Abacus Li looked at the two pieces of paper falling in front of him, and his body kept trembling. How could he not recognize that these two pieces of paper were the land deeds of the two farms that he had secretly purchased?
Hundred Guan.
These two farms are not far outside Qinghe County. Abacus Li plans to buy them for retirement. After all, he is nearly fifty. Although he can make money from Ximen's family, it is not as good as being a landlord himself.
What's more, Abacus Li somehow fell in love with Wu Yueniang's personal maid Dongmei. She talked to Wu Yueniang several times, but Wu Yueniang did not let go. Instead, she took advantage of this to tightly control Abacus Li.
Ximen Qing sneered twice: "Abacus Li, as long as you recognize it. Come on, put all these things aside and turn on the lamp! The master wants to reconcile the accounts."
Li calculated that at this moment, he even wanted to hit the wall and die. He had been operating in Ximen Mansion for many years, and all his previous efforts had been wasted. Let alone retaining half of it, it was still unclear whether his life could be saved.
Although it was still daytime, the light in the hall was not very good. The book boy went to get two candles, lit them and placed them in front of Ximen Qing.
Hua Tong'er also collected the land deed on the ground and threw the few packets of copper coins back into the box.
In front of Ximen Qing, the account books of the herbal medicine store and his own family were spread out at the same time. Both copies were filled with rows of tiny characters. If it weren't for the candles, it would have looked quite troublesome.
Fortunately, Ximen Qing had no intention of checking the accounts in the first place. He just wanted to put some pressure on Abacus Li to tell him who was behind it. At this time, he was looking at the accounts on both sides at the same time, and he was also a little worried.
It turns out that the book in Shopkeeper Fu's hand had clear handwriting line by line, with no trace of modification; while the copy in Abacus Li's hand had been scrawled over and over again before turning over two or three pages.
I revised it again and again, and some of the handwriting was so illegible that I couldn't read it clearly.
Ximen Qing sneered while watching. It seemed that the problems in this account were really big. After looking at it for a while, he raised his head: "Abacus Li, do you have anything to say? Your account is really confusing.
I don’t know how much manipulation was done by daubing and correcting it.”
Calculation Li lowered his head and didn't say a word, but his body kept shaking, and asked the boys watching on the side to point and poke at him secretly: "This old bastard will also end up like he did today!"
"I told you not to tell!" Ximen Qing's expression changed and he closed the ledger: "Come here! Pull this old guy into the yard and set him up, take out all the thick and thin whips, and get a bucket of water for me to soak in!
"
It was probably the first time in a long time that I heard that the master wanted to get a whip. The boys, headed by a book boy, were all smiling and happy, vying to get water, and those with whips to get whips.
When the bucket was placed at the entrance of the hall, five or seven whips of different sizes and thicknesses were soaked in it, and Abacus Li was shaking even more violently.
As soon as Ximen Qing waved, the two strong servants came up and dragged Abacus Li into the yard like a dead dog, and were about to tie him to the shelf. Abacus Li suddenly came to his senses and said: "Master! Little...
I have something to say..."
"Say!" Ximen Qing squinted his eyes and sat on the chair at the door. He first took a riding crop and dangled it in his hand.
"The little guy just helped settle the accounts, but I asked the eldest lady to take the money!" Abacus Li had his shirt taken off and was shivering from the cold.
"Waiting is what you said..." Ximen Qingzhan smiled: "Xiao Tianqing, go and invite Wu Yueniang over and confront you!"
Wu Yueniang was scolded by Ximen Qing in the yard today, and she asked Dongmei to help her into the house to rest. She took a nap first, and now she was lying on the bed, chatting with Dongmei wordlessly.
"That little bitch! Why did you hook up with the master so easily!" Wu Yueniang was angry and angry.
Dongmei's fat face was full of regret: "Originally, that little bitch was left under the stove to be a fire-making girl. I didn't expect that I asked that little bitch to serve the dishes last night, and the master fell in love with her!"
If I had known that the master wanted someone to accompany him to eat, wouldn't he have done it openly? Why bother pushing that little bitch into the master's arms?
Dongmei was thinking wildly when she heard a noise outside, as if the boys were about to start a fight.
"These little brats are getting more and more unruly. It's so irritating!" Wu Yueniang raised her eyebrows and said, "Dongmei, go out and teach me a lesson and give me a whip!"
Dongmei took off the whip on the wall and went out. Unexpectedly, there was a noisy atmosphere outside. Two boys were rushing to fetch water, and three boys were busy getting whips and fighting each other.
"Oh, give me that whip!"
"No, I took that first!"
"Sister Dongmei!" One of the servants' eyes lit up and he saw the whip in Dongmei's hand: "Are you bringing us a whip? Thank you, thank you!"
"What?" Dongmei was confused: "Usually you are timid when it comes to getting a whip, but why are you so happy today?"
The boy winked at Dongmei and said, "Sister, I don't know. What I'm going to do today is that old guy Li from the accounting room!"
"Abacus Li!" Dongmei's face turned pale all of a sudden, and she didn't even know the whip fell to the ground.
As Wu Yueniang's personal maid, Dongmei still knows a little bit about the things that Abacus Li and her own lady did behind Ximen Qing's back. Now that Ximen Qing wants Abacus Li, I wonder if that old man will reveal his own lady?
No, it definitely will!
Dongmei saw a boy who stole food and was whipped twice. She even confessed that she had peeped at the maid taking a bath.
Dongmei thought about the scene that day. The figure of the boy who was whipped and twisted back and forth on the ground swayed in front of her eyes, and the heart-rending screams seemed to still be echoing in her ears.
"Thank you, sister!" The boy didn't see anything wrong with Dongmei. He picked up the whip from the ground and swarmed to the hall with several other boys.
Dongmei shivered under the bright sun and hurried back to the house to tell her lady.
"What!" After Wu Yueniang heard the news, she could no longer lie down safely and quickly got up. She hurriedly told Dongmei to go to the hall to see what was going on. She also put on her clothes again and sat by the bed.
Thinking.
Dongmei didn't go out more than ten steps when she bumped into Xiao Tianqing face to face.
"It turns out to be Sister Dongmei." Xiao Tianqing said with a smile on her face: "It just so happened that the master asked me to invite my aunt to the hall to discuss matters?"
"Discuss the matter!" Dongmei knew that there was no truth in Xiao Tianqing's mouth, and it must be because Abacus Li spat out her lady before she could be whipped. She secretly gritted her teeth and said: "Go back and tell the master, the lady just got up right now.
Not dressed neatly yet.”
"Oh?" Xiao Tianqing looked convinced and nodded: "Then I'll wait at the door. If I go back now, I'm afraid the master won't like it."
Dongmei didn't bother to talk to him anymore, and hurriedly turned around and went back to the house: "My lady is not good, I have sent someone to call you over."
Wu Yueniang's face was also pale, and she unconsciously twisted the corner of her clothes into a tight knot with her hands. She stayed there for a long time before saying in a hoarse voice: "Dongmei, go and get the piece of red silk from the box at the back.
"
"Miss, what are you doing?" Dongmei was also frightened and confused. For a moment, she didn't know what her young lady wanted to do with the red silk.
"Go if you are told! Go quickly!" Wu Yueniang pursed her lips, seeming to have made up her mind.
Dongmei agreed, rummaging through the box hurriedly, and finally found a piece of red silk that was more than ten feet long.
"Miss, I found it, I found it!" Dongmei turned around and saw Wu Yueniang moving a stool and stepping on it.
Long silk, stool, step on the stool!
There was a roar in Dongmei's ears like thunder: "Miss, you can't do this!" As she said this, she threw herself on the ground and knelt on the ground to block Wu Yueniang's thigh, preventing her from getting on the stool.
"Let go!" Wu Yueniang shouted: "Give me the red silk!"
"Don't let it go! Just don't let it go!" Dongmei burst into tears and grabbed the red silk to wipe it: "Miss, what are you doing?"
"What for?" Wu Yueniang said with a straight face: "I want to hang myself, you can't see it!"
Nonsense, you want to make a dress out of red silk, and I don’t care about you. Who can’t see that you want to hang yourself?
Dongmei pressed the red silk to her body and hugged Wu Yueniang's thigh without letting go for a moment: "Miss, you can't do it! If you want to die, let your servant accompany you!"
"Nonsense!" Wu Yueniang was amused by Dongmei: "You are the one who wants to die!"
"Uh..." Dongmei looked silly and was stunned: "Is it okay to hang yourself to scare the old man?"
"Scare him? It's not that simple."
Wu Yueniang kicked Dongmei away, picked up the red silk and got on the stool. She quickly threw the red silk and passed it through the beam. She made two gestures at her neck, tied a knot, and then tied her neck.
Into it...
"Well, it's the right length." Wu Yueniang was very satisfied with the knot she had tied. She stood on the stool and shouted to Dongmei: "Get up quickly! Run back immediately and call my father and brother over. This time I want Ximen to do it."
Qing looks good!”
"This Ximen family will have to be named Wu sooner or later!"
Dongmei trembled when she heard this, quickly got up from the ground, and rushed out of the door in a panic...
When Xiao Tianqing was waiting impatiently at the door, she saw Dongmei running out, and went to the back door without caring about herself. She hurriedly went into the house to take a look, and happened to see Wu Yueniang holding the silk and trying it on her neck.
..
This frightened Xiao Tianqing so much that his face changed, and he didn't care about the situation. He stumbled out of the door and ran towards the hall, shouting as he ran: "Oops, something happened."
Got it!"
"Auntie hanged herself in the house!"
"What?" Ximen Qing trembled when he heard the sound and glanced in the direction of Wu Yueniang's house.
Crying, making trouble, and hanging. Has the final killer move of hanging been staged?
Not to mention the boys around him, Abacus Li who was tied to the shelf seemed to have forgotten the cold. He tried his best to turn his head and look over there, with a look of shock on his face.
"Very good." A trace of sarcasm appeared on Ximen Qing's lips: "The show is finally here."