The legitimate daughter returns, and the princess goes crazy

Bai Lu is now a first-class maid beside her. She is steady and careful. Moreover, she was born in a wealthy family and is better at managing the household and accounting than Shi Ying and Ling Yu.

Bai Lu understood that the young lady was using her and giving her the opportunity to perform, so she made up her mind to help the young lady do things well in order to repay her kindness.

Late at night, the breeze is gentle and the moonlight is long.

"It's really outrageous. I just found out today that the young lady's dowry was almost taken away by those ants."

Just as Mu Yan was admiring the moonlight, she heard Nanny Lin's angry voice and hurried footsteps coming from afar.

When Nanny Lin learned that someone else was coveting the lady's dowry, she immediately ran to the accounting office with Bai Lu to count it, despite the fatigue of the journey, only to find that the entire warehouse was almost empty.

According to the laws of the Northern Qi Dynasty, a woman's dowry was inherited by her children, and a wife's dowry should have been inherited by the eldest daughter and the eldest son.

It's not just about money, but also about confidence. After all, whether the eldest lady is in the Mu family or gets married in the future, she will need money to manage everything.

Bai Lu helped Nanny Lin sit on a chair, poured her a glass of water, and reported to Mu Yan, "We compared the dowry list that Nanny Lin brought from the Han family with the items in the warehouse, and about half of the items were inexplicably missing. This also includes the things that the royal family gave to Han Yunyan when she got married and when she was granted the title."

Mu Yan sneered in her heart. After all, they came from a humble family. It would be fine if they took ordinary things, but if they dared to take things bestowed by the emperor, they were really courting their lives.

Bai Lu continued, "Like the twelve-bead jade headpiece, two of which are missing. The famous paintings by the painter Jiang Baishi, originally had four paintings of spring, summer, autumn and winter, but now only three of them are left. There is also the dragon and phoenix hairpin that Madam Han prepared for Madam when she got married, but the phoenix hairpin is also missing. There are also many jewelry, antiques and famous paintings that are missing or have been swapped. I have recorded them all in this book."

Switching? If these words were spoken by Shi Ying and Ling Yu, they might not be true, but Bai Lu's father had once been in a high position, so he had naturally seen a lot of good things. She could tell whether something was real or fake at a glance.

Mu Yan glanced at Bai Lu and motioned her to continue, "The most outrageous thing is that I just checked the account books reported by the shops under Madam's name in the past two years. It turns out that three-quarters of the shops have reported losses every year. A considerable amount of money on the books is missing every year. These shops are very famous in the capital, and many dignitaries come and go. If you say that such shops are also losing money, no one will believe it if it gets out."

Shi Ying was also very angry after hearing this, "It's really abominable. The lady's dowry was all left for our young lady, but now it has been taken away by outsiders. Young lady, just let Ling Yu put all these termites in a sack and beat them up in the middle of the night."

Everyone was amused by her words.

"Luckily, I have Bai Lu to help me. She had people put all the things in the warehouse separately by category, and reclassified the account books. She also marked the contents of each of the thick account books for the shops, and put a label on those pages. When I want to look at them, I don't have to look for them again. I can find them at a glance. That's why we can organize them so quickly. Otherwise, I don't know how many days it would take."

Nanny Lin looked at Bai Lu with admiration. She felt relieved to have such a capable person helping the young lady.

Mu Yan knew that she had not made a mistake in choosing the right person. Tang Yi was in charge of the entire Jiangzhou's finances. Although she was not as talented as Tang Wen, she had learned a lot from him and was more sensitive to financial matters.

She picked up the account book on the table and looked through it carefully, her eyes were dark and unclear. What she cared about was not the money, because with Tang Wen's help, she would make back the money a hundred times or a thousand times. What she cared about was these people who were drinking her blood like locusts.

She wanted these people to vomit out everything they had eaten.

"Sister Bailu is awesome." Ling Yu also joked.

Bai Lu was a reserved person, and her face suddenly flushed. "Stop praising me, it's nothing."

"Oh my, you're blushing, Miss, look."

Shi Ying also stood up and teased.

The entire Qiyun Pavilion was filled with joy. Mu Yan's eyes were filled with tears. Fortunately, in this life, Nanny Lin, Shi Ying, Ling Yu were all here, and Bai Lu was also here.

On the second day, the entire Mu Mansion was decorated with lights and servants were coming in and out, making it very lively.

A few days ago, Mu Yan received news that people from the third branch of the Mu family came to Beijing today. Although they were called the third branch of the Mu family, they actually had no blood relationship with the Mu family.

At this time, Ning'an Hall was full of people. Near noon, a group of people came in from outside Ning'an Hall. As soon as the leading man entered the door, he walked quickly to the front hall with tears in his eyes and knelt beside the old lady's legs.

"Mom, I haven't seen you for many years. Are you doing well?"

Madam Mu held up her sleeves and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"Lie'er, I never thought that we would be able to meet each other in this lifetime."

"Thanks to my eldest brother for helping me get through the connections, I was transferred to the capital."

Although they are all ninth-rank officials, local officials are always inferior to Beijing officials.

Mu Lie was originally the son of Madam Mu's neighbor. His surname was Li. After both of his neighbors died, the old lady took pity on him and adopted him as her adopted son.

After Mu Jun and Mu Hong became officials, he changed his surname to Mu in order to benefit from the Mu family's fame.

Mu Jun looked down on Mu Lie's behavior, but he was able to please the old lady. Some time ago, the old lady threatened to go on a hunger strike and asked Mu Jun to use his connections to transfer him to the capital.

While everyone was moved by this scene of deep love between mother and son, Mu Yan sneered in her heart and sneered at the scene.

She knew very well what kind of person her cheap third uncle was.

Not only is he lazy and a gambler, he has been a parasite in the Mu family. The Mu family has helped him pay off his gambling debts of thousands of taels. He is also selfish and hypocritical. He is willing to sacrifice his own daughter's lifelong happiness for money. There is no need to say much about his character.

Following him in were his wife Zou, his daughter Mu Xue, and his son Mu Yang, who was about six or seven years old.

Mu Xuenian is one year younger than Mu Yan, and the same age as Mu Wan, but older by several months.

She was wearing a white dress, her eyebrows and features were picturesque, her temperament was as graceful as orchid, she was graceful and gentle, and she stood quietly behind her mother. When her eyes met Mu Yan, she nodded slightly to her.

Mu Yan didn't have a deep impression of her. She only remembered hearing people say that Mu Lie and his wife betrothed her to his boss as a concubine, and that man was older than him.

Afterwards, Mu Lie was promoted, and the whole capital city was rumored to have sold his daughter for fame and fortune.

After Mu Yan found out about this, she wanted to pick up a sword and kill her third uncle. The entire Mu family was being stabbed in the back because of him.

But she had already severed ties with the Mu family at that time, so even if she was angry, it was not appropriate for her to get involved in the Mu family's affairs.