The Swapped Heir Came Home Hungry novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: Cot Eight
They came into the ancestral hall at two in the morning, wet to the knees and holding a ledger.
The family was already there.
Second Uncle sat in the chair beneath the tablets, in a dressing gown, with his hands folded.
Madam Su stood beside the incense table. Linchuan stood by the door, in his slippers, with a shut face.
"The warehouse guard called me forty minutes ago," said Second Uncle, mildly. "Two boys and a cook stole records from a Group building on the heir's card."
"It is theft. It is also, my dear Yuan, a rather sad use of your mother's trust."
"I used my own card," said Yuan.
"On a theft."
"On a nursery book," said Yuan. "Which was about to be fed to a shredder on your order."
Second Uncle's smile stayed, but it thinned.
"Madam Su," he said. "The board has suspended the acting head."
"The boy must be moved out of the Lakeside Court to the guest house until the hearing. I move it tonight."
"It is only proper that a young man under inquiry not live beside the man who is also under it."
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