Kick the scumbag, she brought space and married the national teacher to rebel

"Snapped--"

Xiao Zhengde didn't care about the prince being here anymore. He slapped Lan fiercely and asked angrily, "Tell me! What did you do with all the money you borrowed?"

Lan was caught off guard and fell heavily to the ground.

"Mother!" Xiao Yurong was shocked and quickly helped Lan up. "Father, why did you hit mother? Don't you know the situation in our mansion? Mother has been in charge of the household affairs for so many years. Even if she has no merits, she has worked hard. How could you hit her..."

"Shut up!" Xin Wuhou was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, and he slapped her in the face, "You are not a good person either. Don't think that I don't know about the dirty things you have done?"

"Father, you hit me?" Xiao Yurong covered her face and looked up at him, tears of grievance flowing out instantly, "You actually hit me for an outsider?!"

A young man helped her up. This was Su Mao, her husband, whom she had been married to for only half a year. He was the second son of the Minister of Works. The man had a square appearance, but his eyes were darting around, and it was obvious that he was not a good person.

"Yurong, you are a married woman now, so you'd better not interfere in your mother's family affairs. Let's go back first!" Su Mao pinched her waist secretly.

Xiao Yurong understood instantly and looked heartbroken, "Since my father hates me so much, I will never come to this house again."

"Father-in-law, Yurong is not in a good mood, so I will take her back first!" Su Mao said goodbye, supported Xiao Yurong and was about to leave.

As soon as he turned around, he was stopped by Qiu Ling with his sword.

"What are you going to do? Get out of here!"

"No one can leave here until my dowry is counted clearly. Anyone who dares to disobey my order will be punished with twenty military sticks." Chu Feiyan said coldly.

Xiao Yurong's face turned red with anger. "Why are you stopping me from counting your dowry...ah!"

"Be bold!"

Before she could finish her words, Qiu Ling kicked her in the knee, causing her to fall to her knees.

"What crime should you be punished for speaking wildly in front of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Princess, with no regard for hierarchy and law?"

"It seems that you have turned a deaf ear to the princess's words. Come here! Anyone who dares to offend me will be dragged out and beaten with twenty military sticks." Chu Feiyan ordered.

"Yes!"

Two guards walked in from outside the door and dragged Xiao Yurong out.

"You can't hit her!" Lan kowtowed to the Crown Prince and Chu Feiyan repeatedly, "Your Highness, Rong'er is weak and can't be hit with a stick! Please spare her!"

Long Shirui walked to the main seat, lifted his robe and sat down, "It seems that there is a bigger supporter behind the Xinwu Marquis Mansion. It even ignores me and Princess Min'an?"

The Xiao family's faces suddenly changed, and everyone knelt down except the old lady.

"Please forgive me, Your Highness the Crown Prince!" Xiao Zhengde was ashamed, "It was all because of my poor teaching that this evil girl was able to speak so recklessly and offend the Crown Prince and the Princess."

Long Shirui looked at the Xiao family, tapping his fingers on the table.

Not hearing his silence, Xiao Zhengde and his son did not dare to plead any further.

Soon, the sound of "pa pa pa" of beating was heard outside the door, accompanied by Xiao Yurong's screams.

"Ahhh!"

Su Mao was so frightened that he lay prostrate on the ground, not daring to say a word. Every time the board hit, his body trembled, as if he was the one being beaten.

After a while, after twenty beatings with military sticks, Xiao Yurong was dragged back and thrown to the ground.

Su Mao helped the person up and saw that her face was pale and her eyes were ferocious, but no matter how much hatred he felt in his heart, he dared not say a word.

"Can we talk about things now?" Chu Feiyan glanced coldly at the person kneeling on the ground.

"Xia An, take the IOU to Madam Xinwuhou and ask her to confirm it. If there is no problem, ask her to return the money."

"Yes!" Xia An walked up to Lan and handed her the IOUs. "Madam Xin Wuhou, please!"

Lan took the IOUs and looked at the signatures of herself, the old lady, and her daughter, as well as the red handprints on them. Her hands trembled slightly.

She also didn't expect that they would take so much silver from Chu Feiyan.

Seeing that the silver was so easy to get, she thought it would be a waste not to take it. When she took it, she never thought about returning it. She only signed the IOU to let Chu Feiyan get the silver quickly.

If she dares to mention the money, let her son divorce her. This trick works every time.

The old lady stood aside with a cane, her head hung, completely devoid of her previous arrogance.

"Hurry up and take the silver. The princess doesn't have time to waste here." Xia An urged.

Lan's face turned pale. The entire mansion might not be able to come up with 5,000 taels of silver. What could she use to pay back?

"Princess, you know that I lent you the money because I had no money. Now you suddenly want to go back, and the mansion can't take out so much money at once. Can you give me more time..."

"Snapped--"

Xiao Zhengde slapped her in the face again and yelled angrily, "Hundreds of thousands of silver in two years, where did you spend all that money?"

"It's all spent on the mansion's expenses!" When Lan saw him getting angry at her, she hated him even more.

She married such a useless man who doesn't care about anything. She is the one who takes care of the entire mansion inside and out. Anyone who needs money just asks her for it. Now that something like this has happened, she is blamed.

Seeing his parents about to quarrel, Xiao Changchuan pulled them apart and advised: "Father, there is no point in getting angry now, let's find a way to make up the money!"

"What method are you thinking of? That's hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, not just a few dozen taels!" Xiao Zhengde was so angry that he beat his chest and stamped his feet.

The Marquis' Mansion had long been in deficit, and even if all of the Xiao family's properties were sold, they would still not be able to raise enough 130,000 taels of silver.

"You must have given all the money to your gambling brother!"

Hearing this, the Xiao family members all looked towards the Lan family.

Lan had a younger brother who was addicted to gambling. His father, who had once served as the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture, was afraid that Lan was so unpromising and would affect the future of his other sons, so he drove him out of the house and severed the father-son relationship with him.

"He is my biological brother, what's wrong with giving him some money to spend?" At this point, the Lan family could no longer deny it.

"Mother, you are so confused!" Xiao Changchuan shook his head in disappointment.

In his previous life, he didn’t know that his mother took away so much silver from Chu Feiyan and gave it to his gambling uncle. Fortunately, the gambling uncle was beaten to death in half a year.

Otherwise! I wonder how much more money my mother would have to steal to give him?

He took the IOU and the account book and said, "Please rest assured, Princess. I will find a way to make up for the money, but please give me a few days."

"I can give you some time. I'll give you half a month!" This time it was Long Shirui who spoke up. "You must make up all the money by then."

"Yes." Xiao Changchuan felt the IOUs were heavy in his hands.

In his previous life, he had never worried about money. To him, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were just a little bit that slipped through his fingers.

At this time, Dongmei came back and reported: "Princess, the dowry has been brought in, but there are many things missing."

"Oh?" Chu Feiyan glanced at the Xiao family and walked out, "Let's go take a look."