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Mrs. Tang asked her to go to some of the most expensive silver buildings and silk villages in the city, saying that it was almost the end of the year, and the family had to settle the bill, and asked the man to take out the account book to see if there was anything that had been bought on the Zhuangzi and had not yet been opened. Sure enough, there are still some jewelry in the silver building that are still being made, and because they are not finished, they are not delivered. The guy found it out and gave it to the person who did the work. There are also a lot of goods of the third young master in the silk village, but every payment of the third young master is settled by himself.

"How many are there?" Li Shi sat there with her eyes closed and asked the girl to help her comb her hair, while asking Wang's mother who was doing things.

"The total number of jewelry additions is thirteen thousand six hundred taels. It was all settled at that time. ”

"Thirteen thousand and four thousand taels, this lord's second-grade court's second-grade master is only 25,000 taels of silver a year."

Mama Wang lowered her head and replied softly: "This amount is indeed a bit much, and it is said that not all of them are for the white girl, some of them are ordered for the old lady, the wife and the girls for the holidays." And these three young masters have just been with Miss Bai recently, maybe they want to get engaged, and it is possible to take out all the money at the bottom of the box to buy it. ”

"Even at the bottom of the box, he shouldn't have that much money. The monthly amount of silver he gave him in a year was three hundred taels, and ten years was only three thousand taels. Even if there is a dividend in the shop, the young master who doesn't care about business at home is only one or two thousand taels a year. The eldest young master worked so hard for the Tang family, I asked him about the dividends all year round last year, and he said that it was only four thousand taels. A seventh-grade official's annual income is only 800 taels, and the third child can be said to have spent a lot of money, where did he get the capital? And there's still an account, and we don't know much about what we don't know! ”

"Isn't it the old lady who made up for him?" Mama Wang has been by Li's side since she was a child, and she knows that her wife loves to drill the horns of the bull, listening to the wind is the rain, and she is both stubborn and impulsive.

"No matter how much the old lady favors him, she is also a tight hand, and at most a thousand taels of silver, and he doesn't have to spend tens of thousands of taels with him."

said that the old lady picked up, this is what Li Shi complained to the people below from the first day he got married. The Tang family adheres to the principle that the children of the Tang family must be useful and do not raise lazy people, and the sons may be called to the battlefield at any time, and they must learn to take care of all their lives, so Miss Gongzi has only one girl and a rough mother around her. Even the old lady herself has only two girls and four ordinary grandmothers around her. The others are all miscellaneous servants in the Zhuangzi. The same is true for each room in the Tang Mansion in the capital. In the past few years, she has put two more girls next to Xintian, although the old lady didn't say anything, but she didn't have a good face.

Although Dongting Bofu is not as rich as the Tang family, the Li family is also served by four or five girls and a large number of grandmothers at home. When she got married, her family gave her six flower-like dowry girls, six mothers-in-law's family and a wet nurse. When more than a dozen people arrived at Tang's house, they found that there were more people waiting around her than the old lady. Although it is not easy for a mother-in-law to save her face and reduce her people, the cars that come in and out on weekdays are ordinary carriages, accompanied by only a coachman, a maid and a grandmother. What made her even more unbearable was the food at home, each master only had two meats, one vegetable and one soup per meal. In addition to special New Year's festivals, wedding and funeral banquets, there are usually guests who come, and there are only four dishes and one soup for each person, and they are all ordinary foods, which are by no means delicacies from the mountains and seas. This kind of life always makes her feel cold, and when her girlfriends get together in Beijing, she can't lift her head.

If the Tang family has no money, she will admit it if she lives like this. The hateful thing is that every month, Baicaotang spends a lot of money to donate medicine to Yixue. The old lady and her sister-in-law who had become a monk were even more outrageous, and opened a Baihuatang, which originally made some money, but they raised a lot of orphans and widows with all the money in vain. Although she has never managed the external accounts and business for so many years after being married, she has always heard that the annual turnover is tens of millions, to say the least. And Tang Lan often took money out to help some of his brothers and some orphans in the army.

Her own dowry was generous to the Dongting Bo Mansion back then, and there were tens of thousands of taels of silver added up to the shop and Zhuangzi a year, but for the sake of her face, the exchanges between the sisters in various provinces, her own head and face jewelry, bird's nest and ginseng, these supplements, all year round also cost tens of thousands of taels of silver to be able to beat. According to her own situation, she could guess that the old lady would not have too much extra money to replace the third child every year. Tens of thousands of taels at every turn, only the public middle school has so much oil and water.

Mama Wang is the most stable of all the companions of the Li family, and she is not like the other few who follow his wife's words in order to please his wife. She usually doesn't talk to her, and even tries to persuade her wife. Right now, she just listened.

"The geese have grown feathers, if this third child really touches the silver in the gongzhong, there will always be traces. According to the old lady's temper, she will definitely not let go of the scourge of the public. As long as we grasp the handle of the third child, we are not afraid that the old lady will not give us an explanation. Since he has more than 10,000 taels outside, there must be something in his house. If you ask him to search for it, there will always be evidence. ”

Mama Wang is sometimes speechless about her wife's intelligence. How can you search for a place where you are a young master for no reason. Seeing that she was silent, Li Shi didn't want to wait for her to figure it out, so he directly ordered: "Didn't Qian'er say that there was no one to take care of that girl from the Bai family?" You go to the tooth shop to find Mrs. Jin to give you two capable, beautiful, and send them to that courtyard, saying that they are girls who make up for the white girl and the third young master. The third one must be beautiful, and add something to the girl in the Bai family. When people come, you educate them for two days, and since they enter the house, they will always find something. ”

Mama Wang thought about it for a while, although this method is a bit yin, but it is not a clear knife and a gun, and it can be said to be reasonable. So he went immediately. Unexpectedly, the next day the person was returned, saying that the white girl of the family thought that a grandmother was enough, and the third young master also said that he didn't want to have other women around him now, and he didn't need a personal girl. Li Shi was still a little angry when she first heard it, and then felt that this showed that there were cats in the courtyard of the two of them, and they did not dare to let outsiders in, which strengthened her own opinion.

"Madam, or let's send someone to search for it. We can't search the place of the third young master, but the place of the young lady of the Bai family should be possible. Mama Hong, who was on the side, said.

Mama Wang was a little surprised, this Mama Hong is not a person who likes to stir up trouble, what's wrong today: "Madam, this is not appropriate." The place where the master lives is not convenient to search openly. Even if it's a girl from the Bai family, that's the niece of my aunt and grandmother..."

Mama Hong pushed back confidently: "What's wrong? Let's just say that something was lost in the wife's house, and it is common sense for everyone to be suspicious in every yard. ”

On this day, Tang Lan stayed in Xianyang City and did not return to Tangzhuang to meet friends, Xinjie went to a neighboring town, saying that he was checking a batch of medicinal herbs and would not come back at night. Someone suddenly called out in Mrs. Tang's courtyard after the third watch, saying that he had entered the thief and stole a lot of valuable jade in his wife's small warehouse. So Mama Hong chased out with a group of rough mothers-in-law, and chased them all the way to Xinjie and Lian'er's small courtyard, saying that someone saw the thief turn into the yard.

Xinjie is not there, and Lian'er is the only one in the courtyard. What if the thieves ran in, Mama Hong and Mama Wang immediately asked people to knock on the door and go in to search for the thieves. Lian'er knew there was a problem when she heard it, but it was not easy to dial, after all, it was the principal grandmother beside his wife: "Mama, there are no thieves in this yard, please go back." ”

"Girl, our people watched him jump into the wall, you are alone in it, let us search to rest assured."

"Mammies can't trust me?"

"Where can we not trust Miss Cousin, but the thief is cunning, maybe hiding in a dark corner, Miss Cousin doesn't know, I'm afraid that I will come out later and hurt Miss Cousin."

"Since the grandmothers say so, come in and see if there are any thieves in the yard."

A group of people came in, and Mama Wang and Mama Hong took the people to Lian'er's house first. Mama Wang took people to look around, turned to the dresser, and looked at the jewelry box, only to see several sets of luxurious jewelry shining inside. took out an east pearl from it: "Where did the girl's jewelry come from, how do they look so similar to how many sets there are in the wife's treasury?" ”

"What do you mean? Did you mean I stole my wife's things? ”

"That's not what the old slave meant, but he was afraid that the thief would come into this house and hide it in Miss Cousin's place, and come and get it later."

"Mama is saying that I teamed up with the thief to steal my wife's things?" Lian'er sneered faintly.

"Miss Biao originally came alone, there are so many more jewels worth 10,000 gold here, the old slave has to contact the person who stole the wife's treasury tonight, as for whether these things are in the treasury, the old slave has to go back to check the account book to know."

"Mama has been on an errand for decades, and I don't even know which jewelry belongs to my wife, so it can be seen that this is in vain."

While Lian'er was talking to Mama Wang, Mama Hong couldn't wait to take someone to Xinjie's house. As soon as he arrived at the door, he was blocked by several women in strong suits.

"Isn't there only Miss Cousin in this courtyard? Who are you? ”

The woman in the suit just stopped them and didn't speak. No matter how Mama Hong pushes, she can't pass. At this time, three women in strong suits had already entered Lian'er's house, standing beside Lian'er to protect Lian'er, beware of what Mama Wang would do to her. Lian'er didn't speak, just gave them a look, and then led them out to the door of Xinjie's house.

"Are the grandmothers here to search for thieves or to find trouble with the three young people?" Lian'er casually watched Mama Wang come to the courtyard, and with her holding the jewelry box, Mama Wang was triumphant as if she had picked up a treasure.

"Miss Cousin, who are these people?" Mama Hong asked sharply.

When Lian'er came here, three women in strong suits surrounded her in a half-moon shape, and she said lightly: "They are the female Jingwei of Baihuatang." Due to the recent unpeace, the third young master was specially transferred to guard this courtyard. Why do the grandmothers treat them as thieves? ”

"That's not it, it's just asking them to get out of the way, and we're going to search the house."

"Search for what? Gold and silver jewelry? Isn't Mama Wang already hugging? ”

"Miss Cousin, calling you Miss is to save face for your aunt, you are just an orphan who came to run, where did you get this jewelry worth ten thousand gold? Even if you say that the third young master gave it, he is not a young master of the family, and he gives you such a valuable thing, how to explain it to his wife, think about it yourself, don't delay the old slave to run an errand, let her get out of the way, we have to go in and search. With that, she waved her hand and wanted the rough woman who came with her to push people away. The subordinates of Tangzhuang have all practiced kung fu, and two of the few who came today were brought from the Hou Mansion, and the other few were also specially trained by the head of the Zhuangzi. Ordinary people on the rivers and lakes are really not taken into their eyes. She didn't think that these beautiful little girls in power suits in front of her could be very good.

"Dare to ask Mama, is this looking for a thief, or did you come to Sanshao to search the house on the orders of your wife?"

"If anyone has unclean hands and feet, he is a thief." Mama Hong still wanted to break in, but Mama Wang grabbed her.

"Let's go back first. White girl, this box of jewelry slave old slave took back to reconcile first. ”

Lian'er didn't speak, but glanced at one of the Jingwei, and the Jingwei quietly left.

However, Mama Hong didn't want to stop there, she shook off Mama Wang's hand holding her, and she had to break inside, and the strength of the break was quite strong, and the figure was by no means an ordinary person's figure, the Jingwei of Baihuatang actually had to join forces to stop her, which made Mama Wang surprised, after working together for so many years, she didn't know that Mama Hong had such skills. The two sides fought for dozens of rounds, but this Mama Hong did not show her defeat.

"Stop, the old lady told you to go to the hall to talk back." It was the old lady's right-hand mother who came. In the middle of the night, the old lady was actually in the meeting hall, and everyone knew that something was wrong. And this Mama Hong did not stop because of Liu's mother's appearance.

Mother Liu was angry: "What, Mama Hong feels that she is the person next to her wife, and she doesn't need to give face to the old lady?" ”

Mama Hong finally stopped: "The old slave is just afraid that a thief will sneak into the empty house and come out later to harm the white girl." ”

"Mama still uses this kind of expression at this time?" Lian'er looked at her amusedly.