Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 411
Zhu Pei came to the middle hall of the mansion next door. A door had been opened on the partition wall of the two mansions. The ten-acre house had also been successfully transferred and now belonged to them.

In fact, they can live in the next-door mansion first, and then move back after the gardening and renovation is completed, but Zhu Pei doesn't like the traces of the original owner here, and he doesn't like the structure of the back house, so he waited for the two sides to be built together Move back later.

She walked into the hall, Jian Meizi followed her, and Manager Liu who was sitting in the hall quickly stood up and saluted, "See Madam!"

Zhu Pei has known Guanshi Liu since she was a child, and she still respects this kind of family elder.

"You're welcome, chief executive, please sit down!"

Manager Liu sat down and took out a thick stack of ledgers. He first took out a report and handed it to Zhu Pei with a smile: "This is the business situation for three months, and the profit in three months is [-] yuan."

Jupe was taken aback, "Are there so many?"

Steward Liu smiled slightly, "We are still relatively small. The Chai family's [-] money shops in the capital make a monthly profit of [-] guan, while our [-] money shops make a monthly profit of only [-] guan. The big money shops are still far behind.”

"I have long heard that money shops are profitable, but now it seems that it is not simple."

"Madam doesn't know much about business. For example, Qingfeng Restaurant, its business is booming every day. Even if it sells small profits, each restaurant only earns [-] guan a day. Twenty Qingfeng restaurants in the capital earn [-] guan a day. Money, a month's profit is [-] guan, while each of our Zhu's money shops can only make [-] guan a day, which is really not a huge profit compared to Qingfeng Restaurant."

How much money she makes is just a number to Zhu Pei, she doesn't care much, and asks: "What else?"

"There is also the distribution of profits. Zhu's money shop has been owned by the wife and uncle for more than two years. So far, no profit has been divided. So far, the accumulated profit has reached 50 yuan. Madam wants to convert it into gold and deposit it in the treasury."

"If the profit is distributed, will it affect the operation of the money shop?"

"No! There is sufficient silver circulation in the money shop."

Zhu Pei thought for a while and said, "Let's do this! Give each clerk a [-]% increase in their monthly salary, the manager a [-]% increase, and Manager Liu a [-]% increase, and the remaining profit will be converted into gold and deposited in the treasury!"

"I understand, but the key to the vault is in the hands of my uncle. We only have one key, and we cannot open the vault door."

"He gave me the key. It's in my hand. When you need it, I'll give it to you at any time."

"Thank you ma'am!"

Zhu Pei smiled again and asked, "How much money do we have in the money shop?"

"Are you asking my uncle's counter?"

Zhu Pei was stunned, "What is my uncle's savings? Didn't my uncle and I put the money together?"

Steward Liu shook his head, "My uncle has his own counter for seven or eight years, and the other counter is shared by my wife and my uncle."

Of course Zhu Pei knew that her husband used to have a counter in a money shop, but after they got married, the counters of the two were merged together. Why did he still have a separate counter?
Zhu Pei asked, "How much money is in my uncle's cabinet now?"

"Last month it was 500 taels of silver, and now it is 1 taels of silver. This one took 500 taels of silver."

Zhu Pei wondered, what did her husband do with the three thousand five hundred taels of silver?Why don't I know.

She thought for a while and then asked, "Is there always that much money?"

"No, there were 300 taels of silver at the beginning of last year, and a little bit was withdrawn every month after that. In the past year and a half, about 800 taels of silver were withdrawn."

"Wait a minute!"

Zhu Pei suddenly realized something was wrong. They had been in Kunzhou for the past two years, so how could there be a withdrawal of money?
"Master Liu, you are right! We have been in Kunzhou, how do we withdraw money?"

Manager Liu is a bit over his head, he can't tell lies, so Zhu Pei can answer any questions he asks, but he also knows that his uncle's privacy is involved, and he is likely to get into trouble.

"I...I'm not very clear about this." Manager Liu hesitated.

"Nonsense! You don't know who will withdraw the money, and you will allow irrelevant people to withdraw my uncle's money?"

"My uncle agreed!"

Manager Liu hesitantly said: "I agreed a long time ago, before Madam and Uncle got married at that time!"

Doubts suddenly arose in Zhu Pei's heart, and he asked, "Tell me, who came to withdraw the money?"

"It's a little maid, she looks thirteen or fourteen years old."

"Little maid?"

Zhu Pei faintly felt something, she stared at the chief manager sharply, "You must not have told me the truth, you know the inside story, right?"

Under Zhu Pei's stern questioning, Manager Liu sighed and said, "It's a young woman. She has come to pick up the silver twice. Her surname seems to be Ouyang. The name she left when signing for the receipt is Ouyang Qian. I don't know anything else." .”

Zhu Pei was stunned as if struck by lightning. How could she not know the name Ouyang Qian? Ouyang Xiu's daughter, not long after she knew Fan Ning, she had read this letter written by Ouyang Qian to Fan Ning. How he writes, but the concern in the letter is palpable.

But then they seemed to lose contact again, and Zhu Pei gradually forgot about her, but Zhu Pei never dreamed that her husband was still in contact with this Ouyang Qian and returned her money. What does this mean?What is the relationship between them?
Zhu Pei seemed to be stunned, sitting in the lobby unable to utter a word, and she didn't even know that Manager Liu had left.

At this time, Jianmeizi who was standing at the entrance of the lobby felt that something was wrong with Zhu Pei, so she came over and held her shoulder and asked softly, "Ape, are you okay?"

Zhu Pei suddenly threw himself into Jianmeizi's arms and cried bitterly, Jianmeizi was startled, and quickly asked: "Ape, what happened?"

"My husband lied to me, he raised a woman outside!" Zhu Pei cried.

"Wait a minute! Did you make a mistake? Uncle has never been a flirtatious person. He has never even been to a brothel in Kunzhou. How could he raise a woman outside?"

"This woman is not a prostitute. It is... a woman he has known all along. He knew her before I did."

"Ape, stop crying. Let's find out the situation first. Is it true? You can't solve the problem by crying like this."

"I want to divorce him!"

Zhu Pei suddenly wiped away his tears, stood up resentfully and shouted: "How dare you lie to me, it's in vain that I treat him so well, he is simply... simply a big bastard!"

"Ape, calm down, tell me who you are first, and I'll investigate for you. Don't talk nonsense about divorce."

"Sister Jian, she... her name is Ouyang Qian, and she is Ouyang Xiu's daughter. No wonder he cares so much about Ouyang Xiu. I now know that he is actually doing it for Ouyang Qian."

Jian Meizi beckoned Aya to come in, and said to her: "You go back with Madam first, I will check some things, and I will be back soon."

Jianmeizi said to Zhu Pei again: "Before the matter is clear, don't jump to conclusions, hold back and don't cry!"

After finishing speaking, Jian Meizi left in a hurry, Zhu Pei didn't want to stay any longer, she wiped away her tears and said, "Let's go home!"

When it was getting dark, Jianmeizi returned to Zhu's mansion. Instead of going directly to Zhu Pei, she first found Zhu Pei's mother, Wang Shi.

"Amei, what's the matter with Pei'er, I heard from the housekeeper that she seems to have cried today?" Mrs. Wang also asked eagerly.

"Ma'am, the matter is a bit troublesome, it may have something to do with my uncle."

Jian Meizi briefly explained what happened in the house today, and Wang was taken aback, "Is it true? Fan Ning really raised a woman outside?"

"Ma'am, the matter is not that simple. I found Ouyang's mansion today and tried to find a way to ask a servant. He told me that Ouyang Qian had been kicked out of the mansion by her stepmother, and her whereabouts are unknown now."

"why?"

Wang's eyes widened and she asked, "Ouyang Xiu's daughter was kicked out of the house, what happened?"

"Her stepmother's brother framed Ouyang Xiu, and was sued by Ouyang Qian. The stepmother's brother died in prison, and the stepmother could not tolerate her."

"Then why didn't her father ignore her and just watched her daughter being kicked out?"

"It seems that her father is seriously ill and can't take care of this daughter."

"A sin!"

Mrs. Wang sighed, and said again: "Is Aning taking care of this Ouyang Qian?"

"I think so. If my uncle bought a house for Ouyang Qian, then I will find out where the house is through the dentist? The key is Ape's side. She is very emotional, and today she actually called out to divorce my uncle."

"nonsense!"

Wang was suddenly unhappy and said, "You are such an old man, why are you still as ignorant as a child?"

"Maybe the authorities are obsessed, why don't Madam go and persuade her!"

Wang pondered for a while and said: "Let me think about this matter, and I will persuade her after clarifying my thoughts."

(End of this chapter)