Li Xiaoshu watched for a moment before saying, "Tell me, I'm two years older than you, so I'm your clan brother."

Li Xiangzhong said, "I know what you are here. Tell me quickly if you have something to do, and let me go if you have nothing to do!"

Li Xiangzhong's family is not strong, but he is also a member of the Presbyterian Church in the clan. In the past six months, Li Xiaoshu has given away many strange flowers and plants.

"It's okay." Li Xiaoshu said, "Let's see how you're doing recently."

“I’m having a good life.”

"By the way, I heard some rumors." Li Xiaoshu said, "The other couples in the clan think that your thirteenth house does not participate in the family business and there are no martial arts practitioners in the family, but they can get hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year. They are very dissatisfied. They have complained to the head of the family many times in private, and I wonder what you think?"

Li Xiangzhong said with a cold face, "Why do they say they care about me? I'm sharing money according to the clan's orders, and what's wrong with them?"

Li Xiaoshu sighed, "I'm afraid that people's words are terrifying. Once or twice, the head of the family may have no idea, but this kind of thing cannot stand the rumor. Two days ago, the three houses discussed and were preparing to adjust the monthly payment allocation according to the contributions of each house."

Li Xiangzhong paused in his hand, put down his pruning tool, looked at him and said, "Do you mean to starve our Thirteenth House to death?"

"That won't be." Li Xiaoshu said with a smile, "Recently, I have been ordered by the head of the family to check the accounts of the clan over the past few years, and found that you still have some tricks, brother."

Li Xiangzhong frowned and said, "What does it mean?"

"At the beginning of last year, a No. 7 pawnshop transferred 300,000 taels of silver to the Lingnan Sword Sect. If you guessed correctly, this silver was used to assassinate Li Qingcheng, right?"

Li Xiangzhong said angrily, "I don't have this property under my thirteenth house!"

Li Xiaoshu smiled, "As far as I know, Pawnshop No. 7 is indeed not under your name, but under your brother-in-law."

"There is no such thing as slandering people!"

"Don't worry about denying it first. If you don't believe it, you might as well go to Mrs. Gui for verification."

Li Xiangzhong was anxious and turned into the room. Then he heard the quarrels in the room. He heard his wife shouting, "Li Xiangzhong, I have been married to you for thirty years. Can you support our family with just your monthly money? You are unpromising, and I can't buy some things for our three daughters? If it weren't for the third master's support, wouldn't we go to Beicheng to beg for food?"

When Li Xiaoshu heard this, he smiled without saying a word. He sat down and poured a cup of tea, and watched it happen. Sure enough, not long after, Li Xiangzhong walked over with his face hanging down.

"It's all your idea!"

Li Xiaoshu said, "You know, you thirteen of you can't bear to bear the charge of assassinating the heirs of the family head! However, I just found out about this matter and haven't reported it to the family head yet. Everything is easy to discuss."

Li Xiangzhong said, "I can report this to the head of the family."

"Report? How do you say it? The industry belongs to you? The money is transferred from the pawnshop? Is it true that the human evidence and physical evidence are there, who will believe you?"

Li Xiangzhong gritted his teeth and said, "What do you want to do?"

Li Xiaoshu said, "When the elders' meeting after the ancestor worship ceremony, vote according to my wishes, and I will help you cover up this matter."

"How to cover it up?"

"The pawn shop No. 7 is managed by your brother-in-law, but in name, it is still the property of our three-bedroom house. As long as you do what I say, I will destroy the contract signed by Mrs. Gui."

Li Xiangzhong said, "Master Three, you are very ambitious!"

Li Xiaoshu smiled, "All of them are children of the Li family. Whoever sits in the seat of the head of the family will receive your own monthly money. What's the difference?"

“We’re different.”

“Actually they are the same.”

...

The Li family has 18 pawn shops in Jinling City. The No. 7 pawn shop is on Xuanwu Street in the east of the city. Because it is close to the imperial palace and six ministries, many precious utensils in the palace and mansion will be circulated here. Among the eighteen pawn shops, business is the best.

Xiao Jinyan walked into the No. 7 pawn shop and saw four or five court men in the shop, and five or six men were busy. "A broken teapot is damaged, and it is dead, three taels of silver!"

If there is life, death. If there is life, it can be redeemed. If there is death, it means there is nothing.

A young servant dressed up and whispered, "This is an object in the palace, why is it worth hundreds or eighty taels?"

Chao Feng sneered, "We dare not accept the items in the palace. You can go to other places to ask!"

The servant said, "Don't go ahead, at least I'll have to go to the place. I'll give you ten taels!"

The court said, "Two taels of silver."

The servant seemed to be very short of money, and he was entangled with the Chaofeng for a while, and finally made a deal for two or three cents. The servant took the silver and didn't even ask for the ticket, so he left.

Xiao Jinyan looked at the teapot. It was exquisitely crafted and it was indeed an object in the palace. It was worth 1,800 taels. After entering and leaving, several hundred taels were recorded. I couldn't help but sigh that the money from Li Qingcheng's family was too easy to make.

He was commissioned by Li Qingcheng to investigate the matter of 300,000 taels of silver. Li Qingcheng was afraid of being alarmed, so he could not blatantly check the accounts. Xiao Jinyan first came to investigate, thinking that after nightfall, he would sneak into the pawnshop, so he came to check the spot first.

There was no one in front of him, so he stood up and took out a jade pendant from his arms. This jade pendant was taken from Li Qingcheng last night. He was about to be dismantled. Before he could reach the high counter, he saw someone rushing over Xiao Jinyan and saying to Chaofeng, "It's the seventh day of the day today, I'll get the silver."

The man was in his thirties and had a sloppy step. He looked like he was overly drunk.

One day, he took a silver bag from the shelf and handed it over. The man weighed it, "How come it's only two hundred taels?"

"This is the 13th Master of Yue to spend a lot of money, so he specially reminded you that he would give you less!"

The man said, "He uses money but not money, what's the matter with me? If I don't care, I'll just want five hundred taels, otherwise you won't do this business!"

"Aren't you making unreasonable trouble?"

"Unreasonable?" said the man, "When I asked me to help you get things done, that's not what you said. Now that the matter has been exposed, I'm going to leave the city! Otherwise, I'll go to the master's house to complain!"

Hearing the words, the shopkeeper in the shop said, "Take it to him!"

Chaofeng added another silver note, and the man was so arrogant that he walked out.

Xiao Jinyan noticed that the shopkeeper went to the back cabinet and told several friends, "When he leaves the city, he will do him."
Chapter completed!