Chapter 13: The Grip (Part II)
Zhang Huan's desire to get to the bottom of the matter became stronger and stronger, and he smiled at Deacon Qin: "I want to take a look at the stubs of the Zhang family's approval orders from September to December last year, and I ask Deacon Qin to bring them for me." ”
Deacon Qin's face was embarrassed, but he didn't dare to refuse, he hesitated for a long time before swallowing slowly, the room was very quiet, only Zhang Huan and the maid behind him, at this time, Zhang Huan suddenly felt that the maid was a little closer to him, and her soft body was almost leaning on his back to knead his neck for him.
Zhang Huan waved his hand lightly and said to her in a gentle tone: "Thank you, but I don't need to pinch it now, I want to see the Zhang family's secrets later, the girl is inconvenient to be present, please go out!" ”
"Yes!" The maid's face flushed, and she lifted her skirt and ran out.
After waiting for almost a quarter of an hour, he heard heavy footsteps outside the door, and then saw Deacon Qin coming with a big book, he saw that there was only Zhang Huan in the room, he was stunned for a moment, and then said apologetically: "It's hard to find for a long time, so I've been waiting for a long time!" ”
Zhang Huan didn't bother to tell him, so he took the big book and looked at it, this is the stub of last year's expenditure endorsement, which is neatly pasted with the endorsement of more than 100 yuan of the Zhang family's expenditure, with Zhang Ruofeng's signature on it, and the endorsements are arranged by number.
"The details of the endorsement! How not? Zhang Huan wanted a detailed description of the purpose attached to the back of the endorsement, but this folder was only an endorsement form, which did not explain anything.
"Back to Gongzi's words, the details involve the confidentiality of the guests, and we dare not take them, so we generally return them to the guests, but some of the endorsements are also simply written with uses, and the children may wish to refer to it."
Zhang Huan turned another page, and sure enough, some of the endorsements had simple uses written on them, such as: building a restaurant in Chang'an and Hedong disaster relief, but the most common use was 'the use of the head of the family', that's it, there were only a dozen endorsements with the purpose, and most of the endorsements were written with 'see the detailed list for use', naturally, the detailed list was in the hands of Steward Yang.
Zhang Huan was very disappointed, what is the difference between this and looking at the account, unconsciously, he turned to the beginning of October last year, he was suddenly a little stunned, each page in this folder is pasted with three lines of nine endorsements, but this page is only eight, one is missing, and it is right in the middle, Zhang Huan carefully read it several times, and sure enough, the 400,000 batch is gone.
"What's going on?" Zhang Huan pointed to the blank space and asked Deacon Qin coldly.
There was a panic in Deacon Qin's eyes, and he immediately waved his hand and said, "I don't know about this!" ”
"You don't know?"
Zhang Huan stared at him for a long time before he said slowly: "Then go and call your Tan Dongzhu!" ”
After a while, Tan Dongzhu hurried over, "Gongzi Zhang, what's wrong?" "When Tan Dongzhu saw the black clip spread out on the desk, he felt 'groan!' Suddenly, he immediately understood, and couldn't help glaring at Deacon Qin angrily, he would hide from things and push himself out.
"Gongzi Zhang, if Deacon Qin has anything to offend you, just say it, I will punish him!"
"Deacon Qin didn't offend me, but Baiye Xing disappointed me!"
Speaking of which, Zhang Huan's bang! The ground slapped the table heavily and said sharply: "Let me ask you, my Zhang family entrusted the money to Baiye Bank, but you secretly swallowed the Zhang family's 400,000 yuan, how do you explain?" ”
Tan Dongzhu was so frightened that he waved his hand again and again, "Don't scare me, Childe, we have always been doing our duty, and we never dare to harm the interests of guests, let alone the Zhang family, which is the backstage of our Baiye Bank." ”
"Duty?" Zhang Huan sneered, "Then you can calculate last year's income and expenditure for me, just calculate it according to this batch of orders, add and subtract it to me one by one, do you dare to guarantee that the penny is good?" ”
"This ....."
Tan Dongzhu stared at the gap in a daze, his face was pale, there was no approval, he was indeed short of 400,000 yuan, but he couldn't tell the truth, hesitated for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said slowly: "Childe, we have a reputation for decades, and we have dealt with the Zhang family for decades, and we have never made a mistake. ”
Zhang Huan shook his head slightly, with a hint of pity in his tone, "Do you know why the head of the family asked me to take care of the accounts?" And even if it's only half a year, it's because I found that there was a shortage of 400,000 yuan, so I was specially ordered to investigate the matter, and now I know the reason, it turned out to be swallowed by your hundred industries, or not! This matter can be decided, and it just so happens that the head of the family is also there, so go and explain it to him! ”
After speaking, he got up and strode out, Tan Dongzhu's face turned green, he hugged Zhang Huan's waist from behind, and said in fear: "Son, there is a reason for this, and listen to me slowly!" ”
Zhang Huan stopped, slowly turned his head, stared into his eyes, and smiled with a slight hint of mockery: "This matter? What's going on? I think you'd better be honest! ”
Like a bucket of ice water poured from his head, Tan Dongzhu stood there stiffly, he knew that he had been fooled, for a while, countless thoughts turned in his heart, and he faintly realized that Baiye Xing was about to fall into a big trouble, and it was also the internal strife of the Zhang family.
To say or not to say? On one side is Zhang Ruofeng, and on the other side is the family advocate Shangshu, Tan Dongzhu lowered his head in pain, Zhang Huan saw it in his eyes, he stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and smiled slightly: "Don't worry, if the matter is big, I will naturally pretend to be deaf and dumb, but I don't want to be a fool, I want to know this matter, this is just a big expense of the Zhang family, you just put money according to the order, what do you have to worry about?" ”
I don't know if it was Zhang Huan's words that moved him, or if he thought of Zhang Shangshu's letter, Tan Dongzhu finally sighed and said in a low voice: "Yesterday, the third master of your Zhang family came, and he also specified that he wanted to see this account, and after he left, we found that the 400,000 yuan approval order was missing. ”
"Three family masters?" Zhang Huan's eyes slowly narrowed into a slit, now all the doubts are connected into a line, and suddenly it is clear that Steward Yang made two accounts, just to conceal the whereabouts of the 400,000 yuan, and the money was taken away by Zhang Ruofeng, if he didn't take over, no one dared to say anything about the money manager and Zhao Steward, and in a few years, the matter would be over, but he took over again, so he Zhang Ruofeng was panicked, judging from the fact that the approval of the cabinet was torn away, I am afraid that the disappearance of Steward Yang is also related to him.
However, there is one thing that makes Zhang Huan puzzled, since Zhang Ruofeng has been covering the sky in Zhang's Mansion for nearly ten years, and no one has supervised him, if he wants to be greedy for money, it should be extremely easy, and it will be a long stream, why do he just raise money at one time, and do it so mysteriously, is there something unspeakable in this?
"So what are the details on this endorsement form, I think you should remember? And who took the money? Where did you end up? ”
Tan Dongzhu smiled bitterly, "There is only the word 'expenditure' on the approval form, and the specific details are in the hands of Steward Yang, at that time, your third master asked for a flight ticket, because the amount of money is huge, we specially transferred money from Chengdu and Chang'an, and the money was later taken away from the Guangling County branch and transported to a fleet, and we don't know where it ended up!" ”
Speaking of this, a trace of panic flashed in Tan Dongzhu's eyes, and his expression immediately returned to normal.
Zhang Huan saw it in his eyes, he picked up the teacup and took a sip slowly, staring at each other coldly, waiting for his next words, the atmosphere in the room was very depressing, and the sweat on Tan Dongzhu's forehead became more and more, and gradually rolled down his face.
In the end, he finally let out a long sigh and said in a low voice, "When the ship arrived in Xunyang County, we found that there were military ships guarding us, so we didn't dare to follow it any further. ”
Zhang Huan put down the teacup, he got up and smiled slightly: "I know, thank you for the hospitality of the owner Tan!" Then he called the money manager and walked away.
After watching the back of the carriage disappear, Deacon Qin wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said, "This person is so powerful!" ”
Tan Dongzhu shook his head and sighed: "The female sex is seductive but not faint, and the wrist is lenient and severe, if I am Zhang Ruohao, I should make this son the heir of the head of the family, it's a pity!" He's just a concubine. ”
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The carriage walked another mile along the river, and seeing that the gate of the Yang family was in sight, Zhang Huan jumped out of the carriage and waved his hand: "Old Qian, if you have something, go back first!" I'll go to Steward Yang's house alone. ”
Mr. Qian was stunned, he didn't say it for a long time, and only brought it up when he got to the house, he just wanted to insist, but suddenly thought about it for a while, and then laughed and said: "I do have something, since the son won't let me accompany me, then I'll go back first." ”
After that, he didn't dare to look at Zhang Huan's eyes, and hurriedly urged the groom to turn back, Zhang Huan kept watching his back disappear, and then sneered lightly, "If you want to kill people with your own hands, go dream!" ’
Zhang Huan didn't enter the door, he simply sat on a big stone by the river, looking at the river in a daze, he had slowly figured it out, it would never be a coincidence that the head of the family let himself be responsible for approving the income and expenditure, he must have heard some rumors, and it was not good to turn his face with his brother, so he let himself, a concubine who had little to do with the family, take power for half a year, and then ordered Steward Qian to let himself intervene in this matter, and even Steward Sun stuffed the large account to himself, and then Steward Zhao invited himself to dinner, and then deliberately leaked some secrets, It is very likely that it is all arranged by Mr. Qian, of course, Mr. Qian is just a dog, and the family advocates that Ruo Ho is the real mastermind behind the scenes.
Zhang Huan seemed to see Zhang Ruohao's silver hair fluttering in the river, with a scheming smile, Zhang Huan remembered what Tan Dongzhu said at the end, that money is actually escorted by the army, it seems that this matter is not small, and it will even involve the struggle between several families, in this case, why should he go stupidly to wade into this muddy water?
He breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and stretched out for a long time, picked up a flat stone and made a few water drifts sideways, the water rippled, as if Zhang Ruohao's silver hair was messed up, Zhang Huan looked up to the sky and smiled, "If you want me to check the accounts, I can just open my mouth, why bother with a fake hand, is it so easy to use my Zhang Quai?" ”
The sunset was slanting, and he dragged his slender back with his hands behind his back, and walked leisurely towards Steward Yang's house.