The Zhu family first sent out some specious words, which made Yao Kerou mess up his thoughts first, and then affirmed Yao Kerou's guess by deliberately arranging a gift list for Yao Kerong. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yao Chongming still felt that something was wrong, sent Yao Kerou away, and after thinking about it, he decided to find out what was going on with the Zhu family, the gift list was given to the Zhu family, and the source was still in the Zhu family.

Zhu was not in the house when Yao Chongming arrived, "What about Madame?"

Xia Xiang replied while serving tea, "Madame went to the second miss, and the box of tea that she wanted to send to the Hou Chen family in Jingshan seemed to be a little inappropriate, the second miss knew tea, so the lady took it to the second miss to see!

"In that case, then you guys go down! I'll wait here!" Yao Chongming sat on the collapse and waved at Xia Xiang and the others.

Xia Xiang went out and went directly to the gate of Yilan Courtyard to wait, and after a while, he saw Zhu coming, Xia Xiang quietly pointed to the inner room with his hand, and Zhu understood.

As soon as he entered the door, he asked, "Is the fifth young master awake? Where is Aunt Zhu's medicine? It's time to change the prescription today, has the doctor been here?"

All the way to the door of the main room, his mouth was not idle, and he asked about trivial things at home.

"The fifth young master just woke up, ate milk and fell asleep again, the doctor has already come, Aunt Zhu's medicine has also been boiled, the third young master's chess piece stone has just come to take away, the master is here, and he is sitting in the room. ”

"Then why didn't you say it earlier!" Zhu pushed away Xia Xiang's outstretched hand to serve, and he was very numb except for his cloak.

"The master is here, still don't you want to serve tea?" Zhu instructed while taking the hot handkerchief handed by Xia Xiang and wiping his hands.

"No need, I have something to ask you!"

Since Yao Kerou's last incident, Yao Chongming has never been to Yilan Courtyard again, and this time he came in a bad tone, Xia Xiang took the handkerchief that Zhu had wiped and went down with a cigarette.

The Zhu family knew why Yao Chongming came from, but he still pretended not to know, "I don't know what the master wants to ask?"

"Where is the Yu family's gift list?" Yao Chongming got straight to the point.

"It seems that in the eldest lady's place, these days the concubine is taking the second lady to take stock of the warehouse, and she is very busy, the eldest lady takes the initiative to ask for help, and is willing to help share a part, and the concubine will hand over a part of the gift list that needs to be purchased to the eldest lady, because most of the things on the list of the Yu family need to be re-bought, so the concubine also specially instructed the eldest lady to be extra careful, don't buy the wrong thing!"

Zhu's words just matched Yao Kerou's words, and Yao Chongming asked again, "I heard that there have been some gossip in the house recently, have you heard of it?"

"Gossip?" Zhu pretended to be surprised, but then smiled again, "There is no gossip in the mansion one day, either the east family is the east family, or the west family is short, but the next person is idle and grinding his teeth, the New Year is coming soon, where does the concubine have time to pay attention to those!

Zhu brought this matter aside, Yao Chongming always took the initiative to mention it, but it seemed that he was not generous enough, and he was stunned for a while.

Zhu spoke again, "Speaking of the Yu family, the concubine really remembered something, and the master had to make an idea!"

"Oh, what's the matter?"

"It's the snuffbox that the master added, I didn't find it in the library, and I'm afraid that I can't find a suitable one outside, do you want to change it?"

Yu Shangshu loves to collect snuff bottles, so Yao Chongming specially added them.

"How could Curry not have it? I remember that there should be quite a few? My father loved to collect these when he was alive!" The old marquis also loved to collect snuff bottles during his lifetime, so Yao Chongming was relieved to boldly add them.

"It's not that it's nothing, it's just that the color and style are a little worse, and I can't take ......it out," Zhu replied.

"How is this possible? What my father collected is all high-quality, how can he not take it?" Yao Chongming naturally saw the snuff box collected by the old marquis, and at this time Zhu said that he couldn't take it, so he immediately refuted it.

"It's really hard to take it...... The concubine looked at the account book, and it seems that the things have been transferred......"

Yao Chongming understood the meaning of Zhu's words at once, before Zhu's family, he was the head of Xiaomiao's family, and it was self-evident who transferred the things.

Yao Chongming gritted his teeth with a dark face and said, "Then go buy it, no matter how much it costs, buy it back for me!"

Zhu Shi looked puzzled, "There is not enough money in the account...... The younger brother and sister left in a hurry, and they left without handing over, and the accounts were also a mess, and it was not easy to sort them out in the past two days, only to find that there was a shortage of nearly 100,000 taels of silver......"

"One hundred thousand taels?" Yao Chongming was taken aback, he knew that the wife of the family would get oil and water from the princess, but this was a common thing, he turned a blind eye and passed, but he didn't expect Xiao Miao to be so bold that he actually deducted nearly 100,000 taels of silver.

"The concubine couldn't believe it at first, and specially invited Steward Mao to see it, and it was still the same result, you also know, Steward Mao's ability, when did he make a mistake?"

Now that Mao Song has seen it, it must be no worse, there is so much silver at once, Yao Chongming's face is pale, and he clenched his fists and did not speak.

Zhu looked at Yao Chongming's expression from the side, and sneered in his heart, he thought that she was willing to be this family, just a mess.

"With so much silver missing all of a sudden, the house is naturally a little stretched, so the concubine cut those more than the amount to save expenses, and everything that can be saved is saved! It's just a drop in the bucket! Alas......" Speaking of this, Zhu looked worried.

Yao Chongming took a long time to hold back such a sentence, "Why hasn't it been like this before?"

This means that the head of the Xiao Miao clan has never been stretched thin before, so why is it that the Zhu clan has no money in his hands? This means that the Zhu clan is not as capable as the Xiao Miao clan.

It's just that how can the Zhu family admit this?" The concubine also felt strange, and after carefully looking through the account book, she found that the younger siblings had embezzled the money left for the children to marry, otherwise where could such a big gap be blocked, but the eldest lady was fifteen years old at the beginning of the year, how could the money for the dowry have to be set aside, and the eldest young master had reached the age when he should marry a wife, could the dowry money be prepared first? In this way, where is the extra money available?"

What Zhu said was reasonable, and Yao Chongming's face turned purple when he heard it, "So, what do you think should be done?"

Zhu took a sip of tea, cleared his throat, and then said slowly, "First prepare the gifts according to the things in the warehouse, and then buy them if they are really lacking......! According to the original plan, the gifts given to the Yu family were already very rich, and the concubine felt that there was really no need to double them......"

Yao Chongming's face changed unpredictably, and he said after a long time, "Just do anything else, the Yu family still can't be less!"