At the beginning, I was a rich female prisoner

Chapter 137

When Steward Wang heard that there was no body left, he turned pale with fear, his legs trembled, and he could hardly stand. He hurriedly rolled and crawled out of the hall, as if there was an evil ghost chasing him.

Yu Yunxin looked at the fat body of Steward Wang and couldn't help but feel a little funny. Steward Wang was a cousin of Wang Yuanxiang. He served as a steward in the mansion, but he did not stop embezzling the daily money of the mansion. He also often molested the maids in the mansion, and even wanted to put his hands on Yunshan, Yanluo and other four people who knew kung fu. This hateful guy, I know what he has done! He has always coveted Chunyu and Qiushuang, but it's a pity that Chunyu and Qiushuang are her personal maids, so he dare not act easily.

Chunyu and Qiushuang couldn't help laughing when they saw Butler Yu crawling out of the hall in such a miserable state.

"Okay, take out all the betrothal gifts given by Concubine Li." Yu Tinghai turned to look at Wang Yuanxiang and said calmly.

However, Wang Yuanxiang tried to argue: "Concubine Li is in the deep palace, and she really has nothing to show for it." Her eyes flickered, and she was obviously lying.

"Don't you think I'm a fool for the wedding invitation from Wang Yuanxiang and Concubine Li?" Yu Tinghai asked again, "Why don't you take it out?"

The betrothal gifts given by Concubine Li include the Derentang in the capital, the cosmetics shop of Xianzhi Pavilion, the hundred-acre medicine store in Wangnan Mountain outside the capital, and fifty thousand taels of gold…” Chunyu took out the wedding invitation and read it out.

Yu Yunxin had no idea why Concubine Li gave all these to her. Derentang was the best medical clinic in the capital, comparable to Baiyun Villa, and Xianzhi Pavilion was the best cosmetics shop in the capital, with business even better than her Xingxin Cloth Shop. What did she mean by that? Did she want to compensate her? Yu Yunxin fell into deep thought.

"Someone go to the west courtyard and search for the house deeds and the betrothal gifts for Concubine Li." Yu Tinghai said in shock.

Wang Yuanxiang saw that all the things in her room had been taken out, and she immediately pounced over like a tigress protecting her food, protecting all the things under her body.

"Master, these are all dowries from my mother's family!" Wang Yuanxiang said as she lay on a box and fastened the lock tightly.

"The dowry from your mother's family is so ridiculous. What else does your Wang family have? Don't you obey my orders? Three years ago, your brother mixed reed fluff into military supplies and cotton-padded clothes. The people from the Ministry of War found out. If I hadn't pleaded with His Majesty, I would have been demoted. Xin'er would have been punished in front of the emperor. I'm afraid your whole family would have been confiscated. How could you have kept those properties?" Yu Tinghai said.

"Master, those shops account for the annual expenses of our Yu family!" Wang Yuanxiang shouted hysterically.

Yu Fuhai looked at Yunshan and Yanluo who were surrounding him and said, "Why are you standing there? Go get it."

Someone looked at the mother and daughter being held by Yanluo and said, "I'm afraid your family will squander everything in your hands." Yu Tinghai said angrily, "Only you and that brother will squander your Wang family slowly. You do things without considering the consequences and only consider the little profits in front of you."

Wang Yuanxiang did not speak because Yanluo had given them a mute drug that would make them speak after ten days. Who told them to give their princess the drug first? She took the two of them back to the West Garden and searched the West Garden again, packing up all the valuables in the West Garden and taking them away.

"Xin'er, come with me." After watching Wang Yuanxiang and her daughter leave, Yu Tinghai turned around and took Yu Yunxin into the study with a loving father's eyes. He took out some silver bills and land deeds from the room and said, "Here are 1,000 taels of silver bills and the two shops your mother ran when she got married. You keep these deeds." After that, he walked to a tea table on the east side of the study and said, "This set of jade pot tea sets, I won't have any use for it after you get married, so take it with you!"

"Father, forget about this! I will come back to see you later and make you a pot of tea." Yu Yunxin said.

Yu Tinghai nodded and took out a brocade box from under the tea table, handed it to Yu Yunxin and said, "This is the income and property deeds of the two shops when your mother married into the family. I'm keeping them for you as a deposit for your marriage."

When Yu Yunxin opened it, she saw that it was filled with neatly arranged banknotes and a letter.

As soon as Yu Tinghai saw the letter, he immediately snatched it away and said, "Forget about this letter. I wrote it before. I thought you would become the Crown Princess, so I gave it to you. What are your plans now?" Yu Fuhai asked as he burned the letter.

"Dad! Thank you for your kindness in raising me over the years." Yu Yunxin couldn't help but kneel down and said. She recalled that although Yu Tinghai was very busy in the past, Yu Fuhai didn't have any hobbies except drinking tea. After drinking tea, he would talk about the Ministry of Justice and Dacheng Law. He talked to her like a man and she almost dozed off. He also told her many criminal cases and analyzed the cases. She would listen to her father's stories with relish and pour tea for him from time to time. Especially the free time in Wangshan County and Shangyang County.

"Xin'er, if you feel wronged, just say it. If you don't want to go back to Prince Yu's Mansion, then don't go back. I will support you. Even if I resign from my official position, I will help you cancel this marriage. We won't marry into the royal family, but just be ordinary people, okay?" Yu Tinghai looked at Yu Yunxin and asked.

Yu Yunxin heard this and said, "Father, you can't do that. Even if we wander around the world, will those people in the court let us go?"

Yu Tinghai looked at Tiandao and said, "Xin'er, you have so many businesses in the capital now. I'm afraid that my father and I are being suspected. They want you to be trapped in Prince Yu's mansion like Prince Yu!"

"Since you want to trap me in Prince Yu's Mansion, I will stay happily here. No one can take my things away." Yu Yunxin said.

Thinking of this, she immediately ordered Qiu Shuang and Piao Yang to go to her boudoir to pack up. She wanted to go back to Prince Yu's Mansion in a hurry and with great fanfare, so that those who plotted against her would see that she would not follow their plan.

So she instructed He Bo, who was the former butler of the Yu Mansion. He had been with Yu Tinghai ever since then. Now that he had returned to Beijing, he only served Yu Tinghai in the Yu Mansion. Yu Yunxin asked him to prepare a pot of water, and she was going to start making tea.

After giving the instructions, Yu Yunxin walked into the study. At this time, Prince Yu also woke up and followed Yu Yunxin.

"Little Li, take Prince Yu to the garden for a walk." Yu Yunxin looked at Prince Yu who was following her and instructed Li Ye who was standing aside.

"Yes, Princess!" Li Ye, who was standing aside, replied immediately.

"No, I want to be with my wife." Nangong Lin said coquettishly like a child.

Yu Tinghai came out of the study and said, "Let Prince Yu come in as well!"

He turned around and said, "Ask Lao He to prepare some cakes and send them to the study, and tell the kitchen to make more side dishes that Xin'er likes." After saying that, he walked into the study, and Yu Yunxin and Nangong Lin followed him into the study.

After arriving at the tea table, Yu Tinghai asked Nangong Lin to sit directly opposite him and said, "Prince Yu is here, so please stay here!"

"Dad, what are you talking about! Hasn't Prince Yu been stupid for five years? Moreover, the imperial doctors are helpless, and even the emperor has given up on him." Yu Yunxin said.

"It would be great if he was really stupid." Yu Tinghai sighed and glanced at Nangong Lin again, seeing that Nangong Lin was playing with the jade cup in his hand.

"Longjing tea goes well with this white jade cup, doesn't it? Your Highness Prince Yu, don't you think there is no better match between grape wine and the white jade cup?" Yu Tinghai said as he took the Longjing tea brewed by Yu Yunxin.

"Dad, this Longjing tea goes very well with the finest white porcelain cups. This white jade cup was bought for you by grandpa from a merchant outside the Great Wall! Fine grape wine and a luminous cup, a luminous cup is the perfect match for fine grape wine." Yu Yunxin then performed a set of smooth tea-pouring movements and poured some tea into the cup in front of Yu Tinghai.

"Fine grape wine and luminous cup, but it's a pity that we don't have these two things at home." Yu Tinghai sighed.

"If Dad likes what he wants, I'll prepare one for him. Anyway, we've been targeted now so we'll just enjoy ourselves. It's also okay to be a mediocre official." Yu Yunxin said.

Nangong Lin on the side just drank his tea and ate the snacks on the table from time to time. He didn't take Yu Tinghai's words to heart at all, but kept looking at Yu Yunxin stupidly, because Yu Yunxin was so beautiful now that he liked her every move.

Yu Tinghai looked at Nangong Lin and drank a sip of tea and said, "It's good if Prince Yu is really stupid. Xin'er, you don't have to live a life of intrigue every day in Prince Yu's mansion. You can live a carefree and peaceful life for a lifetime. I heard that Concubine Li in the palace has also been noticed by His Majesty in the past few days. It seems that Prince Yu's good days are coming."

"Empress Li is also a participant in this event. I don't know what Empress Li means and what she wants to do?" Yu Yunxin said after taking a sip of tea.

"Perhaps Concubine Li wants to use you to take revenge on the Queen and the Crown Prince?" Yu Tinghai looked at Prince Yu again and said.

"Things in the palace are unpredictable. Five years ago, neither Concubine Li nor Prince Yu were favored by the Emperor. After Prince Yu fell off his horse and became stupid, Duke Li was wrongly accused of treason and his entire family was executed. Concubine Li was also sent to the cold palace." Yu Tinghai said, still looking at Nangong Lin.

"Dad, do you have any evidence to prove that Duke Li did not commit treason?" Yu Yunxin asked.

Yu Tinghai looked at Nangong Lin and said, "I was not involved in the treason case of Duke Li. I was promoted to Minister of Justice three years ago. I looked at the case and found that there were indeed many suspicious points. Even the emperor asked me to investigate the matter secretly. This time, after I went to Canglan City, I found the relevant witnesses. It's a pity that the Xiliang spy was killed by the people of Shura Gate."

Yu Yunxin looked at Nangong Lin who was calm and shook her head, saying, "What's the point of overturning the verdict? The thirty-odd people in Duke Li's mansion can't be resurrected, and Prince Yu can't return to his former self."

At this time, Yu Linshan came over and said, "Xin'er, I know about your situation. I'm sorry, I didn't stop Wang Yuanxiang."

"Don't blame you. They attacked you first. You can't use your internal energy now, right?" Yu Yunxin asked Yu Linshan.

"Yes, I felt weak all over a few days ago. I just found out that Wang Yuanxiang and Yu Yunxuan were too much!" said Yu Linshan.

"Lin Shan, just sit down first!" As soon as Yu Tinghai finished giving the order, Sun Dian hurried over.

"My lord, when we were arresting the servants who were bullying their master in Prince Yu's mansion, a maidservant said that she was pregnant with Prince Yu's child."

"Really? First tell that servant girl that pretending to be of royal blood will be punished by slow slicing. When the child is born, the Ministry of Justice will have plenty of ways to identify whether it is the flesh and blood of His Royal Highness Prince Yu." Yu Tinghai said.

"Yes, sir. I will go to the Ministry of Justice right away. I have also severely tortured several guards and housekeepers in Prince Yu's Mansion. They were arranged by the Crown Prince to enter Prince Yu's Mansion, and everything they did was ordered by the Crown Prince." Sun Dian said.

"Let's lock these people up in the prison first. I will confront the Crown Prince face to face when he returns." Yu Tinghai stood up and said, "Lin Shan, Xin'er and Prince Yu, please have lunch with me. I will go back to the Ministry of Justice after that."

Yu Yunxin and Yu Linshan nodded.

Everyone sat at the table. Yu Tinghai glanced at Xiyuan and told Uncle He, "Xiyuan will deliver lunch today. By the way, is Xin'er's dowry ready?"

"My lord, everything is ready." After saying this, Uncle He took out a few property deeds and said, "These found in the West Garden will also be used as the princess's dowry. There will also be several prosperous shops and pharmacies as a betrothal gift to Concubine Li." After saying this, he gave them directly to Yu Yunxin.

Yu Yunxin took the title deed without hesitation, looked at it, and put it in her arms.

"By the way, there are not many servants in the palace now, and you only have Chunyu and Qiu Shuang. So, you can take away everyone in the mansion except the ones arranged by Wang Yuanxiang!" Yu Tinghai said.

"How can this be done, Dad? Uncle He has to stay to take care of you. I dare not use other people after this incident. I will just take Chunyu and Qiu Shuang with me. Besides, I have someone from the Princess's Mansion. I will arrange the affairs in the palace. Don't worry, Dad!" Yu Yunxin said.

Yu Tinghai said helplessly, "Since you don't want any of them, I will only keep a few skilled people. The rest are people arranged by Wang Yuanxiang to enter the mansion. I don't want any of them. My Yu Mansion cannot support so many idle people. Send away the servants in Lao and Xiyuan! If they don't leave, tell them that they can't leave even if they want to after the queen comes back." After that, he picked up a chicken leg for Yu Yunxin and said, "Come and eat quickly, or the food will get cold."

Yu Yunxin looked at the big chicken drumstick in her bowl. It was really too big. Of course, she had to eat some wild game that was not available in modern times when she came to ancient times. So she passed the big chicken drumstick in her bowl to Nangong Lin who was sitting next to her and said, "This chicken drumstick should be given to the prince. Look how thin you are. Those dog slaves must not have given you good food. Eat more."

Seeing his daughter giving the chicken leg he had picked up for her to this silly prince, he felt uncomfortable and picked up a chicken leg himself and started to chew on it.

Nangong Lin watched Yu Yunxin pass the chicken leg to him and said like a child, "Thank you, my lady. My lady is the best."

"Okay, Your Highness Prince Yu, you can eat the chicken leg! Eat quickly, and don't worry, Xin'er will be your wife from now on." Nangong Lin said as Yu Tinghai was eating happily.

Yu Yunxin watched her father and Prince Yu eat. The two of them ate the chicken leg slowly and the other gobbled it up. There was a clear contrast. She smiled and picked up a piece of wild mushroom and a piece of venison and started eating. This tastes good. It's pure and natural, original and pollution-free.

Thinking that seafood from the sea would have a better flavor, she wanted to see the ancient sea, an unpolluted ocean, and eat some seafood. You can imagine how delicious it would be.

Don't talk when eating or sleeping, this is the rule of the Yu family, but the sound of Prince Yu chewing on the chicken leg and smacking his lips can be heard. The more Yu Tinghai looked at this silly boy, the more uncomfortable he felt. He married his daughter to this silly boy in a foolish way, and he felt bitter in his heart. Although this silly boy is a prince, he is a fool who can't even take care of himself. He is like a child who knows nothing. The more he thought about it, the more he felt wronged for his daughter.