Eat the whole family? I emptied the storehouse of the Marquis' Mansion and married the crippled

Shopkeeper Wen had long expected that someone from the Ye family would come to take over the silver shop, but he never expected that it would be Ye Jintang, the little girl who had always lived in seclusion.

He said with a fake smile, "The girl is still young, I'm afraid she won't understand the accounts in the silver shop. Why don't we wait for an elder from the Ye family to check the accounts?"

"There's no need to be so troublesome. The silver building is my mother's dowry. Even if I return to Danyang Marquis Mansion in the future, the silver building is my private property. The Ye family has no right to ask about it."

Shopkeeper Wen was speechless after being blocked by Ye Jintang, but the account book was not something that could be handed over casually.

"Miss, you came in a hurry and didn't tell me in advance. If you ask me to hand in the account right away, I'm afraid I won't be able to pay it."

"How about you give me a few days, I will sort out the account books and personally deliver them to the lady's house."

There is something right in what Manager Wen said. Such a large silver shop has quite a lot of accounts receivable.

"My mother checks the accounts every month. This month's check date has already passed. Didn't Manager Wen make any preparations?"

Ye Jintang's words were spoken beautifully. If Manager Wen dared to say that he was not ready, he would be pretending to obey but actually disobeying his promise, thinking that he could avoid paying the bills because Mrs. Wen had passed away.

Just for this reason, Ye Jintang can punish him now.

"Of course I have prepared it a long time ago, but that is the account of last month. The account of this month has not come out yet. Why not wait until the account of this month comes out and I will give it to the girl at the same time."

"It's okay, just give me the accounts you prepared for my mother to see."

Ye Jintang's attitude was firm and his words made sense. Shopkeeper Wen wanted to refuse to hand over the account book, but he couldn't find a suitable reason for a while.

He secretly comforted himself that Ye Jintang was just bluffing. What kind of trouble could a girl who couldn't even recognize a single word cause?

Even if she found out that the accounts were wrong, what could she do?

A little orphan girl has no one to support her, how dare she act like a bully?

"Wait a moment, young lady. I'll have someone bring you the account book."

The account books in the silver shop are extremely clear and are reviewed once a month.

Ye Jintang glanced through it briefly, and without saying anything more to Shopkeeper Wen, he stood up and left.

In her eyes, Manager Wen was just a servant of her maternal grandparents, and she still held the indenture contract.

He wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Ye family was temporarily unattended to come up with some evil ideas, but that depended on whether he had the ability to do so.

Ye Jintang walked around Yuezhou City and got the account books of all the shops.

Although she was anxious to sell the shop, she also needed to understand the shop and could not sell it all at a low price.

When looking at the account book, Ye Jintang couldn't help but sigh in his heart that Mrs. Wen was really a good housekeeper.

Not only are the account books all clear, but all the shop owners have indentures, and they are not just found randomly from outside.

As long as the indenture is there, even if the owner is a respectable person, his life is in Ye Jintang's hands.

If they made a mistake, Ye Jintang could not only sell them out at will, but even if he wanted to take their lives, he would just have to pay some silver to the government.

Thinking of Manager Wen's attitude towards her today, Ye Jintang's eyes turned cold.

Did he think that she was just a little orphan who knew nothing and could be manipulated by him at will? He was totally wrong.

As long as she has his indenture contract, he will not be able to suppress her, even if she is an orphan.

Thinking of this, Ye Jintang couldn't help but sigh. The original owner was really soft-hearted. When she left Yuezhou, the Ye family's assets were probably stripped away by Governor Song and these shopkeepers.

She herself had no idea at all.

Perhaps it wasn't that the original owner was weak-willed, but that a woman living in seclusion could not face the situation of losing both parents.

If a helpless little girl encountered such a thing, she would probably be so scared that she would not even dare to go out.

In the study, Ye Jintang slowly flipped through the account book. Although the accounting method was different from what she knew, it was not difficult to learn. She could get a general idea in a short while.

This one glance made Ye Jintang see the trick.

The accounts in the ledger seem to be balanced, but there are a few items that look like a sleight of hand, deliberately listed to defraud money.

There will be some loss when making gold and silver jewelry, especially when making some delicate jewelry, the loss will be slightly greater.

But the losses listed by Manager Wen are getting higher every year.

As for the prices of gold and silver jewelry, the profits were relatively high in the past two years, but have been getting lower and lower in recent years.

The styles of the jewelry sold are becoming more and more exquisite, but the profits are decreasing year by year. It is obvious that someone is cheating.

There is also the labor cost of making jewelry. The craftsmen in the silver shop have all been trained by the Wen family over the years. Logically, their wages should not increase too quickly.

The account books show that the craftsmen's monthly wages have doubled in just the past two years.

Tricks like making false wages were all left over from Ye Jintang's past.

Now seeing Shopkeeper Wen also using such means to make money, she felt deeply moved. Compared with the intrigues in the back house, she still preferred to play tricks on others in the business world.

No matter how chaotic or noisy the backyard is, the matter can be resolved in the palm-sized yard.

But if she could make things happen in the business world, there would be a lot she could do.

Thinking of this, Ye Jintang couldn't help but think of Ningchuanzhou, the fief of King Qin.

If she could go to Ningchuanzhou and outlast King Qin, she would become the local emperor of Ningchuanzhou, and she could do whatever she wanted then.

She had to deal with Yuezhou's affairs quickly, she couldn't wait to go to Ningchuanzhou.

"Zhou Cong, go inform Shopkeeper Wen and tell him that I need to take inventory and the silver shop will be closed for a day tomorrow."

"Yes, little one, go right here."

Ye Jintang was not very familiar with the operation of the silver shop. After much thought, she asked an experienced silver shop owner to help her look at the account books and tell her about the tricks in the silver shop.

You don't know until you hear it. Ye Jintang was shocked. He didn't expect that it would be so easy for the owner of the silver shop to steal money from the silver shop. No wonder Mrs. Wen had the indenture of the owner Wen.

If he hadn't sold his indenture, there's no telling what outrageous things Shopkeeper Wen would have done.

Not only had she guessed the losses long ago and made some changes to the wages, she could even play with the gold and silver jewelry.

For the same batch of jewelry, the account book clearly showed a batch of hairpins at one or two taels of silver per set, but privately, Shopkeeper Wen could take away half of the silver and make them into hollow hairpins to sell.

In this case, unless the perpetrators are caught in the act, there will be no way to find out the truth later.

Even though such hairpins seem to be very expensive, as long as the style is well made, they can still sell for a lot.

The money that should have been earned by the silver shop ended up all going into the hands of Shopkeeper Wen. Ye Jintang couldn't help but praise Shopkeeper Wen for his good tactics.

The experienced shopkeeper only looked at the account books of previous years and pointed out to Ye Jintang several places where it was obvious that someone had tampered with the account.

When looking at the account books, it was found that Manager Wen had started stealing silver from the silver shop seven or eight years ago.

After so many years, he still lived in the small courtyard and had only one wife. It can be seen that he did not dare to use the stolen silver casually at all.

This is good, in the end all the money will fall into her purse.

After seeing off the knowledgeable silver shop owner, Ye Jintang couldn't help but sigh in his heart as he looked at the pile of account books on the table.

As expected of Shopkeeper Wen, who has been the shopkeeper of a silver shop for many years, his methods are very sophisticated.

His method of stealing money silently and quietly was not easily noticed.

If he was working under Grandpa Wen, he naturally wouldn't dare to do so. After all, Grandpa Wen has been a businessman for most of his life and has seen all kinds of tricks.

But it is different for Madam Wen, who has lived in the inner house for a long time. She owns many businesses and has to take care of the backyard of Governor Ye. She will not be too detailed when checking the accounts.

Perhaps at the beginning, Shopkeeper Wen just wanted to steal a few hundred taels of silver, but when he found out that Madam Wen didn't notice, his appetite grew.

I don’t know how much silver Manager Wen has stolen from the silver shop in the past two years.

It would be fine if she didn't know, but now she has to find out how much silver Manager Wen embezzled and make her return it to him.