When Nangong Rou heard this, she quickly said: "Sister, Uncle Hua has money and always uses good ink, but my cousin's family is poor, how can he afford high-end ink? There are many students like my cousin outside, and they all
I can't afford good ink, so I can only buy this bad ink. There are so many people buying bad ink. You can't just doubt my cousin just because of this, right? Are you just because he is my cousin?
Are you targeting me with an excuse?"
At the end of the story, she wiped away her tears pitifully.
Yun Ruoyue sneered, "I'm just seeking truth from facts. Okay, let's not talk about Uncle Hua being framed. Let's check your cousin's account books to see what he remembers."
After Yun Ruoyue finished speaking, she looked at Uncle Hua and the steward, "Uncle Hua, steward, please help me check to see if there are any errors or omissions in the account books kept by Li Xiucai."
"Yes, empress." After the two of them said that, they quickly picked up Li Xiucai's account book and began to check it.
Yun Ruoyue also picked up a ledger and read it carefully.
Li Xiucai was so frightened that he was covered in cold sweat. He kept winking at Nangong Rou, asking Nangong Rou to think of a solution.
Nangong Rou stood there depressed, biting her lip, unable to think of a way.
At this moment, Yun Ruoyue suddenly pointed to the account book in her hand and said, "Li Xiucai, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, our palace spent three hundred taels of silver just buying vegetables and meat?"
Li Xiucai felt a chill go down his spine and said hurriedly: "Yes, empress."
"It shows that the money was withdrawn by Aunt Zhang. Aunt Zhang, did you withdraw three hundred taels of silver to buy meat and vegetables?" Yun Ruoyue looked at Aunt Zhang who was beaten to death next to her.
Grandma Zhang's thirty pieces had been beaten long ago, and now she was lying there in ragged clothes, with her back covered in blood, and no one cared about her at all.
When she heard the princess' question, she glared at her bitterly and said coldly: "Yes."
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"What kind of meat and vegetables cost so much money?" Yun Ruoyue said coldly.
Ordinary people only need a dozen taels of silver a year to survive.
No matter how extravagant their palace expenses are, they will not spend three hundred taels of silver at a time.
If this continues, how can Chu Xuanchen's family property be able to withstand such a defeat?
"It's enough food and meat for three days in the palace. There are many people in the palace, and the prince is noble, so of course he has to buy the best everything." Aunt Zhang said solemnly.
"It's only been three days, and we have to spend three hundred taels of silver. If this spreads out, what will people say about our palace?" After Yun Ruoyue finished speaking, she added, "Also, I bought ten bags of rice here, and it actually cost a hundred taels of silver.
One hundred taels of silver? For ordinary people, ten bags of rice cost at most five taels of silver. What kind of rice is this, so expensive?"
Nanny Zhang rolled her eyelids and said: "That's because the princess has never seen the world. This is the best rice from Yuxiangzhai. It is specially used for the royal family and dignitaries. It is different from ordinary rice. Of course it is more expensive."
"What about here? The concubine spent a thousand taels of silver and only bought one piece of clothing? Why is this clothing so expensive?" Yun Ruoyue checked and found that there was something wrong with the account.
Moreover, this is something that can only be accomplished by multiple people working together and colluding with each other.
When Nangong Rou heard this, her heart trembled with fright, and she hurriedly said: "This is a garment made of mulberry silk, supplemented with gold thread and golden spider thread, so it is more expensive. I asked Dan'er to go to the accountant with the permission of the prince at that time.
Withdraw the money and buy the clothes.”
The implication was that Chu Xuanchen agreed with her, and the princess couldn't blame her.
Yun Ruoyue glanced at Nangongrou coldly, and then said: "The concubine was infected with wind and cold last time. It cost two thousand taels of silver to call the doctor?"