Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Chapter 352

Ye Xi went to the rice pile she pointed to and rummaged around, and sure enough, she saw a leaf stamp on the sack.

She counted what she could find and found that there were only a few bags left, and she was not sure if there were any more.

She opened the bag of rice that the old lady had already opened and took out a handful of rice to examine. It was rice of relatively good quality, similar to the rice she had inspected before sending it over.

Then she went to the other side and looked at the rice sacks that had been opened, but there was no seal of her family on those sacks.

She grabbed a handful of rice and compared it with the rice at home, and there was indeed a difference between the two.

The rice was of low quality, but not inedible.

These rices should have been donated or bought by Wei Jue. If they were all bought, then she used her 100,000 taels of silver to buy these low-quality rices?

This lady seemed to be unaware of the situation, so the problem might be with Wei Jue.

If it wasn't done by Wei Jue, then it was done by local officials.

This was intolerable, so she decided to find Wei Jue and find out what role he played in this.

She stormed out of the yard angrily, and the porridge had already been distributed.

She glanced at the length of the line and found that it was indeed not as long as yesterday's line.

She didn't think much about it and hurried back to the office. She wanted to find Wei Jue to get things clear.

Ye Xi was told by Xue Jiu that Wei Jue was discussing something with Prefect Yuan, so she waited outside.

While waiting, she kept thinking about what words to use.

Wei Jue sent Prefect Yuan away. He was happy to hear that Ye Xi had come, so he asked someone to come in quickly.

Ye Xi: "Sir, I went to the nearest porridge distribution point on the main street today and found that the rice in the porridge was mixed with low-quality rice. Does your Excellency know this?"

Wei Jue didn't expect that she came here for this matter.

"What are you going to do there? There are many refugees there. It's not safe."

Ye Xi was a little speechless about the point that Wei Jue was concerned about, and reminded:

"Sir, I checked the rice in the warehouse. Except for the rice I donated, most of it is low-quality rice. Do you want to check what's going on?"

She was worried that someone would embezzle the disaster relief funds, leaving the starving people without more help.

Even if she didn't consider the common people, the 100,000 taels of silver she donated couldn't be wasted like this.

"Don't worry about this. We can set off back after I'm done with my work."

Ye Xi didn't expect to get such an answer.

"Sir! This is disaster relief, not a joke. Why don't you investigate it thoroughly?"

Ye Xi looked at Wei Jue in disbelief, with a questioning tone in his voice.

Wei Jue frowned. How could he explain to her all the twists and turns? Besides, why did he need to explain his actions to others?

"How dare you! As a commoner you dare to interfere in my official business. Who gave you the face?" Wei Jue growled.

"I'm not interfering with your official duties. I'm just monitoring where the money I donated goes. Is that not okay?"

Ye Xi was also very confident.

This sentence made Wei Jue laugh, and he snorted coldly:

"That's really not possible. Do you think you can make decisions just because you are a businessman and donate some money? What a joke!

Once the donated silver is given to the court, how the court uses it is its business.

Not to mention that you cannot interfere, even if the imperial court uses the money to build the tomb you cannot have the slightest dissatisfaction.

In the future, put away your sharp claws and stop questioning officials at every turn. This is not something you can do with your status."

Wei Jue didn't expect Ye Xi to be so fearless and dare to ask and say anything.