223. Chapter 223 Where did the money go?

Author: Dongchen Yuanxiu

Chapter 223 Where is the money?

Lai Sheng didn't dare to delay, so he took his servant, his maid, and the gongs with him and started beating them on Ningrong Street.

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"Members of the Jia family will now go to the courtyard of Rongqing Hall in Rongguo Mansion to divide their money, calculated on a per-capita basis."

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"Whoever hears it, go quickly."

Throughout the alley, people on the street stretched out their heads to look over there.

Many people came out to watch. The Jia family members who lived in alleys and alleys, whether they lived in bungalows or in several houses, stretched their heads to look out. Many women came out with their children to listen carefully.

When they heard something good happened, many smart people ran to Rongguo Mansion.

Lai Sheng informed him himself, and then asked the boy behind him to hold the gong and beat it repeatedly in those streets and shout.

After the notification, I saw that it was almost done.

Lai Sheng returned to the courtyard with his servants and guards.

Moreover, Lai Sheng brought many accounting boys to guard the money, and began to calculate each person's share. He even started to register and distribute it directly.

The tribesmen who received the money were all smiling and excited. Many people who knew the cause and effect, after receiving the money, kowtowed to the head of the Jia family, Luo Yunhou, to thank him.

Although Jia Zhen felt distressed, did she look calm when she saw so many people kowtowing to her? She walked there and accepted it with peace of mind, saying a few words of encouragement from time to time. Seeing such a scene, Zhang Jinyu was also helpless. The patriarch, the elder of the clan is greater than the sky, the clan

Is power really unsolvable?

Shen Zhongxin also took out the account book and started counting, and opened the boxes one by one to check the quantity and specifications of the money. After checking it, it was recorded in the account book.

After settling the accounts, he took out the IOU and handed it directly to Jia Zhen, and then wrote on the spot that the collection of the debt owed by the Dongning Government was completed and stamped it with the private seal of Shen Zhongxin of the Department of Accounts. Jia Zhen's face softened and she took the IOU and looked at it carefully.

They are all old accounts that have lasted for many years. The total number is almost the same and there is a pile of them.

Jia Zhen touched her leg again and again, sighed and threw it directly into the brazier in the pavilion, letting it burn to ashes. The ashes of the IOU also made the people in the pavilion feel extremely complicated.

Shen Zhongxin arranged for people from the Imperial City Department to start moving the 150,000 taels of red silver from the courtyard, and he put the one million taels of silver notes into his arms. Jia Zhen's eyes twitched and her heart ached.

Zhang Jinyu was so jealous that he had made a fortune by robbing Minister Shen on the way, but he also shook his head secretly. This would have offended himself, the Imperial City Department and the Imperial Army.

However, there was still no movement in Rongguo Mansion.

I don't know what I'm doing. Not even a boy came back to report.

I didn’t even see Wang Xifeng’s Yongxuan.

It was not the warehouse in the backyard. Wang Xifeng came here with his seal, asked Lin Zhixiao to open the warehouse and began to check the money, especially the cash in the warehouse.

Lin Zhixiao broke out in a cold sweat when he saw his second wife checking so carefully. He didn't know whether he would find out that, aside from the falsified accounts, his second wife, Mrs. Wang, often took away the money directly. Many of them were not recorded in the accounts.

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The hole is too big to be filled, and those old debts will be forgotten.

Wang Xifeng ignored it and took Ping'er to check Chengdong's treasury silver, which was about one hundred and three thousand taels of red silver. Then he shouted to the servant outside,

"Come here, move the one hundred thousand taels of silver to the courtyard first, and then let Marquis Luo Yun's guards watch it."

"No, Second Grandma,"

The boys all came in and started carrying the boxes towards Rongqing Hall.

Jia Mu and others secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the boy carrying money from outside the yard. The second wife, Mrs. Wang, squeezed the beads in her legs tighter and tighter.

Seeing this, Jia Mu also said;

"Marquis Luo Yun, what do I think?"

"Go back to the old lady, take out fifty thousand taels of silver and put it over there for distribution to the Jia family members. I said I will never break my promise."

Zhang Jinyu's mouth went dry when she saw the red flowers and silver, but in front of everyone, she asked her guards to carry the money directly and stopped looking at it.

Shen Zhongxin also went over to check and said;

"Old lady, does that count as one hundred thousand taels of silver, far short of nine hundred thousand taels of silver?"

"Why are you so anxious? Why don't you all move it? Yuanyang, I'll go over and see why it's so slow?"

Jia Mu was also impatient, so she sent Yuanyang over to ask.

Mandarin ducks don’t dare to neglect, they replied;

"No, old lady, I will go then."

Yuanyang took a few maids over to have a look.

Rongguo Mansion warehouse,

Wang Xifeng asked after seeing the money moved;

"Manager Lin, the old lady in the palace said that the money borrowed from the Ministry of Household Affairs when the old prince was still alive is sealed in the warehouse. Where is it?"

Lin Zhixiao broke into a cold sweat and hesitated without saying anything. Wang Xifeng felt good and asked again.

Lin Zhixiao also thought that Ming Yue might not be able to do anything well, and let her handle the matter of the second wife on her own.

He replied;

"Go back to Second Grandma, follow me over there."

Lin Zhixiao took out a bunch of keys from the bottom of the accounting room and walked to the back of the warehouse. Wang Xifeng followed him. It was not far away, just to the edge of the warehouse. There was a small door at the back of the garden.

It's so hidden that if you don't pay attention, you might think it's a stone.

Did Wang Xifeng feel deeply when he saw this? Sure enough, he was from a high-ranking family. The legs with hidden silver appeared in endlessly, and he had put a lot of effort into them. This shows where the Jia family's confidence lies. Sure enough, it's up to him to think about it.

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Lin Zhixiao took out the rusty key in his leg and tremblingly opened the side door of the warehouse. It was hidden behind a rockery and unlocked not one lock, but three.

After Lin Zhixiao opened them one by one, he then turned a mechanism on the east side, and the warehouse door opened automatically, and the rockery stones in front of Wang Xifeng automatically sank to the east, leaving a deep and dark passage.

When the boy behind him saw this, he shrank his neck back and looked a little scared. Seeing this, Wang Xifeng also looked at each other in confusion.

"Manager Lin, what's the situation? Where does such a hole lead to?"

Lin Zhixiao replied;

"Second Grandma, this is the warehouse of the Rongguo Mansion. The Jia family's initial silver and valuables from the palace are all in it. Every time you go in and out, you ask for a registrant. It is very likely that this person took something. The account book is there.

At the entrance of the warehouse, the old slave will also mark it outside."

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Wang Xifeng was not brave enough to raise her legs and asked to go in, but Ping'er grabbed her and whispered:

"Second Grandma is so dark, how could she get in?"

"Wherever it's dark, it's just a little dark. What's there to be afraid of?"

Wang Xifeng muttered angrily, and looked to the east carefully, but there was nothing. There was just a step, and at the far end of the east there was a house, and there was some light inside.

I was not afraid at all, so I just took Ping'er and walked east, stepping on the stone steps, and came to the stone warehouse in the east. I didn't expect that the inside was so bright and clear, with holes all around like windows, so it was difficult to find if it was hidden.

, and then there were piles of various gold and silver utensils, including corals, gold and jade, all of which were gifts from the palace.

Then there were rows of boxes, so full that Wang Xifeng's eyes gleamed and she was simply amazed.

"Grandma, hurry up and check the money, people are waiting there in a hurry."

Ping'er had to remind him gently from behind.

Wang Xifeng was a little unhappy and cursed;

"My little hooves, no matter what I urge, I can't even look at it."

Even so, Wang Xifeng was not slow on her feet. She walked over to the boxes and opened them. In an instant, red flowers and silver were revealed. The first row was almost one hundred thousand taels.

Then whether it is the second row or the third row, it is not the same.

When she was in the fourth row, Wang Xifeng put her legs on her face and immediately felt her legs felt a little light. She didn't care, so she opened the box directly. Unexpectedly, it was empty inside.

Seeing this, Wang Xifeng also asked, with a look of confusion on his face;

"Ping'er, can I put the empty boxes in the warehouse?"

"Go back to grandma, no, can't you? Boxes without silver cannot be stored in the warehouse. What's wrong, grandma?"

Ping'er closed the box behind him and said with some confusion.

Wang Xifeng felt good for a moment, and thought of one person in her mind, her aunt's second wife, Mrs. Wang. With doubts, she continued to open the box, but the rows behind were all empty. In this situation, Wang Xifeng stood there dumbfounded.

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Behind him, Ping'er noticed that the second mistress was very good, so he came over and wanted to ask something. Unexpectedly, when he glanced forward, he saw rows of empty boxes. Ping'er was frightened.

"Ah." He said, standing there and covering his mouth tightly.
To be continued...