Xiao Yuanshi left the yard and called the housekeeper over.

He asked: "Has anyone from Prince Jin's Mansion been here?"

The butler was Xiao Yuanshi's confidant who had followed him from the General's Mansion. He replied respectfully: "When you were out one day, the concubine of Prince Jin's Mansion actually sent a maid to bring you a housewarming gift, and it was Madam who received you."

"After they left, Madam put the gifts from Prince Jin's Palace into the treasury. They were not anything rare, just a few pairs of porcelain and some fabrics."

Since this was a back-to-back exchange, and the deputy governor was very busy those days, he didn't take the initiative to say anything.

Xiao Yuanshi thought for a while, "You secretly bring the personal maid next to Madam."

He emphasized, "Don't let Madam find out."

The housekeeper was stunned, but he didn't ask any more questions: "Yes!"

After the housekeeper left, Xiao Yuanshi looked through the account books in the house. It was a bit fishy, ​​but it only amounted to a few hundred taels of silver.

It seemed that Ge Chunru had gone down to live in a private house.

He also felt a little disgusted because of this. Ge Chunru was really too petty for doing this.

But it was only a few hundred taels of silver, and he didn't bother to pursue it.

After a while, the housekeeper secretly brought Ge Chunru's most trusted maid in.

The maid saw Xiao Yuanshi trembling and said, "I've seen the deputy governor."

Xiao Yuanshi said: "Raise your head and look at me."

The maid trembled again and raised her head carefully to look at Xiao Yuanshi, but her eyes seemed uneasy.

Xiao Yuanshi's heart skipped a beat, this was obviously a sign of guilty conscience.

"Let me ask you, King Jin's concubine asked someone to give her a housewarming gift. Apart from the things that were stored in the warehouse, what else was there?"

As soon as these words came out, the maid's expression became even more panicked.

Xiao Yuanshi released all his power and patted the table, "Say, or I will sell your whole family to mine."

When the maid heard this, she was so frightened that she immediately knelt down.

She thought that the deputy governor already knew about it and did not dare to drag down the whole family.

So he said tremblingly: "Also, there is another box, which was kept by Madam alone."

Xiao Yuanshi held the account book tightly, "Are there any banknotes in the box?"

The maid was flustered, and the deputy governor found out.

So she didn't make excuses, "Yes."

Xiao Yuanshi's anger rose up, "How many banknotes are there?"

The maid replied truthfully: "Fifty thousand taels of silver."

Xiao Yuanshi's eyes shrank, "Madam, did you put this money away, or did you use it for something?"

The maid felt Xiao Yuanshi's anger and was so frightened that she trembled, "Madam kept ten thousand taels for herself, and the remaining 40,000 taels were sent to the capital for Concubine Ge Fang."

"Bang!" Xiao Yuanshi couldn't hold it back, stood up and kicked the chair towards the maid.

The chair hit the maid hard.

She let out a scream and was knocked unconscious.

Xiao Yuanshi opened the door of the study and walked quickly towards Ge Chunru's yard.

At this moment, Ge Chunru and Ge Chunyi had just finished their meal together and were sitting and chatting.

Ge Chunyi began to complain about how many crimes he had suffered before.

Hearing this made Ge Chunru feel extremely distressed and resentful towards Xiao Yuanshi.

"Bang!" Suddenly the door was kicked open.

Just as Ge Chunru was about to get angry, she saw Xiao Yuanshi walking in with a livid face.

She thought Xiao Yuanshi was instigated by the old Xiao family and Shi Qingluo again.

In addition, I just heard my brother complain, and I feel angry.

She did not stand up, but sat and looked at him with a somewhat sarcastic tone, "The deputy governor is so majestic!"

Seeing her like this, Xiao Yuanshi laughed angrily, "Not as powerful as you, the deputy governor's wife."

He glanced at Ge Chunyi and Niu with cold eyes, "You two, get out."

Xiao Yuanshi had been on the battlefield, and his aura was very fierce, with a bit of evil aura.

So both Ge Chunyi and Niu were shocked.

Seeing him like this, the two of them didn't dare to ask any more questions and walked out the door dejectedly.

As for Ge Chunru in the room, neither of them paid attention.

Ge Chunyi knew how much Xiao Yuanshi liked and cared about his sister, so he didn't think what the other party would do.

After I came out, I felt very angry.

Xiao Yuanshi actually told them to get lost just now, which was really too much.

But they didn't have the guts to go in and question them, and even when Xiao Yuanshi personally asked them to leave, he could only take Niu back to the room.

After Ge Chunyi and the others left, Xiao Yuanshi turned around and closed the door.

Ge Chunru couldn't help being startled when she saw him like this.

"General, what's wrong with you?"

"Did the old lady and Shi Qingluo say something to you about me again?"

Xiao Yuanshi didn't answer and asked instead: "The concubine of Prince Jin's Mansion gave me a silver note as a housewarming gift. Why didn't you tell me?"

Hearing this, Ge Chunru panicked and even got startled.

How did Xiao Yuanshi know?

"This, this is a housewarming gift. I saw you were very busy those days, so I forgot to tell you."

Xiao Yuanshi already knew about the banknote, and she couldn't admit it.

Xiao Yuanshi stared at her coldly, "What about the banknotes?"

Ge Chunru's eyes flashed, and she quickly showed an expression that seemed like she had made a mistake, "Part of the banknote was lost."

Xiao Yuanshi squinted his eyes and asked: "Lost? How could the banknote be lost?"

Ge Chunru was a little afraid of Xiao Yuanshi like this, and did not dare to tell the truth, "I put it in two purses and took them to Chunyi. Who knew that on the way back, the one with 40,000 taels of silver notes

My wallet has disappeared."

"I suspect it was someone from the Xiao family who took it. After all, Chunyi's thirty thousand taels were stolen by them before."

"But I dare not tell you, for fear of affecting your relationship with the old man and the old lady."

She thought to herself that since Xiao Yuanshi knew about the money, it was most likely revealed by Prince Jin's Mansion.

Xiao Yuanshi was so angry that his face turned ugly, "Ge Chunru, you are really good."

"He kept telling lies, and actually framed the 40,000 taels he gave to your sister directly on my family."

"Why, in your eyes, our old Xiao family members are all like thieves?"

His chest was full of anger, "Don't forget, Ge Chunyi's 30,000 taels, but you secretly misappropriated the public accounts of the General's Mansion and gave it to him."

He really didn't expect that Ge Chunru was not only so courageous, but also took so many banknotes from Prince Jin's Mansion without telling him, and sent the banknotes to Ge Chunyi, and actually falsely accused his parents and others of stealing them.

The people in their family look like thieves, are they the only ones who are good?

For the first time, he discovered that he didn't seem to understand Ge Chunru's wife.

If he hadn't asked her maid in private just now, she might have fooled her.

Ge Chunru's eyes widened, obviously she didn't expect Xiao Yuanshi to know that she sent the 40,000 taels to the capital for her sister.

Then he couldn't help but panic.

But when she thought about it, it didn't matter to her. After all, she had borrowed 20,000 taels from her sister before, and it didn't matter if she paid back double the amount.
Chapter completed!