Chapter 67: The Short and the Long (3)
Butler Zhao felt that sweat was about to come out on his forehead. He wanted to say that Chen Juren was also worried about Liu Ya. Dongxi and the other two were there, so he could only say with a stingy forehead: "The account office distributed monthly money according to the family list. These two young ladies are not on the booklet."
Shen Rui said: "Then the second-class maid in my yard has been empty? Or is it that Butler Zhao has chosen the staff, but he hasn't sent it for a while?"
Butler Zhao's forehead was sweating even more severely. If it was kept empty, it would be passed to the clan that the fourth room was mean to Shen Rui, and he was not as good as Chen Jin. Now that Shen Rui had just become filial, when he returned home, many clan relatives were staring at him. If he had already chosen a good man, where would he go to find someone?
In the past three years, in order to "frugality", although Chen Juren did not reduce the population, he did not choose anyone to come in. Even if he had a child in his family, he could only eat his parents at home and could not get monthly money. The maids in the back house were concentrated in the yard of Lao An and the vanguard. However, before Sun died, he released all the maids in the yard. After the remaining rough man who had not been in the yard, he went to Lao An.
In the previous spring and summer moon, the four maids were the best among the little girls, and they all entered the study. Now it is not easy to find two more suitable ones.
Mr. Zhao showed goodwill before, Shen Rui was not worried about him: "Since I am not a second-class here, my aunt, my sixth brother and my two sisters, why can't I be second-class?"
Speaking of this, he sighed and said, "I don't want to make things difficult for you. Since the monthly money is paid according to the roster in the account, I will allocate the two ounces of each person in my name to two sisters. However, the monthly money can be vague, and the food consumption is not careless. Butler Zhao doesn't have to take out Lao An and the master to make excuses me. They may look at the accounts, and may have instructions, but they will not let people see how to pack food boxes in the big kitchen!"
Butler Zhao was in a state of great anxiety. Seeing that Shen Rui took the initiative to take a step back, he nodded quickly and said, "Since you don't dare to ask your second brother to worry about these trivial matters, you can do anything wrong. But if you have any mistakes, your second brother just asks someone to order the old slave."
Shen Rui smiled slightly and said, "Butler Zhao has always been careful, so I will thank Butler Zhao for this."
As he smiled, the originally solemn atmosphere in the room immediately became a little looser.
Butler Zhao heard the unfinished meaning of Shen Rui's words, and was relieved that he had received his favor from the silver frost charcoal.
It is not easy to do a housekeeper. Three years ago, Shen Rui was in the inner house and had negligence and mistakes around him, so the master pushed Aunt Zheng to the jar. Now Shen Rui is in the front yard, if something happens again, the one who takes the blame will be his housekeeper.
Aunt Zheng gave birth to a good son, and even though she had a diluted relationship with the master, she stood firmly; she was just a servant, and her family was in the hands of the master, and she could not help but live or die.
But he felt relieved too early, so he heard Shen Rui continue: "Since my elder brother has entered the university, he must not have any social interactions with classmates. Do you only receive two or two months of money from the account every month? No other expenses?"
Butler Zhao was stunned and replied: "There are still five taels of silver, which is considered to be the money I used to pay for my brother's school days."
The public servants have their own money for money, so these five taels are naturally Chen Jin's pocket money.
Shen Rui nodded and said, "Although I don't have much money to spend. I just want to skip this money for the reputation of the master and the elder brother. Also, I used to mourn my mother in Xilin Zen Temple, but I never asked anyone to collect monthly money from the account. In three years, I have been there for dozens of taels. Now that I have come to my family, I have no words in the account. What's going on? Is the personnel in the account stable? Or is there a black-hearted person who dares to greed for my monthly money?"
When Butler Zhao heard this, he immediately became angry.
Shen Rui's monthly money is twenty-four taels a year, seventy-two taels a year, and three years. The silver money is not too much, but the accountant is not a fool, how dare he beg for these obvious things? It's just that Juren Chen has not assigned offerings to Xilin Zen Temple in the past three years, nor has he mentioned giving Shen Rui monthly money. So no one remembers this.
Shen Rui said "worryingly": "I don't care about those few silver coins. If there is a big borer in the account room, it is really unwilling tolerate it. Not only monthly money, but also the supply of clothes for four seasons, there are certain rules. Although I live outside, I am still the master's biological child. These bad-hearted people dare to calculate. If they make a plan for Lao An and the master, wouldn't it be the source of chaos? Butler Zhao should go and report to the master and check it out as soon as possible."
Butler Zhao was so amused that he hid something, and then he covered up a small matter and took out the next one. He thought that Sun had passed away and Lao An was not happy, so Shen Rui could only be a human being with his tail between his legs. He wanted to make a good relationship, but he reached out to help, but he really changed his temper and refused to take any loss.
If two maids have monthly money, they can also have an excuse for accounting and population booklets; what excuse should they not provide for Xilin Zen Temple for three years?
Whether Shen Rui mentioned this or not, this was not something he could answer as a butler, and he really needed to report back to the master. As the housekeeper thought this way, he bowed and said, "What the second brother is talking about, I'm going to go back to the master now!"
Shen Rui waved his hand and said, "Butler Zhao, go quickly, I'll wait for you to reply. The master is noble and doesn't like these trivial matters the most. Don't let people fool you!"
Butler Zhao hurried away, and Liu Ya laughed out loud, saying, "Second brother is so bad. The master just wants to save more than one tael of money. The second brother wants to get dozens of taels back from the master, I'm afraid the master will feel hurt."
She was innocent and naturally would not have thought that Juren Chen's move was "Xiang Zhuang's sword dance, with the intention of Pei Gong". She thought that Juren Chen deliberately took down the list of people to talk about things in order to "frugality" and saved her and Dongxi's monthly money.
Dong Xi hurriedly pushed her: "Treat death! Can the master speak too?"
Liu Ya Chongdong liked to stick out his tongue and smiled, "I'll make tea for my second brother!" After that, he avoided it.
Dongxi said helplessly: "This girl only grows tall but not brainy. My second brother also talks about her, and it's not OK to spoil her like this."
Shen Rui said: "She has a simple temperament. She suffered a lot because of my imprisonment back then. It is rare that she has no resentment and remains innocent and innocent. Why bother to restrain her again!"
Twenty boards sounded like not much, but it was enough to kill Liu Ya from that time. I heard that Chen Li took it back from the Shangshang and Liu Ya was already terminally ill. If Shen Rui and Chen Li had not mentioned Liu Ya's help to him, they would not have spent a lot of money to ask for medical treatment to rescue her. Even so, Liu Ya also suffered from troubles, one of her legs was slightly limp, and it would be fine if she walked slowly, but she could see it when she walked faster.
Dong Xi knew about this old thing and sighed in her heart, and could only explain: "If you survive a disaster, you will have good fortune. With the second brother protecting her and willing to praise her brother, this girl will only enjoy happiness in the future." Speaking of this, he hesitated: "When it's the master, why do you think of involvement in the old thing? What if the master is angry?"
Shen Rui smiled and said, "Someone should remind him to be more concerned about his face. As for whether he is annoyed or not, why are he afraid? He doesn't like me either."
The best defense is offense, and this sentence makes sense. If you want to make Chen Juren calm and not make your own ideas, you will put down the guilty things he feels.
In the study, Chen Juren was indeed angry and embarrassed.
He did not intentionally not provide the Xilin Zen Temple for three years. Even if he was "frugal" at home, he would not be reluctant to leave those money. In fact, the things at home were messy back then, and no one thought about it. When he remembered the supply of Xilin Zen Temple, he heard that Guo and Chen Li were delivering things there. Chen Juren felt that if he acted later, it would be like those two reminders, which would make people slow down. If there were those two companies on both sides, Shen Rui could not freeze and hungry.
Later... I really forgot about this...
Chen Juren is conscious and open-minded, but this matter really cannot be explained in detail. Otherwise, if he becomes intentional, he will seem unkind as me.
Juren Chen didn't care about the monthly money of the maid next to Shen Rui. He was angry at first and almost called Shen Rui to scold him. Then he thought about the impact of this matter, and felt a little guilty, so he sat on the chair and thought to himself.
After a cup of tea, Chen Juren made a decision, and his anger dissipated. He said to Mr. Zhao: "Is the person in the account dead? How dare he be greedy for the second brother Mo to provide for the past few years? He is so brave! He quickly replenish his second brother's monthly money to save.
It was heard that people were talking. As for people like the accountant, they dare not keep them at home, so they called people to the teeth and sold them to his family from afar!"
Manager Zhao felt a chill when he heard this. He was naturally the one who was in charge of the account management. However, in order to smooth the past, the master directly put a hat on the family and sold it. It was the second time that the master took the blame, and it was getting more and more smooth.
Then Juren Chen continued, "I have asked someone to check it out. Except for a piece of clothing, you are not allowed to take it out!" He said this, and said, "The things you have found will be registered separately."
Manager Zhao agreed and withdrew from the study, his back was already wet.
After decades of master and servant, he did not miss the faint excitement in Chen Juren's eyes. What is this called a master? Not only did he blame the person for something, but he was still thinking about other people's private wealth?
Although from the perspective of the law, he wrote a document of commitment and entered the owner's household registration, and even he belonged to the owner's family, he should not have private property. This move by Shen Juren is reasonable, but it is heartbreaking.
No matter how he thought about it, Mr. Zhao still dealt with the accountant family as he ordered. He only found a few hundred taels of cash from the accountant family, as well as the land deed written in his son-in-law's name. Judging from the house deed, the accountant was not unfair to be dealt with.
After dinner, the dust settled, butler Zhao received 72 taels of silver from the new account and sent it to the side courtyard in person.
When he arrived, Changshou then arrived and told the story of the accountant family being seized and sold.
This account may not be innocent, but Shen Rui also admires the fact that Juren Chen can erase the past so quickly. In the future, someone will not be able to talk about the matter that has not been provided for in the past three years. Juren Chen will at most be "invisible".
Even if he can get a Juren from thousands of scholars, even if he is a bit trampled, he is not a stupid person. But sometimes, he is a little uncautious because of his partial execution.
Just be smart. If you can care about gains and losses, you will have rules when you act; if you really want to be confused, you will be troublesome to kill the master by random punches.
Chapter completed!