The Hou Mansion has a large number of people, and the work is fast, only a day and a half of work, and also to prepare for the seventh day of the world, the big kitchen is built in another vacant big house, barely able to make food.

Shuying rushed to visit with Liluo, sent spices of her choice to the kitchen, and gave everyone a safe fire amulet, this time the cooks were very enthusiastic about her, scrambling to pull her to ask for her favorite dishes and snacks.

Jia Renke was grateful to Shuying for fighting the fire the day before yesterday, so Shuying proposed to him that he should also learn to manage his family and want to see the accounts of the big kitchen, and he did not shirk and readily agreed.

Later, Shuying followed Jia Renke to the Hou's account room. When Mr. Hu saw Xie Shuying, he thought that she was going to check the accounts again, so he refused again and again, "I told the girl last time, it's not good to break the rules!" Why is the girl going to be embarrassed again? ”

"Lao Hu, Miss Ying is sympathetic to my old eyes this time, afraid that I will make a mistake and omission, and help me keep the kitchen accounts, not the accounts of Chahou Mansion! As long as this matter is not spoken, no one will know. Even if it's not good and someone finds out, the second grandmother can't blame you! Do you really think you're a shallot? The current Hou Mansion is no longer the world of her second room! ”

Jia Renke is a loyal and honest person, and he thinks very much about the good of Shuying, so he tries every possible persuasion for her.

Hu Yiyun reluctantly flattened his mouth and reluctantly agreed.

Shuying smiled softly and gently, and also gave him a lot of soothing incense that he had with himself, "I'm a junior, a newcomer, and I really don't know any rules." You two are old men from the Hou Mansion, if I do anything wrong, please also ask Mr. Hu and Steward Jia to point it out, don't laugh at me. I only know that the account office is tired from work on weekdays, this is a little caution on my part, and I ask Mr. Hu to accept it! ”

Hearing this flattery, Hu Yiyun was surprised, and praised Shuying a few words, "Our second grandmother...... Now that she's not in charge, I'm going to say something nasty—it's very mean! Don't look at her from a high family like the Xie family in Jinling, she will only scold us for being useless on weekdays, and the money and treasures are all paid to relatives and relatives, and it is never our turn! I see that the girl is young, but she is more sympathetic than her, but it is a pity that the son died young and cannot enjoy the blessings! ”

"I just did what I did, and Mr. Hu didn't have to compliment me like that. The eldest sister grew up in the boudoir of the big family since she was a child, pampered, clothed and fed, where do you know the suffering of our people. It's hard to be a good person, and you should be considerate and considerate of her. ”

Jia Renke and Hu Yiyun listened silently, and they were both impressed by Xie Shuying, and they were convinced.

After some politeness, Mr. Hu took out a book of accounts from the cabinet behind him, found the page on the first day of the sixth month, and said: "Old Jiatou, you sit opposite me, let the shadow girl watch the accounts next to you and report to you, move the pen faster, don't delay the time." ”

The three of them took their places and began to make up the kitchen account in June. At the end of June, Shuying saw that they still hadn't found accounts related to sea cucumbers and abalone, and she felt a little uneasy.

On the first day of July, and then on the fifth day of July, there is still no trace.

Hu Yiyun saw that Shuying was stunned, so he asked her if she was looking for something, so she might as well tell him directly.

"This matter is not trivial, I selfishly don't let the two of you know, because I don't want the two of you to be involved, and I can't afford this trouble now."

When Jia Hu and the others heard this, they both promised Shuying that they would never leak half a word. Seeing his sincerity, Shuying briefly wrote down his suspicions about the cause of Lu Cheng's death on the paper, and then put the paper on the candle flame and burned it.

Unexpectedly, both of them complained about her, saying that since they were doing good deeds for the son, they didn't have to work so hard. So they went back and checked the kitchen from the beginning of June to the beginning of July, but strangely, they also found no trace of seafood in and out.

"The original orders for six or seven months have long been cancelled, and now there is no one in this big ledger, so it can't be that it came in before June, right?"

"Even the seafood in the ice cellar is not easy to preserve, so it is impossible to use it before June." Shuying became vigilant.

On the receipt list that Lu Qi got, two items were new seafood, and they would not be pickled and dried goods that had been stored for a long time.

"Steward Jia, can the original receipt of your kitchen be faked?"

"Fake? No, you can't! Each receipt is stamped by the kitchen manager before the warehouse recognizes it. Different from the use of the red deed outside the Hou Mansion, for convenience, I usually stamp the list first, and whoever asks for it, I ask him clearly what to pick up and then fill in the list, which is called 'black pressing red'. I've locked the list in a drawer, and I've always carried this chapter with me. Who can fake? ”

After that, Jia Renke took out his seal from his arms, handed it to Shuying and looked at it carefully, and engraved the words "Jia Renke Seal". But the receipt she got was the original "white deed", in a regular format, but it was not stamped with any seal.

She slowly brushed her thoughts, pursed her lips unconsciously, and then inhaled deeply, "Is there anyone in the Hou Mansion who will keep an unstamped receipt of use?" ”

Mr. Hu suddenly slapped the table, pointed at Steward Jia and said, "Maybe it's the old man!" ”

Jia Renke suddenly realized and nodded.

"Who is this old square?" She didn't know about the personnel of the Hou Mansion, so she had to ask carefully as much as she could, for fear of missing any important clues.

"Old Fang Tou is the former kitchen steward named Fang Bing. Since the end of last year, Hou Ye has asked him to step down from his position as the manager of the big kitchen. Because the ancestor liked to eat the dishes made by the old man, he still stayed in the kitchen to cook for the prince. Hu Yiyun told Fang Bing's situation.

Steward Jia nodded again, "I forgot about him." Fang Lao is my master, don't say cooking, even the skills of cooking the big kitchen were taught to me by him. It is reasonable that he has a receipt for use. ”

When Fang Bing managed the big kitchen, he did not use Jia Renke's "black pressing red" approach, but the usual "red pressing black". Although the procedures are cumbersome, they are less prone to errors.

A terrible conjecture flashed in Shu Ying's mind: if what the two of them said was true, then those seafood might not have been reported to the Hou Mansion from the beginning, but someone got it himself, secretly ordered someone in the big kitchen to make a dish, and then secretly gave it to Lu Cheng. The whole process is only known to the buyer, the vegetable maker and Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng is dead, the purchaser is unknown, and the vegetable maker may be Fang Bing.

If Fang Bing cooked the seafood himself, then why did he leave a forged receipt to be discovered?

Unless it's ......

He deliberately made people discover these flaws!

Shu Ying was a little anxious, and his hands clutched the corner of the table tightly, "Where is he now?" ”