stepped forward to take a closer look, and it was all some old-fashioned and outdated patterns.

"It's like this on weekdays?" Bai Jiaojiao looked at the door, the flow of people was hurrying, but no one stopped at the door, not even a glance.

"Oh miss, you don't know, it's very difficult to do business these days, every day just the cost of our cloth village is not small, and our store is also an old shop, just to spend a lot of silver, there are dozens of cloth villages on this street like ours, and a wave is stronger than a wave."

Shopkeeper Zhang smiled, this eldest lady of the Bai family has no ink on her chest and is best fooled, he did this in the past.

Who knew that Bai Jiaojiao was different from the past, picked up the teacup on the side and threw it on the head of the shopkeeper Zhang.

"A good wave is stronger than a wave, is it really Miss Ben blind?"

Bai Jiaojiao's face was slightly cold, where is this business not good, this is obviously a deliberate slack deception, and it is just a matter of muddy water and money all day long.

"Miss Ben will give you a day, tidy up the façade of the shop for me, and I'll come back tomorrow, if it's still like this, you won't use it in the future!"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

The shopkeeper of the jewelry shop next door was more clever, and when he saw Bai Jiaojiao entering the cloth village, he hurriedly sent someone to clean up the shop a little.

When Bai Jiaojiao went in, she was cleaning up, and Shopkeeper Liu hurriedly came out to welcome people in.

took out the daily entry and exit book, Bai Jiaojiao glanced at it a few times, her family was a merchant in her previous life, and it was easy for her to read the account book.

"Why are these items so big?"

Shopkeeper Liu hazed his waist and explained, "A few days ago, there was not enough gold and silver in our shop, so we specially ordered someone to enter a batch. ”

couldn't help frowning, the 10,000 taels of silver were spent, but the income for several months in a row was only 5,000 taels, except for manpower and material resources, there was no money at all.

Bai Jiaojiao took a look at the jewelry objects in the store, the materials are very good, but the workmanship is not very fine, and even the design can be said to be ugly.

"Who's the head craftsman in the shop?"

Shopkeeper Liu hurriedly replied, "Sun Tieshi, who lives in Sifang Hutong, and Li De, who lives on Changxing Street. ”

Bai Jiaojiao bowed her head, it is estimated that the eldest lady of the Bai family never came to inspect, so even the craftsmen in the shop were lazy, no wonder such a good jewelry shop did not make money and still posted money.

I visited the rest of the shops, and they were all the same, except for a ready-to-wear store that sold ready-to-wear clothes.

But except for the shopkeeper Liu, who is still good, the rest are perfunctory to Bai Jiaojiao from beginning to end, and Xiao Tao can't wait to step forward and tear them up.

"Miss, you are their host, look at the shopkeeper's face, why are you so slighted Miss!"

Xiao Tao couldn't help but feel wronged for the young lady, even if she was bullied by Mrs. Bai's mother and daughter in the house, even these shopkeepers were dog-eyed when they came out.

"That's it." Bai Jiaojiao shook her head, "Tomorrow, call all these shopkeepers to the mansion, bring the account books in the shop, and I will deal with them one by one." ”

Early the next morning, the shopkeepers of several shops arrived in Bai Jiaojiao's yard early, and Xiao Tao arranged a few people outside the house as instructed.

"Little Peach girl, when will the eldest lady come out, so that a few of our brothers can know in their hearts."

The sun is already shining, and it is almost midsummer, and it is already hot and sweaty before noon.

Shopkeeper Zhao respectfully asked Xiao Tao who was standing at the door.

"When will the young lady get up, you can also ask?"

"But our brothers have been standing for two hours, and there is not a drop of water..."Shopkeeper Zhao raised his hand to wipe his sweat.

Xiao Tao glanced at it, "It's a blessing to be able to stand, Miss is compassionate, if Shopkeeper Zhao doesn't want to stand, there is always a way to make you unable to get up when you crawl!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Shopkeeper Zhao said yes again and again, but he didn't dare to look up, for fear that the eldest lady would be unhappy and really drag herself down, not to mention that the position of the shopkeeper would definitely not be able to be saved.

"Miss, are you up?"

Bai Jiaojiao stretched out in a sleepy way, she read the script late last night, and she couldn't get up in the morning, so she simply let the shopkeeper wait outside the house.

"You're all here?" Bai Jiaojiao sat on the chair and took a sip of tea.

"Did you bring everything you brought yesterday?"

"Brought it."

"Brought it."

Xiao Tao brought up the account book and the list of personnel in the shop, and Bai Jiaojiao took out a copy and opened it.

"Ladies and gentlemen, why did Miss Ben call you today?"

There was silence in the room, Bai Jiaojiao closed the book and glanced around, before drinking coldly.

"One by one, you still deceive and deceive, and Miss Ben doesn't dare to punish you?"

"The villain doesn't dare, the villain doesn't dare!"

Seeing Bai Jiaojiao's anger, several people hurriedly knelt on the ground.

"Don't dare? I think you dare! ”

Bai Jiaojiao threw the account book on the ground and pointed to the Zhu shopkeeper with her head lower.

"You are in charge of a restaurant, which was originally the most profitable business, but now what has become of it, and you still have the face to hand over such an account book to Miss Ben, thinking that Miss Ben is very easy to fool?"

Of all the shops, only this restaurant has the biggest problem.

The restaurant is not a house to buy, and it is rented, and it is located in the most prosperous area of Liucheng, and the monthly rent alone costs 1,000 taels of silver.

"Last month's income was less than three hundred taels, and I couldn't even take care of the ingredients in the store every month, if it wasn't for Miss Ben to check it out, how much silver would you have to make up for your holes from the account?"

Zhu's head was lower, and the remaining three didn't dare to move.

"Hmph, at this time as a shrunken turtle? On weekdays, if you use a little effort, will you run the shop like this? ”

As she spoke, Bai Jiaojiao became more and more angry.

"Shopkeeper Liu."

Shopkeeper Liu was named, raised his head and sighed.

"Ask the craftsman in the shop to listen to me clearly, and make a set of shots for me after ten days, if Miss Ben is not satisfied by then, let them roll up the shop and leave, there is no shortage of ancestors in my shop!"

"The rest, according to what I said yesterday, all the shops will be closed for a month, and the errand boys in the store will be clever these days, if you don't want to do it, there will be someone at any time, I will never stop it!"

"Yes."

After these shopkeepers left, Bai Jiaojiao took a breath, looked at Xiao Tao and couldn't help asking, "Xiao Tao, I remember that when my mother married my father, it was ten miles of red makeup, and what about the rest of the dowry?" ”

Xiao Tao looked at Bai Jiaojiao, her eyes couldn't help but redden, "Miss, you finally remembered!" ”

"Back then, the lord married the woman in the courtyard to do the chord, and on the grounds of your young age, Miss, he insisted on giving the lady's dowry, and the lord was too busy to take care of the inner house, and even these shops were stuffed to you two years ago."

"I remember that my mother gave me the dowry list before she died, do you remember where I put it?"

Xiao Tao nodded, "It's all taken by the slaves." ”

After that, he wiped away his tears, ran to the pillow in the bedroom and took out a key, opened the fifth compartment under Bai Jiaojiao's bed, and took out a nanmu locket.

"The slave maid has been saving it for Miss, but Miss has not been interested in these before, and Xiao Tao does not dare to take them out rashly."

Bai Jiaojiao opened the box and took out the list and took a look, heh, this Bai Wanwan mother and daughter have been greedy a lot for so many years.

After reading the dowry list, Bai Jiaojiao knew why her own mother said that she had ten miles of red makeup when she got married.

Not to mention the jewelry and utensils for the dowry, there are more than 30 shops alone, plus four granges, and three fish ponds, which even ordinary small merchants can't compare.

Bai Jiaojiao recalled her life experience, and she was afraid that such a large dowry would be either rich or expensive, but unfortunately Mrs. Bai died early, and she had never even seen her maternal grandparents.