The wine was drunk and drunk. The hazy moon shadow accompanied the young lady to sleep.

The Zheng family's house fell silent.

Bai Song pretended to sleep in the guest room, and after three watches, he didn't see any more people, so he got up carefully and pushed the door out.

The wine room gossiped, but they also learned that Miss Zheng stayed in the mansion and had a task assigned by her father.

It is said that the accounts of the Zheng family are all in this house.

Bai Song moved his mind, he wanted to know why the Zheng family was rich, and he should know some clues when he looked at the accounts.

In the middle of the night, Bai Song groped all the way.

After coming to Zheng Mansion a few times, I have roughly distinguished the structure of the house.

The subordinate is in the west, the master is in the east, the north is the miscellaneous room, and the south is the antechamber, according to the structure, the treasury account should be in the northeast direction.

In this regard, Bai Song was very confident, went northeast through a few walls, saw the kitchen first, saw someone getting up at night, hid for a while, and then walked a few steps north, and saw three warehouses.

A warehouse has a strong smell of medicine, and it is obvious that the medicinal materials are stored.

A storeroom was stocked with miscellaneous items, mostly brocades of all kinds.

The remaining room was stacked with sacks, neatly stacked on top of each other, filling a storeroom to the brim.

Looking at this appearance, it seems that there is rice grain.

Bai Song came to look for the account book, but he didn't find it for a while, and he was going to turn around to look for others, but he suddenly realized that the warehouse of this rice grain tasted wrong.

When leaving, Bai Song suddenly thought of something, wiped his fingers on the sack, and then licked it on his fingertips.

In the next second, Bai Song's face changed greatly.

It turned out to be salt!

Bai Song was afraid that he had made a mistake, so he tried elsewhere.

In the end, it was determined that the sacks stacked here were indeed salt.

This storehouse is full of salt?

In the middle of the night, I don't know how to count them, but it is estimated that there are at least five or six hundred sacks, and one sack has thirty or forty catties of salt.

Isn't this warehouse about 20,000 catties of salt?

A Zheng family, no matter how many people there are, will not use so much salt.

The daily salt requirement for one person is six grams.

Even if one person needs ten grams a day.

One pound of salt is enough for one person to eat for two months.

20,000 catties of salt, I'm afraid it's enough for the people of Jixian County to eat for a month.

Moreover, there are a considerable number of people who consume much less salt than the human body.

So much salt is piled up together, apparently because the Zheng family is involved in the sale of salt.

The salt merchant is a monopoly business of the imperial court, and the Zheng family is involved in the purchase and sale of salt, isn't this a food grabber in the royal bowl?

No wonder the salt in Jixian County is so expensive, no wonder the Zheng family is not short of money, and now they have finally found the root.

Bai Song was secretly happy in his heart, this crime is not small, once it is known by the imperial court, it will inevitably lead to the whole clan.

From the beginning, Bai Song felt that if a family as big as the Zheng family was to operate steadily, there must be some unsightly things in it.

Sure enough, I finally caught the Zheng family's pigtails, but I didn't expect the Zheng family to be so bold that they actually sold illegal salt!

Wrong!

The scale of the Zheng family, I'm afraid it's not as simple as selling illicit salt, so much salt, where can it be sold secretly?

There must be collusion with the local government, and the history of Youzhou Assassin must also know about this matter.

If there is a local government as a cover, even if sufficient evidence is found, there is no way to bring down the Zheng family.

Unless there is enough evidence, the evidence will be submitted directly to the court.

This is also a big project, and it needs to be carefully planned.

Just thinking about it, it seems that someone is getting up at night again.

Bai Song quickly gathered his thoughts and walked to his room.

Although it is difficult to start thinking about something, it can be regarded as a fruitful night.

It's just that after seeing this salt, there is still no explanation for the fact that he couldn't buy salt from mining lotus.

Fortunately, the two lines are finally strung together, and even if there is some confusion in the matter, the whole thing is becoming clearer and clearer.

……

Bai Song half slept for a while, and when he saw that the sky was bright, he got up.

When I went out, I saw that the Zheng family had not yet gotten up early, and they were walking everywhere.

When I arrived at the entrance of the young lady's courtyard, I saw that the light was lit in the young lady's boudoir, and I had some doubts in my heart.

This young lady was drunk last night and slept just right, why did she get up so early today?

"Ah Dou."

Bai Song whispered at the door.

There was no sound inside, Fuyuka didn't seem to be there, and the door was open.

Through the crack in the door, Bai Song saw that the young lady inside was sleeping in front of the table, with a lamp in front of her and an ink tray on the side.

Bai Song's heart moved, and he said in his heart, isn't this young lady still not forgetting the account after a hangover?

Last night, I heard Ah Dou say that he was upset because of the account book.

Now there is no one in the room, only a sleeping young lady, which is really a godsend.

Bai Song gently pushed open the door, slipped in, and breathed to the table.

shouted Ah Dou again, and saw that the other party still did not respond, so he was relieved.

There is indeed an account book on this table, and there is an abacus on the table.

Bai Song was overjoyed, picked up a copy and opened it.

Last night I found salt in the warehouse, and today I found the ledger in the lady's room.

It's really God's eyes, and I help myself in everything.

This first account records the monthly expenses of the Zheng family's various clansmen from June last year to the present.

It's just that how much money each family takes, compared every month, there may be some special circumstances in the middle, more or less interspersed with one or two small ones.

According to the different status of each family in the clan, the money received is also different, and if it is shared equally, a family can receive 3,000 yuan per month.

This account is considered to be less, and a big family like the Zheng family, a family of side branches receives 3,000 per month, which can only be regarded as barely surviving.

There is nothing wrong with such an account.

However, as Bai Song turned back, it was July this year.

The number on this ledger suddenly increased, and the Zheng family jumped from 3,001 per month to 300 per month.

At first glance, Bai Song was stunned, and thought that he had received less than before.

After a closer look, I found that the three hundred were written "two"!

From 3,000 to 300 taels!

In one month, the cost of each family has increased by a hundredfold!

What is this concept?

Bai Song's scalp is numb, this is still the expense of a side branch, the Zheng family has more than a dozen families in Youzhou, and the expenses of the main family have not been counted.

Roughly calculated, all clans of the Zheng family will spend about 5,000 taels to receive money in their own treasury in January.

That's an outrageous number.

Even the sale of illicit salt will not make such a big profit.

And since July this year, the numbers on the accounts have increased month by month, which shows that the Zheng family is getting richer day by day.

But Bai Song went to buy salt, and the sound of the salt shop was not good at all, even if the price was raised and the profit was added, it would be in vain if he couldn't sell it.

According to the market price, it is estimated that it is a bag and a half catty of salt for 100 yuan. Five catties of salt can be sold for one tael, and the Zheng family is the basic monthly expenditure, so it is necessary to sell tens of thousands of catties of salt to support, which is not counting the cost.

In the entire Youzhou, how can it be possible to sell tens of thousands of catties of salt in a month?

The more I think about it, the more outrageous it becomes.

This first account scared Bai Song enough.

Then look at the second account on the table.

The above record is the family's monthly living expenses, rice, grain, oil and water, as well as furniture and objects.

These accounts are smaller and less visually striking than their predecessors.

But after reading it, Bai Song found the same problem.

Since July this year, the Zheng family's expenses have increased sharply, and the family's daily expenses have been several hundred taels of silver every month.

Bai Song hurriedly looked at the other account books.

I flipped through several books, and the things recorded in each place were different, but without exception, the accounts became larger and the expenses increased sharply after July this year.

In July of this year, something big must have happened to the Zheng family.

In addition to this finding, a problem was also identified.

All the ledgers record the outgoing accounts, and none of them record the entry into the accounts.

There is no record of buying and selling salt.

It's definitely impossible.

The only explanation is that the ledger that came in was not in charge of Ah Dou.

The ledger is bound to be watched in the more important hands.

It is estimated that it will be kept by Zheng Tai'a himself.

This matter is troublesome, if you can steal the account book recorded in the account, and then hand it over directly to the emperor, will the Zheng family not be connected to the nine clans?

It's just a nuisance.

Zheng Tai'a knows Bai Song, how can Bai Song have the opportunity to approach now?

Do you want to continue to let Nizi steal?

Obviously unrealistic.

It is estimated that it is unlikely that the core ledger will be used in the short term.

You can only start from the periphery and see if there are any updated clues.

Moreover, the Zheng family is by no means as simple as buying and selling illicit salt, what did this family do to make a fortune so much?

Thinking about it, Bai Song suddenly thought of a detail.

A few days ago, when I went to buy salt in person, after the official sold the salt, he inadvertently made a note in an account book.

If you could look at the accounts of the salt shops in the city, you might find something else.

Just as I was thinking about it, there was movement outside, and it seemed that Fuyuka had returned.

Bai Song hurriedly put down the account book, and there was nowhere to hide in this room, seeing that Dong Xiang was about to come in.

Bai Song leaned forward directly, gently picked up Ah Dou's hair, and leaned to the side of his face with a hint of wine.

"What are you doing?!"

Suddenly, Dongxiang came in outside the house, and saw Bai Song being close to the young lady, and was shocked.

This coquettish sound woke up Ah Dou in his sleep, and together, his warm cheeks touched Bai Song's mouth.

Ah Dou was stunned, rubbing his eyes, still thinking that he was dreaming.

Bai Song pretended to be panicked, retreated again and again, and bowed: "Miss is angry, it's Bai who has lost his temper." ”

"You disciple! Get out! Dong Xiang blushed and beat Bai Song for a while.

Bai Song Zheng got the opportunity to sneak out of the room.

Seeing that Bai Gongzi was gone, Ah Dou sat in the room and touched his face that was still to be moistened, only then did he feel shy, and his eyes were stained with a layer of mist for a while.

"Miss, this ...... This white boy is becoming more and more rude, and he actually ...... actually took advantage of the young lady's sleep...... Kiss ...... secretly"

"You...... Don't talk about it...... I ......"

"No! I'll go and ask the young lady what he means. Although our young lady is a sideline, she can't be bullied by him like that. If you are kissed, marry or not, you should make it clear! ”

"Oh, don't mess around."

Dong Xiang didn't care a lot, so he went out and chased Bai Song.

Dong Xiang chased all the way, looked around and didn't find anyone, and asked the housekeeper who was guarding the door, only to know that the guy had slipped away.

Winter Xiang wanted to scold a few foul words, and suddenly saw someone in front of him, it was an old lady.

Dong Xiang was like a mouse seeing a cat, so he stood up for a while, and asked softly: "Old lady, you are here, and you don't invite a sedan chair on this cold day." ”

"Has the Bai family kid been here these days?"

Dong Xiang didn't know the old lady's intentions, but she didn't dare to let the old lady know the ridiculous things that the young lady did, so she gave the family at the door a look, and then said: "Back to the old lady's words, that son came a few days ago, and when he learned that the old lady was no more, he left." ”

"Send someone out to inquire and find the boy, and if he doesn't come, he will be tied up."

Dong Xiang responded, and said in her heart that she didn't need the old lady to speak, she also wanted to find out this disciple.