Shopkeeper Wen had long expected that someone from the Ye family would take over the silver building, but he didn't expect that the person coming would be Ye Jintang, a little girl who had been living in a boudoir.
He said with a smile on his face, "Girl is still young. I'm afraid she won't be able to understand the accounts in the bank. It's better to wait for the Ye family to find an elder to check the accounts."
"It doesn't have to be so troublesome. The Silver Building is my mother's dowry. Even if I return to Danyang Marquis Mansion in the future, the Silver Building will be my private property and the Ye family has no right to interfere."
Shopkeeper Wen was speechless by Ye Jintang, but there was no way he could hand over the account book casually.
"Girl, you came in a hurry and didn't tell me in advance to ask me to hand over the ledger immediately. I'm afraid I won't be able to get it out."
"How about you give me a few days, I will sort out the account books and deliver them to the girl's house personally."
There is nothing wrong with what Shopkeeper Wen said. Such a large bank has quite a lot of current accounts.
"My mother checks the accounts once a month. The day for checking the accounts has already passed this month. Isn't Shopkeeper Wen prepared?"
Ye Jintang's words were beautiful. Shopkeeper Wen dared to say that he was not prepared. That was because he thought that Mrs. Wen's death would mean that he would not hand over the accounts.
Ye Jintang could defeat him now just by doing this.
"Of course it has been prepared a long time ago, but those are also last month's accounts. This month's accounts haven't come out yet. Why not wait until this month's accounts come out and I will give them to the girl."
"It doesn't matter, just give me the accounts you're going to show my mother."
Ye Jintang was firm and reasonable. Shopkeeper Wen wanted to refuse to hand over the ledger, but he couldn't find a suitable reason for the moment.
He secretly comforted himself that Ye Jintang was just bluffing. How could a yellow-haired girl who didn't know a few words make waves?
Even if she finds something wrong with the accounts, what can she do?
A little orphan girl has no one to support her, so she still dares to act like a bully among herself.
"Wait a minute, girl, I'll have someone get the account book for the girl."
The account books in the bank are very clear, and they are reviewed every month.
Ye Jintang flipped through it for a while, then stopped talking to shopkeeper Wen, got up and left.
In her opinion, Shopkeeper Wen is just a son of her maternal grandfather's family, and she still holds the contract of prostitution in her hand.
He wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Ye family had no one to take care of him for the time being, and if he thought of his evil thoughts, it would depend on whether he had the ability.
Ye Jintang walked around Yuezhou City and got all the account books of all the shops.
Although she is anxious to sell the shop, she also needs to know something about the shop and cannot sell everything at a low price.
When looking at the account books, Ye Jintang couldn't help but sigh in his heart that Mrs. Wen was really a good housekeeper.
Not only are all the account books clear, but the shopkeepers in all the shops all have contracts of sale and are not randomly found outside.
As long as there is a contract of betrayal, even if you are a respectable shopkeeper, your life is in Ye Jintang's hands.
If they make a mistake, Ye Jintang can not only sell them at will, but even if it costs their lives, it will only be to pay some money to the government.
Thinking of Shopkeeper Wen's attitude towards her today, Ye Jintang felt cold at the moment.
Did he think that she was just a little orphan who didn't understand anything and could be manipulated by him at will? Then he was totally wrong.
As long as she has the deed of selling his body in her hand, he can't even think about overpowering her, even if she is an orphan.
Thinking of this, Ye Jintang couldn't help but sigh. The original owner was really soft-tempered. When she left Yuezhou, the Ye family's property was probably stripped off by Governor Song and these shopkeepers.
She herself had no idea at all.
Perhaps it wasn't that the original owner was soft-tempered, but that a woman living in a boudoir simply couldn't face a situation like the death of her parents.
If a helpless little girl encountered something like this, she would be so frightened that she would not even dare to leave the house.
In the study, Ye Jintang looked through the account books leisurely. Although the accounting method was different from what she knew, it was not difficult to learn, and she could get a rough idea after a while.
This look made Ye Jintang realize that something was fishy.
The accounts in the ledger appear to be even, but there are several amounts that appear to be a cover-up, deliberately listed to make money.
There is some loss when making gold and silver jewelry, especially for more delicate jewelry, the loss will be slightly greater.
But the losses listed by Shopkeeper Wen are getting higher year by year.
There is also the price of gold and silver jewelry. The profit was relatively high in the first two years, but in recent years the profit has become lower and lower.
The styles of jewelry sold are becoming more and more exquisite, but the profits are decreasing year by year. It is obvious that someone has tampered with it.
There are also labor costs for making jewelry. The master craftsmen in the silver building have been trained by the Wen family themselves over the years. Logically speaking, their wages will not rise too fast.
In the past two years alone, the master craftsman's monthly silver has doubled.
Tricks like making fake wages are leftover from Ye Jintang's past tricks.
Seeing that Shopkeeper Wen should use this method to make money, she was filled with emotion. Compared with the intrigues in the back house, she still likes to play tricks with others in the mall.
No matter how much trouble there is in the back house, he can have the final say in the yard as big as a palm.
But if she can turn her hands into clouds and rain in a shopping mall, then she can do a lot more.
Thinking of this, Ye Jintang couldn't help but think of Ningchuanzhou, the fiefdom of King Qin.
If she can go to Ningchuan Continent to survive King Qin, she will become the local emperor of Ningchuan Continent, and she will not be allowed to play with him at that time.
She had to settle matters in Yuezhou quickly. She couldn't wait to go to Ningchuanzhou.
"Zhou Cong, go and inform shopkeeper Wen that I need to take inventory and the bank will be closed tomorrow."
"Yes, little one, go right here."
Ye Jintang was not very familiar with the operation of the bank. She thought about it and asked an experienced bank manager to help her read the account books and tell her about the fishy things in the bank.
You don’t know if you don’t listen, and you’re shocked when you hear it. Ye Jintang didn’t expect that it would be so easy for the shopkeeper of the bank to steal money from the bank. No wonder Mrs. Wen had the deed of sale from shopkeeper Wen.
If there was no bond of betrayal, there's no telling what outrageous things shopkeeper Wen would have done.
In addition to her guessing the losses and making a fuss about wages, she can also play with gold and silver jewelry.
For the same batch of jewelry, the account book clearly showed a batch of hairpins worth one tael of silver per set, but secretly shopkeeper Wen could take half of the silver and make them into hollow hairpins for sale.
In this way, unless you catch it in action, you will never be able to find out later.
Although such hairpins may seem expensive, as long as the style is well made, they can still sell for a lot.
The money that was supposed to be earned by the bank ended up in the hands of shopkeeper Wen. Ye Jintang praised Shopkeeper Wen for his good tactics.
The experienced shopkeeper only looked at the account books of the past years and pointed out to Ye Jintang several places that were obviously tampering.
When I was looking at the ledger, I found that good guy Wen, the shopkeeper, had been stealing money from the bank seven or eight years ago.
After so many years, he still lives in a small courtyard and only has one wife, which shows that he doesn't dare to use the money he stole casually.
That's fine, all the money will fall into her purse later.
After sending away the knowledgeable shopkeeper of the bank, Ye Jintang couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he looked at the large pile of account books on the table.
Shopkeeper Wen deserves to be the shopkeeper of the bank for many years, and his methods are very clever.
His trick of stealing money silently and moistening the rain is not easy for others to detect.
If he was working for Mr. Wen, he would naturally not dare to do this. After all, Mr. Wen has been a businessman for most of his life and has seen all kinds of tricks.
But Mrs. Wen, who has lived in the inner house for a long time, is different. She has a lot of property in her hands and has to take care of Magistrate Ye's backyard, so she is not too meticulous when checking accounts.
Maybe at first shopkeeper Wen only wanted to steal a few hundred taels of silver. But when he found out that Mrs. Wen didn't notice, his appetite grew bigger and bigger.
I don’t know how much money Shopkeeper Wen stole from the bank in the past two years.
It's okay if she doesn't know. Now let her find out how much money shopkeeper Wen has embezzled, and she will spit it out.
