105: Stamp seal
"Yunhe...do you have any evidence?"
Shen Lu is in his fifties, but due to martial arts training, his figure is not out of shape but has strong muscles. He just stood there with a straight face, which was quite scary.
At least Aunt Meng and Shen Qingxi's hearts skipped a beat.
"Of course there is evidence, but...it still depends on whether dad really wants it."
Shen Yunhe stood next to the old lady, and while speaking, his eyes lightly swept across the faces of Aunt Meng and Shen Qingxi.
Before Shen Lu could speak, the old lady couldn't wait to shout:
"Yes! How can I not? I want to see how capable Aunt Meng is, and use the money from the Duke's Palace to supplement the Meng family!"
The old lady was so angry that she banged her walking stick. This matter had been in her mind for a few days, so she decided to take advantage of today to find out.
"Grandma, please come with me."
Shen Yunhe took the old lady's arm, and they both walked out.
Shen Lu:???
He is the head of the family in the Duke's Mansion. What's going on with these two people? Don't they treat him as a human being? He has no right to take a look at the account books?
"Master..." Aunt Meng felt that she was about to die, but Shen Lu's eyes never fell on her.
"Dad...please find a miracle doctor to save my mother!"
Shen Qingxi had no choice but to kneel down in front of Shen Lu.
Shen Lu was indeed brought in by Shen Qingxi to support their mother and daughter, but Shen Yunhe's words were serious, and Shen Lu looked at Shen Qingxi coldly.
He was extremely irritable inside!
"Invite a miracle doctor? Did you ask for a miracle doctor at your request? Why do you think you can invite a miracle doctor if you are a father?"
Shen Lu threw up his sleeves and walked away angrily.
A severe cramping pain hit Aunt Meng's heart, and she fainted before she could take a breath.
"Mother!"
Shen Qingxi rushed forward. This was the first time she saw her mother in such embarrassment and pain.
"Shen Yunhe! If I can't kill you, my surname is not Shen!"
Shen Qingxi gritted her teeth with hatred, but she could do nothing but order someone to carry Aunt Meng back to the yard.
Shen Qingxi sent her servants to ask for a doctor, while she herself went to find Shen Yunhe.
Shen Yunhe originally thought that she would be in Su Huairou's yard, but she didn't expect to find them in her father's study!
Shen Qingxi was furious. She clenched her fists tightly and stayed outside the yard for a while. After forcing herself to calm down, Shen Qingxi put on a decent smile and walked closer to the study step by step.
"This is unreasonable! In the first quarter of last year alone, ten thousand taels of gold were removed from the Duke's Mansion!
That’s ten thousand taels of gold!”
The old lady was so angry that her whole body was shaking, she even threw away her crutches, and her heart ached while holding the account book.
Shen Lu's face was even more ugly. No wonder the financial situation of the Duke's mansion has been declining in recent years.
Then Meng also said that there were successive disasters, the tenant farmers lost their harvests and were burdened by taxes, and the shops in the city suffered losses year after year.
In recent years, it has been entirely dependent on the Meng family's industry in the imperial city to drive these industries in the Guogong Mansion, so that the Guogong Mansion can have enough food and clothing.
"What does this mean?"
Shen Lu asked Shen Yunhe, pointing to a line of small words at the end of the account book.
Shen Yunhe raised his eyebrows and was amused by Shen Lu's appearance: "Isn't that what it means literally? Over the past ten years, the money and shops and fertile land that have been handed over to the Meng family by Aunt Meng have
Converted into money, the total is more than 50 million taels of silver."
Shen Qingxi had just arrived at the door when she heard these words.
More than 50 million taels of silver? How is this possible?
Did my mother really give all this to her uncle? A few days ago, she wrote a letter to her uncle, asking him to help collect some dowry, and she would definitely return it to him in the future.
But the uncle said that Meng didn’t have any extra silver!
"Rebellion! This is absolutely outrageous! What on earth is Aunt Meng going to do? Give the Duke's palace to the Meng family?"
The old lady fell down on the chair and banged the table again and again.
Shen Lu's face turned the color of pig liver with anger. He held the thick account book tightly. Next to the account book were the false accounts that Aunt Meng had made over the years.
Comparing the before and after, he was so angry that he almost died at the age of fifty.
"Dad! Grandma! Did you just rely on the basic accounts that Shen Yunhe produced to convict my mother of corruption?
Why is it true that Shen Yunhe said that her mother went to Meng's to get some silver? Does she have evidence?
How many times has my mother begged my uncle for the Duke's residence in recent years?
You don’t know anything, so you’re just slandering her here!”
Shen Qingxi's eyes were filled with tears. Her mother was still ill, lying on the bed in pain and wishing she could die.
But what about father?
He actually believed what this bitch Shen Yunhe said and doubted his mother!
Shen Qingxi couldn't bear it. Her mother was the mistress of the backyard. Why did everything change when Shen Yunhe came back?
"Hmph! You and your white-eyed wolf girl kiss the same nostril and talk!
There is irrefutable evidence, so why are you telling lies here?"
The old lady now sees that Shen Qingxi really has eyes rather than nose, and as soon as she sees her, she thinks of her mother who eats everything in!
I felt very disgusted in my heart.
"Where does the irrefutable evidence come from? Grandma, you made the judgment? Or did Shen Yunhe give it to me?"
Shen Qingxi prides herself on being extremely intelligent and her words are clear and coherent. As long as her father still has a shred of sense, he will listen to her and ask Shen Yunhe to hand over evidence!
But she underestimated Shen Yunhe!
"Hmph! See for yourself!"
Shen Lu waved his hand and slammed the account book in his hand towards Shen Qingxi.
Shen Qingxi was accidentally hit in the face by the account book, and her cheeks immediately turned red.
She only stretched out her hand and touched it lightly to make sure there was no broken skin, then picked up the account book and looked at it carefully.
Seeing this, Shen Qingxi fell to the ground in fear!
The account book given by Shen Yunhe actually has the seal of the Ministry of Accounts!
Each page of this page has passed through the eyes of the Ministry of Household Affairs...
"No... no way, this seal must be forged by Shen Yunhe... How could my mother do such a thing?"
Shen Qingxi shook her head and fell to the ground, crying and unable to believe what she saw.
"Presumptuous! What nonsense are you talking about? Forging official seals in private is a serious crime!
Do you want to implicate the entire Duke's palace and send your mother-in-law, the Meng family, to prison together?"
Shen Lu was furious and slapped Shen Qingxi hard on the face.
Snap!
With one click, Shen Qingxi was stunned!
"Dad...you, you hit me?"
Shen Qingxi burst into tears. When had her father ever done anything to her when she was so old?
Shen Lu looked at his already red palm. He was a martial arts practitioner, so he slapped him with all his strength!
But he still had a cold face:
"Shen Qingxi! In the past, it was your father who indulged you too much, and that's why you were brought up to be as careless as you are now!
Get out! Get out of here!"
Shen Qingxi staggered up. She didn't blame her father, but she blamed Shen Yunhe for her hatred!
Her eyes were red and her chest was rising and falling violently!
Chapter completed!