Part 1: A Dream Within A Dream / Rebirth of Ill Fated Concubine

Chapter 044 Meeting Again

She turned around the previous corridor, walked around a path and walked into the small room behind the garden on one side, opened the door and walked in.

The layout of the room is extremely simple, and it seems to be an abandoned study that has not been used for a long time. There were a few travel notes scattered around on the table. 

Jiang Ruan walked around to the desk. A picture of a wind-blown bamboo forest hung in the sky in front of the desk. She looked at it for a moment, then reached out and lifted up the scroll, revealing a flat wall from behind the scroll.

Jiang Ruan stretched out her hands to cover the snow-white wall in front of her, and slowly explored it. After a while, she pressed something unknown, and heard a crisp sound. The wall in the middle slowly sunk, and a small hidden grid appeared.

She paused, reached into the secret compartment, and took out a cloth bag. The cloth bag was quite heavy in her hand, and when she weighed it, she thought it was something like a book. 

Jiang Ruan smiled slightly, this is the special ledger in the home of Minister Shen of the Shen Mansion. As long as people in official circles do things during the day, they always have to manage things up and down. 

There must be a source of money when doing business. Shilang Shen handed these things to Madam Shen to take care of. Madam Shen didn't think it was right to hide these ledgers, so she simply put them in when she found this piece of art hidden in an abandoned study room behind a scroll. No one would have thought of it.

However, when the Eighth Prince in the previous life met her in private, he did talk to her about this matter. Shen Shilang was originally with Jiang Quan, but later they had some differences for some unknown reason. Jiang Quan didn't care, because he had something to do with it. In the hands of Jiang Quan. 

These account books somehow fell into the hands of Jiang Quan. Once they were shaken out, many people would be involved, and another turmoil was bound to happen.

No matter what, she got this account book today, and her trip was not in vain.

Jiang Ruan put the cloth bag into her arms, suddenly froze and turned her head.

There was a person standing in front of the horizontal screen in the room, looking at her at the moment, with deep emotions that could not be seen clearly in his eyes.

When she took a closer look, she saw that the man was dressed in black brocade clothes and had an indifferent expression. He was actually the strange man who had met once in the temple when he returned to the capital that day. But she didn't expect to meet here again today, and she isn’t sure if it's a blessing or a curse.

Jiang Ruan stared at him warily, but the other party just stared directly at her chest. Jiang Ruan was slightly annoyed when she heard the other party suddenly say in a cold voice: "Ledger."

Originally staring at the account book in her chest, Jiang Ruan was stunned and frowned: "You want the account book?"

She doesn’t know where this person came from, but he actually wants the account book. Could it be that he is dealing with the Shen family. Jiang Ruan paused for a moment, then took out the account book from her arms and threw it away. The young man in black clothes raised his hand and took it, glancing at her expressionlessly. His eyes were as calm as ever, making it difficult to fathom.

Jiang Ruan felt free and easy. She originally asked for this account book just to cause trouble with the Shen family and to cause some trouble for Jiang Li. If you really want to say something, keeping such a thing is a hot potato. Now that she is still young, she can't come forward for many things, so keeping it will make it difficult to deal with. Since this person had something to do with the Shen family, there was nothing wrong with cooperating with him. She was happy to see that the Shen family was not having a good life.