38. Take back the right to be the head of the family 2
"How could Butler Liu not know? He sent someone to sneak into my yard that night. He was afraid that people would find out. He first used tuberose to charm me and the maid around me..."
When Wei Zijin said this, he paused and Ming Qiaoxiang presented a few tuberose petals: "These are the tuberose petals I asked my servants to pick from Liu Guanjia's yard. Unfortunately, Liu Guanjia's yard happened to be full of tuberose petals." Is it just a coincidence that there is such a plant?"
Shen Rui carefully looked at the petals in Qiaoxiang's hand, his brows furrowed more and more tightly, and his voice became colder: "This is indeed tuberose! Butler Liu, what on earth is going on?"
Liu Zheng's face turned pale, and he was so frightened that his knees weakened and he knelt on the ground: "I don't know, even if there is tuberose in the old slave's yard, it doesn't mean that all this was done by the old slave. Why should the old slave do this if he is so good? Destroy the ledger? This... must be someone deliberately framed the old slave!"
Shen Rui looked at Liu Zheng with a gloomy face, with complicated eyes. He had always trusted the old housekeeper, and never thought that he would dare to do anything in the house. But just because of trust, housekeeper Liu might have started to do whatever he wanted in secret. !
Otherwise, it would never have happened before that Wei Zijin fell ill and was ignored!
Seeing that Shen Rui didn't say a word, Wei Zijin knew that he still had doubts in his heart, so he was not in a hurry to persuade him to believe it, but continued: "Steward Liu, I have been thinking about your motives for doing this, until I discovered something yesterday. thing!"
Wei Zijin took out the original account book, opened the missing pages, and said word by word: "When Butler Liu sent Lai Wang to deliver the account book, he said that there were a few pages in the account book that were accidentally left out, and he didn't know where they fell. Where, later I checked the accounts carefully and discovered that the missing pages were the key to the problem! Butler Liu did not lose those pages, but tore them off deliberately to conceal the evil things he had done! "
"Madam, you can't frame this old slave!" Liu Zheng turned pale with fright, and his temples were pounding. He didn't know what Wei Zijin had found. Facing the looks of Shen Rui, Wei Zijin, and the King of Luoyang, his mind was already spinning. What a mess!
Wei Zijin sneered and said to Qiaoxiang: "Qiaoxiang, call Mr. Zhao who is waiting outside the Shangshu Mansion..."
Qiaoxiang nodded, and soon led the strange Mr. Zhao to the main hall of Shangshu Mansion under everyone's doubtful eyes.
"Steward Liu, this Young Master Zhao must be familiar to you, right?" Wei Zijin pointed at Young Master Zhao, who had a pale face and cloudy eyes, and said coldly to Liu Zheng who was kneeling on the ground: "He is one of the loan recipients of Butler Liu. Butler Liu, look up!"
Liu Zhengzhan raised his head tremblingly, and when he saw the man he had loan sharked, his heart tightened. Just as he was about to quibble, Mr. Zhao took the lead and started scolding: "You bastard, I said I would pay you back in a few days, you The profit is actually compounded and tripled!"
When he said this, the expressions of everyone present changed. The dignified housekeeper of the Shangshu Mansion actually dared to use the money in the mansion to make loan sharks. If word spread, not only would the Shangshu Mansion lose face, but it would also affect the reputation of the Shangshu Shen Rui. Official career!
Because as early as when Xiao Heng came to the throne, he had established laws for the entire Dayin Dynasty, prohibiting officials from lending money at usury. In the mild case, they would have their official positions cut off, and in the worst case, they would be imprisoned and their homes confiscated!