Kick out the general as soon as you are reborn

The next night, a gloomy breeze blew, blowing the dead leaves off the branches.

Liu Yanyan sat back in the round-backed chair with pear blossoms, staring quietly at the dozen people who were being pressed down by the servants and kneeling on the ground. She looked at Uncle Li, the bookstore owner, who was kneeling below and sighed slightly, "What are you thinking? Is the monthly salary I give you not enough? You are embezzling money? Look at you, how much have you embezzled from the shop? Who gave you the courage?"

Shopkeeper Li lowered his head and said in shame, "Princess, I am guilty. I dare not do anything. The monthly salary given by the princess is enough. However, I redeemed myself a long time ago. My son is studying in the academy. Our family is not well-off. That's why I had to do it."

"Please have mercy, my princess. I really don't dare to do it anymore."

The shopkeepers next to Shopkeeper Li also began to beg for mercy.

"Please have mercy, Princess!"

Liu Yanyan looked at the old face of Shopkeeper Li, picked up his account book, and said speechlessly, "Shopkeeper Li, I didn't know that it would cost tens of thousands of taels of silver to train a scholar? This is probably not for studying! This is enough for drinking and prostitution. Is this for studying? Or for enjoying life?"

Shopkeeper Li looked up in surprise and said, "Princess, how could you find out all of this? You can't possibly see it all!" How is this possible? The princess is a woman, how could she see so many problems!

Liu Yanyan looked at Shopkeeper Li in silence and said, "I am the princess. I don't need to ask for help. These account books are checked by the old accountant. I am just not proficient in business. It's not like I have no one to use me. If I can't understand or can't see, how can they not see it?"

Shopkeeper Li fell to the ground, muttering in despair, "It's over, it's all over, please spare my life, Princess, please have mercy on me."

Liu Yanyan looked at him like this, thinking that he was also an old man, and said coldly, "If you make up the money on the account, I will not send you to report to the police, so that you can keep your innocent identity. Think about your son in the academy."

Shopkeeper Li then kowtowed until his forehead was bruised. "Thank you, Princess, for your kindness. I will return the money even if it was borrowed."

Liu Yanyan waved her hands helplessly. Seeing him like this, she knew he still had some money. "Uncle Li, wait until you pay me back, and I will arrange for a new manager to come over. You can go home and retire! My shop can't afford you."

Shopkeeper Li then staggered away step by step, almost falling down several times.

The shopkeepers kneeling below looked ashen as they watched Old Li leave. "Princess, we don't have that much silver!"

"Princess, please be lenient with us! We have no money."

"Princess, please give us a way to survive!"

"Princess, please spare my life!"

"Princess, please be merciful to us as we are old people! This little bit of money is just a drop in the bucket for you."

"That's right! Princess, please forgive me!"

"If it weren't for us, these shops would have been taken over by others long ago. You wouldn't have been able to live so well."

Liu Yanyan said coldly, "Oh, really? Then I should be grateful to you parasites?"

"Princess, how can you say that? Without us, where would you get the money?"

"That's right, Princess, you can't be ungrateful!"

"Princess, even if we have no credit, we have worked hard! You can't kick us when we are down."

"Princess, you can't do this!"

"Princess, please spare your life!"

Liu Yanyan looked coldly at the shopkeepers below, not wanting to argue with them. She turned to Butler Zhou and said, "They are stubborn and unrepentant. Send them directly to the Ministry of Justice and accuse them of being disloyal and embezzling the master's wealth!"

Butler Zhou looked at these people and nodded slightly, "Princess, I will do it right away! I will make sure that everything is done properly."

Several people begged for mercy, "Princess, please spare my life!"

"Princess, please spare my life. I am willing to return the silver."

"Princess, woooo ...

"Princess~"

"Please wooo."

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Liu Yanyan looked at these people who were blocked from speaking, and then she said coldly, "Remember to confiscate all the money they embezzled, not a single cent can be left behind."

Butler Zhou ordered the guards and servants to drag these slaves out. "Princess, I will definitely take care of this for you."

Only then did Liu Yanyan nod slightly, indicating that Butler Zhou could leave.

Yuzhu brought a bowl of pigeon soup to the princess with concern, and said, "Princess, please drink a few sips of soup. It's so late and you haven't eaten yet. You must be feeling upset in your stomach."

Liu Yanyan took the soup bowl and sipped it. She couldn't help but say, "I didn't expect it! They have settled down in Beijing thanks to the shop, and they even think that I should owe them a favor! It's as if I haven't given them any monthly salary. It's really abominable! Just a dozen of them embezzled hundreds of thousands of taels of silver."

He was so angry that he couldn't drink the soup. He said to Liu Wu, "Go back and inform Dad. Ask Dad to arrange for someone to check the accounts of the shop left by my mother. Those who embezzle will be sent to the authorities, and those who lose money will be closed and sold."

Liu Wu replied respectfully, "Okay, Princess. I will go and deliver the message to the Master right away."

When Liu Yanyan saw Liu Wu leaving, she gently picked up the spoon and took a sip of the soup. The fragrant taste in her mouth spread on her tongue.

Yuzhu was puzzled, "Princess, why do you want to close the store? These are all Madam's hard work! It would be a shame to close it down!"

Liu Yanyan said helplessly, "I'm not cut out for business. I'm lucky to be able to hold on to what I have now. My mother's business is too big for me to manage."

Yuzhu looked regretful.

Liu Yanyan was more open-minded. "Don't think too much. This is business. The shop has been losing money, and I can't keep it forever! What my mother wants to give me is support, not a burden."

Yuzhu nodded and said, "Princess, you are right. I am the one who has gone insane. Please drink more soup. Dinner will be served soon."

Liu Yanyan finished a small bowl of soup and said calmly, "Well, I'm so angry that I'm not even hungry anymore. Instead of keeping these hungry wolves, I might as well just kick them away!"

Seeing that the princess was about to get up, Yuzhu supported her and said, "Don't be angry. It's not worth getting angry over these people. Didn't Butler Zhou already send them to the authorities?"

Liu Yanyan nodded slightly and said, "Don't be angry! Let's go! There's no point in being angry."

That night, the homes of more than a dozen shopkeepers were kicked open by the guards of the palace.

"Search them! These slaves dared to embezzle the money from the princess's shop. They are so bold."

When the residents nearby heard this, they all closed their doors, fearing that the disaster would happen to them. They were also anxious and kept their ears to the wall to listen.

"How is this going?"

"It seems to be the owner's stuff?"

"How much are you greedy for? Are you so angry?"

"I'm afraid it's quite a lot. Just listen to the sound of the footsteps and you'll know that what they're carrying is very heavy."

"I'm afraid he's quite courageous."

"When I came back, I saw the steward of the palace escorting a group of people to the Ministry of Justice. This case is probably not a small one."

"Hush, the sound is getting closer."

In just one night, the news that the princess' servants had embezzled money became known to everyone. Looking at the boxes of things that had been found, they could no longer sit still and began to check the accounts.