The doctor came to check Liu's pulse and found a happy pulse.
This luck is really good!
An Tai was happy and promised that if she could restrain her children in the future and not let them cause trouble again, he would straighten her up.
Not only did Liu's family stay calm, but they also provided Qianru with a lot of conveniences in a friendly manner.
An Tai felt comfortable when he saw that the family was getting more and more harmonious, and couldn't help Liu's soft touch on the pillow, so he handed over the housekeeping rights to her again.
This was only about half a month.
Qianru didn't know how to take care of the house, nor did she want to take care of it, so she was happy to leave it to Mrs. Liu.
And Ms. Liu was not as vulgar and incompetent as she thought.
Mrs. Liu is good at writing in small regular script with hairpin flowers, and records her accounts carefully and neatly, so that no one can find any mistakes. She is also quite good at dealing with her servants.
After handing over the housekeeping rights, she only had one request, which was to be able to go out for a walk alone.
After the previous incident at the execution ground, the court has concluded the case at Anhou Mansion.
An Tai had nothing to worry about, and asked Mrs. Liu to add more moon silver to her so that she could buy some new clothes and have fun.
And Mrs. Liu gave it generously.
She quietly went to look at the edge of Yizhuang to make sure that no officers or soldiers were approaching.
The old man guarding the village said that the unclaimed corpses inside were buried in nearby mass graves.
She whimpered and ran away. All she could see were low mounds of earth, not even a tombstone.
After experiencing what happened last time, she tried hard to control her emotions and did not dare to ask anyone rashly. She searched for it in the graves by herself.
Finally, a low tombstone was discovered among the mass graves, with the tomb of Sinhou Anxingdao engraved on it.
However, before she could cry a few times, Shangguan Yuan appeared quietly behind her, scaring her so much that she covered her face and ran away.
Although he didn't chase him, she was still panicking.
It wasn't until some days later that An's house received the good news that An Tai had been promoted, from serving the censor to censor Zhongcheng, that her anxious heart fell to the ground.
Mrs. Liu wanted to hold a grand banquet to celebrate, but An Tai turned out to be an eighth-rank official with a pitiful salary, which was only enough to support the family. Although he was promoted, his life was still short, and he had not received the new salary yet, so he was really stretched.
But within half a year, he was promoted from the eighth grade to the fourth grade. This is a great honor.
An Tai also wanted to enjoy the scenery, so he allowed Mrs. Liu to be extravagant and held a banquet.
But only colleagues from the government office were invited, including Shangguan Yuan.
There were only eight tables in total, but people made a big fuss and reported it to Hu Yong, the imperial censor, saying that he had secretly received a gift of thirty thousand taels.
Hu Yong didn't believe that he was such a person, so he gave him a day's time limit and asked him to go home and find out. If his family members took bribes and handed it over to the government office, the matter would be over.
An Tai has been clean and honest all his life, how can he tolerate such dirty water?
When he went home and interrogated Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Liu bitterly presented her account book. She didn't have a single tael of silver left at home, and she still owed more than a hundred taels of foreign debt!
The whole house was searched, and there was no such thing as thirty thousand taels.
The next day, he went to see Hu Yong early with the account book, and Hu Yong believed him.
Unexpectedly, the official who reported the matter brought the matter to the imperial court.
The emperor was furious and sent troops to search the palace, but only found a box of IOUs.
The court hall suddenly exploded.
Hu Yong led all the officials of Yushitai to defend An Tai, but the reporting official calmly presented the receipt of payment from An Tai's concubine Liu.
At the same time, a nimble boy avoided the imperial guards at the door and climbed into An's house from the back wall, disturbing An Qianru who was pacing in the yard.
The wall was more than ten feet high, and a child came down with a thud.
An Qianru was startled and hurried to check his injuries.
"Shh, shh"
The little guy looked around and saw that no one was seeing him, so he hurriedly hid in An Qianru's closet.
An Qianru was about to ask questions when Madam Liu arrived, and she quickly closed the wardrobe.
When the Forbidden Army searched, Liu's entire room had gone somewhere, but now they were back and dragging her around, asking nervous questions about this and that.
He kept asking questions, and then dragged her along to count the smashed things.
She didn't want to participate, but Mr. Liu tried every means to keep her.
The strange behavior made her feel very uneasy.
Suddenly, the imperial guards came in again, grabbed Ms. Liu aggressively and questioned her about the whereabouts of the bribe money.
Mrs. Liu cried and cried, saying that she was just a vulgar concubine. An Tai was not here, and everything in the house was decided by her legitimate daughter An Qianru. Even if there was a bribe, it was with An Qianru, not with her.
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However, during the search, nothing was found in An Qianru's yard, but a box of banknotes was found in Liu's yard.
Mrs. Liu was dumbfounded and stared at the corner as she was dragged away.
Qianru looked around and found An Zhihui, who was hiding behind the flower pot.
Full of confusion.
When did he come back?
Why did he come back, but his two sisters Qianya and Qianwen didn't?
Where is Zhixuan?
She searched all over the yard but couldn't find any trace.
Anxious and restless.
There were officers and soldiers guarding the door all the time, and the servants were muttering that the An family was about to be destroyed.
They each grabbed some valuable things and held them in their hands. As soon as the officers and soldiers left, they rushed out together.
An Zhihui was knocked to the ground, his mouth wide open and weeping profusely.
Qianru went to find him and picked him up.
But he didn't know the heart of a good person, so he kicked, beat and scolded her.
"Prostitute, you are the cause of trouble. You are the one who harmed my mother and our family."
Qianru was so angry that she was too lazy to pay attention to him and sat alone at the door waiting for news.
Hope, hope.
Suddenly, a strange carriage sped past and dropped two black cloth bags.
She saw the bag moving, as if it contained someone, so she quickly went over to untie it, and it turned out to be An Qianya and An Qianwen.
"How could this happen? Who did it?"
An Qianya spat out the gag and said arrogantly: "Are you a pig-brained person? Our hands and feet were tied and put in a black cloth bag. How can we know who did it?"
When An Zhihui saw his two sisters back, he rushed over and hugged them. While crying, he complained about Qianru's evil behavior and said that she had framed Mrs. Liu.
An Qianya and her sisters pounced on her like hungry tigers, pinched her and beat her, while An Zhihui grabbed her hand and bit her hard.
She resisted angrily, kicked An Zhihui away, and then tried her best to push An Qianwen down in an attempt to escape.
Unexpectedly, An Qianya ran faster than her, and soon An Qianwen and An Qianwen blocked her.
After all, it was indecent to fight in front of the house, so An Qianwen instigated her siblings to drag her in to clean up the situation.
Just as he entered the threshold, a carriage brought An Tai back, and Zhixuan was accompanying him.
"What are you doing? Rebellion?"
An Qianwen quickly let go and lied that An Qianru was injured and they were helping her back to rest.
The other two also insisted on this.
But An Tai saw it all. When he got off the carriage, his youngest son Zhihui was pinching Qianru and forcing her to step over the threshold.
Zhixuan ran towards Qianru distressed, lifted up the injury on her hand to show his father, and then knelt down in front of An Tai in grief.
"Dad, my aunt has never been kind to us during these years of housekeeping. Everyone in the house bullied us for being motherless children!"
"What kind of good thing do you think your mother is? A hypocritical and jealous woman!"
At this time, Hu Yong, the imperial censor, opened the curtain and stuck his head out, "Brother An, it's time to straighten up your family tradition! Otherwise, there will be fires in the backyard in the future."
An Tai only agreed, holding his painful buttocks and walking into the messy house, unable to help but burst into tears.
With red eyes, he called the five sisters closer.
"Of the 30,000 taels of silver notes found in Liu's house, only 300 taels are genuine. Where are the rest?"
"My sister and I went shopping in the morning, and then we were kidnapped. We didn't know anything. Zhihui was only five years old. He didn't even know what a bank note was, and it was even less likely that he would know."
"You don't know, I know." Zhixuan took a step forward and told what he had learned about following Liu's mother and son, "My aunt suddenly came to the academy to pick up my brother. I felt strange and followed them quietly.
Unexpectedly, she was intercepted and questioned by a stranger. She said that everything was as planned. She had hidden the money box in Zhihui's book box a long time ago, and deliberately asked him to put the box in the college to avoid his father's search.
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Now was the time to take it back. The man believed her and let her go. She was full of pride at the time, and on the way she told Zhihui what she would do when she got back, and how she would escape to meet her eldest sister and third sister after it was done.
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They simply know everything!”
An Qianwen hurriedly pulled her sister and brother to kneel down and explain, saying that they didn't know the whereabouts of the banknotes at all. They just followed the instructions of their mother Liu and went out to hide, but why were they caught and released? She was also confused.
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She had carefully considered this statement a long time ago, and she was confident that there were no flaws.
And she was sure that Antai would not be stupid enough to dig out the remaining bribe money.
After all, according to the laws of the Daxuan Dynasty, if the remaining 29,700 taels were dug out, An Tai would not only lose his official position, but also go to jail.
If you offend the emperor, your life will be in danger, and the whole family will be punished.
No one could be that stupid!
An Qianru also knew the power of this, and covered her brother's mouth to prevent him from adding fuel to the fire.
"Dad, forget it! This situation is already a blessing among misfortunes."
"Superficial!" An Tai poked her forehead with his finger in annoyance, "The fact that I am standing here is the result of all my colleagues in the Yushitai working hard to assure the emperor, and it is not because of the amount of bribes collected.
I am a supervisor, if I am not clean myself, what qualifications do I have to supervise others?"
"But we are innocent. Mother accepted the bribe not because she was greedy, but because she had no choice." An Qianwen thought about it, and remembered that she followed An Qianru to the mass graves a while ago, so she pushed her forward to take the blame.
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It is said that Ms. Liu was entangled by evil people because of this incident, and she did something stupid because of a sudden change of thought.
Qianru, who didn't know what was going on, thought that this was really the case and that she had brought the troubles to An's family on her own, and she panicked with guilt.