Aunt Guo brewed two cups of osmanthus oolong tea, and took out some cookies, nuts, dried fruits, osmanthus cakes, mung bean cakes, etc. to make a tea platter, served it to the two of them, and left.
"Sister." Xu Mingjing was not in the mood to eat or drink. "Just now Zhengwen went back early and said he was fired by his brother-in-law."
"Yes, I know about this." Xu Mingzhen took a sip of tea, "Wen Ci discussed it with me last night."
"Sister, did you agree?" Xu Mingjing was shocked.
She always thought that Xu Mingzhen should help her.
"Take a look at these." Xu Mingzhen didn't say anything more and just took out two ledgers.
It was the same as what Tan Wenci showed Yuan Zhengwen that morning.
Xu Mingzhen expected that Xu Mingjing would come to see her, and it was today, but she couldn't tell the specific time.
So Xu Mingzhen asked Tan Wenci to leave two copies for her.
Nothing is more convincing than facts.
Xu Mingjing took the account book handed over by Xu Mingzhen with a puzzled look on her face, and heard Xu Mingzhen say: "The one on the left is the real accounting record, and the one on the right was made separately by Yuan Zhengwen to explain to the company."
Xu Mingjing majored in accounting at university and saw the problem at a glance.
"Is this... so different?" Xu Mingjing looked up at Xu Mingzhen in shock.
"This is not something we did to wrongfully accuse him." Xu Mingzhen sighed, "When we originally assigned him this position, we actually expected that he would get some benefits from it. Wen Ci also acquiesced to this. It was considered to be helping myself. Brother-in-law. But he can't go so far. He's not getting any benefits, he's sucking the blood of our family. If one person is not good enough, the company's financial problems will affect the entire company."
"He is using our affection for you to harm us. Our family cannot be like Mr. Dongguo." Xu Mingzhen said, "Besides, this company is not ours, it is Wenci's hard work. I'm very grateful that he can help you because of me. But when something like this happens, it's hard for me to hold my head up in front of him."
Xu Mingjing's heart felt cold, and her lips trembled uncontrollably.
"Sister, this is the text's fault. But you can't compare it to the story of Mr. Dong Guo and the wolf. We...our family is not a wolf." Xu Mingjing's heart was hurt by Xu Mingzhen's metaphor. .
Xu Mingzhen said to herself that maybe Xu Mingjing was not, but Yuan Zhengwen and Yuan Kerqing were definitely.
"Sister, this is something Zhengwen did so wrong. Can you give him another chance? I promise, he will never do it again." Xu Mingjing wrung her fingers and begged, "He is fired now, and I Without a job and still having to go to school, our family has been cut off from all sources of income.”
"Zhengwen was indeed frightened by this sudden incident. He will definitely remember and learn from this lesson in the future." Xu Mingjing begged.
Facing her sister like this, Xu Mingzhen felt soft-hearted for a moment, but immediately firmed up.
"Ming Jing, Zheng Wen is too worried. I'm afraid you don't understand a lot about him." Xu Mingzhen took a deep and slow breath.
She picked up the cup and took a sip of tea. She hesitated for a moment, but decided to speak out: "By chance, I was invited by Wei Zhiqian to attend Mrs. Wei's birthday party."
"I know that." But Xu Mingjing couldn't understand. Isn't this discussing Yuan Zhengwen's work? Why are you here again
"Because Wei Zhiqian only gave us an invitation and didn't invite Keqing, so I didn't dare to take Keqing on my own initiative. I was afraid of making my master unhappy. The Wei family may be tolerant, but we still have to be careful. Respectfully." Xu Mingzhen said.
"I understand this." Xu Mingjing didn't understand why Xu Mingzhen suddenly said this, but she still felt anxious and forced an insincere smile, "After all, that is the Wei family, we all have to Be careful, if you make a slight mistake and make others unhappy, you will actually bring trouble to yourself."
"Keqing mentioned to me that she wanted to go before, but I explained to her that I couldn't take her there." Xu Mingzhen added.
"Has she mentioned it to you?" Xu Mingjing frowned and sighed, "How can this child be so willful!"
"Sister, to tell you the truth, she also mentioned it to me when she went back and said she wanted to go, but I refused." Xu Mingjing said, "I said the same thing as you. I told her that this is from the Wei family. We can't decide who we should take to the birthday party or who we can take. If you can take it, you will definitely take it."
"As long as you can understand." Xu Mingzhen tugged at her lips and saw Xu Mingjing smiling. Xu Mingzhen said again, "But Yuan Zhengwen and Keqing don't seem to understand, and they may think that I deliberately didn't take Keqing with them. . Yuan Zhengwen seems not to be satisfied with just serving in Tanyue and wants to make a big difference."
"Sister, what do you mean?" Xu Mingjing heard Xu Mingzhen's words sounded wrong.
"He secretly took Keqing without telling us. Keqing went to Shengyue's door and waited, blocking Wei Keli and letting Wei Keli take her in." Xu Mingzhen's mind flashed through Yuan Keqing's behavior at that time. The hand on his leg couldn't help but tighten, "Wei Kerli, it was me who took her to Wei's house to let her get to know her. But then I turned around. It's such a shame that such a stumbling block could be put in place for me at such a young age."
"It seemed to people that I, a mean aunt, deliberately didn't bring her here. When she saw me in front of so many people, she actually shrank back and looked very scared of me. I Is she not good enough in normal times, so if she sees me, it will be like seeing some vicious woman?"
"It also makes people think that I don't know etiquette. I only took the invitation for the Tan family, but brought people in at will. Can other families also take an invitation and bring relatives and friends with them? That birthday party, We didn't even arrange seats or name tags for Keqing, they were added temporarily. It means that the Wei family didn't invite Keqing from the beginning, and I didn't understand the Wei family's intention wrongly."
"I don't know, but Keqing is gone!" Xu Mingjing's shock was genuine, "She never mentioned a word to me."
"Let's not talk about Keqing. Keqing can't go by herself. Yuan Zhengwen took her there. He didn't want to let Keqing know more people and do something big. You won’t even believe it when you come out.” Xu Mingzhen let out a long breath, “Not to mention this, men all have a bit of ambition. But when he deceived our family like this, did he ever think that we helped him with so many things?”
"The father and daughter are stabbing us in the back." Xu Mingzhen took a deep breath, calmed down, and took another sip of hot tea, "So we thought, since Yuan Zhengwen has such ambitions, we don't want to talk about Yue. Qu Cai, let him get out of Tan Yue and show off his talents."