Chapter 27 Earn another 50,000 taels from Ye Jingchuan
Ye Jingchuan looked at Ye Chutang falling from the sky as if he had seen a ghost.
"You stayed on the roof all night? Where's the maid?"
Last night, the guards searched the roof of the Shangshu Mansion several times, but did not find any trace of Ye Chutang and the maid.
Ye Chutang rolled his eyes.
"I'm not a lightning rod or rainproof cloth, what am I waiting for on the roof for?"
Kong Ru saw that she was dry except for the soles of her feet which were a little wet.
"Master, Chu'er should have just arrived."
Ye Chutang looked at Kong Ru, who was exhausted from pulling, and deliberately asked, "Mrs. Ye, did you have a good time last night?"
Kong Ru's face suddenly sank, and her shriveled stomach ached slightly, "It's you!"
Didn’t she ask Mrs. Liu to give this girl a good beating?
Why does she know martial arts and poison?
Ye Chutang took out Kong Ru's dowry list and shook it, "Didn't you poison me too?"
After saying that, she looked at Ye Jingchuan with a look of surprise.
"Didn't I warn you to keep the people in Shangshu Mansion under control and not to mess with me?"
Ye Jingchuan didn't expect Ye Chutang to be so capable. Not only did he evade the search, but he was also able to come and go freely in the Shangshu Mansion.
He secretly thanked his lucky stars that he didn't have time to take action, otherwise he would be the one to be blamed today!
"Madam, did you really poison Chu'er?"
When Kong Ru heard this, she knew that Ye Jingchuan was going to make trouble for her in order to appease Ye Chutang.
"Yes, I think Chu'er is too arrogant and ignorant, and I want to teach her a lesson."
“Bang!”
Ye Jingchuan slapped Kong Ru hard.
Kong Ru was weak and was knocked to the ground, her luxurious clothes soaked by the rain water on the ground.
She covered her face and lowered her eyes to hide the hatred in them.
"Master, I know I was wrong."
Ye Jingchuan looked at Kong Ru's swollen cheek and felt sorry for her.
"I'll fine you half a year's salary, and after the family banquet, you'll be grounded for three months. Do you have any objections?"
This punishment sounds insignificant, but it is actually very severe.
Being under house arrest means that the mistress of the house cannot be invited to banquets or host banquets at home.
Even due to his mobility problems, he had to give up part of the management rights!
More importantly, she will be ridiculed and excluded by other officials' wives.
Kong Ru was well aware of the disadvantages of house arrest, but she also knew that now was not the time to refute.
"I accept the punishment."
"Go down and prepare. We will go to pay respect to Chu'er's mother later."
"Yes, sir."
Ye Chutang looked at Kong Ru's embarrassed back as she left, her pink lips quirking.
"Madam, this is just a warning. If you don't behave yourself again, I'll use poison to penetrate your intestines next time."
Kong Ru was horrified.
"Chu'er, I was just confused for a moment, it won't happen again."
She didn't even know how she was poisoned.
If Ye Chutang wanted her to die, she might not be able to escape!
After Kong Ru left, Ye Jingchuan asked, "Chu'er, where were you last night? Where's that maid?"
Ye Chutang ignored Ye Jingchuan and walked towards the boudoir.
She looked at the empty room and pretended to be surprised.
"Master Ye, I'm only going to be gone for one night, you won't have anyone empty my room, right?"
To Ye Jingchuan, these words sounded like the thief crying "stop thief!"
He walked through the main room and entered the boudoir, his eyes fixed on Ye Chutang.
"Didn't you hire someone to move away all the valuables in Ningchuyuan?"
Ye Chutang sneered.
"Dad, if you don't want to give a meeting gift or a dowry, just tell me straight away. Why are you crying thief!"
After she finished speaking, she snorted, "There are only three people who can empty out an entire courtyard in the Shangshu Mansion!"
The head of the household, the mistress, the old lady.
There was nothing wrong with what he said, and Ye Jingchuan couldn't refute it.
Two incense sticks were too short a time. Even if Ye Chutang had an insider, he would not be able to empty Ningchu Courtyard.
He couldn't figure out what was going on, so he could only let it go.
“Ningchu Courtyard was robbed, the Jingzhao prefect will investigate, and I will have someone add things to the courtyard later.
The most important thing now is that you quickly learn the rules from the nanny. I will give you the five thousand taels later. ”
Ye Chutang corrected him: "It's not five thousand taels, it's fifty thousand taels."
Ye Jingchuan's eyes widened in shock, "How much?"
"Lord Ye, you are not so naive as to think that after the poisoning incident, I will pretend that nothing happened, right?"
"Where would I get fifty thousand taels? Even if I emptied the Shangshu Mansion's treasury, I still wouldn't have that much!"
Ye Chutang didn't believe his nonsense.
"I'm targeting Madam Ye, go ask her for it."
Ye Jingchuan frowned, "She is not like your mother, who knows how to do business and make money, where did she get 50,000 taels?"
"I don't have any money, so I'm leaving."
After Ye Chutang finished speaking, he flew onto the roof.
"By the way, don't hold the homecoming banquet. We won't see each other again in the martial arts world."
Ye Jingchuan knew that Ye Chutang was threatening him, but he had to compromise.
"Okay! Fifty thousand taels, I'll give it to you!"
The homecoming banquet must be held as scheduled, and we cannot afford to offend Eunuch De.
The dirt on the tiles has been washed away by the heavy rain.
Ye Chutang sat on the eaves with a smile on her face, her legs hanging down and swinging playfully.
"Go get it. I'll be waiting."
Before Ye Jingchuan left, he asked the biggest question in his heart.
"Chu'er, you can obviously leave the Shangshu Mansion and stay away from Eunuch De, why do you want to stay?"
No matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn't figure it out.
Ye Chutang stayed in the Ye family naturally for the original owner.
She wanted to become famous in the capital and let everyone know that the Ye family had an eldest daughter who was even more talented and beautiful!
"First, my last name is Ye. Second, the whole world belongs to the king."
"You are quite insightful. If you are favored by Eunuch De, will you accept your fate?"
Ye Chutang smiled so hard that his teeth were showing, "Of course not."
Ye Jingchuan had a bad feeling in his heart.
"If you offend Eunuch De, not only will you die, but the entire Ye family will also be implicated, including your deceased mother."
"Don't worry, I know my limits."
Two quarters of an hour later, Ye Chutang received 50,000 taels of silver.
"Dad, don't pretend to be poor anymore. If this gets out, people will laugh at you."
Ye Jingchuan looked at the stack of banknotes in Ye Chutang's hand with a frosty expression.
"Thanks to you, I've been made a laughing stock!"
Although he made a lot of money from Tang Wanning's dowry shop over the years, he also made some money from the Ministry of Revenue.
But he supported the crown prince on the surface and helped the second prince secretly, which cost him a lot of money.
Over the years, he had saved only a little over 200,000 taels.
As a result, Ye Chutang had only been back for one day when he was about to leave!
Ye Chutang looked at Ye Jingchuan, who had a painful look on his face, stuffed the banknotes into his sleeve pocket, and put it into the space.
"So, don't lie to others, or you will be punished in this life."
After that, she asked, "Can we go and worship my mother now?"
"Let's go, Madam is ready."
After Ye Jingchuan finished speaking, he saw Ye Chutang was about to walk out and hurriedly stopped her.
His gaze fell on the sleeve where she put the banknotes, and his eyes trembled.
"This is fifty thousand taels of silver. What if you take it out casually like this and lose it?"
"It's better than leaving it in Ningchuyuan and getting stolen."
“…”
Ye Jingchuan had nothing to say and could only let Ye Chutang do as he pleased.
"Let's go."
Tang Wanning was buried in the western suburbs, and it took half an hour to get there by carriage.
Kong Ru asked her maid to prepare a lot of incense, candles, and paper money, and she had a gloomy face all the way.
Ye Jingchuan's eyes were glued to the sleeve pocket where Ye Chutang kept the banknotes, as if he was waiting to pick up the money.
He tried to find the right things to talk about with Ye Chutang, trying to get some information out of her.
In the end, I didn't get the words out, and I felt a chill in my body.
"Dad, I heard that in order to climb up the social ladder, you robbed your father-in-law's house who helped you with the imperial examination?"
"Do you have nightmares at night? Do you dream that my mother crawls out of the grave to settle accounts with you?"
"Ningchuyuan's things were emptied without leaving any traces. Could it be my mother's doing?"
With every word Ye Chutang spoke, the temperature in the carriage dropped a degree.
After saying these three sentences, Ye Jingchuan and Kong Ru huddled together tightly to keep each other warm.
After arriving at the cemetery, the two were afraid to get out of the car for a long time.
Ye Chutang grabbed the collars of the two men and dragged them to Tang Wanning's grave.
Each of them kicked the two men, forcing them to kneel in front of the tomb.
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