Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2507 Reconciliation 49.0

Mr. Ke looked at Shen Cha and Shen Jiu, then at Mian Bai, and shook his head gently.

"I don't quite understand what you said, and I don't want to understand. Whether she did something outrageous or not, what does it have to do with me?" He spread his hands. "What I want to know is that she can obviously ensure that I live a stable and wealthy life, but she wants me to run around like this. Does she really love me, or is it fake? She can keep my identity secret, but give me enough money and a house so that I can become a rich man. This is what she can do, but she doesn't. I don't understand why!"

"Did she not give you silver or gold?" Mian Bai sneered, "Ke Chenyi, do you have any conscience?"

Shen Cha and Shen Jiu looked at each other, then exchanged glances with Jin Miaomiao, Hongye, Ying Er and Ying Wu, and shook their heads helplessly. Mian Bai was probably so angry that he even called out Mr. Ke's name.

"How come I have no conscience? Was what I said wrong?"

"Are you really not afraid that I will expose all your secrets?" Mian Bai took the handkerchief handed over by Merlin, wiped the water off his face and hands, and said, "Since you are not afraid, then I will not be polite!"

"We are already facing each other in court, what should I be afraid of?" Ke Chenyi, the head of the Ke family, put his hands on his hips and said confidently, "You tell me, I want to see what you have to say!"

"If that's the case, I won't keep it a secret for you." Mian Bai looked at Ying Er and Ying Wu, "You two adults have already obtained the troupe's account books, right? You've already checked them, right?"

"Yes!" Ying Er nodded, "I also asked you, there are several huge expenditures every month, you stammered and said that they were all withdrawals from Mr. Ke, and you don't know what he did. And Mr. Ke's personal account book is also managed by you, and it is still the same as the public account, with many large expenditures every month, and the direction of the expenditures is still unclear."

"My private account?" Ke Chenyi waited angrily for Mian Bai, "Why do you have my private account?"

"The Empress Dowager asked me to save some money for your retirement." Mian Bai looked at him calmly, "Do you really think that no one knows about what you did except me? Why did the Empress Dowager give those rewards to me or Mr. Cui instead of giving them directly to you? Don't you have any idea?"

"I do not know what you're talking about."

Ke Chenyi turned his head away and didn't look at Mian Bai. Although he looked indifferent, anyone could see that he was feeling guilty.

"Okay, stop arguing. Why don't you just tell me what happened? Let's see who is right between the two of you."

"To the general, General Shen, Lord Jin, and the two lords." Mian Bai bowed respectfully to everyone in the court, "Since he doesn't care, I don't need to hide it. All those expenses are his gambling debts." "Gambling debts?" Shen Cha frowned slightly, "I've never heard of the rumor that Mr. Ke is a gambler? There is no casino in Xijing City for him to squander? Where does this gambling habit come from?"

"Look, look, even if you tell me, what will happen?" Ke Chenyi raised his eyebrows and looked at Mian Bai with great pride, "No one believes what you say, a eunuch. Whatever you say is useless."

Mian Bai fell to his knees and bowed deeply to Shen Cha and Shen Jiu.

"I would never dare to deceive the general and General Shen. I did not make up the story that Ke Chenyi likes gambling."

"Merlin!" Shen Cha waved to Merlin who was standing aside, "Help the boss stand up and take a seat!" She looked at Mian Bai who kowtowed again, smiled, and said, "I know what you said is true. Although there is indeed no casino in Xijing City, there is an exception." She looked at Ke Chenyi, "Xiaotong should not be bought, right? He is the trophy you won, right?"

Shen Cha's words were like a bolt from the blue that shocked Ke Chenyi to his core. He stared at Shen Cha blankly, unable to utter a word.

“Heh!” Mian Bai couldn’t help but let out a sarcastic smile when he saw Ke Chenyi’s hopeless look after his past was exposed. He turned to look at Shen Cha and Shen Jiu, “General, yes!”

"Sure enough, Xiaotong said before that she was sold, but I can't remember it no matter how hard I try. Even if they are Hu people, it is impossible for them to really buy and sell people on the street. The only possibility is that the Hu people built an underground casino themselves. That place is not under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Army and the Patrol Camp. As long as no one dies and the victim does not pursue it, it doesn't matter. So." Shen Cha looked at Ke Chenyi, "You participated in beast fighting?"

"General Rong Bing, it's not just beast fighting, there are also slave fights, competitions between slaves and beasts. These are what the Hu people love."

"Aren't these against Daxia's laws?" Hongye frowned slightly, "Jingzhao Prefecture doesn't care?"

"As long as no Daxia people are killed, we won't care. These underground arenas have long been registered in Jingzhao Prefecture, and there are spies and yamen runners secretly watching them. As long as they don't make a big noise, there won't be any problems." Shen Jiu thought for a while, "They can do whatever they want in their own place, just don't leave Xishi. If they leave Xishi and go somewhere else, I'm sorry, every one of them will be arrested and thrown into the Jingzhao Prefecture's jail!"

"Yeah!" Shen Cha nodded, looked at Ke Chenyi who was still in a daze, sighed helplessly, turned to look at Mian Bai, and said, "Did all his rewards go to this place?"

"Yes!" Mian Bai glanced at Ke Chenyi, "He squandered so many rewards. We are all in the palace and can't stop him. Ms. Cui is a woman. She is not as strong as him, and she is not as smart as him. What's more, he never takes Ms. Cui seriously. Even if Ms. Cui wants to control him, he won't listen." He sighed, "This matter is not only known by me and Ms. Cui, but also by the Empress Dowager. As for how she knows, I am not very clear. The Empress Dowager has many spies in the capital. Where he went, who he met, and what he did, the Empress Dowager should know it all." He looked at Ke Chenyi, "So, she would rather give the gold, silver and rewards to Ms. Cui than to you. Later, she felt that she might be liquidated by the late emperor, so she called me over in advance and told me a few things. The others are trivial matters, but the most important thing is that I can't give you too much money, so that you won't squander it everywhere!"