From the afternoon, Jia Yu and Jia Zhen led a group of people to suddenly take down Lai Da and Lai Sheng quietly and locked them in the house for interrogation, Lai Da Lai Sheng naturally refused to admit it.

But when Lin Zhixiao and Wu Xingdeng began to persuade the subordinates in the house one by one, and when Wang Shanbao and Zhou Rui also appeared in front of the interrogation of Zheng Haoshi and Zheng Haoshi, who were close to a few people, soon these subordinates who were still a little lucky understood that this was the eldest master and the second master teaming up.

And when Mama Lai begged to see the ancestor overnight but was rejected by the mandarin duck on the grounds that the ancestor was in poor health and bedridden and could not see people, everyone knew that the Lai family was gone.

Without the indulgence and favor of the ancestors, how could the Lai brothers be the head of Rongguo Mansion and the other be the head of Ning Guofu? It's almost impossible to change to another family, and now that the ancestor has withdrawn his support for the Lai family, then naturally the tree is falling and scattering, and the individual cares about himself.

Lin Zhixiao took Wang Shanbao and Zhou Rui to be responsible for the internal investigation and verification of Jiafu, Wu Xingdeng and Shan Daliang cleaned up various accounts such as external procurement and repair of Rongning Erfu over the years, and Jia Rui was responsible for contacting and communicating with the merchants involved outside.

Wang Xifeng, on the other hand, mainly reorganizes the accounts and connects with external merchants, striving to completely rebuild this system.

After all, the consumption of Rongning Erfu is not small every day, and this kind of rectification will inevitably have an impact on the operation of the entire Rongning Erfu, and although those merchants encountered this situation at first they had to cover up for the Lai family, but later found that the Lai family had no hope, and the Rongning Erfu added up to more than 1,000 people The daily purchase expenses will still not be lacking, so when Wang Xifeng released some cooperation intentions slightly, these people immediately sold the Lai family cleanly.

Even those merchants who cooperated with Rongning Erfu a few years ago still hoped to regain this customer, and they were willing to confess the previous situation one by one, which was almost nailing the last coffin board to the Lai family.

When Jia Yu led Lin Zhixiao, Jia Rui and others to move, Feng Ziying no longer cared.

After spending so much thought and making so many preparations, even Jia pardon Jia Zheng and the second room of the big house have a rare unanimity, the Jia family is so embarrassed now, if they can't overturn the Lai family, then Feng Ziying feels that this Lai Da Lai Er is even more illegitimate than the illegitimate children of the Jia family.

Fortunately, the news kept coming back, and the Lai family's stubborn resistance did not have much effect.

After all, this is the master cleaning up a slave who has a bad conscience, and Lai Shangrong is just a person who has just obtained the qualification to donate officials, and even in filling the vacancy, he has only received a verbal promise from some profitees.

So when this storm swept in, and the Lai family's biggest reliance, Jia's mother, avoided it, the Lai family had little room for resistance.

"So Lai Da still refuses to give a thorough explanation?" Feng Ziying smiled and asked Ping'er, who was standing by the door, "What are you doing standing so far away, afraid that your master will eat you?" ”

Ping'er glanced out of the door with a sweat towel a little hesitantly, although there was no one, she still felt unsure, and would rather stand at the door.

Feng Ziying didn't care about himself, in broad daylight, he couldn't do anything with a beastly hair.

"What is the attitude of the old lady?" Feng Ziying smiled and asked, "You won't be soft-hearted, will you?" ”

"Mama Lai has gone to the ancestor to kneel and beg three times last night and this morning, the first two times the ancestor didn't see it, the last time I couldn't bear it, I still saw it, but the ancestor didn't leave a message for Mama Lai, only said that let Lai Da explain the matter clearly first, find out the matter clearly, and finally talk about how to deal with it."

Ping'er introduced the situation, "More than 10,000 taels of silver were found in the cellar under the bed in the house of Lai Da and his wife, as well as 8,000 taels of silver tickets for Qianzhuang, and there were also land deeds and shops. ”

"It seems that the harvest is not small, now Sister Zifeng can rest assured, right?" Feng Ziying nodded, "In this way, there are more than 30,000 taels of silver and silver tickets, have you counted the land and shop title deeds, and how much is it worth?" ”

"Grandma asked someone, and it is estimated that it can be sold for more than 20,000 taels." Ping'er came out to report the situation on the one hand, and to listen to Feng Ziying's suggestions for the next step on the other hand.

"That's about 60,000 taels of silver? No, judging by my estimate, since the Lai family can hide so much in their own house in the mansion, and Lai Shangrong also has so much there, there must be other places to hide silver, their family has been exploiting in Jiafu for so many years, and it is roughly estimated that it will not be less than 100,000 taels, you go back and bring a message to Sister Feng, let Sister Feng and Pardon Shibo and Lin Zhixiao them, Lai Da must have others, one by one and calculate with him, as long as his mind is broken, especially to tell him about his son, threatening him to send his son to see the official, robbed his son of his official body, and he will definitely be able to dig up a lot of ,......"

Hearing Feng Ziying's unceremonious idea to use Lai's eldest son to threaten Lai, Ping'er couldn't help but shudder.

"Do you think you are too ruthless?" Feng Ziying also saw the change in Ping'er's mood, and smiled, "Friendliness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself, Lai Shangrong is in his twenties, could it be that he doesn't know what his father and mother are doing in Jiafu, don't believe you check the silver hidden in his house, he won't know, is his name written in the title deed?" Fools will settle accounts, his father and mother are also a servant leader in Jiafu, and the old lady will value it again in a year, and he can have a few hundred taels of silver, where did the cash and fields come from? ”

Ping'er couldn't help but nod.

These tens of thousands of taels of silver and the title deeds of the field shop, to be honest, they can't imagine that there will be such a large amount, if it is a few thousand taels, everyone also thinks it is reasonable, but this time it is tens of thousands of taels, which is completely beyond imagination.

is like the family background of the second grandfather and the second grandmother, and it is only the private money of 350,000 silver, which is still the second grandmother who brought a lot of family funds with the marriage, plus it was accumulated after doing a lot of business outside.

But the whole Lai family has been in the house for decades, and Lai Shangrong is raised outside at least a few hundred taels of silver every year as a young master, and he can save so much silver, anyone can understand the catty inside.

"So, Ping'er, put away your poor pity, the family is spending tens of thousands of taels of silver as soon as they make a big move, and when the family is running forward with the wishes of the eunuchs, you and Sister Feng'er are still worried about the monthly money of Jiafu next month, but they are still worried about pity for others, isn't it a little ridiculous?"

Feng Ziying's half-teasing words made Ping'er's face flush, and she couldn't help but be coquettish: "Why is the master talking so ugly, who has mercy on them?" The slave just thinks, thinks ......"

"What do you think? Think they're being pierced through the mask at this time? Then when the hundreds of little girls in your house get up early and work hard every month for a pitiful few hundred copper coins, they sit in the house with peace of mind and wait for those traders who deliver goods to the house to take the initiative to deliver hundreds of taels of silver every month to him, do you still think they are pitiful? ”

It's too blunt and contrasting.

Even a girl like Ping'er, who has the reputation of being a girl in the house, has a monthly salary of only two taels per month, only twenty-four taels a year, and the year-end bonus reward is only fifty or sixty taels of silver, but like Lai Da, the monthly money and bonus rewards given by the house alone are not less than four or five hundred taels every year, but she is not satisfied, and she has to stretch out her hands in all aspects of the house, and now that the boat has capsized, is it worth pitiful?

What about the boat that didn't capsize?

Finally shook her head, Ping'er's mood also calmed down, she did feel a little pity for the Lai family before, especially when she saw the old grandmother kneeling in front of the ancestor surrounded by ordinary people, watching the Lai family's cloak being dragged into the firewood room by the two rough mothers-in-law, and when she went to Dongfu, she heard that Lai Sheng was whipped by Uncle Xiaorong in the firewood room, and her heart was indeed a little soft.

However, when I heard Feng Ziying say this, I slowly came back to my heart.

People's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, and if you walk at night for a long time, you will break into ghosts, and you can stand what you do.

"Okay, Ping'er, don't worry about this, Sister Feng knows how to do it, with the ancestors, it won't leave the Lai family without food, but if you want to be as windy and rainy as before, I'm afraid it's impossible, An An is looking for an errand to do in Zhuangzi, it's almost the same."

Feng Ziying closed the coffin, "I also have an explanation for Sister Feng'er about this matter, and she won't stab the villain behind her back and curse the master, right?" I can also go to Yongping Mansion with peace of mind. ”

When Ping'er heard Feng Ziying say this, she remembered that Feng Ziying was about to leave Beijing, and she panicked, "Master, aren't you going to see grandma?" Grandma misses her grandfather so much,......"

"I'm afraid she's busy dealing with the Lai family's money and property at this time, right? Where is the heart to take care of all this? Feng Ziying laughed, her face was also smiling, and her smile was intriguing, "What, is Ping'er missing her master, or Sister Feng'er missing her master?" I'm afraid I won't be able to come back once in a year and a half. ”

Ping'er's face flushed, and she stopped talking, but finally turned around, turned her back to Feng Ziying, and said slowly: "The slave and maid naturally remember the master, but the master has a big thing to do, and grandma also really remembers the master, and Ping Suli often mentions the master,......"