Approaching the end of the year, the streets seem to be lively, and there are many more people rushing to the market than in previous days. Xin Yan finally took a little time to take a good look at the accumulated account books.

In fact, she is very lazy, especially in winter, she will never get up if she can lie on the bed, except for the first few years, she can also have the energy to read the account book, and later, she will directly be the shopkeeper.

It's not that she has a big heart, it's just that she doesn't suspect people, and she doesn't use suspicious people. She believed in her own vision, so later, she found someone who could manage it for her, and she simply put down the stall and handed over most of the "chores" to others. It's easy to be yourself, too.

And the reason why I am looking at the ledger here now is just a small episode a few days ago.

A few days ago.

couldn't stand Wei Xiaochun's chatter, so she had to give her a day off to forage outside. Although Wei Xiaochun is a foodie, she is also a foodie with pursuits, ordinary food is definitely not in her eyes, although the chef in this house is a stunt, but she can't stand her mouth that eats several meals a day, and the speed of eating is almost as fast as her talking.

When she was in the mountains, she had always been thinking about the food in the world, and now that she has the opportunity, how can she let it go?

Early in the morning, he instigated Jibei to accompany her to the street, saying that he wanted to taste the food of this place together, and secretly made a calculation to let Jibei be a coolie.

Everyone knew that as soon as she opened her mouth, she couldn't help but laugh, and Xin Yan rarely had time to relax, so she waved her hand and was ready!

Early in the morning, Wei Xiaochun took the reluctant Jibei out, Xin Yan thought: This girl won't come back if she doesn't waste a day.

Who ever wanted to go happily in the morning, but after noon, I heard her come back scolding.

His face was full of anger, and his mouth kept chattering, and Jibei listened without saying a word, and he couldn't interject when he thought about it.

When I entered the door, I saw Xin Yan half-leaning on the beauty couch reading a book, which stopped her mouth, but her face was still not good, and she looked like a little resentful woman.

Xin Yan couldn't help laughing: "Jibei, are you the little girl who provoked our family?" Why, I didn't get anything delicious. ”

Hearing Xin Yan's words, Jibei also said, "How dare I? "This is also the truth, he has a stupid mouth, unlike Wei Xiaochun, who nagged endlessly.

The master and servant laughed at Jibei's serious appearance, and the anger in Wei Xiaochun's heart just now also dissipated a little, and said, "What can he say that wooden stunned man?" If you don't know how to bargain, if you don't have me, you won't necessarily be cheated out of how much silver. ”

Although it was the truth, Ji Bei didn't take it to heart, and Xin Yan didn't say anything and listened to Wei Xiaochun tell him what happened after he went out in the morning.

It turned out that after they went out, they had also bought food that she was satisfied with, passing by a shop called "Drunken Snacks", thinking that she had almost finished scraping the famous snacks in Yancheng, and also went to taste and taste authentic cheap snacks.

At first, I found that the name of this "drunken snack" was a little familiar, but after thinking about it, maybe it was passing by when I passed by before, so I didn't care.

waited until he entered the store and asked the price, and Wei Xiaochun was surprised. Looking at this ordinary snack mouth, a pound actually costs ten taels of silver.

Joke! The ones she bought are also Yancheng specialties, the most expensive is only a box of forty taels, and the lowest is about the same price as his, this ordinary snack is as high as a catty and ten taels, which is enough for ordinary people's income for almost a year.

This money is a small amount of money for Wei Xiaochun, although she has no brains, but in the past few days, she has also felt the food and trade of the entire Yancheng clearly, and she is definitely not the kind of little girl who does not understand the world.

Moreover, Yancheng is different from other small towns, and the prices cannot be compared. However, other stores are also expensive, but they will never be so outrageous.

Wei Xiaochun was afraid that he would deceive her and be an outsider, so he simply dealt with the shopkeeper, and he really found out some truth for her.

The shopkeeper of this shop is not a good thing, a part-time worker, actually secretly manipulated, doubled the price of food set by the owner, and lowered the cost of purchase under the banner of the owner, making huge profits from it, and introduced his relatives and friends to the store or made oil and water for them.

The shopkeeper was often instructed by the shopkeeper's relatives to wear small shoes on weekdays, but he had no choice but to have a backer, even if he was angry and couldn't stand it, he couldn't help it.

During their conversation, Wei Xiaochun deliberately lured him to say more. Xiao Er has been angry for so long, and he has explained everything.

The shopkeeper seems to be not afraid of being discovered by the owner, in recent years, he has become more and more bold, he may have made fake accounts before, and he did not dare to be greedy, but this year he is acting more and more perversely, and he is not afraid of being discovered at all.

Wei Xiaochun said that she was thirsty, and hurriedly asked Jibei to pour her a glass of water, and after getting it, she drank it all, cleared her throat and said: "That shopkeeper's relative is really not a good thing, girl, you know what I still see there!" ”

"One of the shopkeepers introduced to work in the store is her mother-in-law's nephew, who doesn't know how to learn. Stealing chickens and touching dogs all day long, very. Thinking of going to the store to fish in troubled waters, the oil and water really caught a lot, and as soon as I got rich, I was fluttering. The point is! He also forcibly robbed the women of good families and forced them to commit suicide by throwing themselves into the river. When Wei Xiaochun thought of this, he was disgusted.

"Soon after we arrived, the family of the woman who committed suicide by throwing herself into the river went to the store. The woman's family also looked poor, and the dead woman still had many wounds, and her family said that they had been insulted by the brute. Girl, you really don't see that, there's nothing good about her. ”

The more Wei Xiaochun talked about it, the more angry he became, and he couldn't wait to directly catch that beast and beat him up. If he wasn't there, otherwise, he would really be able to beat her so that her father and mother didn't recognize her.

"Also, the shopkeeper's face, I really have never seen such a brazen and shameless person. The words in that mouth are called foul language, to be honest, you shouldn't stop me from being in the north, and the little one is not there, so you should beat this old one, so that he knows that this world is not something that people like him can do whatever they want. Hum! ”

At that time, if he wasn't from the north, according to Wei Xiaochun, he could indeed turn him upside down.

And Xin Yan was suspicious as early as when he said that Wei Xiaochun said the name of the store.

After Wei Xiaochun finished speaking, Xin Yan said, "What happened later?" ”

Wei Xiaochun said that although she couldn't beat them, she couldn't just cheap those bastards, so she asked the surrounding onlookers to report to the official, and the victim's family and the shopkeeper also went to the official mansion together.

Hearing this, he also understood a little, and said in a deep voice: "That family shouldn't be pleasing either." ”

Wei Xiaochun was stunned and didn't understand: "Girl, how can this be, his nephew killed people and reported to the official, even if he can't pay for his life, he will never let go of that bastard easily." ”

Xin Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Wei Xiaochun's innocent appearance, and sighed: "It stands to reason that if something like this happens in someone's family, shouldn't they report to the official as soon as possible?" Even if you are afraid of reputation, isn't it more disadvantageous to go to the door of the store to make trouble? Besides, if you say that the family is a poor family, that is, there is no money, and how can you deal with being a shopkeeper if you have no money. Come to think of it, they also went to report to the officials, but the government has no way to make decisions for them, or they don't want to make decisions for them. And according to what you said, since that nephew has a bad record before, if the government accepts it, this case should be very easy to handle, unless, someone spends money to collude with the government office, so that they have nowhere to redress their grievances. ”

Wei Xiaochun didn't know what to say at this time, he choked and panicked, remembering what the family said when arguing with the shopkeeper, it seemed that there was also a mention of the government, collusion or something. Now all the things that I couldn't understand before are also understood.

"Is there any reason for this?" Wei Xiaochun's face was gloomy.

At this time, Xin Yan asked about the situation of the store, the things it sold, and the location where it was located.

Although Wei Xiaochun didn't know how the topic suddenly turned here, she still told Xin Yan everything she knew.

Now, Xin Yan was furious, okay, dare to go out and harm others under her signboard.

Wei Xiaochun and Jibei looked at Xin Yan's face was not good, and they didn't dare to speak, and after a while, her face improved a little, but her eyes were still gloomy, she told Jibei to send the news out, Wei Xiaochun was still confused, she didn't explain to Wei Xiaochun carefully, and told Wei Xiaochun to do something, and Wei Xiaochun was ordered to leave.

Watching them leave, Xin Yan didn't know what he was thinking, and didn't say anything more.

On this day, Xin Yan flipped through the account book and was silent. There was one other person next to her besides Wei Xiaochun.

Wearing a navy blue wide-sleeved skirt, with a silver thread bottom, her hair is simply pulled up, and she is silver-shaped with silver light. The eyebrows are clear, the nose is delicate and straight, and the lips are ruddy, standing erect on the side.

At the door, several carriages stopped accordingly, and the people in the carriages hurriedly got out. I was not surprised to see the figure of my old companion, but the uneasiness and doubts in my heart rose. Later, people arrived in front of the house.

The people in the house didn't say much, but just led them inside.

Steward Li, who was walking in front, was bold, approached the subordinate who led the way, there was a flattering smile on his face, handed him a heavy purse in his hand, and asked: "Little brother, we don't know why we were recruited, can you reveal a thing or two, don't dislike this little brother, I invited my little brother to drink." ”

The meaning of flattery was all on his face, and the flesh on his round face shook with his speech, and it was very greasy.

Everyone else craned their necks to listen. They were also panicked.

I originally received the news from the owner, and I was still secretly happy in my heart, whether I had the opportunity to be promoted, I could think of how the owner would find them because of such a trivial matter, and the original joy was poured with cold water, thinking of what I did secretly, and my heart was empty, I just saw so many people at the door, and I was also puzzled.

They all gave themselves mental hints, telling themselves that they were thinking too much, and it was impossible for the owner to send someone to stare at them all day long, and thinking about this, the panic on their faces improved.

At this moment, they all stood up and listened to the words of Steward Li and the little brother, and the subordinates didn't even take the purse and didn't even look at it, and said calmly: "The master just said that he would lead you there, and he didn't say anything else, you will know when you arrive." ”

In one sentence, he choked back Steward Li's words, looking at this person who was so ignorant, Steward Li's face was unpredictable, and his face turned dark.

He is also a steward, and when he goes out, when others hear his name, who is not good at saying anything and lustfully will offer him and hold him, who dares to give him a look.

A subordinate dares to give him a face, I bah! It's not a bad thing. If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't go wild here now, he would have given him two big-eared scrapers a long time ago.

I held my breath back, but I didn't say anything more, although I knew that I couldn't lose my temper in this place, but I couldn't look as usual.

When other people saw him deflated, their hearts were also secretly refreshed, and some of them had already had a holiday, and they applauded in their hearts. You kid has it today.

But it was a pity that he did not find out any useful news, until he went up the steps and turned a corner, and the man dropped a sentence: "The master is waiting for you inside." Then he left.

Everyone walked into the hall with their own thoughts.