Chapter 57: Farce
[Chapter 4, Volume 4]
Section 64 Chapter 57 Farce
Manager Bai Er picked up the paper on the ground, and the sight was indeed the handwriting of the shopkeeper of the Sihai Dry Goods Store. Looking down further, it was finally difficult for the expression of the second manager Bai to maintain the indifference just now. I saw that his face was getting paler and paler, and cold sweat was oozing from his forehead. Bai Er's manager didn't care about wiping it, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Third Miss, wronged, Third Miss, the villain is really wronged......"
"Wronged?" Mengyu smiled coldly: "Who wronged you?" Then tell me, this word belongs to the shop's second? ”
"Exactly." Bai Erguan said weakly.
"Is there a difference between the unit price of everything on this and the one you reported to the bookkeeper?" Dream Yu continued to ask.
"Nope." The more he answered, the more Bai Erguan felt that he was trapped.
"It's true, the only difference is that it has the shopkeeper's handwriting 'If you buy from the store regularly, you can have a discount of eighty percent and five'. You say that you have wronged you, then let me ask you, where did the remaining one-and-a-half of the silver go? Last month, the abalone and bird's nest alone totaled 725 taels of silver, and if the price was 80% 5, it would be 616,250,000 yuan, but you overquoted 108,275 yuan. I don't know the second housekeeper Bai, is there a mistake in my number? Mengyu smiled mockingly, and continued: "Just these two things, you dare to embezzle so much, not to mention all the things you buy in that store?" I'm afraid that your discount is lower than this eighty out of five, right? ”
"Third Miss Mingjian, it must be the owner of the store who deceived the villain, and it was really sold to the villain at the original price......"
"Could it be that you are still going to let me send that owner to confront you here?"
Bai Er's manager clenched his fists, he knew that if these three young ladies continued to say this, he was afraid that he would really be unable to escape this catastrophe today. Since she is so unkind, she can't blame him for being unjust.
"The villain knows that even if he has a thousand mouths today, it will be difficult to justify himself, and the truth of the matter will be watched by God. I just ask the third lady to let the villain see the old lady, and the villain still needs to tell the old lady one thing before he can step down from the post of the second manager and let the third lady dispose of it. The second manager stood up, hugged his fists towards Mengyu and said.
"Humph! I even want to quibble. Grandmother has entrusted me with all the things in the house, and you can see whatever you want! Dream Yu refused.
"The third lady wronged the villain today, even if the villain can't see the old lady, the old lady will one day return the villain's innocence, and the third lady doesn't have to be like this." Bai Er's words seemed to be testifying that Mengyu did not let him see the old lady, and wanted to beat him into a trick without asking questions.
"Since you want to say it, say it! There are so many people in this hall, if I want to hide the truth of the matter, it will naturally be difficult to hide the mouths of everyone. ”
"Good!" As he spoke, the second manager walked to the door and said, "Bring everyone in." After speaking, he looked back gloomily at the dream language sitting in the hall.
In a few moments, between the two rows of stewards, there were already several coarsely clothed women. Before Mengyu could figure out what was going on, the mother-in-law below had already begun to shout: "The third lady is the master of the slave and the maid, it really wasn't the slave and the maid who did it, the third lady ......"
"What is this?" Mengyu asked as she frowned and looked at the people all over the ground.
The second housekeeper Bai slightly pulled the corner of his left mouth, and while smiling, he replied slowly: "Third Miss, don't be anxious, naturally someone will come to you slowly." ”
Mengyu didn't know what this second manager Bai was going to do, and when she saw the same manager Lin who was also frowning, if something really happened, there was finally a boss here to help her.
"Back to the third lady's words, when the slave maid took over today, she found that there was a hole in the bottom of the pot, so she reported to Steward Zhao, I thought that Steward Zhao would go to find the guy who damaged the thing to investigate his responsibility, but who knew that this Wang Pozi denied it, and insisted that when she took over Mrs. Zheng's class, it was already the case." One of the mothers-in-law preemptively said.
"Third Miss, the slave maid was indeed damaged when she took over Mrs. Zheng's class, it wasn't the slave who broke it, I beg the third lady to be the master of the slave and maid......" The princess kowtowed to the ground vigorously. You must know that a rough mother-in-law like them doesn't have a tael of silver per month, but that pot costs ten taels of silver to buy one, doesn't this require her to eat or drink for a whole year to save this money, doesn't this cost her life? !
"Third Miss, you can't listen to this princess's nonsense and spew feces all over her mouth......
When Mengyu heard this, she was already frowning, and Xing'er stepped forward directly and slapped Mrs. Zheng and said, "In front of Miss, you actually said such filthy words, is it possible that you don't want your life?" Mengyu is the first time to see Xing'er so ruthless, although she feels that she will be slapped if she speaks vulgarly, which is a bit excessive, but Xing'er must have acted like this for the sake of her majesty in front of her subordinates.
Mrs. Zheng exclaimed, touched the old face and said, "Third Miss, all slaves can't speak, please spare the slaves and maids......"
"Okay, okay, let's just talk about things." Mengyu looked impatient.
"The third lady must believe in the slave maid, when the slave maid and the princess are handed over, the pot is indeed intact." Mrs. Zheng cautiously said towards Mengyu.
"Third Miss, when the slave takes over, the pot will be broken." Seeing that Mengyu frowned deeply, Mrs. Wang hurriedly stepped forward to clarify.
"But badly, why didn't you say it when you took over, it can be seen that you want to put this responsibility on me, you vicious mother-in-law......" That Mrs. Zheng actually said and hit Mrs. Wang viciously.
"What a system!" Manager Lin stood up from his chair, "In front of the master, he has already started a fight, and he doesn't want to stay in this Lin Mansion, right?" ”
Sure enough, Chief Lin was quite dignified among his subordinates, and as soon as he opened his mouth, the two fighting mothers-in-law immediately stopped.
"Listen to what Mrs. Wang said just now, that is, when you took over, it was true that the pot was bad. So there's no such thing as a person who will be the successor today, right? Mengyu sorted things out, looked at the princess and asked.
"The slave was indeed broken when she took over." The princess replied.
"Then the suspicion of today's successor can be ruled out." Mengyu looked at the mother-in-law who was the first to speak. The mother-in-law was immediately overjoyed: "The third lady is wise." After saying that, he quickly got up and retreated, leaving the place of right and wrong.
"Then the rest is a question of whether the pot is bad or not, right?" Dream whispering is like talking to herself.
The two mothers-in-law below immediately fought for me, scrambling to grab the words.
Mengyu seemed to be about to think of a way, but she was cut off by this scene, and immediately reached out and swept the cup on the table. I saw that the cup was arc-shaped and smashed between the two mothers-in-law.
"Mrs. Zheng, let me ask you, you said that the pot was good when Mrs. Wang took over, but is that so?"
"If you return to Miss San, that's exactly the case!"
"Mrs. Wang, when you took over, did you check in front of Mrs. Zheng?"
"Back to the third miss, the slave just glanced at it roughly, because she hadn't used the pot that night, so it must have been used by Mrs. Zheng during the day."
"Then when you were on duty, did you find that the pot was broken?"
"Because I haven't used it, I didn't know until the woman who retreated just now said it."
The audience was silent, Mengyu thought for a moment, and said: "Now I can't tell whether it was Zheng Pozi who broke it, and Wang Pozi didn't find out, or Wang Pozi who broke it, trying to shirk the responsibility to Zheng Pozi, since this is the case," Mengyu glanced at all the people below, "First, I said that whoever finds any damage will report it to the steward, and the steward will punish the personnel on duty above; second, Mrs. Wang's failure to clearly hand over the shift with the person on duty above her was her negligence; Third, during the time on duty, Mrs. Wang did not take care of the things that belonged to her custody, which was her dereliction of duty. In this case, the compensation for the thing is naturally borne by the princess. ”
"Third Miss is wise!" Mrs. Zheng saw that she had finally cleared her innocence, and her face was full of joy.
"Third Miss, it's really not a slave to do it...... "Some people are happy, but naturally some people are worried, all the compensation has been calculated on the head of the princess, and she naturally wants to cry and cry.