Mrs. Hou had originally planned to rest her family there at that farm, so there was no need for the Ji family to get acquainted with it again.

Their original owner's house is about to pass.

This farm was Madam Hou's dowry when she got married, and the managers there were all appointed by Madam Hou's mother.

This farm has been doing nothing for many years, and it actually doesn't make much money, but fortunately there is no loss.

But judging from the fact that the location here is good, it stands to reason that the turnover should be very high.

It can be seen from this that the manager of this farm must be a moth. Maybe because he has been entrenched in the farm for many years and is far away from the owner's house, he may eat up the money, oil and water.

Therefore, after arriving, Mrs. Hou did not show her full trust in her steward, but was rather neither salty nor indifferent.

After arriving, I settled my husband and others down, and then took Ji Liangqing and Mrs. Ji to check the account books.

Mrs. Hou is also smart. Judging from her dealings and conversations in the past few days, she knows that Ji Liangqing is the head of the Ji family. However, in order to show respect, she still asked Ji Liangqing to bring Mrs. Ji with her.

The person in charge was called Housekeeper Zhou. Housekeeper Zhou was lame in one leg. He married the daughter of the former steward of the farm and gave birth to three children.

It can be said that this farm has a deep connection with their family.

The previous generation belonged to his father-in-law, and after his father-in-law retired, it fell into his hands.

He has the absolute right to speak about this farm. Although he is lame, his eyes are bright.

Seeing the owner's attitude towards me, I can vaguely guess what the owner is thinking.

Even before Mrs. Hou summoned him, the atmosphere in the family was gloomy and they were vaguely planning something.

Mrs. Hou asked for the account books as soon as she arrived. Housekeeper Zhou's wife took a stack of account books and handed them over. The couple kept exchanging glances.

Mrs. Hou was busy looking at the account books and had no time to pay attention to the couple's movements.

Naturally, I didn't take this seriously.

In fact, regardless of whether Housekeeper Zhou and his wife's family had done anything here or embezzled money, she was going to pull them down this time.

What's more, when I arrived, I found that they had done nothing at all, and even the farm was not well maintained.

On the other hand, everyone in their family is well-dressed, which shows that they live a comfortable life.

There were not many tenant farmers in the farm, and it looked deserted. It didn’t look like a big farm at all!

Mrs. Hou's dissatisfaction has been suppressed in her heart, and she no longer has the interest to look at the faces of the two of them.

But Ji Liangqing took all this seriously.

However, he was a smart man, and he was caring and did not say anything to offend anyone. He just stood quietly and did not take the initiative to go up and ask for a look at the account books.

He just waited for his wife to say something after reading it, or to hand him the account book.

Before that, he had always kept to himself. Mrs. Ji was also a smart old lady. She knew better than her son what it meant to hide one's strength and bide one's time.

He didn't make any move, he just stood there without saying a word.

"presumptuous!"

Mrs. Hou looked at it for half an hour. The longer the time went on, the deeper her frown became and her face became more ugly.

Butler Zhou had already looked at Madam Hou for half an hour, his face was like gold paper, and cold sweat flowed from his forehead.

Housekeeper Zhou is not very capable. It is purely because the farm is far away, so he relies on Mrs. Hou to take care of it. Otherwise, the account books will not be deliberately polished.

He had no idea that Mrs. Hou would come over during this time!

He was short-sighted, and even if he got a little money, he would immediately spend it on his own home. He never thought about trying to curry favor with the servants around Madam Hou and get some information about Madam Hou's whereabouts or recent movements.

Moreover, a secondary effect of his short-sightedness is that he did not hire many tenant farmers to take care of the farm, so the harvest in the farm was not very good.

This resulted in him committing corruption even when the harvest was not good, making the account book particularly unsightly. He did not have the talent to cover up the account book.

Mrs. Hou manages a huge Hou Mansion, and the property of the Hou Mansion is much greater than his dowry.

The account books were readily available. One look at the account books, which were full of loopholes, made it clear whether Housekeeper Zhou and his family were playing a good role or a role as a moth in this farm.

How can you not be angry for a moment?

It’s not that he must pull anyone down this time, it’s just that he feels that the Zhou family has embezzled so much money in the farm over the years!

"Madam, calm down!!"

If Butler Zhou had some luck before, that luck was completely shattered when Mrs. Hou threw the account book off the table and cursed loudly.

He knelt down on the ground with a panicked look on his face, cold sweat dripping down his face, and his eyes were full of panic, not knowing what to do.

His wife, who was beside her, did not dare to show her anger and knelt down together. He was even worse than Housekeeper Zhou, and her whole body started to tremble.

"Calm down?"

Mrs. Hou laughed angrily: "Steward Zhou, do you want to come and see what is clearly written on these account books?"

"It's just that you don't manage this farm well, all the harvest every year is wasted by your family. I care about your family's hard work and achievements, but now I think you still want to be pampered and arrogant."

At the end of her speech, her tone became colder and colder.

Housekeeper Zhou couldn't help but kowtow: "Madam, I'm wronged, I'm wronged! It's not that I don't want to manage the farm well, it's because the tenant farmers don't want to work in the farm."

This is a bit ridiculous. Not to mention Mrs. Hou who is well versed in the art here, even Ji Liangqing who has never managed a farm finds it a bit ridiculous.

Ji Liangqing used to farm his own land, and compared with them, the status of tenant farmers was slightly higher.

Because they have their own land, while the tenant farmers do not.

Sharecroppers do not have land, so they have to work hard for others to farm the land to earn food and money all year round. How could they not be willing to farm?

This housekeeper is just talking nonsense! He thought that in case Madam Hou didn’t know how to muddle through, she got away with it.

Or maybe he was too anxious, what he said was out of his mind, and he couldn't think about the consequences.

Mrs. Hou looked at Butler Zhou with a look that looked like she was mentally retarded. Seeing that he and his wife were kowtowing like garlic, she lost interest in continuing the argument and just wanted to settle it quickly.

"Forget it, what are you doing? I am not interested in taking care of this now. The money used must be made up, otherwise..."

After saying that, she ignored Housekeeper Zhou's increasingly pale and helpless face, turned to Ji Liangqing and said with a cheerful face:
Chapter completed!