Chapter 58: Reckoning
Hearing You Xiaoya's words, he was bluffed by her momentum again, and this Lai Yun's throat suddenly tightened, but these words came to his mouth, didn't it show that he was really frightened by a little woman? So he unconsciously cleared his throat and said:
"Broken leaves and flowers brocade seems to be an ordinary cloth in the capital, but in a small town like my Jinjia Town, it is a good product, and how can so many people in Jinjia Town afford such clothes and fabrics? Therefore, in order not to hoard goods, I can only lower the price to make small profits but sell quickly. The words came out of Lai Yun's mouth, as if there was some truth.
"Hmph, small profits but quick turnover...... This is interesting, then the shopkeeper can just say, these seventeen and a half pieces of broken leaves and flowers, how much profit have you won? How much profit did my Jin family win? And also...... How much does Li's mother make again? ”
You Xiaoya sneered with the teacup and leaned on the back of the chair behind her, her appearance looked a little lazy, but it always revealed the cold arrogance of the superior.
"Madame, why do you say that?!" When Lai Yun heard You Xiaoya's words, it was as if he had suddenly been wronged, and he immediately became angry and anxious.
But I didn't want Mother Li to hear You Xiaoya's words, and her body, which was not very stable, stiffened obviously, causing Lai Yun and several people to look sideways at her, and when they saw her particularly ugly face, their hearts became more and more bottomless, and they all thought in a little panic:
This Mother Li can't have some handle in the hands of that little lady, right? And this handle is still about several of them......
"Why?" You Xiaoya raised her eyes to look at Lai Yun and his party from the act of drinking tea, and her words were calm with the so-called slightest doubt. When everyone heard this, they all looked up to see her. But I saw that the tea cup slightly blocked half of her face, and her black and white eyes were distinct. The impatience in the coldness is simply obvious to make people's hearts tremble.
Except for Xiao Cui'er and her entourage, who were standing beside her, saw the trace of disdain and ridicule on the corners of her lips, and their hearts shrank inexplicably. I'm afraid that Mrs. Dao won't be done if she doesn't pack up Mother Li's party enough this time, right......?
......Seeing You Xiaoya like this, Lai Yun and the others didn't know how to answer for a while, they could only look at her, even if they were anxious, they could only be anxious in their hearts.
You Xiaoya glanced at everyone, and finally retracted her gaze and threw the tea cup in her hand on a few cases almost casually, half of the tea cup spilled on the table almost without suspense under this turmoil, Xiao Cui'er saw it, and quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe off the tea soup that was flowing around.
"Madame is careful to burn her hands."
"It's okay" that the tea is not hot. You Xiaoya knew that Xiao Cui'er was just saying this to let people know her money, but she didn't feel that there was anything good or bad about it, but she still accepted her thoughts.
When she looked up again, Xiao Cui'er had already put away all the things on the table, and You Xiaoya casually pulled out the penultimate book after glancing at the stack of account books on the desk.
This ledger is a little different from the one just now, the overall thickness is slightly thinner, the color of the paper is also yellowish, and the touch of the paper is much softer than that of ordinary rice paper.
"Mother Li looks familiar, right?" You Xiaoya's voice was calm, and she opened the account book while speaking to Mother Li in the courtyard.
Mother Li's face was extremely pale. From time to time, a resentful light burst out of his eyes. And when that gaze looked at You Xiaoya, it was particularly intense.
"You have not paid much attention to these things in the past two days, but you must know that since this is what Mrs. Ben wants. Or do you say that you can take it? ”
That day, when You Xiaoya asked Jin Shouzhong to bring this account book, she expected that Mother Li would not give up, so she had already let Jin Shouzhong do something. At that time, the things he sent were just for a show.
But the truth is just as You Xiaoya and the others thought, what Jin Shouzhong originally sent. There was no trace that night, and You Xiaoya just sneered a few times and didn't talk about it anymore. It wasn't until this morning that she had the real books fetched.
You Xiaoya's face seemed to have a hint of irony, she was lucky today, she only looked at two account books, and it was a coincidence that she saw the column of 'Broken Leaves and Flowers' made by Mother Li, so all the losses of the Jin family became Mother Li's profits, what else can You Xiaoya say?
Listening to You Xiaoya's words, Lai Yun and his entourage suddenly realized, and they all looked at the account book in her hand with some disbelief.
"On the twenty-ninth day of May, there are seven broken leaves and flowers...... Twelve taels of silver in cash, three or seven cents," Speaking of this, You Xiaoya suddenly stopped, and finally looked up at a few people in the courtyard and said in confusion: "Mother Li, is this seventy percent or thirty percent?" ”
"......" You Xiaoya's voice fell, and everyone gasped, and Lai Yun and the others were even more difficult to see, and the flattery or jealousy that they had for Mother Li's words and eyes all turned into restless contempt at this time.
It's just because no one thought that she would be stupid enough to write this kind of thing on paper clearly, and let people take it, this is simply a thing that was kicked in the brain by a donkey, right?!
"This is the matter of those broken leaves and flowers, twelve taels of silver is not much, my Jin family, the family is big, and the family is still at a loss." You Xiaoya's voice and complexion slowly became calmer, to put it bluntly, she was talking about innocuous things with an expressionless face.
There was a dead silence in the courtyard, and Lai Yun and Shopkeeper Liu wanted to say something, but when the words came to their lips, they felt that no matter what they said now, maybe in front of the momentum that You Xiaoya had to say, it would become a quibble that was sat down, and it was a very powerless feeling.
But if she doesn't say it, it's as if the facts are really what she said, although the facts are really like that, but she only relies on Li's mother's account book, what can it say? Maybe the money was eaten by Li's mother alone?
"Madame, mean we are involved in this? Just this account book that says nothing? As soon as Lai Yun's words came out, an unclear line was immediately drawn between Li's mother and them.
It seems to be too arbitrary to accuse them of embezzling the Jin family's money with just such an account book. As if to say, this is Li's mother's account book, even if something is recorded on it, it is also Li's mother's behavior, what do they have to do?
"That's right, this is Mother Li's account book, what do you have to do?" You Xiaoya suddenly looked at a few people in the courtyard, and finally said meaningfully.
"What do you say about Shopkeeper Lai?!" After listening to Lai Yun's words, Mother Li felt that there was something wrong, but now after listening to You Xiaoya's words, it seemed that this money swallowing thing had become her alone, and she was immediately unhappy. (To be continued......)