Chapter 152 I Am in Debt but Have No Money. Can I Pay in Installments?
Ignoring Mu Ziqian and Lin Xuefu, Lu Yan walked quickly towards Shen Qing.
Shen Qing raised a smile at the corner of her mouth and looked at the two accounting gentlemen behind her. One of them explained: "Master Marquis, these thirty-six thousand taels were the vacancies that existed before the young lady took over the residence. It was just that they were filled." People made false accounts and never got caught.”
Before Shen Qing, Madam Yanglinghou had always been in charge of the family affairs, so it was obvious where the money went.
Seeing that the dirty water was poured on Mrs. Yanglinghou, Mu Ziqian quickly denied it and said, "Impossible! When my mother was in charge of the middle school, the whole house was in good order. There is absolutely no way anything could go wrong. You can't accept Shen Qing because of this. Money is nonsense!”
Hearing this, Mr. Accountant was also anxious, "We have been doing accounting for more than ten years, and our reputation has always been excellent. You can't accuse us just based on your own personal imagination. What's more, the account books are kept here." Come on, if you don’t believe me, you can see for yourself!”
Mu Ziqian said nothing. He had been uneducated and incompetent for so many years. Mu Xueliu had tried so hard to lie to him about his so-called good reputation. How could he read the account books?
Seeing Mu Ziqian's embarrassment, Lin Xuefu even though she was unhappy, she still paved the way for him, "It is unfair to only use the accountant Mr. Shen invited. It is only fair that the Yangling Marquis Mansion also invites a joint accountant." Reasonable."
Yanglinghou also nodded in agreement. Although he had some disputes with Yanglinghou's wife, he did not believe that she would embezzle so much money from the house.
Thirty-six thousand taels, that was his salary for four years and the expenses of the Yangling Marquis Mansion for two years!
Compared to what Madam Yanglinghou did, he was more willing to believe that Shen Qing did this.
Shen Tingtao doesn't mind, "If you can afford to pay for the accountant, just do it."
Marquis Yangling disdainfully said, "Now that you have reconciled with Qian'er, the money in the account is no longer yours to control. Don't even think about embarrassing us with this anymore."
Shen Qing responded happily, "Of course not, but before I came to Fuchundang, I had already taken away the only two hundred taels of silver left in the account. After all, that was the money I used to supplement it with my own money. Based on this calculation, the Yangling Marquis Mansion still owes me sixty-four thousand six hundred taels. When the Marquis has finished checking, remember to pay me back all the money. "
After saying that, Shen Qing took Lu Yan back to Tinglan Courtyard for lunch. It was already getting late, and they were not going to spend money with the Mu family here.
When he learned that the money in the account had been taken away by Shen Qing, Marquis Yangling looked gloomy. Mu Ziqian said nothing. He didn't have a penny on him. The expenses were too high these days, and Lin Xuefu didn't have any money for a long time. For cash, she could sell the Shen family's dowry before, but now that the last few pieces of jewelry had just been taken away by Shen Qing, Lin Xuefu was helpless.
In the end, it was Marquis Yangling who saved the day with the twenty taels of silver he had left.
As long as they can deduct the thirty-six thousand taels from Shen Qing, they will make a profit. What's more, even if they run out of money, they still have Zhuangzi's shop. If they go there tomorrow, they can always get some money back and use it first.
The urgent matter now is to deal with Shen Qing's side first.
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Lingyun Palace.
Chu Lingxi sat on the chair without saying a word, her face becoming increasingly gloomy.
Just now, Concubine Shu gave him a severe lesson for framing Shen Yi'an. At the same time, she also forcefully set a date for him and Gu Tingyan to get married at the end of next month.
Chu Lingxi was naturally reluctant, but he had just caused such a mess today, and he had no room to refute.
Feeling more and more depressed, Chu Lingxi told Concubine Shu that she wanted to go out for a walk, then stood up and left the palace.
Gu Tingyan stood up immediately, "Aunt, mother, I'm going to comfort my cousin first."
Concubine Shu agreed and looked at Gu Tingyan with an increasingly kind expression.
Concubine Shu felt that Gu Tingyan was much better than Shen Shuyu in terms of appearance and character, but Chu Lingxi didn't know what was wrong with her and insisted on marrying Shen Shuyu. Last time She was so entangled by Chu Lingxi that she had no choice but to go to the emperor with him. She thought Chu Lingxi would stop after that defeat. After all, the attitude of the Yining Marquis Mansion was already firm enough, but she didn't expect that it was over now. In a few days, Chu Lingxi actually did such a stupid thing again.
That was the power that Chu Lingxi had cultivated for three years, and now it was all taken away by Shen Qing. Prime Minister Gu had to spend a lot of effort to clean up the traces for him. It was a disastrous failure.
But Chu Lingxi still looked unwilling to give up, which made Concubine Shu feel a headache.
Royal Garden, a deserted corner.
Chu Lingxi looked at Gu Tingyan beside her, hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Tingyan, do you also agree with the marriage that your uncle and concubine have decided for us?"
Gu Tingyan's expression remained as usual, "My parents' orders and the matchmaker's words, how can I agree or disagree with them?"
Chu Lingxi stopped and said, "But you know, I don't like you. I always only treat you as a cousin. I like Yuyu."
Gu Tingyan smiled suddenly, "My cousin is King Chu Duan, and I am the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister's Mansion. Our marriage has nothing to do with love."
After finishing her words, without waiting for Chu Lingxi's response, she continued: "I have always known that the person I want to marry is not you, but the third prince of the royal family."
In other words, Gu Tingyan had never been interested in Chu Lingxi. If it weren't for the fact that he was Concubine Shu's son, Gu Tingyan would never have interacted with him.
What Gu Tingyan wanted was never love between you and me, but the highest position for a woman in the world. If the Prime Minister's Mansion had not been at odds with the Crown Prince for many years, and Prime Minister Gu intended to support Chu Lingxi to ascend the throne, Gu Tingyan would now be I'm afraid she would have married into the prince's palace long ago.
Chu Lingxi was silent, and Gu Tingyan pointed out the way for him, "As for Shen Suyu, if my cousin really likes her, he will first ascend to that supreme position. At that time, whether it is the Yining Marquis Mansion or the Shen Qing couldn't stop her cousin from getting what he wanted.
And all my cousin needs to give me is the position of a head wife and an heir with Gu family blood. As for whether you will only love Shen Suyu or you have other loves, I won't care. "
After hearing this, Chu Lingxi's eyes lit up.
There is no doubt that the method Gu Tingyan said is the most suitable for his current situation.
"Thank you cousin, I know what to do."
Looking at Chu Lingxi's back gradually walking away, a flash of regret flashed in Gu Tingyan's eyes. It would be great if Concubine Shu had a son.
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Shen Qing and Lu Yan finished their lunch and watched Lu Yan torture Tuanzi for half an hour. After that, the two of them went out for a walk, and Fuchundang finally settled all the accounts.
When the two came over, they saw that everyone in the Mu family had dark faces.
Because the accounting results calculated by their newly hired accountant were exactly the same as Shen Qing's, which was a total debt of 64,800 taels, and Mrs. Yanglinghou secretly misappropriated 36,000 taels of silver. .
The money was misappropriated monthly, sometimes dozens of taels, sometimes hundreds of taels, which seemed inconspicuous, but accumulated over many years, it became a considerable sum.
Looking at the expressions of several people, Shen Qing knew the result. Without adding salt to their wounds, she directly asked for the solution: "The account should have been settled clearly. I don't know how Yangling Marquis is going to pay me the sixty-four thousand." One thousand six hundred taels of silver?”
Marquis Yangling hesitated for a long time before speaking with difficulty: "The house doesn't have so much money now, can we pay you in installments?"