Regent, the princess you found is a treasure

Today is a day off. Prime Minister Su went to Aunt Zhao's Ningcui Pavilion early the day before. He got a headache when he heard Zhang's ghostly howling and hid himself early.

After spending the whole night in the land of gentleness, Prime Minister Su did not attend court today, so he slept until the morning when Mao came, and Aunt Zhao helped him change clothes and wash up.

This Aunt Zhao was a lovely girl, with a beautiful face, skin as white as jade, eyebrows as thin as silk, red lips and white teeth. Prime Minister Su pinched Aunt Zhao's face with an unsatisfied look. Aunt Zhao saw the maid next to her pursed her lips to hold back her smile, so she pushed away Prime Minister Su's hand and said in a tender voice: "Prime Minister, stop making trouble, this dress is not put on yet?"

While the two were flirting, the official Su Quan ran into the yard in a panic, tumbling and crawling. "Master, it's bad, something big has happened! The mansion's warehouse is empty."

This morning, the butler Su Quan went to the storehouse to take the daily expenses to the account office as usual. When he opened the door of the storehouse, he thought he was dazzled. He rubbed his eyes, closed them, and opened them again. The storehouse was empty! Except for a wooden box containing the house deed and the land deed, the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, plus the silver notes of nearly one million taels of silver, various jewelry, silk, and antiques were gone.

Su Quan was paralyzed with fear, and the four guards who had just changed shifts at the door in the morning were also shocked. When they came to hand over in the morning, they checked that the key to the warehouse was locked. How come the warehouse was empty?

It was Su Quan who reacted first and hurried to Ningcui Pavilion to find the master.

"What do you mean empty?" Prime Minister Su asked absentmindedly, holding up his hand. Aunt Zhao was helping him get dressed.

Seeing that the master still didn't understand, Su Quan shouted again: "Master, I deserve to die. The warehouse, the warehouse in the mansion, has nothing left except the land salary and the house deed. It's empty. The warehouse was robbed."

What? The warehouse was robbed? Prime Minister Su didn't care whether he had put on his clothes or not, and ran straight to the warehouse, and Su Quan hurriedly followed.

When Prime Minister Su arrived at the warehouse and saw it, he was furious and flew into a rage. "Useless! Useless! I kept a bunch of you useless people. There are so many of you, but you can't even guard a warehouse."

Then he kicked Su Quan again and said, "Go report to the authorities! Go report to the authorities and ask for Lord Pei Yuan of Jingzhao Prefecture!"

Su Quan quickly got up and went to Jingzhao Prefecture to report the case.

The Prime Minister's Mansion was robbed again? It was only two days since the last time. Last time, Madam Su's room and kitchen were stolen, and this time the entire storeroom was stolen!

Jingzhao Prefecture is the department responsible for the security of the entire capital's citizens. Now that the Prime Minister's Mansion has been robbed one after another, Pei Yuan did not dare to be negligent and quickly took people to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

When he arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion, he had someone guard the gate and only allowed people to enter but not leave. Then he went to pay his respects to Prime Minister Su.

Prime Minister Su saw Pei Yuan indignant and said, "The bandits are too rampant now! This time, I would like to ask you to catch the bandits, recover the losses for the Prime Minister's Mansion, and restore peace to the people of the capital."

Pei Yuan hurriedly said: "This is all within my responsibility. Please rest assured, my lord, I will do my best to investigate."

The next step was to inspect the crime scene warehouse according to the procedure. The warehouse key was intact, and no signs of outsiders sneaking into the entire prime minister's residence were found. The guards and servants who patrolled last night, as well as the four guards who were on duty in the warehouse at night, were questioned about the shift handover in the warehouse, etc., and nothing unusual was found.

Could it be an internal thief? Pei Yuan wondered. There were three keys to the storeroom, one each in the hands of Prime Minister Su, his wife Zhang, and the housekeeper Su Quan, and they all carried the keys with them.

Prime Minister Su was at Aunt Zhao's place last night. Not to mention that he stole his own things, he was so busy all night that he didn't even want to leave the room. Moreover, his key was always hanging on his belt, and his pants were always on the bedside table, and now they were hanging around his waist!

It was even more impossible for Mrs. Su Zhang, because her face was poisoned and it was painful and itchy. They were afraid that she could not help scratching it, so her hands were tied behind her back for the past few days. She stayed in the room all day, served by her personal Nanny Wang, who would apply ice to her face from time to time to make her feel better. The key to the warehouse was also with her at all times and she did not move it.

Is that the butler?

Su Quan was Prime Minister Su's distant nephew from the countryside. Prime Minister Su did not believe that Su Quan would dare to embezzle, but he still had to ask according to the rules.

Su Quan was so frightened that he fell to his knees, kowtowed repeatedly, and cried, "Master, it's not me. I wouldn't dare to do it even if I had ten courages. Xiao Cui was in my room all night and I never left. By the way, Xiao Cui can testify for me."

This is a matter of life and death for his life. For the sake of his life, the affair with Xiao Cui is nothing.

Xiao Cui was a third-class maid serving in the old lady's courtyard in the mansion. The old lady went to the temple to calm her mind, and some maids who were left behind cleaned the courtyard. They usually had nothing to do, and because she was in the old lady's courtyard, the lady didn't assign her any other work. Unexpectedly, she ended up getting into Su Quan's bed.

Prime Minister Su glared at Su Quan fiercely. Originally, it was nothing for these servants to do dirty things. There were no such things in any big house. But today, Master Pei was here, which was embarrassing for him.

Xiao Cui was brought up and knelt on the ground trembling. She admitted what the housekeeper Su Quan said.

Prime Minister Su was so angry that he had them taken away and each of them was given twenty lashes of the cane.

Su Quan, a man, could withstand twenty strokes of the cane, but Xiao Cui would probably die.

Sure enough, the servants reported that Xiao Cui was dead after only fifteen hits, and Prime Minister Su had her thrown into a mass grave outside the city.

After struggling for most of the day, there was still no clue, so Lord Pei suggested that Prime Minister Su had to search the mansion. Because there was no trace of an outsider, if it was an internal thief, he believed that so many things and silver must still be in the mansion.

Except for Prime Minister Su's study and bedroom, Madam Su Zhang's courtyard, and Second Miss Su Qingrou's room, all other places in the mansion were not spared.

When the Ningcui Pavilion of Aunt Zhao was searched, Aunt Zhao was very aggrieved and spoiled to Prime Minister Su, and was unwilling in every way. Prime Minister Su could only comfort her, saying that it was just a process and it was okay. Only then did Aunt Zhao give up.

When Zhang heard that the treasury had been robbed and more than one million taels of silver were missing, she fainted immediately. Nanny Wang quickly pinched her Ren Zhong acupoint and pressed her temples. Only then did Zhang wake up. Her face was painful and itchy, and she quickly asked Nanny Wang to put ice on it. She was still cursing, saying that Aunt Zhao was a vixen who had seduced the Prime Minister all day long. Not only had she been fined for half a year's salary, but she couldn't even guard the treasury in the mansion. She thought that she might as well die under the crotch of Aunt Zhao, that vixen. Nanny Wang was so scared that she quickly covered Zhang's mouth.

Not to mention that, the mansion was searched thoroughly inside and out, causing everyone to panic, but in the end nothing was found.

Just when everyone was at a loss, Su Qingrou suddenly said to Prime Minister Su: "Father, there is still one place we haven't searched."