Chapter 19: Embezzlement of Dowry 2
It was already three o'clock when Shen Qingwan opened his eyes, and Mu Tao, who was waiting in the outer room, stepped forward and asked, "What is Miss going to wear today, the slave maid will take it out as soon as possible." β
"Just that aqua-red dress, if your young lady wants to fight a tough battle today, she must wear bright colors and overwhelm the enemy in momentum first." Shen Qingwan smiled and quipped, "Today, Ah Han will go to my grandmother's with me, and as for Ah Tao, I will stay and wait for my good aunt to return the things, by the way, let people rearrange the house and put it in the warehouse." β
"The slave is awake."
A water-red mopping smoke cage plum blossom water skirt, covered with moon satin embroidered magnolia butterfly clothes, lined with lotus lotus brocade wrapped chest, cuffs embroidered with delicate gold butterfly, chest placket hooked out of a few lace lace, skirt a layer of thin such as mist cage silk yarn, waist tied with a moonlight belt, extravagant and appear slim, wearing a gold silk Tongling jade in front of the neck, adding a light and elegant atmosphere, a pair of silver butterfly earrings fell next to the ear, with a silver hairpin to hold the black hair, coiled into a delicate lily bun, hairpin a magnolia pin, It looks fresh, beautiful and elegant.
Xunhan, who has always been calm, couldn't help but take a breath, "Miss, this body is really good-looking, and the slave maid can't even look at it." β
Shen Qingwan smiled and didn't speak again, "Let's go, it's too late, and my grandmother is going to talk again." β
happened to meet the middle of the year, and it was close to Shen Yimeng's ceremony, Yi'an Curie was very lively, the curtain opened, Shen Qingwan walked into the inner room, only to see that except for Shen Yijia and the two sisters, everyone else was sitting in their respective positions, and when they saw her come in, except for the old lady, everyone else got up to salute, "Sixth Miss." β
Shen Qing first blessed the old lady in the evening, and then smiled, "Qing Qing has seen all the aunts and sisters in the evening. β
Then sat down, and after a while, the two sisters Shen Yijia were late, and after saluting and sitting down, the old lady cleared her throat and began to speak.
"Today, it's just the middle of the year, and there will be the shopkeepers of various shops and Zhuangzi to report later, thinking that a few girls are also older, and they will have to be in charge of internal affairs if they marry in the future, this time, they will all stay and listen. The second girl passed the ceremony last year, and it should be time to discuss the family, the three girls' and the ceremony will be next month, and the remaining girls are also in these months, I discussed with your father, in line with the birth of the three girls, the four girls, and the five girls, a total of a few days, and it will not be opened, and the candidates for the guests are still the same as the two girls, and the lady of the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Mansion was invited to be, and the praiser invited you to make good friends with the girl's house, and the day was set on the fifth day of the seventh month, I wanted to go a few days later, but listen to what your father said, At the beginning of July, there was a banquet in the Seventh Palace, and only the families of officials above the third rank could go to the daughter's house or the county lord with a title, so I thought about doing it in advance, except for the seven girls in our house, everyone else can go..."
The old lady coughed, "Although the age difference between the six girls is a little, it is also in line with the regulations of the palace, and it will not be a few days, this time I just made a dress for each of the five of you, and when the time comes, you will all be dressed brightly, and the marriage of the second girl should also be mentioned on time, you have been dragging it on, it is not good for the next few daughters, not to mention that the six girls are the relatives of the royal gift..."
Shen Qingwan raised her eyes and smiled, and saw the anger that was about to erupt in Shen Yimeng's eyes, isn't it, this one has always been thinking about her "good fiancΓ©", where can she stand it when she hears this, it can be seen that the Liu family still has some means, I don't know if I can be so calm after a while.
"You all know the rules of my person, if anyone violates my taboo, don't blame me for being rude." The old lady swept the position where several aunts were sitting in an accentuated tone, recently she heard that the Liu family was very restless, and moved a lot of silver in the public for the affairs of her mother's family, if she made up for it, she would turn a blind eye and don't know, if not... Then don't blame her for being rude, she hates this kind of thing in her life that eats inside and out.
No matter what the aunts thought in their hearts, their faces were silent, and when they heard the words, they quickly knelt down, and muttered, "If the concubine is awake, she will never dare to do it." β
Shen Qingwan smiled and picked up the teacup, sipping it gently, dare not, except for these people themselves, who knows.
The old lady sighed calmly when she saw Liu's eyes, it seems that she may have thought too much, Liu's person is her distant niece, and she shouldn't be such an ignorant person.
But no one knows, Liu's whole person is trembling slightly, she never expected that the old lady never cared about these things in the past, just a cursory glance, she got a lot of oil and water from it, who knew that this time she would have to investigate in detail, once she found that the account could not be faced, then how could she be good......
Shen Yijia looked at her mother's appearance, and secretly said in her heart that it was not good, in the past two years, she has always flaunted herself as a concubine, and she can't be worse than Shen Qingwan in terms of food and clothing, so she also knows how much silver her unconscious mother took from it, and if she doesn't hear it, she can't afford to pay for hollowing out her grandfather's house, thinking of this, she can't help but stare at Shen Qingwan, why, this person is not as good as herself, if it weren't for this little hoof to crawl out of Mrs. Niang's belly, those glory and wealth should have been hers!
She is a dignified traveler in the 21st century, although she was an inconspicuous eighteenth-tier actor in her previous life, she is also good at acting and showing, how can she not play an ancient person, if it weren't for her bad life, she should be the one who has those now! Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile, even if she was born more noble than herself, her fiancΓ© was not a minister under her skirt, and the man who cried a few words casually and believed it was really stupid, and her own mother, it was really not worry-free, if she was found to have secretly embezzled such a large sum of money this time, wouldn't she be looked down upon wherever she went? She used the talented woman she had cultivated with great difficulty in the past few years, but she couldn't destroy it here.
Without... Without... I can't help but secretly hate my mother's incompetence, the last good opportunity was ruined, if it weren't for this, she would be a concubine now! The culprit of all this is that little hoof, Shen Yijia raised her head and glared at Shen Qingwan fiercely, Shen Qingwan smiled at her, Shen Yijia suddenly felt as if she had been seen through, her whole body was suddenly cold, and then she comforted herself and said, "How can anyone know", and slowly calmed down. She was only ten years old when she first crossed over, and she had had enough of the four years when she had had a very average food and clothing under the fence, and she finally lived two years, and she didn't want to go back to her original form all at once.
Shen Qingwan didn't know what to think when she looked at her, and remembered the glance just now, and couldn't help but chuckle, she, the second sister, is really not as calm and arrogant as she seems on the surface, she may think highly of her.
Seeing that everyone didn't show anything, the old lady said in a deep voice, "That's it, except for Aunt Liu, the other aunts can disperse first, and the shopkeeper should come later." β
The sun is infinitely good, but it is very cool under the tree, a rare good weather in midsummer, in the outer room, more than a dozen shopkeepers of the same age and different shapes stand in the center of the room, the old lady sits at the round table, Shen Qingwan and several other girls sit on the side, and Aunt Liu is standing on the side.
There were fifteen stacks of shop account books neatly placed on the table, Shen Qingwan sipped the tea in the cup, the old lady flipped through the first account book, her eyes sank but she didn't say a word, until most of the time passed, the old lady finally finished all the account books, the shopkeepers didn't know what her purpose was, but they were embarrassed to ask directly, looked at each other, and looked at each other.
I don't know how long it took, just when the shopkeepers were about to hold back and were about to ask, Shen Qingwan put down the teacup in his hand and took the lead in speaking, "All the shopkeepers have been working in the shop for many years." β
"Miss Hui Liu, the little one has been working in the shop for more than ten years, and as a dowry, he followed him from the General's Mansion to the Prime Minister's Mansion." The oldest shopkeeper replied to Shen Qingwan's words, his voice was calm, and there was a faint taste of showing off.
Shen Qingwan smiled faintly, "In this way, the shopkeeper is an elder." β
"The patriarch doesn't dare to be the elder, and it is my honor to solve problems for the master." The shopkeeper was praised a little flutteringly.
"Then which of you will tell me, where is the silver tael on the books?" The old lady scolded sharply, "According to the account books, the net profit of each shop in the first half of this year alone was 15,000 taels of silver, but you only paid less than 5,000 taels, and the remaining 10,000 taels of silver were taken away by dogs?" β
Without waiting for them to reply, the old lady continued, "There is also this account, why is there a credit account?" Aunt Liu, you might as well talk about it, in the past two years as your housekeeper, how did your mother's family not give credit in the store? β
As soon as Aunt Liu heard this, she knew that she must have been exposed, so she knelt down suddenly, "Old lady, the concubine really doesn't know about the credit of the concubine's mother's family." β
"I don't know, the silver on credit in your mother's house, every item is taken from Yangxi's dowry shop, and your mother's house is a squire, and the food and clothing are all taken from our prime minister's house? Not to mention that these dowry silvers were left by Yangxi girls, how can you be qualified to be a cheap concubine? The old lady was so angry that her whole face was red, she never expected that this Liu family would be so bold, just in the past half a year, there were 160,000 silver in the book deficit, "Come on, go and bring all the account books of the first two years, four girls, five girls, six girls, seven girls, the four of you give me a sum of money!" β
Shen Qingwan and the four of them got up and went to the back room to wait, Shen Qingwan raised her head and looked at her second sister, now the old lady must have a gap in her heart, otherwise she would not have just left Shen Yijia and the two sisters.
Shen Yimeng was about to speak out, but was glared back by Liu's eyes, she still has a number of virtues for her daughter, this will be once her son Yimeng says the wrong thing...