Chapter 89 Princess, the Prince Consort has been beaten to death (2)
"Come on, pack up and let's go back to the princess's mansion." Xu Jinhuan stood up and said.
The maids were full of questions, but they still obediently started packing their luggage.
Xu Jinhuan was not idle either. He started checking the accounts. The original owner was a princess. Although she was not very favored, she still had a lot of dowry.
She didn't want to let others get away with it, so after checking one by one, she found that a lot of valuable jewelry was missing, totaling tens of thousands of taels.
She looked at the maid Jinse who was serving beside her and said, "Ask whoever took it and let him come forward."
Jinse came over quickly and replied, "Princess, no one admitted it."
Xu Jinhuan put down the list and said, "Then it's lost. Let someone report it to the police."
I have been given a chance, but I don't cherish it. Who can I blame?
Xu Jinhuan then said to another maid, Hua Nian:
"I remember that several ladies in the Duke Ding's mansion also borrowed a lot of things from me. Send someone to get them back. No matter if it's calligraphy or paintings or jewelry or silver, not a single stitch or thread can be missing."
"Yes, Princess." Hua Nian left happily.
She had long been fed up with some people in the palace who took advantage of the princess's good temper and asked for things at every turn.
Sometimes people just take what they like without any manners at all.
These several events alarmed the wife of Duke Dingguo, and she sent someone to inquire.
Xu Jinhuan told the truth.
She couldn't bear to swallow her anger.
She also didn't want to live in the Duke Dingguo's Mansion and have to live under the control of others.
You have finally been born into a good family and become a precious princess, so you should behave like a princess.
What about the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, paying respects in the morning and evening, serving the mother-in-law, and taking concubines for your husband? Get out of here.
Before I had finished packing my luggage, the wife of Duke Dingguo came in a hurry and said, "Princess, did my evil son bully you? Don't hide it for him. Tell me and I will take care of it for you."
Since her mother-in-law said so, she would not be polite. Xu Jinhuan openly told everyone about the disgusting things Ye Shen had done, without any intention of hiding anything for him.
"Yes! He bullied me. Qin Yue had a miscarriage, and he actually said it was my fault. He pinched my neck and asked me for an explanation. Mother-in-law, you should make the decision for me and give him dozens of slaps."
The wife of Duke Dingguo was stunned and looked at Xu Jinhuan in surprise. In the past, he always endured all the grievances by himself, so why did he speak it out this time?
He held her back for a moment, and she forced a smile and said:
"That's not the case! Is there some misunderstanding?"
Xu Jinhuan rolled his eyes:
"What kind of misunderstanding could there be? Anyway, I have already reported it to the police. I can't be wrongly accused!"
"Report to the police!" Lady Dingguo was shocked. "Family disgrace should not be made public. How can you report to the police?"
Whether it was a noble family or an ordinary official, if something happened in their family, they would have to stay inside their houses and there was no reason for them to speak out.
Xu Jinhuan spread his hands: "Someone has to clear my name! Ye Shen can't, mother-in-law, you can't, then only the officials can."
"I can do it. Please call the person back quickly." Lady Dingguo said anxiously.
She urged, "Hurry up."
Xu Jinhuan suppressed the smile on his face and said expressionlessly:
"Mother-in-law, I don't believe you. At the beginning, you patted your chest in front of my mother and said that Ye Shen was a good man. But not long after we got married, you came up with a true love and hinted that I should accept her.
How can I trust you like this?"
Lady Dingguo looked embarrassed for a moment and forced an explanation: "It was an accident. I didn't mean to do that."
Xu Jinhuan sneered twice.
"Have you had enough trouble?"
Ye Shen's angry voice rang out.
Xu Jinhuan looked at the wife of Duke Dingguo and raised his eyebrows: "Ye Shen is here, you decide for me!"
Lady Dingguo Duke looked at Xu Jinhuan deeply and felt that this daughter-in-law was different. She was not as obedient as before, but now was not the time to think about this.
She turned to her son and said:
"Qin Yue's miscarriage was an accident. You can't wrongly accuse the princess."
"I don't believe that apart from her, anyone else would put safflower in Yue'er's food." Ye Shen said coldly.
Xu Jinhuan looked at the wife of Duke Dingguo and said helplessly: "See, we have to report to the police!"
Lady Dingguo pinched her son fiercely, winked at him frantically, and said, "I said no, no, so hurry up and apologize to the princess."
Ye Shen pushed his mother's hand away and said indifferently, "Go ahead and report it to the police. I haven't wronged you."
Lady Dingguo took a deep breath.
How could she give birth to such a confused son?
He actually wrongly accused the princess, fearing that he would not be able to get a good reputation in front of the emperor?
Hua Nian, who was collecting debts, came back and looked at Xu Jinhuan, wanting to say something but stopping himself. Xu Jinhuan waved his hand and said, "Just say it if you want to. There are no outsiders here."
Hua Nian said in frustration: "Princess, I didn't do my job well. The Second Madam only returned the gold and silver jewelry she borrowed, and said that the borrowed books were lost. The Fourth Madam only returned the jewelry, and the Fifth Madam returned nothing."
"Mother-in-law, look, those ladies are your daughters-in-law, and they can't afford to pay it back. Isn't it you who should pay it back? Otherwise, it won't sound good if it gets out." Xu Jinhuan looked at the wife of Duke Dingguo.
Lady Dingguo: "Is it necessary for a family to be so calculative?"
"Brothers should settle accounts clearly. If mother-in-law had not refused to pay for them, I would have had no choice but to report to the police again." Xu Jinhuan sighed.
Lady Dingguo gritted her teeth and said, "I'll pay it back! I'll pay it back! Isn't that enough?"
"Huanian, how much is it?" Xu Jinhuan asked.
Hua Nian said happily: "Converted into the money for the books, the total is 200,000."
The wife of Duke Dingguo dropped her jaw in shock: "So many!"
She looked at Huanian with suspicion. This girl wouldn't make false reports, would she?
Hua Nian puffed out his chest and said, "I have the account book here. If the old lady doesn't believe me, she can check the account."
"Can't you afford to pay back such a small amount of money?" Xu Jinhuan asked in surprise.
Didn’t they say that the original owner looked down on them?
Now she clearly looks down on me!