+++++++++++++++ there may not be a village (IV) dividing line

On the day of Gao Lingmo's second visit to Tangzhuang, a fast horse galloped from Luoyang to Tangzhuang with Gao Fei's letter.

The content of this letter made everyone from the old lady of the Ben Tang family to Lian'er, who helped take care of the affairs of Baicaotang, gasp. Hurriedly found Xinjie and Tang Lan who were out on errands and went to Xianyang City.

"Fortunately, Gao Fei, this kid is capable, and he found out the way and found out the problem within a few days, otherwise if the incident happens, the foundation of the Tang Sect for nearly a hundred years will be ruined."

Not only ruined, but ruined in situations where one's own people had to deal with it. It turned out that after Gao Fei arrived in Luoyang, he checked all the information collected by the Aoki cousins in Luoyang about Hall Master Xie, took out a copy of the accounts given to him by Xinjie, and compared them one by one. When Lian'er found out that there was a problem with the accounts of the Luoyang branch, it was very accidental. If she hadn't helped Xinjie sort out the affairs of Baihuatang, she wouldn't have remembered that the Luoyang branch gave Baihuatang a large number of medicinal materials and spices every year, but from the accounts of the Luoyang branch, there were no details of these medicinal herbs and spices and the medicines made. Judging from the quantity provided by Baihuatang, the loss of medicinal materials in Luoyang Branch is quite high. If the pills were refined with the same amount of medicinal materials, counting the maximum fire consumption, the amount obtained would be more than twice the amount recorded in the Luoyang Branch. Converted into two taels of silver, it has exceeded 1,800,000 taels of silver in these three years. In addition to the huge amount of money, the drugs purchased are also quite special, and there are a few of them that are the main drugs of Jinchuang Medicine, *and*.

Before Gao Fei left, Lian'er had analyzed with him how to track the accounts and medicinal materials, and fortunately, he had many years of experience in running the business of Yuehuaxuan and Aokishe, and soon he found out that the people of the Luoyang branch would send a large number of medicinal materials and spices to a workshop every month, and after making pills, sachets and incense powder there, these pills did not return to Baicaotang, but had their own horse team and transported them to other places. The name of this workshop has never been seen on the general ledger handed over to Xintian in the Luoyang branch, and there are no sales entries or silver credits. It's just that these silver, which were originally the profits of the Luoyang Branch, went to Baihuatang to wash a circle of medicinal herbs and spices and came back, and disappeared quietly.

No one in the pharmacy knows about this workshop, who is the owner and who is the buyer. Every month, large quantities of spices,* and* were sent to various places where the color was growing, and the gold sore medicine was sent to a mountain somewhere outside the city. The people of Aokido followed it further and found that these prostitutes were doing very well everywhere, like a chicken that could only lay golden eggs. These golden eggs will eventually be possessed by those who have a heart. The Luoyang branch of Baicaotang is providing these chickens with auxiliary materials for laying golden eggs. Spending Baicaotang's money is making unclean money for others. And what's even more terrifying is that those gold sore medicines, according to the volume of goods in the past few years, are enough to equip a Xishan battalion. When there is no war, if a large amount of wound medicine is used, it can only indicate that the training of the army is harsh, and the soldiers are often injured in the training. To domesticate such a large group of people, it can only rely on the golden eggs collected in those places of sound and lust.

At present, the Tang family is tied to the queen mother, and the Tang family is loyal to the emperor. But if someone conspires against him, and these funds and money come from the Tang family's Baicaotang, then the Tang family is speechless, and even if the Queen Mother wants to take the Tang family out, it will not work. And the queen mother who lost the Tang Sect, relying solely on the forces of the previous dynasty and the Chen family in Jiangnan, was not enough for her to control the overall situation in terms of manpower and financial resources. Without the Tang Gate, the position of the prince would also be unstable. At the same time, without the Tang Gate crossing the border between the imperial court and the rivers and lakes, if it loses its foot, the rivers and lakes and the imperial court will be turbulent.

"This shopkeeper Xie, I remember the last time you said that he was the eldest son of the eldest lady's companion, Aunt Xie, right? Although his father has passed away a long time ago, and he has no heirs himself, his mother is still following the eldest wife in the Zhuangzi. He did this because he didn't even care about his mother. Chen Biyan saw that Tang Lan and her grandson had arrived, so she spoke.

"Yes, after the accident, we have been observing Aunt Xie, but she has always been normal and has not moved." Lian'er was originally very taboo about everything related to Mrs. Tang, but this matter was not trivial, so after discovering it, she agreed to monitor Mrs. Xie in Mrs. Tang's courtyard and the people who had frequent contact with her. The old lady knew all this, and at this moment she was talking to Tang Lan, who had just rushed back from Xianyang City.

"Who else is in the Xie family?" This matter involves Mrs. Tang, and no matter how much he doesn't like her, he must face it objectively.

"Not with us. Only in the capital Wu Mansion, Mrs. Wu's companion is Aunt Xie's sister. "Lord Wu here refers to Wu Zhao, the waiter of the Ministry of Works. Wu Zhao turned out to be just a walk in the Ministry of Industry, and ordinary Beijing families looked down on such a lowly position. But Wu Zhao was Gao Deqing's proud disciple in Jiangnan Academy back then, and he had a lot of potential. Mrs. Tang's father saw this and married him one of his concubine daughters.

This is not enough to say that it must have been instructed by Mr. Gao. Moreover, the shopkeeper of the Luoyang branch of Baicaotang, this kind of position is undesirable for ordinary people, so how can he be easily betrayed. Shopkeeper Xie is a very clear-minded person, he should know that such a betrayal is not only extremely risky, but in the end, even if it is successful, the new owner may not be better than the old one. ”

"The master's analysis does make sense. After the accident, I sorted out some of the past of the people in the house, and found that one thing may be related. When the shopkeeper Xie was sent from home to shop for apprenticeship, Xiangmei, a roommate girl next to his wife, went home to take care of her seriously ill mother at about the same time, and she was gone for a year. A year later, after Xiangmei came back, she has been by her wife's side. It's just that in the fifth year of her return, someone brought a little girl to her, saying that her own niece, whose parents had passed away, and no one took care of her, so she could only come to give it to her aunt. And the people in the wife's courtyard have a saying that Xiangmei has a relationship with Shopkeeper Xie, but Shopkeeper Xie is unwilling to marry her. That little girl was their illegitimate daughter. That little girl, Mrs. Meng, was kind, and stayed to play with the eldest young master, she was the red jade who was originally in the eldest young master's place. If the rumors are true, then this red jade is the only descendant of Shopkeeper Xie. ”

"Is Hongyu still in Zhuangzi?"

"It's gone. She was the eldest young master's roommate, and after she became pregnant, her wife promised to raise her as a concubine for the eldest young master after giving birth, but she unfortunately died in childbirth, and the child was not born. One corpse, two lives. ”

"Is it a real dystocia?" Although Tang Lan's wife room is relatively simple, it doesn't mean that he doesn't know the dirty things between those women.

"It's been so long that it's impossible to verify. But according to some people, Hongyu was in good health at the time, and she will raise it very well after pregnancy. Some people say that the wife can't get used to the red jade, and she doesn't want her to give birth to a child before the young grandmother enters the door, so she disposes of them. ”

If this is true, then the only descendant of Shopkeeper Xie died at the hands of Mrs. Tang. Revenge on the Tang family has become inevitable.

"There is no point in dwelling on these reasons and the past at this moment, the most important thing is how to get out of it."

"If it's just Gao Deqing, this matter is easy to solve. I just don't know if anyone else is involved. ”

"It doesn't matter if there is anything else or not, the important thing now is to inform the Queen Mother, the Emperor and the Crown Prince. As long as nothing happens, let's get them off first. ”