Chapter 797 The Fate Arrives
This lateness really turned into absenteeism.
Sun Shaozong and Cheng Rixing spent more than half an hour eating and chatting. Later they had to listen to Liu Quan's report. After all the trouble here and there, it was almost noon.
The casual chat with Cheng Rixing was fine.
But Liu Quan's report made Sun Shaozong quite disappointed.
It has to be said that the official corruption business he came up with back then was extremely profitable, and he almost quadrupled the profit in two years.
Unfortunately, however, the amount of money the Sun family finally pocketed was somewhat disappointing.
The main reason for this is the emergence of an unexpected character - Wang Ren, the eldest son of Wang Ziteng.
The timber business started with 100,000 taels of silver and finally made a gross profit of 460,000 taels.
After deducting all the expenses, there was still a net profit of 359,683 taels.
But this old man Wang Ren "borrowed" more than 89,700 taels in just one year!
Before this, he had already received a tribute of 30,000 taels of silver - this part was originally included in the operating expenses.
In other words, if the 30,000 taels of silver were included, the income over the past two years was almost equally divided among the three families.
When I first took the boat north, I felt that this prince was too lavish and ostentatious.
Now when I think back on it, I realize that the money that guy spent so much was actually "borrowed" from his own family.
Of course, earning hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in more than two years is considered a very profitable business.
Besides, in this official corruption business, how can one not pay tribute to the leader’s son?
Therefore, Sun Shaozong didn't care too much about it, but his impression of Wang Ren had invisibly declined a lot.
However, the other partner in this business had very strong opinions about this.
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Rongguo Mansion, Xiyun Pavilion.
Wang Xifeng's pair of triangular eyes were like knives, cutting into the account book, as if they wanted to carve that line of small words out of the rice paper.
That is to say, Wang Ren was not in front of her. If he was, she would have wanted to dig out his heart and liver to see how evil he was.
People’s hearts are no longer the same as they used to be!
It’s harder to know a person’s heart than to know his face!
Thinking back to the past, when my elder brother was in the capital, how honest, dutiful and cautious he was?
So much so that I excluded him from the list of business partners without even thinking about it.
Who could have imagined that after only being in the south of the Yangtze River for a year and six months, Wang Ren had completely changed his appearance!
Eighty-six thousand seven hundred and eighty taels of silver!
A total of 86,700 taels of silver!
It was all thanks to him that he dared to appear in front of me as if nothing had happened a few days ago!
If I had known this would happen, I should have thrown all the gifts he sent me away like feeding them to the dogs - no, I should have thrown them directly into his face to make myself feel less resentful!
But Wang Xifeng was already feeling very angry and irritated when she encountered someone who added fuel to the fire.
"Second grandma."
Lai Wang knelt on the ground, bowed his head and said, "I shouldn't say too much, but I should tell you the truth. In fact, in addition to the 80,000 taels of silver, you also took 30,000 taels as a tribute."
Just this one sentence is enough to show that Wang Ren is a person who does not know how to behave.
Because Lai Wang was originally a servant of the Wang family, and now he was with Wang Xifeng, if Wang Ren had some tact or was more friendly to him, Lai Wang would not have started to stir up trouble at this time.
And a tribute of thirty thousand taels of silver?!
Wang Xifeng's chest rose and fell rapidly, forming two peach-like outlines under her clothes.
But although she made many mistakes in terms of major policies, she was very shrewd in dealing with people. After a little thought, she saw through Lai Wang's intention to provoke her.
He immediately raised his eyebrows and scolded with a cold face : "Since it is the due respect, why should you hesitate? Don't you deserve respect?!"
Lai Wang looked up in astonishment. Seeing her furious expression, he remembered Second Madam's methods and immediately kowtowed, saying, "I have spoken nonsense. Please punish me, Second Madam!"
"There's no need to punish you. You've done something good after all."
At this point, Wang Xifeng threw her sleeves impatiently and said, "Go downstairs and see your parents and your wife and children first. I have something to ask you later!"
Lai Wang felt as if he had been pardoned. He hurriedly got up, hunched over and walked out.
As soon as he left, Wang Xifeng lost all her scruples. She swept the account book to the ground with a snap and said angrily, "You have made all the money for your family, yet you still dare to act pretentiously in front of me - bah, what a character you have!"
Ever since she learned of Jia Lian's true feelings, Wang Xifeng's thoughts of having a son naturally disappeared.
In addition, due to the aftermath of the audit, her power in the family is far less than that in the original book.
These two factors combined made her greed for gold, silver and other valuables even more uncontrollable.
Now she has lost an income of 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver. How could she not be extremely angry?
Fortunately, the Sun family was kind enough not to hold Wang Ren's debt against her, but instead planned to include it in the picking fee to be shared by the two families.
Otherwise, she was afraid that all her efforts would be in vain!
Thinking of this, she became more and more annoyed with Wang Ren, but she didn't know how to view Sun Shaozong.
Alas~
That damn Jia Lian, why did he fall for him!
Thinking of this, Wang Xifeng was filled with helplessness and unwillingness. As a woman, she lost to a burly man in the competition for favor.
How sad and ridiculous is this?
But Sun Shaozong seemed to have no intention of accepting Jia Lian at all.
Jia Lian's one-sided yet unwavering determination made Wang Xifeng feel even more embarrassed.
The reason why she accidentally killed Lin Hongyu was because Lin Hongyu was forced into a corner and mocked her about this matter in person. Otherwise, Wang Xifeng would not have lost her mind.
Alas~
Sighing dejectedly, Wang Xifeng picked up the account book again and absentmindedly flipped through a few pages. Suddenly, she hurried out of the hall and asked the two maids who were sweeping the floor, "Where is Ping'er? Where has she gone again? Why haven't we seen any trace of her for so long?"
The two maids hurriedly dropped their work and came forward to report: "Sister Ping'er just took the eldest sister to the old lady's place."
The eldest sister here naturally refers to Wang Xifeng’s only daughter, Jia Qiaojie.
Jia Qiaojie is now eight or nine years old. She is very pretty and resembles her mother in style - except that she is too timid and delicate, unlike her parents. She is somewhat similar to Jia Yingchun, who is known as "wooden head".
Hearing that Ping'er had accompanied Qiaojie to the old lady's place, Wang Xifeng naturally didn't want to send anyone to urge them.
So I could only sit at home and wait anxiously.
About another quarter of an hour later, Ping'er finally came back.
Wang Xifeng immediately stepped forward, grabbed Ping'er's wrist, and dragged her into the main hall without saying anything, saying, "Your fate has come !"
