"This time I came to Beijing. In addition to preparing for the scientific examination, I also came to see you." Xu Xiuyuan said, "Since you have already been separated from the Marquis' Mansion, some things need to be handled."

"What?" Tang Shu said with a expressionless face.

This cousin looks gentle, but it is too good to poke pain in people's sorrows, so it won't be too pleasant to chat.

"My father also sent some people to the Tang family to serve his aunt. Now these people should still be in the Marquis' Mansion, right?"

"Hmm? Is there anything wrong?" Tang Shu was surprised.

Xu Xiuyuan gave her a very disgusting look.

"You don't know about this?" he said, "The Tang family is not a wealthy family. Although the aunt can endure hardship, her father didn't want her to marry into the Tang family and to endure hardships. So she sent some servants to dowry, and later these people followed her to the Changning Marquis' Mansion."

However, these people seem to have forgotten their identities.

"Their contract to sell their body is still in the hands of the Xu family?" Chu Xun asked.

"Of course." Xu Xiuyuan nodded, "Although he was sent to serve his aunt, the contract was not given to his aunt." The father's original words were that those servants were sent to serve their sisters, not to serve the Tang family. If the contract was taken over and was seized by the Tang family, wouldn't it be cheaper for the Tang family?

Now it seems that my father is also very prescient.

The contract for selling one's body is clearly in the hands of the Xu family, and those people can't even recognize their masters.

...

The emperor personally ordered that the Empress Dowager sent someone to supervise, and Tang Sheng and the others could not delay time. Soon, the assets of Tang Chi and his wife were counted out, but when the lists were delivered to Tang Shu, Tang Shu was very shocked.

It's not because there are too many, but because there are too few.

"I only have so many things for my parents?" Tang Shu held a list in his hand, which did not fill the paper.

Not to mention that Tang Shu, the person involved, could not believe his eyes, even Eunuch Li and Madam Chang could not believe it.

When Tang Chi was granted the title of marquis, the emperor had already given Tang Chi a lot of things, including fertile land, different villages, shops, gold, silver and jewelry. Later, Tang Chi made contributions and received a lot of rewards many times, as well as Xu Huiqing's.

Xu Huiqing is the only sister of Master Xu San. When Xu Huiqing married Tang Chi, the Xu family also gave Xu Huiqing a generous dowry. At least, after Tang Chi and the others came to the capital, the shops belonging to the Xu family in the capital were basically given to Xu Huiqing.

There are a lot of shops, and if you only count them, there must be more than 100 shops, including one restaurant.

But now, Eunuch Li and his friends have counted out that only twenty shops are left. There are only more than two hundred acres of fertile land left, not to mention the others.

This number is shocking.

"Eunuch Li, Madam Chang, I trust both of you very much, but this..." Tang Shu didn't know what to say.

Eunuch Li and Madam Chang looked at each other, and they were also helpless.

"Madam, the rewards received by the Marquis of Zhongyi were later classified as Duke by the old lady. Now that the family is divided, she insists on dividing half of the rewards to the Marquis of Changning." said Eunuch Li, "These are only obtained after the slaves and Madam Chang handled the old lady."

"Even half, this is too exaggerated, right?" Tang Shu said, "Do they want to say that there are only 40 shops left in Changning Hou's industry?"

It's very exaggerated.

"This is not, it's just that some shops have been given to others, and the land deed is no longer there."

"Send someone?" Tang Shu was stunned, "They are so generous?"

That's right, Eunuch Li and Madam Chang handed another list to Tang Shu and told him in a casual manner.

In recent years, Changning Hou has not made any construction, so of course there will be no rewards. How can you support the Marquis’ Mansion by relying solely on salary? But the Marquis’ Mansion is rich, so they naturally have a lot of money and there is no limit on their spending.

Not only that, they often ask for help from Mrs. Tang’s parents’ home or Liu’s parents’ home, but they basically do not refuse anyone.

There are thirteen shops in total that are given directly to these mothers' families.

Then some of them were sold by the Changning Marquis Mansion in recent years. After all, no matter how much money is, it cannot afford to spend like this, and there is no one in the Marquis Mansion who can manage business. Even if the people below conceal the reports, they don’t know.

If they can't make ends meet, what can they do? They can only pawn jewelry or shops.

But the emperor's last time was naturally not allowed to sell gold, silver and jewelry, so he could only sell shops and land.

So, it became what it is now.

"I checked the accounts of the Marquis' Mansion and found that the accounts were very messy and some of them were not in line with each other. The people below must have been greedy, but the old lady and the others seemed to know it." said Madam Chang.

She had thought before that no matter how Tang Chi's mother was, the housekeeper should be a good player, right? Now she realized that Mrs. Tang knew nothing. It didn't matter that she could do anything. She also grabbed the feed in her hands. She didn't know the people below, and she thought she was so powerful.

How come Zhongyi Hou’s mother is like this...

Madam Chang didn't know what to evaluate.

Tang Shu looked at the lists in his hand with expressionless expression. Compared to the only remaining lists, these lists sent or sold are called lists. Tang Shu didn't know how painful it was when he looked at those records.

All these are money, all of them are her money.

"The slave also asked someone to check the shops that suffered huge losses, but found that the actual situation was not the case." Eunuch Li said, "Madam, you can take a look. The old lady has given you all these shops." He took out another order.

The above records are the reward records given by the emperor to Tang Chi, and the list of Xu Family Shops. The ones marked with red dots are what Tang Shu got now.

"Sure enough, if the master is useless, those who do things will be very likely to get rich." Tang Shu sighed, "Eunuch Li, please go back to these shops and ask them to sort out the accounts for me over the years. I won't pursue the amount they have swallowed before, just let them spit out half of them."

Eunuch Li's heart moved, "I know."

"I have no one to send to manage those fields and villages now. Let's do this first. I'll go and see when I return to the capital one day." Tang Shu said, "As for those sent out, I probably won't come back."

I definitely won’t come back, and the land deed is already in the hands of others, how can I take it?

"But it doesn't matter. I will let them send it back by themselves in the future." Tang Shu said with a smile.
Chapter completed!