C43

Chapter 43 - Marriage into a Stone

Bai Mansion, Jun Ting Yuan.

"Madame, miss." Su Xiu hurriedly returned to her room.

Bai Ruoyu suddenly stood up, "How about we have you look into this news? "Speak."

"Those rumors were all suppressed. I heard that the crown prince himself issued an order." Su Xiu did not dare to be negligent and immediately reported the information he had gathered.

Bai Ruoyu was stunned hearing that, and only after a long while did she voice out, "That's impossible, I don't believe it."

Wasn't the crown prince supposed to write a letter of rest for Bai Lier? Why did he send someone to suppress the rumors? This was impossible.

Seeing that Bai Ruoyu did not believe him, Su Xiu became anxious, "It's true, the Li Feng by His Highness's side just now even went to wutong garden to give gifts to Eldest Miss."

After Bai Ruoyu heard this, she immediately became excited, "You said the crown prince is giving Bai Lier a present?"

Being startled by Bai Ruoyu's excited look, Su Xiu nodded blankly, "Yes, I heard that she carried two big boxes, and accepted them all."

"What?" Zhao Family immediately screamed, "Why would the crown prince give that foolish Bai Lier a present? That gift must be for you, I will go get it."

Zhao Family shouted as she rushed outside.

"Enough, don't embarrass yourself again." Bai Ruoyu suddenly roared out, causing the Zhao Family to instantly stop moving.

Bai Ruoyu clenched her fists tightly, her eyes full of malice. The crown prince had already changed his opinion of Bai Lier. If she still did not do anything, then she would really be waiting for death.

East Palace, Pine Crane Garden, old lady also heard the news.

"You said that the Crown Prince suppressed the rumors."

Liao Momo nodded, "Yes, this morning the Crown Prince even sent two boxes of gifts to the young miss."

Liao Momo's face turned pale, his expression sickly. Since the day he had personally witnessed Shu Xiu's death, she had dreamed that Shu Xiu had come to find her every night. Every night, he would wake up in the middle of the night from shock, and in the next few days, he would become sickly.

old lady frowned, a profound light flashing through his eyes.

The news of the crown prince giving Bai Lier a gift quickly spread across the east and west residences. If one were to say that West Prefecture still had some ulterior motives before this, at this moment, he no longer dared to do so.

Murong Xun's appearance made everyone realize that not only was Bai Lier the only master of the loyal duke's manor, he was also the crown prince's fiancee and the future mother of a nation.

This kind of consciousness allowed the previously indecisive people to instantly choose their positions, such as the first class Steward Cao.

Noon, Bai Li had just finished her lunch, and Steward Cao had already arrived.

"Greetings to Eldest Miss."

Bai Li glanced at Steward Cao meaningfully, and raised his hand slightly, "No need for formalities."

Steward Cao straightened his body and placed a tray on the table, "Eldest Miss, here is the key to all the storage rooms in the house, please check it."

Glancing at the bunch of keys on the tray, Bai Li smiled slightly. It seems that Murong Xun was not completely useless, he was at least able to shock a first class person in the Steward Cao.

Bai Li glanced at Qi Wen, and Qi Wen immediately understood. She went up to take the plate and placed it in front of Bai Li.

"I will check the items in the warehouse one by one. If there are any that don't match …" Bai Li spoke slowly, but his voice was actually threatening.

Steward Cao immediately bowed. "Miss, don't worry, this old servant has already fought with you. This old servant will use my head as a guarantor of success, there will definitely not be a problem with it."

Steward Cao's heart bled when he said this. In order to fill the holes in the storerooms, he had not only vomited out everything he had eaten over the years, he had even built quite a few holes for himself.

Bai Li smirked, "Very good, Steward Cao has worked hard."

Steward Cao immediately shook his head, "It's not hard work working for Eldest Miss. If Eldest Miss has no other orders, Old servant will take his leave first."

Bai Li waved her hands, and the Steward Cao bowed and left.

"Miss, what about the key?" Qi Wen looked at the key on the tray, and frowned slightly.

Bai Li took the key from the tray and casually tossed it on the ground, "Let's go, let's go and see what's left of The House of the Marquis of Loyalty."

Bai Li leisurely stood up and walked towards the warehouse.

Qi Wen took the key, looked at Yun Zhi, and followed along.

There were many warehouses in the West Prefecture, and they were all connected. Bai Li directly opened up the largest one for Qi Wen.

Inside the warehouse, there were many chests of varying sizes tightly packed together. There was even a Royal Medal pasted on the top of the chests.

"Miss, this warehouse is filled with treasures that the Emperor has bestowed to the old master, Madame and the young miss." As Qi Wen said that, she opened a few boxes, only to find out that all of the things inside were fake.

Yun Zhi opened her eyes wide, and said with a frown, "Why is it still a fake, the Steward Cao said that everything was right, and this servant even thought that he had exchanged everything back."

Bai Li sneered, "What he's right is only in terms of quantity. These things were originally not exchanged by him, so even if he wanted to exchange it for back, he would not be able to find the real thing to exchange for."

The Steward Cao was as cunning as a fox and as timid as a mouse. Most likely, he had already filled in all the items that he coveted, or else he wouldn't have handed over the key to please her, much less used his head to guarantee it.

After casually walking around the warehouse, he realized that there wasn't even a single genuine item.

Zhao Family!

Bai Li sneered, and turned to enter the other warehouse.

"It should be the Madame's dowry."

Looking at the red boxes that filled the room, Bai Li blinked in astonishment, "My mother's dowry?"

Wasn't his mother of unknown origins? Where did all this dowry come from?

"Miss, you don't know this, but although this Madame is not the young miss of any family in the capital, the dowry she had when she got married was truly ten li of red makeup, and it filled all of the young mistresses in the capital with envy." Seemingly seeing through Bai Li's doubts, Qi Wen smiled as she explained.

In the past, there had been countless young masters envious of their Marquis, who had married a woman as beautiful as a fairy in the Madame, and countless treasures that ordinary families had never seen before.

Bai Li bent over and casually opened a box with a cold face.

"How could it be a rock?" Yun Zhi and Qi Wen were also shocked, they immediately opened the other boxes, but discovered that all of the treasures had been replaced with stones.

"They actually dared to change the dowry of Madame into stone." Qi Wen clenched her fists, her eyes filled with killing intent.

Bai Li squinted her eyes dangerously. They really weren't afraid of death, even daring to touch her mother's dowry.

"I will go to Jun Ting Yuan to look for Zhao Family now." Qi Wen was so angry that even Aunt Zhao could not be bothered to call him that anymore.

Bai Li raised her hand, "Wait, these things won't be in Zhao Family's possession, they should all be in East Palace's possession."

Qi Wen frowned, Miss is talking about old lady?

The corner of Bai Li's mouth drew back into a cold smile. Zhao Family that scarecrow was only a chess piece in old lady's hands, so the good stuff was naturally not in Zhao Family's hands.

"Then what should we do?" Qi Wen's face became gloomy, it was easy to obtain things from the Zhao Family, but difficult to obtain from him.

Bai Li laughed sinisterly, a profound light shining in her eyes, "There's no rush, we have plenty of time to accompany them and slowly play."