051: Review is late and expensive

Seeing that Mrs. Zheng looked at him with curiosity, Li Quan didn't dare to say anything. He looked at Mrs. Zheng and then at Lv Ning, and didn't realize that he hesitated.

"What do you have to say? Why don't you say it quickly!" Seeing Li Quan like this, Mrs. Zheng knew that he deliberately wanted to avoid her. At that moment, he became angry and said angrily, "You boy, are so bold that you don't even listen to your ancestors. Come on, why don't you blame me for twenty!"

"Ouch, my ancestors, you can spare the little one." Seeing this, Li Quan immediately knelt down and said aggrievedly, "It's not that I don't dare to say it. I'm really not happy about this matter. I'm afraid that my ancestors will be angry when they hear it."

"Oh, it's an unhappy thing. Let me listen to it." In this way, Mr. Zheng became more and more curious.

"What are you selling here? Why don't you say it quickly!" Lv Ning was also anxious, so she urged Li Quan.

"Go back to the words of the ancestors and wives," Li Quan said honestly, "there has never been anything else, but Liu Qier, the peddler who delivered dry goods, came to the house to make trouble, saying that he had not given the money he owed him for three months, and he was clamoring to see you."

"Didn't you give it to me for three months?" Lu Ning was surprised, "How could it be that I didn't give it for three months? Did you go to the account room to check the account?

"Return to my husband, check it, and it is written in the account book..." Li Quan said, but he hesitated again and quietly glanced at Mrs. Zheng.

"What is written?" Seeing that Li Quan was always hesitant, Mrs. Zheng was a little unhappy and spat, "I will give you something that can only speak half a word. My marquis's mansion usually raises you for nothing, but he can't even say a word!" Just rush out to save trouble.

"Farewell, ancestor, I said, I said," Li Quan waved his hand repeatedly and finally said, "The account book records that the monthly silver two were taken away."

"Then what else is he here to make trouble?" Lv Ning said anly, "They took it away by themselves, but they still have to come to my house to make trouble? Why don't you drive him out quickly?"

"Mrs. Hui, it would be good if they took it themselves, but this silver two... didn't take it away at all." Li Quan sighed with a bitter face.

"Who got that?" Mrs. Zheng said strangely, "Isn't it our Houfu?"

"In the words of the ancestors, you are right. It was led by the people of our Hou family," Li Quan nodded.

"Is there such a thing?" Mrs. Zheng immediately frowned and asked sharply, "Who got it? What's going on?"

"Yes..." Li Quan paused and finally said, "It's a buyer in my house. Chi Gui took it away."

"Is it expensive? Who is he?" Mrs. Zheng frowned deeper and tried to search for the name "Chi Gui" in his mind.

"Ancestor," Nian Tao bent down and whispered a few words in Mr. Zheng's ear, and an expression of sudden enlightenment immediately appeared on Mr. Zheng's face. Then he asked Li Quan, "So Chi Gui forgot to send them Yin Liang?"

"This... back to the ancestors, I don't know this little one. After all, I haven't sent it to anyone for three months. Now Liu Qier has been making a lot of trouble in the house and sits at the door of the account and doesn't leave." Li Quandao said, "It is said that the nine members of the family are waiting for dinner with their mouths open, crying and wiping away tears, but they can't even persuade them."

"Isn't it a tricky people who want to come to my Houfu?" Lu Ning quietly glanced at the old Mrs. Zheng, and then said an angry face.

"Madam, I dare not say that," Li Quan's forehead oozed a drop of sweat and said, "What kind of place is our marquis's mansion? That's the first-class Wuhou Mansion. No matter how stupid Liu Qier is, he will not be desperate in the end. If he hadn't been forced to do it, why bother to come here desperately?

Li Quan's words have already said seven points of truth, and Mrs. Zheng also meditated for a long time, and then said slowly, "Go, bring that Liu Qier here. I want to ask the ancestor in person."

"Oh, this can't work," Li Quan bluffed and quickly shook his hand, "My ancestor, Liu Qier cried, and he is a rough person who has never seen the world. I'm afraid he will be shocked by the old lady. How dare to lead him to the old lady's room."

"I gave you an ignorant boy," Li Quan's words made Mrs. Zheng angry and happy. "Your ancestor, you haven't been born when I was in charge of the great affairs of the Hou family. What is there that I haven't seen? Which of those tricky and unreasonable servants can't be cleaned up by me? You go and bring people to me. Oh, and also bring me the account book. I have my own opinion on everything.

"Yes." Li Quan answered, so he stood up and went out. Before long, a middle-aged man in coarse cloth clothes followed Li Quan in.

However, although the man's clothes were simple, he was also clean and simple, and his face was loyal, which was not as unreasonable as Mr. Zheng thought before.

At this moment, Liu Qi'er came in, and Li Quan said, "Ancestor, madam, Liu Qi'er has brought it."

Then Liu Qier also seemed to have seen the world. When she saw Mrs. Zheng and Lv Ning, she knew how to bow down and said politely, "Speak to Mrs. Zheng and Madam."

"Well," Mrs. Zheng nodded and asked, "Are you Liu Qier?"

"Yes," Liu Qier nodded honestly and said, "It's not quite the old lady and madam. The villain is a hawker who delivers dry goods to the Hou family. The ginseng bird's nest and other things in the house are picked and collected by little people in the mountains. These mountain goods are growing in danger. Even if they want to collect them, they have to go far into the mountains to collect them. The little man just ventured to do such a business just to support his family. Originally, I thought that Houfu was a big family, which could ensure that the villain had at least no worries about food and clothing. Who would have thought that Uncle Chi received things from me for three months in a row without paying for the goods. Ancestor, you are a Bodhisattva-hearted person. I think there are old and young people in my family. How can you withstand such procrastination? If it hadn't been for the fact that the family couldn't open the pot, and it wouldn't have caused trouble in the house, please ask the ancestors and wives to make the decision for me!"

After saying that, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily.

This speech made Mrs. Zheng feel a little pity in his heart. At that moment, he sighed and said, "Liu Qi, let me ask you, have you really not received silver for three months in a row?"

"Ancestor, if Liu Qier really received silver, what else would he do in the Hou Mansion?" Liu Qier pounded her chest and said, "Every time Liu Qier asked Uncle Chi, he said that the house had changed the steward these days, and the payment had to be delayed. He urged me seven or eight times. He only gave me five taels of silver and five taels of silver, but it was only a taels of bird's nest. How can it be enough for these three months?"

After saying that, he sighed and said bitterly, "My family is running out of money to buy rice. My mother has been infected with wind and cold these days, and she can't even afford to hire a man. Ancestor, if it goes on like this, I, Liu Qier, will have no way to live!"

"You just said that this bird's nest is five taels of silver and one taels of silver?" Mr. Zheng raised his eyes to look at Liu Qier with doubts.

"Exact" Liu Qier nodded, "It costs at least seven or eight catties in the house every month, plus ginseng and other things, but it costs hundreds of taels of silver anyway. The little man has to pay hundreds of taels in advance to receive the goods, and now he already owes a large amount of silver outside. Seeing that someone from the sky comes to his home to urge the payment, ancestor, what do you think this is good for a villain!"

After saying that, he sat there with a sad face.

Mr. Zheng looked at Liu Qier, who was really pitiful. Now he said to Li Quan, "Take the account book and let me have a look."

Li Quan answered and handed over the account book respectfully with both hands.

Mrs. Zheng looked down one by one, and his face sank. Her lips moved, but her body trembled slightly with anger.

"Ancestor, what's wrong with you?" Looking at it beside him, Lu Ning couldn't help but jump. He quickly reached out and helped Mrs. Zheng ask.

Mrs. Zheng raised her hand, motioned Lv Ning not to make a sound, and then turned to Liu Qier.

"Liu Qier, look, this bird's nest is yours?" Mrs. Zheng motioned to Nian Tao to hand over the slightly rough bird's nest to Liu Qier.

Liu Qier took it, took it in her hand and looked at it. She said, "It was sent by the villain."

"This kind of bird's nest is five taels of silver and one taels of silver?"

"Exact"

"Then take a look, how many pieces of silver do you need for bird's nest like this?" Mrs. Zheng asked Liu Qier to see the more exquisite one again.

"Oh, ancestor, your kind of goods are so good. Look at this bird's nest, but it's really the first bird's nest, isn't it?" Liu Qier looked at it in her hand like a baby and praised it. "This kind of bird's nest, even if the little people collect it from those acquaintances who pick bird's nests, they all ask for twelve or three taels of silver. If you sell it to such a big family, you still need fifteen or six taels of silver.

"Fifteen patterns of silver one taels." Mrs. Zheng nodded and muttered, "Okay, okay."

After saying that, he raised his voice and said, "Go, call the Chi Caiqing for me, and then find the Chi Gui for me."

A subordinate immediately answered outside and hurriedly went to call someone.

After a while, I saw that Chi Gui was pulled first. This Chigui was wearing a brown ancient money-patterned coat, which showed that his figure was getting shorter and fatter. His big face was full of panic, and he walked in with eight steps.

"Speaks to the ancestors! Please give my peace to your wife!" As soon as Chi Gui entered the door, he shouted loudly, but his eyes fell on Liu Qier, who was kneeling on the ground.

Chi Gui's face changed color, and his body, which originally wanted to bow and salute, was completely paused.

"Chi Gui, do you know this person?" Mrs. Zheng, who was sitting at the top, asked.

"This..." Chi Gui's eyes turned around and said with a smile, "Isn't this Liu Qier? If you don't receive the goods well, you come here to do something."