Chapter 40 Eating Inside and Out
Shen Xizhi was busy for most of the day, visited most of the shops in Beijing under the name of King Yu's Mansion, collected the account books, and found many problems.
On this day, several shopkeepers led by the shopkeeper Zhou of the silk village quietly gathered, and these people were all shopkeepers working under the Yuwang Mansion and managing their respective shops. Originally, there should have been no intersection, but they all had a lot of money in their hands, and they heard that Shen Xizhi had been checking the accounts tightly in the past few days, so it was like a great enemy.
A few people sneaked into the private room, you look at me, I look at you, and finally someone spoke.
"Old Zhou, what are you asking us to do? The wind has been tight these days, so it's better to do a good job of accounting and don't ask her to find out anything. ”
"Why did I call you here?" "Shopkeeper Zhou of the Silk Village frowned, "Isn't it the letter from Shopkeeper Yang?"
"No, no!" Shopkeeper Yang waved his hand again and again, pointing to another person beside him, "I received a message from the shopkeeper of the money." ”
The money shopkeeper who was named was suddenly shocked, and pointed to the shopkeeper Yang and asked him not to talk nonsense.
However, after the identification of these people, the rest of the people also corrected the information and found that there was no initiator among the seven or eight people.
"It's broken!" Shopkeeper Zhou suddenly exclaimed, beckoning a few people to leave, "It's on, leave quickly!"
At this time, the door of the private room opened again, but Shen Xizhi appeared at the door with Wen Ru and a group of palace guards.
"Why are you in a hurry to leave just now?" Shen Xizhi entered with a smile, and the guards guarded outside the door, so that a few people had a break from the idea of fleeing.
Several people looked at Shen Xizhi with fierce eyes, as if they were looking at some kind of flood beast.
In the eyes of several people, Shen Xizhi threw the account book in his hand on the table, as if he was smiling, "I thought that I took the Shen steward and a shopkeeper upstairs of this treasure to open the knife, no matter what, you will not repeat their mistakes." Unexpectedly, after several days, you didn't even have time to do a good job of fake accounts. ”
The shopkeepers looked at each other, either bowing their heads and not saying a word, or they looked like the old gods were there and the victory was in hand.
They couldn't figure out when the account book, which was clearly hidden in their own home, actually came into her hands? Was there an accident in the shop, or was it a ...... at home
However, Shen Xizhi is young, and several shopkeepers here are all people who are not confused, and they all feel that she can't do anything. After panicking, he quickly calmed down.
Looking at their unpredictable expressions, Shen Xizhi did not procrastinate, and asked directly: "Let's talk about it, do you hand over the money yourself, or will this princess let you send you to the prison to be the companion of Steward Shen?"
The princess said this a little heavily. The shopkeeper of the silk village put down the teacup, his temples were white, and the silk village under his hand was very profitable, and he was also the most powerful among these people.
After the initial surprise, Shopkeeper Zhou calmed down and said, "The princess is angry, these account books are indeed true, I'm afraid it's just that the princess can't understand it, so I think it's fake." But this is not a big problem, after all, the princess is just a little woman, how can she know the joys and hardships of doing business? If the princess really wants to learn to read the accounts, Ming'er can come to the little old man's silk village to take a look, the little old man has a gentleman who takes care of the accounts, why not let him teach the princess. ”
Listening to his contemptuous words, Shen Xizhi's face did not change, "If the shopkeeper Zhou didn't know this, he would still think that the silk village was opened by your Zhou family." ”
Shopkeeper Zhou's beard twitched, and then he heard Shen Xizhi say: "Shopkeeper Zhou's account book is indeed not completely fake, after all, this account with mixed truth and falsehood is the safest." As for your husband who is in charge of the accounts, this princess also thinks that he is very capable, and will let him be the shopkeeper of the silk village in the future. ”
She picked out the account book of the silk village, looked at the uncomfortable on the face of the shopkeeper Zhou, and called Wen Ru over, "It seems that the shopkeeper Zhou is going to go to the government first." ”
"Wait!" Shopkeeper Zhou, who was fully prepared, thought that he could hold Shen Xizhi, but he didn't expect her to come prepared, but he didn't succeed in his calculations.
"Take it down. As soon as Shen Xi's eyes were cold, Wen Ru called the two guards outside the door, and dragged the shopkeeper Zhou away.
"What else do you want to quibble?" she looked at the crowd with a smile, "There is a way to walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet." If you have lost the money of the Yuwang Mansion, you should think of the day when you will spit it out. ”
With Zhou's shopkeeper as a lesson from the past, and the murderous palace guards outside, several people secretly weighed it, but in the end they found that they had no chance of winning at all.
Shopkeeper Yang took down a wrench from his hand and put it on the table, "The princess is thoughtful and ashamed." ”
"yes, yes, I'm ashamed......"
As he spoke, several people either left tokens or took out the account books that were close to them, and one by one they no longer had the pride they had just now.
Shen Xizhi asked Wen Ru to collect the things, and called the guards outside the door to arrest several people together and send them to the official mansion.
But think about it carefully, she was able to clean up these moths so smoothly today, thanks to Jiang Jingyu.
If he hadn't given him the jade pendant, he would have been able to take the palace guards to search the homes of several shopkeepers, and he would have been afraid that it would be difficult for him to find out these fake accounts, and it would be even more difficult to deter them.
But although the matter in front of him is solved, but those shopkeepers are taken down, someone will inevitably go up. Just when she was distressed, Miaoyi came to her with the news of Zhang Lianyi's visit.
Miss Zhang Si said that the last misunderstanding made the princess unhappy, and she was just about to come to the door to apologize. Although the princess is not in the house, she ...... But the fifth princess arrived at the palace one step later, said that she was going to visit the prince, and brought Miss Zhang Si into the palace together. ”
Miaoyi looked at Shen Xizhi's somewhat tired face, knowing that she was too tired in the past few days, but she also knew that Miss Zhang Si coveted the prince, and now that the princess was not in the house, wouldn't it let Miss Zhang Si take advantage of the loophole?
Thinking so, she pursed her lips and complained a little: "It's good that the fifth princess goes to the palace to visit by herself, but she wants to bring Miss Zhang Si, don't you just want to provoke the princess?"
"You know what they're thinking, why are you in such a hurry? Shen Xizhi swallowed a sip of tea and dissipated the tiredness between his eyebrows, "They just saw that I was not in the house, so they could get close to the prince." ”
But I felt a little funny in my heart. Jiang Jingyu is not a fragrant glutton, why did so many people flock to her? And she, Princess Yu, is the roadblock of those people, everyone wants to kick her, but everyone wants to replace her and become the person next to Jiang Jingyu.
She exhaled a breath of turbidity, for herself, for the sake of the Shen family, it was impossible for her to give Jiang Jingyu to others.