[Red Mansion] Third Sister You's New Life in the Red Mansion

Zheng said this to Xiu Ying because she really had no one else to discuss with. The eldest daughter only knew to be afraid, not to mention the two old women, who were less experienced than her.

Xiuying thought about it carefully, and asked Zheng Shi, "Mother thinks, what kind of person is this Qingdong?"

Mrs. Zheng wiped away her tears, "He was the apprentice your uncle pulled out for me from the Zheng family's shop when I was married. After I came to Jinling, I saw that he was quick-witted and good at calculating accounts, so I let him He worked as the second shopkeeper in the Rouge shop, and even helped him talk about the marriage; two years later, the big shopkeeper of my shop wanted to go back to Yangzhou, and Qingdong became the shopkeeper as a matter of course. When I went to check the accounts last year, his The attitude is very respectful, and the accounts of the shop he manages are very clear, and the income is getting stronger every year. Later, he said that he wanted to expand the store, and changed the layout and furnishings of the store. I followed him; Unexpectedly, he is such a wolf-hearted person!"

"My mother went over this time, did you check the set of books he mentioned? The one at the end of last year?"

"Eh?" Mrs. Zheng was stunned, and said somewhat unnaturally, "That's not true. Knowing that their family moved to live in the attic, I was furious at that time, but I forgot to read the account book."

"Look, mother, isn't this chasing after the basics?" Xu Ying shook her head, "For a shopkeeper, of course it depends on his business profit and loss, whether the accounts are clear; and whether he has ideas, brains, and continuous Expand the business; Qingdong, I think he has no problems in these points. Let's talk about the matter of them moving to the attic. Qingdong is too courageous and disrespectful to the main family. After all, it’s not a big deal…”

"Isn't that a big deal? Their family is already living there, where are we going to live? It's fine to stay in this inn for three to five days. With our family and children, can we live here for a lifetime?" Zheng Zheng Shi became excited when he heard it.

Xuan Ying shook her head helplessly, "Mother, listen to me first!"

Xiuxiu was also busy holding Zheng's arm, pleading softly, "Mother, my sister has always been a capable person, just listen to what she has to say!"

Zheng Shi glared at Xu Ying angrily, and stopped talking.

Then Xiu Ying said again: "Let me just say it straight! The first thing my mother has to do now is to check the accounts. If the accounts are correct and the money has been paid clearly, Qingdong will have no major problems; the second thing is , find someone to repair the back yard as soon as possible, and let Qingdong and his family move out. You have to tell them that the attic is the place of the master’s house, and it doesn’t matter if you live there or not, but even if it’s empty, they can’t Stay, this is the rule! If you allow them to live, it is your generosity, but it is by no means a matter of course!"

"Well said! Why didn't I think of this floor?" Mrs. Zheng slapped her thigh excitedly when she understood what Su Ying said, "I just said, it's obviously where I live, and it's taken over by their family. , he still seems so reasonable, so I won’t block him with words! My son, I’m lucky to have you today! Let’s eat first, and when we’re full, I’ll just take you there. Say it!"

Xu Ying seemed to have thought of something, and reminded Zheng, "After the meeting is over, mother should not lose her temper, or the trouble will get out of hand; besides, if everything is as I expected, it will be fine if I can deal with it." ; If there are other details, my mother will listen to my arrangement; if my mother does not agree, it is useless for me to go, it is better not to go."

Zheng Shi is not used to the appearance of such a small adult like Xuanying, but thinking about the aggrievedness she has suffered, she can only bear it.

A group of people had breakfast in the shop, and it seemed that there were more and more people, so Zheng brought Xiu Ying back to the Rouge shop.

When the mother and daughter came in, the business in the store was really good, but Qingdong and his wife Liu were not there, only Qingdong's two daughters were looking after the storefront.Qingdong's two daughters, the older one is Qinglan, who is fifteen or sixteen years old, and the younger one is Qingzhi, who is thirteen or fourteen years old. .Seeing Zheng Shi and Xiu Ying coming, the younger Qing Zhi Xu was not familiar with her, so she immediately came up to meet her with a smile and asked, "What is this grandma going to shop for? Rouge powder, hair oil cream, lip balm, Fragrance powder and sachets, we have all kinds of them here!"

Mrs. Zheng snorted, "I don't need anything, I'll find your shopkeeper!"

Xiu Ying tugged at her sleeve, motioning her not to talk nonsense, and then smiled at Qing Zhi, "Isn't this Qing Zhi? I met you when I was young, but now that I'm grown up, don't you remember me? "

Qingzhi was taken aback, and realized after a while, "Isn't this the main lady and the second young lady? So the second young lady has grown up like this? How disrespectful! Sister, the main lady is here, I'll call daddy over here, You watch here first!"

Qing Lan on the other side was busy greeting guests, and said immediately after hearing the words, "Then you go!"

At the same time, he greeted Zheng's mother and daughter, "The master's wife wait a moment, my father is meeting guests in the backyard, and he will come out soon."

"Isn't this backyard uninhabitable? How can you still entertain guests?" Xiu Ying asked with some doubts.

"The left is just some shopkeeper's gang, people who have business contacts. Where do you choose to entertain these people!" Zheng led Su Ying to the tea area, planning to sit there for a while, waiting for Qing Dong come out.

"Mother, why don't we go to the backyard and have a look?" Xiuying said thoughtfully.

"The backyard? What's so interesting about it? It's just a small yard with a well, and then there are three small one-story houses. I heard that half of them collapsed!" Mrs. Zheng didn't want to go.

"Then mother sit here for a while, I will come when I go." Xiuying said and walked back.

"Hey!" Mrs. Zheng was anxious, "Girls, why are you running around all by yourself?" He hurriedly followed, "I'll go with you!"

The mother and daughter went straight to the backyard, only to see Mrs. Liu washing something by the well, and Qing Zhi talking to her.Just as Zheng was about to speak out, Xiuying gave her a hand, and saw Qingdong and a tall man coming out of the room in the middle of the backyard.

The mother and daughter couldn't help but looked at each other, and the first doubt was, "Isn't this house good? Does it look like it's collapsed?"

The second question is, "Who is this person talking to Qingdong?"

This man looked less than 40 years old, tall and thin, fair and handsome, elegant and composed, he did not look like a businessman at all.The colleagues of her husband that Zheng had met before were somewhat similar to them.

More importantly, Zheng felt that he was very familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

Seeing the man and Qingdong leaving, Mrs. Zheng immediately took her little daughter's hand and hurried back to the tea area in front of the shop.

Zheng Dong walked out with the man, the man glanced at Zheng Shi unintentionally, nodded to her with a smile, and walked out, Zheng Shi couldn't help but feel hot.

Qingdong came in front of the mother and daughter with a complicated look on his face, "Why is the wife here again?"

"My shop, of course I come whenever I want, and leave whenever I want!"

Mrs. Zheng felt that her eloquence suddenly became much sharper, "Stop talking nonsense, take out last year's account book first!"

Qingdong was obviously a little surprised, "Won't Madam drive us away?"

Mrs. Zheng looked at him impatiently, "One yard is worth one yard. I'll look at the ledger first. If there is no problem with the ledger, everything is easy to talk about."

Qingdong glanced at her, as if he wanted to say something, after thinking about it, he decided to leave to move the books.

"Mother, when the shopkeeper Huiqing comes, ask who was that person just now, and what's the matter here?"

Mrs. Zheng was thinking about this, when she was reminded by Xu Ying, she became a little annoyed, "I will wake up to this, I still need you to tell me!"

Soon Qingdong brought in last year's account books, which were recorded on a monthly basis, in a thick stack, "Last year's twelve months, plus this year's three months, there are fifteen books in total. My wife is going to move to Where can I see it?"

With so many ledgers, it usually takes Mrs. Zheng several days to read through them, which is why she sometimes has to stay here overnight.But now, the attic where she stayed was grandiosely occupied by Qingdong's family, and according to Qingdong's questioning, they didn't intend to move out for a while.

"Just read it here," said Xiu Ying, pulling out a few copies, "Lend me the pen and paper from Shopkeeper Qing."

"Paper and pen? Don't you use an abacus?" Both Zheng and Qingdong looked at her strangely.

"No need. Mother, I read a translation of Xiyi's arithmetic at my uncle's house, and I can do calculations with pen and paper." Xiuying smiled.

In her previous life, she was tortured by abacus and mental arithmetic since she was a child. This kind of daily turnover of more than ten taels, a few cents, and a few cents of silver looks extremely complicated. In fact, it is the addition and subtraction of ten digits, followed by a decimal point. , which is very simple for modern people.She only needs a pen and paper to transcribe the numbers, and then make a simple loan form, so that even if there is a deficit, she will have nothing to hide.

Seeing the strange symbols and frames drawn by Xiu Ying on the paper, both Zheng Shi and Qing Dong felt strange, and they couldn't take their eyes off it.And in less than a cup of tea, Xuan Ying had already read the accounts she had taken out.

"Shopkeeper Qing, there are problems with these books." Su Ying held up the books with the cover of a certain month in Guiyou Year.

"Impossible!" Qingdong jumped up, "You are a child, what can you understand? My accounts have always been clear, and I can't make a single mistake!" He has absolute confidence in himself, and he dares to bet that no one but the old accountant who has accumulated over the years can see that he has done something wrong.

"Is there something wrong, you know it in your heart," Xiu Ying looked at him calmly, "In July, the total collection is 180 three taels and seven cents and five cents, and the total payment is 110 five taels and three cents and two cents. You didn’t record it in the account, so that’s all, the income you reported for July was only 57 taels and nine cents. What’s the difference? What do you say?”

"You, the number you said is wrong! How could you calculate it so quickly, you are deceiving me!" Qingdong broke into a cold sweat.

"Right or wrong, you can tell by doing the calculations. How about this, shopkeeper Qing, bring the abacus, you and mother will each do the calculations, and I will report the numbers. If the numbers I said are slightly different from what you calculated, the people in the attic will I told my mother not to pursue the matter." Xiu Ying looked at him unchanged.

Zheng Shi was in a hurry, and was about to refute something, but when she saw Xiuying's determined expression, she stopped making a sound, and only paid attention to Qingdong's reaction.

Qingdong's expression changed again and again, as if hesitating for something, but his attitude became overbearing after a while, "Are the numbers wrong? Then I don't know what to do, how about my wife teach me a way? "

Zheng Shi was so angry that she couldn't say a word, so Xiuying could only pat the back of her mother's hand comfortingly.

"Shopkeeper Qing, you are quite courageous. Enriching your own pocket, coercing the master's family, and bullying officials and family members, any of these crimes are not light! What you are thinking is that my father has passed away, and our family is orphaned and widowed. No backer? Then I might as well tell you that my father worked in Zhan Shifu and Dali Temple for many years before his death, and there were a few colleagues who got along well. Are you going to let it go? Are you not afraid that we will report to the police?"

Seeing Qingdong clenched his fists and still looked confident, Xuanying felt surprised in his heart, so he could only feel moved again: "Shopkeeper, your family lives in this attic, it's already beyond the norm, I Your mother doesn't care about you, it's because she is generous, and now it's only natural that you want to move out immediately, and you shouldn't complain; after all these years, ask yourself, is there anything my mother can't live with you? She is a woman People, the man is gone, and it's not easy for her to drag the family!"

Qingdong lowered his head, and after a while, he still gritted his teeth and said, "Madam, believe it or not, no matter what I do, I do it for this business. I will explain the matter of money in the future, and you Why bother to force me? I promise, it will be too late for you to thank me!"

Mrs. Zheng was confused by what he said, and was about to ask something, when she heard Xuanying say coldly: "Who gave you the courage? Who is behind you? You guys are here to plot against my family Shop? Tell me, who is that person just now?!"