Chapter 512: Chapter 512 Yang Shicheng’s Secrets
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Obviously, those dowries weren’t given away as gifts but just transferred to somewhere that still belonged to him.
The problem with this is that there would be a record in the account books; it would be difficult for her to get all her mother’s dowries back now.
Unless both sides completely shed all pretenses of cordiality.
“What’s wrong?” Zhou Ying saw that her expression was wrong and quickly asked, “Is something wrong?”
Yang Wanning didn’t hide anything and told her what she had discovered. She then asked, “This is what 1 found. What else is hidden away from me?
“My father is just…”
Zhou Ying patted her on the shoulder and didn’t know how to comfort her.
It was inappropriate to scold her father in front of her.
Nothing else mattered now anyway, as everything was too late.
In the end, Zhou Ying could only say, “The most important thing for you now is to stay alive. As long as you grow up safely, we can deal with the rest later.”
Yang Wanning nodded and then returned the list to her. “Sister-in-law, please help me keep this. I’ll return to ask you for it when I need it.”
“Alright, don’t break off with your family when you return. You have to leave a way out for you and your brother.”
“I understand. 1 will be careful.” Yang Wanning reassured Zhou Ying and went back with Chunxi.
When night came, Zhou Ying mentioned this matter to Gu Chengrui.
Gu Chengrui heard this and said, “The First Prince’s wedding date is set for the 28th of this month. Speaking of which, it’s less than half a month away.
“Maybe you can go and take a look to see if the dowry that the Yang family has prepared for Yang Wanyu consists of anything from my late aunt.
“If there is, it means that Yang Shicheng has long had these evil thoughts.
“Perhaps he had played a part in the Gu family being raided back then.”
“Got it. It seems that it’s better for a couple to marry with equal social status. Otherwise, it’s not surprising for something like this to happen.
“Especially marriages where the woman is from a higher status.”
Gu Chengrui nodded in agreement but knew that wasn’t the scariest part.
What’s worst was marrying a man with terrible intentions from the start. On the one hand, they wanted to take advantage of their wife but still wanted to maintain their dignity.
As time passed, the man’s thinking would get increasingly distorted.
Gu Chengrui got up and said, “I’ll go get busy and make a pot of chicken soup later.”
After saying that, he went to the other side of the river and got busy.
Zhou Ying went outside her warehouse and began to check on the situation of the various Mother Goddess Temples. After confirming that there were no abnormalities, she blessed two new little statues and went directly to the Yang family.
However, she did not just check Yang Wanyu’s dowry. Instead, she started a carpet search at the Yang residence.
What she didn’t expect was that Mrs. Cui and her daughter didn’t have much private property, and they didn’t have many valuable things.
Even the entire Yang family seemed to be very poor on the surface.
However, she found a secret room in the rockery next to the Yang family’s pond, and the things inside almost blinded her.
There were over a hundred boxes of silver ingots worth a hundred taels each and over fifty boxes of gold ingots.
In total, it was six million taels of silver.
More importantly, more than half of the silver was official silver ingots, which meant that he had embezzled them from somewhere.
It was weird, as the amount of wealth hidden away here was not supposed to be possible for the Yang family.
After all, Yang Shicheng was a commoner with no prominent family background.
He had only been the Minister of Revenue for three to four years, and the wealth inside this secret room was too much.
She began to search carefully in the secret room. As expected, there was another small room inside. There were some antique paintings and calligraphy in it, and all of them were exquisite, some of them coming from the palace.
There were a few account books and letters in a secret compartment on the wall as well.
Zhou Ying read them one by one. The account books mainly recorded the gold and silver outside, and she memorized them carefully.
The records started twelve years ago, but there weren’t many initially. Also, many of them were related to the Gu family..