reborn princess

Chapter 475 Hidden Gold
"Okay!" Shen Weilan stopped when she saw that she couldn't ask any more questions.

Du Xihua viciously threw the woman to the ground, took out a handkerchief from his arms, wiped off the mixture of blood, tears, and snot on his hands, and then stood beside Shen Weilan.

Shen Weilan turned her face to look at Xuan Chen, "Just ask whatever you want?"

Xuan Chen muttered in a low voice, "Little vinegar jar!"

"What did you say?" Shen Weilan couldn't help but widen her eyes when she heard what he said.

"I didn't say anything, I praised you!" Xuan Chen immediately put on a smiling face, and then looked at the woman on the ground with this smiling face and said. "If you know what you say, you can say it yourself. If you are happy, I might save your life. Otherwise, I will scratch your face and throw you into a room full of mirrors." , let you look at your own ugly appearance every day."

The woman's heart trembled, she knew what Xuan Chen said was true, so she tremblingly said: "I don't know what the uncle wants to know, the slave's heart is very confused now, and I don't know what to say."

"Let's start with Wen Xiao sending you to Zheng Junbang. It's impossible that Wen Xiao didn't give you a task, right? What news did you find out from Zheng Junbang?" Xuan Chen asked suspiciously.

"This..." The woman hesitated for a moment, organized her words, and then said honestly. "My family was originally a southerner. I was sold by my parents to a dealer since I was a child, and later fell into the hands of a couple. They taught me singing and dancing, playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and wanted to sell me for a high price. When they were 13 years old, they Brought me to the capital city, and later, Third Master Wen bought me, and asked my mother to teach me for a while, then sent me to Uncle Zheng, asked me to serve Uncle Zheng well, uh...and asked me to provoke Zheng Uncle's relationship with Baili's family. The person who asked Uncle Zheng to betray Baili's family..."

"Then what do you know?" Xuan Chen asked impatiently, she didn't need to say these things, he knew them too.

"I... I really don't know what..." There was a hint of panic on the woman's face covered with slap marks. "The servant girl really doesn't know anything. The servant girl is just a plaything for men to have fun with. She really doesn't know anything."

Xuan Chen stood up, "Since you don't know anything, there's no need to keep you, let's deal with her!"

Seeing Luan Ying and Du Xihua approaching like wolves, the woman thought that Xuan Chen was really going to kill herself, and suddenly yelled, "I said... I said, there is a confidential matter, it is Mr. Zheng He said it once when he was drunk, but later, he forgot when he woke up..."

Xuan Chen had already turned around and left. Hearing what she said, he stopped and walked back. He said in a deep voice, "The news you said must be worth something, otherwise, you know it!"

The woman burst into tears, and obediently confessed: "A month ago, Grandma Zheng went back to her natal home, and Uncle Zheng went to my place, got drunk, and then talked about something, saying that he was the third master of Baili. Last year, when I went back to my hometown to worship my ancestors, I didn’t go to worship my ancestors at all, but to hide gold secretly. I said that there was a treasure in the old house of Baili Sanye. hidden gold..."

When Xuan Chen heard this, the expression on his face became extremely condensed in an instant, and his voice was as cold as ice and snow in a snowy sky, "What happened after that?"

"I..." The woman knew that the secret she told might give her a chance to survive, so she continued. "I took advantage of his drunkenness and asked him how much gold was in that treasure. He said he didn't know. Mr. Baili secretly built the gold into gold bricks, hid them in the mezzanine of the carriage, and brought them back. My hometown. He also said that Baili Sanye thought he didn't know, but he didn't know that Baili Sanye was drunk once, and when he went to find his mother, he told it by himself. He said that Baili Sanye hid the money In the ancestral hall of the Baili family, as long as he wants to, he can make a fortune at any time..."

Xuan Chen asked: "Then, has this news leaked out?"

The woman raised her eyes, glanced at him quickly, and shook her head in panic, "No...no... slave... slave didn't dare to say it..."

Xuan Chen's eyes narrowed, "You're not telling the truth! Someone, deal with her!"

Luan Ying and Du Xihua came over immediately, each grabbed her arm, and picked her up like a chicken.

"Forgive me... Lord, please forgive me... I said... I said that's it..." The woman roared, desperately begging for mercy.

Xuan Chen raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

Luan Ying and Du Xihua brought her back.

Xuan Chen looked at her as if he was looking at a dead person, "You only have one chance! If you don't tell the truth this time, I will plant you in the yard as fertilizer!"

The woman gasped violently in fright, raised her eyes and peeked at him secretly in shock, and said, "I said, I said, please don't kill me, I... I told Third Master Wen about it!"

Is that true?
Xuan Chen looked at the embarrassed woman in front of him, took a deep breath, and slowly closed his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

The woman cried and said, "I can't help it. Mr. Wen has poisoned me, and I have to take the antidote on time every month. I'm afraid of death. I thought, if I tell him the news, he will be happy. Maybe you can give me the antidote..."

Xuan Chen opened his eyes, looked at her for a while, and suddenly the corners of his lips curled up, revealing a cruel smile, "Get rid of her!"

Luan Ying and Du Xihua came up and lifted the woman up again.

The woman struggled frantically, screaming desperately: "You said, you won't kill me..."

"I lied to you!" Xuan Chen said coldly, turned around and walked to the wooden couch, and stretched out his right hand to Shen Weilan. "Let's go!"

Shen Weilan asked him to hold her hand, but noticed that his fingers were cold, and couldn't help frowning slightly, "Did your mother order the matter of the third master Baili to hide the gold, or did he decide on his own?"

Xuan Chen lowered his eyes, and a strange emotion flashed in his eyes, "I don't know, I have to ask my mother!"

Shen Weilan nodded, and knew that the matter was of great importance. If it was Baili Sanye who stole the gold, it would be a matter of character, but if it was ordered by his mother, Xuan Chen, it is very likely that this matter was hidden from everyone. Including the emperor.

If the matter is leaked out, it will be extremely detrimental to the Prince's Mansion of Changping County!
Knowing that it will take a lot of money to build a city wall of thousands of miles, but secretly hiding so much gold, what is the Changping County Prince's Mansion doing?
Once the matter is known to the emperor, the trust established in the Changping County Palace will collapse because of this incident.

This is a great event, no wonder Xuan Chen is nervous.

However, she knew that this matter was not exposed by the second prince and his gang, because she had not heard any rumors in her previous life. This matter was too serious. If it really happened, she would not have known about it.

So, she lightly shook Xuan Chen's hand to comfort him.

Xuan Chen turned his face and glanced at her, then suddenly smiled and said: "Don't worry, I'm fine! The second prince is short of money now, at most they will only steal the gold, and they will definitely not use the gold to make money." article."

Because the second prince didn't dare to bet, he didn't dare to bet whether the emperor knew about this matter, what if the emperor knew?What if the matter was ordered by the emperor?
There are many dynasties that hide a treasure when they are rich, so that if the country is destroyed in the future, they will have the financial resources to restore the country.

What's more, if this matter was done by Baili Sanye alone, it means that Baili Sanye was greedy for money and secretly hid a sum of gold, which can only be regarded as greed at best.

But they are not greedy for money from the treasury, they are greedy for the money of Changping County Prince's Mansion, all the business is supported by Xuan Yu and his wife, it is not too much for the family members to get some benefits, right?

Therefore, he dared to bet anyone that the Second Prince would not reveal the matter!

Luan Ying and Du Xihua didn't care what to do with that woman, they just took the carriage and left Zhuangzi.

Back in Changping County Prince's Mansion, they didn't go back to wash and change their clothes as usual, but came directly to Bailiyao.

Every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, it is sealed by Baiguan, and the shop will not reopen until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month when it is closed, so Bailiyao is very busy these two days.

Seeing the two of them busy in the world a hundred miles away, he couldn't help raising his eyebrows slightly, "Why didn't you go to wash up when you came back from outside? Why did you two go last night? Why didn't you come back all night?"

Xuan Chen rushed to Chi Nuanyue, who was sitting beside her eating melon seeds, and said, "Sister Nuanyue, I want to have a few words with my mother alone!"

Seeing her solemn expression, Chi Nuanyue nodded, turned around and went out, sent all the little maids waiting for orders in the main room outside to leave, and closed the door herself, standing guard at the door.

Bailiyao knew that his son had always been stable, and when he saw this, he realized that something serious had happened, so he asked, "What happened? I heard that Aunt Sun in your third uncle's house had an accident last night, won't he?" Did you two do it?"

Xuan Chen ignored her, but asked, "Mother, let me ask you, what happened to the gold that the third uncle hid in the ancestral hall of his hometown?"

When Bailiyao heard the words, her eyes widened immediately. She raised her right index finger to her lips, with a nervous expression on her face, then hurriedly got off the wooden couch, put on her shoes and walked out, looking around. There was no one, so I went to the study for a while, and then came back, grabbed Xuan Chen, and asked, "Even your father doesn't know about this, how did you know?"

"So, is this true?" Xuan Chen murmured, then lowered his voice a little bit in a daze, and told what happened.

After Bailiyao heard this, the expression on his face could not help turning blue and red, his eyes rolled a few times, and then he said: "No, since it has been exposed, the place can no longer be left. The third brother is really Confused! I've been telling you all the time, but I still leaked the news, it's really not enough!"

(End of this chapter)