Wangye's honeypot is lost again

Chapter 257 [257] Losing a title

Chenghua Gong returned to Chenghua Gong's mansion with a dark face, and when he saw the gate without a door, he was so angry that he almost fainted.

"It's unreasonable, it's unreasonable!"

Yes, no one expected that after breaking down the gate of General Wuwei's mansion, Bai Xingkuan would tear down the gate of Duke Chenghua's mansion.

And this news, before Chenghua Gong came back, had already spread to most of the imperial city, which added fuel to today's bustle.

Speaking of the people in the imperial city today, they really have a sense of satisfaction from eating melons until they are full. From the morning until the end here at Duke Chenghua's mansion, Bai Xingyu's one-day itinerary is what the people are most concerned about. At the same time, it has become their greatest joy today.

"Your Excellency is here, and I'm sorry to welcome you!" No matter how annoyed he was outside, when he saw Bai Xingxuan, Duke Chenghua held his breath and saluted, and his attitude was actually quite good.

Duke Chenghua said that he has the title of duke, but in fact he has long been far away from the center of power. Otherwise, the large Duke's mansion would not be able to survive by relying on the dowry of the concubine.

It's not that Duke Chenghua doesn't want to give the dowry, but he can't and won't!

"Okay, now that everyone is here, you can speak directly if you have something to say." Bai Xingkuo clapped his hands, and looked at Geng Shouli first, "You are the plaintiff, so you can speak first."

Geng Shouli ate some food, his face looked better, but he was still pale and weak, "Father pressed my mother's dowry and refused to give it. I begged repeatedly, but only gave less than one percent. In desperation , I can only go to the Beijing Government Yamen to file a complaint."

Geng Shouli said that he took out a roll of paper from the innermost clothes, "This is my mother's dowry list, and behind it is the dowry list my father has given me, which is less than one percent compared with it."

Zhao Momo stepped forward to take it, Chenghua Gong saw this scene, and said angrily: "Nie Zi, where did you get the dowry list?"

He had already destroyed those lists, how could such a villain exist!

Geng Shouli smiled weakly, and the smile was full of sarcasm, "Grandpa handed it to me with his own hands. Seventy percent of the items can be traced to where they came from and where they went. Do you still want to cover it up?"

Cheng Hua looked at Geng Shouli in disbelief, and denied it in a very firm tone: "Impossible! Your grandfather can't do this! Only you can be so ignorant and nonsense!"

As the so-called family ugliness should not be publicized, Geng Shouli's grandfather Zheng's family, although said to be an imperial merchant, still needs the protection of the Duke's Mansion, how could it be possible to mess around with Geng Shouli!
The sarcasm in Geng Shouli's expression became even more obvious, "Is this impossible? For so many years, you have regarded the Zheng family as a money bag, and at the same time looked down on the Zheng family. , The Zheng family is also a big family that needs to be raised, they don't want to be exploited by a heartless white-eyed wolf like you, what's wrong?"

"Nonsense! How much protection has the Duke of Chenghua's family given to the Zheng family over the years, you ignorant son, dare to curse me, you, I will kill you!" Chenghua's face turned red and white, and he didn't know it was out of anger. Yep, still pissed off.

"Blessing? Your blessing is to hollow out the Zheng family and let the Zheng family make confessions for you endlessly, but when something goes wrong with the Zheng family, not only do you not help, but you choose to make trouble?" Geng Shouli thought it was very ridiculous. How much heart do you have to feel that after doing such an unkind thing, the Zheng family will still turn to him!
Although the Zheng family is an imperial merchant, it is not without rivals. A few years ago, a major event happened, and the whole family was almost destroyed.

And at such a critical time, the son-in-law Cheng Hua, not only did not help, but took the opportunity to take a lot of money from the Zheng family, which made the situation of the Zheng family worse. At that point it's gone!

And it was precisely because of this that Zheng's grandfather would support Geng Shouli in wanting to return the dowry, because they had already seen through Cheng Hua's nature as a white-eyed wolf!

Bai Xingkuan had also read the list at this time, although it was a bit small when it was rolled up, it was full of densely packed small characters.

"Tsk!" Bai Xingkuang couldn't help but think of his dowry, the two hundred thousand taels seemed a bit less compared to this.

Bai Xingkuang asked curiously: "How much are these objects worth?" She had to refer to them.

Geng Shouli really knew this, and replied: "Grandpa said that more than [-] years ago, the total value of the dowry should be around [-] taels. If it is now, it would be about [-] taels."

"Excellent." Bai Xing gave a thumbs up, she felt that it is still necessary to work hard to earn money.

A smile flashed across Geng Shouli's pale face, Miss Bai was really different from himself, it was very interesting.

Seeing that the two were chatting happily, Duke Chenghua had no choice but to intervene: "Your Excellency, don't believe the lie of this rebellious son. I just married my wife, how could there be so much dowry!"

Bai Xingkui asked Mrs. Chenghua again not long ago, "He said yes, but you said no, how about we make a bet?"

Hearing this, Mrs. Chenghua's heart skipped a beat.

Bai Xingxuan pointed at Geng Shouli, and continued: "If that lady's dowry is worth [-] yuan, you can give him one million taels back. If it's not worth it, he won't take any of it. How about it?"

After Bai Xingkuan finished speaking, he added, "The current valuation shall prevail."

Duke Chenghua's complexion changed, and his guilty and controlling appearance was exactly the same as Mrs. Chenghua's not long ago.

Bai Xingkuan wanted to laugh, "Don't look at me so guilty. If you agree, I'll send someone to investigate. If you don't agree, just show me the half a million dowry in front of me, and I'll be fine." Go back and report to the Empress Dowager."

Duke Chenghua still wanted to deny it, but when he thought of the evidence that he had never cared about before, he had no choice but to give up. In the end, he could only grit his teeth and said with an ugly face: "There is not so much money in the mansion, even if It's forcing me to death, and I can't get it out!"

Bai Xingkui took a look at the resplendent Duke's Mansion, a bit disbelieving, but seeing Duke Chenghua's reaction, it didn't look like he was lying.

Bai Xingkuan thought for a while, "Of course it won't kill you, your life isn't worth half a million taels of silver."

Duke Chenghua was furious, but he didn't say anything, he just had a broken expression. Anyway, he has no money, even the emperor can't force him to take it out!
Bai Xingkuan continued: "This matter is not without a solution. I heard that you are a duke with a high title, or you can value it at [-] yuan and compensate your son."

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(End of this chapter)