Chapter 5
The doctor came to check Liu's pulse, and he found the Xi pulse.

This luck is really good!
An Tai was happy, and promised that if she could restrain her children well in the future and stop causing them trouble, she would be righted.

Liu's house not only kept himself safe, but also gave Qianru a lot of convenience with a pleasant face.

Seeing that the family is becoming more and more harmonious, An Tai felt at ease, and couldn't help Mrs. Liu rubbing against her pillow, so she handed over the housekeeping power to her again.

It was only half a month before and after.

Qianru didn't know how to be a housekeeper, and she didn't want to take care of it, so she was happy to leave it to Mrs. Liu.

And Liu Shi is not as vulgar and incompetent as she thought.

Liu's family can write a beautiful hairpin lowercase script, and the records are carefully and neatly recorded, so that people can't find any mistakes, and they are quite good at dealing with servants.

To hand over the housekeeping rights, she has only one request, that is, to be able to go out alone.

After the previous incident at the execution ground, the court has closed the case of Anhou Mansion.

An Tai had nothing to worry about, and asked Liu Shi to give her more monthly silver, so that she could buy some new clothes and have fun.

And Liu Shi also generously gave it.

She quietly went to Yizhuang to look around, making sure that no officers and soldiers approached.

The old man guarding the village said that the unclaimed corpses inside were all buried in a nearby mass grave.

She whimpered and ran, and as far as the eye could see, there were only low mounds, not even a tombstone.

After what happened last time, she tried her best to control her emotions, and she didn't dare to ask people rashly, so she searched for it by herself in the graveyard.

Finally, a low tombstone was found in the messy graves, engraved with the tomb of An Xingdao, the marquis of sin.

However, before she had time to cry a few times, Shangguan Yuan quietly appeared behind her, and she was so frightened that she covered her face and ran away.

Although he didn't chase after her, she was panicked.

It wasn't until some time later that the An family received the good news that An Tai had been promoted, and changed from serving the censor to being the censor Zhongcheng, and her hanging heart fell to the ground.

Mrs. Liu wanted to throw a big banquet to celebrate, but Antai was originally an eighth-rank official, and his salary was pitifully small, just enough to support his family. Although he was promoted, his days were short and he hadn't received the new salary yet, so he was really stretched.

However, it was a great honor to be promoted from the eighth rank to the fourth rank within half a year.

Antai also wanted to have a good time, so he allowed Mrs. Liu to waste a while and hold a banquet.

But only the colleagues in the official office were invited, and Shangguan Yuan was also invited.

There were only eight tables in total, but the National People's Congress made a fuss and reported it to Hu Yong, the imperial historian, saying that he had received a gift money of 3 taels in private.

Hu Yong didn't believe that he was this kind of person, so he gave him a one-day deadline to go home and ask him to find out, if the family members took bribes and handed over to the government office, then the matter would be over.

Antai has been clean and honest all his life, how can he bear this kind of dirty water?

When I went home and interrogated Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Liu presented the ledger bitterly. The family didn't have a tael of money left, and they still owed more than 100 taels of foreign debt!
The mansion was also searched up and down, and there was no so-called 3 taels at all.

The next day, he went to see Hu Yong early with the account book, and Hu Yong believed him.

Unexpectedly, the officials who reported it brought the matter to the imperial court.

The emperor was furious, and sent troops into the mansion to search, but only found a box of owed receipts.

The hall suddenly exploded like a pan.

Hu Yong led all the officials of Yushitai to defend Antai, but the reporting officials calmly presented the receipts of Antai's concubine Liu Shi.

At the same time, a nimble boy avoided the imperial guards at the door, climbed into An Mansion from the back wall, and disturbed An Qianru who was pacing in the yard.

The wall was more than ten feet high, and a child came down with a bang.

An Qianru was startled, and hurried to check on his injuries.

"shh, shh"

The little guy looked around, but no one saw him, so he quickly hid in An Qianru's closet.

An Qianru was about to ask a question when Mrs. Liu came, so she quickly closed the wardrobe.

When the imperial army searched, Liu's whole house went to nowhere, but now he came back and dragged her, asking this and that nervously.

After asking, he dragged her to count the smashed things together.

She didn't want to participate, but Liu Shi just tried to keep her in a different way.

The strange behavior made her feel very uneasy.

Suddenly, the forbidden army came in again, aggressively grabbed Liu Shi and questioned where the bribe was.

Liu cried out for grievances, crying and crying, saying that she was just a vulgar concubine, An Tai was not around, and everything in the family was decided by the daughter-in-law An Qianru.Even if there was a bribe, it was with An Qianru, not with her.

However, during the search, nothing was found in An Qianru's yard, but a box of bank notes was found in Liu's yard.

Liu Shi was dumbfounded, staring at the corner in a daze when being dragged away.

Qianru followed the trend and found An Zhihui who was timidly hiding behind the flowerpot.

Bewildered.

When did he come back?
Why did he come back, but his two sisters, Qianya and Qianwen, did not come back?
What about Zhixuan?
She searched all over the yard, but couldn't find a trace.

Anxiety.

There were officers and soldiers guarding the door all the time, and the servants were muttering that the An family would soon be doomed.

Each of them scrambled for some valuable things, and when the officers and soldiers left, they rushed out together.

An Zhihui was knocked to the ground, crying with his mouth open.

Qianru looked for him and hugged him up.

But he didn't know a good heart, and kicked, beat and scolded her.

"Whore, trouble, it's you, it's you who killed my mother and our family."

Qianru was in a hurry and didn't bother to talk to him, so she sat alone at the door and waited for the news.

Hope, hope.

Suddenly, a strange carriage galloped by, dropping two black cloth bags.

She saw that the bag was moving, as if it contained a person, so she hurried over to untie it, and it turned out to be An Qianya and An Qianwen.

"How did this happen? Who did it?"

An Qianya spat out the gag, and said arrogantly: "Are you a pig's brain? We were bound hands and feet and packed in black cloth bags. How would we know who did it?"

When An Zhihui saw the two older sisters came back, he ran over eagerly to hug them, weeping loudly, and told Qianru about her bad behavior, saying that she had planted Liu Shi.

An Qianya and her sisters rushed forward to pinch and beat her like hungry tigers, while An Zhihui grabbed her hand and bit her hard.

She resisted angrily, kicked An Zhihui away, then tried her best to push An Qianwen down, trying to escape.

Unexpectedly, An Qianya ran faster than her, and soon blocked her with An Qianwen.

Fighting at the door of the house was indecent after all, so An Qianwen instigated her siblings to drag her in to clean up.

Just as he entered the threshold, a carriage brought Antai back, and Zhixuan was by his side.

"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.

But Antai 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 to Qianru distressedly, showed his father the wound on her hand, and then knelt down in front of Antai in grief.

"Father, my aunt's housekeeper has never treated us kindly all these years. Everyone in the house bullies us as motherless children!"

"What do you think your mother is? A hypocritical and jealous woman!"

At this moment, the censor doctor Hu Yong lifted the curtain of the car and poked his head out, "Brother An, your family style should be corrected! Otherwise, there will be fires in the backyard in the future."

Antai kept his promise, and walked into the messy house clutching his painful buttocks, and couldn't help crying.

With red eyes, he called the five sisters to him.

"Of the 3 taels of silver bills found in Liu's house, only 300 taels are real. Where are the rest?"

"My sister and I went shopping in the morning, and then we were kidnapped. We didn't know anything about it. Zhihui was only five years old, so he didn't even know what a bank note is, let alone know."

"You don't know, I know." Zhixuan took a step forward, and told what he had seen about following Liu's mother and son, "I found it strange that Auntie suddenly came to the academy to pick up my younger brother, and followed them quietly.

Accidentally discovered that she was stopped by a stranger for questioning, she said that everything was planned, she had already hidden the money box in Zhihui's book box, and deliberately asked him to put the box in the academy to avoid father's search .

Now is 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 Zhihui told Zhihui what to do when she returned home, and how to get away to meet the eldest and third sisters after the matter was completed.

They don't know everything at all! "

An Qianwen hurriedly pulled her elder sister and younger brother to kneel down to explain, saying that she didn't know the whereabouts of the banknotes at all, and they just followed their mother Liu's instructions to go out and hide for a while, but they were caught and released, and they were confused .

She had carefully considered these remarks a long time ago, and she was confident that there were no loopholes.

And she concluded that Antai would not be so stupid as to dig out the remaining bribes.

After all, according to the laws of the Xuan Dynasty, if the remaining 700 taels were dug out, Antai would not only lose his official position, but also be imprisoned.

If the emperor is offended, his life will be lost, and the whole family will be punished.

No one can be so stupid!
An Qianru also knew how powerful this was, and covered her brother's mouth to prevent him from adding fuel to the fire.

"Father, forget it! Now it's a blessing in misfortune."

"Superficial!" An Tai stretched out his finger and poked her on the forehead angrily, "I can stand here because of all the colleagues in Yushitai who put together a black hat to promise the emperor, not because of the amount of bribes collected. I am a supervisor, if I am not clean anymore, what qualifications do I have to supervise others?"

"But we are innocent. My mother took bribes not because she was greedy, but because she had to." An Qianwen thought about it, remembering what happened when she followed An Qianru to the mass grave a while ago, so she pushed her to the front to take the blame .

It is said that because of this incident, Mrs. Liu was entangled by the wicked, and she did something stupid by a mistake.

Qianru, who didn't know it, thought it was true, that An's disaster was caused by herself, and she panicked with guilt.

(End of this chapter)

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