The maids and women who were punished listened to Chai's words, and one by one they were so frightened that they collapsed on the ground, and they couldn't even kneel.

Li Shi was annoyed by their crying, and only waved his hand, signaling his subordinates to pull them all down.

Who knows, a few of them were unwilling, broke free from the grip of the mothers-in-law, rushed forward as soon as they stood up, and threw themselves straight at the feet of Li and Chai, ignoring the rules, holding their calves and begging bitterly.

Seeing this, Li Shi frowned, and suddenly dropped the tea bowl in his hand to the ground, falling all over the ground.

The rough envoy next to her directly raised her feather duster and made them twitch vigorously in the face and body: "I don't know whether I am dead or alive, and I dare to alarm the ladies, see if I don't kill you today." ”

The beaten maid hid and made trouble, and accidentally touched the debris on the ground with her hands and feet, and immediately saw blood.

A big family has the system of a big family, discipline is discipline, and lessons are lessons, and human lives will never be easily killed. The rough mothers-in-law beat them honestly, and then stopped, waiting for the ladies to give the order.

Shen Yuechen looked at the scene in front of him in a daze, and couldn't speak for a while, only listening to Chai Shi on the side and say, "What are you still doing?" Since they are making trouble here, they quickly took me to the corner gate to play 20 boards each, and then sold them cheaply, and I was not allowed to step into the gate of the Zhu family again! ”

When the woman heard this, she hurriedly answered yes, and directly reached out to grab the hair of those troublemakers, and dragged them out one by one to hit the board.

The room finally stopped, Li Shi frowned, took a sip of tea, and said smoothly: "Why are there such troublemakers back and forth?" ”

Chai Shi also picked up the newly replaced tea bowl, looked at Shen Yuechen out of the corner of his eyes and said, "Sister-in-law, don't be angry, it's just some idiots who have no eyesight." I just thought about coming in to the Zhu family to eat fragrant food and drink spicy food, but I didn't think that our Zhu family has never raised useless waste......" When she said this, she deliberately looked at Shen Yuechen and said with a slight smile: "This one is so sudden that it startled you, right?" ”

Shen Yuechen was naturally panicked, there was already a fine sweat on his forehead, he took out a handkerchief to wipe his sideburns, got up and saluted: "The concubine is fine, but the eldest lady and the second lady are tired." ”

Li Shi turned his eyes to look at her, and said lightly: "You are young and thin-skinned, we will do this wicked person today, and I will let you do it in the future." ”

Suddenly, the rough envoy outside came in to reply, only saying that the few subordinates who had just dragged down had been beaten with twenty boards each, and two of them fainted halfway through.

Li Shi asked: "While there is still a breath, it is serious to send them all out quickly!" Don't die in the house to add bad luck! ”

The rough mother-in-law nodded and agreed to go out.

Shen Yuechen listened, and secretly clenched the Jinpa in his hand. A full twenty boards, let alone a woman, even a man with a strong figure may not be able to grit his teeth and carry it. Although it can't be killed, it doesn't say that it can't be disabled.

Although she has not personally experienced the methods of those rough mothers-in-law, she has also heard of them.

Shen Yuechen looked at the blood-stained broken porcelain on the ground, and was secretly frightened: It's just the day of the moon, how could there suddenly be such a big movement?

Seeing that her face turned pale, Chai Shi only smiled brightly: "Yuechen, you have to remember that a slave is a slave, and you can't easily connive at it." The Zhu family has strict family rules, and the most intolerable thing is a foolish person who is not good at doing things. ”

Shen Yuechen nodded, naturally taking her words to heart, and immediately cheered up.

Zhu An, the second steward of the Zhu family, immediately held a big red book, which wrote down the daily silver expenses in the mansion in detail.

Zhu An is Zhu Rong's nephew and his apprentice, who has been working in the Zhu family for more than ten years, and is also a person who is very good at observing words and feelings.

Zhu An explained the errands of everyone in the mansion in a clear manner, and then called the housekeepers from all parties to Shen Yuechen in unison and asked her to take a look at them one by one.

Shen Yuechen had never had the opportunity to ask about family affairs in the Shen family before, but she asked for as much as her grandmother gave, and she had no experience. She faced the high-ranking servants of the Shen family, and felt that while she was looking at them, they were also looking at herself.

For these servants, Mrs. Zhu is the real backbone of the Zhu family, the eldest lady and the second lady, although one is strict and the other is strong, they have no real power in their hands, and they can only take some small fish and shrimp to vent their anger. And now, this new young grandmother looks even less lethal, her face is still childish, her eyes are attentive, but she has no momentum.

Shen Yuechen ignored their focused gaze for the time being, and only looked down at the ledger carefully, only to see that the handwriting on it was sometimes neat, sometimes scribbled, and occasionally a few places, the ink was made into a piece, and the paper was not to be said, and the content of the next page was also blurred.

She couldn't help but be slightly surprised, and then asked, "Steward Zhu, is this account book usually written by you alone?" ”

When Zhu An heard this, he replied respectfully: "Back to the words of the young grandmother, most of this account book is written by the minions, and when they are busy, they will be done by the little servants around them. ”

Shen Yuechen smiled slightly, nodded and said, "I see, no wonder I see that the handwriting on this is different." After speaking, she spread out the account book in front of Zhu An, pointed to a vague account, and asked, "Bother Steward Zhu to help me take a look, where is the twenty-five taels of silver used?" ”

Zhu An hurriedly bowed forward, glanced at it, and said: "The slave's hand shook for a while, and the ink was too deep, blurring the handwriting, and I am afraid that the details on it will not be able to read clearly." ”

Shen Yuechen's face was still smiling, and then he flipped through a few more pages, stretched out his hand again and pointed out a five-tael one, and asked, "What about those places?" Does Steward Zhu still remember clearly? ”

Seeing that she was asking again and again, Li Shi and Chai Shi were strange, but they did not stop her.

Zhu An hesitated a little, looked up at Shen Yuechen's face, and said in a deep voice: "Back to the young grandmother, this account was from the beginning of last month, and the slave can't remember it clearly." ”

Shen Yuechen closed the account book with a smile and said warmly: "Steward Zhu is a busy person, and there are so many things to take care of every day, it is normal to remember clearly. The advantage of this bookkeeping is that you can go down to great detail, so as not to have to recall and find out the origin after two or three months, and you can't explain it clearly. No matter how small the money is, it is also money, and if it is stacked on top of each other, it will slowly become a large amount, not to mention, it is still twenty-five taels of silver...... Steward Zhu, do you say? ”

Shen Yuechen could see it clearly, but all the vague accounts, almost every one of them was above Wu Liang's silver, and there were also months and months. If someone did it on purpose, adding up all these pieces of silver of unknown provenance would be a lot of money.

Zhu An was indeed not fully prepared, and Shen Yuechen was red in the face after saying three or two sentences. Although her words were gentle, her words were sharp, which embarrassed him.

He thought it was just a formality today. Who knows, this young grandmother is sharp-eyed and careful, and she can see the cat on it at a glance.