Chapter 493: Disaster Starts Outside the House
In the next two days, when Wen Mianmian was not idle, Mr. Gu and the others had already made the structure of the academy, looking at the vacant manpower displayed on it, Wen Mianmian's temples jumped suddenly, and he began to be busy with the manager.
Time is tight and the task is heavy, and these vacant people must be recruited as soon as possible to make the college run as soon as possible.
Yunyang, who had a big belly halfway, came again, she had already made a preliminary plan for the dart game, she was originally talking to Wen Lingxiao, it turned out that none of the Wen family except Wen Mianmian was talented in business, and talking to him was equivalent to nothing.
As soon as the two sisters-in-law sat down, it was half a day, until the whole plan was sorted out, Yunyang stood up with his stomach satisfied, "I will send a letter to the sixth brother over there in Beixiang, and I can only work hard for the sixth brother to help set up all the points in Beixiang." ”
The two sisters-in-law have great ambitions, Beixiang already belongs to Dongshu, and it is normal for merchants in the two places to come and go frequently, and the delivery of goods must be the top priority, and they don't want to give up this huge territory.
What's more, they are now sitting on conditions that others can't match.
Waiting for Yunyang to leave, Wen Mianmian got up and stretched his somewhat stiff limbs, and Xi Dong came in briskly, "Princess, the concierge received a letter saying that it will be handed over to you no matter what. ”
There was no signature on the envelope, and Wen Mianmian was stunned when he opened it, waved away the people who were waiting left and right, and sat down, with excitement in his eyes.
In the letter is written the great man's "Qinyuan Spring. Snow", when the sentence of the northern scenery, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting into her eyes, she was a little excited, that feeling is that you are alone in a foreign land and hard work, suddenly learned that a hometown person, he and you have a common language, inexplicably feel a little close.
After looking at it for a while or choosing to burn the letter, she calmed down and began to think about more things, of course it is good to come to the countryman, but this means that her old background will be known, and it may bring danger to herself.
Just when she couldn't make up her mind, the Wei Steward of Yuantai came and brought a thick account book.
"Princess, several shopkeepers have begun to settle the accounts, and there is no problem with the accounts."
Saying that, he took out an account book and handed it to Wen Mianmian, "This is the account of the wharf money shopkeeper, the account is okay on the surface, but there is a big gap with the expectation before the prince left." ”
Wen Mianmian took the account books and looked through them, and Steward Wei continued: "The dock was in the hands of King Yu before, and the accounts were chaotic. ”
"During this period, the prince has allocated a sum of money to build a warehouse at the wharf, as well as ten shops, and many of the ten shops are rented, and during the Dongshu Good Goods Appraisal and the New Year's Festival, all the warehouses are full, and there is even a situation where the goods have nowhere to put them.
"With such a grand occasion, the profit of the wharf in half a year is only more than 50,000 taels, how can you say that it is in the past?"
Wen Mianmian didn't look carefully, she counted the number of merchants who rented warehouses above and knew that it was right, because Zhenwei Dart Bureau was a little bit at the dock, and Yunyang told her that there were more than 50 people who rented warehouses at the dock, and there were more than 30 on it, a small half less.
"What is the background of money management?"
Steward Wei gave his hand, "Steward Qian has been following the prince for more than ten years, he used to be the person of the first Roujia concubine, and the first concubine has been following the prince since she went, and she was responsible for taking care of the Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing earlier, and later she also took care of the spice stall, and she is the oldest steward in the house, and there has been no mistake in the accounts over the years." ”
Wen Mianmian put down the booklet and pondered for a moment, "Do you know if there is something wrong with the money manager's family?" ”
Steward Wei shook his head, "Steward Qian only has one son, very precious, he was not in good health in the early years, but he didn't hear any problems over the years, and a few days ago he also mentioned that he wanted to tell his son about family affairs." ”
Wen Mianmian smiled lightly, "I will find out about this matter, but there are other things?" ”
Steward Wei was a little reluctant to speak, and finally said that the accounts handed in by the stewards were not completely clean, but the estimated difference was a few hundred to one thousand taels.
Hua Jingyun told Wen Mianmian this before she went out, and she was not very surprised, although the water was clear and there were no fish, but she didn't plan to pretend that she didn't know what to do, so let them continue.
This year it is a few hundred taels, and next year it should be a few thousand taels, you must know that people's desires are endless.
As soon as Steward Wei left, she summoned Qu Ming, who was responsible for investigating the man who molested the woman of the good family that day, and there was already a result, "Princess Qiyu, Liu Huwei is not bad, that person is indeed the son of the money shopkeeper, Qian Ping'an." ”
"This person is seventeen this year, he was not in good health in the early years, and rarely went out, but in the past two years, he should be in good health, often in and out of tea shops and restaurants, because of the relationship between money and management, surrounded by the sons of some small merchants."
"Although this Qian Ping'an has not married a wife, there are already two concubines in the family, both of whom are girls from small merchants, and it is not the first time to flirt with a woman from a good family.
This is enough to annoy Wen Mianmian, Qu Ming also said a few things one after another, it was actually that Qian Ping'an still relied on his mother Laozi to be an old man in the house, boasting outside under the banner of Hua Jingyun, and even bullying men and women, scalding the teahouse guys, beating the merchants, and so on.
In this way, Wen Mianmian asked him to continue to check the money shopkeeper, and by the way, she checked all the shopkeepers of Yuantai.
Afterwards, she sighed, and Mama Fang sighed, "As soon as the Zhao family's affairs came out, everyone was busy rectifying the mansion and wiping their butts for the previous things. I'm also glad that although I don't have any great skills, but the whole of this house is still governed by me, not to mention the unity of mind, it can be regarded as simple and harmonious, but I didn't expect this disaster to come from the outside. ”
"A son in charge dares to be so arrogant, if someone takes the handle, it is indispensable to make trouble in front of the emperor and not strictly govern the family one by one."
Mama Fang changed the tea for her again, "These things can't be avoided by every family, and it's not for nothing that the slave bullies the master, and there are many people who rely on the master's power to do evil, and it depends on whether they are caught." ”
Wen Mianmian took a sip of tea, sighed, turned her head and asked someone, "Does Mama know that Master Liu has a concubine named Liu Yuankuo?" ”
Mama Fang thought for a while and shook her head, "I know that there are two sons in Lord Liu's house, and I heard that Lord Liu has three sons, and I rarely hear from them on weekdays, so it is related to Mrs. Liu's strict housekeeping." ”