Marrying a rich man after rebirth: The daily life of a legitimate daughter

The old lady looked at the disheveled Li Wanrong with disdain in her eyes: "Look at how you look now, how disgraceful."

Li Wanrong was furious and complained first: "It was the servants in the old lady's yard who didn't know the rules. I didn't want to come here, but they dragged me here."

The old lady was so angry that Li Wanrong laughed: "You are so brave, I came to find you in person, and you dare not come, and you don't call yourself a concubine in front of me, do you take me, the old lady, seriously?"

At this moment, Li Wanrong was intimidated by the powerful aura of the old lady. If it were any other time, she would definitely change her self-proclaimed name, but today, the old lady's behavior irritated her, and she stubbornly retorted: "It's just a title, is it necessary to be so fussy about it?"

"You can tell one's status from the name, so of course you have to make a clear distinction. Aunt Li is from an ordinary family and doesn't understand these things, so I won't bother with you."

Li Wanrong was so humiliated by the old lady's words that she couldn't even raise her head. Seeing He Shulan, who was sitting there and looking at her with a smile on her face, she became so angry that her teeth were itching.

The old lady then asked, "Where did the remaining money from the store go in the past few months?"

"I don't understand what you are saying, old lady." Li Wanrong's heart beat faster. She didn't know how the old lady could see the problem with the account book.

"Auntie Li, do you think we are fools? You have embezzled so much money, but you don't understand a word and you want to push this matter away."

Facing the questioning of the old lady, Li Wanrong was powerless to resist, but she knew that she must not admit to being greedy for money. "I really don't understand what the old lady said. How could I be greedy for the money of the Prince's Mansion?"

The old lady was preparing to attack.

Li Wanrong immediately ran over, looked at the prince with tearful eyes, and spoke in a gentle and sweet voice: "Prince, I really did not covet the money of the Prince's Mansion. You must believe me."

In an instant, the prince's heart was so soft that it could be rubbed out of water. Li Wanrong's hair was disheveled, and her beautiful eyes were stained with tears. She looked so pitiful. The enchanted prince didn't care that the old lady was still there, and put his arms around Li Wanrong's waist.

The servants in the room all lowered their heads.

The old lady turned her head and glanced at the calm He Shulan, then breathed a sigh of relief. She liked He Shulan more and more.

But Li Wanrong resolutely refused to admit that she was greedy for money, which gave her a headache. She couldn't torture Li Wanrong in front of the prince, so she asked He Shulan: "What should we do next?"

He Shulan would not miss the opportunity to discredit Li Wanrong in front of the old lady: "It is not important whether the aunt admits to being greedy for money. What is important is to find out the money she has been greedy for."

"So much silver is enough for Aunt Li to live a life of ease. How could she take it out so easily?"

He Shulan showed a cunning smile: "There is so much money, including not only banknotes but also silver. She can't move back to her parents' home alone, so it must be in the yard where she lives."

The old lady felt that He Shulan was right. She picked up her cane and knocked it hard on the ground: "How can you two kiss each other in broad daylight?"

The old lady's angry shouting woke the prince up, and he quickly let go of her hand: "Old lady, I believe Wanrong will not covet the money of the prince's mansion, so let's stop here today."

The old lady would definitely not give so much silver to Li Wanrong for nothing: "Just because you believe her doesn't mean I believe her too. In order to prove Aunt Li's innocence, let Madam take people to search her yard."

"No, your behavior is an insult to my personality. That is my private residence and you have no right to search it." Li Wanrong tried her best to stop them. If the old lady's men found the silver hidden in the cabinet, the prince would definitely send her to the cold palace.

The old lady was once again amused by Li Wanrong: "Auntie Li, have you forgotten that this is the Prince's Mansion? I am the old lady of the Prince's Mansion. Of course I have the right to search your yard."

Without waiting for Li Wanrong's reply, the nanny led the maids and servants to search Li Wanrong's yard.

Li Wanrong's eyes turned red with anger. She wanted to stop these people, but she was helpless. Seeing the smug smile on He Shulan's face, her rage grew even greater.

Direct all the fire at He Shulan: "I just saw you and the old lady together. Did you give the old lady a bad idea and ask her to send people to search my yard?"

"How dare you speak to the mistress of the house like that?" Chunxia scolded.

He Shulan was too lazy to pay attention to her because Li Wanrong had no evidence to prove that she was the one who asked the old lady to search the yard, and the old lady would not help Li Wanrong.

"I am bold. All men are created equal. Why can't I speak to He Shulan like that? Who asked her to sow discord in front of the old lady?"

Li Wanrong's unruly behavior made the old lady look disgusted. She doubted the prince's vision and wondered why he would fall in love with such a woman who had no sense of propriety.

The room was filled with Li Wanrong's sharp screams, which gave her a headache. She waved to her personal maid Taohua who was not far away.

Taohua stepped forward and slapped Li Wanrong hard on the face: "If you don't shut up, I'm going to whip you."

Li Wanrong was so scared that she dared not make any more noise. She hugged the prince and said, "Prince, look at the servants in the mansion. They don't take me seriously at all."

Taohua was the old lady's maidservant, and she held considerable power. All the servants in the mansion had to look at her face. Although Li Wanrong was a concubine, the old lady did not like her, so she naturally did not take Li Wanrong seriously.

The prince also felt that Li Wanrong was making a fuss and was too disrespectful to He Shulan. With things getting to this point, only by searching Li Wanrong's yard could her innocence be proven: "Be quiet. Since you are innocent, why not let the old lady search the yard?"

Li Wanrong's expression became flustered. She was not innocent. She was the one who took the silver. If she had known that things would turn out like this, she would have confessed to the prince early on. But now it was too late.

She hoped that the nanny and the maid would not be able to find the silver, but her prayer did not come true. Soon, the nanny and the maid came in carrying a red wooden box that was neither too big nor too small.

The nanny glared at Li Wanrong, handed a thick stack of banknotes to the old lady, and pointed to the wooden box in the middle of the room: "We found this money in Aunt Li's room."

Aunt Li, who was hiding in the prince's arms, turned pale. Faced with the overwhelming evidence, she was unable to argue any more.

The old lady roughly counted the banknotes and found that it was nearly 150,000 taels. Li Wanrong was really bold to embezzle so much money. She asked the prince who was standing there in silence: "Do you still want to defend Aunt Li?"

The prince's face turned ugly. In front of so many people, he swore solemnly that Li Wanrong was innocent, but now he was undoubtedly slapping himself in the face.