Fortune Princess

Chapter 72 Kill the chicken to warn the monkey

Not long after Huo Ting left, Liu Ben led two servants and knocked on Fu Qingyu's door.

"Madam, these are the account books over the years, including the income and expenditure of the Marquis Mansion, as well as the revenues of various Zhuangzi shops. Please take a look at it, Madam. The next seven days will be the day when the servants will distribute the routine money. Madam should make preparations early. If there is any If you don’t understand anything, Madam can ask me.” Lord Hou has long told him to take care of Madam, Aunt Mei has been in the mansion for quite a long time, and although the Hou Mansion is not as good as the court, the servants are still entangled with each other. , he naturally wanted to guard his wife for Lord Hou so that she would not suffer.

"Thank you, Housekeeper Liu, let's put it here." Fu E sighed, she didn't want to take care of these trivial matters, but she had no choice but to nod in agreement, and asked someone to put the account book in the study.Fortunately, there is a fresh and elegant study room next to the master bedroom in Zhuyuan, which is connected to the master bedroom.

For a whole day, Fu Qingyu didn't step out of the bamboo garden. There were a lot of account books. On the surface, it seemed that everything in the Hou Mansion was in order. There are some discrepancies in the house, and there are always some inexplicable expenses every month. There is a lot of money, most of which are purchased.

But for example, expenses such as pens, inks, papers and inkstones cost 500 taels a month. Apart from Huo Ting, there are no male relatives in the mansion. Even if you eat it, you definitely won't need it.

Huo Ting's title, in addition to the house and farm awarded by the emperor, there are many shops in the capital, and Huo Ting owns them. Most of the shopkeepers of these shops are the offshoots of the Huo family.The Huo family relied entirely on Huo Ting to live a noble life in the capital.

Naturally, Huo Ting's family is the main one, but Huo Ting's parents died early, and he was the only son under his knees. Fu Qingyu knew all about it. The rest of the clan were collateral descendants of Huo Ting's parents. , but also a real blood relative.

As long as these clansmen rely on Huo Ting to survive, they will be able to live comfortably for a lifetime. Whether they are rich or not, their lives will definitely be better than some petty officials.Even the servants of the Hou Mansion were not all bought by signing a contract of sale, many of them were sent over by people of the same clan.

Most of the children born in the family also appeared among the people sent by these same clans, and they were all in charge of more lucrative places, such as purchasing and wearing.Huo Ting was busy with government affairs, and rarely asked about trivial matters in the mansion. Aunt Mei had always been in control. Fu Qingyu didn't need to think about it to know that Huo Ting must have been taken for a lot of money these years.

A concubine can so easily hand over the coveted power of housekeeper, Fu Qingyu naturally knows what she means, want to see a joke?cant.

Even if there is a joke, it must not be her who paid Qingyu.

Some places were circled with a brush dipped in cinnabar, and Fu Qingyu selected two representative figures to deal with. The time was long and there were many moths.

Playing wildly with Xiao Yichen all day, Jing Yi returned to the Marquis Mansion late at night, and Fu Qingyu inevitably said a few words to him, Jing Yi smiled and comforted him, Huo Ting also wanted to step forward to teach a few words when he saw this, but Fu Qingyu gave him a look The knife swung over and immediately shut up.

He believes that the entire Wei Dynasty does not have such a useless father as him!

Put the blood into the jade bowl as usual, add the medicine powder and put it on Jing's clothes.Huo Ting dawdled and didn't want to leave, so Fu Qingyu coaxed him out.

Jing Yi glanced sideways at a small stack of account books on the table, flipped through them casually, and found that some places had been annotated by her mother, obviously they were all muddled accounts with problems.

"Mother, are you really going to take care of the affairs of the Marquis's Mansion?" Asked curiously, if Mother plans to forgive the cheap father, then she... will change her strategy towards the cheap father.

Fu Qingyu took the account book out of Jing Yi's hands, and said with a smile, "I don't want to, I just take care of it temporarily. Besides, there are people who want to watch a play, so why should I be so disappointed?" As soon as Jing Yi said this, Jing Yi immediately understood her Mother's plan.

She just said it!Her mother is Fu Qingyu, who can subdue Lord Huo Hou, and is a best friend of the former empress!
Jing Yi tugged at Fu Qingyu's sleeve, clinking flattery: "That's, who is my mother! That woman wants to fight her with such a petty measure, she's overwhelmed by shaking a tree."

Seeing Jing Yi's rare little daughter's tenderness, Fu Qingyu smiled and scratched her nose: "You know how to make me happy, how did you play with His Highness the Crown Prince today? There are many things in the capital, and people are chaotic. Follow His Highness the Crown Prince. Restrain yourself and don't cause trouble for him."

"Mother, am I still your daughter? Or is Xiao Yichen your son? Why do you always talk to him?" Jing Yi pretended to be unhappy, and she was not stupid, so she naturally knew how to behave.

"Of course it's you, I've spoiled you to the point of lawlessness." The mother and daughter chatted for a while, and Jing Yi was urged to sleep.

Fu Qingyu set his sights on the account book, the bright word accountant, let's start from here.

Woke up early in the morning, Fu Qingyu and Jing Yi were ready, and before they left the bamboo garden, someone from the accountant came to ask Fu Qingyu to go over.

Fu Qingyu raised her eyebrows, confident?Before she could make a fuss, the other party came to the door first.

Jing Yi on the side was eager to try, and looked at Fu Qingyu with bright eyes, all of which meant: I want to go.

Originally, he didn't want Jing Yi to get involved in this kind of mess, but he couldn't hold back Jing Yi's soft-heartedness, so he took her to the accountant with the servant.

The accounting room has a separate courtyard in the outer courtyard. When Fu Qingyu and Jing Yi arrived, there were already five people waiting outside the door. They were generally in their 40s and [-]s. There was only one who looked younger, standing beside the other four. behind.

"I've met Madam." The five of them saluted Fu Qingyu together. Yesterday, Steward Liu had informed them that Madam would take care of all the affairs of the Hou Mansion, and asked them to fully cooperate.

That's why there was such a battle today, Fu Qingyu nodded in agreement, and followed them into the yard. In the main hall, there were two large wooden boxes, and a man with a slightly longer beard stepped forward.

"Ma'am, my name is Huo Zhen. I'm a collateral branch of the Huo family, and I'm also in charge of the accountant of the Hou Mansion. Knowing that Madam will be in charge of the affairs of the Hou Mansion in the future, I asked my subordinates to find out all the previous account books and show them to Madam one by one. It's easy to hand over." Huo Zhen is around forty, with a somewhat stooped figure, but his eyes are very shrewd.

The other two men opened the big wooden boxes respectively, and there were a lot of account books inside.With so much in front of him for Fu Qingyu to look at, it was obviously an intentional embarrassment.

The corners of Fu Qingyu's lips twitched slightly, neither angry nor annoyed, this man named Huo Zhen was the chicken she was going to kill to make an example to others.

(End of this chapter)