Shopkeeper Wang came back with the account book, followed by the bookkeeper of the grain store, a thin old man, who didn't dare to speak when he came in, so he stood behind Shopkeeper Wang.

Shopkeeper Wang handed the account book to Feng Lanyu, and intimately turned to the number of pages this month.

"Young lady, please take a look, this is the daily entry and exit account from the first day of this month to yesterday."

As of yesterday, just half a month has passed this month, and the account book remembers in detail, and the number and amount of sales of each category every day are clearly registered.

Feng Lanyu looked at it, and she probably knew it in her heart, she put down the account book and asked, "What about the treasury in and out of the account?" Show me. ”

The thin bookkeeper brought another book.

The records in the ledger are all out of the account, there is no record of warehousing, Feng Lanyu looked at the previous month, and found that the frequency of warehousing is twice a month, and there are three times in one or two months.

Half a month has passed this month, and there has been no replenishment once, and the warehouse has not put a grain of rice into storage for half a month.

However, in terms of the number of sales per day, the sales figure has not decreased.

This shows that in the past half a month, the grain store has replenished the inventory from Zhuangzi at least once, but it has not been recorded in the treasury accounts.

Feng Lanyu looked at the signature in the lower right corner of the account page: "He Chengan, who is this?" ”

Manager Wang hurriedly said: "Young Mrs. Hui is our head of the bookkeeper. ”

The thin bookkeeper hurriedly saluted: "Back to the young lady, I am He Chengan." His voice trembled.

Feng Lanyu took the account book and looked at him: "You made these accounts?" ”

Cold sweat broke out on He Chengan's forehead, his hands hanging on his sides trembled slightly, and he nodded: "Exactly." ”

Feng Lanyu looked at him and asked again, "Aren't you the chief worker of our Hou Mansion?" ”

He Chengan swallowed nervously, his hands trembled more and more, and he clasped his hands together, for fear that the young lady would see his panic.

Wang Dehai looked at him like this, and secretly said that this old man is really useless, he can be diligent in taking money on weekdays, and he is more cowardly than anyone else when he really encounters something.

Wang Dehai hurriedly smiled and said, "Young lady, Manager He is a short-term worker who has signed a contract, and he has been keeping accounts for our grain store for three years. ”

Feng Lanyu nodded, that is, it was normal in the first two years, and this year he started to make fake accounts.

Feng Lanyu looked at Wang Dehai: "Where is the shopkeeper Wang?" I heard that you seem to have been transferred from Zhuangzi by the old marquis. ”

Wang Dehai smiled and nodded: "Exactly, my father used to be a long-term worker in Zhuangzi, and the old marquis went to Zhuangzi to inspect, and when he saw that I had studied for a few years, he transferred me to the grain store to help, and later let me be the shopkeeper, and it has been eight years now." ”

Wang Dehai deliberately emphasized that he was personally transferred by the old marquis, and the two generations of his family were long-term workers in the Wenchang Marquis Mansion.

Especially this lady of the prince, who has just married into the Hou Mansion not long ago, can't do anything with him.

After listening to Feng Lanyu, he couldn't help but admire Wang Dehai's cheekiness.

She looked at Wang Dehai and asked with a soul: "Shopkeeper Wang, the old marquis takes such a fancy to you and gives you your current identity and status, you don't know how to be grateful, but you will take revenge, guard and steal, resell the master's grain, embezzle the master's grain, and make false accounts with the head of the account to perfunctory me, do you want to go?" ”

When Shopkeeper Wang and Manager He heard this, their faces immediately changed.

Shopkeeper Wang was more stable, his face froze, he looked at Feng Lanyu, and said with a reluctant smile: "Young lady, what do you mean by this?" Three generations of our family have been working in the Hou Mansion, and I have been taking care of this grain shop for more than eight years, and I have always been grateful to the old Hou Ye, and I never dared to have two hearts. ”

Feng Lanyu didn't bother to watch him act here, she put away the account book, handed it to Xiao Li, and then said to the guards guarding the side: "Tie these two people, block their mouths, and send them to Dali Temple." ”

When the guards heard the command, they immediately stepped forward, pressed the shopkeeper and the bookkeeper to the place, took out ropes, and tied their hands and feet.

Mr. He's face was bloodless with fright, and he couldn't even make a voice begging for mercy.

Wang Dehai was still struggling: "Less, young lady, you can't kidnap people like this without asking, I'm the old marquis's person, even if you are anxious to take over the property of the Hou Mansion, you can't use this way to exclude dissidents......"

Feng Lanyu was very surprised, and looked at Wang Dehai: "At this time, you can still think of such a reason to hack me, sure enough, I haven't read the book in vain in those years, and I have a bit of a brain." ”

Wang Dehai was tied hand and foot, struggling to no avail, he wanted to say something, but he was gagged by the guards and couldn't say anything.

Feng Lanyu didn't want to hear him say: "If you have anything to say, go to Dali Temple and tell those Qingtian masters, you can rest assured, the people in Dali Temple have just been cleaned up by the emperor, and now the Qingtian masters are walking on thin ice every day, and they will definitely listen to you well and investigate your crimes, but if there is a trace of grievance, they will not wronged you." ”

When Mr. He heard this, his face immediately turned disgraced.

Wang Dehai was also shocked, and he looked at Feng Lanyu incredulously.

I don't understand this good account, why do you have to make trouble in Dali Temple?

Don't these nobles all say that the ugliness of the family is not publicized, and what happens to the family is dealt with in private, even if his account book is not correct, even if there is less food, find him to scold him, or reward him with a board, and then drive him out of the Hou Mansion?

The worst result he ever thought of was that he would be hit by the main family for dozens of boards, and then the whole family would be sold.

But he has saved enough money, even if the whole family is sold and kicked out, he will have a way to change his place and change his face to live.

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Instead of being sent to Dali Temple.

If you send it to Dali Temple, you will be sent to prison, and you will be beheaded by the Autumn Queen!

Wang Dehai thought of this, and suddenly struggled more intensely, he was the person personally picked by the old marquis, and he couldn't be controlled by this young lady.

Feng Lanyu no longer paid attention to him, let Xiao Li take the account book and went straight out.

She said to the guard: "There are four helpers in the store, all of them are tied up, and they are sent to Dali Temple together, the door of the store will be closed first, and the shopkeeper will be replaced tomorrow." ”

The guards obeyed the order one after another, and Xiao Li stood on the side, puzzled: "Miss, can the account book really see the problem?" ”

Feng Lanyu nodded: "Of course you can, even if they make each account book very beautiful, but as soon as a few account books are checked, there will be flaws." ”

In fact, the ledger they made was very easy to understand, but at this time, the people were not very good at arithmetic, and the number was too large for them to calculate for a long time; The annual income of hundreds of thousands of stone of grain is converted into a grain price of nearly one million taels, and it has to be divided into stores, fields, and months, and it is recorded in several account books, and loopholes will inevitably appear.

Feng Lanyu wrote down those numbers, compared them in the same period, you can find problems, and then calculate the current field output, you can know the sum of the annual grain output of these shops, with the sum, with the price, you can know the net income of these shops in a year.

Wanting to know anything was easy, she didn't even have to look at the ledger.