Chapter 38 Cut Off Her Source of Income

In the following two days, Su Liluo checked the other shops under her management and found that they were all in the same situation.

The person in charge appears to be an honest and hardworking individual, but in reality, the people behind him are all Jiang's maternal uncles.

Jiang He, the eldest uncle of the Jiang family, soon received a message from Su Liluo. At that moment, he had just come out of the casino after losing money.

He was already in a bad mood, and now he heard the Crown Princess asking him for money.

He thought for a moment, shouldn't the Crown Princess be the daughter of the eldest branch of the Su family?

Although she wasn't his niece, he remembered that she seemed to have been raised by her sister, and that they had a very good relationship.

His sister treated that eldest daughter of the main wife better than her own daughter, Su Liluo, and now that she's the Crown Princess, she's even scheming against him.

No, he has to go and plead with his sister right away.

Over the years, he embezzled money, some of which he gave to himself, and some of it he gave to his younger sister!

So Jiang He invited Jiang Qinshu out.

"Why did you ask me to meet up in such a hurry? What happened?"

Jiang Qinshu asked, somewhat irritated.

Su Wanshi was recently arrested and has not been released. She is so anxious at home that she can't sleep well.

Ignoring Jiang Qinshu's expression, Jiang He asked, "Sister, did you give all the shops to your niece as dowry?"

"What dowry? Wanshi isn't married yet."

Jiang Qinshu looked completely bewildered.

Jiang He found it even stranger, "Recently, your niece, who became the Crown Princess, came to check the accounts at the shops and restaurants and found problems. She told me to make up for the year's losses, or she would send me to jail!"

"What?"

Jiang Qinshu was stunned; she truly hadn't expected Su Liluo to check the accounts.

She thought that once the shop was given to her, she could just sit back and collect the money. Why did she suddenly grow a brain and start checking the accounts?

Originally, she was thinking of giving those shops run by her brother to Su Liluo. Even if they were nominally Su Liluo's, she could still get a lot of money behind the scenes thanks to her brother's methods.

But now that Su Liluo has gone to check the accounts, wouldn't that be equivalent to cutting off her future source of income?

"Isn't your niece on good terms with you? Go talk to her and tell her not to do this. She's already the Crown Princess, does she need that kind of money?"

Jiang He continued to persuade him, still not realizing that the Crown Princess was not Su Wanshi.

Because he wasn't familiar with Su Wanshi, he didn't quite remember her full name.

Jiang Qinshu sighed in annoyance, "The Crown Princess is not my niece, but that wretched girl Su Liluo!"

"Who are you talking about? Su Liluo? How did she become the Crown Princess?"

Jiang He was so startled that he spat out a mouthful of wine, which landed right on Jiang Qinshu's face.

Jiang Qinshu was already annoyed, and now she glared at him angrily and cursed, "You idiot, you're so careless, she actually found out!"

Jiang He retorted irritably, "Since the Crown Princess is my niece, why is she asking me, her uncle, for money? You, you go and tell her to stop making trouble!"

He was unaware of the falling out between Su Liluo and Jiang Qinshu, and still thought Su Liluo was the honest, obedient, and well-behaved girl she was when they were children.

"Hmph, that wretched girl has no regard for her own family now. She even sent her own sister to jail and swindled a lot of money from our Su family. I can't even get into the Crown Prince's residence now!"

Jiang Qinshu's face was full of anger when she talked about these things.

Jiang He didn't understand, since his niece had always been very well-behaved since she was little.

On the contrary, her own sister wasn't very nice to her. She had always felt that her older sister was a little crazy, treating her own daughter badly but being incredibly kind to her niece.

Is it because of this that her own daughter felt jealous and resentful, which is why she did this?

Therefore, he felt even more strongly that it was Jiang Qinshu's fault.

She couldn't help but complain: "Sis, I've told you before that Su Liluo is your real daughter, but you wouldn't listen. You were so good to that niece. Now look what's happened, your real daughter has turned against you."

In my opinion, you should go and apologize to the Crown Princess and explain the situation properly; then you probably won't have to pay the money!

"you......."

Jiang Qinshu was trembling with anger. She was to go and apologize?

If it weren't for my idiot older brother getting caught, would things have come to this?

"You got caught because you weren't careful enough. You should apologize to yourself!"

After saying this angrily, Jiang Qinshu turned to leave.

Jiang He wasn't stupid; he hadn't been particularly close to Su Liluo since childhood.

Knowing that the Crown Princess treats even her own mother this way, how could his uncle possibly plead for her?

So, in desperation, he threatened, "Sister, you can give me money if you want, but if you don't help me this time, I'll expose you! You've taken a lot of money from me over the years!"

"Are you threatening me?"

Jiang Qinshu stopped in her tracks, her anger blazing.

Jiang He curled his lips, "She wants me to hand over one million taels of silver for this year. Where am I going to get that much money? If I don't give it to her, I'll go to jail. I can't withstand the torture."

"One million taels? Why doesn't she just rob someone?"

Jiang Qinshu screamed again.

One million taels!

Asking her to come up with one million taels at once is like cutting her flesh with a knife!

"I've already said what I wanted to say. If you don't give it to me, you can't handle it. If you don't want to be implicated, give me the money. You've received more than this amount of money over the years."

Jiang He made his point out directly.

Jiang Qinshu was so angry she almost fainted, but she also understood that Su Liluo was really capable of doing such a thing.

If she could get Su Wanshi into jail, then this uncle certainly wouldn't be soft-hearted either.

That useless younger brother will definitely betray him when the time comes.

After much heartache and inner turmoil, she finally agreed.

Meanwhile, their conversation was overheard by the people sent by Su Liluo.

After learning that Jiang Qinshu had agreed, Su Liluo was a little puzzled. She had clearly emptied the Su family's coffers, so the cash shouldn't be available so quickly.

Moreover, even if she could take it out, would the Su family let her take it?

She remembered that the Su family was still managed by Old Madam Su.

Although that old woman was not very educated, she was extremely possessive and liked to control the Su family's finances.

Although she and Jiang Qinshu were equally bad, birds of a feather, they also had the typical mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflicts.

She would definitely not allow Jiang Qinshu to give so much money to her family.

Where did Jiang Qinshu get her money?

Could it be that Jiang Qinshu has her own private treasury?

After making this guess, Su Liluo sent people to secretly monitor Jiang Qinshu's movements.

Sure enough, the next day, Jiang Qinshu was seen heading to a manor outside the city with only two personal maids.

Upon learning the news, Su Liluo immediately sent someone to follow them.

After arriving at the manor, Jiang Qinshu went to a secluded courtyard where there was a huge storeroom.

She had her maid stand guard outside the door, while she took out her key, opened the door, and went inside.

As soon as she entered the door, she was heartbroken.

She had painstakingly saved up a lot of money, but now that wretched girl was going to swindle a large portion of it away!