Volume 1: Yun Family Has A Daughter Chapter 32: The East Window Incident
After several days of sorting, the account book was reorganized. Mei adopted modern statistical methods, and the efficiency increased by an unknown amount. Tong Shi was surprised but didn't say much, just thinking that his daughter was clever.
"Mother, these are not worth considering at all, there are big problems inside, let's report it to Father instead!"
Mo Mo held the organized account book and said to her mother, "I don't know what shameful things are hidden in here. For all these years, it was Li Niang who managed these things. Anyone with discerning eyes can see that there's something wrong with those farms, fields, and shops. She doesn't believe Li Niang couldn't see it either!"
I don't know if that old lady is involved in this either, but if she is, it's better for Dad to handle it!
"Your mom thinks so too, let's wait for your dad to come back and have him handle it!"
Tong's family obviously also thought of these, after all, the deficit in the mansion is so large that it has reached the point where income cannot cover expenses!
Yun Zhan has been quite free recently. Every day after breakfast, he goes to the military camp for a stroll. If there's nothing major going on, he returns home. So today he came back relatively early!
When he saw the reorganized account book, his face turned green with anger! Without saying a word, he summoned the housekeeper and had Li Niang called over, who was still recovering. He also ordered people to find the heads of various farms and shopkeepers!
After a while, Li Niang was carried over! She saw that her two eyes were deeply sunken, her complexion was pale, and there was no trace of blood on her face. Compared to before, she had lost a lot of weight. At this time, she was wearing a light blue thin gauze, lying on the stretcher, with a pair of gentle and soft eyes looking at Yun Zhan, making her look even more weak and pitiful!
But in the scene, no one paid attention to these things. Yun Zhan would not care about them either. As long as he thought that his mansion might be emptied by her, he hated to go forward and strangle her to death!
Yun Zhan waved his hand, and except for the mother-daughter pair and Guan's family, everyone else was driven out! The four of them glared at Li Niang with gloomy faces, making her hair stand on end!
Yun Zhan didn't say a word, but occasionally glared at Li Niang and then turned around to chat with the mother-daughter pair of Tong Shi.
Li's aunt couldn't understand it in her heart, but as soon as she saw the old master making eyes at Tong Shi, that cheap woman, right in front of her, she was so angry that her liver hurt!
Time passed like incense, and Yun Zhan didn't ask Li Niang anything. Later on, he even didn't bother to give her a glance, directly ignoring this living person!
Li Yiniang was getting more and more anxious, this eerie atmosphere and the old master's unusual behavior had already made her realize that everything she did might be exposed!
Ever since the old master took the account books away from her a few days ago, she has been uneasy, but thinking that these account books were done very secretly by her, the old master would not personally check them one by one, and that useless Tong Shi basically couldn't figure it out!
So she had been holding onto a glimmer of hope, waiting for several days without any news, thinking that it would just pass like this. Unexpectedly, today she heard the old master summon her, and only then did she become excited, thinking that the old master had remembered her. She hastily got someone to help her get dressed up, before slowly making her way over.
"Old master, I don't know why you called me over, is there something you want to instruct?"
Finally, Li Yiniang couldn't help but speak up nervously.
Yun Zhan heard her words, glanced at her, ignored her, picked up his teacup and took a sip.
But it was that careless glance that made Li Niang's whole body turn cold, because in that glance, she suddenly saw the intention to kill!
Before long, the gatekeeper girl came to report that everyone had arrived. Yun Zhan waved his hand and a dozen or so middle-aged men rushed in from outside the door.
Auntie Li turned her head to take a look, her whole body shook, and her head involuntarily hung down, only revealing the faintly trembling fists outside, exposing her guilty conscience!
The middle-aged men who came in, each holding a stack of account books, saw General Yun and his wife sitting upright, as well as Guan, the housekeeper who was highly valued by the general. Their hearts trembled with fear, and they quickly knelt down to kowtow and pay their respects.
Yun Zhan's expressionless face stared at the kneeling people, without saying a word, only those piercing eyes shot onto those people, scaring them so much that they didn't dare to move.
After half a day, Yun Zhan finally spoke up indifferently: "Since you've brought the account books, then tell General Ben about the income from the farm and shops over the years!"
The people below were shocked to hear this! Unanimously, they thought that in all these years, the general had never asked about the farm and the shop, but today he suddenly asked, could it be... Thinking of this, they couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat simultaneously!
"What's wrong? Have you all become mute? Or is it that you have guilty consciences?"
Yun Zhan Meng slapped the table fiercely, scaring those people so much that they almost fell to the ground, and they wished they could dig into the earth.
"Speak one by one, if there is half a point of deception, you will know it in your own hearts!"
"It is... it is!"
Those officials trembled, General Yun's methods were not something these slaves could try! If they confessed truthfully, they might still have a way to live, but if they really deceived him, they would only have one dead end! Thinking of this, one by one began to spill the beans, telling all about some secret things that had happened over the years.
Every time someone spoke, Li's wife's face turned paler, and by the time they finished speaking, she had lost all color in her face and collapsed to the ground like a dead dog.
It turned out that over the years, the original people in charge had been replaced by Li Niang almost entirely, all of whom were related to her or Old Lady. Li Niang colluded with them to cook the books, and in reality, each estate and shop was profitable, quite substantially so. However, only a small portion of the money was recorded and entered into the accounts, while most of it ended up in Li Niang's pockets!
Mo saw Mrs. Li's appearance and couldn't help but frown, this was too easy! Moreover, in these years, Mrs. Li had earned a lot of money, but she didn't seem to be extravagant at all, so where did all that money go? Could it be that Mrs. Li used the silver to raise a young lover?
"Aunt Li, is there anything else you want to say?"
Yun Zhan stared at Li Niang, his suppressed anger had been building up and was ready to erupt.
"Master, spare my life! The old madam is also aware of these things! If you don't believe me, you can go ask the old madam!"
Mrs. Li was so scared that she cried and pushed everything onto the old lady, but this time no one doubted her words because it was indeed impossible for her to deceive everyone for so many years all by herself.
As expected, the old lady is involved!
"Where did all that silver go?" Yun Zhan rubbed his temples, suppressing the urge to explode in anger, and asked coldly. His own mother had actually colluded with his aunt to empty out his mansion - this was something that would be hard for anyone to believe if it got out.
"That silver is not in the hands of the maidservants, they have all been handed over to the old lady!"
At this point, Li Yiniang's eyes rolled around, and she felt a little guilty.
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