I didn't expect that Zhang Shun would have such an opportunity.
When he was young, he rescued a mouse. After more than ten years, he fell into despair. Instead, he was saved by the mouse. He also used the money the mouse gave him to marry a wife and buy a house.
As for why the mouse he rescued when he was young was gray and is now a white mouse, it is actually easy to explain.
This mouse has attained Taoism and become a spirit, so its fur will naturally turn white.
There is a saying that if the scales turn yellow and the fur turns white, these are signs of spermatogenesis.
However, this mouse can become a spirit in just a dozen years, and it still has a certain level of moral integrity. Obviously, this mouse has had some opportunities during this period, otherwise it would not have become a spirit so quickly.
Now that things have come to this point, everything has come to light.
The White Rat repaid his kindness by stealing money from the Li family and giving it to Zhang Shun. Zhang Shun didn't seem to know that the money was stolen from the Li family's treasury. However, the brothel girl named Yanhua was smart and knew that the money was stolen from the Li family.
The money may have been stolen, and I didn't want it for fear of causing trouble, but in the end I still couldn't overcome the greed in my heart, and I could enjoy the money with Zhang Shun with peace of mind.
"Zhang Shun, wherever the remaining silver that the white rat stole is, hand it over." Li Xiuyuan said.
Zhang Shun revealed everything at this moment and did not dare to hide it. He quickly took his servants to rummage through boxes and cabinets at home looking for money. Some of the money was hidden on the beams, some of the money was buried in the ground, and some of the money sank in the well.
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This man is not very good at hiding money.
Finally, after collecting the large and small taels of silver, there were two to three thousand taels of silver.
"That's all?" Li Xiuyuan asked.
"There are only so many, and the rest have been used by the younger ones." Zhang Shun said tremblingly.
"Did you spend a total of five or six thousand taels of silver during this period?" Li Xiuyuan asked, squinting his eyes.
Zhang Shun was so frightened that he knelt on the ground again: "Young Master is wronged. The younger one only used more than one thousand taels, not five thousand taels. The younger one only got five thousand taels of silver in total.
Yes, the rest are all here, please let me know."
Li Xiuyuan looked at him seriously and felt that he was not lying.
He had already taken out all the money he had hidden so deeply, so there was no way he would dare to hide the entire five thousand taels of silver.
However, the Li family's treasury lost a full ten thousand taels.
In other words, the amount of five thousand taels of silver still does not match.
After pondering for a while, he felt that there might be something fishy about this matter.
However, nothing could be asked about Zhang Shun. He had already told everything he knew and took out all the remaining money.
"Zhang Shun, for the sake of your honesty, I can spare you this time. The remaining silver will return to its original owner today, but the one thousand taels of silver you used must not be ignored."
Li Xiuyuan thought for a moment and said, "Let's do this. You two will work in my Li family's workshop for ten years, and your monthly salary will be reduced by half. After ten years, you and I will be cleared. How about that?"
"Thank you very much, young master, for your kindness. Thank you very much, young master, for your kindness. I am willing to do some work to compensate you." Zhang Shunru kowtowed after receiving the amnesty.
The brothel girl next to her, Yanhua, looked like she was about to cry without tears. She originally wanted to follow Zhang Shun only because he had money, but she didn't enjoy the blessing for a few days, and this disaster will last a lifetime.
Li Xiuyuan didn't care whether the woman agreed or not.
This woman was bought by Zhang Shun, and as long as Zhang Shun agreed, she had no room to resist.
Besides, this brothel girl has a lot of thoughts, and letting her work is just to take care of her thoughts. If the two of them are willing to work honestly for ten years, they can live peacefully in the future, which is much better than starving here without money.
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"Leave them ten taels of silver rations and take the rest." Li Xiuyuan waved his hand and said.
The servant responded, packed up the money and the title deed of a large house and carried it on his back, then took out a dozen pieces of silver and threw it in front of the two of them.
Ten taels of silver, if you save a little, it will be enough for several months.
Soon, Li Xiuyuan left here with his servants and several thousand taels of silver.
Just as he was about to go out, a black shadow suddenly jumped down from the nearby courtyard wall.
"Master, it's the black cat. It's back. Hey, Master, look, this black cat has caught a mouse." Xiaodie said happily.
But when the black cat turned its head, it found that it was holding a white mouse in its mouth. The white mouse was not dead, but had a pair of round eyes open, with tears streaming down its face, as if it was crying.
Li Xiuyuan took one look and recognized it immediately. This was the white rat.
Sure enough, this white mouse lives in Zhang Shun's house.
"You, a mouse, are like this, you know how powerful you are." Li Xiuyuan said with a smile.
Cats are the natural enemies of mice. Even a white mouse with Tao Xing cannot defeat this black cat. What's more, this is not an ordinary black cat. It is also a spirit with enlightened intelligence and Tao Xing.
The white rat nodded repeatedly, then raised his hands to Li Xiuyuan and begged for mercy, his eyes filled with tears and looked very pitiful.
Black Cat looked at Li Xiuyuan, waiting for him to speak.
It seemed that as long as Li Xiuyuan nodded, the black cat would eat the white mouse without even leaving a hair on it.
"Don't eat it. It came to my Li family to steal money just to repay a favor. Besides, it's not easy for it to practice. Let it go."
When Li Xiuyuan saw how spiritual the white rat was, he had no intention of killing it.
Since he is not a great evil monster, he will not kill them all.
"Meow~!"
The black cat relaxed its mouth, and the white mouse immediately got out of sleep and ran away.
After running far away, he stopped and looked back at Li Xiuyuan, as if to thank him.
"Don't steal anything from now on. Cause and effect are too heavy, otherwise you won't be able to transform." Li Xiuyuan said.
The white mouse seemed to understand, nodded repeatedly, and ran away without even thinking.
"Master, why does stealing have such heavy consequences?" Xiaodie asked curiously.
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said, "You will know later."
This cause and effect is the cause and effect of spiritual practice. If the white mouse is not deep in Taoism, it will naturally not understand the power of it. After hundreds of years of Taoism, it will know that stealing other people's money to repay a favor. Although it repays the favor, it can easily endanger its own life.
Lost it.
Otherwise, why do those vixens repay their kindness with their own bodies instead of using money?
Because repaying one's own actions is the simplest and most direct, and there is no need to involve other causes and effects.
Besides, life flies by for decades, but demons can live for thousands of years, or even thousands of years, so it is not a loss to resolve a cause and effect in just a few decades.
If nothing else, she is just like Bai Suzhen in The Legend of White Snake.
He is about to become an immortal, but he still owes Xu Xian some karma. He has no choice but to transform into a human being and repay him with his own body.
It's a pity that in the end, he was moved by his true feelings and was accepted by Fahai.
"But having said that, where did the remaining five thousand taels of silver go?"
Li Xiuyuan put away his distracting thoughts, but frowned slightly, and couldn't help but feel doubtful in his heart.
All the money stolen by the white mouse was in Zhang Shun's hands, and the total money in Zhang Shun's hands was only 5,000 taels, which means that another 5,000 taels were missing.
"It's really a headache. This world is really uneasy."
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while, but he really had no clue, so he could only give up for now.
It's nothing to lose 10,000 taels of silver. I'm afraid that if this matter is not resolved, it will continue to happen, and even if the Li family is rich, it will be emptied out.