"What's your name?"

Mu Qingge looked at the maid who was clumsily adding firewood and boiling water, so he lay down next to the wooden barrel and looked at the girl and said, "You don't look like a maid." ”

"If you go back to adulthood, my name is Xu Yuan, and my father is Xu Jiang."

Although the girl is not very neat in her work, she is extremely serious and careful, Mu Qingge looked back at Leren when she heard this, and the other party's face was also very surprised, she didn't expect Xu Jiang to send her daughter over to serve them personally.

"How old are you?"

"If you go back to your lordship, I'm fifteen."

Xu Yuan, who came to change the hot water for Mu Qingge, was pouring water carefully, and by the way, she secretly glanced at the woman who was soaked in the water, blushing and lowering her head.

Mu Qingge saw that the little girl was very interesting, so he suddenly had a teasing mind and said, "Am I good-looking?" ”

"Good, good-looking."

"Am I good-looking or is she good-looking?"

pointed to the musician who was taking a bath in the bucket next door, and the other party threw an unhappy roll of his eyes and said, "Mu Qingge, you are so bored!" ”

"It's all good-looking."

After thinking about it with a difficult choice, Xu Yuan still replied, Mu Qingge lay next to the bucket and pouted helplessly: "You girl, you can really speak!" ”

They tried to relax, but there was a cry and noise outside.

Mu Qingge looked outside and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Hey, maybe it's the guy in the store who's daughter-in-law crying and going home." Xu Yuan explained in a low voice: "A few days ago, a guy in the store bought a daughter-in-law who fled from the south, but after she came, she cried every day, my father didn't let her live in the store, but the guy begged my dad again, and my dad was in a dilemma." ”

It's not that Mu Qingge can't understand this kind of thing, it's just that he didn't dare to take his daughter-in-law home after buying it, and it really couldn't be understood.

"Leave it alone." Le Ren soaked comfortably, walked out of the water, wiped his body and said: "If you really don't want to live here, it's better to get rid of it to avoid trouble." ”

"It doesn't matter if you get there."

The two people took a shower and walked out, Xu Jiang was preparing a meal in the back room and waiting, and when he saw the two people walking out, he hurriedly stood up and bowed and said, "Dongjia." ”

Seeing that Xu Jiang prepared everything very carefully, Mu Qingge was very happy, and was more satisfied that he was so filial, and Le Ren didn't say anything and sat next to him to eat together.

"Eat and eat, you still like it, are you so short?" Mu Qingge saw that the musician had already moved the account book to the dining table to look at it, so he rolled his eyes and said, "Have a good meal." ”

"Your old man is resting next to you, and I'll do it in the end." After turning a few pages of the account book, Le Ren said: "There is a lot of money, and there is a shortage of 40,000 taels of silver." ”

Le Ren knocked on the notebook and looked up at Xu Jiang and said with a frown: "Shopkeeper Xu, I am very satisfied with the Linglong Pavilion where you are in charge of Jiangcheng, why is the account written in a mess this time, why is the money spent from the General Pavilion not on your account?" ”

Xu Jiang was stunned for a moment, rubbed his hands and had a little panic in his eyes, but he still bowed down with a smile and said: "The owner, the silver was sent, but when it came, it was directly misappropriated to buy the rough stone, so I didn't have time." ”

"Buying raw materials, that should be written on the account, why is it too late?" Le Ren frowned and said, "When I'm so coaxed, isn't it!" Don't talk nonsense, where is the money spent? ”

The other party couldn't prevaricate after finding a few excuses, so Xu Jiang couldn't help but explain: "I, a relative at home has something to do temporarily, and he borrowed it and used it, saying that he could pay it back in a few days, I'm sorry, the owner."

Mu Qingge, who was eating, raised his eyes and glanced at this man who was nearly fifty years old, wearing a gray robe, tall and thin, with dark skin, not like a gentleman at all, but like a farmer.

At this moment, he was rubbing his hands very nervously, and even he could see that he was indeed lying.

Le Ren listened to the other party's explanation, and after eating something, he sighed and said, "Xu Jiang, you really don't know what you are doing with the money in the store?" ”

"I ......"

"You spent 40,000 taels of silver, bought tens of thousands of loads of grain from a place in the north, resold and sold it, and you made enough, right? Why, after making money, you don't forget to pay back the capital of the store? Greedy? Le Ren put his hand on the account book and said: "I'll give you one last chance, if you can't say it, don't blame me for reporting to the official." ”

"The owner, don't report to the official!"

Xu Jiang was still holding on, and Xu Yuan next to him was already frightened, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "My father is not for himself, he is for the countless victims outside the city!" ”

"You know? Then you say. ”

"In the eyes of the disaster last month, the officials did not report whether they were alive or dead, and the number of victims was increasing day by day, and there was really no way to do it after the grain stored in our family had been dispersed, so my father wanted to buy a horse of grain at a low price and sell it at the reserve price, who knew that the victims had no money, but they attracted those businessmen who hoarded and raised prices."

"Recently, the weather has been humid, and we have no place to store the food we have gotten, so it is easy to get moldy, so my father simply donated it all, and I really didn't make money with the owner's money."

Mu Qingge heard that this was the case, rubbed his head with a sigh, glanced at Xu Jiang and lowered his head and didn't dare to speak, so he asked: "Shopkeeper Xu, you have lost so much money in your account, have you ever thought about how to pay it back?" ”

"I have an ancestral ......house at home," Xu Jiang hesitated and said, "If you can sell it, the rest of the borrowed money is enough." ”

"How much is Jiangcheng's house worth" Mu Qingge continued to ask with a smile: "Xu Jiang, you also know, we are businessmen, and 40,000 taels of silver is not a small amount. ”

"This ......"

Hearing her say this, the musician, who rarely loses his temper, said angrily: "Bastard! You're so old, are you living a foolish life! Got your head out of order? Without ability, what do you learn to be charitable! You can't make up for the deficit in the store, so you can sell your sons and daughters! Get out, get out of here! ”

Xu Yuan was about to say, Xu Jiang took his daughter and walked out, and happily closed the account book and threw it aside and said: "Don't look at it, I don't know who is in a hurry, and the owner is not in a hurry, what am I anxious about." ”

Mu Qingge, who drank the soup, looked back at Leren, and said with a sigh: "I said Leren, this is unfair to you, and it's not that I embezzled the money in the store, why are you angry with me, I died unjustly!" Even if you want to protect Xu Jiang, you can't murder me! ”

"Who, who told you that I want to protect Xu Jiang?" Le Ren immediately said fiercely: "I tell you, such a person must be dealt with strictly!" ”

"Yes, strictly! By the way, you can ask the cabinet to prepare these price-raising firms for me, and I can use them later. ”

Mu Qingge tidied up his skirt and said, "It seems that there are a lot of things involved in this disaster!" ”