"Shopkeeper Tao, since you don't want to tell me, then go to the government and say it, someone will take him to the government!" Gan Tang suddenly became imposing, as if the girl who could smile tactfully just now was not her,

The shopkeeper of the jade shop sat on the ground, they thought that Gan Tang had just come to Tan County and would not know anything, but she even knew where her children were studying.

Then she must have known that he had exchanged the jade in the shop for his children's bindings.

The two women and a young girl on the inside of the screen also knelt down in unison.

The two families are relatives, and now the three women of different ages are full of words begging for mercy.

The little lady didn't have to cry as the little girl with the red flower who was kicked out just now.

"In order to create a clean and honest appearance, let the wife and children wear coarse linen, it is really a gentleman!" When the shopkeeper of the jade shop was dragged out, Mu Li said disdainfully.

Even if a shopkeeper can't let his wife wear brocade and silk every day, using gold and silver, he will never have to wear a coarse linen.

Of course, in this way, it can also be said to be thrifty, but a few days ago, the two families also feasted in the township, and each of them cut new clothes in a tailor shop in the city that sold fine fabrics, and the new clothes were sewn with gold thread, and they were to be decorated with pearl agate, and I didn't know that I thought it was for the princess and the prince to wear.

When the three women who were still crying and begging for mercy heard Mu Li's words, they didn't know what to do.

"Your two families are relatives, and my second uncle's housekeeper first found your husband to manage the gold and silver jewelry shop, and half a year later, he recommended his brother-in-law, that is, your husband to manage the jade shop.

At first, the two of them were also diligent and dedicated, but they ...... from your house" Gan Tang glanced at the wife of the shopkeeper of the gold and silver shop, "Da Lang marries a wife, and wants to hire Jin Hai, you two love your son, and steal a piece of red gold in the shop that is full of two taels to fight Jin Hai, my second uncle's housekeeper has never punished and thought that your adopted son is not easy to add monthly money to you, and the men of your two are more and more greedy."

One smugglers in salt business, vainly trying to evade taxes, the other using the jade in the shop to be a good person, and countless accounts on credit...... Do not be afraid, for you will always wear your garments. Gan Tang's breath was restrained freely, and she said so many words in one breath, and her tone was still light.

The two women were like hells, "No, no...... There is no ......"

"Nothing, is it true that when our girl is stupid, blind, and doesn't know anything, she braves the cold to come to check the accounts? You two stupid men want to fool us girls with a few boxes of account books! It's really looking for death. Mama Li shouted angrily.

"No, no, Mr. Wang said, these are trivial matters, the head of the family will not blame, girl, the head of the family is your second uncle, how can you not listen to the elders, you ......" The basket poked by the shopkeeper of the gold and silver jewelry shop was obviously bigger, and his wife also wanted to defend more.

But Gan Tang and the people around her couldn't hear half a word from the second uncle with a human face and a beast's heart.

Mu Xiang raised his hand and slapped him, "This is our girl's private property, what the head of the family said is a fart...... It turns out that he connived at his subordinates to covet our girl's private property, you had better tell me all these years, otherwise you will wait for the government officials to sentence your whole family to exile...... If you are exiled to Xichuan...... "You just wait to die."

Mu Li Muxiang came out of the women's barracks, and she won't always be by Gantang's side, and when Gantang stabilizes in Yanlong, the two of them will have to go back to Xichuan.

If these two families go to Xichuan, let alone the two of them, the entire Xichuan army will not let them have a good time.

……

After careful investigation, Gan Tang did not come forward in person, but the soldiers brought by Mu Xiang and Xichuan came forward to negotiate with the government office.

In the afternoon, someone came outside, and several female relatives of the Qian family in Tan County begged to see Gan Tang.

Gan Tang thought about the morning scene and put the teacup on the table, "Please come in." ”

Not long after, a middle-aged woman dressed in ochre yellow, with her hair coiled high and in a meticulous bun, walked dignified and elegant, and led two young women in their early twenties from under the porch.

Gan Tang didn't expect that the ladies of the salt merchant's family would have such a noble and elegant person.

The other party was older, Gan Tang first curtsy at her, the other party hurriedly returned the salute, and then let the two young women behind him salute Gan Tang, and told Gan Tang that these were her two daughters-in-law.

Gan Tang called their sister with a smile.

The two sides were about to enter the topic, and a soldier stood outside the door and said, "Girl, how do you entertain the adult man?" ”

Gan Tang looked at Mrs. Qian.

Mrs. Qian and her two daughters-in-law were puzzled, they knew that Gan Tang was still a maid, and they were afraid that there would be an accident when talking about business, so this time they met, except for the coachman, the rest were women.

"Please go to the curtain with the two elder sisters...... You take him out of the screen. Gan Tang commanded in a low voice.

Mrs. Qian led her two daughters-in-law into the curtain, and the government soldiers also took the order to take the man outside the screen.

Through the screen, Gan Tang didn't recognize the other party's figure, but after a while, the other end also spoke.

"Sister Tang'er, it's me."

It turned out to be the eldest son of Second Uncle Gan, that is, when Gan Tang first arrived at Yan Long's Fifty Mile Station, he took the servant woman Zhuangding to pick up Gan Tang's lobby brother.

Just at the door, the carriage of the Qian family arrived at the door first, and then someone came to tell him, and when the lobby brother came, the women of the Qian family were invited into the door, and the lobby brother was thought to be with the Qian family, so he was invited in together without even speaking.

No one spoke along the way, so no one found out the problem, until the two waves of people arrived outside the door, the lobby brother didn't know the daughter of the Qian family, if it was against the etiquette law to enter a room, he would wait at the door.

The porter saw that he didn't enter the house with the daughter of the Qian family, and he didn't know how to arrange it, so he came to tell Gan Tang again.

Gan Tang was smiling when she faced the women of the Qian family, as if she didn't know where they came from, but in the face of Brother Tang, her eyes were full of disgust.

Thinking of what had happened this morning, she murmured sneeringly, "It's coming soon!" ”

When Gan Tang went out, she deliberately concealed her whereabouts, but she didn't expect to be able to hide it all the time, but she didn't expect her second uncle's family to know about her coming out to check the accounts so quickly, and almost arrived in Tan County.

If it weren't for the credible people around her, she would have suspected that she had spies from her second uncle's family by her side.

"Sister, I heard that you were nearby, so I came to ask if you had any place to help."

Gan Tang didn't have a good impression of anyone in Uncle Gan's family, so she didn't believe a word of Brother Tang's words.

But in fact, Brother Lobby rushed over because he was in Tan County and heard that Gan Tang was also here, and he had to cut the position of the shopkeeper of the two shops.

"Thank you for your care, my sister doesn't want your help here, my sister is entertaining guests now, and I don't have time to entertain my second brother, so I'll send them off first." The accent of Gan Tang's words is on the word second brother.

Brother Lobby's face really darkened two degrees, he couldn't deny that since his father became the new head of the Gan family, the new patriarch, his title has also changed from Erlangjun to Dalangjun, and his younger brothers and sisters no longer call him the second brother, but the eldest brother, he recognizes his new identity more and more, and feels more and more that he is the son of the Gan family, the future head of the family.

Ke Gantang's second brother caught him off guard!

Yes, the original eldest brother showed extraordinary wisdom at an early age, and he was able to get the first place in the imperial examination all the way, and at the age of fifteen, he was appointed by the Holy Lord to be the companion of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

To be the crown prince's companion is to choose the future cronies of the crown prince today, and he has always been a confidant of the prince, and who is not an important minister of the auxiliary state, the eldest brother is brilliant, and being an official in the future will only bring the Gan family to a higher level, and he, if he can maintain the original status of the Gan family, it will be a merit.

The wisdom of the eldest brother is something he can't compare to in any case.

"Good...... Well...... Good. If that sister is in need...... Where the second brother contributes, just send someone to say, and the second brother will go all out. ”

Gan Tang did not respond.

After Brother Lobby left, Gan Tang welcomed the Qian woman out again, and she didn't have the slightest idea of greeting at this moment.

"Mrs. Qian, Mrs. Qian, Mrs. Qian, Mrs. Qian, you should not come to beg me, but you should beg the people in the mansion. I can't let them go if they cheat and covet my wealth, and I can't let them do anything else, but if you can keep them from biting you, and pay back what they owe me, I can act as if it hadn't happened. ”

"You're not going to pursue it?"

Gan Tang glanced at the second young lady Qian who spoke.

How could she not pursue it, of course she had to investigate, but the Qian family is a local clan, and it was a salt merchant who started out, and she all knew that both black and white were powerful in being a salt merchant, and now that she had just come to Yan Long, if she insisted on pursuing the Yin Si things that the Qian family had borrowed from her shop over the years, the price she would have to pay was too great, and she didn't want to let herself be hurt at the first stop of the audit.

"Then it depends on whether the head of the Qian family can make it convenient for me?"

"What convenience does Miss Gan want?"

Gan Tang carefully sorted out his sleeves, Mrs. Qian Ershao was in a hurry, she asked, "Miss Gan, your father's family is a Confucian family with the world-famous Ganquan Academy, and your husband's family is a Yipin Guogong Mansion, what convenience can we do for you with a little Qian's family?" ”

"Shut up." Mrs. Qian reprimanded.

Mrs. Qian's lips pursed for a long time before she suppressed what she was going to say.

"Since ancient times, the position of the gentry and township clan can be compared to a county order, if it is a remote place, I am afraid that the officials in the government are not as many as the guards of the gentry and township clan."

Do you want people? Mrs. Qian couldn't get Gan Tang's thoughts.

"Mrs. Qian, I'll tell you about this matter first, if it doesn't work, we won't have such a thing." Gan Tang said quietly.

Mrs. Qian glanced at her second daughter-in-law, and then asked the eldest daughter-in-law to take the second daughter-in-law out of the room.

"Ma'am, I want a list of nearby bandits."

There are people in the Qian family who are officials, so they can get a piece of the salt affairs controlled by the officials, but in fact, the current head of the Qian family is just a person who took the Tongsheng exam many years ago.

They can survive to this day, firstly, because of their in-laws, and secondly, because they deal with people on the rivers and lakes.