Nangong Rou quickly said: "Sister, Uncle Hua has silver and always uses good ink, but my cousin is from a poor family. Where can I afford high-grade ink? There are many students who are like my cousin. Can’t afford good ink, you can only buy this kind of bad ink. There are so many people who buy bad ink. You can’t just suspect my cousin because of this? Are you just because he is my cousin? Excuse me?"
At the end, she pitifully wiped out her tears again.
Yun Ruoyue sneered, "I'm just seeking truth from facts. Okay, let's not talk about Uncle Hua being planted. Let's check your cousin's account book to see how he remembers."
After Yun Ruoyue finished speaking, she looked at Uncle Hua and the housekeeper, "Uncle Hua, housekeeper, help me check together to see if there are any mistakes or omissions in the ledger that Li Xiucai kept."
"Yes, Niang Niang." After the two said, they quickly picked up Li Xiucai's account book and began to check.
Yun Ruoyue also picked up a ledger and looked at it carefully.
That Li Xiucai was already scared and sweating all over, he kept winking at Nangong Rou and asked Nangong Rou to find a way.
Nangong stood there dejectedly, biting her lip, and couldn't think of a way.
At this moment, Yun Ruoyue suddenly pointed to the account book in her hand and said: "Li Xiucai, on the fifth day of January, our Wangfu only spent three hundred taels of groceries and meat?"
Li Xiucai got a cold back and said hurriedly: "Yes, Niang Niang."
"It shows that the money was drawn by Grandma Zhang. Grandma Zhang, did you withdraw three hundred taels of silver to buy meat and vegetables?" Yun Ruoyue looked at the dying mother Zhang next to her.
Mother Zhang’s 30 slabs had been beaten long ago, and now she was lying there in ragged clothes and covered with blood on her back. No one cares about her at all.
When the princess asked her question, she gave her a bitter look and said coldly: "Yes."
"What meat and vegetables cost so much money?" Yun Ruoyue said coldly.
Ordinary people only need a dozen taels of silver a year to eat.
No matter how extravagant their palaces are, they won't have to spend three hundred taels of silver at a time.
If this continues, how could Chu Xuanchen's family property be able to withstand such a defeat.
"It's the food and meat of the palace for three days. There are a lot of people in the palace, plus the prince's nobleness. Of course, you have to buy the best." Mother Zhang said solemnly.
"It's only three days and it will cost three hundred taels of silver. If this is going to be spread out, what will people say about our palace?" Yun Ruoyue finished speaking, and said, "Also, I bought ten bags of rice here, which actually cost one. Hundred taels of silver? Ordinary people, ten bags of rice cost up to 50 taels of silver. What kind of rice is this, so expensive?"
Grandma Zhang raised her eyelids and said, "That's the princess who has never seen the world. This is the best rice in Yuxiangzhai. It is exclusively for the royal family and high-ranking officials. It is different from ordinary rice. Of course it is expensive."
"Then here, the side concubine spent a thousand taels of silver and only bought one piece of clothing? What kind of clothes is this expensive?" Yun Ruoyue checked and found that there was a big problem with this account.
Moreover, this is something that can be accomplished by multiple people working in partnership and colluding with each other.
When Nangong Rou heard this, her heart trembled in fright, and she hurriedly said, "This is a mulberry silk dress supplemented with gold thread and golden spider thread, so it is more expensive. I asked Dan'er to go to the accounting room with the consent of the prince. Withdraw money to buy clothes."
The implication was that Chu Xuanchen agreed with her, and the princess couldn't blame her.
Yun Ruoyue glanced at Nangong Rou coldly, and then said: "The concubine side contracted the wind and cold last time, please doctor, it cost two thousand taels of silver?"