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

Xu Yixing pretended to be surprised: "Dad, does that mean someone stole Mom's things? Who is so bold!"

There was nothing wrong with Xu Yixing calling her mother. Bai was the legal wife and Yi Yan's legal mother. Even if he had never met her, she was still his legal mother, so his father didn't think too much about it.

"Xu Qian, go check it out." The old man's eyes widened with anger, his hands clenched, as if he had just learned about this situation. This is the expression he should have when someone stole something that he had treasured for his deceased wife for many years.

Xu Qian got the order and immediately turned around to go out to investigate. Xu Yixing held his father's arm and sat on the small round stool in the warehouse, looking at each other in silence.

Xu Yixing looked around the house, comparing it with her memory, which might not be accurate, searching for something missing from the room.

There was a large bicycle clock, a tribute from overseas, as tall as a man, but it is now missing.

There was also a silver plate with a pattern of birds paying homage to the phoenix. The mouth of the plate was as thick as a water jar, and it was perfect for putting ice cubes in the summer to cool off. My father had wanted to give it to Xu Yixing, but she didn't like silverware, so he gave up and it's not in the room now.

There seems to be a pure gold leopard statue, which is very expensive and is not in the room either...

Bai is really brave. These things are unique. If you take them out and trace them, you will definitely find them. Why is she so bold? Or is it because Huixiang doesn't know the importance of things and takes whatever she sees as valuable?

While he was thinking, Xu Qian came with a group of people to report, which shocked Xu Yixing. Where did these people come from?

"General, I have checked. The keyhole has signs of being pried open. It cannot be opened with a key. There must be a thief. Speak one by one!"

The first one to come up was an old man. Xu Yixing remembered him, or to be more precise, Yi Yan remembered him. He was the gatekeeper at the corner gate.

"Master, I am the gatekeeper at the corner gate. I did find something unusual a few days ago and I dare not hide it."

"explain."

"It was around the New Year. Madam sent out a batch of boxes from her room. They said they were old and useless. But I saw that the horse was struggling to pull them, so they didn't look empty. But I didn't dare to ask."

The second person was a maid. Yi Yan remembered that she was the woman who took over Cai's job of looking after the horses.

"Master, I have also discovered something. On the road that we use for horses to enter and exit, there were traces of maids coming in and out before the New Year last year. They seemed to be the maids of the main courtyard, but I didn't see clearly."

"Go down."

The third one was the lady working in the kitchen, and the fourth was the boy sweeping the main courtyard. Anyway, they all said that the people in the main courtyard were acting sneaky. No one mentioned Gu, but every word pointed directly at her.

I didn't expect that my dad had such a talent for being a judge. He produced so many witnesses in such a short time. It's amazing.

The fifth and final one was Dad’s confidant, the same person as Xu Qian. When Xu Yixing saw him come out, he knew that this was the last witness.

"General, I was ordered to investigate the whereabouts of lost property. I found our lost gold in a small pawn shop in the capital. I have confirmed with the shopkeeper and the clerk that it was a young man who pawned it. This is the portrait."

Old Man Xu took the paper and saw at a glance that the young man was clearly a woman dressed as a man!

Xu Yixing also saw it. It seems that Huixiang is not that stupid. She even knows how to put on makeup to change her appearance.

"Yan'er, who do you think this looks like?"

... Are you going to drag me into this? You can see it at a glance.

"This one seems a bit like the maidservant sister beside my mother."

"Hmph! Xu Qian, go and invite the Madam to my study, and then go and tie Huixiang up." The old man waved his hand, stood up from the stool, and took the group of people to the study in front, where he sat quietly waiting for Gu's arrival.

Gu was out today as well. She had just returned when she was called to the study by the master. She didn't know what had happened yet.

"Master, what happened? Why is it like a trial in court? It's so lively." Gu originally wanted to laugh it off to lighten the atmosphere, but when she saw the people outside the study and the silence in the inner room, she suddenly had a bad idea.

Seeing that no one paid attention to her, Gu Shuang felt bored, so she asked Huizhi to move a stool for her, and sat at the desk, waiting for the master to speak.

As soon as I sat down, I heard the guards from the outer courtyard come in and hurriedly report:

"Master, Huixiang has hanged herself."

Now Xu Yixing was shocked. What was going on? Didn’t Gu just come back? How could he have time to kill people to silence them?

Thinking of this, he immediately looked at Gu. Her mouth was so open that an apple could be stuffed in it, and she seemed even more shocked than himself.

Gu stood up quickly and said, "What? Master, Huixiang is someone close to me. She should have come with me to the banquet today. But she said she was not feeling well and asked for leave. How could she hang herself?"

Father Xu didn't look at her expression, but said in a businesslike manner: "She got it easy. She probably heard that we had a commotion just now, and she knew she couldn't hide it anymore, so she ended it herself!"

Gu immediately understood what this was all about and her face turned pale with fright, but she quickly calmed herself down.

"Master, what's the matter? Why can't I understand a word you say?"

"You don't know?" Old Man Xu quickly glanced at Gu Shuang's face, very disdainful. "Your good girl actually stole things from my warehouse and sold them! The pawnshop owner recognized her, and she has no way to deny it with evidence."

Gu Shuang clenched her handkerchief: "Master, the security of the storehouse in the mansion is so strict, how could she, a maid, get in?"

Oh, this Gu Shuang is pretty good, she even knows to hide herself first. The warehouse in the mansion is not the same place as my father's warehouse. Gu is determined to push the blame to Huixiang.

"What storehouse in the mansion? It's the storehouse behind my study. Madam has been in the mansion for 16 or 17 years. You must know it."

"The master has personally ordered that no one is allowed to enter the room at the back. I don't even have a key, so of course I don't know where it is."

Xu Yixing saw that Gu's words were watertight, and knew it was time for him to speak. He stepped forward and bowed:

"Mother, this is what happened. Today, my father mentioned my dowry and said he would take some of the things mother left behind for me, so we came to this storehouse. I didn't expect to find that it had been robbed.

There are many witnesses here who can prove that Sister Huixiang stole and sold things here. Who would have thought that the girl heard about it and hanged herself.

But my daughter finds it strange. The sisters of the Hui generation were all orphans that my father bought five years ago. They have not been in the mansion for many years like the Si generation. This Huixiang sister has no friends or relatives, so what does she need so much money for?"