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The reason why Aunt Fang had been so generous recently was probably because Gu Heng wasn't in the manor. She wasn't someone who was willing to surrender easily, and wouldn't give up what she wanted just because of Gu Heng's warning. Instead, she wanted to take this opportunity to sever all distractions quickly.

A few of the manager lady s had united together to create a disturbance. The Marquis Mansion s that were being taken care of, to the point of having to eat and sleep in their daily living, all of them appeared to be in a state of paralysis, requiring almost all of the manager lady s to be self-sufficient. All of them surrounded together to eat and play cards, ignoring the things that they had to do everyday, even Fang Dai's advice was useless.

"Miss Fang Dai, it's not that we don't want to give face to Grand Mistress, it's just that we're forced to do this. As long as Aunt Fang doesn't roll back to the second courtyard, we won't work for a day, and we don't have any complaints if she wants to resign from the Marquis.

"That's right, Miss Fang Dai, we will remember your relationship with Grand Mistress. As long as she is still a butler, we will personally go over to her and ask for her forgiveness. This is not our intention, Aunt Fang has gone too far."

Fang Dai was helpless and could only change the topic to Xie Jingxi, "Fortunately we are not living together with them, otherwise we won't even be able to eat. We do not know if Aunt Fang is really smart or just stupid, we don't know what will happen to her after this, just look, before tomorrow, we will be able to arouse Marquis's interest."

"Aunt Fang is not afraid, I was hoping she could find out something."

When Ming Yu heard that there was no food left in the Marquis Mansion, he said in shock: "They won't come to our courtyard to snatch our food, right? I need to quickly hide those pigeons, the fish that were sent over from the manor, and the grape lychees that were brought over from the south … …"

Xie Jingxi, "..."

Fang Dai bellowed with laughter, "Madam, I think that we can probably get Ming Yu to guess the truth. Aunt Fang was originally suspecting that we might be rich, so we might as well use the Marquis Mansion's money to get along, if we don't investigate it, how can we leave it at that?"

"Investigate?" It's not up to her. " Xie Jingxi snorted, "You can give her so much face, but if you want to behave atrociously in our courtyard, that is impossible."

Xie Jingxi indulging her wasn't for no reason, and was even deliberately using her, but towards Fang Wanqing, she had never had any thoughts of retaliating against him. She was more than smart, but her thoughts were too distant helplessly. Whether it was towards Gu Heng or the scenery of glory that she had lost in the past, she had a determination that was different from ordinary people and there was simply no leeway between her and this kind of person. If not for this, Fang Ziqing would never, no matter what, marry Fang Wanqing into Marquis Mansion as a concubine.

Indeed, during lunch time, Aunt Fang had personally brought someone to the door and said that he would routinely investigate major wife's purchase accounts. His attitude was extremely sincere and friendly, but he was unable to even step into the courtyard, and was blocked outside by Fang Dai.

Fang Dai received Xie Jingxi's orders and immediately became a God of Faces. As they stood towards the door, not even a fly could dream of flying in, so when the Aunt Fang nuns tried to force their way in, they were instead knocked to the ground by Fang Dai, and immediately went to complain to Lady Zeng while wailing like ghosts and howling like wolves.

"Madam, Miss Fang Dai is really outrageous. She dares to hit people when she's in the Marquis Mansion, even causing the few mama in front of me, along with the few mama in your room, to suffer losses." Aunt Fang's tone was filled with grievance, "I just wanted to make a routine check and explain how the debt was settled. Grand Mistress has always been a kind person, but I never would have thought that I would anger Miss Fang Dai for it.

The Lady Zeng's face did not look good, "It is indeed a bit outrageous, how can you attack so easily, but you should have told me beforehand, it is better not to cause trouble in the young master's yard, and they did indeed open fire by themselves, they did not even use the mansion's money, it is fine if not checked."

The Aunt Fang suddenly changed the topic, "Madam is teaching me, I was careless, even when I heard that the Grand Mistress eats three luxurious meals everyday, and seeing that you ate so little, I feel that it's a little strange, no matter what, we are still family, I shouldn't have known each other so well. Since we live in the same courtyard, why does it feel like we are separated?"

There was no need for her to mention it, Lady Zeng was also dissatisfied with major wife, but no one really cared about this matter, since Aunt Fang did not say anything, they knew that major wife was very different from what they thought, so these normal ethics rules did not apply to them, and they did not bring it up again.

Forget about the rest, just eating three meals a day was already a problem. No one would be able to buy it in the first day, but they would be able to do it in the house, and on the second day, they would be unable to continue on. The kitchen had no ingredients to open fire with, so even if they did not cause trouble, they would have to stop work.

truthfully told him, "Father, I don't know why a few manager lady s suddenly went on strike, but I heard a few mothers say that the Palace was going to change managers, so I guess they are afraid of losing their jobs, so I think I should ask for an explanation. My wife advised them not to listen to rumours, it's just that the words of my wife are not important, it's just that my wife did not manage the household properly."

After all, the wife of the clan master in the Marquis Mansion was still Xie Jingxi. Since the palace was in such a mess, she had to be held accountable, so he had to lower her head and admit his mistakes first. Marquis did not know about the internal affairs of the manor, so it was impossible for her to complain immediately.

Marquis swept her gaze across Lady Zeng, but even Lady Zeng was speechless. She only knew about the things that were being done by the stewards, not much more than Marquis. Furthermore, she had never said anything about changing the topic, so where did she get the words from?

Of course, it was from Aunt Fang, who took the initiative to step forward and say: "Marquis, Madam, it is my fault, I am willing to follow mother's wishes to thoroughly investigate the debts of the manor. Since Madam said that since the authority should be handed over so that we can get to the bottom of it, then we can start investigating openly.

The Marquis raised his eyebrows in curiosity, "So, what did you find out?"

The Marquis threw away those random excuses and directly asked about the key point. If they did not find out something, the manager lady would not have made such a ruckus.

The Aunt Fang was waiting for someone to ask her that question, so she simply replied, "I won't hide it from you, Madam.

It was strange that there were no servants in the house that would cause corruption, therefore, it probably could not arouse Marquis's curiosity. However, since the Aunt Fang had started the conversation, it was fine to just listen, but he was also very curious about the capabilities of this aunt.

If you combine it with the current prices, you would be able to tell that something is amiss. This is not hard to understand, if you take too much silver at once, it would be much easier to find out, and if you take one or two taels of silver like this, it would be very easy. If every day, there would be around seven or eight hundred silver as a result, and there would be a lot more of them.

Lady Zeng was also surprised, but she was not able to calculate all of them. She continued to speak, "Of course, what I found was not only these, Marquis still remembers that two years ago when we went into the Wasteland, our family also stored a lot of food, because at that time, our family also stocked this food, and I remember it very clearly based on the price of the food. If the time that Marquis Mansion bought the food was not too different, then our Marquis Mansion would have bought it at least for twenty percent more.

Back when they were hoarding grain, the Gu family's two houses bought grain at the same time, and the person who was related to the grain merchant was still the eldest son of the second house, Gu Quan. The Marquis knew very well that the second house would occasionally help them, so this time, Marquis was the one who made the decision to buy grain and took 30% of the silver for the second house.

If it was as Aunt Fang had said, the grain prices were still higher than 20%, the food stored in the second house would not even cost that much silver. Marquis had calculated the bill and only frowned slightly, this matter of tens of thousands of silver was probably not a big deal.

The Aunt Fang continued to speak as she looked at Marquis's reaction: "The price of food is one thing, but the specific amount can also be misstated, and if you were to sell the extra grains at a high price, it would be like selling a huge amount of silver, something like coveting for silver naturally happens two times. As you all know, the man from the Li Zhangfang family is someone that the Marquis can take care of in the outer court, no matter how big his Marquis Mansion is, he can't withstand the bite from both inside and outside.

When the Aunt Fang made such a ruckus, could it be that she wanted to prove that the Second Branch's hands and feet were not clean, and that the matter of the Second Branch's chickens crowing and dogs stealing was not done in one or two cases? Most of the time, the Marquis would pretend that he did not know, and if he took a step back, Li Zhangfang's man would just be carrying the Marquis and poking around, and in the end, he would just be a unclean servant. At worst, he would just drive the couple out, how much of a hindrance would there be?

When Xie Jingxi saw that her expression was not very good, she knew that there must be some connection between them. Accountant Li and Lady Zeng did not share the same thoughts, but since Accountant Li was married to the Lady Zeng, who could bribe her to betray the Lady Zeng? So the problem seemed to be related to the man from Accountant Li.

only knew that he was an old man in front of the Marquis, there was no problem with him following the Marquis for her entire life, the Marquis would not be a person who did not know his place, Xie Jingxi had a faint guess in her heart, but it did not take shape.

Aunt Fang was considered capable, but after investigating for such a short period of time, it was considered good to be able to find out about the extent of the problem, it was just that she was not very clear about the various aspects of Marquis Mansion, such as Marquis's attitude towards the Second House, and Marquis's attitude towards the Eldest Young Master.

Looking at the lack of response from the Marquis, Lady Zeng felt even more stifled in her heart. Although these young wives weren't clear about the background of the people in the Marquis Mansion, she knew about it, such as this Manager Wang. He was too old to follow the Marquis, to the point where everyone thought that he was like Supervisor Zhao, someone who had been with the Marquis for his entire life.

There was no one who understood Lady Ji more than Lady Zeng, amongst the servants that she had left behind, either they had left or they were gone, leaving only this Manager Wang in front of Marquis. The Marquis was nostalgic and favored Manager Wang, if this was the reason why he did not want to pursue this matter, then the gloom in Lady Zeng's heart could be imagined.