The prince wanted to die, and the doctor raised her hand and slapped him

"Jing, Jingzhao Prefecture?"

Zhu's face turned pale and her eyes were full of fear. She had never even been to the county government office, so how could she dare to go to Jingzhao Prefecture?

Seeing Zhu's shrinking back, Su Qinning slowly adjusted the hem of her skirt and gave her a reassurance, "Of course I won't let you go alone."

Zhu asked expectantly, "Miss, will you go with me?"

"Qianqiu, you go with her."

Su Qinning stood up and said, "My father is a first-rank marquis, a close minister of the emperor. The governor of Jingzhao Prefecture is only a fourth-rank official. I dare not disrespect my father."

Hearing this, Zhu immediately started thinking about it.

Su Yinyue is a concubine's daughter who was raised outside for more than ten years. She got married today, and Marquis Yongning only showed up once. It seems that she and Marquis Yongning do not have much father-daughter relationship.

Her biological mother was a maid who came with the Marquis' wife as a dowry, and her indenture contract might still be in the Marquis' wife's hands.

Her biological mother is of low status, and her father, the Marquis, doesn't care about Su Yinyue. If such a person is not a soft persimmon, then what is a soft persimmon?

With the support of Miss Su and her identity as her adoptive mother, wouldn't it be easy to control Su Yinyue?

If she stayed in the palace as Su Yinyue's adoptive mother, she and her son would be able to reach heaven in one step!

Zhu's heart beat violently a few times, her eyes filled with greed, "I will just follow the young lady's orders."

Su Qinning smiled with satisfaction, "Qianqiu, go with her."

After saying that, another maid, Wang Qing, stepped forward and helped Su Qinning out of the pavilion.

The breeze brought bursts of floral fragrance, and the bright red Impatiens stretched out their petals wantonly, the colors were so gorgeous that they attracted butterflies to stop.

Su Qinning raised her hand and plucked a blooming Impatiens balsamina. "Wangqing, crush it with alum and use it to dye my nails."

"Yes."

Once she finishes painting her nails, she will know what happened to Su Yinyue.

The prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture is the third prince's man, and Prince Yu is ranked fifth among the princes of the royal family. The two are natural competitors.

Now that there is an opportunity to damage the reputation of the Prince of Yu, the Jingzhao prefect will not let it go.

In the emperor's heart, Prince Yu Jian is the only one among all the princes who has been crowned as a king. This little thing has little impact on Prince Yu, but it can make Su Yinyue feel uncomfortable.

It just happened to be what she wanted.

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Royal Palace.

"Princess, this is Hibiscus Courtyard."

After dealing with the matter of Aunt Yan coming to borrow money, Cangsong Courtyard fell into silence again. Ye Bai received Jiang Zaiyu's instructions and sent Su Yinyue to Furong Courtyard.

Su Yinyue sat in the main seat, and the six maids below her came forward one by one and introduced themselves.

After a moment, she replied, "I've made a note of it. Bring me a set of casual clothes."

"Yes."

After changing her clothes with the help of the head maid Yuxiang, Su Yinyue asked again: "Can my betrothal gifts and dowry be put in the storehouse? Take me there."

She has never forgotten her original intention of marrying into the palace. Now she has to treat Prince Yu and cannot inherit the palace's estate, so she has to make plans for her future life.

These betrothal gifts and dowry were her first pot of gold.

Yu Xiang, "Princess, I have specially cleared a storeroom for you to store your dowry and gifts. The key to the storeroom is in the hands of Nanny Qin. Go get it."

A quarter of an hour later, Su Yinyue took the key and went to the warehouse alone.

The warehouse is very large, with excellent sunlight shining through the paper windows. Furniture and ornaments made of precious wood, as well as hundreds of large and small wooden boxes tied with red silk, are clearly visible.

Su Yinyue closed the door and casually opened a wooden box with the word "Su" engraved on it.

The wooden box was filled with brocade, woven with the plum blossom pattern that was recently popular in Beijing.

She estimated the size of the wooden box and thought, "If I make all this brocade into clothes, I can't wear them all. It won't be good if they fade and become old. I'll take some out to make clothes for my maids."

It is not only a reward, but also a way to win people's hearts.

After making the decision happily, Su Yinyue just picked up the top layer of brocade when she realized something was wrong.

The second layer of fabric was actually linen!

When I touched it, I found it was extremely rough and not even the lowest-ranking servants in the mansion would wear it.

"I want to see how much of my dowry has been replaced!"

Su Yinyue sneered and took out all the cloth in the wooden box. To her surprise, this ordinary linen cloth only had three layers, and the rest were all gravel and grass clippings.

More than twenty wooden boxes were opened in succession. Only a thin layer of valuables was found on the top, while the rest was filled with stones and soil.

She even found two thick booklets in one of the wooden boxes. When she opened them, they recorded the specific amounts of the betrothal gifts and dowry.

"The betrothal gift from the Prince Yu's Mansion was 80,000 taels of silver, three shops, and two houses, all of which were taken away..."

Su Yinyue squeezed the booklet until it creaked, her knuckles turning white from the force, and she almost squeezed out a few words from between her teeth, "Withhold the betrothal gift and take the dowry, Aunt Yan, you are doing very well!"

The replacement marriage was the result of the Yongning Marquisate taking advantage of a loophole in the imperial edict, and they were the party in the wrong.

Judging from the booklet, in order to make up for this, her dowry was 20% more than the betrothal gift from the Prince Yu's Palace.

The most valuable items were 90,000 taels of silver, five shops, and three houses.

Now all these things are gone.

Su Yinyue's targeting of Aunt Yan was not without purpose.

During the month she lived in the Marquis's mansion, Aunt Yan first asked the Marquis's wife Liu Wan to exempt her from paying respects on the grounds of teaching etiquette.

Then they locked her up in a room and made her read the Book of Virtues and Admonitions for Women, saying that she did not know etiquette and would bring disgrace to the mansion if she went out.

At that time, Su Yinyue was only thinking about recuperating the original owner's weak health and was not in a hurry to go out, so she followed Aunt Yan's arrangement.

But sometimes I would wonder why Aunt Yan was ordering the maids to go in and out and dig the soil.

At that time, Aunt Yan's explanation was that she was planting flowers. Now thinking about it, it was not planting flowers at all, she was simply using soil to transfer her betrothal gifts and dowry!

"The total amount of cash is 170,000 taels, 20,000 taels for the shop and 5,000 taels for the house..."

Su Yinyue paced back and forth in the room. "A total of 355,000 taels. One tael of silver is equivalent to 600 yuan in purchasing power. Converted into modern prices, it is--"

"Two hundred and thirty-three million!"

Su Yinyue made a sharp explosion sound, "Why are there so many?"

She knew that Aunt Yan would be stingy, but she never expected that she would eat in such an ugly way.

The cash and property deeds were only the most valuable part. Judging from the soil filling the wooden box, she had also taken a lot of brocade, silk, jewelry, and antiques!

All added up, it’s far more than 2.13 million!

"My heart hurts so much!"

Su Yinyue sat on the ground, holding her chest with her hands, and couldn't help but put on a mask of pain.

"If the original owner were here, given her personality of valuing family affection, she would probably be willing to give the betrothal gifts and dowry to Aunt Yan. Without the original owner, there would be no rebirth for me..."

Su Yinyue took a few deep breaths and made up her mind, "I want to get the 2.13 million back!"

That’s 2.13 million, not 2.13 yuan!

Hesitating for one more second would be disrespectful to 2.13 million people!