Returning to the Marquis Mansion, Chu Zishan saw Mei and Chu Zhinan standing in the courtyard with anxious faces. They hurriedly came over to greet her when they saw her.
Chu Zishan walked past the two of them and walked directly into the bright hall, sat down and picked up some fruit snacks on the table and started to eat them.
"You didn't have lunch." Mrs. Mei hurried over, poured her a cup of tea and put it in her hand, "Drink some tea and don't choke."
Then, she pointed at the maid: "If you wish, go and ask the small kitchen to cook some meals for the eldest girl."
Chu Zishan ate the fruit cakes with big mouthfuls, his brows getting tighter and tighter.
All the way back from the household department, her mind was filled with thoughts of her mother going to collect her salary time and time again, only to come back empty-handed again and again, and being treated coldly again and again. Her mental images were put on fire, and the burning pain made her furious.
She slapped several cases violently, causing the tea set to jingle and sparkle.
"If these grandsons dare to bully my Chu family, I will definitely give them a bad death."
Mrs. Mei looked panicked and said, "Zishan, you didn't make a big fuss in the Ministry of Finance just now, did you?"
Seeing that Chu Zishan was silent, she looked at her daughter who was also worried and felt bad in her heart.
Ever since Chu Zishan left the Marquis' Mansion, the two of them had been restless, worried that Chu Zishan would have a bad temper and cause trouble in the household department if he said anything wrong.
Seeing how angry this woman was as soon as she came back, the two women were so nervous and scared that their hearts almost jumped out of their throats.
Chuchun saw that her master had been silent and the second lady and the eldest girl looked uneasy. She said: "Second madam, eldest lady, don't worry. Our girl has spoken properly to the Ministry of Household Affairs. The girl is restricted to the Minister of Household Affairs within seven days.
Send your salary to your house."
"Restricted to the household department for seven days, this..." Mrs. Mei couldn't laugh or cry after hearing Chuchun's words.
If you don't want to come, this girl Zishan will be restricted to the household department for seven days and ask people to listen. Wouldn't she laugh out loud?
Chu Zhinan shook his head helplessly and waved to the maid: "Go quickly."
Chu Zishan raised his eyes and saw the maid walking out with a package, "Jinxiu, what are you doing?"
Jinxiu knelt down and bowed to her, and said timidly: "Back to my dear, the eldest lady asked me to go to the pawn shop and pawned the truth."
Chu Zishan waved: "Bring it here."
Jinxiu looked at Chu Zhinan, stepped forward timidly, and handed the package to Chu Zishan.
Chu Zishan opened the package and found two huanghuali jewelry boxes, filled with gold and silver jewelry and jade bracelets and pearl chains.
She glared at Chu Zhinan: "Our Chu family is not at the point of going to pawn. Let's go through the accounts again and see if there are other ways."
"I have checked the accounts of the Marquis, but..." Chu Zhinan hesitated, his eyes flickering.
Chu Zishan frowned: "Look at you, you are such a gentle person. If you have anything to say, please say it quickly."
"There is one account that I haven't checked. It's Third Aunt's shop. I asked Jinxiu to get the account book, but Third Aunt didn't give it to me," Chu Zhinan said.
Chu Zishan rolled his eyes angrily: "In the early spring, Guiqiu, you two go to the west courtyard and bring me the account book."
"Yes." Chuchun and Guiqiu responded, turned around and headed towards the west courtyard.
Chu Zishan finished a plate of fruit snacks when he heard Ning's sharp scream, and then Chuchun ran back holding a wooden box.
"Girl, this is the account book of the third lady's shop."
Chu Zishan looked at the wooden box locked with a small gold lock, raised his eyebrows and looked at Chu Chun, who was panting. Chu Chun pointed behind him: "The key is in the third lady's mouth."
At this time, Mrs. Ning ran over, out of breath. After a while, she pointed at Chu Zishan: "Chu Zishan, what do you want to do? I am your elder, and you openly rob your elders of their things. Believe it or not."
Go to the government office and accuse you of disobedience."
Chu Zishan looked at her: "Stop talking nonsense and hand over the key."
"Chu Zishan, those shops were given to me by my sister-in-law, and they were run by me with all my hard work. I will not give them to you even if I die."
"You are still losing money every month after working hard, but you still have the nerve to say that you resisted me opening the wooden box so much. You found something fishy inside. Are you guilty?"
"You have a guilty conscience. My sister-in-law checks the account books every month. If there were any problems, she would have stopped letting me do it. You said you were checking the accounts and pretended I didn't know about it. You hated me and Gui'er because of what happened to Cui'er two days ago.
Son, if you want to take back the shop, if you dare, I will die in the shop, and your Chu family will not even want to do this business."
Mrs. Mei looked at Mrs. Ning and said softly: "Brothers and sisters, Zishan didn't want to take the shop back, he just looked at the accounts. Now the Houfu has no money. If you have money, take it out and help tide over the difficulties.
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"Bah, don't lie to me. Gu Yimo brought so much gold, silver and jewels to fill a whole warehouse. You said you have no money, you are a liar. Chu Zishan, you are so rich, but you still care about us orphans.
You have this little money in your widowed mother’s hands, you black-hearted girl.”
Ning suddenly sat on the ground, slapping her thighs and howling: "Oh my god, Mu Xuan's father, please open your eyes and see, your niece is bullying us, we can't live this life..."
Chu Zishan looked at the dishonest Ning with cold eyes and said, "The shop belongs to the Chu family and you are not running it well. As the owner, it is only natural for me to take the shop back."
After saying that, she punched the wooden box hard, causing it to shatter. She took out the account book inside, shook it, and handed it to Chu Zhinan.
Ning's face looked horrified: "Chu Zishan, you..."
Chu Zishan glared at her: "If you dare to make trouble again, I will pull Chu Muchuan over and beat you until you stop making trouble. I see who can stop me today."
"You, you, you..."
Ning was so angry that her whole body trembled.
Mrs. Mei walked over and helped Mrs. Ning up: "Brothers and sisters, Zishan went to the household department today and didn't get back her salary. She was very angry. She's angry. You'd better not offend her. In fact, Zishan didn't say that the shop wouldn't pay her.
You care."
Ning pushed Mei away and glared angrily at Chu Zishan: "Chu Zishan, my man died to save your father. If you dare to treat our mother and son badly, you are ungrateful and will be struck by lightning."
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After saying that, she turned around and walked away angrily.
Chu Zishan looked at Chu Zhinan boredly and said, "Money, money, I have never wanted money so much as at this moment."
After a while, Chu Zhinan showed her the account book: "There are several items in Third Aunt's account book that should be credit. Look at these, they are all accounts remembered by the Sun family."
"Sun family."
Chu Zishan sat up, grabbed the account book, and looked through the pages carefully.
Chu Zhinan: "I have to say that the third aunt's accounts are remembered very clearly. I just did a rough calculation. Over the years, the Sun family has probably recorded nearly 40,000 taels of accounts. The rest should be owed by the shop, and there is also one
Several thousand taels."
Chu Zishan took pictures of the accounts and said, "The Sun family actually owes tens of thousands of taels, which is enough to cover the expenses of my residence for a year. Why doesn't mother go and get it back?"
Mrs. Mei sat next to her and said, "You had an engagement with the Sun family before, and we were one family. My sister-in-law also wanted to let the Sun family help her. She told Mrs. Sun that if she needed anything in her shop, she could just come and get it. Mrs. Sun was so rude.
I kept so many accounts."
Chu Zishan sneered: "It goes without saying that we are a family, but it is no longer the case."
She stood up, moved her arms, her bright eyes flashed with fierceness, and she raised her lips with a sly smile: "Tomorrow, I will visit the Sun family. The eldest sister will take Chuchun and Guiqiu to collect the credit accounts of other families."
Mrs. Chu He hid in the corridor aside. Like Mrs. Mei, she was worried that Chu Zishan would cause trouble in the household department, so she secretly waited here for her daughter to come back.
Her daughter did not act impulsively, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt very pleased.
Has my daughter really grown up? Or has she...never understood this daughter at all?
From the moment her daughter was born, she was doomed to be a failure as a mother... By the time she wanted to make up for it, her daughter's hatred for her had been deeply rooted in her heart.
My mother-in-law was wise, so she asked her to step down from the position of head of the house and think about it for a while.
Ask her to think carefully about what her mother has given her daughter.
Letting her daughter take charge of the family is to let her know how difficult it is for her.
The mother-in-law had good intentions, just to see her and her daughter settle their differences and take charge of the Chu family together before she died.
She turned around sadly, and her lonely figure slowly disappeared into the deep courtyard.
Chu Zishan went back to the dormitory and took a nap, and heard Sheng Xia calling her in the hazy state.
"Girl, Master Gao has sent a message."
She rubbed her sleepy eyes, sat up, took the bamboo stick from Shengxia's hand, and pulled out a note from it.
After looking at it, she frowned: "The carrier pigeon came back a day late."
Shengxia nodded: "Yes, according to the normal flight speed, we should have returned last night. Maybe it was delayed by Master Gao."
Chu Zishan handed the note to Shengxia: "Go to the Marquis Wu'an Mansion and hand the note to the Marquis personally."
"Yes." Shengxia responded and put the note away.
"Send another letter to Mr. Gao and ask him to investigate Wu Haoyu, who is smuggling salt, and send him to the Governor of Qianjiang in my name."
"Yes." Shengxia responded again, turned and left.
Chu Zishan lay back on the bed and looked at the gorgeous and soft gauze curtains.
Wu Haoyu is the brother-in-law of the Minister of Household Affairs.
An official career and a bright future are all paved with real money and silver.
In order to get promoted, officials engage in corruption and fraud to line their own pockets... They try their best to make money.
The most profitable of these were salt and iron, which were monopolized by the court.
But the huge profits drive many people to take risks, and would rather risk their lives to do the business of smuggling salt and iron.
The Ministry of Hubu was in charge of water transportation, and the Minister of the Ministry of Hubu used to transport water grains to make smuggled salt, which was a very safe way. The person who worked as a laborer was his wife's brother, Wu Haoyu.
In her previous life, she was the daughter-in-law of the treacherous Prime Minister Sun Zhiyuan, and she knew that in this officialdom, the big fish eats the small fish, and the small fish eats the shrimp. One level eats the other, which is a cruel and realistic law.
Sun Zhiyuan's hands and eyes were very clear, and he knew all the money obtained by officials at all levels through improper means. With a little tapping, he put most of the money obtained by those officials into his own pocket.
She often saw some officials coming to the mansion to give gifts, and the Minister of Household Affairs was one of them.
If she bullies the Chu family, she will make that villain pay a heavy price.
She wrote the letter in midsummer, tied it to the carrier pigeon's leg, released the pigeon, and watched it fly away before turning around and walking out of the yard.
A moment later, Yun Chuan walked into the room holding a pigeon and handed the bamboo stick to Gu Yimo who was behind the desk: "Miss Chu has sent another message."
Gu Yimo took the bamboo stick, took out the scroll, opened it and read it, "She can make the salt gang master do things for her. This girl is more secretive than I thought. She is the brother-in-law of the Minister of Tobe..., haha
, this guy is out of luck, let him fly normally."
"Yes." Yun Chuan responded, turned around and walked out of the house.
Gu Yimo held his chin and looked out the window. The wall that separated him from Chu Zishan. Now, when the servants of the Hou Mansion see him, they can run faster than a leopard. No one dares to seduce him with two ingots of gold.
Looking at him, in just one day, Chu Zishan managed the Champion Mansion as strictly as a military camp.
He sighed sadly: "Madam, my husband is going to be lovesick..."
Early on the next morning, Chu Zishan took the Champion Marquis carriage and embarked on the road to the Sun family to collect debts. This chapter has been completed!