Chapter 108: Habitual offenders
With the kowtow of the little man in the Lu Mansion who had worked in this "Lu Family", Lu Fu, the big housekeeper of the Lu Mansion who had doubted whether his third young master Lu Yu was making a big fuss, instantly understood that the third young master was right, he was not talking nonsense just now, there was really a "shady scene" in this shop!
"Who is the former treasurer here?" Glancing at Lu Yu, who kept kowtowing and admitting his mistakes, after shaking his head slightly, he turned his head and asked Lu Fu.
"Back to the third young master...... The former shopkeeper here is Lu Jingye, he is your distant relative, according to his generation, he should be a relative of your uncle's generation," without hesitation, at the moment after Lu Yu asked, Lu Fu, who had already guessed that the third young master would ask this question, replied without words: "This Lu Jingjing came from Dali to seek refuge with the master twenty years ago, at that time, he was already in his forties, and later, because his hands and feet were not clean, he was exposed, so the master put him who had become a steward, Demoted and assigned here to be a pawnshop shopkeeper, as of today, he has been working here for almost six years, I didn't expect him to ......"
"Dogs can't change their ...... to eat" After listening to Lu Fu's account of Na Lu's economic identity, Lu Yu secretly scolded the "habitual thief" in his heart, and then, he pouted and asked Lu Fu again: "Now, what about Lu Economic People?" ”
"After the master handed over this pawnshop to the young master to take care of it, Lu Economy ...... A day ago, I applied to return to my hometown, I thought he really wanted to go back to his hometown to retire, it turned out that he fled to his hometown......" Lu Fu, who shook his head in embarrassment and smiled bitterly, replied to Lu Yu with annoyance: "I knew that this was the case, I would have kept him for a day, and now, I estimate, he has fled back to his hometown in Dali, and it will be difficult to arrest him!" ”
"He escaped quite quickly, he is a habitual thief with a lot of vision......" After evaluating a habitual thief Lu Jing, Lu Yu, who was holding the account book, frowned and muttered: "Let's go, let's go to the warehouse to inspect the goods, and see if the habitual thief has replaced the goods mortgaged by others, if he really does this, then we have to be ready to compensate the owner of the goods......
"Yes...... Third Young Master, your worries are reasonable......" After listening to the analysis of his third young master, Lu Fu, who also thought that Lu Fu, who was used to stealing Lu Economy and would exchange goods, replied worriedly with an anxious expression.
"Get up, I don't think this has much to do with you......" After glancing at the little guy who was still kneeling on the ground and crying with snot and tears, Lu Yu waved his hand to get up, and when he got up, Lu Yu threw the account book to him, and instructed him: "Go, go to the warehouse to inspect the goods......"
After speaking, Lu Yu led Lu Fu and the others into the pawnshop warehouse behind the lobby, and it took about half an hour for Lu Yu and them, according to the list of goods in the account book, to seriously inspect the twenty or so goods that were still in the redemption period on the shelves in the warehouse.
After inspecting the goods, Lu Yu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, probably because the goods in the warehouse were not very valuable, or because the habitual thief Lu Economy was eager to "run away" and did not consider the trick of fleeing with the goods, so the goods in the warehouse were still alive and had not been replaced, which was much better than the situation Lu Yu expected, at least, the goods were there, and the owners of the goods came to redeem them in the future, so they didn't have to lose money.
After coming out of the warehouse and returning to the lobby, Lu Yu, who wanted to return the account book, put the account book lightly on the coffee table, and then, he frowned and instructed Lu Fudao: "Butler Lu, since Na Lu is a distant relative of our Lu family and my elder, so, I am not in charge of the matter of him absconding with the money, and I must hand it over to my father, so let's copy all the accounts in this account book now, you take the copy I copied to my father, and notify the account room by the way, Tell them to make up for the shortfall of the 292 yuan stolen by Lu Jingye, if the money is not enough, how can I still pawn the business......"
"I understand the third young master......" After listening to the solution to the problem proposed by the third young master, Lu Fu, who felt that this plan was very good, nodded back to Lu Yu.
At this moment, after seeing the proper and rigorous handling of the Lu Economic Absconding Incident by the third young master of his own family, Lu Fu, the chief housekeeper of the Lu Mansion, also realized that his third young master is really not a rich young master, he is really a hidden dragon, just with the third young master's ability to deal with problems in an orderly manner, his ability is no worse than the eldest young master's successor, it seems that the Lu family's generation is very promising......
"That...... You come here, ......" raised his hand to summon the little guy who was following Lu Economy, Lu Yu "clicked" him and said: "After you return to the house with the big housekeeper for a while, you have to report the whole story of this matter to the master, and you can't hide anything, if you hide it, then I think that you are an accomplice to the thief Lu Economy, and you must be sent to see the official, in the future, you will have to go to prison, I heard that the prison meal is very untasty......"
"I understand, Third Young Master, I will definitely tell the master all the bad things that Lu Economy has done, and I will never hide it...... The little guy who was "beaten" by Lu Yu knelt down directly, and replied while kowtowing.
"Okay, get up......" After waving his hand to get up the tearful little guy, Lu Yu took out a tael of "large currency" pieces of broken silver from his sleeve, handed them to Lu Fu, and instructed him: "Lu Guanjia, I have to copy the account book now, so I won't go to drink with you, you take the brothers to have a good meal with this money, and the rest of the money, you don't have to pay me back, you and the brothers divide it......"
"Third young master, let's do this book copying matter......" Lu Fu, who stuffed the two pieces of silver into his cuffs, also said "politely" to Lu Yu.
"You and your brothers have been busy all morning, I haven't done anything, it's time for me to be busy for a while, you and your brothers should rest, let's go to dinner......" After listening to Lu Fu's "kind words", knowing that he was a fake and polite Lu Yu, he smiled bitterly and waved him away.
"Okay...... Then let's ......" From the expression on the face of the third young master, Lu Fu, who guessed that he had been "seen through", scratched his head and smiled awkwardly, and led the little servants to leave.
After seeing Lu Fu and the others leave, Lu Yu turned around and grabbed the account book on the coffee table, walked to the innermost counter in the lobby, sat on the Taishi chair behind the counter, and lightly put the account book on the counter.
After taking out a new empty ledger from under the counter and grinding the pen, Lu Yu began to copy the original ledger full of loopholes.
Because Lu Yu's "own job" in this life is to practice immortals, so, he often draws talismans, after a long period of "training", he has developed a hand-like fly-headed Xiaokai, he writes with a brush, not only beautiful, but also fast, to ask him how fast he can write with a brush, so to speak, this year, he writes with a brush, faster than he wrote with a pen in his previous life, it is simply a pen like "crazy".
In addition to writing well, Lu Yu, who understands that the current emperor is the founder of the "thin gold body", has also focused on studying the official calligraphy of Emperor Huizong.
Just as Lu Yu was copying the ledger in front of him with the speed of typing, an ethereal voice like a groan came into the room melodiously from outside the door: "The shopkeeper's ......"