Chapter 35 Substitue for Good

"Where's Aunt Liu? Why haven't you come yet?" Dou Qing'e took a sip of tea, and there was real concern on her face.

Qin Yuwan's hand shook, and the tea almost spilled out: "My mother is busy in the accounting room."

Qin Zhi patted the table dissatisfiedly: "When has it been? The Begonia Courtyard is on such a fire, and she is still busy there. I don't know what to do." The implication was that he and his precious concubine were shocked, and everyone should come to express their condolences.

Although most of the people present also don't like Aunt Liu, they feel unhappy when they hear that Qin Zhi favors Li Qi so much.

"Not necessarily," Qin Yunuan said lightly, "It's windy tonight, and the southeast wind is blowing. The account room is close to the Begonia Courtyard. Everyone is focusing on fighting the fire in the Begonia Courtyard. I'm afraid that this account room is..."

Before Qin Yunuan finished speaking, a panicked female voice came from far and near the door.

"Master, sir, there is something wrong with the accounting room. There is something wrong with the accounting room." The voice is sharp and thin, obviously Aunt Liu's.

Behind her was Aunt Chang, who was also panicked. Her clothes were a little scattered, and her face was even black with a few touch of sparks.

"Sir, the account room has also been burned, and none of the books in it have been saved." Aunt Liu looked at Qin Zhi's look. When she saw Qin Zhi's eyebrows suddenly clustered into a word "Chuan", she hurriedly knelt down. For so many years in the Qin family, she knew how to see people's faces from maids. The deeper Qin Zhi frowned, the more angry he was, the more angry he was.

"It's the maidservant who is useless. It's the maidservant who doesn't manage the account book. The master trusts the maidservant and let the maidservant and sister Chang to be the housekeeper together, but the maidservant..." As she said, she watched Qin Zhi's expression change.

Aunt Chang, who was beside her, also knelt down and said, "My concubine is also wrong about this matter. I am willing to take responsibility with Aunt Liu."

The account book records the expenditure income of the Qin family's large and small matters, from the income of fields in the suburbs of Beijing to the purchase of needle and thread. It happens that it has just passed the end of the year, and those salary income and purchases are recorded in the account. If the account book is destroyed, this family will be in a mess.

When Qin Yuwan saw her mother kneeling down, she hurriedly knelt down and begged, "Father, you can't blame your mother for this matter. The fire suddenly burned up. This is something that no one expected. Look at your mother, her face has been blackened. It can be seen that her mother has done her best."

Dou Qing'e also persuaded at this time, "Yes, it's not a big deal if the account book in the account room is burned. Sister Liu, have you made a brief backup of the account book? If there is, it will not delay the income entry and exit and accounting in the future.

Aunt Liu's face condensed, and she looked at Qin with a trace of hope. She kowtowed her head and said, "I'm stupid. I haven't thought of using this method, sir, I know I'm wrong, and I really know it."

Qin Zhi's face sank: "It's not enough to fail." If the fire is an accident, it is inevitable, but the bookkeeping forgets to back up in case of need from time to time. This is Aunt Liu's own problem.

Qin Yunuan sat aside and looked at it and saw a trace of cunning on Dou Qing'e's face. Yes, she succeeded. From the previous little fight to today's big fire, it proved that the Qin family could not do without her. Sure enough, just as Qin's face was about to condense to the extreme, Dou Qing'e opened her mouth with a smile. "Sister Liu is also the first time to manage the accounts. It's natural that she is not familiar with these rules, but fortunately, my concubine has backed up all the accounts since she managed the accounts and specially vacated a room in Cuixuan's courtyard. As long as she roughly sorts it out, she can move there at any time."

Aunt Liu was suddenly stunned. She looked at Dou Qing'e eagerly and suddenly didn't know whether to thank her or blame her.

Qin's eyebrows suddenly brightened, and his heart suddenly fell to the ground. He couldn't help sighing, "After all, Qing'e's wife is still indispensable in this family."

"The master laughed," Dou Qing'e's eyes were as soft as if dripping water. "It's what my concubine should have done to share the worries for the master."

The sky was already bright, and the fish belly gradually turned white, and the soft early sun shone in from the window, casting a light and shadow.

"Sir, the fire has been found," the old housekeeper followed by a little man with a brazier bowed at the door, hurried in, and asked the little man to put the brazier on the ground and arched his hand, "It's this pot of heating charcoal."

Qin Yunuan has asked Liao's mother to go back with Baochuan in her arms. With everyone, she looked at the deformed fire basin in the center. She could not see the decorative golden flowers on the top nail, and the strongest bottom of the basin was also burned and deformed, and only some black residue remained in it.

"This charcoal?" Dou Qing'e prolonged her tone, but did not continue to talk.

In the past, the lieutenant's mansion used the best silver charcoal on the market, which burned smoke-free and dust-free, and did not raise high Mars, but it was also very warm. Looking at the crude black residue in the fire basin, just like the black charcoal used by those poor people, but the money allocated in the account room was obviously the money to buy silver charcoal.

"Silver charcoal is warm, but there is no flame. Black charcoal does not choke people's noses, and there will be sparks when it burns. I think it must be this pot of black charcoal that emitted sparks or flames when it burned, and burned the nearby mantles, which started a fire." Qin Yun makeup slowly came to a conclusion about the cause of the fire. She and Dou Qing'e looked at each other, and the intersection of their eyes fell into Qin Yunuan's eyes. Qin Yunuan owed back and changed to a more comfortable posture. Naturally, she had a lot of fun watching the play.

Sure enough, Qin Zhi waved his hand and told the old housekeeper, "Find the steward of the accounting room and the matan in charge of buying. I would like to ask how this inferior charcoal got into my Qin family." Then he looked at Li Qi, who was a little decadent beside him, and said softly, "But are you tired? If you are tired, go back to rest first."

Li Qiqi didn't say anything, but just lowered her head and shook her head. Although her eyes did not fall on Su Chenghai so naked, the silky of death seemed to be wrapped in the air with silk threads. Qin Yunuan could see it very clearly.

Qin Yunuan looked back at Su Chenghai. He was drinking the cold tea leisurely. His slender fingers holding the tea cup looked elegantly. He could faintly see the cocoon in his hand, which was slightly yellow. It should be a brown.

"Master, everyone has brought it." A moment later, the old housekeeper led Ye San and Mother Qiao, who was in charge of buying.

"M Mother Joe?" Aunt Chang's face immediately changed when she saw the restless Mother Qiao, "Didn't you say that you are sick with your waist and legs and want to go home to rest for half a month?"

"Well, of course Aunt Chang wants me to rest." Mother Qiao's words shook the world. She knelt on her knees and said straight to Qin Zhi, "Master, I have also worked in the Qin family for 30 years. I have been responsible for purchasing. I have been buying for eight years. When I was your wife's housekeeper, I made a list of what I bought and what was missing, and asked the maidservant to buy it clearly, but In the past half month, since Aunt Chang and Aunt Liu's housekeeper, they have not only handled their affairs in a mess, but also let the maidservant replace silver charcoal with ordinary charcoal. Because I don't want to do anything against my conscience and don't want to lose this job, I have thought of a way to go home sick.

"Nonsense!" Aunt Liu immediately jumped up and said, "How did I let you do this kind of stealing? I'm just telling you to shop around and save the money you can save. Is this also wrong?"

Mother Qiao didn't know where she had the courage and said directly to Aunt Liu, "Of course what my aunt did, but I don't know how much money she saved in her pocket by letting me use inferior goods to top good goods."

Aunt Liu stared and was about to attack, but she was dragged by Aunt Chang beside her. In the morning, she saw that Qin's face was so cold that she shrank her head and did not argue too much. She just called Qin Zhi with tears: "Sir, you and I have been together for so many years, can't you still believe me?" Aunt Liu has been serving Qin since she was 12 years old. At the age of 14, the two have tasted the clouds and rain for the first time. Up to now, more than 20 years, Aunt Liu has been holding herself as the old man of the Qin family, which is precisely for this reason.

"You said, "Qin Zhi directly ignored Aunt Liu and pointed to Ye San, "You are in charge of the accounting room. You know best what the income of the Qin family is these days."

It is clear, but this Ye San is Dou Qing'e's person. Qin Yu warmly took a sip of strong tea, and the sun outside gradually rose. The sleepless night also made her feel a little exhausted.

Ye San knelt down and said with a stiff look on his thin cheek: "Sir, the silver recorded by Aunt Liu in the account is indeed enough, and sometimes she will even take more than when she was in charge, but I don't know where it is used."

"Bah," Aunt Liu shouted, "It's not that you got the wrong wedding dress..." She wanted to say that Ye San deliberately misplaced the color of the wedding dress, so that she had to spend more money to dredge it, but when she came to her senses, this matter was originally to hide the master's secret and must not leak.

"There is no evidence, Ye San, do you have any evidence?" Although Aunt Chang and Aunt Liu had no friendship before, they are also grasshoppers on a rope at this time. She can't help.

"Go back to your aunt," Ye San said with a trace of contempt, "aren't all the account books burned in the fire just now? So small, there is no evidence.

"Since there is no evidence," Qin Yunuan said slowly, "one of you said that the two aunts were inferior, and the other said that the two aunts used the money of the account room indiscriminately. This is not a trivial matter. Why didn't you report it to your father or mother early? It was not until this time that the fire burned and everything was destroyed before standing up to testify.