Gu Jin put down the tea cup in his hand and got up, his expression faint.

"That'...... Here we go. ”

She sat back in her chair, but this time, she took a stack of account books from Yun Xuan's hand behind her, which was half a foot high.

Gu Jin threw the account book on the floor of the main hall, and the smell of old ink and old paper spread in the room with the muffled sound.

The two mothers-in-law who were standing close to hurriedly took two steps back, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in their hearts, just thinking that Gu Jin called everyone over to give a reward, but now it seems that he is here to ask the teacher to ask for sin?

I have heard that the second lady has not done anything else after taking over the housekeeper key, and she has been reading the account books in the house all the time, but after five or six years of old accounts, what can she look at?

I only heard Gu Jinqing's voice pause, and what he said was exactly the doubts in everyone's hearts now, but the words were asked by He. "Mother just said there was nothing wrong with this account book?" She looked at the account books scattered on the ground, and sneered: "Does that mother know that in the eighteenth year of Shunchang, the first year of my father and brother going to Shuobei, how much silver was lost in the house inexplicably?" ”

Everyone was inexplicably quiet, and there were really those who were pregnant with a ghost and didn't even dare to come out.

I only heard Gu Jin continue: "The food and clothing in the house, the rewards, the carbon fire in the kitchen and the ice water in the summer, and the expenses of the human errands, the net loss of more than 100 taels of silver. ”

This is not counting the mistakes in the shops and Zhuangzi outside, Gu Jin only plans to ask the accounts in the mansion today, she is a woman and it is inconvenient to show her face, and the affairs outside can be handed over to Gu Haomian to do.

Hearing this sentence "more than a hundred taels of silver", Gu Jiangyuan, who was at the top, did not suppress his anger, clapped his hands and hit the tea cup at hand, and the porcelain pieces exploded at his feet.

More than the snowflakes outside.

For a while, no one dared to go up to clean up, but Gu Haomian spoke lightly and ordered the maid below: "Bring another cup of tea to my father." ”

He had read the account book, and with Gu Jiangyuan's temper, he should be angry when he heard it, so it was better to drink tea and suppress it.

Gu Jiangyuan refused to drink the newly served tea, and his expression could not be better described as blowing his beard and staring.

What is the concept of more than 100 taels, those people in Northern Xinjiang don't say that they give them 100 taels a year, but they give them 100 taels of silver in this life, and the iron cavalry of the Gui clan may not dare to commit it a long time ago.

Thinking of the bitter cold wind and sand in the north of Shuo, Gu Jiangyuan couldn't help but feel angry again.

Fortunately, he still wanted to listen to Gu Jin continue, so he didn't speak.

Gu Jin saw that his father's mood had stabilized a little, and he was about to open his mouth to talk about it, but the girl's expression was cold, and her unhappy face was in contrast to that of the first He family.

He took a few sips of tea violently, but didn't dare to speak.

Gu Jin blinked and continued: "But this is only the account of six years ago, in the nineteenth year of Shunchang, the deficit in the mansion is even more, and there are more than one hundred taels." What's even more interesting is that from the 20th year of Shunchang to the 22nd year of Shunchang, there will be a deficit of more than 100 taels in the house every year, and this year it is even more powerful, directly breaking 300. In six years, there were a thousand taels. ”

After a pause, she also added: "But this is only in the house, and there are a lot of Zhuangzi in the shop, so I don't mean anything else to invite you over today, I just want to ask, what about the money in the house?" ”

After saying that, the atmosphere in the room was extremely strange.

Gu Jiangyuan held back his anger, unwilling to lose his grace in front of his children, but the old father's heart was already dripping blood.

He Shi and Gu Xiang looked hesitant, the accounts of these years were managed by the He family, although she knew that there would be some shortfalls, but she couldn't imagine that the amount would accumulate a lot, and the amount reached one thousand taels.

That's a lot of money.

If it is said that the faces of their mother and daughter are not good-looking, then the faces of the two concubines of Yu and Chen and the mother-in-law in the house can be said to be quite ugly.

The expenses of these years were paid from their yards, and the mothers-in-law went to the account room to ask for silver, and the culprits were almost all in the house.

The warmth was burning inside, and they suddenly felt that the wind and snow were strong outside, and a slight coolness spread from the corner of the house.

The girl who was sitting was still cold, and she was reaching out for the teacup, as if she was just a person who asked for money today, and she didn't care about anything in the house.

Gu Jin really didn't want to think about the twists and turns of this matter, such as whether the big investigation would offend the two aunts, for example, those mothers-in-law are all old people who are used to the Gu Mansion, if they are thrown out, how to fill the vacancies in the house, or how to make up for the lack of money if the house finds out so many shortfalls......

Although the girl is not good at expressing emotions, her temperament is actually very straightforward, she does not know the world, and she does not know what it is.

She only felt that if the accounts of the house were not checked quickly, if this outdated atmosphere was not corrected quickly, something would happen sooner or later.

No one spoke in the room for a while, so Gu Haomian went to hide the corners of his lips, the young man was breezy and couldn't rub the sand in his eyes.

He said, "What, didn't you hear the second lady's question?" Where did the money in the house go? ”

After saying that, he turned his gaze to the mother-in-law standing in the room, and Mrs. Liu next to He was the first to bear the brunt.

She was used to being domineering in the house, and she had never been embarrassed today, and she didn't feel a little trembling all over her body.

What Mrs. Liu thought in her heart was much different from He's: greedy for money, she admitted, but she didn't expect that there would be so much.

Gu Jinxue's light swept the expressions of the people in the house, and who took how much silver had counted.

She smiled, but she couldn't see it.

"Since Mother Liu doesn't want to say it, let's ask Mother Feng to talk about it first."

That Mother Feng is standing beside Mrs. Liu, this person is the same age as Mrs. Liu, they are all old people in the house, Mrs. Liu is in charge of the affairs of the main courtyard, but she is in charge of the purchase of the house, and she is a fat poor.

This Feng's mother alone is as big as two thin mothers-in-law, where she looks like a subordinate, she looks like a rich mother-in-law.

In the main hall, this person was the most trembling, Gu Jin guessed that she had withheld a lot of silver, and she was cowardly, so she planned to take her first to open a knife.

At this moment, there was a day of snow outside, and the two stoves in the house were slowly warm, not lined with the clear snow and gold and jade hall, but the eyes of the girl sitting in front of the main hall were cold and clear.

She didn't carry arrows on the horse today, and she didn't wear red makeup, but she let Gu Xiang and He vaguely see the sharp-edged girl at the autumn hunting meeting that day.

It turned out that it wasn't her who wanted to be in the limelight, it was that the limelight should have belonged to her.

Hearing Gu Jin's words, Mother Feng was so frightened that her legs were weak, and probably because of the warmth in the room, the beads of sweat on her forehead fell like snowflakes outside.

She threw herself on her knees, and the mother-in-law behind her was scared again.

It can be seen that Gu Jintian's chicken used to kill chickens and set an example for monkeys is very suitable.