In that grange, Mrs. Hou originally planned to rest there for the family after she arrived, so there was no need for the Ji family to get familiar with it again.

Their original master's house is about to pass.

This grange was the dowry of Mrs. Hou when she got married, and the managers above were all appointed by Mrs. Hou's mother-in-law in the past.

The grange has been doing nothing for many years, and in fact it has not made much money, but fortunately it has not lost money.

But in fact, the location is good, and it stands to reason that the turnover should be very high.

It can be seen from this that the manager of this grange must be a moth, and it is not unknowable that he has been entrenched in the grange for many years, far away from the master's house, and swallows silver, oil and water.

So after arriving, Mrs. Hou did not show great trust in Yin Zhi's stewardship, but was not salty or light.

After settling down with Fujun and the others, he took Mrs. Ji Liang and Mrs. Ji to check the account books.

Mrs. Hou is also smart, judging from her handling and conversations in the past few days, she knows that Ji Liangqing is the principal of the Ji family, but in order to show respect, she still asked Ji Liangqing to bring Mrs. Ji with her.

The principal was called Steward Zhou, who was lame and married the daughter of the previous steward of the Grange as a daughter-in-law and gave birth to three children.

Suffice it to say, the Grange has a deep connection with their family.

The previous generation belonged to his father-in-law, and when his father-in-law retired, it fell into his hands.

He has the absolute right to speak about this grange, and although he is lame, his eyes are bright.

Seeing the attitude of the main family towards himself, he can vaguely guess what the main family is thinking.

Long before Mrs. Hou summoned him, the atmosphere of the family was gloomy, and they were faintly planning something.

As soon as Mrs. Hou came, she asked for the account book, and the daughter-in-law of Steward Zhou took a stack of account books and handed them over, and the husband and wife kept exchanging glances.

Mrs. Hou was busy reading the account books, and she didn't have time to pay attention to the eyebrows of the couple and their husbands.

Naturally, I didn't take these things seriously.

In fact, no matter whether Steward Zhou and his wife's family have done anything here, whether they have embezzled money or not, she will pull them down this time.

What's more, after arriving, they found that they didn't do anything at all, not to mention, even the Grange was not very well managed.

On the other hand, all the people in their family are well-dressed, which shows that life is nourishing.

There weren't many tenant farmers in the grange at all, and it looked deserted, not like a huge grange at all!

Mrs. Hou's dissatisfaction had been suppressed in her heart, and she no longer had the interest to look at the faces of the two of them.

But Ji Liangqing saw all this in his heart.

However, he was a smart man, and he didn't say anything to dislike people, just stood quietly, and didn't take the initiative to go up to look at the account books.

Just wait for Mrs. Hou to say something after reading it, or hand him the account book.

Before that, he had been keeping to himself, and Mrs. Ji was also a smart old lady, and she knew better than her son what it meant to be Taoguang Yanghui.

There was no movement, and he stood next to him without saying a word.

"Presumptuous!"

Mrs. Hou watched for half an hour, and the longer the time, the deeper her brows wrinkled, and the more ugly her face became.

Steward Zhou had already looked at Mrs. Hou for half an hour, and his face was like gold paper, and cold sweat flowed down his forehead.

Steward Zhou has no ability, purely because this grange is far away, so he doesn't care about Mrs. Hou, otherwise he wouldn't have deliberately done smooth work in the account book.

He had no idea that Mrs. Hou would come over during this time!

He was short-sighted, even if he was greedy for a little money, he would immediately spend it in his own house, and he never thought of currying favor with the subordinates around Mrs. Hou, and getting some of Mrs. Hou's whereabouts or recent movements.

And the secondary effect of his short-sightedness was that he did not hire too many tenant farmers to take care of the farms, so the harvest in the fields was not very good.

This led to a bad harvest, he was also embezzling, and the ledger was particularly unsightly. I don't have the talent to cover up this ledger.

Madame Hou manages a huge Hou Mansion, and the Hou Mansion's property is much more than his dowry.

Looking at the account book at your fingertips, as soon as you look at this account book full of loopholes, you can know whether Steward Zhou and his family are playing a good role or a moth in this grange.

How can you not be angry for a while?

It's not that he has to pull anyone down this time, it's purely that he feels that the Zhou family is in the grange, and he doesn't know how much silver he has embezzled for so many years!

"Madame's anger!!"

If Steward Zhou still had some luck before, when Mrs. Hou threw out the account book on the table and scolded loudly, that luck was completely shattered.

He fell to his knees in a panic, cold sweat dripping down, his eyes were full of panic, and he didn't know what to do.

His daughter-in-law didn't dare to come out next to him, and knelt down together, he was even worse than Steward Zhou, and the whole person trembled.

"Anger?"

Mrs. Hou laughed angrily: "Steward Zhou, do you want to take a look at what is clearly written on these account books?" ”

"If you don't manage this grange well, it's just that the annual harvest is all spent by your family. Mrs. Ben thinks about your family's hard work, but now she thinks that you will be pampered and proud. ”

By the end, her tone grew colder.

Steward Zhou couldn't stop kowtowing: "Madam, the little wronged, the small wronged!" It's not the small ones who don't want to manage the grange well, it's the tenant farmers who don't want to come and work in the grange. ”

This is a bit ridiculous, not to mention Mrs. Hou, who is proficient in this doorway, even Ji Liangqing, who has never managed the grange, feels a little ridiculous.

Ji Liangqing used to cultivate his own land, and the tenant farmers had a slightly higher status than them.

Because they have their own land, and the tenant farmers do not.

Tenant farmers have no land, so they have to work hard to farm for others to earn food and silver all year round, so how can they not be willing to come to farm?

This butler is pure nonsense! Thinking about what if, Mrs. Hou didn't know how to fool around.

Or maybe he was too anxious to say what he said, and he couldn't think about the consequences.

Mrs. Hou looked at Steward Zhou with a mentally retarded look, and when she saw that he and his daughter-in-law were kowtowing like garlic, she had no interest in continuing to argue, and just wanted to solve it quickly.

"Well, what the hell are you, Mrs. Ben is not interested in any of this now. The silver used must be replaced, otherwise..."

After speaking, she didn't care about Steward Zhou's increasingly pale and helpless face, turned her head to Ji Liangqing and said with a pleasant face:

"In the future, this grange will not be under the management of your family, and Mrs. Ben has found someone from the Ji family. Just give all the keys in this grange to Ji Liangqing. ”