Reborn as a concubine's sister, the eldest lady went crazy

"I am very grateful to the Second Miss for bringing me out of the Sun Mansion and avenging the First Miss. I will never be able to repay this kindness in my lifetime. How could you be afraid of hardship and refuse to make progress? I am just worried that if such a large estate is handed over to me, how can I explain to you if there is any loss?"

Xu Yixing felt bitter. It was not Si Wen who should be grateful to him. It was obvious that he should be grateful to her.

"You don't have to worry about these. The store has a shopkeeper and accountant to take care of it. I'm not asking you to do the accounting. You just need to help me check every year whether there are any major discrepancies in the dividends they pay. That's all."

"I understand and will try my best. But Miss, why don't you let Siqin do it?" Si Wen always believed that Siqin should be closer to the second young lady.

"She's not smart enough." This is the truth, and there is no disparagement in it. Siqin is indeed very loyal and considerate, but she is just a child and is far less sophisticated than Siwen in these matters.

"Uh..." Si Wen held his forehead with his hand, but he didn't expect the reason to be so straightforward. "So, Miss, do you want to keep in mind what Granny He said last time?"

As a witness to the entire process, Si Wen was well aware of the harm that General Xu and Mrs. Gu had brought to those ladies, but he didn't know what the second young lady thought about this matter.

Xu Yixing was silent for a long time before he spoke: "Si Wen, what do you think if you say I pretend not to know about these things?"

"It's a matter of the previous generation. Besides, the Second Miss has already killed Mrs. Gu for Aunt Liu, so there is nothing to worry about."

"You only talked about Aunt Liu, but what about Madam Bai? Can I just turn a blind eye to her experience?"

Si Wen squatted down and analyzed for Xu Yixing seriously: "Don't mention you, even if the eldest lady asked me this question, I would answer like this.

Granny He herself said that it was her own guess about the master not reminding Madam Bai that the fetus was too large. Maybe the master simply wanted Madam Bai to eat and drink well, or maybe Granny He simply did not remind her and was just shirking responsibility.

As for the labor-inducing drug, you also heard that it was used only as a last resort. There is really no evidence to prove that it has anything to do with the master."

Xu Yixing listened carefully and understood her attitude: "So you are advising me to keep quiet?"

"It's not about settling the matter peacefully, but it's not certain whether this happened or not, so how can we settle it? Besides, you are going to marry the Seventh Prince, and your family will be the biggest help. We can't destroy your father-daughter relationship because of an old matter, right?"

Xu Yixing understood that Si Wen had said so much, but the last sentence was the key point. A strong mother's family must bring more benefits than disadvantages to oneself.

"Okay, I get it. Go do what I just told you. Call Yingwu in. I have something to ask him."

Si Wen retreated, and Ying Wu followed in: "Master, Ying Ba has gone back. This time the matter was not handled properly, and Ying Yi has punished him according to the rules."

"Yeah." Xu Yixing figured it out yesterday. What happened that day was purely a coincidence. The two people who were arguing in front of him were the ones he hired.

Maybe they thought I was walking too slowly and had not yet reached the agreed location, so they deliberately made trouble and tried to take the opportunity to get close to me, but they didn't expect to be beaten to it by others.

"Did you get my two thousand taels back?"

"Kagehachi brought it back."

"Okay, as long as the money is fine. Remember to report it to the government, hand over those bandits, and get rid of this harm to the people."

"Yes."

"You were also present at the incident with Granny He last time. What do you think of this incident? Do you think I should turn a blind eye or continue to find out the truth for the young lady?"

Yingwu did not want to get involved in this matter. The decision should be made by the master, and they were only responsible for execution: "No matter what the master plans, we must do our best."

"Hahahaha, that sounds nice. Let me check first to see if what happened back then is exactly what Granny He said, and then make a decision."

"Yes. How do we check it?"

Xu Yixing stood up and walked around the table twice, stretching his waist and legs: "How are we going to check? Why don't you start by telling me who gave you the money?"

Ying Wu was shocked. He never expected that his master would investigate his own people.

"I know that you Shadow Guards have independent financial channels, but even if you have channels, there must be someone to connect with this matter, right? I have sent all of you out before, and it is obvious that the money will be paid even if any of you are gone, so the contact person is not one of you nine."

Xu Yixing sent people back and forth for his previous missions, and changed them back and forth several times before he finally figured out the pattern.

"No one gave us money. We all went to the bank to collect it on the due date."

"Which bank?"

"It's the Tianyuan Silver Bank in Beijing."

Oh! It was just as Xu Yixing thought. Tianyuan Silver Bank was the largest bank in the Great Xia Dynasty, bar none.

There are a lot of people opening accounts and trading there, and no one knows what identity the other party uses to deposit money, so it is extremely difficult to check. This should be the reason why they chose Tianyuan Silver Bank in the first place.

"To save me the trouble of searching, why don't you tell me what you think is the source of this? Anyway, if I want to check, I will definitely let you do it. You can imagine how much work it will take."

Ying Wu thought about it for a moment, and if he really wanted to check the situation at Tianyuan Bank, he said without hesitation: "I think you can go ask the Bai Mansion."

"Huh?" How did we get back to Bai Fu?

"You said you only had to guess, and this is my guess."

This time it was Xu Yixing's turn to have a headache. If the Bai family supported the people and paid for them, then of course it was only natural.

But now my grandfather has passed away and even Nanny Bai is gone. Under such circumstances, is my cousin still willing to provide such a large financial support to the Shadow Guard?

Of course, it is also possible that these banknotes were spent in the name of businesses, ancestral property, etc., but my cousin's family has been in the Commander's Mansion for nearly twenty years, so it is impossible that they don't know anything about it.

"Okay, I understand. By the way, did you find Gao Yao?"

"They have been intercepted and are still on their way to the capital."

"Okay, remember to tell me as soon as she gets here. My birthday is on the 16th of next month, but I'll be married by then, so I think Dad will definitely celebrate it for me in advance. Then we can ask Dad if he did anything to let my mother down."

"Yes. So how do we cooperate?"

"No hurry, wait until I've been to the Bai Mansion. But if possible, please help me prepare some sleeping pills, just like the ones I used on my grandson You."

"Yes."