The Reborn Girl Wants to Kill Me

Chapter 219 The General Has No Son 3

As the door of the warehouse was opened, exclamations were heard.

Even Hui Niang was shocked.

"how come?"

She covered her mouth and looked at the empty warehouse.

"Quick, go and report to the general."

Ji Yanli sat in the hall, turning a teacup in his hand. Cheng Mingdu sat next to him, his two black eyes staring at the cup in his hand like a puppy, and soon their eyes met.

Ji Yanli put down the cup and patted his head.

"Be careful of your eyes."

Cheng Mingdu immediately sat up straight.

Yan Shuyu still had a dazed look on her face, and Nanny Wang beside her was pale.

They also went to the warehouse for a look. Hui Niang only got the key in the morning. There were so many things in the warehouse that even if they moved them out, there would be no noise at all.

But, but it was fine two days ago, how come it’s empty now?

Hui Niang sat nearby, reading, "A total of thirty thousand taels of gold, two hundred thousand taels of silver, two coral ornaments bestowed by the emperor, two carved rosewood chairs, a large rosewood screen with a four-season auspicious pattern, a can of oriental pearls, a pair of glazed spittoons, and two sable fur coats are missing..."

Hui Niang was shocked when she read it herself.

Not only large items, but also countless small items.

The general's wealth is one of the best even in the capital.

After Hui Niang finished reading, Ji Yanli ordered: "Go and invite the tutor."

"General!"

Yan Shuyu couldn't help but argue: "General, I don't know how this thing was lost, don't go looking for my father!"

"The key to the warehouse is with you. You've been in charge of the mansion for the past few years since I was away. Tell me, you don't know?"

Yan Shuyu blurted out, "I've always kept the key to the storeroom with Nanny Wang. Nanny Wang is the one who usually manages the household goods on my behalf... Nanny Wang, think about it quickly, how could the things have disappeared?"

Nanny Wang’s face no longer had any life in it; it was stiff and pale, and her whole body was shaking.

After Yan Shuyu said that, she sat down on the ground with a thud.

"I don't know, General. I don't know, I don't know."

Ji Yanli laughed: "You don't know either? Is this the only sentence that people from the Shishu Mansion can say? Come on, go search!"

The people who had followed Ji Yanli back from the border town responded immediately and returned a short while later to report: "General, we found two ornaments in Nanny Wang's room: a box of gold melon seeds, a box of silver melon seeds, an ancient book, a jadeite toad with gold accents, and a golden hairpin."

Ji Yanli tapped lightly on the mahogany table.

Yan Shuyu looked at Nanny Wang in disbelief.

Nanny Wang shook her head frantically: "No, I didn't take it. It was a frame-up. Someone is trying to harm me. Madam, please trust me. Trust me."

She really didn't take that much. She had only taken two calligraphy and paintings to sell before. Another time, her son was chased for debt due to gambling, so she took a purple clay incense burner and a string of jade beads. Things given by the emperor cannot be bought or sold, so she would never touch them.

This time, Madam Hui wanted the power to manage the household and the key to the warehouse. She was afraid that the lady would give them away eventually, cutting off this source of income in the future. So she secretly took a dozen gold melon seeds, an ancient book, and a string of beads, intending to sell them to buy her son a house in a good location in the capital, and keep the rest for his retirement.

She really didn't take that much!

Nanny Wang's fat body kept shaking as she cried and protested her injustice.

Yan Shuyu had a gloomy face and didn't say anything. No one knew what she was thinking.

Ji Yanli asked someone to go to the pawnshop again.

"Let's go to the pawnshop and check for the remaining things. Bring her along," Ji Yanli pointed at Nanny Wang. "I remember she has a son. Bring her along and have the pawnshop identify her. Once confirmed, kill her right in front of the Yan residence."

"I am innocent, I am innocent, General, please forgive me, Madam, please save me, save me!"

Yan Shuyu's face showed reluctance, and she finally pleaded: "General, Nanny Wang is my wet nurse. If you spare her life, I promise she will never dare to do it again."

Ji Yanli lowered his eyes coldly and sneered: "Promise? She took so many things under your nose and you didn't even notice. What can you promise? Your not-so-good brain?"

The original body had never been so disrespectful to Yan Shuyu.

The kind words made Yan Shuyu feel that it was natural. Her father was only a fifth-rank official, and her original body was a second-rank official. After Ji Yanli came, he was promoted to the first-rank official title. He had long surpassed Yan Shuyu's father, but she still acted condescendingly and looked down on the common people in front of her original body.

What makes her think that she can be so arrogant and condescending?

Is it the original body's love for her?

Or is it because of the fifth prince?

Ji Yanli didn't want to know. He had the crying Nanny Wang taken away. "Take Madam's personal maids with you as well. They've been in contact with Nanny Wang day and night. Who knows if they've gone along with her?"

"No!"

Yan Shuyu angrily said, "They are all my close associates. What is the General trying to do? Are you trying to kick me out as well so that some vixen can make room for me?!"

Ji Yanli stood up, slowly adjusting his sleeves, and looking at Yan Shuyu, he said word by word: "Give me a copy of the list of items lost in the warehouse, and I will go to the tutor's house to ask if they have seen it!"

"Ji! Yan! Li!"

"Instead of humiliating me like this, you might as well give me a divorce letter. This will also let others see that the heroic General Pingxi will attack his first wife as soon as he returns from his meritorious service!"

Ji Yanli ignored her and pulled Cheng Mingdu away.

He will not keep any of these servants. This is the general's mansion, and it is better to get rid of the disloyal servants as soon as possible.

This will prevent the Fifth Prince from coming and going freely in the mansion and actually thinking that the Pingxi General’s Mansion is his harem!

Several of Yan Shuyu's maids were taken away. Regardless of whether they had taken anything from the mansion, they would never be able to return.

Ji Yanli took the list and went to the tutor's residence. The Yan family was gathered together for dinner. Yan Shuyu's mother put down the bowl heavily, and her long face drooped.

"You don't even choose the right time to visit someone else's house. It's dinner time now, and you come over without even saying hello. Do you have any manners?!"

Yan Gui sat there calmly, acting like a father-in-law.

The other juniors looked at each other, covered their mouths and laughed, and whispered to each other from time to time. No one took him seriously.

Ji Yanli tutted his words, pointed at the white jade hibiscus hairpin on the third young lady's head, and asked Hui Niang, who was following behind him: "Take a look, does that look familiar?"

Hui Niang took a closer look and nodded affirmatively: "That is a thing from our general's mansion. It was a trophy from a battle you won once."

Ji Yanli exclaimed, "Why do the chopsticks my father-in-law and mother-in-law are holding look so familiar to me?"

"And that bowl, why does it look so much like the blue and white chrysanthemum-petal bowl we have in our house?"

"This chair... Hui Niang, take a look at the list. Is it a Huanghuali armchair?"

The people in the Yan Mansion were completely unable to sit still. The bowls in their hands felt hot. Several juniors were fidgeting as if there were silver needles on their chairs. Yan Kui put down the bowl in his hand, and Yan Shuyu's mother Rong Qing even reached out and slammed the table heavily.