Seeing that Mrs. Ye was half-mad, Grandma Sun quickly stepped forward to comfort her.
"Old madam, please don't be impatient. Miss Six is someone who doesn't follow common sense. We have to think of a way to prevent her from doing anything drastic again in the future?"
Grandma Sun has never encountered such a difficult matter at her age, and Ye Jintang is so capable.
"It's really hard to tell. I don't know what the rumors will be like outside. You should quickly find a few women with sharp mouths to release them and say that all this was done by Ye Jintang's own free will."
"It is better for Ye Jintang to have a reputation of being a filial piety than for me to have a reputation of treating my granddaughter harshly."
"Slave, go now."
Grandma Sun revealed the truth immediately, and she immediately began to think about what kind of woman she would find to spread the news.
"Wait a minute, send someone to the corner door to take a look. If such a big thing happens, Grandma Lou and He Xiang must come back to report the news alone."
"My slave understands."
When Grandma Sun went out, Mrs. Ye leaned on the soft couch, feeling resentful in her heart.
Originally, a year ago, she wanted to invite the wives of officials who were relatively good at getting around together to find a way to help Ye Dong smoothen their relationship and see if he could get a promotion.
This was good, Ye Jintang had caused such trouble, how could she have the nerve to go out to meet people, so she could only bite the bullet and continue to pretend to be sick.
But we couldn't ignore Ye Dong's affairs, so we could only use money from her private treasury to smoothen the relationship.
Mrs. Ye felt a little reluctant to touch her personal money. The money was her coffin book. Whether her children and grandchildren would be filial or not would depend on whether she had enough money.
There were still a few days before the Chinese New Year, so Mrs. Ye called Mrs. Gan over to ask about the government's income this year and see if she could give Ye Dong a few thousand taels of silver.
As the end of the year approached, Mrs. Gan was extremely busy. When the old lady called her over, she was dizzy while looking at the account book.
"We're going to have lunch soon. What does the old lady want me to do at this hour?"
Mrs. Gan impatiently threw the account book in her hand on the small table.
Nanny Song, who was waiting beside her, told Mrs. Gan the rumors she heard outside today.
"My slave estimates that the trouble was caused by Miss Six. The old lady would like to invite her to come over and discuss how to deal with it."
Mrs. Gan took the hot handkerchief handed over by the maid next to her, wiped her hands and sneered, "I don't want to wade into this muddy water. I can see that Ye Jintang is very evil. She is a broom star. Whoever messes with her , whoever it is will be unlucky."
That day at the old lady's birthday party, Ye Yanran only said a few words to her, and she cried and complained, which made her precious daughter so ashamed that she didn't go out for several days.
Several of her friends didn't even invite her to the banquet. It was obvious that they were alienating Ye Yanran.
The old lady all drove her to White Horse Temple, but she only went there for one day when trouble broke out.
What a troublemaker.
The old lady is still too kind. If it were her, she would just imprison Ye Jintang in the family temple and let her die. How could there be such messy things.
"Let's go and see the old lady to see if she has come up with any ways to deal with Ye Jintang."
Mrs. Gan led a group of maids and women to Fushouyuan in a grand manner. On the way, she prepared to talk a lot, hoping to stall the old lady and not want to offend Ye Jintang.
But he didn't expect that the old lady was asking about the income of the Hou Mansion.
Mrs. Gan was not prepared, so she could only tell the old lady everything.
"At the beginning of the year, I put together a rough budget for the money that will be spent this year. I feel that if the Hou Mansion makes a year's income, there will be a surplus of 200,000 taels by the end of the year."
"As a result, the money was spent like running water, and the income for this year was 300,000 taels less than planned at the beginning of the year."
"Every budget was overrun. I only made winter clothes at the end of the year. I originally had a budget of 50,000 taels, but ended up spending 130,000 taels."
"This is just for winter clothes. Everything else is more or less over budget."
"It's a good time now. I've been busy for a year and can't settle the debt. I still owe money to the middleman."
"I was just settling the accounts in the study, and I wanted to take some time to come over and tell the old lady to see when I would open the warehouse and get the money out to settle this year's accounts."
"How come there is such a big deficit? We have so many Zhuangzi shops. How can we not support the few people in the Hou Mansion?"
Mrs. Ye looked at Mrs. Gan dumbfounded, thinking that there was something wrong with her ears.
"Old Madam, our Danyang Marquis Mansion has a prosperous population, and the daily expenses in each courtyard are quite large. If Old Madam doesn't believe it, I will show Old Madam the expenses of each courtyard this year in a moment."
Mrs. Ye waved her hand towards Mrs. Gan. She was not interested in looking at the account books of Lao Shenzi.
At first she wanted to give Ye Dong some money to clear up the relationship, but now that she heard that she still needed a lot of money to settle the family's debts for a year, she immediately gave up the idea.
"I can still pay you for the shortfall this year, but starting next year, if there is another shortfall, I won't care about it. You can find your own way. You can't destroy all the inheritance left by your ancestors in my hands. "
"this?"
Mrs. Gan was speechless and looked up to the sky. She didn't want to lose money. Why did she throw all this mess to her now?
"Don't do this. Brother Dong has stayed with the boss's wife there for two years without moving. You and the boss don't have any ideas."
Mrs. Ye was too lazy to talk to Mrs. Gan and changed the topic directly.
"My daughter-in-law wants to use money to help Brother Dong smoothen the relationship, even if it's half a level. However, my daughter-in-law is short of money and really can't afford that much money."
"This year, my daughter-in-law has taken out 10,000 taels of silver from her dowry to supplement the family income. If she uses her dowry to smoothen the relationship with Brother Dong, I'm afraid that my mother's family will know about it and some bad rumors will spread outside."
"That's all, that's all. It will be sealed in a few days before the new year. I will think of a solution after the Chinese New Year."
Mrs. Ye and Mrs. Gan were talking in the room, and Grandma Sun hurried over with He Xiang.
Mrs. Gan was none other than Mrs. Sun. She did not avoid it and asked He Xiang to explain the whole story clearly.
"Sixth girl is too crazy."
Mrs. Gan, who was sitting next to Mrs. Ye, raised her eyebrows slightly with a look of disgust.
"How can a legitimate daughter of a decent family appear in the main hall of White Horse Temple like Ye Jintang?"
"White Horse Temple is one of the largest temples in the capital. At the end of the year, there are countless pilgrims in and around the capital. As long as they enter the main hall, they can see Ye Jintang kneeling in the main hall and copying scriptures. How unbecoming is this?"
"The Danyang Marquis Mansion has lost all face due to her."
Mrs. Gan was in front of Mrs. Ye, so it was hard to say that Mrs. Ye's face was completely lost. She could only say that it was Ye Jintang's.
