Why are you now suspecting him of stealing from the national treasury?
Thinking of this, Li Tianyou was also angry.
This is a thankless and arduous job, and he has to leave his hometown. Who would be willing to do that?
If it weren't for the fact that his daughter would be living in the capital in the future, he would have loved to take her back to Li'an County immediately.
If the emperor truly doesn't tolerate him, he can simply take his wife and children and go to a neighboring country.
Presumably, they would welcome them.
"Minister Li, don't be angry. I didn't mean that. It's just that thieves have entered the national treasury, but not for money. I wanted to ask you if there might be something else here that someone else wants?" Zhu Jingchen explained when he saw that Li Tianyou was a little angry.
"When my wife and I were choosing dowry for our daughter, we were looking for the best. After all, I never expected that she wouldn't be able to get married. We just wanted to make sure she wouldn't suffer any grievances after marrying into the Marquis of Ru'an's household." Upon hearing this, Li Tianyou sighed and then recounted his and his wife's thoughts when preparing the dowry for Li Zhiwei.
"Your Majesty, I truly do not know what those people want." Li Tianyou frowned as he thought of this.
He felt that the matter of the Marquis of Ru'an's family proposing marriage to the Li family was very strange. Could it be that they were also after something else?
"Your Majesty, I was also very curious at the time as to why the Marquis of Ru'an would come all the way from the capital to Li'an County to ask for my daughter's hand in marriage. I originally thought they were after the wealth of my Li family, but now, they may have other intentions." Li Tianyou thought to himself that he hadn't even bothered the Lin family yet.
When the national treasury ran into trouble, the first family he thought of was the Lin family.
Who told the Lin family to make me unhappy back then?
How dare they humiliate their own daughter?
They'll just have to bear the Emperor's suspicions!
"The Lin family!" Zhu Jingchen thought that the Lin family was no longer capable of causing any trouble, so how could they possibly reach into the national treasury?
“Your Majesty, although the Lin family may not be able to find anything in the national treasury, I believe that perhaps the Lin family knows what they are looking for,” Li Tianyou said with certainty.
"Minister Li's reminder is correct!" Zhu Jingchen felt that Li Tianyou's words made sense.
Lin Qihua's insistence on going to Li'an County to marry a merchant's daughter to his son was for ulterior motives.
They might have been instructed by someone and know something about it.
Lanhuai Prince's Mansion
"You bastard!"
King Lan Huai glared angrily at the people kneeling on the ground!
He never expected that they would be so foolish as to try to steal from the national treasury!
If we had found the item, that would have been fine, but we haven't even seen a trace of it.
They recklessly went to the national treasury to look for things; it probably won't be so easy for them to do so again next time.
That would be like stirring up trouble and alerting the enemy.
Shanzi, kneeling below, also felt somewhat annoyed.
Originally, he thought that since those items were donated to the national treasury along with the dowry, they must be in the national treasury.
However, to his surprise, he searched the entire national treasury but couldn't find it.
If he hadn't run fast, he would have almost been captured by the Imperial Guards of the State Treasury.
"Master, since that thing isn't in the national treasury, could it still be in Prince An's residence?" Shanzi asked cautiously.
After all, the most urgent task is to find the item in order to appease the master's anger.
"What, you're going to rummage through the storerooms of Prince An's mansion? Do you think this entire capital belongs to me? You think you can just go and rummage through whose property you want?" Prince Lan Huai looked at Shan Zi with exasperation.
Deep down, they were unwilling to admit that they had such a disreputable subordinate.
However, the Prince An's residence also needs to be investigated.
The Li family is quite shrewd, hiding that thing so well.
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