At the end of the month, Li Rao went to see the account books as usual.

Li Changqing sent the account book to Li Rao's study early, and when he sent it, Li Rao had not yet returned from the court, Li Changqing was bored, and opened the book at random in the study to look at it. Xu was unintentional, his hand didn't know that he touched it, and a secret grid popped up from the wall behind the bookshelf.

Li Changqing's eyes flashed brightly, and he reached out to pull out the contents of the dark compartment.

It wasn't much, just a small scroll, about the size of two palms, but it was extremely delicate. Li Changqing couldn't help but be curious, opened the scroll, and gently pulled it to the end of the shaft, and a picture of a beauty appeared in front of him.

I saw that on the scroll, the woman was combing a tassel bun, and a cherry blossom jade hairpin was inserted obliquely on the top of her head. Holding a gold silk moose bamboo round fan, wearing an ochre purple swallow moon skirt, the woman's bright eyes are bright and moonlight, her complexion is delicate and smooth, her face is gentle like water, the whole person is like a spring bud, and her thin chin is slightly raised, as if she is looking at someone waiting in the distance.

The woman is very young, about eighteen or nineteen years old, but Li Changqing can see at a glance that this woman looks very similar to her, but Li Changqing is a miniature version of her at this time, and the woman is ....... Li Changqing looked at the slightly yellowed scroll, and it seemed that it could be damaged with a little force.

Is she a mother? Li Changqing thought about it slightly, was stunned for a moment, heard a sound outside, hurriedly closed the scroll in his hand and put it into the dark grid, pushed it in, and then he had a fine sweat stain on his forehead, took the book and sat on the chair to admire.

Pushing open the door and seeing Li Changqing, Li Rao's eyebrows were twisted, and he quickly asked, "When did you come over?" ”

"Back to my father, I sent the account book, and before you went to court, I read a book to pass the time."

Li Rao nodded, sat on the main seat, stretched out his hand and flipped a few pages, and asked: "Some time ago, I also held him accountable for the matter of the third prince afterwards, don't worry, he won't bother you anymore in the future." ”

Li Changqing thought that even if Li Rao knew about that shameful thing, he was extremely cowardly and would not stand up for her, but how did Li Rao mention it directly when they met today, and she couldn't help but feel strange in her heart. Xu was not used to this kind of care, Li Changqing still fell into deep thought.

"What? Don't believe in fatherhood? ”

"No, it's just a little uncomfortable." Li Changqing said obediently.

"You don't have to be so submissive in front of me, I've already tasted what kind of character you are. After all, you are my daughter, this kind of thing, Xuanyuan Chu has done too much. Li Rao said as he quickly looked at the ledger.

"......" words, Li Changqing said that he didn't know how to answer, as long as he didn't say a word, he hung his head and stared at the upper of his shoes.

"By the way, this month, because of the Chinese New Year, I think the expenditure is a bit large, you go and call Steward Liu for me, and I will ask him the details."

"Steward Liu is no longer in the house recently, I have sent someone to look for a long time, but I have not been able to find anyone, because my father is busy, I have never told my father, please forgive my father."

"Not in the house? What is the meaning? Li Rao closed the account book, and then looked up at Li Changqing.

"I was negligent, and I haven't seen him for almost a month."

"It's been so long, have you looked for all the places you should be looking for?" Steward Liu has always been very clear about the accounts of the Li Mansion, and if something happens, there will be no shortage of people who have arrested him to spy on the finances of the Li Mansion. Butler Liu still knows some of the things in the open and in the dark.

Li Rao's eyes were gloomy, he looked at the account book in his hand and said, "I also read it just now, there are some problems with this account."

"Yes, with a sum of money missing, I can't find Steward Liu, but I don't believe that Steward Liu will run away with all the money, and the chance of being caught by others will be higher."

Li Changqing was about to say that when she suspected that someone in the Li Mansion might have secretly tied up Steward Liu, Fang Jue hurriedly ran over and was about to report, but when she saw Li Changqing in the study, the words came to her mouth, so she swallowed again, approached Li Rao, and secretly whispered in her ear, Li Rao's face was complicated, and he stared at Li Changqing for a while, and said: "You follow me to your Tingfeng Pavilion to take a look." ”

Li Changqing saw that her father, who was still kind to her just now, but now his face was cloudy, and he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, followed by him, and soon arrived at Tingfeng Pavilion.

At this time, there were only two people in the Tingfeng Pavilion, Toon and Wang Ruzhen, Toon leaned against the tree with a big belly, his body was constantly trembling, but under his feet was a white dead cat, but the cat's mouth was blood, and there seemed to be a piece of meat in his mouth, which frightened the toon flower; But Wang Ruzhen was sitting on a stone bench with cotton pads, looking at Li Rao who came over, she was overjoyed, but she pretended to be worried and said: "Master, you are here, you see, how did the eldest lady dig such an obscure thing out of the back of the yard." ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his finger and pointed to the stinky corpse under the wall, and said to Li Rao.

Fortunately, Fang Jue had already sent the maid away, leaving only the second lady and Aunt Toon, waiting for the master to come and adjudicate.

"What's going on?" Li Rao looked at Wang Ruzhen, "Why are you here?" Toon is so cold and has a big belly, just to look at this thing? As soon as Li Rao came in, looking at this scene, he guessed seven or eight points.

"Master, Aunt Toon said that she lost the cat Xiaobai, and brought the girl to find Xiaobai, and met me on the way, I asked a few words casually, and then ordered a few girls around me to help find it, who knew that the girl heard the sound of the cat screaming in the yard of the eldest lady, so she hurried over, and was going to go in, how did I know that the girl here was not allowed to enter, but Aunt Toon heard the voice that it was clearly Xiaobai, so she insisted on breaking in, and saw that Mama Wei was about to ......go out with a dead cat in her hand."

When the toon heard this, he held his stomach with one hand, and said while continuing Wang Ruzhen's words: "The concubine was frightened at the time, seeing that Xiaobai's white velvet hair was full of blood, and even brought something in her mouth, so she walked over and saw Xiaobai's current miserable situation, which made the concubine feel very uncomfortable, and begged the master to make the concubine the master, and must punish the wicked person who killed Xiaobai!" As he spoke, he was about to kneel, but Li Changqing, who had been standing aside and listening carefully, hurriedly stepped forward and held the toon.

Li Changqing's hand strength was very strong, so that the toon couldn't kneel, and stopped his body alive.

"Aunt Xiang, what is this doing? Since Xiaobai is in my listening to the wind pavilion has an accident, I will find out, but, if you kneel down in my listening to the wind pavilion for so much life, there are three long and two short, people who don't know still say that I Li Changqing framed my father and had a pregnant aunt next to me, even if you don't think about yourself, but don't embarrass the younger brother in the belly for your father, can't you? When the time comes, if you accidentally have a miscarriage, won't even your father's reputation be ruined! ”

Li Changqing's words, the toon he said was stunned, and he couldn't say it when he thought about it, and he looked at Li Rao with tears in his eyebrows, wanting to win his love.

How do you know, Li Rao listened to Li Changqing's words, his eyes showed a complicated look, he glanced at the toon's gradually bulging belly, and said in a stiff tone: "Changqing's words, think about it!" ”