Chapter 113 Returning home
Zhang Quanhe's current reaction was completely within Li Zhengyang's expectations.
"Sir?! Sir Zhang?!" He stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Zhang Quanhe to remind him to come back to his senses.
Zhang Quanhe grabbed his wrist and started to leave, "Let's go to the study and talk in detail."
"Then here..." Li Zhengyang looked at the people still lying on the ground.
"Zhao Yatou will take care of it." Zhang Quanhe wanted to hear the details carefully. His mind was in a mess and he couldn't think of anything.
Li Zhengyang had no choice but to follow Zhang Quanhe to the study.
At this moment, the person who had stirred up a commotion in the city was sitting in a carriage and slowly returning to the General's Mansion.
The doorman was very surprised. Didn't they say that the young lady was going out for a few days?
How come you're back in just one day?!
Although he had doubts in his mind, he did not dare to be negligent and welcomed the person into his house with great respect.
Until they got off the car, Yinxing and Li were both very surprised.
They fainted in Xiaowangzhuang, but when they woke up, they were in the carriage on the way back to the mansion.
Why did you return home so soon?
However, they didn't ask anything, but Xiao Yuer asked curiously, "Auntie, why are you back again?"
Song Qingci gently stroked Xiaoyuer's head, and then said, "Because something happened outside, we can't go out. After things are settled, auntie will take Xiaoyuer out to play, okay? ! "
"Okay." Xiao Yu'er didn't quite understand what she said, but he was willing to go along with what his aunt said.
"Yinxing, take Xiaoyuer and sister-in-law back to the guest house. I'll go to my mother's place."
"Yes, I will do it."
There is still a Yao Niang in the space. She forgot to deal with her before. There is no chance now. Let her stay for the time being.
She didn't throw Song Yueshan and Shan Hai out with those people.
To be honest, the original owner was not treated harshly in her parents' home before she got married. She is willing to give face to the Song family now. She beat him up, and she even broke his hands out of anger. I'm afraid it won't be possible to gamble again in the future. Let's save some face for them.
After all, there is a blood relationship. If the Song family loses face, she will also lose face.
Face is something that you should keep when you need it.
As for Shan Hai, he had two broken ribs, and if he didn't rest for a year or so, he might not be able to move around. She wanted to leave him to Shan Su to deal with himself. She had no interest in teaching other people's sons.
However, she planned to wait until the storm had passed before handing the man over.
Let the people in the second room worry about it. Anyway, people can't die in space.
When Lou saw Song Qingci, there was surprise in her eyes.
Didn’t you say you had left the house yesterday?
Why are you back today?
"Mother." Song Qingci bowed to Lou first, then said to Xia He, "Take the people out first. I have something to say to mother alone."
Xia He first glanced at Lou, and when she nodded, she bowed to Song Qingci and said yes. Then she led all the maids in the room out, closed the door, and retreated to the corridor to wait.
"What happened?!" It was the first time that Lou saw Song Qingci with such a serious expression.
On weekdays, when she saw her, she was mostly talking and smiling.
"Mother, how much do you know about Xiaowangzhuang?" Song Qingci decided to tell half of the story about Xiaowangzhuang and keep the other half. That's why she needed to test Lou's attitude first.
"Xiaowangzhuang?!" Lou was confused. The name sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember it all at once.
After a long while, Lou said, "Oh, I remember now. Is it the manor in the suburbs of Beijing where our general's mansion is located?"
Song Qingci nodded.
"You are going to this Xiaowang Manor this time?" Lou Shi really didn't know that there was more than one manor in the general's manor. She had basically never been to any of them.
The housekeeper Shan Huairen basically took care of all the affairs of the manor, and he was the one who kept the annual accounts.
I just need to check the general ledger every year.
It has been like this since I took charge of the family. Yun Zhi's wife asked if there was something wrong in Xiaowang Village.
Thinking of this, Lou's expression became even more gloomy.
"Yes, I am going to Xiaowangzhuang this time." Song Qingci took out a few account books from his arms and handed them to Lou, "Mother, take a look at this first."
These account books were found in the study by Feng Yi and his team when they were cleaning up the mess.
When Song Qingci was looting before, she was only looking for valuable things. Books, account books and the like were not even within her consideration.
When Feng Yi and his team went to clean up, all the valuables were gone and the room had obviously been ransacked.
Although they didn't know what was going on, they couldn't return empty-handed, so they found a lot of hidden account books and the like.
It's at least an explanation.
A total of three different sets of account books were found in Xiaowangzhuang.
The first set was naturally a fake account used to fool the general's mansion. This could also match the account books in the general's mansion. However, the number was small and the amount of money was also small.
The second set was a secret account book kept by Xu Chun himself. The contents in it were extremely detailed. He kept a clear record of how much was produced each year, how much was withheld, and how much he had appropriated from other sources.
This basically contains the proceeds he has pocketed over the years, as well as evidence of his crimes of exploiting tenant farmers.
There is a third set, which is even more exciting. It is the account book that belongs exclusively to the secret cave.
Just looking at the contents of the account book is enough to make one's blood boil. The items of expenditure and income are guaranteed to be something that many people have never seen in their entire lives.
And now, what Song Qingci gave to Lou was the contents of the second set of account books.
Song Qingci had no intention of showing the third set of account books to anyone else. Now she had carefully stored them in her space. When Shan Li came back, she could show them to him.
Lou looked relatively calm at first.
She has been in charge of the household for many years and knows that it is normal for some accounts to not match.
There were so many people involved in the work, and the money had to pass through so many hands. It was normal for some deductions to be made. As long as it wasn't too excessive, she would usually turn a blind eye.
If the water is clear, there will be no fish.
However, the more she watched, the more she lost her composure.
Even the hands holding the account book were shaking. This... this... this number was too different, right? !
If she remembered correctly, the farm under the general's mansion had a profit of no more than three thousand taels in one year.