Noble Lady

Ciwenyuan, main hall.

Ji Minrou was forced to kneel on the ground by her two mothers. Her carefully combed hair was now messed up. Her white clothes and the pretended weak look made her look particularly ridiculous at this moment.

She actually tried to struggle, but the two mothers used to do manual labor and were very strong, so they held her arms tightly and didn't loosen at all.

The more she struggled, the more pain she felt.

Finally, he knelt here like this.

"Madam, I am grateful that I have fulfilled my mission." Xiaocao bowed slightly.

Liu waved her hand and asked her to get up and sit aside.

Ji Minrou finally raised her head at this time, her hair was slightly messy and her eyes were red.

Before he could open his mouth, tears started rolling down his cheeks.

"aunt……"

"Don't be in a hurry to call me aunt." Liu suppressed her temper and asked Mother Huang to bring the two sets of account books to her.

Ji Minrou took a glance and her hair stood on end. "Aunt, that's not the case. Listen to me..."

"Over eight thousand three hundred taels of silver, where did you take it all?"

According to the fake accounts, He Ruyi's wedding cost more than 13,000 taels of silver.

In fact, because Ji Minrou sold inferior goods as good ones, and the money was a mess, she only spent more than three thousand taels, less than four thousand taels.

There is a difference of more than 8,300 taels, which is an astronomical figure for ordinary people.

Ji Minrou shut up.

She looked at Liu, then at the people present, and finally, she used her usual ability to pretend to be weak, kneeling forward and taking two steps sadly.

"aunt……"

"Say!"

With just one word, Liu ended her chance to continue pretending to be weak and pitiful.

Ji Minrou pursed her lips in grievance, "Aunt, Rou'er is only thinking about my cousin."

"Ruyi is a girl who is going to get married. No matter how much dowry you buy for her, it will be hers in the future. The people coming to the wedding banquet are all relatives and friends. What the second wife's old lady said before is too extravagant, so Rouer..." cut corners.

Mrs. Liu was so angry that she laughed, "So, I should thank you for thinking about our He family?!"

"No, no, Rou'er and Auntie will always be a family! Rou'er also grew up in the He family, so it's only right for her to think about the He family!"

Liu sneered in anger. She grew up in the He family, so it was her duty to think about the He family!

"Mother Huang, please invite the person out."

Ji Minrou's heart skipped a beat when she heard this. No way, her aunt had discovered that she was outside...

Mother Huang didn't look at Ji Minrou, but went around to the back and asked the dentist to come out.

When the broker saw Ji Minrou, he excitedly called her Madam Ji.

"You, what nonsense are you talking about? Madam Ji, I don't know you."

Ji Minrou still had a glimmer of hope in her heart. As long as she didn't admit it, even if this broker was there, he couldn't force her to be convicted.

Just hold on until my cousin comes back.

"Mrs. Ji, it was you who approached our brokerage firm. You generously gave me the deposit and even promised to reward me with five hundred taels after the deal was done. That's why I ran around and did so many things for you."

"Now that the final payment for the house hasn't arrived yet, and the owner is in a hurry to leave Kyoto, will you pay the balance, or should I return the deposit and sell the house to someone else? You have to come up with a plan. You can't let the house be held up because of you alone."

"How is that possible? I clearly looked for my uncle..." Ji Minrou blurted out subconsciously.

After he finished speaking, he realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly waved his hand, "I said the wrong thing, I didn't buy any house, aunt, please believe me."

The broker looked melancholy. "Mrs. Ji, please stop playing tricks on me. If you refuse to pay the balance and refuse to give the house to someone else, and the owner leaves Beijing, not only will you not get your money back, but you won't get the house either."

"How is that possible?! Didn't I say that I've already given you the money and we're just waiting to go to the government to sign the marriage contract in a few days?" Ji Minrou finally couldn't help but jumped up.

The dentist had to tell her the truth cruelly, "I don't know who you asked to do this, Madam Ji, but our dentistry firm definitely didn't receive the money."

"If you don't believe me, you can go to our office and see that the owner is still waiting there."

"How is it possible? How could it be...my uncle..." Ji Minrou was dumbfounded.

Things are completely different from what she imagined. Shouldn't she have acquired the house by now?

Upon hearing this, Liu flew into a rage, "Ji Minrou, are you still going to lie now?"

Ji Minrou was startled and quickly knelt in front of Liu. "Aunt, please believe me this time. I really gave the money to my uncle. I didn't know that he didn't take the money to the pawnshop. I, I really don't know where he went."

Liu brushed her hand away and said, "Listen to what you are saying."

Ji Minrou opened her mouth and found that she couldn't express herself clearly.

Mrs. Liu sighed, "Mother Huang, take my visiting card and go personally invite Uncle Ji and Madam Ji."

Since the matter involved Mrs. Ji's younger brother, they had no choice but to invite her over.

Then he instructed Xiaocao, "Go to the Madam and ask her to come over. Tell her that it was I who said that."

Xiaocao hesitated for a moment, "Madam, since the day she returned from Jishan Hall, she has been bedridden. She may not..."

"Just go if I tell you to!" Liu interrupted her sternly.

The grass had no choice but to agree and left with the spring flowers.

But they all knew in their hearts that the lady would definitely not get involved in this mess.

I finally got it out. I'm not a fool, so why am I still getting involved?

"Aunt, things are not what you think, Rouer..." Ji Minrou panicked and tried to explain.

Liu shot him a cold look, "Shut up! You have your time to speak!"

Ji Minrou knelt there feeling aggrieved. If you didn't know her, you would think she had suffered a great injustice.

Liu thought about it and asked someone to call Shi Tou over.

"What do you want, old lady?"

"Go and call your parents back and tell them there's something urgent."

Shi Tou looked at Ji Minrou kneeling on the ground, and thought that the old lady had found out that she and He Minzhi often hung out in the study. He was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat. He didn't dare to ask any more questions and left quickly.

Halfway through, he realized that maybe it wasn't what he thought?

But he left without any hesitation.

At this time, Xiaocao also arrived at Furongju.

When an acquaintance came to the door, Xue Chenyu asked Yuzhu and the others to let the person in.

"Madam, I'm sorry to disturb your rest." Xiaocao knelt on the ground, blaming himself.

Xue Chenyu didn't pretend to be in bed in front of her, and sat down at the round table with confidence.

"Did the old lady ask you to come?"