Chapter 1499 Sending to the Official Residence
Su Qingyue was sitting at the table in the courtyard reading medical books and turned another page as if she had heard nothing. Shen Yun was so angry at her indifference that she was practically grinding her teeth. If it was an ordinary woman with such thieving parents, she would have been too ashamed to even leave her room, yet there she was!
Xiao Yuchuan went to the kitchen and brought over a plate of fruit himself. Seeing the people in the yard, he frowned, "Why did you bring the Su Family couple here?"
Shen Yun hastily put on a worried face, "Chuan’er, the purple jade hairpin was a gift from your grandparents as part of my dowry when I got married. It’s not only valuable but also has deep meaning. Your in-laws stole it, and furthermore..."
With a sweep of her sleeve, Shuang’er presented a box which was opened to reveal a green hairpin broken in two, with a purple gem embedded at the top.
"Moreover, the hairpin was found broken in your in-law’s room," she said with regret in her tone, "today, Maid Yinzhu discovered a thief entering Qin Garden, your room, and caught them, only to find it was your in-laws. My purple jade hairpin had just gone missing, and suspecting that the Su Family couple might be the thieves, I never thought that sending someone to search their room would actually turn up the hairpin."
"We’ve been wronged, Lady Xiao!" Su Qin burst out. "With the power of a first-class family, I wouldn’t dare steal from you even if I had the audacity of a deity. I’m just short on money, and because Qingyue is my daughter, I thought of taking some money from her room. I truly didn’t steal your hairpin..."
"Lady Xiao, please understand, my wife and I really just planned to steal from Yue’er’s..." Su Dashui realized he misspoke, "we really just wanted to ’take’ a little from Yue’er. We didn’t steal your hairpin!"
Shen Yun, furious, said, "You were caught red-handed with the stolen goods in your room, and yet you still want to deny it!" Trembling, she pointed at Su Dashui and his wife, "Chuan’er, look at them. Everyone in the Mansion knows how well I treated them, and in the end, I’ve been ’bitten by a snake’. We cannot tolerate such conscienceless scoundrels!"