Chapter 356: Your Master Doesn't Want You Anymore
hand.
It only hurts when you hit yourself.
After learning the bloody lesson, how dare they shout again?
Don’t think that Lin Qingjun only knocked out the old woman’s teeth, but in the eyes of those vegetable vendors, it was a different scene.
As everyone knows, all matters in the Marquis of Wu'an's Mansion are managed by Madam Ji. Over the years, even Madam Ji has never intervened. To a certain extent, they have tacitly acknowledged that the Marquis of Wu'an's Mansion belongs to the Ji Wu family.
But one day, someone checked Madam Ji’s accounts in front of her. What did this mean?
This means that the sky in Wu'an Marquis Mansion is about to change.
These servants can't see the situation clearly, so how can the shopkeepers who have worked hard in wealthy houses not see it clearly?
I think today's matter will not end well.
Lin Qingjun was very satisfied with the expressions of these vegetable vendors at this moment. They should have figured out the connection here and understood who was in charge of the Wu'an Marquis Mansion.
very good.
This is exactly the effect we want.
Sure enough, things went much more smoothly afterwards.
By flipping through the account book and comparing the two, everything became clear.
Xiyang pointed to a spot and said, "This isn't right. Look here. Didn't we buy fifty pounds of meat? Why are there only thirty pounds here? There were still twenty pounds left."
"This has nothing to do with me. In our butcher shop, this meat is genuine."
"This, this has nothing to do with me. I just bought this meat."
The old woman had one of her teeth knocked out, her speech was lisp and her mind was not clear.
"Humph, you were the one who bought the meat, and you were also the one who brought it in. Could it be that these fifty kilograms of meat will fly away? Xiaotao, write this down, and we'll settle the bill together later."
Not long after, Xiyang discovered another problem.
"The amount of sugar is wrong too. It's not less, it's more. Princess, our Wu'an Marquisate has fallen into a honey pot. We get two kilograms of sugar every three days."
Sugar is a precious commodity, but also a rare one.
In Ji Chenchuan's words, the sugar-making technology here is limited and refined sugar cannot be produced in sufficient quantities.
An ordinary family would be able to dominate the entire village with just a little bit, not to mention using two kilograms in three days. To be frank, even the emperor in the palace doesn't use sugar like this, right?
When the old woman heard this, her face turned even paler.
Then Xiyang continued to investigate, but with every report he made, the old woman's face turned pale, until finally, a fifty-year-old wild ginseng was stolen by the old woman, and even Ji Wu was not allowed to negotiate.
Wild ginseng, fifty years old at that. Even Madam Ji might not have it. How could a mere maid like her embezzle it? She was so bold.
For a moment, the air here became quiet, and everyone stared at her in disbelief. She was really close to death.
The old woman also noticed something was wrong, and she no longer cared about the pain on her face, and spoke tremblingly.
"No, no, I didn't, Madam. It was him, the shopkeeper, who was lying. Even if I had the courage, I wouldn't dare do that. Madam, you must believe me."
The shopkeeper was not someone to be trifled with. He threw out the account book and pointed at the signature on it.
"Look at what this is. You pressed it with your own hands. You evil slave, don't put the trouble on my head."
The old woman let out a loud cry and stretched out her hand to grab the shopkeeper.
"You're talking nonsense! It was you who said you gave me this ginseng as a gift, hoping that the next time I went to your place to buy from the Wu'an Marquis's Mansion, I could get more money. It was you who wanted to trick me. I, I was really fooled by you."
The old woman and the shopkeeper started to quarrel with each other.
One said that she embezzled it, the other said that it was given as a gift, or maybe it was a combination of both. But at this point, it seems that it doesn’t matter who is right or wrong. What matters is how to deal with it.
Lin Qingjun looked at Ji Wu, whose face was ashen. Perhaps she had never expected that the servant she thought she could control would actually covet her things?
She smiled and said, "Aunt, how do you think we should deal with this?"
This old woman is hers, so naturally she has to deal with her. She is just a new bride, and she cannot bear the reputation of being a heavy-handed servant.
When Ji Wu heard this, she instinctively wanted to say "beat him to death with sticks", but before she could say anything, she felt something was wrong.
Ji Wu looked at the woman with the sweet smile again and gritted her teeth.
Good, Lin Qingjun! Was she going to personally punish this bastard? She was the one who discovered the crime, yet the punishment fell on her? In other words, while Lin Qingjun was innocent, Madam Ji was being blamed?
Ji Wu's fingers tightened again and again, and finally she could only grit her teeth and say, "Qingjun, what are you talking about? Didn't we agree today that everything will be decided by you? As for this evil slave who embezzled the master's things, you can do whatever you want with him."
When Lin Qingjun heard this, he laughed again.
She knew very well what Ji Wu was planning. Wasn't it just to make her bear the blame?
But how is this possible?
She is not a fool, and her ability to handle miscellaneous affairs is no worse than hers.
Lin Qingjun raised the end of his eyebrows, looked at the old woman with a cold gaze, and spoke in a loud voice.
"Did you hear that? This is your master. I originally wanted to hand this matter over to your master, hoping that she would spare you for all your years of loyalty."
"But your master doesn't want you anymore. She wants me to deal with you."
"Therefore, don't blame this prince's wife for being cruel and ruthless. If you want to blame someone, blame your master for being merciless."
"However, this is not your master's fault. If it were any other master, they would not tolerate someone like you who deceives his superiors and subordinates."
Lin Qingjun's eyes darkened and he gave the order.
"Xiayang, search her house and find the wild ginseng. If you can't find it, then check on her children, relatives, and those close to her. She couldn't have eaten all the wild ginseng by herself. Others must have helped her. Therefore, those people cannot escape joint responsibility. Find it together and interrogate it strictly."
When everyone heard this, they gasped again.
In other words, not only this woman will be held accountable, but everyone around her will also be held accountable?
Xiyang accepted the order and left.
The old woman's face turned even paler. Suddenly she thought of something and rushed to Lin Qingjun, kneeling down and begging for mercy.
"Please spare my life, Princess. I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have provoked you."
"Princess, please forgive me this time for my old age. I will never do it again."
"I still have a grandson, and nothing can happen to him."
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