Everyone held their breath and focused their eyes on the long table made at the entrance of Wenyuanfang. The hawkers along the street also stopped, and the only sound of counting goods, counting them, and the crackling of abacus remained in the whole street.

Several officials in charge of auditing the accounts became more and more frightened as the verification deepened. Lu Zhongxian ordered them to check the account books of the year and the moon, thinking that they would soon be able to catch the mistakes, and the account books they usually handled were the most prone to mistakes at the end of the year.

Because the wax moon is the busiest time of the year, many businesses are negligent in management, and mistakes are often made in the busyness, and mistakes and omissions are common.

It can be found that up to now, every account of Wenyuanfang is clear, all its goods are sold in limited quantities, and the warehousing and account books are correct, and there are no errors or omissions at all. Even the dozens of small accounts that Lu Zhongxian specially confessed were all included in the book!

I'm afraid I'm going to return in vain this time.

Lu Zhongxian stared at them with a good eye on the side, seeing the beads of sweat on their foreheads and their solemn looks, an ominous premonition came to his heart, could it be that he didn't find out the problem?

He looked at Lu Jingyi anxiously, and saw that she was also full of doubts, and his eyes returned to the long table, wanting to remind these people to be clever and secretly make a few moves, but he was stared at by so many pairs of eyes, and he didn't dare to show it too obviously.

From beginning to end in autumn and winter, there is an indifferent color on his face, and he is not afraid of shadows.

Song Yu is a business wizard personally found by the county lord, she has a simple and effective account management system, and all the properties under the county lord's name are all well organized by her, and there has never been a mistake.

Just when Lu Zhongxian was so anxious that he couldn't help but stand up and go over to find out, a trembling male voice suddenly broke out.

"Found it! Problem found! ”

This voice was both excited and proud, and it was finally possible to give an account to Lord Lu.

The officers and men all secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Qiu Dong was frightened by this voice, but there was no expression on his face, and he calmly walked towards the official who spoke up, and asked, "Official, what's wrong?" ”

The man pointed to the column out of the warehouse, marked with the date of the record of the three days before the Chinese New Year's Eve, and said.

"This shipment is recorded as out of the warehouse, but it is not indicated where it is going, and if it is sold, it is also recorded in the account book as income, which means that no tax has been paid, and there is a suspicion of tax evasion."

He deliberately raised his voice, and explained the cause and effect very clearly, obviously for the people around him to watch the excitement.

Lu Zhongxian nodded secretly, taking a credit for this clever little brother.

"What else do you have to say?" Lu Zhongxian's face was serious, and he forcibly suppressed the joy surging in his heart, and tried his best to show a decent and fair look.

Qiu Dong carefully looked at the column he was pointing to, thought for a moment, but put his mind at ease, it turned out to be this one.

"Back to my lord, this account has been reported by the shop." Qiu Dong's gaze swept around the faces of the group of officials, pointed at one of them and said, "This lord personally accepted it, Lord Lu can ask him to confirm." ”

The official who was pointed at trembled in his heart, his mind was blank, and he subconsciously looked at Lu Zhongxian, seeing that his face was condensed, and his mouth was faster than his brain, "Hugh, who is in charge, wants to talk nonsense!" ”

As he spoke, he turned to Lu Zhongxian again, "Xia Guan doesn't remember this incident!" ”

"Adults and nobles are busy, and it's normal not to remember such trivial things. Two days before Chinese New Year's Eve last year, the people personally came to the door to register, and also said a lot of words to you, you replied to me at that time, you don't have to be so cautious, just note the exchange of favors. ”

Qiu Dong explained the situation at that time in great detail, and it didn't sound like a lie.

The man also came back to his senses, only to remember that there was indeed such a thing, peeking at Lord Lu's gradually gloomy face, but he didn't dare to talk about it, where the credibility is promising, so he neither denied nor admitted it.

"Shut up, a mistake is a mistake, don't be clever again! Take down this woman, take away all the account books in the store, and torture her! Lu Zhongxian's eyes signaled to the person in charge of the prison, and continued: "From now on, Wenyuanfang will be sealed and closed for rectification!" ”

As soon as the words fell, several soldiers stepped forward, clamped Qiu Dong left and right, and put the shackles on her wrists.

"Lord Lu is such a big official, he is just checking the accounts, and he has made such a big battle, isn't it also a waste of the people's tax money!"

A dignified and beautiful girl, with a noble body, walked out of Wenyuanfang, she was richly dressed, her face was serious, her eyes were sharp, and her body exuded a compelling momentum.

The woman's voice was cold and penetrating, and many nobles turned their heads and looked at her. Xindao: It turned out to be the fourth princess, and she was finally reluctant, I thought she wouldn't care about it, after all, she was once Xiao Wenjun's defeated general, and she really knew how to pick the time.

As Xiao Wenjun's number one fan, the fourth princess also learned from her in the way she appeared this time, plus she is a royal princess, and her innate arrogance is also very good at calming the scene, at least she thinks so.

There was a moment of silence.

Lu Zhongxian looked at the fourth princess in disbelief, and compared the appearance of Xiao Wenjun engraved in his mind.

He didn't do anything on the first day of entering the household, so he was first called by the chief to give him a portrait of Xiao Wenjun, and said in his ear: When you encounter her, you must avoid it, so as not to affect the entire household.

The people of the household department talked about Xiao Wenjun's change of color, she was not in Kyoto at the moment, and it was difficult to guarantee that these people did not have the intention of revenge in private.

After confirming that it was not the deity, Lu Zhongxian breathed a sigh of relief again, lowered his face and put on a righteous look, and said: "The official doesn't know who you are, but look at this appearance is also a person of noble status. ”

"This official is ordered to handle the case, fair and open, all in accordance with the rules, and please get out of the way, so as not to fall into the crime of obstructing official business, involving my father and brother to be reprimanded by His Majesty, the face is not only small, but the future is blocked!"

A rhetoric, impassioned.

There was some emotion on the faces of the people.

Lu Zhongxian deceived himself as well.

Just as he was still moving himself in the afterglow just now, his sleeve was pulled a few times, and Lu Jingyi was in a hurry, rushed out of the crowd, walked to him in three steps and two steps, and interrupted him with an anxious face.

Lu Jingyi was entrusted by Yu Wenyao to often go to the palace to curry favor with the queen and Concubine Yang, so she recognized the four princesses. But seeing that he was unmoved, he rushed to seek death, so he had to bow slightly to the fourth princess, with a well-behaved and flattering look on his face.

hated the house and Wu, the fourth princess naturally didn't have a good face for her, and rolled her eyes towards the sky.

Lu Zhongxian was displeased with the arrogant and rude eyes of the fourth princess, and he waved away Lu Jingyi's hand holding his sleeve awe-inspiringly, and his morale rose again, and continued.

"It is because of these national moths who receive gifts privately that the treasury is empty, and then the tax burden of the people is increased, and now the floods in the south of the Yangtze River are serious, and the treasury cannot take out so much silver for disaster relief, and how many innocent people's lives have to be added!"

After that, Lu Zhongxian actually raised his sleeves and wiped the tears that did not exist in the corners of his eyes.

The people watched coldly, and no one echoed it.

"You're done?" The fourth princess said indifferently, "Shut up when you're done, and prick up your dog ears to listen to Bengong." ”

"The moth that Lord Lu just talked about is today's queen mother! In the month of last year, the queen customized a batch of cosmeceuticals in the hands of the lord of Lanling County and gave them to the palace maidens as New Year's gifts, so there was this money out of the warehouse. Hongu explained this, can Lord Lu understand? ”

"The queen mother is the stepmother of the lord of Lanling, and the gifts between the mother and daughter are given, how can there be a reason to collect cash, is the household department too lenient!"