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Chapter 78 Guan Tian and Land

housekeeper?Wanyan was even more surprised.Is the housekeeper's ostentation so big now?To be able to sit in the position of the master so arrogantly, and to call the master by his first name.You should really let you meet the grandpa who is the housekeeper of the Xuan Mansion. He didn't even dare to lift his head when he saw his father.

Wanyan's heart was full of excitement, but on her face she bowed again in a respectful and submissive manner: "Cicada has met Steward Li."

Butler Li raised his hand to fix his nails, but without looking at her, he asked coldly, "How many people are there in your family? Are your parents still alive? Is there anyone in the family who holds an official position?"

Upon hearing this, Wanyan obediently answered each question one by one: "My grandfather and I are the only ones in my family. Both my parents have passed away, and no one holds official positions in my family."

"Oh..." Butler Li looked up at Wanyan carefully from head to toe, the eyes that looked like a prisoner almost made Wanyan want to rush up and crush him to death.

After a while, Steward Li spit out a sentence through his teeth: "This appearance is really good-looking." After that, he seemed to be beckoning to both sides, pointing to Wanyan and said: "Place her casually first. Bar."

Immediately, people came out from both sides, and a little maid led Wanyan away.

When she was about to walk to the door, Wanyan vaguely heard Steward Li gritted her teeth and complained to others: "Didn't I tell Wei Chongjie many times not to bring these unknown people back home, is he deaf?"

Tsk tsk tsk... Wanyan couldn't help but sigh in her heart.This is not a butler, he is clearly a master who manages the world...

The maid who led the way for Wanyan walked quickly, and in a short while brought her to a dilapidated house next to the woodshed, pouted inside, and said in an extremely impatient tone: "This is the lady who specially made it for you." Let's go in." After she finished speaking, she turned around and left without looking at Wanyan.

I'm really thankful to your master... Wanyan sneered at the back of the maid, she didn't even have the heart to get angry with her.

Wanyan entered the house only to find that this is not a bedroom, but a dirty and dilapidated utility room, without even a bed, and the only piece of furniture is a table with four legs of different lengths.

Hey... Master Yan, my situation is really going from bad to worse...

Wanyan sighed, and sat down on the table, who knew that the table was limping, and Wanyan almost turned over on her back.

Huluo Pingyang was bullied by the table... Wanyan kicked the table hard, kicked the table upside down, tried to comfort herself and said: "Forget it, forget it, but just endure it for a few days. .”

So Wanyan sat cross-legged on the dusty ground with a "plop", thinking about the clues she had collected since entering Wei's mansion.

The scale of this Wei Mansion is not large, it is a small building with three courtyards and three courtyards, most of the houses are built of square bricks and blue bricks, with the most common tiles as the roof, and the exterior is painted with white ash.Only the main house is built with fretwork bricks and patterned bricks, with green ridge tiles as the roof.Most of the houses have cracks and water seepage, obviously old.

For a county magistrate, this mansion is of a suitable size but a bit shabby.

As for the maids and guards in the mansion, it seems that there are not too many maids and guards, and the cost of clothing is not much better than that of ordinary people.

Especially the little maid who brought me here just now, she is ugly, fat and has a pair of bull's eyes, at most a tael of silver!Not a penny more!
Thinking of this, Wanyan couldn't help curling her lips angrily.

Looking at it this way, if Wei Chongjie was really greedy for the tens of thousands of yuan in labor taxes and some money for river repairs, no matter how low-key Wei Chongjie was, he wouldn't be able to live such a shabby life, would he?

Unless he just wants to get money into his arms every day, and then continue to enjoy this poor life, he is corrupt and perverts the law, and has nothing to do.

In addition, there is another thing that makes Wanyan suspicious, that is, the housekeeper Li of the Wei family is really weird.

There are generally only three possibilities for the mansion of the magistrate of a majestic county to be so domineering.

First, this master is really a wimp, who can allow subordinates to commit chaos.But judging from Wei Chongjie's style of extortionate and taxing people, it seems that the possibility is unlikely.

The second is that this master is really a masochist, he likes to spend money to hire someone to be a grandfather to torture and disgust himself, as if... normal people... can't... right....Wanyan temporarily ruled out this possibility.

The third is that this person is called a servant, but in fact has a special status, and is the master's master.

This possibility is still very high. After all, the river repair funds given by the Ministry of Households to Shuzhou, and Shuzhou to Jiangquan, have been exploited layer by layer, and it has long been insufficient for river repair.These local county magistrates are hard to live without rice. If they are really in a hurry and submit a memorial to the capital, even if it can be easily suppressed, there is still more trouble in the end. It is better to find someone to watch them closely and force them to do nothing. Mi also has to make a full banquet of Han and Han to make it simple.

Judging by the appearance of Mr. Li Butler, it is obvious that he has written five big characters "There is someone behind me" on his head, which saves Wanyan from having to investigate further.

The most urgent task now is to get the accounts of the Wei Mansion and grasp the real evidence of the lack of funds for the river repair.

Just as Wanyan finished sorting out her thoughts, a maid pushed the door in without knocking, and Wanyan hurriedly jumped off the ground.

"Hey, that savage from the mountain, Madam told you to go there immediately!" The maid said a word aggressively, then turned around and walked out, Wanyan hurriedly responded, and trotted to follow.

The servant girl brought Wanyan into a room, and the furnishings in this room were quite affordable.

Wanyan went all the way to the innermost place, and saw a middle-aged woman dressed in silk sitting in the center, and four or five women of different ages sitting on both sides, some were four or fifty years old, some were Only less than 50 years old.

Wanyan looked around lightly, and saw that the woman in the middle was unusually plump, with a swollen face, plus the fierce look on her face, she didn't seem to be a good person at first glance.And the women of different ages on both sides are all smiling and chatting submissively.

Wanyan immediately understood that the woman in the middle had always been the head mother of the Wei Mansion, and there were some aunts on both sides.

So Wanyan walked to the middle of them in small steps, bowed to the woman in the middle with half fear and half respect, and then bowed to the women on both sides.

"Cicada, the daughter of the people, has met my wife and all my aunts."

Wanyan's hot face directly bumped into a group of cold asses, she bowed her body for a long time before Madam Wei asked her to excuse her, and when she was hesitating whether to excuse herself, Madam Wei squeezed out a sentence from between her teeth Come on.

"Raise your head."

Wanyan raised her head obediently, her big watery eyes looked timidly at Mrs. Wei.

(End of this chapter)