Mingmen Family

Chapter 102 So much money?

Song Yifeng waved to Guizi.

Today's battle made Guizi a little nervous.He was particularly worried that the Ye family would not let them go and they would beat them up. Neither he nor the young master could walk back safely.

He swallowed, stepped forward with trembling legs, and passed the box in his hand towards Ye Chongming.

Ye Chongming turned his head to Zhang Yuniang and said, "Matchmaker Zhang, please take a look."

Zhang Yuniang nodded, stepped forward to take the box, took out the silver ingots one by one in front of everyone, counted them, and said to Ye Chongming, "It's 500 taels of silver in total."

Ye Jiaxing laughed angrily.

As early as when dealing with Meng Chengwei, he had worked with Ye Chongming in a division of labor.He has long experience in playing impulsive and irritable black face.

He said in a strange way: "Oh, since Young Master Song is so ambitious and doesn't join us, he has the ability to give us back the money that was spent on my family. Now I use my money to study and get a good grade. Turn around He despises us, but refuses to pay back most of the expenses, Young Master Song is really ambitious."

Song Yifeng didn't know whether he was angry or ashamed, and his face was flushed again.

He argued strongly: "Your family gave me 200 taels of silver a year for a total of seven years, and I returned you 500 taels of silver. What's wrong with that? Where do you start by repaying most of the expenses? Ye Jiaxing, don't rant. "

After finishing speaking, he looked at Ye Chongming with threatening eyes: "Master Ye, you have to think about whether you really want to tear yourself apart with me. If you let Sun talk nonsense again, then our little affection will be worthless." There are no more. I will not hide some things from you anymore. "

Ye Chongming didn't bother to argue with him, so he said to Meng Ji, "Go ask Wen Tao to come in."

Wen Tao is the accountant of the Ye family.He was already waiting on the porch.

So Meng Ji went out and called out, and Wen Tao came in and bowed to Ye Chongming.

"Give him the ledger." Ye Chongming ordered.

Wen Tao held a ledger in front of Song Yifeng.

Ye Chongming originally planned to send one copy to Song Yifeng and another copy to Zhang Yuniang after sorting out the ledger.Later, someone was sent to invite Mrs. Wu, and Mrs. Wu was willing to help as a witness.In order to tear Song Yifeng's true colors more thoroughly, Ye Chongming decided not to take out the ledger in advance.

As a result, today, Mrs. Wu really watched another big show.

Seeing Wen Tao, Song Yifeng had an ominous premonition in his heart, and when he handed the account book in front of him, Song Yifeng's heart sank suddenly.He didn't even dare to reach out to pick up the ledger.

Ye Chongming didn't care, but told Wen Tao: "Since Young Master Song dare not accept it, then you can show Mrs. Wu and Matchmaker Zhang the account book."

Wen Tao immediately withdrew his hand.Nanny Yu took the initiative to step forward, took the account book in his hand, and handed it to Mrs. Wu.

Mrs. Wu is literate.She took the ledger and looked through it.

When Song Yifeng heard Ye Chongming's words, his heart tensed at first, and then relaxed again.

Only the wives of high-ranking officials can be called "Mrs." Otherwise, they can only be called "Mrs."

This Mrs. Wu was invited by the Ye family to be a witness. Song Yifeng was still afraid at first, thinking that she was the wife of some family.Now knowing that she is just a "wife", and her status is obviously not high, he couldn't help but feel relieved, and immediately sneered.

The Ye family is just a merchant, who can make friends with someone of status?

Thinking about it this way, he didn't care about the existence of the ledger at all.

Mrs. Wu saw that the account book not only recorded how much money was given to Song Yifeng in which year, month and day, but also who handled it, as well as the name and fingerprint of the person who handled it, and some receipts written by Song Yifeng himself.

She turned to the last page and found that the Ye family had spent a total of 530 seven taels of silver on Song Yifeng over the years.

She shook her head secretly again, feeling the Song family's greed and ingratitude in her heart.

When she married Master Wu when she was young, Master Wu was still a child, so she knew exactly how much a scholar would spend a year.

Those with poor family circumstances and tight money can spend tens of taels of silver a year; those with better family circumstances can spend one or two hundred taels of silver a year.This fee is an average, including the cost of their participation in the imperial examination and occasional participation in poetry and literature.

In other words, the 200 taels a year set by the Ye family is definitely enough for Song Yifeng to study well, and the Song family's mother and son can still live a good life.

As a result, the mother and son of the Song family actually spent so much money on the Ye family.

Now that it's spent, let's marry the granddaughter of the family and live a good life. Ye Yaming's child did not humiliate Song Yifeng at all.As a result, the mother and son of the Song family had to look forward to Sichuan, greedy for nothing, and disliked that they were merchants, tsk tsk tsk...

She handed the ledger to Zhang Yuniang.

Zhang Yuniang was surprised when she saw the amount of money on it.

Song Yifeng has been observing Mrs. Wu and Zhang Yuniang. Seeing the shocked eyes of the two, his heart beats like a drum, and he thinks quickly about countermeasures.

After Zhang Yuniang finished reading the account book, Ye Chongming said: "In this account book, every expenditure on it basically has Mrs. Song's handprint or a note written by Young Master Song. If Young Master Song doesn't believe it, I can send someone to the yamen people to do fingerprint or handwriting identification."

He is a businessman, he is the most cautious when it comes to the entry and exit of money, and he must remember every detail clearly.

Every time a large amount of money was paid to the Song family, the housekeeper, accountant, or servant who sent the money would ask Mrs. Yu to print his fingerprints or ask Song Yifeng to write a receipt on the grounds that "the receipt cannot be explained to the master".These vouchers have made the accountant stick to the ledger.The mother and son of the Song family cannot be blamed.

He looked at Song Yifeng, and said in a calm tone, "A total of 530 seven taels of silver. This silver, if lent to others for seven or eight years, will yield a lot. I don't count interest with you now, Young Master Song, you just need to put these Return the money to me in full, and write a resignation document, and our two families will have nothing to do with each other. From now on, the bridge will return to the bridge, and the road will return to the road."

Hearing the amount of money, Song Yifeng's heart tightened, and cold sweat broke out.

He didn't expect so much money, let alone the Ye family's calculations with him.

How to do?How to do?Is it really necessary to pay back so much money to the Ye family?What would happen if you pretended not to admit those accounts?Will Mrs. Wu and matchmaker Zhang spread the word outside and ruin his reputation?

Song Yifeng's mind was spinning quickly, and his palms were wet with cold sweat.

Ye Chongming didn't urge him either, and the hall fell into a dead silence.

Zhang Yuniang looked up at Song Yifeng, and then at Ye Chongming. After thinking about it, she felt that she couldn't afford to offend anyone, so she just lowered her head and continued to look at the account book, as if the account book could tell the flowers.

Seeing this, Mrs. Ye pushed the dim sum on the case table towards Mrs. Wu, and said with a smile, "This is our chef's specialty dim sum. Mrs. Wu, please try it and see if you like it."

(End of this chapter)