After being reborn with Sister Zha, I was stunned!

"Annotations?" Mrs. Du couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Only an illiterate idiot like you would believe that this is a comment!"

Who the hell reads this kind of writing?

Shen Zhinian is really smart!

Writing accounts in such a book and deceiving Aunt Qing by saying it was annotation...

Aunt Qing would not easily show such a book to others...

Even if he was seen by the two servants serving in the yard, he would not be afraid.

Because, those two servants were all illiterate...

I watched it alone at night...

The old lady outside was attracted by Mrs. Du's laughter. Mrs. Du stopped laughing and told her: "The account book has been found!"

The old lady hurriedly came forward to take a look, and her face immediately turned red.

She is also illiterate, and can only see naughty pictures...

"Although the account book has been found, I don't know where the silver is hidden." Mrs. Du sighed and started to worry again.

It’s not in the study, nor in Aunt Qing’s courtyard, so where could it be hidden?

"Then keep searching!" The old lady became decisive.

Since the account books have been found, it means that there is indeed silver.

It seems that Jingzhao Prefecture really doesn't wrongly accuse people...

If you don't hand over the silver, you'll have to hand over the lives of the Shen family...

"If we search room by room, we will eventually find it. It can't be hiding outside!"

Du also agreed.

So, several people quickly left Aunt Qing's yard and continued to search other rooms.

In the middle of the night, all the servants in the mansion were called up and lined up in the front yard.

Mrs. Du took the old lady, Mrs. Yu and several other people who knew the situation with them, and searched every yard and every room.

Even Shen Qingyin's Fangcao Courtyard, Shen Rongyue's Mingyue Pavilion, and the courtyard where Shen Yuanda lived were searched.

They kept working until dawn, and everyone was exhausted and out of breath, but in the end they got nothing.

"What should I do?" As the sky was getting brighter, Mrs. Du became increasingly anxious.

If at daybreak, the prefect brings the master to court again, and the master cannot bear the torture and confesses, then the Shen family will have no chance...

The old lady and Mrs. Du were at a loss.

The servants were also at a loss as to what to do.

"Father is usually in the study, so why don't we go and take a look?" said Shen Yuanda, who joined in later.

Mrs. Du frowned.

Shen Zhinian indeed spends most of his time in the study on weekdays.

That's why she searched the study first, but found nothing.

Although she did not check the account book carefully, it seemed that there should be about 7,000 to 8,000 taels of silver notes and more than 10,000 taels of gold and silver.

Not to mention the silver notes, all this gold and silver added up to a huge pile. No matter where they were placed, they should be very conspicuous and easy to find.

But after thinking about it, there is really no other place more likely than the study.

"Then let's look for the study room again." Mrs. Du decided.

Several people came to Shen Zhinian's study again.

The study was in a mess because it had been searched before, and there was almost no place to step.

Mrs. Du had no choice but to have people clean up and search at the same time.

But after all the things on the floor were cleared away and every corner of the study was searched, there was no wooden box, secret compartment or other place to hide the silver.

Mrs. Du kept blaming Shen Zhinian for colluding with bandits and implicating her and her two daughters.

She angrily tore down a painting on the wall.

She recognized this painting; it was painted by Shen Zhinian himself a few years ago. It showed a tiger coming down a mountain. Although she did not understand calligraphy and painting, she could tell that the painting was not very well done.

Take the tiger for example, how different is the drawing from that of a cat?

Such a painting is actually hung in the most conspicuous place in the study!

This action was just to vent anger, but what was unexpected was that at the moment the painting fell to the ground, something fell out of the scroll.

Mrs. Du picked up the thing, which turned out to be a piece of bamboo tube, but one end of the bamboo tube was sealed with wax.

Mrs. Du carefully opened the wax seal and poured out a roll of paper.

The old lady also hurriedly came forward, and when she saw Mrs. Du unfold the paper, her eyes suddenly lit up.

It's a banknote!

The two largest ones were actually silver notes worth ten thousand taels!

The two of them hurriedly counted the money and found that there were more than 25,000 taels.

Du suddenly realized.

She wondered where the pile of silver was hidden, but it turned out that Shen Zhinian had already exchanged the silver into silver notes and hid them in a small bamboo tube. No wonder it was so hard to find!

Mrs. Du immediately ordered someone to ask the warehouse manager to bring over an abacus.

Du is in charge of reading, while Wen is in charge of calculating.

Finally, check to make sure everything is correct.

The amount of silver recorded in the account book and the number of silver notes found in the bamboo tube were exactly the same!

The old lady and Mrs. Du both breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally they matched, and the Shen family was saved.

Mrs. Du put the account book and banknotes in her arms, turned around and said to Shen Yuanda, "Son, accompany your mother to Jingzhao Prefecture and explain the matter to the prefect!"

My son made the greatest contribution to finding the banknote, and I must let the prefect know.

The old lady immediately said: "I'm going too!"

How could she feel at ease letting the Du mother and son go out with so much silver bills?

Not only did the old lady decide to go, she also asked Yu'er to call Shen Yuanduo over and ask him to go with her.

Shen Yuanduo is also a descendant of the Shen family, so we have to make excuses for him.

When she heard that the old lady had asked her son to accompany her to Jingzhao Prefecture, Aunt Qing could no longer sit still.

She can endure anything, but she can't let her son go. She has to follow him!

Mrs. Du originally didn't want her to go.

"As a concubine, you have no right to show your face in public!"

But Aunt Qing kept crying, and the old lady insisted that Shen Yuanduo go with her, and it was getting late, so Mrs. Du had to give in.

Mrs. Du asked Wang Si to go to the gates of several mansions to inquire about the situation first.

Not long after, Wang Si replied, "Madam, maybe it's too early now, so there aren't many idle people around."

In case of any emergency, the group wrapped themselves tightly, went out through the side door, and headed all the way to Jingzhao Prefecture.

The lobby of Jingzhao Mansion.

Pei Xiren continued to try Shen Zhinian's case.

"Are you going to tell the truth or not?" Pei Xiren slammed the gavel.

Shen Zhinian, with a pale face, messy hair and bloodstained clothes, was still gritting his teeth and holding on.

"Master Pei, I, your humble servant, really do not know."

"Come here, put on the torture rods. I want to see which one is harder, your words or the torture instruments of Jingzhao Prefecture!"

The yamen runners on both sides immediately stepped forward, pressed Shen Zhinian to the ground, and put him in a clamp.

Shen Zhinian was in excruciating pain, but he still refused to give in easily.

Not long after, the whole person fainted.

When Mrs. Du and the old lady and their group arrived, they saw this scene.

The old lady was suddenly filled with distress.

That was her son whom she had carried for ten months and had depended on for many years. How could she not feel sorry for him?

Mrs. Du was also distressed.

However, the person she needs to take care of at this moment is not Shen Zhinian.

Seeing that the prefect ordered people to throw water on Shen Zhinian to wake him up, she was really afraid that Shen Zhinian would wake up the next moment and admit it himself.

Du was startled, and with courage from somewhere, she took out the account book and banknotes and rushed to the court.