After rebirth, the wife of the Houfu shark went crazy

Chapter 240 Who instructed you to cook the books?

Obviously, the shops under surveillance were not only Qin's cloth shop, but all their shops as well.

Now, Shopkeeper Qin knelt tremblingly before the Madam, and they couldn't even utter a word of excuse. Because Shopkeeper Qin had already argued for them before, as long as the Madam posted a notice like that, it would soon be possible to prove that they had falsified the accounts.

Because the account books they brought today were completely different from the ones the lady showed them.

Jiang Xiyu looked at the pale faces of these shopkeepers and guessed that all of them had cooked the accounts without even looking at the account books they sent in today.

"Come here, escort them all to Shuntian Prefecture."

Jiang Xiyu's loud shout led Deji and other guards into the main hall.

At the same time, all the shopkeepers were frightened.

All the shopkeepers knelt in front of Jiang Xiyu.

"Madam, we did not intend to falsify the accounts. Please give us a way out."

"Yes, we are also following orders. Please understand, Madam."

"We didn't embezzle the public funds, and you can't send us to see the officials."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xiyu narrowed her eyes and said coldly, "So who instructed you to falsify the accounts?"

The shopkeepers all said such things, so it was obvious that they did not want to cook the books on their own, but were instructed by someone, and that person must be from the Yonglin Marquis Mansion.

In fact, if you think about it, you should understand that if it was really the shopkeepers who did it, then these shopkeepers are too united. It would be one thing if one or two shopkeepers dared to cook the books, but the shopkeepers of more than 30 shops in the Yonglin Marquis Mansion from top to bottom cooked the books together, which means they were instructed by someone.

The shopkeepers looked at each other, all with fear on their faces.

Faced with Jiang Xiyu's questioning, no one dared to answer.

They didn't answer. In fact, Jiang Xiyu had guessed that there were only two people in the Yonglin Marquis' Mansion who had the ability to order them around, besides Zheng, there was Xu Rui.

Seeing that they refused to answer, Jiang Xiyu was too lazy to talk nonsense with them and looked at Deji, "Escort all these people to Shuntian Prefecture. I want to report to the authorities there."

Deji looked at the shopkeepers kneeling on the ground, and then saw that everyone was holding account books in their hands. He immediately knew that something was wrong. He hurried forward and bowed, saying, "Madam, the Marquis just sent a message saying that he has led his troops back to the capital and will be back in the next few days. After all, this is a matter of the Marquis's Mansion. Madam, it would be better for you to wait for the Marquis to return before making a decision."

Deji's words seemed to grab a life-saving straw for the shopkeepers. They all responded, "Yes, let's wait for the Marquis to come back before dealing with the servants."

"Let's wait for the Marquis to come back before making a decision on this matter. Madam, you can't understand the account books."

"Yes, the Marquis will be back in Beijing in a few days. Let's wait until he comes back."

Jiang Xiyu slammed the table hard and gave Deji a cold look. "You are not my man, so I can't order you around."

Jiang Xiyu glanced at the other guards and said, "Since the guards in our palace are disobedient, then you have no choice but to go to Shuntian Mansion and beat the drum to complain."

Jiang Xiyu looked at Nanny Yu and said, "Put all these account books away and come with me to Shuntian Prefecture."

"Madam..." Hearing that Jiang Xiyu was going to Shuntian Prefecture, Deji became anxious and hurried forward to stop her.

Jiang Xiyu looked at Deji fiercely, and warned him in a cold voice, "If you dare to stop me again, I will beat the drum and file a complaint with the emperor."

Hearing that Jiang Xiyu was going to file a complaint with the emperor, Deji no longer dared to make any move.

Deji not only didn't dare to stop Jiang Xiyu anymore, but also ordered the guards, "What are you still standing there for? Send these people to Shuntian Prefecture."

"Yes." Deji gave an order, and the guards stepped forward and arrested all the shopkeepers.

The shopkeepers became anxious when they saw this.

"Ma'am, it really doesn't concern us."

"Yes, we are also following orders. Please understand, Madam."

"Madam, it's really not us who are going to cook the books, madam..."

"Take them all away." Deji shouted.

The guards immediately took all the shopkeepers out. The shopkeepers were still shouting, but Jiang Xiyu could no longer hear what they were saying.

Jiang Xiyu also took Yu Ma and Qing'er to Shuntian Prefecture.

Seeing that Jiang Xiyu was also going to Shuntian Prefecture, Deji was completely anxious. He wanted to follow her, but at the same time he was anxious to send a message to Xu Rui.

In a hurry, he could only call out the leader of the Golden Guards, "Hurry and send a message to the Marquis."

The leader of the Golden Guards was confused. "What happened?"

Deji had no time to explain to him. He just said, "Go ahead and tell them that something happened in the mansion. Madam is checking the accounts and has reported it to the authorities. Please return quickly, my Lord."

After Deji finished speaking, he didn't even wait for the leader of the Jinwei to speak, and hurried to chase Jiang Xiyu.

When the leader of the Jinwei saw Deji's anxious look, he knew that the situation was really serious.

Although he was not quite sure what had happened, he knew that it must be a big deal to make Deji so anxious, so he immediately did as Deji said and sent a message to Xu Rui.

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Shuntian Mansion.

Shen Li looked at the shopkeepers kneeling on the ground, then looked at Jiang Xiyu with a puzzled look, "I wonder what Boss Jiang wants to sue for?"

Shen Li once worked as a middleman to sign contracts with merchants and had met Jiang Xiyu. Later, when Yunxi Restaurant opened, he learned that Jiang Xiyu was also the owner of the restaurant. Everyone in the restaurant addressed Jiang Xiyu as Boss Jiang.

Jiang Xiyu bowed to Shen Lifu and explained the situation to him, "To be honest, sir, since I married into the Yonglin Marquis's mansion, I have been in charge of the household finances. In just over five years, I have used all of my dowry of one million taels of silver to supplement the Marquis's public office. Recently, I led people to check the accounts and found that the accounts of the Marquis's public office were all fake accounts made by these shopkeepers."

Shen Li was very surprised. He didn't expect that the people in Yonglin Marquis' Mansion were so shameless that they actually embezzled a woman's dowry.

It seems that there are about thirty or forty shopkeepers here. Who is instructing so many shopkeepers to cook the books together?

Shen Li looked at Jiang Xiyu sympathetically, "Boss Jiang, do you have any evidence to prove that they cooked the books?"

Jiang Xiyu looked at Nanny Yu, who immediately placed the account book in front of Shen Li.

Jiang Xiyu explained, "These two piles of account books, one is the account books they handed in for the shop for the past two weeks, and the other is the customer flow recorded by the accountant I hired after squatting outside the shop. Please take a look, sir."

Shen Li didn't expect that Jiang Xiyu had also hired a fortuneteller to wait outside the shop to test the shop's actual customer flow.

I have to say that she is really smart, but how could such a smart woman be so stupid as to donate all her dowry money to the Marquis's family?

Shen Li carefully looked through the account books handed over by Nanny Yu, and compared the two books one by one, but found that the records were completely opposite.