After rebirth, the wife of the Houfu shark went crazy

Chapter 244 Go and call all the shopkeepers to me

"Xu Rui is back."

Jiang Xiyu looked down at her condescendingly.

"What did you say?" Jiang Xiyu's words instantly made Zheng excited. "Rui'er is back, where is he?"

Jiang Xiyu looked at Zheng's expression and knew that she didn't know that Xu Rui had returned, so she probably didn't know that she had gone to the Shuntian government office to sue those shopkeepers.

Yes, Xu Rui sent so many maids to watch her in order to prevent her from doing anything wrong, so naturally he would not let her hear much news.

The old women outside are all smart. Not to mention that they may not know what happened in Shuntian Prefecture, even if they knew, they probably wouldn't gossip about it in front of Zheng.

Jiang Xiyu didn't answer Zheng, but sat down beside the bed. "Mother, you may not know yet, but today I have reported all the over 30 shop owners in the Marquis' Mansion to Shuntian Prefecture."

Zheng was shocked when she heard this, and immediately scolded Jiang Xiyu, "Why are you going crazy again?"

"Shouldn't mother know best?" Jiang Xiyu sneered, then leaned closer to Zheng with a sinister look, and spoke word by word, "You instructed these thirty-odd shopkeepers to falsify the accounts. They cheated me out of a million taels of dowry over the past five years. Shouldn't you also return it to me?"

"What do you mean by fake accounts?" Zheng was confused by Jiang Xiyu's words. "Who are you saying cooked the accounts?"

Seeing Zheng's thoughtless reaction, Jiang Xiyu's eyes suddenly became deep.

Isn't it Zheng?

Apart from Xu Rui, the only person in Yonglin Marquis's Mansion who had the ability to order the shopkeepers around was Zheng, but Zheng's reaction was a bit strange.

The reason why she came to test Zheng was to see whether the one million silver fell into Zheng's hands.

But now looking at Zheng's puzzled expression, could it be that she is not the mastermind behind this?

"The shopkeepers of the more than 30 shops in our mansion are all cooking the books. The account books they send to us every month are all their fake accounts. Could it be that mother is unaware of this? Didn't mother deliberately let the shopkeepers cook the books and embezzle my dowry?"

Now that things have come to this, Jiang Xiyu doesn't want to hide it anymore. She asks all her questions directly to Zheng in person. Perhaps she can still find out the truth.

But her words shocked Zheng. "What nonsense are you talking about? How could I have asked them to cook the books? When did I ever embezzle your money? The shops in the Marquis' Mansion never make money. You don't think you're the only one who put your dowry money into them, do you? Everyone has put their dowry money into the Marquis' Mansion. This is the price you have to pay for being the mistress of the Marquis' Mansion."

"Mother also gave all the dowry money to the Marquis' Mansion?" This time it was Jiang Xiyu who was shocked.

She seemed to suddenly understand why Zheng, a legitimate daughter of a baron's mansion, was so poor. Did it turn out that she had been adding money to the treasury of the marquis's mansion?

Therefore, before she married into the Marquis' Mansion, the victim was Zheng, which means that Zheng was not the mastermind behind the scenes.

Zheng snorted coldly, "Of course. Although my dowry wasn't as large as yours back then, I was still the legitimate daughter of the Bo family. The Bo family prepared a lot of dowry for me, but look at what I have left now? Even Rong'er's dowry wasn't decent. What else could I say, and you're still complaining?"

Jiang Xiyu listened to Zheng's silly words and suddenly felt a little amused.

She knew that Zheng was not smart, but she never thought she was so stupid.

She had been the head of the Marquis's Mansion for decades, and had given all her dowry to the Marquis's family, but she didn't even realize how abnormal this was.

She now finally understood why Zheng was so eager to make her the housekeeper the day after she married into the Marquis's Mansion. She was eager to pass on this hot potato. Perhaps she really had no money to pay into the public account.

But don't talk about Zheng. She was just as stupid in her previous life. If she hadn't carried the memories of her previous life and been heartbroken by Xu Rui, perhaps she would not have realized it in this life. She would have given everything in a daze, and in the end she was just a stepping stone for others to achieve success.

When Jiang Xiyu looked at Zheng again at this moment, a hint of sympathy appeared in her eyes that were originally filled with disgust.

"I've said so much, mother, don't you understand? The shops in the Marquis' Mansion aren't losing money every month. On the contrary, business is booming, and every shop makes at least a few thousand taels of silver every month. But the account books those shopkeepers give us show losses of several thousand taels of silver every month, forcing us to add money to the public account every month. If this money doesn't end up in your hands, who else will it end up in?"

Jiang Xiyu still had a tentative intention in what she said.

Not Zheng, and not Xu Rui?

Who else?

Who else can make Xu Rui protect him like this?

Zheng didn't believe what Jiang Xiyu said at first, but seeing her serious expression, she finally took it seriously. "You said they made fake accounts. What evidence do you have?"

Jiang Xiyu laughed at herself, "Even after being married for five years, I still couldn't understand the account books of the Marquis' Mansion. It was only when Princess Yunling gave Nanny Yu to me that I discovered something was wrong with the account books. These past few days, I've brought people to the store every day to watch over it. The number of customers I saw was completely different from what was recorded in the account books I asked them to hand over today. That's why I sent them all to the court of Shuntian Prefecture today.

Lord Ye, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, has already interrogated the shopkeepers, and they have all admitted to falsifying the accounts. If Mother doesn't believe it, feel free to call them in for questioning."

Zheng naturally didn't believe it and immediately started shouting hysterically, "Go and call all those shopkeepers to me."

The maids in the courtyard had all been sent to the gate by Jiang Xiyu. When they heard Zheng's shouting, although they couldn't hear what she was shouting, they still ran over and asked, "Old Madam, what do you want?"

Without waiting for Zheng to speak, Jiang Xiyu looked at Madam Li and said, "Madam, you should be very familiar with those shopkeepers. Why don't you take them and go and call all of them over as soon as possible?"

Nanny Li looked at Zheng worriedly, but Zheng's eyes were dull, as if she had suffered a huge blow.

Nanny Li also knew that if what the lady said was true, it would be a huge blow to the old lady. She did not dare to delay and immediately took the maids to call for help.

While they were looking for the shopkeeper, Zheng had a blank look in her eyes and no one knew what she was thinking.

Her reaction at this moment further confirmed Jiang Xiyu's guess.

The mastermind behind this incident must not be Zheng, and Zheng is even a victim.

It shouldn't be Xu Rui either, because Xu Rui had just said it wasn't him, and she believed Xu Rui would not lie to her.

Zheng has been the housekeeper for decades, so it is not just in recent years that she has added dowry to the family. The situation must have been like this since she first became the housekeeper.

At that time, Xu Rui was not yet born, or was still in swaddling clothes, so it was impossible that Xu Rui was the one who masterminded all this.