Seeing that Wan Dong looked upright and not afraid of the shadow, the maid naturally stopped dragging Wan Dong out.
She stated her purpose directly.
"Miss Late Winter, I did a rough check of the lady's clothes, jewelry and things in the warehouse last night, but I didn't see the ledger corresponding to these things. Can Miss Late Winter hand over the ledger? "
When Late Winter heard the maid talking about this, she couldn't help but secretly sigh that these people acted too quickly. She didn't expect that the maid only received the transfer order last night and came to ask for the account book today.
If Chunhua hadn't told her how to deal with it in advance last night, she might not know how to deal with it at the moment.
But now that Chunhua has said how to deal with it, she naturally doesn't panic at all.
"I don't have the account book. When Grandma Yu left, she took this account book with her. Since we took charge of Qinglan Court, there are no accounts to check here? You asked me for the account book, I still want to Ask that nanny for the account book."
The Aunt Yu mentioned in late winter was an old person from Gao Mansion more than ten years ago. After Jiang Fang's first wife, Jiang Gao, left, these old people she left behind have been serving Miss Jiang Nianjiao. Until Jiang Nianshi, these people Due to poor guarding, Jiang Nianjiao was burned on her arm. The old man, who had never cared much about the affairs of the house, suddenly got angry and drove out the old people left by his wife, or sold them away. These people were scattered for a while. Now more than ten years have passed, and he wants to find them. Coming to Mammy Yu to prove the rights and wrongs of what was said in Late Winter seems like a dream.
Seeing the maid frowning and saying nothing, Wan Dong felt unspeakably proud, but she also knew that too much words would lead to mistakes. "Do you have anything else? If it's okay, I'll leave."
"After Grandma Yu left, the girls took over the possession of the young lady's belongings. There are quite a few of them. Didn't the young lady re-check the warehouse and record these things in the book after that?"
Late winter didn't expect that the maid could be so pestering. She straightened her hair in displeasure and said, "Of course not. Anyway, we are strictly guarding the things in the lady's room. We just went to get whatever the lady needs." .”
"As far as I know, you four maids were also able to read and manage accounts. Having an account book will make it easier to keep track of things. Aren't the girls afraid of losing something?" The maid was obviously speechless at what late winter said.
"What can we throw away? Sister Chunhua and I have always been very devoted to the young lady. If you are asking questions like this, could it be that you suspect that we are thieves and steal the young lady's things?" Wan Dong jumped to his feet.
Seeing that Wan Dong was so excited, the maid naturally didn't want to have a direct dispute with him so quickly. She said softly, "Why is the girl so excited? I was just asking casually."
Late winter thought that the maid knew how powerful she was and backed away. She snorted coldly, "Ask me casually. Do you act like you're asking casually?"
Then she shook her sleeves and said displeasedly, "I'm too lazy to tell you more."
After saying that, Wan Dong turned around and left.
But before she left, the maid who blocked the door just now was also extremely unhappy and said, "Sister Qilian, look at her attitude. Those who don't know may think she is the manager of this house."
Qi Lian, who had just confronted Wan Dong, didn't have the slightest hint of anything wrong on her face.
"Okay, Lianying, please stop saying a few words. When she comes later, the lady hasn't said anything, so let's not stop her."
After listening to Qi Lian's words, Lian Ying curled her lips and murmured in a low voice, "This kind of person who is obviously harboring evil intentions can actually enter the inner room of the eldest lady of the Jiang family. It seems that this eldest lady is really as rumored by the outside world." generally."
She didn't directly say any qualitative words, but because of Yu Se's hypocritical stepmother, Jiang Nianjiao naturally had a bad reputation outside.
What she said was not a good thing either.
Qi Lian remembered that the night before she entered the mansion, Concubine Yu Xian only told her in detail about Jiang Nianjiao's difficulties.
When this young lady was born, her mother died in childbirth, and her father was careless. That year, Jiang Fang married his current wife.
Although the biological mother's family felt sorry for the baby, they were outsiders after all, and the Jiang and Gao families had quite a dispute over their interests. In the end, I can only turn a blind eye to this kind of thing.
Perhaps the only thing to be thankful for at that time was that Jiang Fang listened to the Gao family's warning and only allowed Yu Set to fight.
The idea of a dowry left by the eldest lady’s biological mother.
However, when counting the belongings last night, Qi Lian was not in a good mood. Although Yu Se did not reach out directly, the four people she arranged seemed to be greedy for taking away the eldest lady's belongings. ..
So after hearing Lianying's words, Qi Lian only glared at Lianying. Her expression was particularly intimidating. She lowered her voice and reprimanded, "You, a maid, can interfere in the affairs of the master's family. You are in the palace." I have learned the rules for so many years, but now I have learned all the rules and gone to the dog’s belly, right?”
Being scolded by Qi Lian, Lianying did not dare to refute. Obviously Qi Lian was the one in charge among the group of maids. Lianying hurriedly patted her mouth, "Sister Qi Lian, I was wrong. I will never talk nonsense again." "
"Okay, you can go and guard the door." Qi Lian only said lukewarmly.
Lianying naturally did not dare to say anything, and she went to the outer room extremely depressed.
What she didn't know was that their conversation had fallen into the ears of someone who was interested.
Qi Lian walked into the inner room again at this time.
In the other room, Jiang Nianjiao, who was supposed to go back to sleep, was already waiting for Qi Lian in high spirits.
"Miss, this is the account book that I re-recorded after roughly counting my belongings last night. You can take a look at it first." While speaking, Qi Lian only respectfully handed the account book to Jiang Nianjiao for review.
Yu Se originally wanted to spoil Jiang Nian, but he didn't send anyone to teach her carefully about these housekeeper affairs.
In addition, Jiang Nianjiao was influenced by the aristocratic circles in the capital in the past, and she had always believed that money was nothing more than Ah Du's. It would be unavoidable for a woman from an official family to strive for profit from Ah Du's things, so she would lose her dignity, so she had always ignored these financial matters. .
Therefore, now she looks at the account book as if it were a book from heaven.
However, after her experience before rebirth, she now knows very well that even if a lady from the inner courtyard has wealth and silk at her side, if she cannot keep her share of the dowry, she will only be punished by others.
Therefore, in Jiang Nianjiao's view, housekeeping is also a top priority for housewives.
As for those people who said in the past that only merchants' wives had the smell of copper, she didn't take it seriously.
After all, most people in this circle are hypocritical and always say one thing and do another.
If anyone takes this trend seriously and does not have a reliable husband or loyal servants, even if he is rich in wealth, it will be a matter of time before his bones and marrow are sucked out.
Therefore, she did not intend to pretend to understand, but if she did not understand anything, she would ask Qi Lian carefully.
But because she still had to punish the traitors in the hospital, Jiang Nianjiao did not go to check her warehouse with much fanfare.
She spent a whole morning flipping through an account book. Fortunately, she was smart and not ashamed to ask questions. With the help of Qi Lian, a girl who used to be in charge of financial matters, she probably understood some basic knowledge.
However, after Jiang Nianjiao finished flipping through the account books, Qi Lian still opened her mouth to talk about something she was worried about.
"Miss Chunhua and Wandong only refused to hand over their old account books. There is no comparison between what I can count now. I don't know how much they have corrupted. When I asked Na Wandong about the account book just now, She only said that they never kept accounts in their house, and also said that the old account book was taken away by the original Aunt Yu."
After hearing Qi Lian's words, Jiang Nianjiao couldn't help but frown slightly.
"Listen to her nonsense. Grandma is not a selfish person. She must have told them all when she left. Besides, they all know how to manage accounts. If they say they don't have account books, wouldn't it mean that they don't have account books? Just kidding. Since they dare to prevaricate like this, I will go and question them myself."
After saying this, Jiang Nianjiao slammed the table and went to confront those people.
But Qi Lian stopped Jiang Nianjiao at this time.
Qi Lian whispered, "Girl, there is no need to be so angry."
"I looked at the jewelry, gold and silver, and many of them were crudely made. These things clearly don't seem to be used by officials. I think these maids probably steal a lot of things from you on weekdays. The money in the library is resold. Even without having to look at the ledger, this one item is enough to sell them directly."
Qi Lian's words obviously quickly appeased Jiang Nianjiao. However, I thought that I treated these people well on weekdays, but these people still cheated on me, and even bought and stole her biological mother for herself.
Jiang Nianjiao couldn't help but feel a burst of sadness from the dowry left behind.
At noon, there was only one more quarrel in Qinglan Courtyard.
The person who got angry was naturally Jiang Nianjiao, but the one who was scolded was Lianying, who was assigned to serve just yesterday.
On the table are four dishes and one soup cooked in the small kitchen. Compared with the standard of Qinglan Yuan, it seems extremely shabby at this level. And among them was Longjing shrimp, which Jiang Nianjiao was allergic to.
Now I suddenly saw that half of the food on my table was missing, and the food was not quite to my liking.
Jiang Nianjiao, who was used to being pampered, was naturally furious.
Lianying was scolded, and naturally she felt infinitely aggrieved.
Qi Lian clearly told the eldest lady that she could not eat so much for today's meal, so she cut down on it to avoid wasting it.
Moreover, she specially consulted several master chefs in the small kitchen for meals.
But I don't know if Jiang Nianjiao is deliberately making things difficult, or if the little kitchen chef is deliberately making things difficult.
The eldest lady just lost her temper again.
It was Qi Lian who smoothed things over, and Jiang Nianjiao allowed Lianying to take away the meal.
Lingying carried the food box out of the yard and walked straight to a secluded small bamboo forest. When she saw no one around, she couldn't help but murmured in a low voice, "He is such a difficult person to serve. He will take down people. If I had known earlier that I was going to serve such a person, and even if Concubine Xian beat me to death, I wouldn't come."
She thought that no one heard her rant, but suddenly a female voice came from behind and called out her name, "Miss Lingying?"
