Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 143
Mrs. Wang waited at home for two days and saw no response from Zhou Rui's family. She became a little anxious and quickly ordered Jin Chuan to go to Zhou Rui's house to search.

As a result, when Jin Chuan arrived at Zhou Rui's house, he found that the place was already empty.

Jin Chuan was also shocked. She didn't understand what happened to Zhou Rui's family. Did they move?
Although she couldn't understand it, she hurried back and reported the matter to Mrs. Wang.

After hearing the news, Mrs. Wang stood up from her seat and stared at Liu Yuan, seemingly very surprised.

But Mrs. Wang was not a fool. He quickly realized that there must be something wrong with the warehouse?
In fact, during the time Mrs. Wang was in charge of the Treasury in Rongguo Mansion, she had learned a lot of good things from it.

This time, Jia Mu suddenly asked her to hand over the keys to the warehouse, and Mrs. Wang then called in Zhou Rui's family to handle the funeral arrangements.

When Mrs. Wang wanted to come to the warehouse, she had already made proper arrangements, and the books were pretty much the same. Now it was just a matter of finishing.

However, now Zhou Rui's family has run away in a hurry. This is obviously because Zhou Rui's family has also benefited a lot from it. Now they have to check the accounts and warehouse, and his family feels that they can't make up for it, so they run away.

After thinking of this, Mrs. Wang felt her body become sore and weak, and she couldn't help but lie down on her seat.

However, Mrs. Wang soon woke up. This kind of matter must be dealt with quickly, otherwise the Zhou Rui family will talk too much outside, and she will not look good in the end.

"Go and send a message to my great-uncle, saying that Zhou Rui's family took the money from the house and ran away, and ask him to help get the person."

Mrs. Wang gave Jin Chuan instructions.

Jin Chuan nodded and quickly went out to do errands.

Mrs. Wang was left sitting in her chair uneasy.

That night, Jin Chuan finally returned from Wang Ziteng, but the news he brought was not optimistic.

It turned out that Wang Ziteng became very angry after receiving the news from Mrs. Wang.

Since Wang Ziteng could serve as the governor of the Beijing Camp, he was certainly not a fool, and he immediately saw the fishiness in it.

Although she was angry, she was still her biological sister, and she had to wipe her ass in the end.

Therefore, Wang Ziteng used his connections and asked the yamen from Shuntian Prefecture to go out together to search for Zhou Rui's family on the streets.

On the other hand, he bribed the nine admirals and asked him to conduct careful cross-examination at each gate leaving the capital.

He believed that a two-pronged approach would surely capture Zhou Rui's family.

But there was no news until evening.

In fact, according to Wang Ziteng's opinion, if it were delayed for a few more days, Zhou Rui's family would not be able to escape the attention of the government.

But the problem now is that Mrs. Wang doesn't have much time, because Jia Mu has set a strict time for her, and she has been delaying it for a few days, and it is not appropriate to delay it any longer.

In the end, Wang Ziteng had no choice but to ask Jin Chuan to come back and tell Mrs. Wang, asking her to go to Jia Mu and take the initiative to admit her mistake.

After all, if he voluntarily surrendered, he might be given a lighter sentence.

Besides, Mrs. Wang should have made the arrangements for the warehouse affairs, so most of the things should be blamed on Zhou Rui's family. In the end, Mrs. Wang just had a reputation of being too trusting, too honest, and being deceived. What's going to happen?

After receiving the message from Wang Ziteng, Mrs. Wang thought for a while and found that she had no other choice but to bring her maid to Rongqing Hall sadly.

It was already dark by this time, and Jia Mu had just had dinner with Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu.

I was watching two young people playing there!

Suddenly the maid down below came to report: The second wife asked to see her. Mother Jia was a little surprised.

"Call her in."

Mrs. Wang outside heard the words and cautiously entered the main room.

As soon as she entered, she fell to her knees and began sobbing.

When she cried, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu were also frightened. They both stood there and looked at him blankly, not knowing what to do.

As soon as Mrs. Wang saw Mrs. Wang crying, Jia Mu knew that something big had happened. She coldly winked at the mandarin duck next to her.

Yuanyang immediately understood and took Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu to Baoxia behind.

After the two babies left, Jia Mu asked:
"What happened?"

Mrs. Wang sobbed and said, "My wife, I was deceived."

After saying this, he started to kneel there and kowtow.

Jia Mu touched her forehead in annoyance, "Stand up and talk carefully."

After Mrs. Wang listened to the instructions, she stood up carefully.

"Old lady, didn't you ask me to hand over the keys to the warehouse and the dialogue to Feng Yatou? I've been preparing to hand over the things in the past two days. I entrusted this matter to Zhou Rui's family, but she didn't reply to me in the past two days. , I went to ask in the morning and found out that her family had already run away."

"I knew as soon as I heard that Zhou Rui's family must have done something shameful in the warehouse, so I quickly sent someone to look for it, but no one from his family was found in the entire capital. I knew there was nothing I could do, so I apologized to the old lady. coming."

Jia Mu was furious after hearing this, "This is because our family is so kind. Even a slave dares to coax the master into coming. This is not bad. If caught, he should be beaten to death."

Mother Jia lost her temper for a long time and finally calmed down. Then she thought for a moment and said, "Let Lai Da lead the people to check the warehouse immediately. I will see what is missing and scare the whole family away."

Jia Mu's order was immediately sent to Lai Da, the chief steward.

When Lai Da got the news, he was eating in his small yard!
After hearing Jia Mu's order, the bowl in his hand fell to the ground and shattered.

It turned out that not only Zhou Rui's family was watching the Jia Mansion's warehouse, but Lai Da also touched it several times.

If this time I focus on the warehouse and bring out the old accounts again, then everything will be exposed.Lai Da hates Zhou Rui's family. Is this family smart or stupid?You don't keep accounts when you take things from there?There is no way to clean up now, so I just abandoned the stall and ran away.

Although he felt resentful in his heart, he did not dare to disobey Jia Mu's orders, so Lai Da went to find someone to open the warehouse while packing some of his own treasures that came out of Jia's house.

Then he let the servants carry him into the Rongguo Mansion in a hurry, and then filled all these things into the warehouse before the masters arrived.

Lai Da had just finished cleaning up his mess today when Jia She came over angrily with his servant.

Lai Da hurriedly saluted, "Young man, I have met the eldest master."

Jia She stepped forward and kicked Lai Da to the ground, "I usually turn a blind eye, but I didn't expect that you guys are so spoiled that you dare to touch the things in the palace, you guys." Do you want to die?"

"Sir, have mercy on me, please have mercy on me, it's not a small matter."

Jia She, you know that you are an angry person, so after giving you a kick, you stopped mentioning the matter and said harshly:

"What are you still doing? Hurry up and take inventory of the warehouse."

Zai Lai Da looked at Jia She's face that had become distorted with anger. He was so frightened that he trembled all over. Then he didn't dare to fart. He quickly went in, took the ledger and started counting.

The Jia family's warehouse is not small, and it is full of miscellaneous things.

Lai Da and a dozen of his servants and confidants, under the supervision of Jia She, spent the whole night cleaning up, and then they roughly finished counting the things.

After cleaning up, Jia She looked at the short things and let out a long breath.

It turned out that there were only some small gold and silver items missing from the library, as well as more than 5000 taels of silver.

As for the large antiques and the treasures given by the emperor, I don't know if Zhou Rui's family didn't understand them or they didn't dare to take them, but they were all placed in the warehouse unharmed.

But for the current Jia family, 5000 taels of silver is not a small amount. This slave dares to be greedy for so much money, and he is not afraid of going to hell.

Jia She angrily asked Lai Da to lock the warehouse, and then hurried to Rongqing Hall with the account book.

Last night, Rongqing Hall was brightly lit, and some prominent members of the family were waiting for news.

Jia She walked into Rongqing Hall with the account book, gave Jia Zheng a hard look, and then walked to Jia Mu's side.

"Mother has found out."

"Is something short?"

"Some hair, face and jewelry are missing, and the silver is also short by more than 5000 taels."

After hearing this, Mother Jia was very angry and threw the account book in her hand directly at Mrs. Wang.

"The loyal ministers you brought have almost emptied the house. You idiot, you don't know?"

Mrs. Wang quickly fell to her knees and did not speak while shedding tears.

Jia Mu sighed and calmed down her anger, then said with a loud voice:
"Don't spread this matter."

"Then let's forget it this time?" Jia She said dissatisfied.

Jia Mu glared at him, and Jia She immediately shut up and stood aside sulking.

"Politics."

Jia Zheng heard his mother telling him to come out quickly, "What do you want the old lady to do?"

"Go to Mr. Jia Dairu tomorrow and ask him to let Jia Rui help find someone."

"Old lady, why is this happening? Just tell Shuntian Mansion and send the arrest documents to the sea to get the person."

"Idiot, everyone in the capital will know about it."

Jia She shut up again angrily.

Jia Zheng cupped his fists and bowed, saying, "I'm going now."

Jia Mu looked at the sky outside the house and nodded.

Jia Zheng listened to his mother's words and hurriedly retreated, then hurriedly came to the door of Jia Rui's house.

As soon as he approached the door, several sturdy men with swords and swords came from the side and blocked him.

These people were all Jia Rui's soldiers when he was in Gansu. After Jia Rui was named the Marquis of Anxi, these people also became the guards of the Marquis' mansion.

"Who dares to break into the Anxi Hou Mansion?"

Jia Zheng stopped and said, "Go in and announce that Jia Zheng from Rongguo Mansion wants to see the old man."

Those guards had been working at Jia Rui's house for a while, so they naturally knew the name of Jia Zheng in Rongguo Mansion.

Therefore, he did not dare to neglect, and asked Jia Rui and others to go to the mansion first, while another person went in to report.

In just one cup of tea, I heard the sound of footsteps inside, and then I saw Jia Dairu and Jia Rui hurried over.

Jia Dairu and Jia Zheng are still grateful to Jia Zheng. Without him, Jia Zheng would not be as prosperous and wealthy as he is today.

Today he actually came to the door in person. Something big must have happened in Rongguo Mansion, so Jia Dairu asked Jia Rui to come with him to greet Jia Zheng.

(End of this chapter)