[Red House] Release a concubine and have children

When Fu Li woke up, Wei Yan was no longer on the bed. She called Dongxia in, and when she learned that the court had something to do, she urgently sent someone to find him to deal with the business.

Fu Li was stunned for a moment, he had a lot of guesses in his mind, but these words were not easy to talk to Dongchun and others, so he simply got up to wash up, rested for a while, then walked to the courtyard of Jin Geer and Wei Ruolan, Woke them up separately, and then went to the two old people's house for dinner together.

Fu Li had inquired with Wei Yan before, that there are only four masters in the Dingwei Hou Mansion, so the dinner is eaten by the whole family, and if it is a holiday, or Wei Yan happens to be at home, there will be no lunch absent.

Since she is at home today, naturally she will not be absent at lunch.

When the three of them rushed to the courtyard of the two old people together, after the servants went in to communicate, the old lady came out directly with a smile on her face.

Fu Li was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly brought the two children in for dinner.

According to the ancient rules, the new daughter-in-law will be ruled by her mother-in-law when she enters the house. The specific manifestation is that when the whole family eats, everyone is eating, but the daughter-in-law can only stand next to the mother-in-law to prepare vegetables for her. , what the mother-in-law wants to eat, the daughter-in-law must immediately put it in a bowl for her.

Although he felt that this rule was inhumane, since Fu Li decided to marry Wei Yan, he had already made such preparations.

After the two old people and the two children sat down, Fu Li obediently stood behind the old lady and prepared to serve her dishes.Unexpectedly, the old lady glanced back, and quickly waved her hand: "There is a servant girl for the cloth dish, you should hurry up and sit down and eat."

After a pause, the old lady glanced at the old man, and murmured, "As long as you can bring your two children over to eat with us two immortals when you have time, it will be your filial piety, and let's forget about making rules. .”

Fu Li was taken aback, and subconsciously followed the old lady's gaze and turned to look at the old man.

The old man stroked his beard, as if he didn't hear what the old lady said, and his expression was quite calm.But if you observe carefully, you can find that his eyeballs will glance towards Fu Li's direction from time to time, and if he meets Fu Li's gaze, his eyeballs will immediately float back to the front.

Obviously, he was also very much looking forward to Fu Li's answer to the old lady's words.

In other words, the old lady would suddenly say such a sentence, maybe he was "guiding" behind her back.

After Fu Li figured it out, he couldn't help but nodded his head and agreed: "Naturally, those of us who are juniors should have settled down in the morning and evening, and it's even more appropriate to have dinner with you two."

The two old men were immediately satisfied, the smiles on their faces were a little more real, and the eyes they looked at Fu Li were more satisfied than before.

The old lady raised her hand happily: "Xia Qiu, hurry up and pass on the meal!"

Turning around, she found that Fu Li was still standing beside her, so she hurriedly gave her a hand: "Didn't I just say that there is no such thing as setting rules here, you should sit down and have dinner with us."

Fu Li paused, seeing that the expression on the old lady's face did not seem to be fake, then Shi Shiran went to sit between Brother Jin and Wei Ruolan.

It's not that they don't want to sit next to the old lady, it's just that the two old people obviously prefer to let the two children sit next to them, so at the beginning, each of them pulled a child and pressed him next to them, and the two old people sat next to each other. Together, so Fu Li could only sit between the two children.

I thought it was also arranged in the same way at night, but unexpectedly, when Fu Li came over with his two children in the evening, the yard where the two old people dined was actually divided into two spaces by a screen. The two old people sat on one side, and Fu Li was cited After eating at the old lady's side, Wei Ruolan and Brother Jin were taken to the old lady's side.

Fried paused, and immediately realized that this was to avoid suspicion, so he didn't say much.

But it's still early, but it's just about to run out of lunch.

After bidding farewell to the two old people, Wei Ruolan and Brother Jin were not idle. They left Fu Li's yard and said goodbye to Fu Li. In the courtyard, he began to open the account books of Dingweihou Mansion for nearly ten years.

Because Fu Li had said before that after lunch, he had to look at the account book, so Dong Chun and Dong Xia called a lot of servant girls who could read and write over, and together they put the account book in accordance with Fu Li's requirements. sorted it out.

When Fu Li returned to the room, Dong Xia first went to pour Fu Li a cup of hot tea and asked her to rest for a while.According to Dongxia's instructions, Dongchun first went to set up tables and chairs for Fu Li in a well-lit place by the window, and then placed footstools, pillows and other things. After burning the refreshing incense, it was brought to the corner of the table and placed...

After pouring tea for Fu Li, Dong Xia and Dong Chun took a few second- and third-class maids to put all the account books from the earliest years on the table, and they only waited for Fu Li to come over to check after he had a rest.

After Fu Li rested for about half an hour, he sat directly on the chair that Dongchun had arranged.

Her eyes flashed, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

Although the feudal society is despised, and the people at the bottom of the feudal society suffer from exploitation, but if they can become the ruling class of the feudal society, life will indeed become very nourishing.

Tsk, she is about to be corrupted by this life where clothes come out of hand and food comes out of mouth.

However, this thought only stayed in my mind for a moment, and then quickly disappeared, and all Fu Li's energy was put on the piles of account books on the table.

After adjusting the most comfortable posture, Fu Li picked up the earliest account books in order.

Because of the accounting tools, the content that can be recorded in ancient books and account books is quite limited. The content that can be recorded on a whole page is estimated to be less than one-tenth of the content recorded by modern tools such as ballpoint pens. The housekeeper is an old lady. In order to make it easier for her to check the accounts, the font used by the servants is several times larger than usual, so Fu Li checked the accounts on this page of mental calculations, but it took less than a dozen It's only seconds.

After finishing the calculation, she wrote down an Arabic numeral on the paper with a brush.

Then turn to the next page and continue to settle accounts.

Dongchun and Dongxia didn't know Arabic numerals, they only thought that Fu Li was doodling at random, and when they found that Fu Li turned pages very fast and hadn't used the abacus they had prepared for her, they looked at each other. Seeing that the other party's eyes were also full of doubts, he lowered his head decisively.

I think that even if my wife knows how to settle accounts again, she should take the time to sort out the situation in the house first.

Fu Li didn't pay attention to the riddles the two maids were playing, she was still very focused on checking the accounts.

Perhaps it was because Wei Yan had just obtained the title not long ago, and the servants of the Marquis of Dingwei's Mansion were fairly well-behaved. Although there were some servants who fished in troubled waters, they were still a minority, and most of the contents recorded in the account books were quite normal.

Many people say that when the water is clear, there will be no fish, and the code of conduct will take this sentence as a standard, and then face the petty greed and petty concealment of the servants in their eyes, and even if the incident happens, they will lightly expose it.

But Fu Li believes that petty greed will not stop, but big greed will prevail.

And this point can also be seen from the account books.

The account books in Dingweihou's mansion were quite clean in the past two or three years. Even the most lucrative kitchens and purchases have never been corrupted. The prices of many items recorded in the account books are also the same as the market prices, and there is no concealment;

But in the middle three years, some small data discrepancies began to appear in the account books of each house. Not only did there appear loopholes that the amount did not match, but some things that could be bought at a market price of one or two copper coins, the prices marked on the account books simply turned upside down. After a while.It was obvious that someone had stayed in the same position for a long time, and greed was born in his heart, so he wanted to test the temperament of the masters in the house, and how they would behave when encountering such a thing, so there were concealment and The case of petty greed;

In the next three years, the loopholes in the accounts of each house not only increased with time, but also became bigger and bigger, and the prices quoted by the people who bought them in the house were completely different from those in the previous three years. It is an exaggeration to quote one tael of silver for copper coins, but it seems to be a customary rule for the servants who have the opportunity to buy the job to double the cost of expensive items by one or two times, and the cheap ones by ten times.

Apparently, because of the kindness of the old lady, she didn't care about the greed and thieves of the servants in the previous three years, but instead fostered the ambitions of these servants in the house.

However, the servants may be taking advantage of Wei Yan's reputation outside, and the corruption of these people is still within the controllable range

The amount of embezzlement every month is still controlled below 500 taels.

Compared with the situation where there are many rats in Rongguo Mansion, the situation in Dingweihou Mansion is indeed quite clear, but looking at this situation, Fu Li only felt that if the ethos of these servants in the mansion were not curbed, Dingweihou Mansion would become a The next Rongguo Mansion is just a matter of time.

She looked up at the sky, and turned to look at Dongxia beside her: "What time is it now? Has Master Hou ever come back?"

Dongxia replied immediately: "Go back to Madam, it's already [-]:[-] Shen Shi, Master Hou has never come back since he went out."

At three quarters, that is, at five forty-five in the afternoon?

It's so late, why hasn't Wei Yan come back yet?

Fu Li originally thought that Wei Yan would come back soon after going out, and he wasn't so worried, but it was all over now. Wei Yan not only didn't come back, but he didn't send anyone to send a message home, which was really unbelievable. Don't worry about him.

Because he was in a bad mood, Fu Li originally planned to wait until tomorrow to call the steward of the house, but he decided to cut the mess quickly, and decided to deal with all the offenders in the house today.

Thinking in this way, Fu Li turned around and asked Dongxia to bring a pen and paper, and then scribbled down a long list of names: "Dongxia, you are quick-spoken, call a few strong servants, and immediately write these names on the paper. Bring me all the people, and if anyone resists, ask the servants to tie them up directly."

Dong Xia was stunned: "Madam, what did these people do?"

She took a cursory glance just now and saw many acquaintances on it, some of whom were the parents of her good sisters.

Fu Li raised his hand and clicked on the account book next to him: "It is indeed a crime!"

Dongxia was startled: "My wife has read all the account books?"

Dongchun seemed to be frightened: "There are so many account books, and the accounts on the books are even more complicated. It's only been a few hours for you to calculate everything?"

The two have been standing next to Fu Li and watching her settle accounts, but with Fu Li's speed of turning a page every four or five breaths, they both thought that Fu Li just wanted to Roughly flip through to understand the situation, and then wait until tomorrow to settle the accounts in detail

After all, for such a long time, Fu Like has never touched an abacus.

But who would have thought that Fu Li had already calculated all the accounts and caught so many people who tampered with the accounts?

Dongxia's heart trembled, and she didn't dare to intercede for those people she knew well. After taking orders to leave, she decisively went to the servant's room, dispatched some very strong servants who were not named on the paper, and then Take these people to bring all the servants with their names on the paper to Fu Li's yard.

However, unlike the situation in which Fu Li imagined someone resisting, facing the situation where Fu Li called so many people together, everyone was confused and did not think of Fu Li's auditing at all.

In the eyes of these people, it takes ten days and half a month to check the accounts. It takes less than a day for the wife to come in, and even less time to get the account books. It is impossible to complete the account books. right.

Although the background of his wife being the real owner of the Zhougong Gourmet Chain Store makes all those who have ghosts in their hearts unable to help being afraid, but they also think that even if the wife finds out the problems in the account books, they are not greedy for much money, and the wife It's true that he's a newcomer, so in order to gain a firm foothold, he shouldn't be too fussy with people like them.

What's more, in order to cultivate their own power, those of them who have confidence in their wives' hands are easier to manipulate and have a better chance of being drawn by her.And since he wanted to win them over, giving them favor became the best way.

Even if the wife is a person who can't rub the sand in her eyes, at most let them pay back the money they ignorant...

Because most of these people are old fritters who have been rolling in the backyard for many years, and they know how these ladies and ladies do things, so most of them can still maintain their normal mood and not be too scared.

However, no one thought that Fu Li was a person who did not play cards according to common sense.

After everyone gathered in Fu Li's yard, a few people who had known each other and knew what they had done looked at each other, and suddenly had a bad premonition in their hearts, waiting to meet someone they knew well ,hair

Now that all the servants I know who have been greedy for the family's money have been called to the courtyard, even those who firmly believed that Fu Li would not do anything to them were panicked.

If Fu Li really didn't plan to punish them severely, but wanted to use this opportunity to give them grace and win over her confidantes, she wouldn't call everyone to her yard with great fanfare

Shouldn't the normal approach be to call in front of them one by one to give them both grace and power, and then defeat them one by one?

After Fu Li came out of the room, one of the stewards, who was good at reading people's eyes, realized something immediately after seeing the coldness in Fu Li's eyes. The slave is wrong, the slave will immediately go to return the money that I ignorantly paid at the beginning, and please see the wife for the reason that the slave has worked as a cow and a horse for the Dingweihou Mansion for so many years, not to drive the slave out of the Dingweihou Mansion."

Although the others didn't know why the steward knelt down suddenly, they understood what he said, and they all felt panic for a moment, and knelt down on the ground like dumpling.

Soon, Fu Li's yard was filled with voices of confessing his mistakes and begging for mercy one after another.

Fu Li's anger was extinguished in her stomach, and she was almost laughed at by these people's actions. She looked at the manager who took the lead in admitting her mistake at the beginning, and asked, "What's your name, and what is your job? "

The man looked up at Fu Li with regret, and swallowed in fear: "Mrs. Hui, my slave, Niu Da, is in charge of the shopping."

Fu Li's eyelids lightly rolled up, with a smile on his lips: "Purchase? If I remember correctly, purchasing is the most lucrative job, and in the past few years, you have embezzled a lot of money in this position. The amount is so large that almost You can buy a small house in the capital where every inch of land is expensive."

Although the corruption situation in the Dingweihou Mansion is still within the controllable range, and the amount of money embezzled in a month does not exceed five hundred, the so-called pyramid effect can also correspond to the corruption of the servants of the Dingweihou Mansion. chain

Although nearly 500 taels of money was embezzled a month from the Dingweihou Mansion, most of it fell into the hands of the relevant stewards. After these stewards got the amount they were satisfied with, the remaining small part of the account would be distributed. To the little guy below.If it is said that the steward can embezzle two or three hundred taels of silver in a month, the remaining dozens of people, I am afraid that each of them can only get a dozen or so taels of silver.

And Niu Da, who is in charge of purchasing errands, is afraid that he can get at least 100 taels of silver a month.

Three years, 36 months, 200 taels per month...

If Niu Daruo was really greedy for so much money, he might be able to buy a house outside the Rongguo Mansion with the same money as Lai Nanny's family in Rongguo Mansion.

Niu Da's face was completely white, and when he looked in a daze, he thought that a piece of white paper had been pasted on his face, and he looked terrible and pitiful.

He hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy: "Madam, I know I was wrong. I will go home and sell the house right away. Don't worry, the prices of houses in the capital have risen a lot over the years. I will definitely be able to sell the money I was greedy for." Give it back..."

Fu Li was stunned for a moment, this man really bought a house.

Looking at other people, they found that their eyes were full of panic, as if they were frightened by her "magical calculation" just now.

These people's hands are also not clean. Seeing that Niu Da bought a house outside behind his master's back, his wife knew it just after entering the door. The money they greedy didn't even have time to spend it, even if it was a bit spent , It's just a deal with other people in the family, this kind of thing is not hidden, I'm afraid the wife can check them out if she checks casually.

Thinking of this, the ignorant luck on the faces of the servants was instantly shattered, their eyes were red, and they began to kowtow to Fu Li begging for mercy, and they all said that they would definitely return the money they had greedy as soon as possible. Fu Li should not drive them out of Dingweihou Mansion.

Some of them had silver on their bodies, and even took it out of their pockets on the spot and wanted to hand it to Fu Li.

Fu Li: "..." She said that she just said it casually, would anyone believe it?

Although it was not intentional, Fu Li was quite satisfied with the result of this misunderstanding.

Fu Li looked at these people and suddenly smiled: "Forget it, the old lady treated you well before, but you still did something like cheating and stealing the money from the Dingweihou Mansion back to your own home. My temperament is no better than that of the old lady, and I will suffer from your sins in the future, and keeping you here will not only be a blessing or a curse."

After finishing speaking, she asked someone to copy the homes of these servants directly, and then sold the serious ones directly, and sent the minor ones to Zhuangzi directly.

It's not that no one came to intercede, some people even tried to threaten Fu Li to treat these people lightly, relying on their status as the children of their own family and the fact that they had worked for the Wei family for many years "without credit but hard work".

Then, Fu Li sold those who threatened her together, and those who begged for mercy were fined three months of moon silver.

Now, no one dared to say anything more about Fu Li's decision.

Even Dong Xia, who was very valuable to Fu Li, did not dare to intercede for her good sister's parents when she saw this. She could only obediently stand behind Fu Li, avoiding her good sister's eyes for help.

Fu Li took a look and became more and more satisfied with Dongxia.

If you can do practical things, even if you have too many friends, as long as you can clearly identify yourself, it is not a shortcoming.

Fu Li secretly decided in his heart that he would train Dongxia as his right-hand man in the future.

In just half an hour, Fu Li dealt with all these people vigorously and vigorously.

After the news came out, the servants of the mansion had extremely complicated perceptions of the new wife. They were afraid of Fu Li's swift and resolute methods, but also admired her ability to check the accounts of the mansion so quickly.

But no matter what, Fu Li's actions sounded the alarm for the servants in the house. Originally, they were envious because other people had been greedy for the money in the house and had not been held accountable. I dispelled the greedy thoughts, once again settled down and started to do my job, and no longer dared to ask for things that didn't belong to me.

The ethos of the entire Dingweihou Mansion was completely solemn.

but……

Fu Li thought about the contents of the ledger, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.Although Niu Da has been greedy for thousands of taels of silver in the past few years, he is not the most "capable" among the rats in the Dingweihou Mansion.

But that person's identity is a bit special, Fu Li can't just drive him out of Dingwei Hou Mansion like other people.

But if this person is not dealt with, Fu Li will feel like a stick in his throat, and this will also send a wrong signal to others

As long as I can climb to that person's position, I can be as greedy as he wants, and I won't be punished even if the incident happens.

This is not what Fu Li wants.

So she sorted out the account book, prepared the specific entries of the person's embezzlement, and other people's confessions. After dinner in the old lady's room, she waited for the right opportunity to share the account book with the big housekeeper. The evidence of the crime was handed over to the old lady.

Who made that person the chief steward of the house, or the old lady's confidant?

Yes, the biggest Shuoshu in the house is the big housekeeper who respects the old lady, for this reason he doesn't even pay attention to Wei Ruolan, a serious master, and treats an outsider, Miss Zhao Er, very politely. For 500 taels of silver, Niu Da was greedy for 100 taels, and the rest of the people stole more than 100 taels in total, and the rest all fell into the pocket of the big housekeeper.His net worth is much bigger than that of a cow.

She is a new daughter-in-law, and she came in because she was really not good, just to confront the old lady for a servant.

Unexpectedly, before Fu Li took the initiative to attack, the old lady asked, "Daughter-in-law, I heard that you checked the accounts today, and you found the chief housekeeper? What evidence do you have?"

Fu Li raised his eyebrows, realizing that someone had already given her eye drops at the old lady's place before her.

Her heart skipped a beat, and it was with great difficulty that she regained her composure, and then personally handed over all the criminal evidence about the housekeeper and the confessions of Niu Da and others to the old lady.

Fu Li was a little worried

I hope that the old lady is not convinced of the character of the big housekeeper, and she will not allow other people to disagree.

The old lady also worked quickly. After seeing the problematic accounts sorted out by Fu Li and the confession of Niu Da and others, she became furious on the spot, and immediately asked the housekeeper to be invited to the yard.

Because it was rare for her to be so angry, she actually recruited the old man over.

After the old man had seen clearly the accounts given by Fu Li and the evidence related to the housekeeper, the old man was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, and slammed the table on the spot: "This Wei Xin is not a thing, Madam asked him to be a housekeeper. I trust him, and I don’t miss his rewards on weekdays. If all those rewards add up, which one is not as much as the money he corrupted? He is so incompetent that he wants to make a plan for the family!"

Well, the old man was even more angry than the old lady.

After a pause, the old man couldn't help but look at the old lady, "Madam, haven't you always been in charge of these books?"

The implication is, since you are in charge of the account book, why didn't you find out that there was such a big problem in the house?

The old lady was very angry: "I didn't know that Wei Xin had a hand in it, and I thought it was all corrupted by other people. These people don't have much money, and I thought they were all staying in the house. Old people who have lived for many years simply turn a blind eye and close their eyes and don't care much."

Fu Li's heart skipped a beat, she never thought that this would alarm the old man.

But thinking that Wei Yan held an important position in the imperial court, the old man, the father, retired from his position early in order to influence Wei Yan's official career. Grass, occasionally playing knives, guns and sticks to exercise, and then talking and playing chess with a few friends, I can really fade away when I am free all day long...

It doesn't seem so strange that Mrs. Wei is so keen on trivial matters in the back house.

There is an unspoken rule in being an official in the court. A son must not have a higher official position than his father. If the father is greedy for power and unwilling to abdicate, no matter how capable a son is, he can only be suppressed by the officials and cannot be promoted.

only……

Fu Li glanced at the old lady carefully, worried that she would become angry because of the old lady's accusation, and then blame her.

However, the old lady is full of eyes on this matter because the big housekeeper, Wei Xin, has failed her trust, and she only wants to punish him, so how can she have time to care about the old man and Fu Li?

That's not what Wei Xin said when he came to complain to her before!

Soon, the butler Wei Xin was brought in.

Fu Li thought for a while, and pulled Jin Geer and Lan Geer back a few steps, far away from the chief housekeeper, Wei Xin.

Although she knew that the possibility was very small, she didn't want any surprises because it was related to the two children.

As No.1 under several masters, Wei Xin can be said to be the most well-informed person in the Dingweihou Mansion, bar none.Even because many people only follow his lead, if he wants to hide some news from the old lady, the old lady may not know it.

Furthermore, when Wei Xin first got the news, he found the old lady and sued Fu Li. Naturally, it is impossible not to know the reason why the old lady called him over.

After entering the door, he knelt down towards the old lady: "Old lady, please be the master of the slave."

After all, Wei Xin has served the old lady for so many years, and he was quite appropriate when doing things for her. It is not an exaggeration to say that he thought of the old lady's front every step of the way. The old lady would trust him so much, and it was also related to this.

Because of this, the old lady treats him differently from others

Just like knowing that Wei Xin was disrespectful to her precious grandson before, she just reprimanded him and took away his title of housekeeper, so she let it go lightly.But not long after, the old lady transferred Wei Xin back to the position of housekeeper because the housekeeper who succeeded Wei Xin was not as good as Wei Xin.

Originally, the old lady thought that if Wei Xin admitted his mistake immediately after entering the door, even if the old lady was dissatisfied, she would try her best to save him.

Who knew that after Wei Xin came in, he directly complained?

Even if Fu Li just came in, isn't she also his daughter-in-law?What's more, the old lady was quite satisfied with Fu Li when they met several times before and after marriage, and she had long regarded her as her family.

No matter how good the old lady treats Wei Xin, is she better than her own family?

The old lady's complexion immediately sank, but thinking about the benefits of Wei Xin in the past, she didn't get angry immediately, but gave Wei Xin a chance to defend himself

In case, what is the misunderstanding?

The old lady luckily

miss you.

But her attitude made Wei Xin misunderstand, thinking that between him and Fu Li, the old lady believed in him more, so he didn't have the slightest idea of ​​pleading guilty, and directly turned the point and poured a basin of dirty water on Fu Li. on the inside.

"Old lady, Madam doesn't know what her intentions are, but she only entered the house for a day, and how many troubles have happened in the mansion?" Wei Xin looked sad, "She first sent back Qiuxia, the maid bestowed by Madam, Then he punished dozens of servants in the mansion on the grounds of corruption, and now he is directly targeting the servant. The servant wants to ask his wife, you just entered the door and made a fuss in Dingweihou's mansion, It even made the people in the house uneasy, what exactly is it trying to do?"

The old man's expression darkened instantly, and the old lady was also full of disappointment.

Speaking of Wei Xin, he is also a capable person. If the old lady really trusts her when she speaks these "hard-hearted" words, even if she doesn't suspect Fu Li has ulterior motives at this time, she will inevitably be sympathetic to Fu Li's various actions today. feel dissatisfied.

What's more, because of this, I feel that Fu Li is a restless person, and it is not impossible to sow discord all day long.

But who let Fu Li prepare too much evidence, and the old lady is also a person who values ​​her family more than her confidants?

She grabbed the account book at hand and the confession of Niu Da and others, and threw it on Wei Xin's face: "Wei Xin, Wei Xin, I gave you such a name at the beginning because I hoped that you would be an honest and trustworthy person. But how do you do it? Deception, embezzlement, taking bribes, enriching your own pockets! It’s only a few thousand taels of silver, and the rewards you get from me every year are more than the silver you greedy? How shallow are your eyelids? , will you be fascinated by these thousands of taels of silver?"

Wei Xin's body trembled, and he quickly picked up all the papers that had been spilled all over the floor.

But he didn't take a closer look, and still insisted that he was slandered by Fu Li: "Old lady, you also said that you don't reward slaves with more than this little money every year. How could slaves bully you for such a small amount of money?" You betrayed your trust in the servant by hiding it from top to bottom? It doesn't make sense, old lady!"

Fu Li was about to speak, but when he heard a bang, the old man grabbed a vase and smashed it directly on the ground in front of Wei Xin.

Wei Xin was taken aback, and the explanation that had slipped to his lips was also scared back to his stomach.

The old man had also fought on the battlefield back then, and his aura was much scarier than the old lady's, not to mention that he had no affection for Wei Xin, so he couldn't listen to his eloquent sophistry: "The previous lady withdrew Not long after you took the position of housekeeper, you were promoted again. I disapproved of her actions at the time, but because the wife has always been in charge of the affairs of the back house, and the wife insisted, I didn't take too much care. But if you It would be a big mistake to think that Madam is an idiot who is so affectionate that he can't tell right from wrong."

"I've seen a lot of people like you over the years. It's nothing more than having a clever mouth, and then pretending to be extraordinary because of it, treating it as a sharp weapon, sowing right and wrong everywhere for my own benefit. The old man has watched coldly all these years, you like this The people who are here are not going to end well."

The old lady also looked at Wei Xin with a gloomy expression: "Wei Xin, you let me down so much."

Wei Xin met the old lady's eyes and immediately realized that he had overestimated his position in the old lady's heart and underestimated the old lady's intelligence.

But what made him even more wrong was that he got the old lady's attitude wrong before.

He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to admit his mistake and beg for mercy.

But when he found that Fu Li had been standing by the side, and the expression on his face hadn't changed from the beginning to the end, he panicked all of a sudden.

He just said so many things that provoked the relationship between the wife and the old lady. Even if he admitted his mistake, the old lady would not blame him. Could the wife let him go?Judging from the wife's decisive attitude to deal with all the offenders this afternoon, the new wife is not a soft-tempered person, and she offended her, and the Dingweihou Mansion may have lost its foothold. land.

He hesitated for a moment, and still chose to stick to what he said just now: "The old lady clearly understands that the servant is really wronged. The servant is a housekeeper. Even if you are lucky enough to get your favor, there is no way to intervene in places such as shopping and kitchen, and let these people Give me the silver that you have been greedy for..."

"You dare to offend me, how can other servants be afraid of you?" Wei Ruolan said suddenly, he looked at Wei Xin, sneered again and again, obviously he was dissatisfied with this housekeeper for a long time in his heart, "When will mother enter the mansion?" Short, I can only find out what is on your account book, and it seems that a few thousand taels of silver are really not worthy of your betrayal of the old lady's trust, but what if these thousands of taels of silver are not all you got from greed?"

As soon as these words came out, not only Fu Li was stunned, but even the old man and the old lady were a little stunned.

The two old men looked at each other, and finally the old man said, "Brother Lang, do you know something that we don't? Did Wei Xin do something to harm Dingweihou's mansion?"

Wei Ruolan turned to look at Fu Li and got an encouraging smile.

He paused for a moment, and then said: "Grandson has no evidence, but he once saw Wei Xin standing and talking with Miss Zhao Er, and he also took an envelope from Miss Zhao Er and paid a lot of banknotes. When the two of them saw their grandson coming, they immediately put away their things, and I didn't get any evidence. But because of this incident, my grandson inevitably felt that Wei Xin was not trustworthy, so he ordered the servants around him to keep an eye on Wei Xin , and then learned that he actually had contact with several family members."

"However, Wei Xin is cautious in his work, and has never personally contacted those people. Most of the time, he contacts people through the servants who go out to buy in the house..."

Now, all the evidence is correct.

Why would Wei Xin still embezzle money from the house when he hated the old lady to use it again? Why would he be willing to honor him with money in places where there is a lot of money, such as shopping and kitchen?

After all, it is an exchange of interests.

Wei Xin got the handle of those people and asked them to do things for him. He was also willing to use his name to cover up others, so that it would be easier for them to conceal all kinds of prices. It's just filial piety to him, not the bulk of his income at all.

But after Wei Ruolan finished speaking, Wei Xin's expression did not change.

Fury knows why

Because there is no evidence.Moreover, every confrontation between Wei Xin and Wei Ruolan before ended in Wei Ruolan's defeat. Even if what Wei Ruolan said this time is true, as long as he can't produce evidence, the old lady will probably just treat Wei Ruolan as a Ruolan is adding insult to injury, venting her previous anger.

After all, the grievances between the two are indeed deep.

Wei Ruolan even mentioned Miss Zhao Er.