"You're going to, you're going to kill me?" Madam Li was horrified. "I just went to the store to get a few things, how come it turned out that you're going to kill all my clans, oh my god..."

"Mom, let's go quickly. When the emperor's edict comes down, we will all go to the guillotine, and then we will all be finished." Li Qingyue grabbed Madam Li's arm, intending to abandon Li Qiulian and escape back to Yan State with Madam Li.

Chunsheng came back and heard what Li Qingyue said. He said with a sullen face: "Do you think you can rest easy if you flee back to Yan State? You forgot that we are all Yan people. Now Yan State and Chen State are one country. No matter you go to Yan State or Chen State, once the imperial decree of killing nine clans is issued, no matter how you flee, you can't escape the law. Now you can only return the things you took back from the shops of the noble families, or you can pay the original price for the things you took away. Only in this way can we calm down the matter. Otherwise..."

"What else?" Li Qiulian asked.

Chunsheng looked back at Li Qiulian and said, "My Lord has asked me to tell Madam that if these accounts cannot be settled, the noble families will jointly accuse the He family of taking bribes. According to the account books in my Lord's hand, the family will be confiscated and the entire clan will be executed."

Mrs. Li was so scared that she collapsed on the ground with a very ugly face, because she had a large account under her name. In addition, Li Qingyue also had accounts under his name, and all these accounts of favors were counted on He Yuanzhou's head. It was just that Mrs. Li did it behind Li Qiulian's back, so Li Qiulian was completely unaware of the accounts between Mrs. Li and Li Qingyue.

The things that Li Qiulian took away were all stored in her own warehouse. If she needed to fill in the accounts, she could still take them out and fill the big hole.

Li Qiulian pulled herself together again: "Go ask the adults for the account book, I will go to the storeroom to sort out the things and return them. If there is not enough or has been used, I will use my dowry to fill in the gaps."

Li Qiulian regained her sanity and finally realized that she had committed a crime.

At first, she was still hoping for the best, thinking that He Yuanzhou was a close minister of the emperor, and that the emperor would never ask about what he did. She also absolutely trusted He Yuanzhou, and that as long as He Yuanzhou did not take the initiative to investigate those aristocratic families, the emperor would not take the initiative to provoke those aristocratic families. She had no idea that things would develop like this, and that the emperor actually asked He Yuanzhou personally to investigate several major aristocratic families of Chen State.

But when Chunsheng handed the account book to Li Qiulian, Li Qiulian was stunned.

She only looked ahead and not behind.

Now that she looked at it more carefully than before, she found that there were many more items in the account book. Some of the things she didn't even care about were added to the account book.

She didn't acknowledge it.

"I have never taken any gold."

She felt that she was now an official's wife, and it would be tacky to be covered with gold ornaments.

But the account books at the back contain either gold or silver hairpins, and these things can be exchanged for a lot of silver.

Chunsheng said, "Madam, why don't you wait and see?"

The wealthy families kept very detailed accounts, and they kept clear records of who went to the store and took what.

When Li Qiulian turned to another page and saw the names of Madam Li and Li Qingyue, her eyes widened bigger than bells.

"You, you, you guys..." She raised her finger and pointed at Madam Li in disbelief, then raised her finger and pointed at Li Qingyue, and then roared like a lion: "You took away so much gold, silver and jewelry without telling me."

Mrs. Li and Li Qingyue knew that a disaster was imminent, and they no longer dared to speak to Li Qiulian as confidently as before.

"Yes, yes, I...when I went to the store, they all recognized me, so I...ordered a few things." Mrs. Li said guiltily.

Li Qiulian was furious.

These are not a few things, these are a few pages of things.

"Where are those things?" Li Qiulian knew that it was useless to blame her, so she slowed down her tone and asked, "Everything must be returned. Mom, go and hand over the things. Everything must be returned."

"Things..." Madam Li glanced at her son and said, "I used them to help your brother pay off his gambling debts..."

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