Xie Zhou was in a dilemma, ultimately driven by profit.
But he still had some sense and didn’t take the silver first. Instead, he asked Gu Nian, "What information do you want to find out?"
"The third house down the alley on the back street of the town, whose house is it? Who lives there?"
Xie Zhou quickly pushed the silver forward, "Little girl, if you want to find out other things, as long as it’s something that happened in Qingshan Town, I can tell you a thing or two. But about the matters in the back street alley, I’m afraid I can’t help."
"That house? It wouldn’t happen to be the one my father bought, would it?" Gu Nian’s eyes were sharp, and she asked directly.
"I’ve said, no comment," Xie Zhou was obviously becoming somewhat impatient.
Gu Nian’s lips curled up sarcastically, although she took out another silver ingot from her pocket, "The so-called ’no comment’ is just because the benefit is not enough, right? Or, you name a price, how much silver would make you talk?"
In the end, Gu Nian spent 50 taels of silver to get the information she wanted from Xie Zhou.
As she expected, the house was indeed bought by Lin Sanshui, and a brother and sister moved in ten days ago, the sister being about fifteen or sixteen years old and not in great health.
Xie Zhou knew this so well because he was the one who sold the house.
Rushing back to the inn, regardless of Erhu being busy with work, Gu Nian pulled him over and asked, "Second brother, did Dad take silver from here?"
That house cost five hundred taels of silver, the family’s silver was kept by their mother, and it was impossible for her not to know if so much was gone at once, so it could only be that Lin Sanshui took it from the Hundred Flavors Inn.
"No, I haven’t heard that Dad took the silver, why don’t you go to the kitchen and ask Big Brother?" Erhu said blankly, "I can’t even recognize a single word, and I don’t usually deal with account matters. If there’s anything with the accounting office, they all go to Big Brother."
Turning her head, Gu Nian walked to the back, found Dahu, and asked the same question. Only then did she learn from Dahu that a few days after the New Year, Lin Sanshui took six hundred taels of silver away from here and told Dahu to keep it secret.
If it wasn’t for Gu Nian’s serious look, Dahu wouldn’t have told her.
After saying this, Dahu then asked her, "Little sister, did something happen?"
Gu Nian, still young and not Lin Sanshui’s biological child, thought over and over again and then told Dahu about it.
Dahu immediately became furious, banging his fist on the stove, blood flowing, but he didn’t care about his pain, "How could Dad do such a thing? How can he face Mom?"
Gu Nian took a deep breath, she also couldn’t believe it. Lin Sanshui and Mrs. Jiang had always been loving, discussing everything together, unlike other families who treated the wife poorly.
The family’s life was getting better and better, with good days right ahead, how could he have such thoughts?
A total of six hundred taels of silver, who on earth was worth him spending so much to settle!
"Big brother, now is not the time to be entangled with this, we should think about how to properly solve this matter!" If Mrs. Jiang at home knew what Lin Sanshui was doing outside, how heartbroken would she be?
"Yes, we must solve this matter, keep it from Mom, under no circumstances let her know."
Dahu knew that his mother’s temper was fierce. When they were young, due to a quarrel with Dad, she was so angry that she almost hanged herself. Fortunately, she was discovered in time and a life was saved.