Madam Shen was so startled that her loose, sagging skin twitched.
She composed herself and said unhappily, "What are you howling about?"
"Madam!" The young maid who was in charge of fetching the silver from the inner room scrambled out, her voice trembling as she spoke, "Inside...inside..."
She pointed towards the inner room, her face still showing surprise.
"What happened?" Old Madam Shen tapped her cane, looking impatient. "Where's the money?"
"No...no money..."
"How is that possible!" This room is only so big, did all that silver grow wings and fly away?
Madam Shen glanced at Granny Wang and said, "Go and see what's going on."
"……yes."
Granny Wang was also feeling uneasy.
What did that girl see that made her scream like that?
Even though she was mentally prepared, when she actually opened the box and saw it stuffed full of paper money and two paper figures with red cheeks, she was still so frightened that she cried out "Oh my god!" and took several steps back, falling flat on her back.
Seeing that they were all so frightened, Jiang Wan felt strange. She glanced at them suspiciously and almost scared her soul out of her body!
Granny Wang's lips had lost all color, and her face was deathly pale: "Old... Madam... there was no silver in that box, only... only a pile of paper money and a pair of paper figures..."
"What?!"
"When I opened the box, the paper figure's face was right in front of me, which terrified me to death."
Since Madam Shen hadn't witnessed the scene firsthand, she remained relatively calm, only wondering, "How did the silver turn into paper money?"
The crowd looked at each other, but no one could give a clear answer.
It wasn't until Jiang Wan turned her gaze to Xianglan, looking utterly perplexed, that she asked, "Xianglan, what's going on?"
Xianglan thought to herself, "None of your business," but said aloud, "I don't know."
"Did the Second Miss do this?"
"have no idea."
Madam Shen: "Where did the money go?"
Xianglan: "I don't know."
Everyone: "..." Goodness, he shook his head and knew nothing when asked.
At this moment, Granny Wang suddenly jumped out and said with certainty, "She definitely knows! Madam, you must not be fooled by this silver-tongued little hussy."
"She serves the second young lady in her room all day long. If the second young lady wanted to embezzle money, how could she possibly keep it from her?"
"I'm afraid she'll have to work alongside them."
Having just suffered a loss, Granny Wang was worried about how to get revenge, so naturally she wouldn't miss this golden opportunity that had come knocking on her door.
So he said, "Madam, in my opinion, we should use torture."
"This little slut won't give in unless we get serious."
Madam Shen responded with a deep voice.
Upon hearing this, Granny Wang impatiently ordered people to press Xianglan down to kneel in the snow, and even asked someone to bring bamboo sticks, preparing to pull off her shoes and socks and whip the soles of her feet.
It was both itchy and painful, and she refused to believe she could handle it!
To find out where the silver was, Madam Shen would stop at nothing.
However, besides that, there was another reason why she agreed to torture Xianglan.
That is, to make an example of someone!
She had always looked down on Li Zhenzhu, and when she asked her to take money to save Shen Cang, Li Zhenzhu made all sorts of excuses. As the mother-in-law, she had to teach her a lesson.
It's unclear whether Li Zhenzhu understood Madam Shen's "good intentions," but she remained indifferent, as if it were none of her business.
Xianglan was forced to kneel in the snow by Wang Mama and another old woman. The cold air penetrated her clothes and hit her skin, seeping straight into her bones.
She grabbed Xianglan's ear and sneered, "You little slut, I told you not to curse me! Go ahead and curse me again, why aren't you cursing anymore?"
Xianglan was terrified.
She is most afraid of pain.
When she saw the servant hand her the bamboo cane, she was so frightened that she burst into tears.
But upholding the spirit of "not losing face even if you lose the argument," he still didn't hold back verbally, sobbing as he said, "This, this is what you told me to say, so listen to your father carefully."
"Knock on your mother!"
"Knock on your grandma!"
I'll knock on your ancestors for eighteen generations!
Granny Wang was furious.
She snatched the bamboo stick and raised her hand to strike Xianglan's foot, but in the blink of an eye, a figure suddenly appeared and slapped her across the face, knocking her down into the snowdrift.
Immediately following, two more "thuds" were heard, and the people responsible for pressing down on Xianglan also fell to the ground on either side.
Shen Qiyin took off her cloak and draped it over Xianglan, then helped her up from the ground.
Honeysuckle stood coldly in front of the two, her dark eagle-patterned robes tinged with a faint crimson in the sunlight, making her appear even more chilling and murderous, as cold as ice.
She has officially joined the Thousand Eagles Guard.
She didn't just complete the task Xiao Yan assigned her perfectly, but rather "exceeded expectations."
She captured everyone in just one day instead of the original three-day deadline.
even--
She realized that someone was following her in the shadows.
Fortunately, Xionglu reacted quickly enough and ran away in time, otherwise she would have noticed him.
Under normal circumstances, given the difference in their martial arts skills, Ren Dong would not have been able to discover that Xiong Lu was following her. But it is unclear whether the former was careless or the latter was too vigilant and perceptive.
In short, the case of honeysuckle made her famous.
The Imperial Clothing Bureau just delivered the clothes today, so she immediately changed into them, wanting to show them to Shen Qiyin.
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