Ling Xiang said angrily, "That means the Zhenguo Marquisate has been living off its resources for so many years. Now, isn't it time for our family's accounts to run out of money? Are you still going to tell me that all the money we lost was used to cover the losses of the shop?"
Ling Chengfu nodded helplessly: "Indeed."
"All the shops are suffering losses. Not only is there no money on the books, but we even owe our partners a huge sum of money. Ling Chengfu, are you leaving me with an empty shell? Is this the result of your confession in the ancestral hall these past few days?" Ling Xiang demanded harshly, "Let me fill your huge deficit. Ling Chengfu, you're doing very well!"
Ling Chengfu had the look of someone who looked down upon a junior: "Xiang'er, this is the truth. I didn't want to do this..."
Ling Xiang looked at everyone in the room with disdain: "Everyone here, do you all agree with what Ling Chengfu said?"
There was a dead silence. Obviously, no one was willing to stand on Ling Xiang's side when things were completely unclear.
Ling Xiang wasn't in a hurry. She leisurely sat down at the main seat and casually flipped through an account book. "On the tenth day of March last year, the clothing store spent 12,400 taels on fabric purchases. There's only two weeks until the next fabric purchase. May I ask, what did they do with the fabric? Where did the money from the clothing sales go?"
The owner of the clothing store's face changed drastically, and he looked at Ling Chengfu quietly.
Ling Chengfu remained steady as ever: "Xiang'er, you don't understand much about the shop yet. You'll understand once you learn more."
"Learn? What to learn? Learn how you cooked the accounts and secretly transferred the property of the Marquis of Zhenguo Mansion?" Ling Xiang said angrily.
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