Obviously, what Su Qingluan said was very reasonable and to the point. After checking, it was found that the account book handed over by Su Qingluan was indeed written by Manager Lu himself.
Moreover, the handwritings are of different ages, and it is obvious that at least several months have passed. It is impossible to produce such a huge contrast between the old and new handwritings if one is falsifying accounts.
Moreover, there are a large number of discrepancies in the entries and exits in these two account books. It can be seen that the amount of money that Lu Jian embezzled in just one or two years is very considerable, at least enough to send him to prison for a few years and get a few beatings.
These days, being in jail wasn't just about being locked up; it meant doing hard labor, putting your life in danger at any moment. Any slacking off meant a beating.
If ordinary people were lucky enough to serve in the military, they might have a chance of promotion, but those who did hard labor would basically work until they died.
However, Su Qingluan would not sympathize with such a person at all - after all, why didn't Lu Jian think of this day when he looked down on others?
Of course, the verdict of a case cannot be announced so quickly, but it is obvious that Lu Jian, as a person who "embezzled money", has embezzled other people's materials.
Now we just need to slowly determine the amount so that we can finally determine how much sentence Lu Jian will be sentenced to. However, this matter has nothing to do with Su Qingluan.
After this incident, the seven or eight guys who were originally dissatisfied with Su Qingluan all became obedient. They stood in a row in front of Su Qingluan with their heads hung down like quails in the water.
At this time, the young man whom Lu Jian had asked to "call for help" finally arrived at the door of the shop.
Su Qingluan looked closely: Oh, an acquaintance!
The man who came was none other than Xie Deshun, the housekeeper of the Xie Mansion. Su Qingluan was still wondering who could have made Lu Jian so arrogant, but when she saw the man in front of her, she understood a little.
There is a saying that goes, "A seventh-rank official is in front of the prime minister." The Xie family holds real power in the court, holds titles, and even has some kinship with the royal family.
This family has it all: respect, honor, power, and nobility. So even though they are far from being able to "cover the sky with one hand", in a sense, the Xie Mansion is even a little more noble than the "Prime Minister's Mansion".
Of course, the biggest reason for this is that although the prime minister of the time is capable, he is not very favored by the emperor. On the other hand, although the Xie family does not have a particularly high-ranking official with real power in the court, they have a daughter in the harem who is quite favored.
For an old emperor who is obsessed with power and even jealous of his own son's excellence, "taking everything" under his nose is not necessarily a good thing. Instead, it will make the emperor suspicious everywhere, and if you are not careful, you may lose your head at any time.
Therefore, anyone with some real power in the court would either be an obedient coward and do whatever the emperor said, or ask to stay away from the capital. At that time, although they were away from the central power system, they could at least live a freer life.
The Xie family also took two approaches, which was the fundamental reason why, despite its wealth and power, the Xie family had no one above the third rank serving in the court.
Su Qingluan looked at Xie Deshun with a smile. Xie Deshun couldn't help but twitch his face when she smiled at him like that - not because of any other reason, but because when she smiled like that, Xie Deshun felt like he was being cheated again.
There's no way around it, it's really a conditioned reflex and has left a psychological shadow.
"Shopkeeper Su, I haven't seen you for a long time. You look even more beautiful than ever." Xie Deshun immediately put on a smiling Maitreya Buddha expression. "Ah, I really missed you, Shopkeeper Su."
"Thank you for your concern," Su Qingluan also smiled. "I haven't seen you for a long time. Steward Xie has become more plump and doesn't look any thinner."
Of course, the expression on her face was smiling, but the words she said were not so polite.
"..." Xie Deshun was almost choked to death by this sentence, but he understood that the little girl in front of him was no longer someone he could touch. After all, from the very beginning when he saw Su Qingluan, there was someone protecting her.
It’s not that Xie Deshun didn’t use his connections to investigate, but he found nothing.
He didn't think that his feeling that someone was protecting Su Qingluan was an illusion, but he had no clue at all. There was only one reason: the other party's methods were far superior to his, and before his people investigated, the other party had already erased all traces.
In this situation, Xie Deshun understood that no matter who the other party was, he was far from someone he could provoke. So from that time on, Xie Deshun was like a truly kind elder in front of Su Qingluan, and did not do anything that would disgust others.
Su Qingluan sat down by herself and asked Yaoguang to sit down with her. As for Xie Deshun, he was thick-skinned and sat down without her having to ask him to.
As for Xie Deshun, Su Qingluan had no intention of really doing anything to him - even though he must have received a lot of benefits from Lu Jian. And in a sense, these "benefits" were still his own!
But now she has not yet established a firm foothold in Jingzhou, and Mu Xingzhi also has something going on. No matter how she looks at it, it is not appropriate for her to confront the Xie family head-on - what's more, in Su Qingluan's opinion, instead of getting rid of Xie Deshun at this time, it is better to hold his weakness in her hands, which will be more convenient for her to use.
With this in mind, Su Qingluan slowly and methodically began to recount what had just happened. When she mentioned that she had discovered the falsified accounts and had even submitted them to the prefect, beads of sweat began to form on Xie Guanshi's forehead.
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