The concubine escaped and cried when she met the prince again

Chapter 165 Damn woman, how dare you play tricks on me

Jiang Dichen asked Butler Zhao, "Butler Zhao, who buried Concubine Lan?"

Butler Zhao thought for a moment and said, "It's Aunt Liu from the mansion."

"Call her over." Jiang Dichen said.

"Yes," said Butler Zhao, and immediately arranged for the servants to call Madam Liu.

Soon, Nanny Liu and Yan Mo arrived. Nanny Liu bowed to Jiang Dichen and said, "This servant greets the prince."

Jiang Dichen looked at her and asked, "Madam Liu, when Concubine Lan was buried, what burial objects did you put in?"

Madam Liu recalled for a moment and said to Jiang Dichen, "In reply to your Highness, Concubine Lan didn't have many things, so I put some of them in her room, including the jewelry in her room and a few taels of silver. Oh, and I also put ten silver notes, about one thousand taels, and nothing else."

Jiang Dichen listened to what Madam Liu said, and he ordered Yan Mo, "Yan Mo, pour everything on the ground."

"Yes, master." Yan Mo didn't know what his master wanted to do, so he could only silently follow his instructions.

Yan Mo threw all the contents of the wooden box to the ground with a clatter.

Jiang Dichen quickly squatted down and started searching one by one. Every time he picked up something, the scene of Shen Ruolan bargaining would appear in his mind, making him miss her even more. She was such a good and beautiful girl, how could she leave him?

After Jiang Dichen finished looking at everything, he saw that he didn't see the silver needle she always carried with her, and the dagger he gave her, so he stood up and asked a few people, "Yan Mo, are you sure you have packed up everything in the room?"

After saying this, he looked at Aunt Liu and said, "Aunt Liu, when you were burying Concubine Lan, did you find any silver needles or daggers on her body?"

Madam Liu replied to Jiang Dichen with certainty, "Your Majesty, I am very sure that Concubine Lan does not have a dagger or a silver needle on her body."

After she finished speaking, she continued, "The clothes that Concubine Lan was wearing at the time had been burned beyond recognition. The clothes she wore afterwards were all old clothes that Butler Zhao had sent over."

Yan Mo also said to his master: "In reply to your words, except for the large furniture, everything else in Concubine Lan's room has been packed into wooden boxes by me."

The words of the two made Jiang Dichen feel mixed emotions instantly, but he was more happy. Although he was very angry at Lan Wanxi's deception, as long as the person was still alive, it was better than being separated by Yin and Yang.

Jiang Dichen took a deep breath and asked Butler Zhao, "Butler Zhao, how much banknotes were burned in Concubine Lan's room?"

Butler Zhao recalled and told his master truthfully: "My master, Concubine Lan's banknotes and jewelry were all placed in the fir box. Because we put out the fire in time, the small box was not burned and the things inside are intact."

Cedar is fireproof, so when it catches fire, it will not affect the things inside as long as the fire is put out in time. Therefore, there were many things in Concubine Lan’s room, and they were basically not burned.

Because the wardrobes, tables, chairs, etc. she used were all made of high-quality fire-resistant fir wood.

Jiang Dichen heard that the things inside were not destroyed, so he said to Butler Zhao, "Bring the small box to me."

"Yes, Your Highness." After Butler Zhao finished speaking, he hurried back to the warehouse.

Soon he brought a small wooden box and came to Jiang Dichen and said, "My Lord, this is the small wooden box. This old servant has never touched it."

After saying that, he handed over the key.

Jiang Dichen took the box and the key, opened the box and checked it. After just one glance, he found that the number of silver notes inside was not right. He clearly gave her 50,000 taels of silver notes, but he obviously didn't even have half of it.

He glanced at them coldly and asked, "Are you sure you didn't touch the banknotes inside?"

Madam Liu and Butler Zhao were so frightened that they quickly lowered their heads and replied, "My Lord, I have not moved."

Even if they were given a hundred courages, they would not dare to touch the things in the palace.

Seeing that the two men did not seem to be lying, Jiang Dichen withdrew his gaze and began to count the silver bills in the small box.

Jiang Dichen counted several times in a row, and seeing that it was 19,000 taels, he suddenly felt better. He held the banknote tightly, and couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth and said, "Damn woman, you dare to play tricks on me, you wait for me."

After Jiang Dichen finished speaking, he looked at the small wooden box in front of him and laughed out of anger. The person was not dead, good, very good.

He could understand that the silver needle and the dagger were missing, but it was very abnormal that tens of thousands of taels of silver notes were missing for no reason.

To be honest, it was his carelessness that was to blame. He was just feeling sad at the time and never thought that the docile little woman would dare to do such a bold thing.

But as long as she is still alive, he believes he will be able to find her no matter where in the world she is.

Jiang Dichen understood the whole story. He said to Butler Zhao and Madam Liu in a good mood, "You two can go down. Everything is fine here."

Butler Zhao and Nanny Liu responded to Jiang Dichen respectfully, "Yes, old slave. I'll take my leave."

Yan Mo asked his master suspiciously: "Master, you..."

Jiang Dichen was in a rare good mood and smiled as he said to his subordinates, "Lan Wanxi is not dead."

Jiang Dichen's words made Yan Mo stunned for a moment, and then he came back to his senses and asked his master: "Master, how is this possible? Concubine Lan has clearly..."

Jiang Dichen said to his subordinates: "The silver needle, dagger, and banknotes are all gone. Do you think this is normal?"

He paused and continued, "There is also the old divine doctor Shen. When he first arrived in the capital, he showed his power to me. Then he beat up Lan Mao and his wife without even investigating. Finally, he went to the mass grave to see his daughter. You tell me, putting these things together, who else would know so much except the person involved?"

What Jiang Dichen didn't tell his subordinates was that, especially about the mass grave, no one knew about the place except Madam Lan's people and Lan Wanxi.

Therefore, he is now basically certain that Lan Wanxi used the Golden Cicada's trick to deceive him and ran away with his child!

When Jiang Dichen thought of the child, he couldn't help but laugh. The child, counting the days, should have been born two months ago.

"Yan Mo, send someone to check in Yaowang Valley to see if the cousin from Yaowang Valley is there." Jiang Dichen guessed in his heart that since the person was not dead, he was most likely in Yaowang Valley.

Yan Mo bowed his head to his master and replied, "Yes, Master."

After Yan Mo finished speaking, he quickly turned around and left.

Jiang Dichen carefully put the things he had just poured out into a wooden box one by one and put them away.

For the next two days, Jiang Dichen was restless since he knew Shen Ruolan was not dead. After thinking it over again and again, he went directly to the palace to ask his father, "Father, I want to go on a long journey for something, and I don't know when I will return."