After being married off, she was favored by the powerful official

Gu Rou was startled when Gu Jin raised his eyes and hurriedly hid behind the window.

Li saw this and asked, "Rou'er, what's wrong with you?"

"Mother, Gu Jin won't find us here, right?"

Li smiled nonchalantly and said, "How is that possible? Gu Jin doesn't have that kind of brain."

"But Gu Jin has been acting strange lately. I feel like she's different from before." After several unpleasant experiences, Gu Rou felt that Gu Jin was like a koi possessed, and could handle any problem she encountered.

"It's just a few strokes of luck. Luck always runs out eventually!"

After hearing what Li said, Gu Rou gradually felt at ease and continued to pay attention to the movements below.

Manager Qian hesitated for a moment, but then he realized that Gu Jin was probably lying to him, so he said, "If the young lady has any dissatisfaction, just come to me. As long as you are willing to let these old friends return to the restaurant, I am willing to endure anything."

Shopkeeper Qian was righteous and awe-inspiring. Gu Jin curled the corners of his lips and smiled faintly, "Okay, then you and Chef Wang can only keep one. You can discuss it yourselves."

The two were stunned for a moment, and the look in their eyes when they looked at each other was no longer so pure.

Working in a restaurant is a lucrative job that can ensure their wealth for the rest of their lives.

Shopkeeper Qian was more active and said hurriedly: "Although I have a big family to support, as a shopkeeper I should consider the people below me.

As long as I can give these old guys a living, I am willing to beg on the streets."

When the scholar saw that Shopkeeper Qian was so righteous, he became even more dissatisfied with Gu Jin. "Why is the young lady so aggressive and unsympathetic? Does she have to make people desperate before she will stop?"

Gu Jin glanced at him and said in a light tone: “There can only be one shopkeeper in the restaurant. If he comes back, the child will have to leave.

He lost his father when he was young, and he only has a blind mother at home. Please choose for me!"

The scholar Yu Ning thought that choosing either one would be unfair to the other, so he would not be the bad guy.

"Can't choose? No more words?"

Seeing that the scholar was silent, Gu Jin rolled his eyes and said, "That's why they say that scholars are useless. They are useless at the critical moment."

Everyone laughed, the scholar's face turned red, and he could only stare at Gu Jin angrily.

Gu Jin took the account book that Huo Sichen had just taken, and his slender jade-like fingers casually flipped through the yellowed papers.

"Just now you said that my wealth was earned by these people. Do you know how much money my restaurant can earn every year?"

The scholar was not good at math, but a restaurant this big would have to have at least several thousand taels of accounting to keep every year.

"Last year, this restaurant made 500 taels of silver. The year before last, it was a little more, a full 650 taels. It has been like this for more than ten years. I'm afraid it's more stable than your performance."

Scholar: “…” He felt ridiculed.

"Business is like this. No matter what line of business you are in, there will be gains and losses. You can't blame others if you run your business poorly!" The scholar was determined to fight Gu Jin head-on.

When Shopkeeper Qian saw Gu Jin take out the account book, he felt a little guilty, but when he thought about the fact that there were no flaws in his account, he calmly said, "The restaurant business is not like a shop like Jinyu Pavilion. It's not as easy as the young lady thinks..."

"Normally a restaurant this big would make at least five or six thousand taels a year, what about you?

You don't even have one tenth of what others have, and you tell me whether I should replace you?"

Manager Qian was speechless for a moment, and Gu Jin continued, "It would be fine if you really just didn't make any money, but your account book is full of loopholes.

Chef Wang's monthly salary reaches twenty taels, the kitchen assistant fifteen taels, and the waiter fifteen taels. You should know that the chef of Zuixianlou only earns fifteen taels a month. I have to spend nearly a thousand taels more in monthly salary every year.

Tell me, what makes them worth the price? Are they young and beautiful or have they some other special qualities? "

Shopkeeper Qian had a little sweat on his forehead, but he remained calm, "Madam, these were all decided by Madam Bo back then..."

"Oh?

Was it also my mother who set the purchase price of chickens, ducks, fish, meat, vegetables, fruits, rice and noodles for the restaurant to be higher than the market price? Was it also she who set the monthly expenditure of 100 taels to repair the restaurant's tables, chairs, doors and windows, and the annual expenditure of 1,000 taels on the decoration of the restaurant?"

When Manager Qian heard this, he was sweating profusely. He had clearly kept the accounts secret and at a glance they all appeared to be small expenditures of a few taels of silver.

Moreover, he remembered everything in a messy way, so even if he took the opportunity to take advantage of the Second Madam, she wouldn't be able to notice. How could Gu Jin remember it so clearly?

Gu Jin looked at Xie Ran. This matter was all thanks to his help, otherwise she would not be able to understand that mess.

When the scholar heard this, he had a bad feeling in his heart.

Gu Jin asked Huo Sichen again, "How many days did Chef Wang take off in total?"

"He had rested for eleven days in total until his sister drove him away."

Chef Wang avoided his gaze guiltily, and Gu Jin smiled and said, "What a coincidence, that day was exactly the eleventh day since I took over the shop from Second Aunt, which means that since you knew I took over the shop, you have been taking leave as the head chef of the restaurant, and before that, you could only count the days you took leave in all these years.

"Chef Wang, are you ill, or do you look down on me, your new master?"

"I dare not. How dare I look down on you!"

Chef Wang's eyes rolled around and he suddenly gritted his teeth.

If I don’t die, my friend will die!

"It was him!" Chef Wang pointed at Shopkeeper Qian and said loudly, "It was Shopkeeper Qian who forced me to do this. He said he had to show you a little bit of his power, so that you would know who owns this restaurant!"

"Chef Wang, you farted!" Shopkeeper Qian yelled angrily.

But Chef Wang ignored him and said, "Madam, what I said is true. If I don't listen to him, he will threaten to fire me.

Madam, please understand, he really was the one who ordered us to do this!"

When the wall falls, everyone pushes it. In order to get back to their jobs in the restaurant, other people also jumped out to blame Manager Qian.

Shopkeeper Qian didn't expect the situation to be like this, and he was so anxious that he was incoherent for a moment.

Gu Jin quietly enjoyed the dog-eat-dog scene, and when they were arguing until their faces turned red and their necks became thick, he spoke quietly: "I don't have time to judge the lawsuit for you. What I care about is where my money has gone all these years?

Shopkeeper Qian, I've calculated for you. Just based on your memory of this bad debt, you have embezzled at least 30,000 taels of silver from me over the years."

She raised the corners of her lips and smiled softly and harmlessly, "I'm a very generous person. I won't count the change. You pay me thirty thousand taels of silver and we'll be even..."