If the business woman does not help the poor, the villain's dream of prosperity will be shatter

Qin Shu was just thinking about how to make Second Aunt suffer this loss when a maid came in to say that Nanny Chun was coming.

She asked someone to take Xiao Tao away first, and then asked someone to invite Nanny Chun in.

Nanny Chun came in holding a gold-painted box in her hand.

Qin Shu knew that the list must contain her dowry, so she asked everyone in the room except Madam Liu to leave.

Qin Shu took the box, placed it on the table, and asked, "Mammy, is this dowry list one or two?"

Nanny Chun quickly replied, "There are two copies in total, both are in here. Before the young lady gets married, when the young lady comes to urge her to prepare the wedding gown, she should ask him to take one copy back along with the furniture, and the other copy can be taken by you."

"That's good. I'll keep this dowry list for now."

Nanny Chun agreed with relief, "Miss, do whatever you think is appropriate."

She not only agreed with the way the young lady handled Xiaotao's matter, but was also deeply relieved: given the young lady's current situation, if she continued to be weak, she would probably be eaten to the bones by those tigers and wolves in the end.

If the lady were still alive in heaven, she would be so happy to know that the young lady is so capable and resourceful.

Thinking of this, tears flowed from Nanny Chun's eyes again.

Qin Shu pressed the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief and said, "Now that things have come to this, Mammy, please stop crying. You are old and your eyes are not very good. Be careful not to hurt your eyes by crying."

After Nanny Chun stopped crying, Qin Shu asked again, "Who usually keeps the key to mother's storeroom?"

Nanny Chun quickly replied, "The key to the storeroom has always been in the care of Dong He, who is by Madam's side."

Winter lotus?

From the time when the bad news of her parents came until now, Dong He, as the most capable girl around her mother, has never looked for Qin Shu.

Seeing Qin Shu's eyes narrowed and her face thoughtful, Nanny Chun's heart skipped a beat and she quickly asked, "Miss, is there something wrong?"

Qin Shu shook her head and sighed, "Mammy, my parents passed away suddenly, and the people in the mansion have to plan for their future. Shu'er is a girl waiting to be married, and everything in this mansion, including the servants, will be in the hands of other masters. It is reasonable for them to plan for themselves in advance."

Madam Chun spat fiercely and said, "Bah! You ungrateful bastard! What do you mean by planning ahead for yourself? What do you mean by reasonable? Miss, why bother covering up for that shameless bastard? I'll go to the storehouse and check every item in the book. If I find anyone with dirty hands and feet, I'll tie him up and send him to the government immediately!"

Qin Shu said, "What can we do? Mammy, Daddy is gone, Mommy is gone, and this family is broken up. The house is in chaos right now, and everyone wants something. Isn't it normal to throw things away?"

Nanny Chun felt a tightness in her chest, knowing that what the young lady said was the truth.

Although I was angry, I could do nothing about it.

Qin Shu saw that she looked sad, and she gently advised: "Mammy, given the current situation in the mansion, if the things are lost, then they are lost. Besides, even if these things are saved, what will happen? In the end, who knows who will benefit from them."

Nanny Chun sighed with a heavy heart.

Qin Shu lowered her head slightly, but was thinking in her heart about the space that she didn't know what use it was.

Since things can be hidden there, my mother's jewelry and my father's collection of treasures, calligraphy and paintings can all be kept in it.

Those things originally belonged to her!

She now needed to find an excuse to go to the warehouse without alerting Second Aunt and having her send someone over to keep a close eye on her.

Qin Shu thought for a moment and said softly, "My parents are gone now, so I have to leave them some of their most commonly used items so that I can remember them in the future."

After she said this, Nanny Chun couldn't help but started wiping away tears again.

Qin Shu took the gold-painted box to the inner room and put it into the space together with the two small boxes.

After leaving the inner room, Chun Shu said, "I still have some free time today. Madam, take me to see my parents' belongings so that I can pack up some things."

As soon as I entered the main room, all my memories came back to me instantly.

Qin Shu was heartbroken and cried to the ground: everything here was so familiar, but her father and mother would never come back!

While crying, Nanny Chun and Donghe helped Qin Shu up and sat her on the short couch.

Dong He asked the little maid to bring hot water and a towel, wrung the towel herself, washed Qin Shu's face, and applied oil.

My parents have a very good relationship. Qin Shu is their only daughter for so many years, and my father has no intention of taking a concubine.

The male owners of other mansions all have their own courtyards, but Dad has always lived with Mom in the main courtyard.

Even in the front yard where the male owner often received guests, there were only some simple furniture and not even a bed.

All the things they needed were placed in the main courtyard.

After asking Donghe, Donghe quickly brought a dozen booklets with the little girl.

The owner of the mansion has a wide variety of jewelry and clothes. Even the most capable maid and housekeeper cannot remember them all.

In my mother's room, there is a set of registration books, which record all the ornaments, jade and stone treasures, gold, silver and gemstone jewelry in the mansion, as well as the income and expenditure of private money.

My mother has more than a dozen such booklets.

Each book is as thick as a blue brick.

Qin Shu also had to find a way to store these account books in the space. Without the account books, Second Aunt would have no way of knowing how much stuff her mother had in her private room, so Qin Shu could do something about it.

Dong He ordered the men to put down the booklet, stepped back a few steps and stood with his hands folded, "Miss, all the books in the Madam's private library are here."

Qin Shu reached out and flipped through the top one, saying, "I'll take this back and take a closer look. Where's the key to the warehouse?"

Dong He bowed slightly, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself.

Qin Shu said: "Dong He has something to say?"

"Yes." Dong He found it difficult to speak. She blushed and stammered for a while, then suddenly knelt down.

Nanny Chun’s eyes suddenly widened, and she looked like she wanted to pounce on Dong He and tear her apart alive.

Dong He said with shame: "The night before yesterday, I had a severe headache, so I went to bed early. Normally, I put the key to the storeroom under my pillow. But yesterday morning, when I got up, I found that the key seemed to have been moved."

Qin Shu's eyes moved and she said "Oh" lightly.

If I hadn't come to inquire, Dong He would probably have let this matter rot in her heart.

Now that Qin Shu came over and asked her for the booklet and the key, she panicked.

Besides, the key had been touched by someone, and it is still unknown whether it was embezzlement or in collusion with others.

Qin Shu stared at Dong He for a while, until beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and then she asked, "Where did you lose the key?"

"all."

Dong He took off a bunch of keys from her waist, held them in her hands and raised them above her head. "I usually string all these keys together. When someone needs to use a key, I will take off the key of that key and give it to her. When you are done using it, you must return it immediately."

Qin Shu winked at Nanny Chun.

Nanny Chun understood, took the key chain from Donghe and handed it to Qin Shu.

Qin Shu put the key in her hand, stared at it for a while, and said, "I'll go to the warehouse to check."

Dong He quickly got up from the ground.

The warehouse is in the building behind the main courtyard, with two floors and eight rooms in total.

The first floor is filled with furniture, tables, chairs, kang screens, jade screens, porcelain, teacups, treasure vases, corals, jade and other heavy and fragile items;

On the second floor are all kinds of cloth, as well as clothes of my mother and father; as well as valuable items such as jewelry, gems, rare calligraphy and paintings, etc., which are packed in brocade boxes and placed on yellow pear wood shelves.

Qin Shu stood at the door and ordered, "I'll go in and take a look. You all stay outside."

Nanny Chun agreed, but Dong He seemed distracted.

After being glared at fiercely by Nanny Chun, he couldn't help but shiver.

Qin Shu entered the warehouse on the second floor and closed the door.

She took one of the booklets and compared them one by one.

The other party might have been worried that the host would investigate, so he did not take anything too valuable, but ordinary jewelry was worth several hundred taels of silver, and in total, more than a dozen pieces were lost!

The things inside are too precious, and keeping them in the warehouse cannot guarantee their safety. What if the second uncle's family takes them back home and they fall into the mouths of wolves? How can we get them back?

But if you put it all into the space...

When my parents' coffins are brought into the house and formally buried, I will need to come in and pick out some jewelry items to be buried with. By then, the clan members and my second uncle and second aunt will come over. If I put all of these into the space, I'm afraid my second uncle will go crazy on the spot.

Qin Shu thought about it and first put all the jewelry worth thousands of taels of silver, as well as the rare calligraphy and paintings collected by her father over the years, into the space.

Each time he collected something, he would use his fingernail to scratch a line on the booklet to mark it.

I also put my father's collection of whole pieces of jade and writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone into the space.

Only when half of the things were gone did Qin Shu take the booklet and go out.

After relocking the storeroom, Qin Shu tied the key to her waist and said, "I will keep these keys and account books myself from now on. The house is in chaos now, and people are fickle-minded. If something is lost, it's lost. Sister Donghe, please don't make it public."

Dong He was obviously relieved and quickly agreed.

Qin Shu went to the inner room, collected her mother's comb and her jewelry box on the dressing table, and gave them to Xiao Xing, and told Dong He, "Go to the second gate and tell the steward outside to invite my second uncle, second aunt, and the elders to come home."