Chapter 106: The counterattack of the main Xiao Family

August 25, 2023Ai Hrist

In another courtyard of the General’s Mansion.

Ge Chunru was helping Xiao Yuanshi squeeze his shoulders.

She never let her servant girl do these things, she has to do them herself.

One was to impress Xiao Yuanshi. After all, she had worked so hard to serve his old mother all day, and then she still specially served him. He must feel distressed.

Secondly, she doesn’t want the maidservants to get attached to Xiao Yuanshi and accidentally become a concubine. He can only belong to her alone.

“Master, can we send them back in a few days?” She really couldn’t bear it anymore, and she was on the brink of collapse.

That old woman asked her to serve her every day before dawn, and she also asked her to serve dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, which made her lose weight recently.

Xiao Yuanshi also felt sorry for his beloved wife: “Be patient for a few more days. In 2 days, I will go out and borrow money to maintain the expenses of the general’s mansion.”

“Then complained to the outside world, that after they came, they managed the general’s mansion into a mess, and the money was spent.”

“After everyone knows their true colors, I will let people lure my two nephews to gamble, force them to borrow money from the loan sharks, and make them unable to pay back the interest rate.”

“I will let those loan sharks make a fuss in the capital and come to our door every day to collect debts.”

“After they are tortured by the loan sharks, the old lady and others have nowhere to ask for help. I will take action again and deliberately borrow money to help them pay back. Then I will use this chance to send them back to the village in a legitimate way.”

At that time, he can say that the old lady and others failed to educate Dalang and the others. They have to go back to the village to discipline them.

In the capital, no one would say he was unfilial but instead sympathized with his family and nephew.

Xiao Dalang, the eldest grandson, was the lifeblood of the old lady and the old man, so he can be sure of it.

It can be said that Xiao Yuanshi was ruthless, and even more ruthless than the best products of the main Xiao family.

The idea of luring his nephews to gamble and borrowing usury was unacceptable.

He liked and loved Ge Chunru, so he didn’t hide it when he did these things in front of her.

Ge Chunru was delighted: “Thanks for your hard work, husband!”

Once Xiao Dalang and others go back, she will bribe people to continue to lure the other party to gamble.

Then her people encouraged the old lady and others to pester Xiao Hanzheng for money so that Xiao Hanzheng could not study hard.

Xing Hong didn’t escape. She doesn’t believe that the other party ran away with someone.

So she asked her father’s loyal servants and cronies to check it out.

They discovered that Xing Hong was sold by the old lady.

Moreover, not only did Xiao Hanzheng not die, he was also awakened by a village girl.

They discovered the problem of the medicine, and then sent the doctor to jail.

Xiao Baili didn’t get married and was buried with her husband-to-be. Xiao Hanyi didn’t fall into the water. What’s more, that peasant woman was still alive and living well.

This made her secretly hate it.

If Xiao’s family didn’t come to the capital, even if Xing Hong was sold, she would still have a way to get the other party to entangle Xiao Hanzheng’s family.

But the old lady and others came to the capital, and the servants who came back said that it was very likely that Xiao Hanzheng’s wife had instigated it.

This made her hated Shi Qingluo.

It was just a pity, dealing with the old woman and others gave her a headache now, and she doesn’t have much energy to pay attention to the affairs of Xiaxi Village.

In her heart, even if Xiao Hanzheng was admitted to Juren, he would not be successful. It was not difficult to beat him back to his original life when the time came.

Anyway, as long as that woman lives, she will be a thorn in her heart. If she can’t stop the other party from coming to the capital, she’d better die.

Now, she only thought of how to get rid of the old lady and others.

This time, when she sends the main Xiao Family away, she will send two maidservants to accompany them back. She didn’t believe that she couldn’t kill that peasant woman’s family.

The two didn’t know that the old lady and the others decided to counterattack, otherwise, they would vomit blood.

After breakfast, the next day, Xiao Laoda and Xiao Laosan took their two sons and went to the Yamen of the Capital to report the case.

They said that the general’s mansion was robbed. The valuables and money in the warehouse were stolen.

The account books were also missing. They begged the Yamen to investigate strictly.

Before they went to the capital, Shi Qingluo strictly reminded the old lady to take careful note of all the expenses.

If not, that woman might dig a hole for them to jump into regarding this matter.

The old lady kept it in her heart, so Xiao Dalang would write down all the money they spent, while the others also took note of it.

Right now, the old lady has an account book in her hand, so she is not afraid to be checked at all.

Those two beasts must have transferred those valuables and money.

As long as the Yamen investigates this matter, they will definitely find out about it. She’ll wait and see what those two beasts say.

If she doesn’t give those two beasts some lessons, they will think they are easy to bully.

They wanted to get rid of them, but there was no door.

The Yamen initially didn’t want to take care of this matter, but after Xi Rui heard about it, he ran to his grandmother and acted like a baby. He tried to clean up the general’s mansion.

He still remembered the previous enmity, and he couldn’t wait to see the dog in the general’s mansion bite the dog.

Old Madam Xi asked his son to come forward and put pressure on the Yamen to let the case impartially.

In addition, recently Xiao Yuanshi has been a bit of a showman in the court. If he was pleasing to the eye or didn’t get into conflict with them, how could they not get involved at this time?

So this matter became so big.

The Yamen sent people to the general’s mansion to investigate the thieves who stole the valuables and money in the warehouse.

Xiao Yuanshi happened to have something to do in the suburbs outside the capital. He didn’t know that the Yamen went to the general’s mansion to investigate.

Ge Chunru decided to serve the old lady’s lunch before catching up on sleep. But then heard the maidservant’s report that the Yamen sent people to the General’s Mansion to check for thieves.

Her face turned extremely ugly: “What’s going on?”

The maidservant girl replied cautiously: “The First Master and Third Master went to the Yamen and reported that the money and valuables in the general’s treasury had been stolen.”

“So they came to investigate.”

Ge Chunru almost fainted when she heard this: “What? What are those people doing?”

If this matter breaks out, it will be embarrassing.

The valuables and money in the warehouse were removed by her.

And now, they were all placed in her younger brother’s yard. If they found out, their siblings would not be able to explain clearly.

What about her reputation?

So she immediately got up and walked quickly.

The old lady and others were leading the Yamen officials to the warehouse.

When Ge Chunru arrived, the old lady had just handed over a ledger to the other party.

“I’ve been the housekeeper for less than a month, and this is the money we spent after I became the housekeeper.”

“Do you believe that such a big general’s mansion will just have so little money and valuables?”

Old Lady Xiao had a worried face as she wiped away tears: “I was afraid that someone would steal our things, the general’s mansion would not be able to make ends meet, and my son and daughter-in-law would be wronged in terms of food and clothing, so I thought I should report to the Yamen.”

“Report early and recover things early.”

Because of the involvement of various parties, the official sent by the Yamen was the court lieutenant who was very good at investigating cases.

So he flipped through the ledger: “This amount is impossible.”

“Not long ago, his majesty, the Emperor gave General Xiao a thousand taels of gold, and some valuables, which are not in the warehouse or the old madam’s account book.”

“The thief is so bold that he even dares to steal what is bestowed by the emperor.”

“Don’t worry, old madam, we will investigate this matter up to the end.”

When Old Lady Xiao heard the official’s words, she scolded Xiao Yuanshi and Ge Chunru several times in her heart.

Sure enough, they were two beasts! The Emperor gave one thousand taels of gold? But she had never seen even a single ingot of gold.

So she said with a lot of emotion: “I trust the lord’s ability to handle the case. I will trouble the lord to recover our money and valuables.”

Although those money and valuables were hidden, as long as they were recovered, they would become hers. Anyway, she was now in charge of the house.