Chapter 105: Lost Everything
"Everyone is here! Steward Chen! Let's talk about what the two aunts have done over the years! Xiao took a sip of tea and put down the teacup.
"Over the years that the third aunt has been in charge of the family, she has filled her own pockets, allocated the monthly money of the original Qinghe county lord to her children, and has repeatedly withdrawn silver money from the Xiao family's account room under various names for the luxurious life of her own children, and in the past ten years, through the above means, about 150,000 gold coins have been used, and about 100,000 gold coins have been received in the name of General Xiao, and a total of 250,000 gold coins need to be repaid!" Steward Chen took the ledger and said.
"Xiao Zhuyue! You wronged my mother! Xiao Yueqing slapped the table and said angrily.
"Wronged? You look at what you and your brother eat, use, wear, and give gifts to outside the world, where do you think the money came from? Are you taking a good look at your sister Xiao Zishan, what do you wear, eat, and use that can compare with you? The children of the same family are all concubines, and the difference is really not ordinary, and people outside still think that you are the concubine! Xiao Zhuyue sneered.
"You, you are nothing more than jealous of my mother's favor, this is all given to us by our father! My dad loves us, do you care? Xiao Yueqing argued.
"Oh! That's it! Then what you mean is that your mother is favored, pampered and proud, and the fourth aunt is not favored, so the children are naturally not as good as your brothers and sisters, right? Xiao Zhuyue smiled.
As soon as this sentence came out, the fourth aunt had no expression, but Xiao Zishan was already almost unable to sit still, and was compared to Xiao Yueqing everywhere on weekdays, and at this moment, she had to listen to their numbers here.
Mother doesn't know what's going on, after so many years of not fighting or grabbing, doesn't she care about the future of her children at all?
"Xiao Zhuyue, don't be confused! I didn't say that! Xiao Yueqing said.
"That's it! Don't quarrel, Lord Qinghe, you said that I have embezzled so much, you can't just talk about it, there is no evidence! The third aunt, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke.
"Third aunt, I'm waiting for your words! Last night, I went through all the accounts over the years and found a lot of clues! There are many irrationalities in the ledger, and there are many things that are purchased with large expenditures, and our family has never seen them, so I have brought them all out separately and found merchants who sell these things! In the end, the merchant took the money and did not provide anything, or the merchant did not receive the money at all, and there was no so-called order! Xiao ordered someone to move out the account books from last night and put them on the table.
The ledger was moved out as tall as a person.
The people couldn't believe that the county lord of Qinghe had checked the account book overnight, and he also singled out all the unreasonable points in the account book!
"So many accounts, you checked them all in one night?" The third aunt looked at Xiao Zhuyue in disbelief.
With so many accounts, ordinary people have to look at it for at least a month.
"Not only did I finish the investigation, but I also picked out the unreasonable places!" Xiao took out a notebook month by month and looked through it to see that it was full of dense records.
The third aunt suddenly felt that the whole person had fallen into the abyss, and over the years, since she became the head of the house, she had used the power in her hands to make fake accounts, and opened a lot of false bills, large and small, interspersed in the account books.
She never thought that one day her power in charge would be robbed by others, and she never thought that she would be investigated one day.