Bai Zhiyue also remembered that the original owner paid for the expenses of the entire mansion, and she had to pay extra money to the kitchen for her own food, saying it was a reward. In fact, if she didn't pay, these managers would find all kinds of excuses to get rid of her people.
Either the old lady wants to eat this or Madam Rong wants to use this, but the kitchen is always too busy to cook for her.
They forced her to pay, but the old lady wouldn't let her open the small kitchen. The small kitchen in the yard was only opened after she became pregnant.
"I remember now. You guys stole a lot of my money before, and it's all recorded in my account book. Now I'm giving you a chance. Return it immediately, or I'll take the account book and send you to Yingtian Prefecture. It's better to feed that money to dogs than let you take it."
I don't know if Su Chengang felt that this was related to him, so he yelled,
"That's enough. When did they steal your money?"
Bai Zhiyue
"Why don't you just ask whether it's a robbery or not?"
Bang! Another shot hit someone's feet.
"Did you rob it or not? Why don't you return it?"
"Return it! Return it! Return it! I'll go back and get it back to you right away!"
“Remember to include the interest.”
Bai Zhiyue was just using these people as a warning and setting an example so that she would follow this method in the future.
Several people were really regretting it. They looked at one of them and wanted to tear her heart apart.
It was all her fault. If she hadn't instigated it, she wouldn't have sent such poor food, and the lady wouldn't have come here to make a scene. Now she had to take the beating and pay the money.
It’s easy to save this money!
To put it bluntly, they are all greedy for the Bai family. In the past, the Marquis' Mansion was unable to make ends meet and had not had such lucrative benefits for many years. Things only got better after the Madam came. However, they were very weak and anyone could step on them, but they got rich for a few years.
Now I have to pay it back for all the work that was done in vain.
Su Chen just felt a headache coming on, but thinking of what his mother had told him last night, he didn't stop her from having the outburst.
What's the point of stealing the money? It's nothing more than being bullied by them in the past and being so angry that he wants to take the opportunity to get it back.
Forget it, these people who guessed their master's thoughts and made decisions on their own should be punished. Let her deal with them.
"You've made enough of a fuss, and the truth has been revealed. Go back now. Why are you making a scene here with the child? Aren't you afraid of scaring the child?"
Even if you scare him, he won’t be scared. My son is very conscious!
"I said yesterday that I would not treat you unfairly. What I say counts. Just go back honestly. The reward you deserve will be delivered to you soon. Tomorrow, I will not invite outsiders to the third day of the lunar year. I will only invite a few elders from my family and your family members.
You don't need to take care of anything, just stay in the yard.
I heard you nicknamed your child Doudou, so let’s call him that for now. I’ll give him a name and enter it in the family tree after a hundred days.”
"It's not easy to finally remember these things!"
Su Chen was so angry that he turned around and left. This guy was not afraid of being scolded or beaten, and he couldn't be beaten. He couldn't be persuaded by nice words. It was really infuriating.
"I'm so mad at you, you scumbag!"
Bai Zhiyue had achieved her goal, and she returned to the main courtyard with Doudou in her arms.
"What's the catch?"
"He doesn't have many experts under his command. He's been on the decline since the last generation, and he doesn't have much power."
"Whose man was that last night if not his? Could he be from the Rong family? Does she have such a big trump card?"
"Don't guess yet. It's a waste of time. I'll help you investigate when you find the Poison Heart Lotus."
"Is there any evidence?"
"I helped the Bai family and several other families deal with some matters, forced people to settle some lawsuits privately, and collected some money to help transfer officials and sell some small official positions. I didn't have enough energy to complete the investigation."
"Okay, you're tired, go to sleep!"
After putting Doudou on the bed to rest, she looked for the expense records of those years and calculated the money those people were going to take.
She flipped through the account books of several years one by one, calculating silently in her mind without the need for an abacus.
"Damn, the old lady took so many large items from her: two-foot-tall red coral ornaments, white jade Buddha statues, glass lamps, gold boxes, sandalwood incense boxes, a complete set of enamel bottles and jars, and all kinds of rare items from overseas."
"That shameless Su Chengang actually took away ten rare books, more than a dozen paintings and calligraphy by famous artists, famous inkstones and inks, various precious jade factory seals, several boxes of pearls and jade, and several sets of exquisite ornaments. He also took away 20,000 taels in one year."
"Did Rong borrow so much?"
He said it was a loan, but never returned it.
There are also tens of thousands of taels of expenses in the mansion every year.
What is remembered is different from what is seen intuitively. Shocked is not enough to express her feelings. It is rare to be so shameless.
First calculate what the kitchen steward and the cook took away, and then sit at the door waiting for them to come.
After a while, the five people were escorted by guards to the main courtyard gate and knelt on the ground.
"Madam, the servants are here to return the money!"
"Tell me the number, I'll check it with the account book!"
The five people really didn't expect that the lady would have to reconcile the accounts. It was already good enough that they could pay back these, what else did they want?
"I only have 1235 taels in my hand."
"I have 3360 taels."
"I only have 2110 taels."
......
"It's quite a difference. Have you searched their house?"
"Madam, no, we are only responsible for bringing them here, and we will also be caning them later."
"Have the steward search their residence. Not a single copper penny can be lost today!"
"Madam, please forgive us. We really have nothing left. We will never dare to guess the master's thoughts again, and we will never dare to act on our own again. Please forgive us, Madam."
"Eat my food, use my things, take my things, and dare to degrade this lady? You must let others see this. This is the end."
"Why don't you go find someone else and wait for me to go?"
The guards didn't dare to let the lady run out and make trouble again, so they turned around and went to find the housekeeper. The five of them were so scared that they hurriedly responded.
"Please, Madam, give us some time. We will go back and gather the pieces on our own!"
They worked as stewards and chefs in the big kitchen, and had plenty of money. They were greedy for more than just the money given by the lady, so they couldn't stand being searched.
Bai Zhiyue knew it clearly, but if she let the housekeeper lead people to search, the money would not fall into her hands.
"Hmph, I'll give you one more chance. I told you I'll pay you with interest."
"Yes, yes, I understand."
This time no one dared to have any tricks to try to get away with it. They honestly brought back a lot of banknotes and loose silver. Some even estimated that they put in an extra 100 or 200 taels, and each person filled a bag.
When he came to the main courtyard again, he didn't report the number and directly handed the bag to the lady. He couldn't report the number, otherwise the marquis would check it.
Bai Zhiyue took a general look and found that there was a note in each bag, stating how much silver each person had to return.
"Well, you guys know what's best for you. Get out of here!"
They will have to go back and be beaten with twenty lashes of the cane. After that, they won’t be able to move for two days.
It’s all Xiang Cui’s fault. If her husband hadn’t been the second steward of the mansion, he would have beaten her up today and robbed her of her property.
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