After rebirth, the wife of the Houfu shark went crazy

Chapter 239 We Didn’t Cook the Accounts

Gu Yunling pondered for a moment and said, "How do you want me to help you?"

Jiang Xiyu said seriously, "I want to borrow a few accountants from Sister Yun, or a maid like Yu who knows accounting. There are many shops in the Yonglin Marquis's mansion. I need them to stake out each shop like Yu and I did and collect enough evidence of their accounting fraud. I'm going to report it to the authorities and find out who is behind this."

"Of course, no problem. I can find as many people as you want!" Gu Yunling agreed without hesitation.

On the way here, Jiang Xiyu had already figured it out. "There are probably more than 30 shops in the Marquis' Mansion. If there are enough people, it would be best to assign a fortune teller and a maid to each shop so that they can work together and have each other as witnesses."

"I understand. Leave this matter to me. I'll send someone over to you tomorrow morning."

For Gu Yunling, this number of people is not a difficult task.

Jiang Xiyu shook her head. "No need to send them to the Princess's residence. Just take them to the restaurant. Nanny Yu and I will come and take them tomorrow."

"Okay." Gu Yunling also understood Jiang Xiyu's concerns.

The people who cooked the accounts were probably Marquis Yonglin's men. Bringing so many accountants into the Princess's Mansion suddenly at this time would indeed easily alert the enemy.

After the two of them had discussed it, Jiang Xiyu went back.

The next morning, Jiang Xiyu prepared the medicinal food and brought Nanny Yu to the restaurant, taking away more than 30 mathematicians and Nannies arranged by Gu Yunling.

Jiang Xiyu arranged them one by one near the shop of Yonglin Marquis Mansion and told them how to keep records.

In fact, she didn't need to explain. According to the experience of these mathematicians, even if Jiang Xiyu said nothing, they all knew what to do.

In just three days, Jiang Xiyu collected three days' account books of all the shops in the Yonglin Marquis Mansion.

On the day of receiving these account books, Jiang Xiyu summoned all the shopkeepers of more than 30 shops in the Yonglin Marquis Mansion to the Princess's Mansion.

The main hall of the Princess's Mansion.

As more and more shopkeepers gathered, they became curious.

"Why are you all here? Have you heard what's going on?"

"No, I was just told to bring this month's account books to the mansion."

"Do you know what it is?"

Several shopkeepers asked me questions, but none of them could explain the reason.

"That's strange. It's not a festival, and it's not even the end of the month. Why is Madam suddenly asking me to get the account books?"

"That's right. Can she read the account books?"

Jiang Xiyu has been the housekeeper for more than five years, and they know that Jiang Xiyu doesn't know how to read the account books, but now she suddenly asks them to hand over the account books, and they don't know what she is up to.

Just when the shopkeepers were full of doubts, Jiang Xiyu brought Qing'er and Nanny Yu into the main hall.

The shopkeepers stopped having any random thoughts and quickly bowed to Jiang Xiyu, "Greetings, Madam."

Jiang Xiyu sat on the main seat and looked at the dozens of shopkeepers. "Have you brought all the account books?"

"Yes, please take a look, madam." The owner of the first cloth shop who observed took out the account book first.

Jiang Xiyu looked at Nanny Yu, who immediately understood and stepped forward to collect the account book.

Seeing the cloth shop owner hand over the account book, the other shop owners also took out their account books.

Seeing how much of a fuss Jiang Xiyu was making this time, the cloth shop owner cautiously asked, "It's not even the end of the month yet. Why did Madam suddenly ask us to get the account books?"

"Yes, now that the account book has been submitted, how are we going to record it for the next half month?"

The owner of a cloth shop took the lead and the other shop owners followed suit and started shouting.

Jiang Xiyu didn't bother to pay attention to them, and just looked at the shopkeeper. "I've been free these past few days, so I went to Li's Teahouse for tea. Every day I see that our shop is doing good business. We used to make losses every month, but I think we should be making a profit in the past half month!"

As soon as Jiang Xiyu said this, the owner of the cloth shop turned pale with fright. "Husband... Madam, I'm afraid you've seen it wrong. Our cloth shop doesn't have any business at all. There are no customers coming into the store every day. Naturally, we are still making losses in the past half month."

The other shopkeepers were also shocked by Jiang Xiyu's words.

What does it mean?

Madam, do you know how to look at the accounts?

I also went to check the customer flow of the cloth shop. If the lady had made special records, wouldn't the cloth shop's account books be mismatched?

While the other shop owners were glad that the lady was not lurking in their shops, they were also worried that this incident would affect others.

Jiang Xiyu directly threw out the account book recorded by Yu Mama and threw it in front of the owner of the cloth shop. "You should have been in your cloth shop these days. Take a look and see if there are any mistakes in our Yu Mama's records."

The cloth shop owner picked up the account book with trembling hands and took a look at it, but his hands suddenly began to tremble with nervousness.

Because this account book clearly records the daily customer flow of the cloth shop in the past few days, what time period, what kind of customers came, what they bought, and how much money they spent. Everything is recorded clearly.

Looking at such a detailed account book, the cloth shop owner couldn't help but sweat. "Madam... maybe she remembered it wrongly? Our cloth shop has never had these customers come, let alone sell these things."

Seeing that he was still quibbling, Jiang Xiyu immediately scolded him coldly and threw a piece of paper in his face. "I forgot to tell you, I posted a notice at the door of the cloth shop early this morning, giving a subsidy of five taels of silver to each customer who bought something from our cloth shop in the past few days. Do you think our cloth shop's business is so bad, will there be no customers to claim it?"

The cloth shop owner looked at the notice on the paper and was so frightened that his legs went weak. He knelt directly in front of Jiang Xiyu and said, "Madam, I deserve to die. I made false accounts. Please forgive me, Madam!"

"Forgive me?" Jiang Xiyu shouted angrily with a cold look in her eyes. "In just five years, the one million taels of silver I gave as a dowry were all used to cover up your fake accounts. And you still have the nerve to ask for my forgiveness?"

The cloth shop owner was so frightened that he started shaking all over.

Seeing that something was amiss, the other shopkeepers quickly distanced themselves from the matter, "Madam, this Shopkeeper Qin cooked the books, but that's none of our business. We didn't cook the books."

"Yes, we didn't cook the books."

"You didn't cook the books?" Jiang Xiyu stood up in defeat and threw the thick stack of account books in Yu Ma's hands to the ground. "Open your eyes and look. These are the account books of your shop."

Jiang Xiyu's sudden gesture of slamming the table scared the shopkeepers.

Everyone picked up the account books on the ground. Each account book had the name of their shop on it. After a while, everyone took the account books of their own shops and started to check them.

After seeing what was written in the account book, the shopkeepers were all shocked, just like Shopkeeper Qin before.

Because this account book also records the daily customer flow of their shop, all of which are recorded clearly.