Chapter 61, Marquis's Household's Bad Accounts Exploded
A dashing woman in a red dress with a corset and a high ponytail strode in from the door.
"Have you met the prince, sister-in-law?"
Xie Jinan looked at her for a while before asking, "Are you the fourth brother's wife?"
Zhong Youyan smiled slightly, "It's me. During this period, sister-in-law didn't take care of things, and the fourth master was in charge of the family. Now that the fourth master has married me, I will temporarily manage the affairs
of the mansion on behalf of the fourth master. What do you think of the prince about the third master's affairs?" Xie Jinan twitched his mouth, "This matter needs to be decided after the fourth brother and my mother discuss it. Although you are in charge of the affairs of the inner house, cousin Waiting Li is also a serious lady, and this matter cannot be done rashly."
Zhong Youyan smiled slightly, "The prince means that I don't have to care about it, right?"
"Yes, you don't have to care about this matter anymore."
"I have
made up my mind about this matter. If I change it, I will not be able to convince the servants no matter what I do. Please tell my mother-in-law that I will never interfere in anything again!" Zhong Youyan said, glanced at everyone and turned away.
Xie Jinan was stunned. He only knew that the daughter of the Zhong family was arrogant, but he didn't expect her to be so arrogant and rude.
Liu Wan also sighed slightly and left.
The rest of the people came one after another, and Xie Jinan took them to see Li.
Li had been away for several years and just came back now. When he came back, he became a coal spirit and was sent to Anyuan County as a mascot.
How could he have time to take a good look at the account book?
After she woke up, the accountant hurriedly brought her the account books of the past few months.
"What a fuss, madam. There is no mistress in the mansion to manage the accounts. The allowances for each courtyard have not been paid for four months. You are finally back, take a look!"
Li frowned and flipped through a few pages casually. When she saw the huge loss, she almost fainted.
"It was obviously not that big a few months ago. Why didn't you stop the loss and close the shop in time?"
"Also, why does it cost so much money to run a prison? Why don't you pay the allowances to the servants first?"
"Weren't these accounts stable a few years ago? How come I have lost so much money just a few months after I went down the mountain?"
One hundred and eighty thousand taels!
Even if she sold all the dowry she brought from the Li family, she couldn't raise that much money.
What's more, she didn't plan to sell it at all.
The accountant lowered his head, "Before, the business outside was all handled by the eldest lady. After you took over, the eldest lady fell ill. No one could make the decision on such a big thing as selling the shop, so it has been running at a loss."
"The financial expenditure of the inner house is also stable because the eldest lady subsidizes her own money. The servants' wages in the past few months have been taken away by the fourth master to save the third master and... and Aunt Xu's father, so of course they can't be paid out."
The implication is that without Liu Wan to balance it, the Marquis' Mansion can't come up with a penny.
The masters of each courtyard have money, but no one will use it for public use.
Therefore, the inner house of the Marquis's Mansion cannot do without the Grandmother.
The Madam still targeted the Grandmother in this way, and the accountant couldn't understand it.
The Grandmother was such a capable person, why would they target her in this way, and even a concubine could bully her.
Li's face was pale and her lips trembled, "If these accounts are handed over to Liu Wan, is there any hope for recovery?"
The accountant shook his head, "Madam, it's too late. If it was a few months ago, when you had not yet gone to Anyuan County, you had returned the management of the household to the eldest lady, perhaps the situation would not have been so bad."
"Now, no matter who takes care of this account, it can't be recovered. We can only close the Jinxi Jewelry Shop and those shops, and then make up the 180,000 taels." "What
if it can't be made up? What will happen?"
Li's legs and feet went soft, and she fell down on the low couch. She raised her head numbly and asked.
"If the debt cannot be repaid, the creditor will report to the authorities and all the shops and houses under the name of the Marquisate will be liquidated. There are not many shops and real estate left.
"Eight hundred thousand taels is not a small number..."
The accountant sighed and continued, "Selling the ancestral house of the Marquisate will almost be enough to pay it back."
After these words,
Li was completely paralyzed on the low couch. The huge pressure made her breath difficult.
She felt like the sky was falling. She
never thought that the decision she made in anger would make this debt roll to the point where it could not be recovered. Ling Kui
said But this cannot be entirely blamed on her. Who made the Marquis's Mansion so tight that Liu Wan had to spend money to build a porridge stall?
Who made Liu Wan punish Xu Rourou in front of her?
Who made Liu Wan have no respect for her at all?
But...
Li paused. She didn't want to believe it, but had to believe it.
Facts have proved that Liu Wan was right. If she had agreed to build a porridge stall at that time, perhaps she would have been a noble lady. Perhaps
the Marquis' Mansion would be valued by His Majesty and rise again.
It's time for her to go down the mountain. , was struck by lightning and became stupid, and was locked up in jail for a night and became so angry that she lost her mind.
Yes, she was wrong!
If she had another chance to do it again, she would never abandon Liu Wan, an orphan and a widow, in Jinshan Temple.
She would not care how she taught Xu Rourou, and would not take away the power of the head of the family and pick up this rotten stall herself.
She regretted it! She
regretted it so much that her heart ached.
The Marquis' Mansion would be destroyed in her hands, and then, even if she died, she would not be able to enter the ancestral tomb of the Xie family.
She is the sinner of the Xie family!
Thinking of this, Li was numb all over.
"Madam, please forgive me for being so nosy. Since the eldest lady married into the Marquis' Mansion, she has done her best for the Marquis' Mansion. Almost all the servants in the mansion have taken advantage of her kindness. She manages the accounts and even pays for her own dowry. Go out and ask, which daughter-in-law can do so? "
But what she has been through during this time is far from worthy of her efforts. She has been kind to every master in the mansion with all her heart. I don't understand why the masters in the mansion treat her like this."
The accountant said, sighing slightly.
Li rolled her eyes at him, "That's enough! You are not allowed to interfere in the master's affairs!"
"Yes, I came here today for another matter." The accountant stopped talking about Liu Wan, and stepped forward to put down an envelope.
The two words "resignation" deeply hurt Li's eyes, "You... You have been in the Marquis' Mansion for more than ten years, and the Marquis' Mansion has treated you well. Now you are leaving the Marquis' Mansion because you haven't received your monthly salary for a few months?"
The accountant left. If the huge debt cannot be paid
, who will be held responsible if the government investigates in the future?