Chapter 14 — Holy Order of Dowry

I laughed softly. "Didn't want me to get caught up, so he married me into the palace." "Didn't want me to get caught up, so I used my dowry to fill in the military allowance." "Didn't want me to get caught up, so I just watched the old subordinates of the Tham family being transferred away." Tieu Thua Canh's face turned pale. Han Than prostrated himself on the ground, bowing his head. "Your Majesty, the last general also brought someone with him." Outside the palace gate, a skinny middle-aged man was escorted in by the forbidden army. He was wearing an old gray-green ao dai, his shoulders were hunched, and as soon as he entered the temple, he immediately knelt down on the ground. Han Than pointed at him. "This person's name is Lieu Hoai An." "In the past, he was a deputy envoy overseeing food and grass in the Western Region, and also an uncle in Liu Minh Chau's family." Liu Minh Chau suddenly sat up straight on the brocade. "I don't know him." Liu Hoai An raised his head to look at her, smiling bitterly. "Miss, the Liu family made a fortune that year thanks to that salary, how could you not know "The Queen's face was so unsightly that she couldn't hide it. The Emperor asked coldly: "Speak." Lieu Hoai An nodded his head repeatedly. "In the past, there was a shortage of military food in the West, not due to losses due to war." "Someone converted military food into personal money and smuggled it into three secret manors in the capital." "The old general Shen looked up the books and wrote the chapter in the night and planned to return to the capital." "But the chapter had not yet left Lac Nhan Linh." I stared at him. "Who told you to edit the books?" Lieu Hoai An trembled and replied: "It's the second master of Grandmother's family in Vinh An alley." The royal concubine was angry: "Talk nonsense!" Lieu Hoai An's trembling hands groped from his sleeve to take out a yellowed check stub. "The people don't dare to say nonsense." "This is the old money sharing stub." "On it is the seal of Vinh An alley, and also has the hidden symbol of the Royal Regent's general fund." The maid received the stub. After the emperor finished reading, he suddenly looked at Tieu Thua Canh. "Uncle, why is your royal palace's hidden symbol on this thing?" Tieu Thua Canh knelt with his back straight, his voice was deep and hoarse. "I beg your Majesty to thoroughly search the old warehouse of the royal palace." The royal concubine hissed: "Do not search!" This scream is too urgent. All eyes in the palace turned to her. The Emperor slowly opened his mouth. "Why didn't the Imperial Concubine allow me to investigate?" The Imperial Concubine's lips moved, but in the end she couldn't say a word. I looked at her and suddenly remembered her smile when she welcomed me into the palace in the past. She grabbed my hand and said that marrying a daughter from the Tham family was a blessing to the royal palace. Turns out it wasn't a blessing. Instead, combine me, my dowry and the Tham family's old debt book, locking it tightly into the royal palace. Right at this moment, the old eunuch next to the royal court presented an old notebook. "Your Majesty, just now, as ordered by my servant, I searched the archives in the palace and found the book of engagement ceremonies that the Regent gave three years ago." The emperor opened the first page and his eyes froze. He was silent for a long time before letting his inner servant read it out. The inner lady's voice was tense. "Miss Shen entered the palace, the dowry will be managed on behalf of the royal palace, it can make up for the old debt book in the Western realm, and it can settle the old subordinates of the Tham family." My chest felt like someone was pressing down hard. The candle in the temple swayed. The inner lady continued reading from the back row. "Once the Tham lady is gone, the royal palace can choose a noble woman to take over the management of the inner house." I looked at Tieu Thua Canh. He was also looking at that notebook, his face pale. It turned out that from the first day I set foot in the royal palace, people had already recorded it in the calculation book. 14The royal study room was as cold as ice. I knelt on the ground and suddenly felt no pain in my knees anymore. The wedding rite scroll fell open on the throne, sharper than any blade. Tieu Thua Canh reached out to take it, but the Emperor firmly folded it

again. "Royal uncle, this book has the seal of your royal palace." Tieu Thua Canh's voice was dry. "I have never seen this page." The royal concubine suddenly burst out laughing. The laughter was cold and high-pitched, like broken pieces of porcelain scraping across the ground. "Of course you have never seen it." "At that time, you only had the intention of marrying her in your mind. How could you see the gap behind the royal palace?" I raised my eyes to look at her. "So you admitted your crime?" The princess looked at me, her eyes no longer showing any kindness. "So what if you accept?" "The victory of the Tham family is too great, the Western realm only accepts the Tham flag, not the throne. "If your father were still alive, who would still be able to sleep well?" Han Than angrily stood up with his hands on his hands. "The old general has been loyal to the country and protected the people all his life, do you also deserve to defame him?" The royal concubine sneered. "Being loyal or not, it's not up to a remnant soldier like you to decide." The anger in my chest slowly subsided. I was harmed in the past, you know it well." The Queen's face stiffened. Tieu Thua Canh turned his head to look at her. "Mother." The princess avoided his eyes. At this moment, there was no more arguing in the palace. There are some truths that don't need to be said, expressions are more than enough.