"How do you manage to be a shopkeeper?"
The cold reprimand pierced into the ears and hit the heart directly. The shopkeepers shook their bodies and panicked: "Miss, but the accounts are wrong?"
The old lady of the Hou Mansion would check the account books every month, and if she found something wrong, she would reprimand them and report to the officials if the situation was serious. Therefore, for many years, they did not dare to tamper with the account books.
"There's nothing wrong with the accounts, it's just that there are too many debts on it, and it's been too long!" Murong Xuesu waved her hand lightly, and the account books were ready and fell into the arms of the shopkeepers.
"Open the door to do business and allow customers to keep accounts on credit. However, there must be a limit to credit. March and May are fine, and one year or two can barely do it. But look at the account books in your hands. From ten years ago The rogue customers who have been on credit until now and have not paid a penny, you still dare to let them take things in the shop, do you want to close the shop?"
There are such rogue guests? How can they not remember!
The shopkeepers looked down at the account book in bewilderment, looking at the debtors written on it, all of them grimaced: "Miss, it's not that the lowly officials make their own credit, but come to the shop to get something. Yes, it's from the Marquis of Wu'an..."
"What's wrong with Marquis of Wu'an's mansion? Even if Mrs. Marquis of Wu'an, Murong Rou, comes in person, it's still a guest, you just need to treat them carefully, and whoever allows them to take things can just keep accounts and not pay?" Murong Xue interrupted sharply. Their words were as cold as ice.
The shopkeepers looked at each other, lowered their heads, and said in a voice as thin as a mosquito: "Yes... it was the old lady's permission..."
The corner of Murong Xue's mouth curved into an almost invisible sarcasm, she knew it would be like this.
Ten years of account books are stacked together, it is a very tall stack, she didn't look through all of them, she just flipped through a few account books from ten years ago, five years ago, and looked at the last two months, and found that the books from ten years ago Since before, the Marquis of Wu'an Mansion will come to the silk shop every season to cut a large number of new clothes. Each of the high, medium and low-grade silk and satin will use ten or twenty bolts, ranging from the old lady of the Marquis of Wu'an Mansion to the third-class maids. All the clothes of the nurses were cut out!
After ten years of cutting clothes like this, they only kept accounts in the shop and never paid a tael of silver.
There are also jewelry shops, which they also frequent. They will take away several sets of jewelry that the old lady, the young lady, and the little girl can wear every season.
Every two or three months, people from the Marquis of Wu'an will go to Gupinzhai to take away one or two antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and never pay a penny...
No wonder Mrs. Du said confidently that she was not greedy for the money earned by her mother's dowry shop, because the money earned by the shop was all trapped in the hole left by the Marquis of Wu'an's mansion.
"Is this how step-grandmother helps my mother take care of the shop?" Murong Xue went to the front of the inner room and opened the curtain, looking at Du Shi with a half-smile.
Mrs. Du glanced at her, disapproving: "Your aunt and the others cut clothes and make jewelry there to help with the business of the shop..."
"Taking things to pay for money is called helping the business, and you just take things without paying money, and you can take them for ten years with peace of mind, which is shameless!" Murong Xue interrupted her words without politeness, slamming every word : "The majestic Marquis of Wu'an's mansion is not a beggar on the street, but they do such a brazen thing like a ruffian. They don't feel ashamed, and I feel ashamed for them."
"Rou'er is your aunt, how can you say that about her?" Du Shi reprimanded sharply, a sharp cold light flashed in his eyes.
As the wife of Marquis of Wu'an, Murong Rou is in charge of the backyard of the Marquis of Wu'an's mansion. Cutting new clothes, making jewelry and other things are all under her control. Murong Xue's mocking of the brazenness of the Marquis of Wu'an's mansion is just mocking her.
Murong Xue snorted disdainfully: "My mother is still her own sister-in-law. She has the audacity to only take things without paying for her in her sister-in-law's dowry shop. I can't even say a few words about her?"
"you… "
Murong Xue interrupted her with a wave of her hand, and looked at her indifferently: "Don't say anything to me, she is my aunt, I, as a niece, should honor her with a few sets of clothes, jewelry should be, I am her niece, and my parents both Why doesn’t she love and cherish me, cut a few sets of clothes and make a few sets of jewelry for me for free every month in her dowry shop?”
"You..." Du Shi pointed at Murong Xue, and was so angry that he couldn't speak: Isn't this little bastard always quiet? When did you become so eloquent
Murong Xue squinted at her, and said coldly: "My mother's good dowry shop is handed over to you, and it has been 'looked after' by you and turned into the mess it is now. If you continue to 'look after' it, the six shops will definitely be closed. Daji, please step-grandmother give me the contracts of these six shops, I will take care of them myself, the success of the operation has nothing to do with step-grandmother!"
Mrs. Du lowered her eyelids slightly: After Mrs. Shen died, she had her eyes on these six shops, but Ge Hui also knew about these six shops. When Murong Ye and Murong Xue grew up, she had to return the shop, so , she can't invade openly, but can only stealthily!
Ge Hui's vision is very vicious, if he makes false accounts of the shop, he will definitely find out, so she came up with this trick of stealthily keeping things secret, going to the shop to get things from time to time, quietly evacuating the shop, and collecting money for herself in the bag.
In the past ten years, they have moved the shops all over the place. In a few years, the six shops will all belong to them. Unexpectedly, at this critical moment, Murong Xue discovered the clue.
If she handed over the shop to Murong Xue to take care of them, they would no longer be able to take the things in the shop. There were still a lot of valuable items in the shop, so it would be a pain to just throw them away!
Looking at the ever-changing expression in her eyes, Murong Xue knew what she was thinking, and the corner of her mouth curved into a sarcasm: "Step-grandmother, you dote on your daughter, I don't care about what you want to give her, and I'm not in the mood to care, but please Don't use my mother's dowry shop as a favor, because that shop was left to me and my brother by my mother, and it has nothing to do with you! If you insist on continuing to be in charge, I can't help but tell others that the shop is ten Years of 'development'... ”
Du Shi raised her eyes sharply to look at Murong Xue, with a sharp and cold light flashing at the bottom of her eyes: How dare you threaten her! good very good!
"Isn't it the six shops? I haven't noticed it yet. If you want it, I'll give it to you!" Du Shi took a simple sandalwood box, quickly opened it, picked up a few pages of deed paper, and turned to Murong Xue angrily. Throwing it over: "Get out of Yutang courtyard immediately, you are not welcome here!"
Murong Xue took the contract, looked at it carefully, confirmed that it was correct, and nodded in satisfaction: "Don't bother step-grandmother, I hate Yutang Courtyard to the extreme, once the contract is obtained, we have nothing to do with each other. won't come!"
"You..." Du Shi gasped, grabbed the teacup in front of him and threw it over: "Get lost!"
Murong Xue snorted softly, grabbed the curtain and threw it forward, only heard a 'bang' sound, the teacup hit the curtain, the tea splashed everywhere, and the teacup was broken into pieces...
The six shopkeepers stood in the corner with their heads lowered, their eyes fixed on their noses and their hearts, and they pretended not to see the thick gunpowder between Murong Xue and Mrs. Du: "The family affairs of the Marquis of Zhenguo's mansion, they are the shopkeepers. No, I don’t dare to control it, let’s protect myself wisely.
Mrs. Du designed Murong Ye to pawn her mother's dowry, so she came here to take away the six-paper contract, allowing Mrs. Du and Murong Rou to steal money and lose money. Really comfortable!
The corner of Murong Xue's mouth curled into a light arc, Shi Shiran walked up to the shopkeepers, and said proudly: "The Marquis of Wu'an has been on credit for ten years, so we can't indulge them any longer. The six of you will go back to the shop immediately, and send your assistants to Wu'an The Hou Mansion wants a bill!"