A Farmer's Lady's Guide to Getting Rich

Chapter 343
"Okay, let me ask you?"

Faced with Guanshi Ding's stubbornness, Chang Ning said in a calm manner: "At the end of May, you took someone to trim the Xiuchun Garden in the backyard, and hired a few outsiders. It took a full ten days. ,right?"

"Yes, that's the job of a servant. You must do your job well. Xiuchun Garden has six acres of flower fields. There are not enough people in the mansion. This servant hired people from outside." Steward Ding immediately nodded and said: " The slaves employed a total of seven people, each paid forty renminbi a day, worked for a total of twelve days, and spent a total of more than three taels of silver, and the accounts are clear."

"The accounts are indeed clear, but the season is wrong."

Knowing that Steward Ding would never admit his guilt, Chang Ning immediately picked up a booklet on the side, flipped a page and threw it in front of him, saying, "This is the detailed information about the various places in the palace recently compiled by the Shizi. The brochure clearly states that the flower fields in Xiuchun Garden are mainly planted with peonies and summer azaleas."

Chang Ning didn't want to go around the door, and directly expressed his doubts: "The flowering period of these two kinds of flowers happens to be from May to June. Guanshi Ding, tell me, who prunes flowers and trees in early spring and late autumn when the flowers and trees are dormant. Instead, choose to prune when the flowers are in full bloom?"

"This, this, this, the servant is also cleaning up the withered flowers in time to maintain the beauty of the flower field!"

Steward Ding chose to prune the flowers and trees during this season. Naturally, there was a reason. The reason was that he did not prune the flowers and trees at all, but cut the flowers and sold them.You must know that the peony and summer azalea fields in Zhenbei Wangfu are very famous in the whole Huining City, and the flowers can be sold soon after they are plucked.

He has done this kind of thing before, in such a large field of flowers, no one will find out if he steals some of them.

He never expected that Chang Ning would pay attention to the relationship between the flower growing season and the pruning period, and he was so nervous that he even stuttered. "

"Come on, drag him down and beat him thirty times hard!"

Seeing Guanshi Ding showing timidity, he still refused to admit it.Chang Ning immediately yelled angrily, and said: "Stealing a few flowers is a trivial matter, but you still don't tell the truth when you are asked. Treating the master as a fool, trying to get away with it, this attitude is really bad, you should be beaten!"

"Girl, please forgive me, the slave is wrong!"

Guanshi Ding was completely scared, but just as he wailed, he was dragged out by two thick and thick guards covering their mouths.

Soon there was the sound of crackling boards again in the yard, and the rest of the stewards felt trembling even more when they heard this sound.

But then, Chang Ning tapped the table with his tender fingers, and asked again: "Is Mrs. Zhong, who is in charge of the sewing department and responsible for the clothes of each season, here?"

"I'm here, my servant is here!" A fat woman rushed out of the crowd immediately, rolled a few steps to Chang Ning and knelt down.

"Your question, do you want me to say it?" Looking at the panicked eyes of Mrs. Zhong, Chang Ning tilted his head slightly, and asked with a cold snort.

Swept by her cold gaze, Mrs. Zhong was shocked. She was afraid of being beaten, so she called first: "Your maid should die, you know your mistake, you should never tamper with the summer shirt and raise the price of the fabric. Made a fortune out of it!"

"Very good, hand over the pair, take it out first and wait!"

After dismissing Mrs. Zhong, Chang Ning turned over the paper in front of him again, drank a cup of tea slowly, and then got up to look at the rest of the stewards.

With her hands behind her back, she walked to them step by step, and walked around them slowly, trying to make her look a lot more stern, exerting an invisible pressure on the stewards.It made them sweat involuntarily on their foreheads, creating an illusion that she seemed to know something.

This is a psychological warfare. Although Chang Ning has seen several problems from the accounts and the personal narratives of the stewards, after all, the time is short, how can they really find out one by one?
But she just wanted to pretend to know everything, and she had to deceive a few more people even if she had guessed.

Only in this way can we subdue this bunch of stewards and the servants in the palace.

After all, there are hundreds of servants in such a huge palace, and it is impossible to replace them all in a short period of time. We must first subdue people's hearts and live a stable life.

After walking for a while, seeing that none of the stewards dared to lift their heads, and their momentum became more and more sluggish, Chang Ning said slowly: "The princess has passed away in the past few months, and the prince and the eldest son have gone to the capital. Regarding internal affairs, some people in the mansion are somewhat panic-stricken. Many people have taken advantage of loopholes, thinking that they can fish in troubled waters and take what they don't deserve, but—"

She immediately changed her voice, and became much colder in an instant: "My son is back, this mansion is no longer a place where you can do whatever you want. This girl has no other advantages, and she is the best at checking the chores in the backyard. After all, you are all the manor of the king." I am an old man here, so many people have been here for generations, and this girl does not want to kill them all. Whoever has done something wrong will stand up openly, and this girl still has some scruples about sympathy. , is your role model!"

While speaking, Chang Ning kept watching the crowd closely, and as expected, he saw a steward who was in charge of the treasure display in the inner courtyard shrinking his neck slightly.

The treasures in the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion must be rare and expensive, and it is estimated that a few hundred taels of silver can be exchanged for any one.

Since the person in front of him is afraid, he must have done something wrong.There is a plot in many TV dramas and novels: the slave who guards the valuables takes the counterfeit from outside to exchange for the treasure... Some time ago, there was a civil turmoil in the palace, so maybe this person has done such a thing.

Thinking of this, Chang Ning immediately yelled, pointed at the man and said: "Come on, pull him out and beat him a hundred times! Dare to steal the treasures of the palace, and eat the guts of the ambitious leopard."

"Miss Qin, don't hit me, I'm recruiting, I'm recruiting all the slaves!" One hundred big boards can kill people alive, and when he heard that, the man trembled like chaff, and quickly kowtowed: "The slave is fascinated, use it!" A gold-plated Buddha statue has replaced the golden Buddha in the princess's room, and the servant is willing to send the golden Buddha back immediately, please don't hit it."

Now that we have done it, there must be more than one Buddha statue replaced, and gold is far less expensive than other treasures!
So Chang Ning knew it well, and when he saw that he pleaded guilty, he stopped being beaten and put him aside for trial.

These two men made the start, and one after another, some managers were afraid of being caught out and suffered the crime, so they took the initiative to confess their guilt.

Another half an hour passed quickly, and only a small half of the bunch of stewards remained!
"Forget it, I'm tired today, I'm too lazy to check again, you go back first, if it is found out that you have always been interested in the palace and did not take advantage of the chaos to enrich your own pockets, I will naturally reward you."

Changning wasn't sure that the rest of the people were innocent, but she was really tired and didn't want to investigate further, so she let people go down first.

Then she picked up the general ledger in the mansion, wanting to see how much the total assets of the mansion were, but after flipping through it from beginning to end, she was dumbfounded!

She was dumbfounded not because the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion was too rich, but because the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion was an empty shell right now. , everyone is going to drink the northwest wind.

(End of this chapter)