Chapter 117 Do you still hate me?
Prison.
Qin Gui was about to collapse after eating bad food for several days.
He had been eagerly waiting for Mr. Liang to rescue him from prison. He felt that this should be an easy thing for Mr. Liang, but he never waited for a turning point.
When he heard the jailer shout "Qin Gui" and said that someone was visiting the prison, he was so excited that he ran to the railing in three steps and two steps at a time, with a look of excitement and anticipation on his face.
But the visitor turned out to be Liang Jiang.
He suddenly wilted like an eggplant beaten by frost.
Liang Jiang walked to the prison, looked at the embarrassed Qin Gui, and said repeatedly: "The conditions in this prison are so difficult. Didn't my second uncle inform the jailer to take care of Butler Qin?"
Qin Gui hummed: "Are you here to take pleasure in others' misfortune?"
Liang Jiang shook his head seriously: "I don't do such childish things. I'm here to discuss cooperation with you, Butler Qin."
Qin Gui sneered: "Cooperation? Me and you?"
Liang Jiang nodded: "Do you still expect my second uncle to rescue you? Don't think about it. He will not care about your life or death after he sends you in."
"What do you mean?"
Liang Jiang took out an account book and handed it to him: "Read it yourself."
Qin Gui took it in his hand suspiciously, looked at it twice, and said with a subtle expression: "I don't understand what you want to express."
"Is this account book real or fake?"
"Of course it's true."
"According to the conclusion drawn from this accounting, you have embezzled at least 20,000 taels of silver from the Duke's government in the past few years. If it is true, you will never take this step to prison in your life."
Qin Gui denied it flatly: "That's nonsense! I admit that I did get a little advantage. I only had three or four thousand taels in total, and I kept them all in my outer house. Your second uncle also knows some things well. Turn a blind eye."
"So, do you think this account book is true or false?"
Qin Gui was stunned and looked up at Liang Jiang, who was looking at him meaningfully.
If it's true, it's a deficit of more than 20,000 taels of silver. If I can't plug this hole, I will be sent to the army or put in jail.
He stumbled and asked: "Is this really the account book of the house?"
"To be precise, it was my second uncle who forged the account books in advance. He pocketed the store's income over the past few years. Some of it was tampered with in the income accounts, and the other part was framed on you so that you could be used as a scapegoat."
Qin Gui didn't believe it and looked through the account book one by one. The more he looked at it, the more frightened he became.
Not only was he completely unaware of this, he also committed the crime of burning down the Duke's mansion in order to destroy these account books.
With interests at hand, Qin Gui no longer cared about family ties and closed the account books with a bang: "This is fake! Except for the leather workshop, which suffered a slight loss due to poor management, the shops under the name of the Duke of Guo. The other stores are all making a profit, and this is not the only profit.
"Do my grandmother and second aunt know about this?"
"I don't know! Although Mrs. Liang is very involved in every detail of the house, she never leaves home and doesn't know much about the business of the store."
"Do you know where the real account books are?"
Qin Gui shook his head: "I don't even know when he changed the account books! I didn't expect that he would actually play this trick with me."
Liang Jiang continued to ask: "Then let me ask you again, two days before I returned to the Duke's mansion, did you go to Yan Qi and ask him to report me in the Yamen?"
Qin Gui was very surprised: "How do you know?"
"My second uncle asked you to go, right? What else do you know about this matter?"
Qin Gui nodded: "He said that you two, mother and daughter, were cruel and ruthless. In order to escape the golden cicada, you would not hesitate to kill two innocent women, Li Daitao Jiang. If you return to the Duke's Mansion, you will definitely have an operation on me first. So strike first and let me Find Yan Qi, ask him who he told about Black Wind View, and ask Yan Qi to report you to the Yamen. "
Liang Jiang nodded slightly: "He who knows the current affairs is a hero. It seems that you are a smart person."
Qin Gui said flatteringly: "I know almost all his details. I'll tell you everything. Just spare me!"
Liang Jiang readily agreed: "As long as you do what I say, I will not only spare you, but also give you a sum of money to use for your future settlement."
Qin Gui said almost without thinking: "If he is unkind, you can't blame me for being unjust. In the future, Qin Gui will only follow your lead, Princess."
Galangal was very satisfied.
In these years, all the business of the Duke's Mansion has been taken care of by his second uncle. If there was no Black Wind View, Liang Jiang would be willing to hand over the Duke's Mansion. At worst, he would turn a blind eye and not take care of it. Compared with this little money.
However, Mr. Liang first sought wealth and killed himself, and then repeatedly made things difficult for her, so she didn't mind and killed them all.
However, dealing with his second uncle is different from the Fang family. He can deal with the Fang family step by step and push the Fang family to a dead end step by step.
To deal with her second uncle, she had to keep her composure and hit the target with one strike, leaving him with no chance of turning over.
After returning to the Duke's Mansion from the prison, as soon as she got off the carriage, she heard someone calling her from behind: "Liang Jiang."
Liang Jiang turned her face away, and Fang Chengxu led a bay-red horse out of the shade, looking at her with blazing eyes.
But his face was full of decadence, he had lost some weight, his eyes were sunken, and his newly shaved beard had green stubble.
Seeing Liang Jiang looking over, he grinned and said in a hoarse voice, "I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Liang Jiang was a little surprised, and couldn't help but think of the way he had just returned to Fucheng from Xiliang, passed her by, and barged into Tong Zhaoer's delivery room.
At that time, although he was dusty and his whole body was thin and angular, his eyes were hot and his whole person was high-spirited and full of vitality.
Now, he looks like an old man without a trace of life. His shoulders were slumped, and his whole body was full of depression.
She stood there in shock, not knowing what to say, so she just asked lightly: "Is something wrong?"
Fang Chengxu walked up to him and lowered his head: "I'm here to pay off my debt."
Pay debts, not debts.
His attitude was extremely humble, even a bit condescending, and Liang Jiang couldn't say anything outrageous for a while.
"I don't have my IOU with me. Let's sit inside."
Fang Chengxu shook his head: "I know I'm not popular, so I'll just say it here."
He took out the banknote from his arms and handed it to Liang Jiang: "I'm sorry for delaying it for so long. Please count it."
Liang Jiang handed the banknote to his mother behind him: "Bring me the IOU."
Yu Ma glanced at the banknote to make sure it was correct, then turned back to her house and took out the IOU she had signed.
Liang Jiang didn't say anything more and returned the IOU to Fang Chengxu: "Then we are settled now."
Fang Chengxu raised his face and asked in a solemn voice: "Since we are in love, do you still hate me?"
Liang Jiang shook his head: "I don't hate him, I just keep him at a respectful distance."
Fang Chengxu tightened his grip on the horse's reins: "I couldn't help you in the past. I'm very happy if you don't hate me."
The only thing he could express and radiate from his body was the word pitiful.
(End of chapter)