Li's mother secretly wiped the sweat from her forehead, handed over the shopping list she had listed, and gave Nian Ruyi instructions.

Nian Ruyi took it over and looked at it carefully one by one, "This rice costs 16 cents per pound, do you know what kind of rice it is?"

"Yes... it's fragrant rice, so the price is a little more expensive than ordinary rice." Li's mother secretly applied a handful of sweat to herself. Fortunately, she changed the ordinary rice to fragrant rice yesterday, otherwise the stuff would be exposed.

"Fragrant rice? This morning, the rice porridge I drank was not cooked with fragrant rice. Could it be that there was something wrong with my taste?"

"Mrs. It's not that you have any taste problems. The porridge this morning was cooked with ordinary rice." Luanfeng continued.

"Hey, but I clearly remember that the rice price on the purchase order yesterday was more expensive than this fragrant rice... When was fragrant rice cheaper than ordinary rice?"

Nian Ruyi's eyes were like a knife, and he shot at Li's mother, "Mum Li, I came from a small family, and I didn't have a maid to serve me when I was a child. Sometimes I went to buy the firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea at home. I was very clear about the price. Yesterday, because I took over the Zhongbao in the inner courtyard on the first day, I didn't have time to ask you, why the price on the purchase order you gave me is double or even triple more expensive than the ones sold in the retail sale?"

"This... Young Madam, the prince's mansion has always bought things from the old supply shop. They raised the price, and the old slave had never gone to the market to inquire. This was the old slave's mistake. The old slave... The old slave went to inquire in the afternoon, and it must be..."

"What you are talking about is that the price given to you by the supplier is so high?" Nian Ruyi interrupted her and her voice suddenly became a little colder. "Unfortunately, the shopkeepers and owners in several supply shops that were supplied to you are here today. How about you face to face?"

The blood on Li Ma's face was instantly drained, her face pale, and she looked at Nian Ruyi in disbelief, "Mrs. Young Madam, what do you mean?"

"Don't you know it?" Why ask clearly?

Nian Ruyi glanced at Luanfeng, and Luanfeng made a gesture to Meifeng who was guarding the door. Soon, more than a dozen men of old and young were brought in.

As soon as Li Ma saw them, she collapsed on the ground with weakness, "Young Madam, I'm wrong, I'm going to ask the young lady to spare my life."

Knowing that the embezzlement of the money was exposed, Li's mother did not argue. She pounced and knelt down and begged, "Young Madam, I know I'm wrong. I'm sorry to my ancestors, I'm sorry to the Yuan Palace, I'm... I'll never again in the future. I hope the young lady will give me a chance to reform myself. I'm begging the young lady."

Reformed?

hehe……

Nian Ruyi smiled sarcastically, "I don't want your life, but it's impossible for you to continue to stay in the Yuan Palace."

"Young lady... I can't bear to let my ancestors go, please..."

"Okay, don't plead for mercy. I have embezzled so much money in the royal palace. Do you think I can agree to let you stay with just a few words of mercy and then let you continue to embezzle the money in the royal palace?" What a wonderful thing to think of?

"I can't let my life, but I'll pay back all the money I've embezzled, otherwise I'll hand over all your family to the prison hall for disposal."

Embezzling more than 100,000 taels of silver from the boss is a serious crime. If you go to the prison hall, you will be sentenced to exile even if you don’t die.

But betrayal and exile are popular, not to drive you to a deserted and remote city, but to work or hard and tiring work.
Chapter completed!