Chapter 122: Scare
On the paper, the entire step of calculating the wolf meat money is recorded. Want-free-fee-watch-end-full-edition-please-hundred-degree-search-
Xiao Qiongzhi took a serious look and found that the cow steward had made some small tricks when converting.
Originally, the thirteen dogs were a total of 734 catties and 3 taels, with an average of 56.48 catties each, but the cow housekeeper carried them and counted them as 57 catties each.
Originally, the zero purchase price of dog meat was two taels and one dollars per catty, plus Xu Nian's requirements, the price was three taels of silver per catty higher to calculate wolf meat, which was two taels and four dollars of silver per catty.
That is to say, the actual value of each wolf was one hundred and thirty-five taels of silver, and he counted it as one hundred and thirty-six taels of silver.
That's not all, the cow steward gave it another round, and it was worth one hundred and thirty-seven taels of silver.
In the end, the six wolves, according to his new calculation, the wolf meat was worth a total of eight hundred and thirteen taels of silver, and it became eight hundred and twenty-two taels of silver.
It is equivalent to giving an extra eight taels of silver.
Although this is not a large number, it is not a small amount for a rural family.
On the surface, it can be regarded as a gesture of goodwill.
However, with Zheng Yuan's supervision, Butler Niu plays this set, which seems to be a show of goodwill, but in his bones, he is more likely to regard himself as a greedy person, so that he can have a reputation for being greedy and dishonest in front of Zheng Yuan.
After all, I can just see the problem of undercounting in the accounts of the cow steward, how can I not see the problem of overcounting?
Xiao Qiongzhi spread out the paper on the table, pointed to the places above where the cow steward deliberately overcounted, and told Zheng Yuan: "Mr. Zheng, you see, the cow steward used to count the wolf meat money in these places too little; Now, in these places, he has counted too much wolf meat money. ”
"He is just a housekeeper in Chu Mansion, not a master, but his style of casually thinking less and thinking more is more, he doesn't look like a housekeeper at all, but more like a master!"
"It seems that Yun Qing has been away from home for a long time, and the rules of the Chu Mansion have corrupted the Zhu family."
"However, there are some problems in the other case between Chang An and Zhu, and Yun Qing needs to come back in person to explain it clearly, Lord Xu should have sent someone to send him a letter and let him rush back."
"When the time comes, I will tell him about these things and remind him to deal with them properly." Zheng Yuan heard the meaning of Xiao Qiongzhi's words, his face sank, and he said seriously.
"Adult, little girl, you have misunderstood!"
"The little girl can see the problem here, how can she not see it when Lord Chu comes back to check the accounts?"
"I deliberately miscalculated because I accidentally offended the little girl just now and wanted to show her goodwill, I have already planned in my heart, the extra silver calculated here, without the Chu Mansion, directly secretly use my own silver to fill it."
"This matter, I beg you, don't tell Lord Chu. I really just had good intentions! Steward Niu was frightened, and in the end, he knelt directly in front of Zheng Yuan and Xiao Qiongzhi.
"Hmph, that's a nice thing to say! If you just want to show me favor, you can calculate the price of wolf meat, and then give me a red envelope in my uncle's name. ”
"After all, I am your master's niece, so it is reasonable, I came to Chu Mansion, and my uncle gave me a red envelope, so I should get it!"
"You don't look for this ready-made reason, but you have repeatedly made a fuss about wolf meat, you and I are old Mr. Zheng, are we all fools?" Xiao Qiongzhi was not fooled at all.
But where does the cow steward dare to admit his guilt?
"Little girl—ah, no, Miss Cousin, you say very much. It's because I'm too stupid, I didn't think it through, everything was a misunderstanding, I'll change the miscalculated price, and in the name of Lord Chu, I'll give you another red envelope! He got up, respectfully said, and took the paper again, and counted carefully.
"Just change it well, you don't have to wrap the red envelope, my mother and I, in June, came here to recognize our relatives, but they were beaten out by the Zhu family!"
"Although my uncle is not at home and does not know, he does not know people clearly, and it is always his responsibility to choose this vicious woman of the Zhu family as his wife!" Xiao Qiongzhi glanced at the cow steward coldly and said lightly.
Before figuring out what kind of person Chu Yunqing is, she doesn't plan to easily recognize Chu Yunqing's uncle.
"Good, good, good. Miss Table, you have the final say. "Steward Niu was afraid of angering Xiao Qiongzhi again, so he didn't dare to play tricks anymore, so he said honestly.
Soon, the wolf meat money was calculated again, and it was exactly what Xiao Qiongzhi had calculated just now, total: eight hundred and thirteen taels of silver.
plus the 130 taels of silver that should be compensated to Liu Wuxiu and Zhou Dayong, a total of 946 taels of silver.
Xiao Qiongzhi asked the butler Niu to exchange nine hundred taels of them for a silver ticket of five hundred taels and a silver ticket of four or two hundred taels, and as for the remaining forty-six taels and three coins, all of them were given in cash.
After getting these, she specially inquired with Zheng Yuan about the location of the best medical halls and pharmacies in the county, and then, saying goodbye to Zheng Yuan, and walking to the alley behind the back door of Chu Mansion with Zheng Bang, Liu Wuxiu, and Zhou Dayong.
The mother-in-law, who had secretly watched the excitement before, was honestly guarding under the camphor tree, watching the two ox carts.
The middle-aged man who was stunned by Zheng Bang was gone.
Xiao Qiongzhi asked the mother-in-law curiously: "Auntie, why is the uncle who fainted before?" ”
The mother-in-law was having something to say, so she hurriedly replied: "That person's name is Ruan Ji, I know him, he woke up by himself two hours ago." ”
He got up from the ground and wanted to go. I grabbed him and said, Ruan Ji, you can't go, the big hero will come back later, you go, if the big hero thinks that you are going to report to the bad guys, it will be troublesome. ”
"Ruan Ji said that he was not so stupid, he would not go to ventilate and report the news, first quietly find someone and inquire about the movements of the Chu Mansion, if something happened to the Chu Mansion, he would come back and tell me that if nothing happened, he would pretend not to know anything and quietly go home by himself."
"As a result, after a while, he came back and told me that something had happened in the Chu Mansion, and the younger brother of the young lady of the Chu Mansion, Zhu Gongzi, was killed, and the young lady herself and the young lady's cousin Chang Gongzi were all arrested by the magistrate."
"He told me to be honest here, and when the big hero comes back, he will go home first, and if the big hero has anything else to ask him, you can go to his house to find him."
"I see. We don't have anything to look for him, thank you, auntie. Xiao Qiongzhi was relieved.
It seems that the middle-aged man, Ruan Ji, is not Zhu Yu's accomplice, otherwise, he would have asked someone from Zhu Yu's family to report the news, or quietly escaped.
After taking the ox cart, Xiao Qiongzhi asked Zheng Bang to accompany him, and took Liu Wuxiu and Zhou Dayong to the medical hall and pharmacy that Zheng Yuan said to see the injuries and grab the medicine.
Liu Wuxiu and Zhou Dayong were both very arrogant, and they didn't want to go.
Zheng Bang told them with a faint expression: "Sister-in-law Liu, your injury is mainly in the internal organs, it looks like there is nothing wrong, if you don't treat it as soon as possible, you won't live for many days, as for Dayong's injury, not to mention!" ”
Now, it freaks them out.
Next, whether it was going to the hospital to see the injury or going to the pharmacy to grab medicine, they were very cooperative.
Even when Xiao Qiongzhi specially instructed the doctor in the hospital to prescribe the best medicine and instructed the pharmacy junior to take the best medicine, they didn't say anything.
This made Xiao Qiongzhi secretly sad.
Liu Wuxiu, who loves life so much, would be better if he could only live for seven days, but could die in good health.
When she came out of the pharmacy, in order to make Liu Wuxiu live happily in the last few days, she deliberately quietly pulled Liu Wuxiu aside, squeezed her eyebrows and said, "Aunt Liu, when I was in the hospital just now, didn't the doctor say that the injuries of you and my second uncle are not particularly serious?" ”
"I suspect that my uncle said that your injuries were very serious before that you and my second uncle could see a doctor obediently."
"Huh? Then let's hurry up and return the medicine, it's a waste! Liu Wuxiu immediately turned around and went back to the pharmacy.
Xiao Qiongzhi hurriedly grabbed her and said with a smile: "You don't need to return the medicine, you have used the best medicine, so that you can take care of your body as soon as possible, go into the deep mountains with everyone to dig Poria cocos and Huai Mountain, or help me and my uncle go to the mountains to hunt and carry the prey back." ”
"Even if you carry back one more little wild boar, it will be enough to buy an unknown number of pairs of good medicine!"
"yes, yes, that's right. Zhi'er, don't worry, I will definitely take good care of my body. Liu Wuxiu nodded again and again.
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