The Cannon Fodder and Villain’s Happy Ending

"Sister Xin!"

Seeing Qin Xin's perfunctory attitude, Su's expression raised her voice without worry, "Don't take it seriously, if this matter goes off the rails, your face won't look good!"

"Mom, don't worry."

Qin Xin stopped in her footsteps, put away the impatience on her face, smiled to comfort Su Shi and said, "Qin Di can read a few words well, do you think she can read the account?"

Parents never said that Qin Di was literate.

Her smile was calm and calm, and she stood upright under a plum tree.

Su Shi thought about it too, and felt relieved: Yes, what words can a country bumpkin know.

"Mother, if I have nothing to do, I will go first."

Qin Xin was blessed and took the lead.

After returning to the yard, Qin Xin instructed the servants to send all the account books for the past three years to Qin Di.

A full two boxes of account books were moved to Qin Di's Wanxiang Garden by four rough women with big shoulders and round waists, and then the women retired.

Qin Di felt a dull pain in his forehead when he looked at the two boxes of account books.

She took out an account book from the first box, turned a few pages, and the numbers on the account book kept spinning in front of her eyes, turning and turning, turning her eyes.

Qin Di resolutely threw the account book back, and instructed: "Du Ruo, go to eldest brother's place and ask if eldest brother has his mother's dowry list in his hand."

Du Ruo bowed his knees and quickly brought back Wei's dowry list.

So, Qin Di took the dowry list and the key to the warehouse, and went to the warehouse first, planning to start from the warehouse.

It took Qin Di a full day to compare the dowry list, and another three days to read through the two heavy boxes of account books.

Fortunately, there was an almighty Du Ruo to help, otherwise, Qin Di would not have to spend twice as long to read it all.

After sorting out the dowry list and account book, Qin Di went to Qin Zening.

"Brother, there are not many missing items on the dowry list, only a dozen or so. However, the accounts of the past years do not match, and the total difference is more than 3,000 taels."

More than three thousand taels is not a small sum.

The Wei family is the direct daughter of the Wei family, and the dowry is rich. In the dowry, the shops, villages, fields, etc., can have a maximum income of more than 2,000 taels a year in a good year.

From Qin Xin's account management, every year was recorded as a disaster year, and the annual income was only a few hundred taels.

Every account is done beautifully. Qin Di has learned from Empress Wei for a few days. She can't see how famous it is, but she can read the general ledger!

It's normal to owe money for a year, and for three consecutive years, it's a year after year. Does this make her a fool?

Or did Qin Xin decide that no one would check the accounts?

"The few things in the warehouse include a gold-covered gold-topped jade bowl, a plum blossom picture of Li Sui, a first-class hundred-year-old ginseng, a jade paperweight, a chicken-blood lithograph button, a celadon-glazed flower goblet, and an inlaid eight Treasure's gold collar, and the gold bracelet inlaid with jade, there are seven pieces in total."

Three days ago, they had found four of them in the pawnshops in Beijing, but because Qin Zening didn't have enough money, they couldn't redeem them all.

Qin Zeyu sat beside him, silent, the corners of his stubborn mouth pursed tightly.

In the past few days, Qin Zening and Qin Di did not hide what they were doing. Although they would not explain to him one by one, they would show him and listen to them.

Before, Qin Zeyu always shouted loudly that it was the slave bullying the master, and it had nothing to do with Qin Xin, but today he was especially silent.

Qin Di glanced at the little boy, and continued, "Big brother, Qin Xin used to embezzle a part of the proceeds, but this time he took something out for pawn, shouldn't Qin Xin encounter something urgently in need of money? "

That's why Qin Xin panicked, even resorting to such low-level means as stealing Wei's dowry and pawning it.

Could it be...

Qin Di's eyes lit up and said, "Daoist Yunguang!"

Qin Zening squinted his eyes, thinking deeply, only Qin Zeyu didn't know why, and looked back and forth at his brother and sister suspiciously, "What happened to Daoist Master Yunguang?"

Qin Zening briefly explained the ins and outs to him, and Qin Zeyu was stunned.

Qin Zening's eyes were full of light, and he said again, "Xiao Ji, it's very possible that you said it!"

"If it is said that Yunguang Yaodao caught Qin Xin and asked Qin Xin to ask for money to seal it up, Qin Xin couldn't get the money for a while, so he panicked and could only use it as something to raise money."

Qin Di nodded, that's what she thought.

"Snapped!"

Qin Zening slapped the dowry list on the table heavily, and snorted coldly, "If you have such a big appetite, let her spit it out!"

Qin Di drank tea silently and thought for a moment.

Since Mrs. Qin Tai has already carried the matter of Qin Xin stealing as a dowry in the name of subsidizing Gong Zhonghua's use, even if they pursue it clearly, it will be difficult to pursue Qin Xin's body, why not...

A stream of light flashed across Qin Di's eyes.

"Brother, do you know when Yun Guang was exiled?"

Qin Di's pair of black and white apricot eyes looked at Qin Zening, showing a kind of eagerness to try.

Qin Zening really knew this question.

Because Yunguang once slandered his sister as a lonely star, Qin Zening deliberately asked someone to pay attention to the progress of this case, and immediately replied: "Five days later."

"Just right!"

Qin Di's eyes brightened, like the brightest stars in the night sky.

"Brother, aren't you very familiar with the people from the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses?"

Qin Xin beckoned to Qin Zening with a sly smile, "Can I ask them a favor?"

"Hey……"

Qin Zeyu, who had been silent for a while, finally couldn't hold back any longer and said, "Aren't you afraid of me going to tip off?"

As soon as he spoke, his elder brother gave him a rude surprise.

"Who do you want to tip off?"

Qin Zening sneered.

"I'm just talking! Talking!"

Qin Zeyu hugged his head in embarrassment.

Since hitting Qin Di...Since the third sister came back, the eldest brother has become more and more violent, this is not good!

Qin Zeyu pursed his lips aggrieved.

He wouldn't go to tip off, he just wanted to see if the third sister would pay attention to him.

The eldest brother said that the second sister already knew about her life experience, but she did not tell it, leaving the third sister to suffer in the Li family;

The eldest brother said that the second sister bribed Daoist Yunguang to slander the second sister as a lonely star. After the incident, in order not to let Yunguang confess her, he sold his mother's dowry to seal it up;

The eldest brother said that the second sister was not right, and helped the second aunt to kill him...

Qin Zeyu clenched his fists subconsciously.

The second sister in his eyes is not like this!

Since he was a child, the second sister was the best person for him. When he was punished by his husband for copying books, the second sister would quietly ask someone to help him copy together; when he was reprimanded by his grandmother, the second sister was also the one who helped him; he thought The second sister would agree to anything he wanted, and would quietly intercede with the second aunt to ask the accountant to give him money.

The third sister would only beat him and murder him...

Obviously he should be very angry, but for some reason, when the third sister ignored him, he felt extremely aggrieved and wanted the third sister to coax him.

Qin Zeyu was lying at the window bored, watching his brother and sister muttered to discuss for a while, and then the eldest brother went out to work, and after a while, the third sister also left.

He was the only one left behind, all alone.

Why!

The bear boy sighed indifferently.

Afraid of being beaten, he didn't dare to sneak out to play. He could only wander around the house, from the racetrack to the small garden... Then, he met Qin Xin.

Qin Xin, wearing a bright red cloak inlaid with white rabbit fur, walked along a cobblestone path, like a red plum in winter, elegant and moving.

"Second sister!"

Qin Zeyu was overjoyed at first, and walked towards Qin Xin quickly.

As the distance between the two got closer, somehow, he felt a little subtle, as if there was an invisible barrier between the two, making him unable to be as affectionate to Qin Xin as usual.

Qin Xin stopped three or four steps away, smiled reluctantly, and said, "Ayu, don't you recognize my sister?"

"of course not!"

Qin Zeyu hurriedly denied it and stepped forward eagerly.

Hearing this, Qin Xin breathed a sigh of relief, and the beautiful and delicate face smiled again, with a gentle smile.

"Big brother misunderstood me a little, so I dare not come to see you.

The maid told me you were here just now, so I hurried over.

Ayu, I also brought you your favorite creamy pine dough rolls, come and try it. "

Saying that, she raised her hand hidden in the cloak and took out a box of snacks.

After the dim sum box was opened, an attractive sweetness wafted out in the wind, and the golden and crispy creamy pine rolls were very tempting.

"Thank you second sister."

Qin Zeyu thanked him and took a piece from the snack box.

"Ayu, you were never so polite to me before."

Qin Xin smiled reluctantly, a light layer of water light floated in her eyes, and her tears were about to fall.

Qin Zeyu said quickly: "Second sister, it's not like this..."

Qin Xin wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and smiled thoughtfully: "I know you have no choice but to be beaten by your third sister again.

Your third sister actually cares about you, but... hey.

It's okay, I'll come to see you quietly in the future. "

Qin Xin smiled softly, as always.

However, looking at Qin Zeyu's eyes and listening to Qin Zeyu's ears, there is an indescribable taste, as if the creamy pine pulp in his mouth is no longer fragrant.

Qin Xin took Qin Zeyu affectionately to the pavilion next to him and sat down, and asked casually, "By the way, Ayu, what are you doing recently?"

Qin Zeyu didn't even think about it, and answered naturally, "Accompany the eldest brother and the third sister to organize the mother's dowry."

"It must be hard work."

Qin Xin sat gracefully on the bench on the balustrade of the pavilion, and said with a smile, "But it's fine."

"yes."

Qin Zeyu nodded.

Qin Xin looked at him and said nonchalantly, "Three sisters are really capable if they can finish it so quickly."

"That's not it, Second Sister..." Qin Zeyu's voice suddenly stopped when he was halfway through.

Is the second sister trying to test herself?

Qin Zeyu has always trusted Qin Xin wholeheartedly since she was a child, and has never doubted her, but after being trained by Qin Zening, and now listening to Qin Xin's words, she feels that something is not right.

"Ayu, what are you thinking?"

Qin Xin smiled slightly and asked in a gentle tone.

"How can Qin Di read accounts? My elder brother even praised her so much."

Qin Zeyu's eyes flashed, and he snorted coldly, "According to me, it's hard to say whether Qin Di recognizes the word 'account book' or not."

"Big brother must treat fish eyes as pearls."

"In the past few years, you have been in charge of these ledgers, second sister. You must be right. It's the same whether you look at it or not."

Qin Zeyu looked like a fool, sitting or not eating the creamy pine cakes that Qin Xin gave.

Qin Xin breathed a sigh of relief and thought: Qin Di really didn't see anything!

She did not doubt whether Qin Zeyu would lie to her. Qin Zeyu had been close to her since she was a child, and ran behind her all day long when she was a child. The relationship between him and her was not even comparable to that of Qin Zening. How could a mere Qin Ji be able to Destructible!

Thinking of Qin Zeyu's recognition of himself but not Qin Di, Qin Xin felt a thrill of winning over Qin Di, and the corners of her lips lifted slightly at an angle that Qin Zeyu could not see.

"Ayu, your third sister has a bad temper, you just need to follow her more."

Qin Xin softened her voice and said with concern.

"I know.

Second sister, don't worry! "

Qin Zeyu shrugged with a smile on his face, "Yeah, it's already time, second sister, I have to go back quickly, the homework assigned by eldest brother is not finished yet."

He jumped up nimbly and said, "Second sister, then I'll go first."

Saying that, he waved his hand and ran away.

Qin Xin watched him leave and sighed softly.

Hey.

Qin Zeyu has been spoiled since he was a child, how can he endure the hardships of homework.

In fact, she also knew that the second aunt was deliberately pampering Qin Zeyu and wanted to kill him, but in her opinion, the second uncle had already inherited the mansion, and it was natural for the second aunt to be wary of Qin Zeyu. .

A gleam flashed across Qin Xin's eyes.

In the future, she will rely on the Hou Mansion, and she should also let the second uncle and second aunt feel at ease with the long house. Anyway, the Hou Mansion has a great business, and she will not treat Qin Zeyu badly in the future. Why should he work hard to go to the future? Wouldn't it be nice to be a happy boy like this now!

If it wasn't for Qin Di's sudden return, Qin Zeyu wouldn't need to work so hard.

Qin Xin thought about a problem and went back to her yard. In the next few days, the days were peaceful, and Qin Zening and Qin Di did not make trouble with her about the dowry.

Qin Xin was finally relieved.

But this day, when she accompanied Mrs. Qin Tai for lunch and returned to her yard, Shuxiang came back in a hurry and said anxiously, "Miss, the servant's mother just now came to find the servant, she said that she was in Beijing recently. Heard some rumours..."

Qin Xin was reading a book of poems and asked casually, "What rumor?"

Shuxiang swallowed her saliva, looked at her cautiously, and said, "Say... It is said that Daoist Master Yunguang is behind Daoist Master Yunguang, but there is actually another master. She is stirring up trouble in the capital just to make her master famous."

"Also said that the master of Daoist Master Yunguang has a noble status and is the daughter of an aristocratic family, and he may be able to ascend to the sky in one step in the future."

"After the slave's mother heard about it, she quietly inquired about it, but no one knows where the news came from."

Shuxiang said worriedly.

"boom!"

Qin Xin opened her eyes slightly, and the poem book in her hand came out and fell on the ground.

She looked at Shuxiang in disbelief and said, "You say it again!"

Scholar hurriedly repeated it again, and said again: "Girl, the servant girl came over after hearing the rumor, and asked the servant girl to tell you no matter what."

All of Qin Xin's things were taken to the pawnshop by the scholar's mother, and they only vaguely guessed that Qin Xin was involved in a major event, and it was also related to Yunguang.

So, upon hearing this rumor, Shuxiang's mother immediately entered the mansion, and asked the little maid of Sasao to call Shuxiang over and said this.

Qin Xin's pretty face was instantly bloodless, and she could hardly believe her ears.

Although these rumors outside did not explicitly say that the master of Daoist Master Yunguang was Qin Xin, but he could be called "a noble family", "a daughter of an aristocratic family", and could "go to the sky" in the future... It definitely reminds people of her. body!

She had already given Yun Guang 10,000 taels of silver notes, and Yun Guang had also promised to keep this secret!

Qin Xin's chest kept heaving, she couldn't help raising her voice, and asked Shuxiang, "Did you give the bank note to the righteous master?"

10,000 taels is not a small sum, Qin Xin should have gone to Xuanqing Temple in person.

But since the incident of Yunguang, Xuanqingguan has been pushed to the cusp of the storm, with so many eyes staring outside, if anyone finds out that she went to Xuanqingguan, it will inevitably lead to unnecessary trouble.

Therefore, after raising the 10,000 taels of silver notes, she asked Shuxiang to go to Xuanqingguan to hand over the silver notes to the person appointed by Yunguang. Could it be that Shuxiang gave up the 10,000 taels?

Shuxiang shouldn't have such a big courage, right?

"Here, girl."

Shuxiang immediately knelt down with a plop, her face turned pale, and quickly said, "It's a matter of great importance, how dare the slaves mess around!"

"Girl, this servant has followed you for so many years, and will never dare to do anything against the master."

"You believe in slaves, and the deeds of the slaves' family are in your hands!"

Scholar said with trembling trembling, it was a bit harsh to say that their family's lives were in Qin Xin's hands.

Qin Xin stared at Shuxiang quietly for a while, and said lightly, "Get up, of course I believe you."

Shuxiang's family is a family with children, and they have been working in the Hou Mansion for generations. She has no reason to betray herself.

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if the wealth and silk moved people's hearts and Shuxiang swallowed 10,000 taels of silver notes, then she should have escaped long ago, and how dare she go back to the Hou Mansion!

Is it cloud light?

Yun Guang wanted to hold the handle and lion opened his mouth?

So, just spread some rumors to frighten yourself and make yourself bow to her again?

!

Yes, these people have always been greedy, all of them are not enough people!

Qin Xin clenched her fists tightly, and there were faint blue veins on the back of her hands.

Shuxiang knelt down silently, motionless.

"Scholarly," Qin Xin thought for a moment, then said solemnly, "you run for me, go to Xuanqing Temple, and ask that person what they want!"

Shuxiang responded and hurried to do it.

Scholars left the Hou Mansion, went straight to Xuanqing Temple, stayed in the Temple for a long time before coming out, and hurriedly returned to Hou Mansion.

She didn't notice at all that after she walked out of Xuanqing Temple, two tall figures came out from behind a plane tree not far away.

"Pei Qi, thank you."

Qin Zening patted Pei Qi's shoulder with a smile.

Wucheng soldiers and Ma Si have many eyes, and Tuo Peiqi asked his men to stare at Shuxiang, and then he followed him to this place smoothly. He also knew that Shuxiang came here to meet a long-term borrower in Xuanqing Temple, called Wang Sankun man.

"a piece of cake."

Pei Qi shook the whip in his hand with a smile, "Remember to invite me to drink another day."

Pei Qi didn't ask the reason, just staring at a little maid, and it wasn't a big deal.

Qin Zening readily responded, and after saying goodbye to Pei Qi, he walked into the Xuanqing Temple on his own.

The next day, Daoist Master Yunguang, who was waiting for exile in the Jingzhao Mansion prison, welcomed a visitor.

It was a man who came to see her.

The man was in his thirties, wearing a blue cotton robe, his face with a Chinese character was beaten until his nose was blue and his eyes were swollen, and one eye was so swollen that he could only open one slit.

It is Wang Sankun in Xuanqing Temple.

"The silver ticket was robbed!"

His first sentence made Daoist Master Yunguang jump up from the ground, she hurriedly grabbed the railing of the cell and asked, "What?

! "

Wang Sankun said indignantly: "Yesterday, Miss Qin's maid came to Xuanqingguan to look for me, and questioned me, she clearly accepted the money, and even gave it to Miss Qin, making her a joke in Beijing.

I've never done this, of course I can't admit it! "

"The maid said that Miss Qin wouldn't give up, and then left.

It didn't take long for her to find someone again, beat me hard, and stole all the bank notes! "

Daoist Yunguang was angry and anxious, his fingers holding the railing turned pale, "Ten thousand and two were taken away?"

"yes."

Wang Sankun said while pointing at his face, "You even beat me up like this!"

Daochang Yunguang's face became more and more ugly, and his temper suddenly came up.

The ten thousand taels of silver bills are equivalent to buying out her prosperity and wealth in the capital.

Even with 10,000 taels of silver, how can she live a good life in Lingnan where birds don't shit, and she must always be on guard against the money being robbed.

Now, Qin Xin actually went back on her word and broke her last reliance!

Since she's having a hard time, she won't let Qin Xin have a good time!

Two clusters of flames ignited in the eyes of Daoist Yunguang, and he shouted loudly: "Come on! Poor Daoist wants to see Lord Jing Zhaoyin!"

"Pin Dao was forced by Second Lady Qin of Zhongyi Hou's Mansion, it's Qin Xin!"

"It was Qin Xin who asked Pindao to tell right and wrong in front of the Queen Mother..."

"..."

The case of Yunguang was decided by Jing Zhaoyin long ago, and the case file was also sent to Dali Temple, where the coffin was covered.

But Yun Guang suddenly turned over her confession on the eve of exile, and the person she confessed was the future second prince concubine.

This incident is really shocking, Jing Zhaoyin has no way to call the shots, let alone hide it, so he can only go to the palace to tell the emperor himself.

On the same day, someone came to the palace, and Queen Wei's oral decree announced that Qin Xin would enter the palace.

The inner servant who passed the word of mouth smiled and looked at Su Shi without a smile, "Mrs. Hou, please come with us too."

In the past, the inner servants who came to Xuan Qin Xin in the palace were polite, but today there is a vague aura of unkindness.

Not only Qin Xin felt this, but Mrs. Qin Tai and Su Shi also felt it, and they felt a little flustered.