prisoner in the door

Chapter 309 308: "The Prince's Bride"

The wood that the boy carried was a relatively thick piece of wood more than one meter long. The boy said that it was a beam left by his grandfather when he was young. He said that it was sawn up when his son's family was divided and distributed to him for food. Used for piers.

The boy brought this piece of wood because his grandfather was dying. The boy heard that there was a fairy girl in the Hou Mansion, and the fairy girl liked good wood. This was the best wood in his family. The boy hoped to get a safe sign to bless him. I can survive this.

What the young man said was sincere, and looking at his clothes, he really didn't look like a child from a well-to-do family.

Mo Zhenzhen walked over and looked at the wood that the young man carried. It was very solid, and the surface was brushed with tung oil. It had no signs of insect damage or decay. It was an old material that was well preserved.

Let's look at the thickness of the wood. It really looks like the beam material the boy mentioned.

So Mo Zhenzhen nodded, and then took out a peace sign from her sleeve.

The young man was illiterate, but he had heard of the style of the safety sign. His eyes lit up immediately, and he looked at the sign eagerly without reaching out. He was waiting for Mo Zhenzhen's words.

Is a polite child.

"I like this piece of wood very much. Take it."

After hearing this, the young man quickly took off the wood on his back, wiped his hands on the dusty clothes, and then reached out to take the safety sign.

Mo Zhenzhen asked the nanny beside her to give away the boy's gift. Before leaving, she also gave the boy a golden bean the size of a pearl, which was enough to offset the cost of this piece of wood.

Mo Zhenzhen was so generous as to buy a horse bone for a thousand dollars. Of course, this was an act on the surface, but the reason behind the scenes was that this piece of wood was indeed worth the price.

The young man's words actually didn't make it clear. This was an old piece of wood cut from a house beam, but it was not cut from a building material, but from an old beam, and it was a house beam of a wealthy family. Excerpted from above.

This kind of thing is not uncommon. Some people's houses have fallen into ruin and their houses are abandoned. It is normal for people to pick up some odds and ends in the courtyard. This is how this beam came from.

Mo Zhenzhen spent a gold bean to buy it without any loss or advantage. The beam was not the beam of the main house, but probably the beam of the house where the family's descendants lived, and more than one person had been hanged on it.

The ghost energy above was actually very weak, but Mo Zhenzhen could still feel the changes after being infected by the ghost energy of several ghosts.

As long as the ghost spirit on it is simply removed, it will be a qualified load-bearing object, and the wood in this section is indeed good wood, and it is a good material for making beads or ornaments.

It just so happened that Mo Zhenzhen didn't have many mahogany signs left, so it would be good to use this piece of wood to make some more signs.

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The young man successfully asked for a peace card from the Hou Mansion, and after giving it to his grandpa, his grandpa indeed recovered, and he looked much tougher than before.

The young grandpa is only in his 40s. When he was young, he was overworked and didn’t get enough nutrition. His body was severely deficient. As he got older, his physical fitness was not that good, and he suffered from all kinds of ailments.

The merits in the Peace Card only had a nourishing effect on the old man, but it also reduced a lot of his pain. The body was replenished with nutrients, and he looked stronger.

Such miraculous effects are becoming more and more popular, and now there is actually a wave of collected wood craze among the people.

Of course, there are also those who have been prepared long ago and are just waiting for an opportunity. These are merchants or officials. They know the rules better than ordinary people. No one will knock on the main door of the Marquis Mansion. They all come from the side door.

It was Mo Zhenzhen who was in charge, so there wasn't much commotion. However, the peace cards in Mo Zhenzhen's hands were given away like running water, and the wood in exchange for them was quickly gone.

This key point was still noticeable, and soon, Mo Zhenzhen was called by someone from Lord Mo.But Mo Zhenzhen, who was doing the accounting, didn't want to talk to Lord Mo at the moment, so she refused directly.

The boy who came to deliver the message was serving at Lord Mo's side. After hearing Mo Zhenzhen's casual words of rejection, he was a little surprised and asked repeatedly to make sure.

"Miss, the Marquis is looking for you."

"I know, I won't go." Mo Zhenzhen counted the numbers in the ledger impatiently in her mind, and then found that there were many inaccuracies in these accounts.

The three old matrons did not keep track of these accounts when they were in charge because they knew very well that these were all bad debts.

Mo Zhenzhen knew it but didn't care. After all, she was here for a mission, not to be the head of the Hou Mansion.

But now that this task was about to become a long-term task, the Mo family's affairs still needed to be taken care of, so she began to take stock of the Mo family's accounts.

This is not just a surprise. During the period when the step-wife was in charge of the house, there were many frauds in the accounts. If you look at the places where the frauds occurred, you will see that three to four thousand silver dollars disappeared out of thin air every month from the books.

No matter where the money went, it must have been used by the old lady and his wife to subsidize her parents' family.

These accounts still need to be clarified, how much subsidies have been used, and how much is the deficit in the Hou Mansion.

Mo Zhenzhen felt tired after talking about this. The step-wife and madam may have really lost their minds. They had made false accounts, at least the books were even, and the final amount was consistent with the inventory.

However, these two ladies made false accounts. Not only did they have problems with their books, they also had problems with their inventory.

I don’t know whether it’s the two ladies who are not good enough or the accountants in the Hou Mansion. Anyway, there are pitfalls in the Hou Mansion. If you really want to run the Hou Mansion well, these holes must be filled.

The step-wife has 'lived' for more than two hundred years and has been in charge of the family for more than two hundred years. This bad debt has also existed for more than two hundred years. This thing is really not something that can be smoothed over casually.

After all, there are still many dead accounts in it, which means that two or even more accounts are not consistent when placed together, and the person who recorded these accounts is already dead at the time.

Fortunately, Mo Zhenzhen is not the kind of person who takes things seriously. What she needs is to find out what else is there in the Hou Mansion, rather than being serious about where those things are.

Speaking of this, Mo Zhenzhen couldn't help but sigh.

She knew how much money the Prime Minister's Mansion had back then (she had also been a housekeeper for a period of time). It was really a warehouse full of gold and silver, with various warehouses lined up in rows, filled with precious treasures.

According to ancient rituals, Mo Xiang's 'eldest son' took [-]%, and the remaining [-]% was divided equally among the other children.

In other words, the Hou Mansion took up the bulk, and when Mo Zhenzhen looked into the warehouse, there were only some bits and pieces left there.

Mo Xiang watched in amusement as Mo Zhenzhen sighed while taking stock. After taking a sip of tea (which was transformed into a phantom), Mo Xiang spoke calmly.

"It's just something external, why bother with it."

(End of this chapter)