The steward's eyes widened: "The eldest young mistress is your sister. Didn't she say that the shop is in debt, the Marquis's mansion can't afford any more money, the servants' monthly allowances are meager, and repairs haven't even started anywhere?"
“We thought she couldn’t handle the situation at the Marquis’s mansion, and since you’ve been learning to manage a household since you were little, you felt you could manage it, so you took over the matter for your sister. We thought you were really capable.”
The other stewards joined in, their eyes full of doubt: "So you know nothing about the Marquis's residence and took over the stewardship without really understanding what was going on? You can't even manage this place?"
Granny Hu trembled and gripped Song Ruoan's hand tightly. Upon hearing these words, Song Ruoan felt her blood run cold instantly.
"I can manage it, of course I can manage it..."
Song Ruoan's lips moved, and she felt her face go numb.
If these managers find out that I don't know anything, how will they manage things in the future?
She even made a solemn pledge in front of Madam He!
Song Ruoan could only force herself to say, "It's precisely because my sister is incapable of managing this that I took it on. How could I not be able to manage it?"
Hearing this, the managers nodded, feeling much more at ease: "So how do you plan to manage it?"
"The Hou family's shops have been in debt. Because of the old generation's influence, the old lady could not deal with those nepotisms and could only use her own dowry to make up for the Hou family's losses."
"The Marquis's mansion remained peaceful for a while, but now the old lady's dowry is almost gone, and the eldest young mistress directly sent people to check the shop's account books, which led to the shopkeepers joining forces to rebel."
"The managers are all related to the Marquis's mansion by marriage, so the account books probably can't be checked for a while. So you're planning to use your dowry to subsidize the mansion for a period of time and increase the servants' monthly allowance?"
Should she use her dowry to cover the deficit in the Marquis's mansion?
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