Chapter 13 Re-examination
Concubine Fan's illness became more and more serious, and when the princess died, Miss Six was going to annul her marriage. Miss Six's wish was told to the whole family and widely announced. And after Su Bottle defeated the Khitan warriors, she seemed to deliberately increase her efforts to spread it. As if she was afraid that others would think that she would be moved by her son-in-law's small exploits.
Since you are ready to abolish the marriage, what do you have to do with your son-in-law reciting the family law?
Obviously, not everything needs to be said, especially in the face of those who are pretending to be confused. ββIn the face of Tang Mei's punitive request, Su Bei slowly turned his head, with scrutiny and admonition in his eyes.
Tang Mei seemed to be hurt by the stern gaze of a middle-aged man who had created a business empire, and she mustered up her courage and widened her eyes, wanting to intimidate the other party with her gaze. But she found that her efforts were in vain, and the fierce energy in Su Bei's eyes increased instead of decreasing.
Miss Six didn't lose in the eye confrontation, only to see her fair skin suddenly turned blood-red, like a little female leopard, her heart fluctuated violently, panting. Her unusual behavior caused the closed cat to become alert, blow up, and follow its owner to glare at the intruder.
The little beast still felt that the atmosphere was not right, not to mention the two maids who stood respectfully, they were frightened by the atmosphere in the room, and stood more humble, bowing their heads, and clutching the silk handkerchief tightly in their hands.
Tang Mei couldn't be angry, and said loudly: "I found fierce medicine in the inner courtyard to renew the life of Concubine Fan." said that the princess could at least live until her father returned. In my opinion, it will take a month for my father to come back at the earliest. In the meantime, you can't be as ignorant of the rules as you are now! β
Su Bottle said: "I am not your Tang family at all, why should I abide by the rules of your Tang family?" Since it's acting, you play yours, I play mine, and we have nothing to do with each other. β
Tang Mei's voice was raised: "But during this period, you want to eat my house and live in my house!" β
Su Bottle said quickly: "Your Tang family charges my Su family 800,000 taels. Isn't that enough money to cover my expenses these days? β
Tang Mei stood up and scolded angrily: "The country is in trouble, and the husband is responsible!" I, the Tang family's Shence soldiers, are fighting with the Hu people with their lives, shouldn't your family take some money to fund the soldiers?! Take out the money, your family will not have to shed blood and sweat, and you will also get the imperial court, these are all won by my Tang family for your family, is this not worth 800,000 taels?! β
'Strong words!' Is donating money the same as being robbed? Su Bottle stood up and said, "As you said, if it is donated by my family, then my family is a meritorious family, but I came to your Tang Mansion and was respected?" In your eyes, I am just a country man who does nothing, and you are a noble man who is ready to marry the prince. Before marrying the prince, I thought I was a golden phoenix, high in the eyes of no one, and I didn't know that you just had a good father. What else do you have besides Dad? Do you have any skills yourself? But I'm different, even if I'm self-made, I can succeed. I didn't come here voluntarily, and I can't allow you to underestimate my personality. You are waiting for Concubine Fan to pass away and then abolish the marriage, I hope you don't wait, abolish the marriage now, quickly write me a letter of resignation, do a road guide, and let's break up! β
In the sonorous sound of Su Bottle, Tang Mei was so angry that she was about to explode, and shouted: "Ordinary people, what are you, you dare to reprimand me!" Hugh thinks that if you can use some punches and kicks, you are far worse than the inner courtyard! β
Su Bottle snorted coldly, turned his head, and stopped looking at her.
"You think you have the ability, well, I'll give you these account books, you can check them! I'll see what you can find out! β
As she spoke, Tang Mei threw a stack of ledgers at Su Bottle, and the pages tumbled and flew in the air, making a rattling sound.
One after the other fell over, and she let out a muffled snort with all her strength in her mouth and nose.
Looking at the eighteen-year-old Tang Mei's hysterical appearance, with a lot of grievances on her face, Su Bei's anger in her heart was a little less.
It is worth mentioning that the maid Zhu Tao did not make her words clear, so at this time, Su Bei did not know that Tang Mei and the prince had a marriage contract when they were seven years old. But just a few months ago, the royal family suddenly changed their words, saying that they didn't want the sixth miss Tang Mei, but the seventh miss Tang Zhao.
The palms and backs of the hands are full of meat, so this matter seems to be nothing to lose for the Tang family, after all, the royal family has not repented of the Tang family. But for Sixth Miss Tang Mei, this is a great insult.
Someone once asked the queen, why was she replaced? The queen said vaguely, in fact, it was the prince's meaning.
So why did the prince suddenly give up Tang Mei and choose Tang Zhao, Zhu Tao didn't know these things. And Su Bottle didn't know even more. Su Bei also thought that there had been an incident between Tang Mei and the prince for a long time, and she was already the prince's woman. Now that the prince doesn't want her, he will find an unlucky guy to take over.
But that's not the case. Between Tang Mei and the crown prince, it was really as Zhu Tao said, nothing happened. They met a few times, and the prince found that he couldn't get a little bargain from Tang Mei. This woman has a short temper, is dedicated to protecting the Tang family, and is determined.
The prince doesn't like such a woman, especially not to let such a woman be a concubine. He prefers Tang Zhao like him, who has a big shelf on the surface, but is actually a silly and sweet woman. So after meeting Tang Zhao, the prince went to the queen to change the marriage contract.
After the marriage contract was annulled, Miss Six became even more irritable. She hates the seventh sister and also hates Concubine Fan. Because it was Princess Fan who brought her seventh sister to see the prince that day.
And after the abolition of the marriage contract, there was a situation where no one proposed to Miss Six.
Those eunuchs are all thinking about a question, the crown prince is the emperor when he ascends the throne, so Miss Six was once the emperor's woman, who would dare to marry? Don't bother yourself.
At the beginning, when there was a prince's marriage contract, Tang Mei was also looked down upon in the family, which also developed her arrogant character, and she also offended many people because of it.
Maybe she didn't realize it herself, a certain look, a certain tone, had already offended people. In the final analysis, it is still her identity as a candidate for the crown princess, and she is jealous.
But when she lost this identity, the old ladies and young grandmothers of the Tang family changed. Openly and secretly, outside the words, began to laugh and ridicule. This made Miss Six, who had been strong since childhood, unbearable. So she also cherished this opportunity to be the supervisor of Okura.
But judging from the attitude of the fourth brother, the fourth brother seriously questioned her ability to work.
Just came back from the fourth brother, Miss Six was in a hurry, but just now Su Bottle questioned her ability, which made Miss Six crazy.
Angering a big girl to the point of going crazy, Su Bottle felt that she was a little too forceful. How old you are, others don't know, but you still know in your heart, and you always feel that you are bullying children.
Because of this, Su Bottle showed calmness beyond his years. Don't throw those ledgers back and vent your emotions again. Instead, he picked up the ledgers and looked at them. At this time, Su Bei discovered that the economy of Qinghuafang turned out to be a planned economy.
This Qinghua workshop, although the sparrow is small, all the workshops that can be thought of are here, and they are all under the management of the Tang family's economic superintendent.
The main task of the three warehouses is to put some strategic reserve materials, such as grain, cloth, metal, wood and the like. There are also some warehouses occupied by various monopolies, hoarding and waiting for the price to rise before selling. For example, this year, the chaebols have partnered to hoard grain, so it is no wonder that the price of grain in Luoyang is so high this year.
The sixth lady was so angry that she gasped, sat on the couch and puffed out her eyes, and the two maids trembled and did not dare to speak. At this time, only the sound of the son-in-law turning the paper could be heard. After about a cup of tea, Su Bottle took out a charcoal pen from his pocket and sketched on the ledger.
Tang Mei found that Su Bottle was sketching, and her eyes were slanted: "Hey, don't scribble on the ledger, don't let others think that I drew it." β
Su Bei didn't look up and said: "This report submitted by your family builder is full of doubts, I won't change ......, forget it, I think it's better to tear it." β
"Why?!"
"On the eighth day of September last year, your family built the gate of the Drunken Immortal Building, and bought a total of four five-zhang pillars."
"I've seen that, the price is reasonable, and it is very clear that the inspection on the back is also very clear, and the four big pillars are used. It's just that the big stone was dug in the ground, and in order to find the height, there were three big pillars cut off half a zhang. β
"Well, that's fine. But on the 16th of September, your family bought wood again. β
"What's wrong? Fufeng Teahouse is a relic of the previous dynasty, it has been nearly 200 years, the floor on the second floor is worn and worn thin, and if it is not replaced, people are easy to fall. And the wood I bought that time was very cheap, I know all this. β
"So, where is the half-zhang of wood cut down by the four big pillars?"
"It's used to repair other places, there are a lot of century-old buildings in Qinghuafang, and many places need to be repaired, I have considered these things, and they are also reflected in the ledger. I've calculated it many times, and the length is right. β
Su Bottle tapped a few small points in front of him with charcoal: "Here's the problem." They're playing with you words, trading length for volume, but these are two completely different concepts. I'll do the math for you, there's definitely a problem. β
Tang Mei squinted her eyes, with a little distrust in her eyes: "You calculate it first, and then show it to me." β
Soon after, Tang Mei saw a very special way of calculating, which she had never seen in mathematics as she thought she was well-educated. I could see that her head was big for a while.
Tang Mei is anxious, and she pursues quick work, she didn't understand how Su Bottle calculated, but she could feel that there was indeed a problem here. She didn't go to Tang Kuan, but took a group of thugs to find those architects. Under coercion and temptation, the case was solved. These guys secretly resell "public" assets. Tang Mei found out a few main culprits and sent them to Zongzheng's mansion.
Later, when Tang Kuan heard about this, Tang Kuan was overjoyed and said: I just pointed out casually, and my sister has made such progress, and she can really be taught.
But Tang Kuan still didn't hand over the power of the three warehouses to her, but asked her to check again.