Mother Kong was neat in her work and soon "invited" the shopkeepers to Rong'antang. The old lady looked at the account books while listening to Zhou's details.

"I haven't sent anyone to ask about the harvest on the village shop. I just look at these. The annual expenses in the mansion are more than 10,000 taels taken away from them."

Although Mrs. Xiao has given me many years of giving, she still remembers many things. The more she looks at the account book, the darker her face becomes.

"Go and invite the third lady over."

The third wife has been in charge of the gift for so many years, and her family is all over the mansion. As early as when Kong's mother led the shopkeepers into the mansion, she received the letter and immediately changed her face.

"What's going on? Didn't Zhou see any clues in the account book? Why did he suddenly send someone to investigate? Those idiots, Kong's mother asked them to come, so obedient, forget who was their master?"

She sat in front of the dressing table and asked the maid to comb her hair. She turned her head in anger. When her hair was pulled, she immediately twisted her face and slapped her backhand.

"Get down with clumsy stuff."

"yes."

The maid who was combing her hair hurriedly covered her face and retreated.

Madam Jin stepped forward and continued to put on makeup on her, "Madam, it's over. I'm afraid the old lady will come to pass the message soon. You have to think about it and say something."

"What else can I do?"

The third lady's face was cold and her face in the mirror was twisted and almost ugly. "I think Zhou was a pickled guy who had never seen the world. Who would have thought that she was so careful? As soon as she took over Zhongfu, she caught me off guard. The old man named Kong was brought from her mother's house. She didn't eat it, so she couldn't buy it. I don't know what method she used, but she actually brought those old fried dough sticks into the mansion. Once the account book was checked, it was all over."

Madam Jin knew this naturally and sighed.

"I have advised you a long time ago. You are the wife of Xiao's house. You are decent enough and have the best food, clothing and expenses. Why do you make a profit from it? Once you find out, I'm afraid the master will..."

"What's the use of saying this now? Why don't you think of a way to explain it to the old lady."

The third lady was anxious and patient. When she heard her talk nonsense, it was like adding fuel to the fire. A golden hairpin slapped on the makeup table and directly fell down the beads on it.

Madam Jin silently said, "It seems that it can't be hidden anymore, so I can only tell the truth..."

The third lady waved her sleeves, and all the rouge box ivory comb snails were swung to the ground.

"Tell the truth? If you ask me to tell the truth, isn't that equivalent to falling into the trap? With this criminal record, how can I grab the right of the gift from Zhou in the future? Tell me!"

Madam Jin lowered her head, "The second wife just took over the Zhongfu. She will definitely ask the old lady for such a thing, and the old lady will definitely investigate thoroughly. She will send someone to the outside world for a brief inquiries and you will understand everything. You use the private property you bought for yourself by the Zhonggong of the mansion, and..."

"Shut up!"

The third lady's face was as dark as a pot, and she was already confused.

She didn't understand why she was so seamless, how did Zhou discover the clues?

At this time, Madam Xi came in. She was still respectful, "Three Lady, the old lady, let you go there."

The third lady's face changed and she said calmly: "My mother is looking for me, but is there anything wrong?"

Madam Xi smiled, "I'm just a message, you'll know when you go over."

This old guy!

The third lady secretly hated her heart, but she had to follow her.

As soon as I entered the house, I felt the depression of the atmosphere in the house. When I looked again, the managers knelt on the ground. Look at the way they looked, were they all tricked?

The third lady felt a sudden slap in her heart, and she didn't even dare to look at the old lady's face.

"Mother."

She walked to the center and called out tremblingly.

The old lady raised her eyelids and looked at her with a very light expression, but in the eyes of the guilty third lady, she was not angry and powerful.

"I'll give you a chance, tell me."

The old lady's tone was still calm, "I'll say it after thinking about it, let's make it clear."

The third lady saw the stack of account books at first sight, and her heart skipped a beat again, "Mother, I am unfair. I have been in charge of the internal affairs of the mansion for so many years, and I have devoted myself to it. I have no credit and worked hard. Don't listen to the villain's slander..."

As soon as he said that, Madam Jin couldn't help but sigh.

The old lady interrupted her with a snorting smile, "I didn't say anything, but you came up and shouted for justice. Then you tell me, who has slandered me in my ears, and why did you wrong you?"

The third lady immediately lost her beauty.

If you don't tell me, you are talking about her now.

If you are not guilty and afraid, why should you start to distinguish before the old lady has asked for guilt?

Zhou sat in the lower left head and said nothing.

"lady."

Seeing the haze in the old lady's eyes, Madam Jin was worried that her master would not be able to tell what she shouldn't say, so she hurriedly reminded, "There are all evidences and physical evidence, don't tell me again. Now, the old lady has not told the master about this. If you make any more arguments and make trouble in front of the master, you will let those little ones laugh at it. Especially the Zhong family..."

An enlightenment.

The third lady knelt down immediately, "Mother, I know my mistake. I thought An Ge'er and Shu Jie'er would marry when they grow up. They are both legitimate daughters in the mansion, representing the face of our Xiao Mansion. The betrothal gift and dowry must be lost. My mother's family is not a prominent family, and even if I add all my dowry, it will be a drop in the bucket. There are also Liang Ge'er and Zhen Jie'er. Although they are not my biological child, I am their legitimate mother. My future future will also be worrying about me, my legitimate mother... My mother is old and I will not ask about these trivial matters long ago, so I dare not bother me. I was obsessed with it for a while and then became greedy for the mother of the mansion. Mother, I really know my mistake and I will never dare to do it again..."

She said and cried, with regret and helplessness on her face, and was still somewhat aggrieved and forced.

The dignified mother devoted herself to the future of her son and daughter, and did not hesitate to be greedy for the prince. She was exposed and she had to kneel down in front of her mother-in-law to apologize.

How pitiful.

Zhou lowered his eyes, his face calm.

Now she finally understood why she was deceived by her sister's pitifulness back then. In terms of hypocrisy and acting skills, she was indeed ashamed of herself.

The third lady apologized for every word, but every word was exonerating herself, and she even criticized her villain's heart openly and secretly.

If she retorted at this time, she would be aggressive and truly ill-willed.

Silence works better than thousands of words.

Sure enough, when the old lady saw her crying, she not only did not have sympathy and understanding, but her face turned darker, "You are still quibbling!"

This anger was so frightened that the third lady was so scared that she even forgot to cry.

"You have to ask me to find someone to go to the government office to find out all your private property before you can say it?" The old lady looked full of fire. "Most of the shops purchased in the government over the years are your dowry. You use the money from my Xiao family to post to your parents' home. Most of your silk and satin jewelry shops are sold to other buyers at half the price. If it weren't for today, I wouldn't know that my Xiao family has raised an ungrateful wolf in recent years."

The third lady never expected that the old lady had found these things, her face turned pale as snow. Her mind exploded with a blank sound, and she had long forgotten how to excuse herself.

"explain!"

The old lady was furious, "How much have you been greedy over the years? Explain it clearly to me. If I can't explain it clearly, I don't mind inviting your mother, brother and sister-in-law to come. Ask me, how filial they have raised a daughter and treat my Xiao family as a sucker, and it's such a wolf-hearted and dog-hearted."

"No, no, don't invite my mother over."

The third lady was full of panic. She was really scared, "Mother, I was wrong, I really knew I was wrong, I would never dare to..."

The old lady's face was frosty, her eyes were full of hatred and disappointment for the third lady.

"I think you are a family, but I don't want to be so superficial. But I was wrong. Your kindness is so kind, and the children you teach are not as good as you. From tomorrow, Sister Shu will come over and I will raise them myself. Sister Zhen and the others will also return them to their biological mother for upbringing. My Xiao family's children cannot be delayed by a narrow-minded woman like you."

The third lady widened her eyes leisurely and said hysterically: "No, no, mother, you can't do this. Since ancient times, my concubine has not been a mother. I am a legitimate mother and a illegitimate child, so I can only recognize me as my mother. I am the main wife, the Ming matchmaker of the Xiao family, whom the wife married back from the eighth sedan chair. You do this to slap me in the face and let a group of things that are not allowed to come to trample on me."

"You still know how to be shameless?" The old lady looked cold, "If you know the face, you can't do such despicable things. If you still know that you are the wife, you should know that being a wife should be generous and tolerant, rather than being petty and make things difficult for your children everywhere. I know that you don't like those concubines of Ahran, you are the wife of Zhengtou. If you scold me a few times on weekdays, I will turn a blind eye. But unexpectedly, you have become more aggressive, using public for personal gain and want to shirk responsibility. Look, where do you have the decentness of a wife of Zhengtou now?"

The old lady became more and more angry as she spoke, "Tell me, how much have you greedy over the years and where have you spent all this money? If you don't explain it clearly, when Ahran returns home, you will explain to him yourself. What he will do at that time depends on your luck."
Chapter completed!