Favoring the concubine and killing the wife? She divorced the concubine and lived with her concubine

Sun Shaohua took two servants and went to Sun's yard. He asked Sun a few questions and found nothing unusual, so he stayed for lunch.

After lunch, Mrs. Sun took Sun Jiye to take a nap. Sun Shaohua thought that nothing would happen during the day, so he left a servant to watch the door and took another servant to look somewhere else.

Even though the Sun residence wasn't that big, searching it was still tiring. There was a side courtyard, two abandoned courtyards, He Xiaoniang's former residence, Fang Qingqing's yard, the garden, the backyard, the compound, and the servants' quarters. After a thorough search, it was already dark.

Chi Yu received orders from Sun Shaohua to stay on guard at least tonight, so he has not returned yet.

After a few rounds of wandering, Sun Shaohua emerged from Xiao Lan's courtyard, this time having dinner with Xiao Lan and Fang Qingqing. Xiao Lan, somewhat worried about not finding anyone yet, invited Fang Qingqing to stay the night. Sun Shaohua also planned to explore the Sun family's courtyard once more, and if that didn't work out, he'd stay the night there, just to have some support.

This time he was followed by three servants. The servants who had searched the yard before followed him at night.

They soon arrived at Sun's yard, but as soon as they got outside, they felt something was wrong.

Normally the old lady was served by several maids, and the yard was bustling with activity. But now there was no one to be seen. The lights in the yard were not on, and only some lights were on in the room with the door closed.

A servant reached out to stop him, "Master, something seems wrong."

Sun Shaohua nodded and took a step back, not daring to push the door rashly.

"Mother! Is it time for your dinner?" Sun Shaohua deliberately shouted loudly into the house.

There was silence in the room for a while, and Sun Shaohua called out again, "Has mother gone to bed? Where are the maids?"

Finally, this time Sun replied, "I'm asleep. No need to greet you. Go back."

"Son, go in and take a look and then leave!" Sun Shaohua walked closer to the closed door.

"Stop looking, Jiye has fallen asleep, don't wake him up!" Sun's voice came again, this time her voice was deliberately lowered, as if she was really afraid of waking something up.

"Okay, then the son will leave!" The few of them did not move, but stood there and listened quietly to the movements in the house.

After a long while, the door opened a crack, and Jiye poked his head out to see that Sun Shaohua had not left, and there were three servants with him. He shouted "Wow" and slammed the door shut. Then, he heard rustling sounds in the room.

"Butler Wang, Mother Yu, please don't hurt my mother!" Sun Shaohua knew that there must be someone inside, and it was very likely that Sun was still helping them hide.

"They... just came to bid farewell to me. That little bit of silver is just a drop in the bucket for the Xiao family. Why do you have to force them?" Sun's words made Sun Shaohua not know how to respond for a long time. His mother might have become senile and confused. How could she give her family's money to these evil slaves?

"Mother, are you still speaking for them at this time? Butler Wang hasn't taken out the account book yet. We don't know how much he has embezzled!" Sun Shaohua was a little angry, his eyes fixed on the door.

"Mother Yu grew up with me, and I can't bear to see her suffer! Just consider that little bit of money as her severance pay, so just give it to them!" Sun's voice trembled, as if she was really begging Sun Shaohua to give Mother Yu a way to survive.

"They've taken all the money, what can I give them?" Sun Shaohua finally couldn't help but yell. He had never seen the real account book, let alone the money that was embezzled!

"..." The room became quiet again, no one spoke. After a long time, Sun Shaohua could no longer bear it and ordered the servant to kick the door open.

There was no Yu Mama or Wang the housekeeper inside. Only Mrs. Sun was holding Sun Jiye, shivering on the couch. Several maids were tied up beside her, each of them was crying. In the corner lay the servant who was left to guard the door, with blood flowing from his abdomen, and it was unknown whether he was dead or alive.

The room was in a mess and a wooden box was opened and thrown on the ground.

"Where is the person?" Sun Shaohua looked around, and the servants also searched but didn't see him.

"Master, it seems like he ran away through the window!" A servant looked out the window, which led to the garden and various courtyards.

"Who injured this servant? Steward Wang? Wang Yun?"

Sun had just had a knife held to her neck by Wang Yun, and she was so frightened that she couldn't speak clearly.

"What exactly do they want? Why don't they leave after they clearly escaped? They are still staying in the house?" Sun Shaohua was puzzled. Looking at the injured servant, his worries grew heavier. How dare Wang Yun use such a heavy hand?

"You want a life contract?" He looked at the box on the ground? He was at the end of his rope, so why would he still care about a life contract?

"No...no!" Sun stuttered, let go of Jiye, touched the teapot on the table, and took a sip from the spout without any care.

"They want the warehouse key." Sun finally caught her breath and said.

"The key to the treasury? The gold and silver they seized wasn't enough? They still want the key to the treasury?"

"All the money they confiscated was hidden in our vault! They felt that the outer house was not as safe as the Sun residence, and they were even more worried about being targeted if they sent people to guard it. So they simply put all the money in our vault. I had given the key to Mother Yu before. That day, you were in the hall and they searched for the key, and now they want it!" Sun said all in one breath, looking at Sun Shaohua, "Did you hide the key?"

Sun Shaohua paused. He had put the key in the study, where there was a small partition hidden away. No one except Chi Yu knew where it was. "It's well hidden!"

"That's good..." Sun's eyes turned and looked at Sun Jiye, who was huddled beside him with fear in his eyes.

"Don't be afraid, grandson. The bad guys are gone. Your father is here to save you!"

Sun Jiye nodded, looked at Sun Shaohua and called him "Father". Sun Shaohua touched his head, but still felt something was wrong.

"How many people are there?" Sun Shaohua felt that Wang Yun couldn't be so bold as to be alone with Butler Wang and Mother Yu.

"Five... and two I don't recognize. Those two ferocious-looking guys were the ones who stabbed me with knives." Sun didn't dare to look, but just pointed at the fallen servant.

"Why did they run away when they didn't have the key?" It looked like this wasn't going to be a peaceful night for this household. If it were just Housekeeper Wang, Mother Yu, and Wang Yun, it would be easy to deal with. But these two supposedly vicious strangers were probably Wang Yun's hired accomplices, desperate men willing to risk human life for the sake of money. He hesitated as to whether he should report them to the police.

"I told them that you gave the key to Xiao Lan! So they are all going to Xiao Lan's place now. Let's go, let's go..." Sun jumped off the bed, holding Sun Jiye in one hand and Sun Shaohua in the other.

"Let's go quickly while they are looking for Xiao Lan!" Sun said as she went to the door, but one of her arms could not move. She turned around to look at Sun Shaohua who was standing still.

"Let's go! It's too late if we don't leave now! If they can't find the key at Xiao Lan's, they will come back looking for us!" Sun said anxiously, but still couldn't pull Sun Shaohua.

"That's your daughter-in-law! Your granddaughter is still there?" Sun Shaohua looked at Sun in disbelief.

"What are you doing! Why do you care about them now? You have never cared about them before, so why are you caring about them now?" Sun also got angry and pushed Sun Shaohua away with one hand.

"If you hadn't insisted on meddling in everything, we would still be living a carefree life! You're still drinking in Wangchunlou now! Instead of being here, looking for housekeepers and maids! What's wrong with deducting some money from them? The Xiao family will have to give it back even if you deduct it all! If you can't even give such a small amount of money, what are you doing as the Sun family's daughter-in-law!" She was so angry that she pulled Sun Jiye and said, "Let's go, grandson. If your father won't leave, we'll leave! We won't stay here and wait to die!"

Sun really pulled Sun Jiye away without even looking back. She knew her own son's character, and knew he would follow her out soon. Out of sight, out of mind. Life would go on as usual no matter who died!

Sun Shaohua looked at his mother's back, feeling like something had struck him hard. He turned away, a flicker of darkness in his eyes that vanished in an instant. He knew now wasn't the time to dwell on this.

He sent someone to quickly untie the maid and told them to catch up with the old lady and escort her out to report to the police.

In the end, he had to report to the police, but he couldn't care less. At worst, he could just ask Xiao Lan to deny being poisoned. He wasn't dead anyway, right?

While thinking about this, Sun Shaohua took the remaining two servants and hurried to Xiao Lan's yard!