suspected wife

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, the sun is shining brightly, and I am sweating when I move.The cicadas on the tree made people more and more anxious.

Qiao Mingjin was lazy to go out and just stayed at home and read the account book.

She doesn't need to worry about the affairs of the workshop, Yun Jin and Zhou Guanshi will handle it by themselves, and they will report to her if they can't handle it.The home is not a few steps away from the workshop.

Qiao Mingjin's house didn't have a cellar like a rich family, and they hid ice early in winter.Zhou Yanqing wanted to bring a few pots, but it was not a cup or a half away from here in the city.

Therefore, the mung beans at home disappeared very quickly.

In a few days, Yunjin will go to the city to buy a bag or two.The workshop is also cooking non-stop every day.

Careful work such as carving cannot be accomplished without meditation.

Qiao Mingjin was not stingy with the two money.

Today, Cicada shouted more cheerfully, and Zhou Yanqing swaggered again.

It's hot as soon as you walk in.The paper fan inscribed with someone's character in his hand was rattling.

This guy doesn't like to come here every day since it's hot.Back to back and persuaded Qiao Mingjin to move to the city.

Every time, they would seduce Ming Qi and Wan'er, for example, how cool the ice was, how refreshing it was when crushed and mixed with fruit.Attracting two children around her yelling for ice cubes, that tongue sticks out like a watchdog.

Qiao Danjin was often reprimanded.

That guy kept yelling that no matter how wronged an adult is, one should not wrong a child.However, Qiao Mingjin was not moved when he heard them making trouble.

It caused Zhou Yanqing to cry in his heart.There is no way, who told him to moisten things silently and conquer little by little.I want to turn people a little bit.

Zhou Yanqing drank three bowls of mung bean soup hanging in the well before he recovered.

Qiao Mingjin laughed secretly when she saw him lying on the recliner, looking like he was alive.

"Why bother? I told you not to run here if you have nothing to do. You insisted on suffering. It made my mung beans disappear quickly."

After hearing this, Zhou Yanqing looked outside the courtyard, but she didn't see the stone and the coachman, and she didn't know where to hide to drink mung bean soup.

He gave Qiao Mingjin a sideways look: "What are a few handfuls of mung beans worth? I'll pick out big and good ones and send them to you tomorrow."

"I remember it, but you are not allowed to cheat."

"Tch, how many handfuls of mung beans will you still rely on?"

Qiao Mingjin looked at him and smiled.Immediately, he threw a large cattail fan that is commonly used by farmers in the countryside to him.

"Use this. You'd better keep that paper fan for display. Mo fan is broken. You still have to feel sorry for it."

Zhou Yanqing put away the paper fan with a bang.The words on that fan were really what he begged for so much, and it really hurts when the fan is broken.

He took the big cattail fan and flipped it back and forth in his hand, then shook it vigorously a few times, nodded and said: "Well, it's still the strong wind. It's resistant to shaking."

After fanning him ten or so times in a row, he leaned over to Qiao Mingjin again.The dog legs helped shake it several times.

Feeling that he didn't get the wind, he moved closer, at least both of them could be fanned.Only then did the corners of his mouth rise.

"Did Xiangyang fail to harvest last year?"

Zhou Yanqing was shaking vigorously when Qiao Mingjin asked.

"Xiangyang? No, these two years have been a rare good year. Although Xiangyang is not as good as Jiangnan, it is still a land of fish and rice. There is also a big lake. Other places are dry, and there is still water for irrigation."

"What about the neighboring counties? Haven't harvested yet?"

Zhou Yanqing frowned and thought about it.Said: "I haven't heard of it. I haven't heard of any drought or flood locust disasters in the past year."

"Then last year was peace between the DPRK and China? Has there been a war on the border, and food has been requisitioned?"

Zhou Yanqing looked at Qiao Mingjin and said, "No. Our manor is well-informed about the news in Beijing, and we have never heard of it. Why do you ask?"

Qiao Mingjin frowned.Hand him a ledger in your hand.

"This is the account book of the grain store in Xiangyang last year. The grain price is higher than in previous years, and the profit is [-]% lower than in previous years."

"Is there such a thing?" Zhou Yanqing straightened her body, with a serious face, and took over the account book.

Carefully turn over several pages.

Qiao Mingjin saw that there was no comparison and he couldn't see anything.So I also found out the account books of the previous year and the previous year and handed them to him.

"The [-]% doesn't sound like a big deal, but this grain store has always been a money grabber. The [-]% is worth thousands of taels of silver. I don't know whose pocket it ended up in. Xiangyang is far away from here. It’s just for you to see if if you are far away, your heart will be far away.”

Zhou Yanqing flicked through the ledger in a hurry, the more she saw the end, the more she frowned, and a little bit of anger rose on her face after reading it.

"I'm too far away from you. If I don't go there in person, I'll check the accounts once a year, and I'll pretend to be a ghost for my father!"

Zhou Yanqing slammed several ledgers on the table.

"The counties in Xiangyang have always been one of the few grain depots used by the imperial court. The other places have no grain, and there are bumper harvests year after year. Now that there are no more wars and the weather is beautiful, the price of grain is silent. The land has increased for me. How about looking at the general ledger?"

If you want to save trouble, go through the general ledger, take a look at the income and expenditure, and then do a little comparison.

However, Qiao Mingjin came from a hard life. At the beginning, the mother and daughter had no fields and no land, and they had to buy everything to eat. If they sold a cart of firewood, they would go to the grain store to exchange a few buckets of miscellaneous grains for food.

There are a lot of grain shops, and the prices of all kinds of grains can be regarded as clear.Later, in order to save money, I bought it in the village. Naturally, it is clear what price the village charges and what price the grain shop sells.

Even if Xiangyang is some distance away from Qingchuan, the price of food shouldn't be too different.

Unexpectedly, a catty of ordinary rice was short of several pennies!Taking the previous two years for comparison, I found that the price of grain was about the same as that of Qingchuan City.

There is no shortage of grain in Xiangyang, and there is no large-scale collection of grain in the court, so the price of grain is so different from the previous two years.

It can only show that someone has tampered with the account book.

I remembered that the purchase price was expensive, and I remembered that the selling price was the same as in previous years. The difference between the prices was naturally in my own pocket.

I don't know if it was ordered by someone, or if the shopkeeper and the manager are filling their own pockets.

He is a good accountant, and he really can't tell if you don't look carefully.

Like Zhou Yanqing, who manages a lot of shops in his hands, he really just looks at the general ledger, checks the income and expenditure, and sees that the accounts are balanced. Of course, you can't see it if you don't look carefully.

Even if a catty of white rice is only a penny, but this grain is a large quantity, every time it comes in and goes out, thousands of taels can leak out throughout the year.

Seeing Zhou Yanqing, Qiao Mingjin was still very angry. She opened her mouth and closed it again.

It's not easy for her to say anything about this kind of thing.After all, who wrote it is still unknown.The family business of the Zhou Mansion is not owned by his Saturday Lord alone.

"what about others?"

Qiao Mingjin shook her head: "I haven't seen anything wrong so far. I still know the price of food, and I feel that there is some discrepancy with Qingchuan. That's why I compared the books of the previous two years, and only then did I find the problem. Other business I don't really understand."

The price of gold and silver in jewelry shops, beads and jade collected from grocery stores, dry goods from south to north, cloth and fur, the prices of these things themselves vary greatly, and vary from year to year, and there are many reasons for the price differences.It is not as stable as food prices, and it is difficult to check.

As long as the shopkeeper and the person in charge are not so greedy, if there is only a little bit of leakage, the investigation will not find it out.

And because the goods traveling from south to north lose a lot on the road, those who want to do something, just say that they are lost on the road, and they will be leaked in their hands.Or change the first-class goods to second-class goods, and the price difference will be pocketed in your own pocket.

Unless there is a big discrepancy, it is not easy to see.

"Will it be very hard?"

"Huh?" Qiao Mingjin was puzzled.

Zhou Yanqing looked at her: "If you don't have to work hard, help me take a closer look at the accounts of other shops in the past, and compare them carefully."

Sighing, he said again: "Except for the shops in Qingchuan City and the nearby counties, I walk more often, and they dare not play tricks. Those farther away, I am afraid they are not clean. In the past, the shopkeeper wanted to collect money, as long as he did it If I can't get too much, I just turn a blind eye and turn a blind eye, this Xiangyang City is getting more and more courageous. It actually stripped [-]% of the profit."

Qiao Mingjin didn't know what to say.

The Emperor Gao was far away this day, and the accounts were checked once every six months, and they were checked in a concentrated manner. Those who wanted to save money also had a fluke mentality, thinking that the master was too busy to read carefully, and thought that everything was done flawlessly.

Therefore, it is not easy to do anything these days, and there are many things to worry about to earn some money.

Qiao Mingjin saw his solemn face, thought for a while and asked, "Do you want to go there yourself?"

Zhou Yanqing shook her head: "It's not worth it for me to go there myself. But since something like this happened, it seems that I can't hide away. Some shops always have to go, even if I don't go in person , It’s better to send appropriate people to take a look.”

Qiao Mingjin nodded: "Of course I want to see it. How can this business be a hands-off shopkeeper, just waiting to collect money without doing anything?"

Zhou Yanqing sighed: "This family has a big business, and it is always unable to do what it wants. Where can I take care of them one by one? There is no doubt about the employment, and the people selected are naturally appropriate at the beginning. It's just that it has been a long time. There are quite a few people with abacus. I don’t know whose idea this Xiangyang matter is. If I find out that there is someone behind me, I will not spare him!”

Qiao Mingjin sighed.

The family business is big, even if the right person is chosen, can the shopkeeper and the man in charge have one or two entanglements with the mansion?

Even if there is nothing involved with the mansion, how can there be less involvement outside?After doing it for a long time, how many are still loyal as always?

Those who are not shrewd can't be in charge of the shopkeeper, and the shrewd ones don't have their own little abacus?

Qiao Mingjin thought for a while, and said: "I heard before that some owners would entrust some shops that are a little farther away to the shopkeeper. They would give him a [-]% and a half bonus. If the shop runs well, the shopkeeper will naturally be in charge of things." Take a lot. This can be regarded as letting them play by themselves. First, it can stimulate their enthusiasm, and second, they have ideas and things to do, so naturally they don’t have time to play tricks.”

Zhou Yanqing's eyes lit up after hearing this. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

ps: I got back late today, so I don't have time to write the second update.Add more tomorrow.