There are a lot of things to deal with when entering the workshop, and Zhou Banxia has no time to pay attention to what their brother-in-law is talking about, so he first asked Gu Dachang to settle down on the way to the account room.

The chief steward is the position she arranged for Chang Qing after discussing with Gu Wenxuan, in short, Gu Dachang and other stewards can make decisions with him if they can't make up their minds.

There is no suspicion in employing people, and there is no need for suspicious people.

She and Gu Wenxuan hoped that Chang Qing and his wife would help train a group of loyal and reliable people, so that one day the slaves would bully the master, or even the slaves would jointly betray the master.

Holding a deed of sale does not mean 100% safety, and it is not without an incident in history where slaves and servants jointly killed the master's family to steal money and food.

Just like the reason why her uncle and aunt had to ask Uncle Chang Qing and his wife to go back to Qinghe Village with her first, in addition to asking her to accept the dowry, the most important thing was that she bought a lot of servants, worried that she would not be able to suppress her subordinates if she was soft-hearted.

Xu is character is too perfect, this kind of worry is not only her uncle and aunt, even Mrs. Qian has mentioned in the letter several times that Ci is not in charge of the army, righteousness is not in charge of money.

It was too late to come to the workshop when he came back yesterday evening, so Zhou Banxia had to let Gu Dachang settle down first, and it was not strange to hear what arrangements he made when he returned at this moment.

In terms of work ability, there is no doubt that the first person under her command is Gu Dachang.

Basically, when she said a word, he knew how to arrange it.

She didn't say which courtyard she wanted the chief steward to live in the workshop, so she ordered that the two stewards were the big housekeepers left to her by her master, and he understood.

After some cleaning last night, he sent the roster book over early in the morning, and mentioned the two houses and the situation in the village in time.

However, if you listen carefully, you will find that he did not mention to them half of the sentence that during her absence, her father-in-law and mother-in-law were in charge of the account room.

Hearing Gu Dachang mention that the chief steward Chang Qing and Gu Dali and others escorted into the back mountain, her Aunt Mo Lan was still looking at the roster and sorting out the cage in the back, and Zhou Banxia didn't want to bother.

I also know that Uncle Chang Qing and Aunt Mo Lan definitely don't want to rest for two days before they can slow down.

But I still got up early in the morning.

One of them went to the back mountain to check how the martial artist hired by her two of them trained the escort team, and the other was busy sorting out the dowry ledger and selecting people against the list.

At this time, she also arrived in front of the account room, and Zhou Banxia had no intention of sending someone to inform her that the two of them were coming, so as not to worry about their plans, and she would also be busy.

The account room is said to be in charge of her father-in-law and mother-in-law, but in fact, whether it is her father-in-law or mother-in-law, they are very principled masters.

The public is public, the private is private, except for the income and expenditure of the workshop and the back manor, it has not touched a penny so far, and even more has been upside down with silver taels.

Zhou Banxia didn't need to go through the account book in detail, and when Gu Wenxuan came in, she heard that Gu Dachang had already reported to the good news team, and her father-in-law and mother-in-law spent hundreds of silver taels.

One parent goes in and one parent goes out, she is embarrassed to speak of conscience, and she doesn't know how much her parents-in-law have been acting like this, and how much she still has in her hands.

After Gu Dachang withdrew, listening to Zhou Banxia mention this issue, Gu Wenxuan shook his head amusedly, "It's not much."

If I'm not mistaken, even the money they make will not exceed a hundred taels of silver at most.

In this way, thanks to the low quality of goods in the village, it was still a partnership of four families when the flowing water mat was held before. ”

The same is true for Zhou Banxia Chai.

In fact, she really didn't get her father to say that she really had a thousand taels of silver in the house, but this thousand taels of silver was left to her parents-in-law before she went out.

It's just that every time I go out and come back, this cash from the original five hundred taels to one thousand taels has not even been moved, and it has been restored to the old place.

"It's okay, my sister-in-law won't care if she knows, she knows that you won't let your father and mother suffer. Let's open it first and see how much it has saved in it. ”

In the north, people generally like to dig a cellar, but this side of the account room is a dark room with a wall between the rest rooms, and the mechanism is on the Bogu shelf against the wall.

Remove two of the ornaments, remove the middle plywood, put a magnet, and pound it twice, and the side of the Bogu frame reveals a small door that can accommodate one person in and out.

Naturally, one person can be allowed to enter and exit, which is limited to Zhou Banxia's height of less than one meter and six five, and his figure is less than 100 catties, so when it is Gu Wenxuan's turn, he has to bend over and go in and out sideways.

In the dark room, as Liu said, there were several small wooden boxes on the original wooden box on the left hand side, and when opened, they were account books and silver tickets.

The small wooden boxes placed in the far corners of the wooden boxes on the right-hand side were all gold ingots and gold leaves, and the remaining ten large wooden boxes were already filled with silver.

Zhou Banxia thought to herself, whether it was her mother-in-law or father-in-law, she asked her again and again to leave the house alone, and go to the workshop this morning.

"It's really not easy, I must be scared and have to go to the county town to exchange the silver number, and I have to worry that it is not safe to hide here."

Gu Wenxuan felt the same way, and didn't want to coax his daughter-in-law against his will to say that it was okay, and then it was impermeable, so he hurriedly motioned for her to put away these gold and silver ledgers first.

"It's really okay?"

Gu Wenxuan knew that Zhou Banxia was referring to whether putting it away like this would make his parents suspicious so quickly, and he hadn't heard that he had mentioned that he had to carry things to the back fang.

"How dare I make fun of you?"

Also.

My father-in-law and mother-in-law also said that once things are removed, don't tell them which cellar they are hiding in.

If they are as shrewd, they won't ask anyone if she and her family are moving anything and where they are going today.

Wouldn't it be more risky to expose their old son and younger family to hide a fortune.

If so, why should the two of them even hide their eldest son, saying that all the money she earned was smashed into the back manor.

Thinking of this, Zhou Banxia quickly got started.

"According to our father's wishes, in the past few months, there is only so much left to build a manor in the back, it is better not to spend these things, and keep them as a backhand."

"Understood."

It's almost the same as her father, I'm afraid that her hands are too loose and she can't hide things, so she simply let her old son supervise it, and she has to save some of it.

The big wrong, what should be saved and hidden, she has hidden a lot, is it okay, how much gold and silver is here.

five taels of silver ingots, seven boxes of fifteen thousand taels; ten taels of silver ingots, three boxes of six thousand taels; The gold bills and the gold leaves were converted into ten thousand taels of silver, and together they were thirty-one thousand taels of silver.

However, it cannot be compared with the gold and silver piled up in the villa, but with such a sum of 31,000 taels of silver as her backhand, there is really no need to worry that her hand is too loose.

In terms of current objects, as long as the price of food and objects does not rise sharply in disaster years, there is 30,000 taels of silver, not to mention anything else, the two generations of the old son have no worries about food and clothing.

It's just that there are not only silver tickets, but also cash on the account outside, why not more, no less, just a fraction of a thousand taels of silver here?

Gu Wenxuan: "......" (end of chapter)

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