Chapter 15: Slap in the face
Yuehua sneered, stood up calmly, and said word by word to the Lian family: "Since my aunt is in a hurry to kill all of them, and there is no mercy left, then we will settle an account today!" Let a few uncles and grandfathers theorize about what is right and which is wrong. ”
She raised her chin slightly, her face was full of pride, and she looked confident, Lian's hairs stood on end, and she felt that under Yuehua's disdainful gaze, her body was gradually shrinking, until she was as small as a clown.
"I'll just say mother, you raised a white-eyed wolf, right? Eating ours and drinking ours, now I want to bite back. Chang Lingyan was still arrogantly sarcastic, justifiably arrogant.
"Eating yours? Indeed, I, Chu Yuehua, have eaten the leftovers of you for so many years in the Hou Mansion. But cousin Ling Yan, you are wrong about one thing, the expenses of the Hou Mansion over the years are all my Chu Yuehua's, the silk and satin you wear, and the hairpin on your head are all the income of my field shop. How many shops my mother left me at the beginning, I Chu Yuehua knows in my heart! Do you think that by replacing my old shopkeeper, I can be kept in the dark by you? ”
"That's not what I said, this business is changing rapidly, and profits and losses are commonplace. The original guy shopkeeper was not angry, and the store could not be supported, and I have been subsidizing to maintain the operation over the years in order not to be honest. I will naturally use the best manpower, you can't listen to those people's ulterior motives to provoke, and come to your aunt to ask for guilt. I have memorized all the accounts that have been lost over the years. ”
Lian had long expected that there would be a day when he faced Bo Gongtang today, the rhetoric was memorized well, and the account book was also forged in advance, if it weren't for this, how could Chang Lehou be deceived and believe it all these years?
Yuehua pulled a lock of hair hanging down from his forehead behind his ears, and when he heard the words, he just smiled coldly, without any words, nor panicked, a calm and indifferent manner, like the silver moonlight in the autumn night, flowing down from the sky, even if it was a cool breeze, it could not blow the slightest ripple.
"Speaking of accounts, Yuehua also has an account here, which happens to be compared with the accounts in my aunt's hand."
Mama Wei behind her already understood, and without her words, with a look, she immediately took out a copper key from her waist, turned around and entered the inner room, but in a moment, she took out a carved box with peeling vermilion paint in the puzzled eyes of everyone.
Yuehua opened the box in a whisper, took out three account books from it, looked around, and first handed it to the two elders of the clan, calling him "Taigong": "Shen Bo, the original housekeeper of the General's Mansion, was sympathetic to Yuehua's loneliness, and he had taken a lot of effort over the years to rearrange his own manpower in the Chu family's shop through his old business partners, so the business transactions in the store in the past three or four years, as well as how the profits were, were recorded in the book and delivered to Yuehua, and the piles were not bad. I implore Taigong to read my mother's affection, judge impartially, and return Yuehua to justice. ”
As soon as the account book came out, everyone in the courtyard suddenly boiled in their hearts, and couldn't help but secretly praise: "What a powerful girl!" ”
Even Chang Zhiyi, the second master who has experienced a hundred battles and seen strong winds and waves, and the invisible, Taishan collapsed in front of him, couldn't help but look sideways and looked at this niece twice.
How Chu Yuehua has lived under the Lian family for many years, in fact, everyone knows it. There is no impermeable wall in the world, how Rao is Lian is clever and obedient in front of everyone, and behaves virtuously and generously, but the private discussion between the subordinates is contemptuous, and it will naturally spread to the ears of other grandfathers and grandmothers. It's just that no one feels sorry for this poor orphan girl, pretending to be stupid, and no one has ever asked.
Everyone thought that Yuehua was living a life in a crooked way, and she had to get by, who would have thought that she had secretly taken precautions for a long time, and felt the soft gains of the Lian family's encroachment on the past clearly, and the abacus in her heart, whether it should be three times five to two, or four times five to one, all of them were written down in one stroke, and there were hills and valleys in her chest, and in today's desperate situation, she took the opportunity to make such a beautiful turnaround!
Three account books, that is to say, at least three years ago, Chu Yuehua began to plan and secretly contacted the original manager of the Chu family. As for how she was clever and moved Steward Shen to spare no effort to help, and how she concealed everyone in the Chang family under the nose of the Lian family, and laid out this game of chess, not to mention it for the time being, just thinking about it, she was just at that time, and she had such long-term insight and mind!
Chang Lehou's face was obscure, and when Lian Shi saw Yuehua take out those account books, his legs, shoulders, hands and even lips began to tremble slightly. This turn of events was something she didn't expect, and it can be said that it gave her the most fatal blow when she was caught off guard. There was panic in her heart that slowly rose, and then expanded infinitely, radiating towards every pore of her body, and then all the cold hairs stood up, and fine white hair sweat appeared under the roots.
It's over, it's over, could it be that her plans for so many years were easily defeated by a yellow-haired girl, and she was beaten to the ground, charged with greed for money and injustice, and then let her take away all the yellow and white things in her hands that could be given to her and her daughter? If it weren't for her Lian family, would she Chu Yuehua be able to keep this family business as a child?
Now that her wings are stiff, she wants to take them all away and keep them for herself, and she doesn't have any scum left for herself? She is not reconciled! It hurts even more than ripping her flesh, and it almost kills her incorruptible!
Therefore, Lian was completely confused, and shouted almost hysterically: "Impossible! You're a fake! Unscrupulous attempts to accuse me! ”
"It's really fake, let's check it, this account book records in detail the identity of the patron of the big business dealings, the time and place, you only need to find someone to inquire about one or two, there is no half of falsehood."
Yuehua's smug look finally angered Chang Lingyan, she almost jumped up, pointed at the tip of Yuehua's nose, and scolded: "If it's really a white-eyed wolf who can't be fed, I'll say how she is so kind, she actually took the initiative to help her mother manage the family affairs of the Hou Mansion, it turned out that she harbored such evil intentions and plotted against my family's property!" Wolf-hearted dog-lungs, shameless prostitute! ”
Chang Lingyan scolded extremely ugly, just like a shrew scolding the street, unbearable. Li, Ding, and the others all shook their heads and looked sideways.
Chu Yuehua, who was insulted, was not in a hurry or annoyed, and smiled indifferently: "If it is really a thief shouting to catch a thief, cousin Ling Yan, you have to be clear, it was your mother who forced me to a dead end today, I don't want to get back what belongs to me, should I be swept out of the house penniless and live on the streets?" The grace of nurturing can be repaid, but if it is not the grace of nurturing, I Chu Yuehua don't need to take my life to repay, right? ”
Yuehua didn't want to pretend to be pitiful to win sympathy, because none of the many people present were sympathetic, even if she was really desperate today, no one would lend a helping hand to her. She wants to make herself strong, have the chance to win, be calm, and have greater use value than Lian's, so that those who sit on the sidelines and watch will weigh it again and again and help her say a good word.
In today's situation, their attitude is crucial.
Chang Lingyan was speechless by a refuting sentence, she was used to fine clothes and jade food, and she never worried about the family affairs of the Hou Mansion, and she didn't know what the shops in Yuehua's mouth meant to the declining Hou Mansion, she was angry, and said with a little disdain: "Your things? It's just a few broken shops, who will be rare? ”
"Since my cousin has said that it is not uncommon, then please ask my aunt to return to Zhao after finishing it!" Yuehua took the opportunity to aggressively stretch out her hand towards Lian.
Lian's quilt was here, secretly twisted the root of his thigh, and tears fell down in pain, with a long and short call: "Zhirou, fourth sister, open your eyes and look at your good daughter, this is trying to force me to death step by step, all these years, my hard work is all fed to the dog!" ”
The two elders holding the account book are a little embarrassed, although they are indeed elders, but the vein of the Chang family room plays a pivotal role in the court, they are all amazing characters, no one can afford to offend, if you can't figure out the situation and express your position without authorization, you may accidentally offend someone.
They turned their heads and handed the account book to the second master Zhiyi on the side: "Among the remaining brothers, count you as the oldest, how do you decide this matter?" ”
The second master casually flipped through and glanced at it, and handed the account book to the fifth master casually: "I'm a rough person, I can't understand these things, the third is the one who manages the accounts for the imperial court all the year round, and the fifth is from Dali Temple, and there are many such cases, do you see if there are any mistakes?" If the account books are true, we will not help our relatives, not to mention that Zhirou was originally our own sister. Although she is gone, the child is just like our younger generation who broke bones and tendons. ”
Yuehua didn't expect that the second uncle had been silent, but he would actually say a word for himself, although there was only one sentence, but it was very important, and it had already shown his attitude. And he clearly passed the buck to the third and fifth uncles of the account books, but he was just asking for a true or false one, so the two of them would not dare to express their stance for fear of offending the Lian family!
The third master and the fifth master took it in their hands, looked at it twice, and saw that they really remembered it in detail, every income, every expense, and how much they had left, clearly. The account books are obviously re-copied, all of them are small, the handwriting is dignified and beautiful, it should be from Yuehua's own handwriting, and it is very likely that there is another bottom file.
It is not difficult to distinguish the real from the fake, and it is not difficult to call the shopkeeper of the store to come over and ask, which is not a problem for the fifth master.