After the mistress of the Marquis' Mansion was reborn, she divorced and married the prince!

Jingzhao Yin stroked his beard and pondered for a while.

He said to the chief clerk, "Calculate the Song family's losses and ask them to pay the full amount of money. If the Song family does not appeal again, the case can be closed and the prince can be released."

The chief clerk took orders, and the servant also got the news and went back to report.

Because the Jingzhao Yin had given instructions, the chief clerk did not dare to slack off and calculated a rough number overnight.

"Fifty thousand taels?!" Upon hearing the number, Sun fell back into her chair.

She immediately ran to the old lady's Chongming Hall and cried, "Now Hai'er hasn't been rescued yet, and Shan'er has been imprisoned again. How can I live like this? It's all Song Mingli's fault! What kind of wife did he marry? She's a disaster!"

The old lady snorted, "Why didn't you say that when you spent her dowry?"

Sun choked and immediately glared at the old lady in grievance, "It's not just me who spent it!"

The old lady snorted angrily, "If it weren't for you, the mother-in-law, who went too far! When Jingyou got into trouble, you sided with the wet nurse and chilled her heart! How could she go back to her parents' home!"

"If she hadn't returned to her parents' home, there wouldn't have been so many problems! As Changhai's sister-in-law, can she just sit there and do nothing?"

Sun snorted, "Isn't it too late to say that now?"

What if she doesn't protect her wet nurse and she betrays her?

"The most urgent task now is to rescue Shan'er and Changhai." Sun told the news that her servants had inquired about in Jingzhao Prefecture.

"Fifty thousand taels!" The old lady was also surprised. "Where can we get so much money from the Marquis' Mansion now?"

"The Jingzhao government said that if we don't have the money to pay compensation, we will put Shan'er in jail!" Sun started crying again. "The Marquis is in such a bad condition. If the two male members of the family are imprisoned, the Marquis's mansion will be ruined!"

The old lady pressed her forehead and her face turned blue.

She asked the nanny to help her up and walked tremblingly into the inner room.

Sun looked around curiously.

After a while, the old lady came out tremblingly again, holding a wooden box and a bunch of keys in her hands.

"Here is all my private savings. Take a look and see how much I can give you!" The old lady seemed to have aged by ten years in an instant.

Sun quickly took the wooden box.

When she went back and calculated, she couldn't help but marvel, "The old woman is quite rich. She has nearly ten thousand taels of private money! For so many years, she cried poor and pretended to be pitiful to Song Mingli, making Song Mingli willing to spend money on her!

"She also said that I am an evil mother-in-law? She is not an evil grandmother? At least I am Song Mingli's mother-in-law. She is a grandmother, but she actually took advantage of my daughter-in-law!"

Sun grumbled for a while, and then her face turned worried. Adding the money from the Marquis's residence, she only managed to collect 10,000 taels. There was still so much short!

Sun opened her storehouse like cutting off her own flesh, and took out her dowry from that year and the purchases she made over the years...

She had more than 10,000 taels of private money in her hands.

"When Lingyi got married, Song Mingli gave her a lot of dowry! Now that her family is in trouble, she has to ask her for help. Even if her family borrows money from her, she has to help them!" Sun loved her daughter, but her two sons were her dearest.

Now I have to save my son, so I can only owe my daughter first!

Nanny Zhao hurried to her brother-in-law's house.

Sun was looking forward to it, but not long after, Nanny Zhao came back with a sad face.

"She doesn't want to lend it?" Sun asked sharply.

Madam Zhao pulled the corners of her mouth, her smile was uglier than crying, "Second Miss said that it's not that she doesn't want to help her family, but she's having a hard time now. She has taken out everything she can, so there's no need to return it to her. We're all family, so what's the point of talking about borrowing and returning."

Sun took the banknote handed over by Madam Zhao and looked at it. "Only five hundred taels? When she got married, Song Mingli gave her a dowry worth more than this amount!"

Aunt Zhao sighed... To be honest, the Gu family members are all very similar in this respect, selfish.

Sun asked someone to inquire and see if the amount could be reduced.

Unexpectedly, all her former close friends who were like sisters to her were avoiding her.

Only her vicious sister-in-law told her, "I heard that your family broke the lock of someone else's storehouse and stole their dowry while your daughter-in-law was away, and was arrested by Jingzhao Prefecture?"

"Is this true or false? Everyone in the circle has heard rumors. If it is true, quickly pay up the money and get the person out! If the charges are proven, how can you face people in Kyoto in the future?"

Her sister-in-law has a really vicious tongue.

Sun was almost so angry that she died, but she also understood that this matter could not be delayed any longer!

She had no other choice but to sell some of the mansion's properties and shops, and secretly borrow money from a loan shark...

"When my son comes back, I will find a way to make up the money." Sun finally collected 50,000 taels and handed it over to Jingzhao Prefecture.

Song Mingli was still in the Song family, but he received account books, case closing notices, and silver sent by the government.

"Miss is amazing! She really got the money back!" Zi Su counted the account book over and over again.

"Are you a money-grubber? You've calculated it five times, and you're still not satisfied?" Molan teased her.

Zi Su smiled like a flower, "I'm happy! These are all prepared by the master for the young lady, but they are getting a bargain for those people in the Gu family..."

Zi Su was smiling at first, but before she finished speaking, she started crying.

"Alright, alright. Your daughter was too stupid before, but now she understands life! She won't be sucked by others anymore." Song Mingli comforted her, "From now on, let's just live our own lives."

"Yes!" Zi Su nodded heavily.

After receiving the silver, Song Mingli said he would not appeal again.

Over there, Jingzhao Prefecture released Gu Qingshan back home after being locked up in jail for a few days.

Gu Qingshan was beaten with a stick, and there was no doctor or medicine in the prison.

He lay on the bed, unable to get up. Hearing that his mother had sold her land and shop and even borrowed money at high interest rates to save him and his brother, he immediately developed a fever and fell seriously ill.

Although Gu Qingshan was released.

But his reputation of stealing his daughter-in-law's dowry spread quickly in the capital.

Men of letters have to maintain their reputation, so if outsiders didn't know about this, it would be fine. But once the news spread, it seemed like being friends with him became a disgrace.

Friends who used to have some contact with him now say that they are not familiar with him and have long since cut off contact with him.

He asked someone to inquire about the letter from the gentleman, but it was returned intact.

Gu Qingshan lay on the bed. Although Xiao Cui took care of his daily life, he felt like he was in a frying pan these past few days.

These days are the happiest days for Song Mingli in his two lives.

Although the Song family was guarded by the Yulin Army and she had no freedom to enter or leave, she felt free in her heart.

The only thing that worried her was Song Yanzhou who had left home.

"It's been more than half a month since my eldest brother left, right?" Song Yunqi muttered.

"It's been twenty-five days since today." Song Mingli said immediately, "I don't know if he has read the letter I wrote to my elder brother."

Song Mingli wanted to remind his elder brother to be careful of the third prince, but after his elder brother came back from the palace, he returned to his own courtyard.

The Song family didn't know when he left. Immediately afterwards, the Song family was placed under house arrest and could not go out without permission.

Song Mingli had no choice but to write a cryptic letter to remind his elder brother, hoping that he could understand it.

But Song Mingli didn't know that her letter was currently lying on the emperor's desk.