered her hands and walked over to Uncle Qiu. "Uncle Qiu, although you have Ling Rui's trust, you still have to respect the hierarchy."
"I am the eldest daughter of the Ling family. How can you call me by my first name?"
Uncle Qiu's startled eyes shifted from the gravel to Ling Chan's face, "You..."
Ling Chan glanced over and asked, "Hmm?"
Uncle Qiu looked at her. Although it is said that a man who knows the times is a hero, but...
Ling Chan was only one person, and the Ling Mansion had a hundred and twenty guards. Besides the forty Ruan Yiyu had previously deployed, there were still eighty more. He had already made preparations...
"Someone, come and capture Ling Chan." Uncle Qiu stepped back and someone next to him threw a sword to him.
He has been practicing martial arts for nearly fifty years and his skills are quite good.
Eighty guards appeared from all directions at the same time and then flew down.
Hongdou's heartbeat stopped in fear, but she still immediately stopped in front of Ling Chan, "Miss, be careful."
Ling Chan pulled Hongdou behind her and punched the attackers...
She wore a jade bracelet of strength, set the coefficient to three, and punched the first guard who came to her.
The guard's face turned pale instantly, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. Then he curled up like a shrimp and flew out of the yard.
The guards who were following behind this guard and preparing to attack together were stunned. They looked at each other and no one dared to step forward.
Uncle Qiu immediately scolded them upon seeing this, "What are you still standing there for? Hurry up! The General's Mansion doesn't want idle people!"
"If we fail to capture Ling Chan today, all of you will be exiled to the frontier by the general."
Being exiled to the frontier means going to the border to fight, where you risk your life and have no idea when you will return. How can it be as comfortable as living in the capital?
After Uncle Qiu shouted this, the guards started to move again.
Ling Chan was not afraid of anyone who came. She would fight one at a time, and if a pair came, she would fight a whole group. If there were too many people coming, she would just spin around and wave them away.
Hongdou was no longer afraid. She stood far away to cheer Lingchan on and gave her reminders from time to time.
"Miss, be careful behind you."
"Well done, miss. Good job on that beating."
"Miss, on the left."
"Miss, on the right."
Including Uncle Qiu, there were eighty-one people in total, and Ling Chan didn't let any of them go.
After knocking them all away, Ling Chan stood in front of everyone with her hands behind her back and asked loudly, "Where is the deputy steward?"
A middle-aged man who looked younger than Uncle Qiu stepped out from the crowd and said, "Miss, this is Luo Wei, the deputy steward of the mansion."
Although he is the deputy steward, with Uncle Qiu around, Luo Wei has no decision-making power at all.
He was more like Uncle Qiu's errand boy. If he did a good job, it would be Uncle Qiu's credit, but if he did not do a good job, he would have to bear all the blame. He had been dissatisfied with this for a long time.
After a while, Lowe finally saw the clues.
The eldest lady in the mansion is different. He has to stand in line.
"Look, have all the servants in the mansion arrived?" Ling Chan said, and walked to the eaves. Immediately, someone brought in a chair and a small tea table. Hot tea and cakes were also served.
Hongdou raised her head proudly and walked behind Lingchan proudly.
Lowe immediately started counting people, and it took him nearly an hour to finally get a result.
"My dear Miss, except for the master and his wife, the two young ladies, and the people in the young master's yard, everyone else has arrived."
"Please give me a lecture, Miss."
Ling Chan was very satisfied with Luo Wei's attitude, and she didn't care what he was thinking.
She leaned back in her chair, resting her hands on the back of the chair, and glanced at everyone coldly, "From today on, I will be the one making the decisions about everything in and out of the General's Mansion."
The people below were silent and dared not say a word.
"Lowei, find someone to rebuild my yard immediately."
"Everything in the house has been changed."
"Find someone to take measurements for Anko and me."
"Send all the account books in the mansion to my yard."
Lowe didn't respond to the previous requests.
When Ling Chan said the last sentence, Luo Wei looked up in surprise, "Miss, this account book..."
"Only my wife can see..."
Ling Chan didn't say much to him, only saying, "Then go ask her if she wants me to go get it myself."
Lowe suddenly lowered his head and said, "Yes, yes."
At that moment just now, he seemed to see...the decisive killing on the battlefield and the resolute and resolute Lei Li in the back house...the late wife.
He sighed in his heart, she was indeed the daughter of the late Madam. Even after being ignored and humiliated by the Ling family for sixteen years, she still maintained her sharpness and courage.
It seems that things are really going to change in the General's Mansion.
No, it should be more than just the General's Mansion...
Lowe moved quickly, doing several things at the same time.
Shortly after Ling Chan and Hongdou returned to the yard, a group of people came first to move away Ling Xueyao's things piled up in the yard. Then another group of people came to empty the house of furniture, beds, etc. At the same time, new furniture, beds, bedding, etc. were all moved in.
A famous embroiderer from the capital's cloth shop also came half an hour later to take measurements for Ling Chan and Hong Dou.
Another half an hour later, all the flower pots in the yard were emptied, and the garden was turned over and paved with stone bricks to become a small martial arts training ground.
Only the account book that Ling Chan wanted was delivered in the afternoon.
Ling Chan simply flipped through a few of the books and put them aside.
These account books are not complete at all, and a lot is missing.
When Gong Lele married Ling Rui, she had already made numerous military achievements and was highly valued by the court. The late emperor even personally prepared a betrothal gift for Gong Lele and sent it to the Gong family together with Ling Rui's betrothal gift.
Under such circumstances, the dowry given by the Gong family would naturally not be small.
Gong Lele died early, and these things should have belonged to Ling Chan, but in the past sixteen years, Ling Chan has seen nothing.
It goes without saying that these dowries are definitely for supporting the Ling family.
But there are no such records in these account books.
"Hongdou, let's go find Ruan Yiyu."
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