Chapter 250 Returning the Dowry
Chapter 250 Returning the Dowry
Before, every time he was in Jiang Xiyu's room, she would come to make trouble and always ruin his plans.
And she is indeed a troublemaker. If she were not around Lin Rouyu, Lin Rouyu might be more obedient and cause him less trouble.
So he had to get rid of this maid today.
Lin Rouyu was reluctant to see Shuye being executed, but when Xu Rui said that, she instantly thought of what had happened several times before.
It seemed to be just as Xu Rui said. If Ye Zi hadn't instigated her, perhaps nothing would have happened. She wouldn't have been so angry at Jiang Xiyu and lost the upper hand. She wouldn't have been disliked by Brother Rui, and a rift would have arisen between them.
When Lin Rouyu thought about this, her desire to save Shu Ye faded.
Xu Rui took the opportunity to wink at the guards, and the guards immediately understood and stepped forward to drag the leaves out.
"Miss, save me." Shu Ye never expected that Lin Rouyu would be coaxed away by Xu Rui with just a few words, and she shouted in panic.
Lin Rouyu pretended not to hear.
Liu Ye on the side became anxious, but she could only watch. She didn't dare to speak because of her low status.
Her mind was in turmoil. Shuye was scheming against Lin Rouyu in every way and was willing to let her abandon him. Her future situation would not be very good.
Soon, the screaming of leaves could be heard outside.
After a while, the guard came in and reported, "My Lord, the girl and the slave girl are dead. What should we do with their bodies?"
Without waiting for Lin Rouyu to speak, Xu Rui snorted coldly, "Treat her now the same way you treated the previous guilty slave. Drag her directly to the mass grave."
"Yes." The guard responded and dragged the body of the leaf outside away.
When Liu Ye saw Shuye being beaten to death, she was still frightened and felt infinitely sad in her heart.
Xu Rui looked at Liu Ye again, "From now on, you must take good care of your daughter. You must not neglect her in any way, and you must not instigate her to do anything bad."
"I dare not." Liu Ye did not dare to cry and responded immediately.
Xu Rui said to Lin Rouyu again, "Since you are missing leaves, I will send two more maids to serve you."
"Thank you, Brother Rui." Lin Rouyu said with a touched look on her face.
Little did she know that Xu Rui wanted to replace Lin Rouyu's people with his own in order to better control her, but she foolishly thought that Xu Rui was doing it for her own good.
Liu Ye saw everything and dared not say anything.
It would be better if there were two more maids, so that Lin Rouyu's attention could be diverted and she wouldn't be the only one to be harmed in the future.
Lin Rouyu thought of something and looked at Xu Rui. "I sent two letters home before, but they didn't reply to either of them. I don't know if something went wrong or if something happened at home."
After being away from home for a long time, Lin Rouyu was a little worried about the situation at home in Hongzhou.
Xu Rui's eyes flickered slightly, and he said comfortingly, "I haven't heard of anything happening in Hongzhou. I guess something went wrong while sending the letter. Next time you want to send a letter, just give it to me and I'll help you pass it on. There won't be any mistakes again."
"Yeah." Lin Rouyu nodded emotionally.
Xu Rui seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly said, "If you are worried about your family, why don't you go back and take a look."
"No, I don't want to go back." Lin Rouyu refused excitedly.
She had finally gotten Xu Rui to bring her to Kyoto, and now she was living in Xu Rui's house and close to him, so she didn't want to go back to that poor village.
Xu Rui wanted to go to Hongzhou. After all, he had something very important to discuss with Lin Songwen, so he coaxed her, "You've been away for a long time. You must be missing home and your father. Why don't I take you back to see him and then bring you back."
"Really?" Lin Rouyu didn't expect Xu Rui to do this for her, and she was immediately overjoyed.
"Yeah." Xu Rui nodded seriously.
After coaxing Lin Rouyu, Xu Rui walked out of her room.
"My Lord," Deji stepped forward to report, "I just received a message that the main force will arrive early tomorrow morning."
"I understand." Xu Rui's eyes were deep. He hoped that he could successfully deceive Gulin in the big show tomorrow.
Thinking of something, Xu Rui looked at Deji and said, "Go to the villa and pick out two maids who are good at martial arts. Send them to Xiangyu Garden for Lin Rouyu."
Deji was stunned for a moment. Xu Rui was softened by Lin Rouyu's tender words again.
He had doubts in his mind, but he didn't dare to ask, so he agreed immediately.
Thinking of something, Deji asked, "My Lord, are we going to move back to the Marquis' Mansion today?"
"We'll move tomorrow."
He wanted to move out immediately, but they were staying in the Princess's Mansion temporarily, which was a reward from Gu Wei to him. If he wanted to move back now, he had to tell Gu Wei, and he couldn't make any mistakes now.
"My Lord, the owner of the cloth shop brought a lot of boxes here, and he has been waiting in the main hall for over an hour."
Hearing this, Xu Rui walked directly towards the main hall.
The cloth shop owner, who was waiting in the main hall and sweating profusely, saw Xu Rui and hurried forward to greet him, "My Lord."
Xu Rui nodded, glanced at the dozen or so large red boxes in front of him, and sat down in the upper seat.
"I've got everything."
"Everything has been brought here according to the Marquis's instructions."
Xu Rui gestured to open it.
When everything was opened, Deji was stunned by the sight of the silver in front of him.
What does the Marquis want to do with so much silver?
After checking the silver, Xu Rui let the cloth shop owner leave.
Xu Rui asked the guards to carry the silver and followed him to the Yonglin Marquis Mansion.
When Xu Rui came over, Jiang Xiyu had just taken Qing'er and the others to put their things away.
Seeing Xu Rui coming over, Jiang Xiyu suddenly frowned.
Seeing her like this, Xu Rui felt uncomfortable and winked at the guards.
The guards immediately carried the box into the house.
After they finished carrying the boxes, Xu Rui waved to them, "Everyone, leave."
"Yes." The guards responded and bowed and retreated.
After everyone left, Xu Rui opened all the boxes.
Dozens of boxes of silver appeared in front of Jiang Xiyu. Jiang Xiyu looked at Xu Rui in confusion, "What does this mean?"
"These are your dowry silvers, return them in full."
Jiang Xiyu stared at the white silver in a daze, and could no longer tell whether it was the one million taels of silver she had put into the Marquis's mansion.
But she knew that she had finally got the money back.
Now that the money was back, Jiang Xiyu felt relieved, as if the burden that had been weighing on her heart had finally been lifted off her shoulders.
Xu Rui stepped forward and wanted to hold Jiang Xiyu's hand, but Jiang Xiyu subconsciously took a step back.
Xu Rui's heart suddenly felt like being pinched by someone, causing a dull pain.
He glanced at Jiang Xiyu, but didn't make any further moves. "Xi'er, I know you have a lot of questions right now, but I can't explain them too clearly for now. Give me some time, and I'll tell you whatever you want to know."
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