"How dare I tell the master this kind of thing? Master Zhu Wu, don't tell my master about this. If the master knows, he will blame me for asking around for it all day long..."

"What do you have to say about this kind of thing to you master?" Zhu Wu said, "You said, if Mrs. Jia takes such a heavy hand, aren't you afraid of being blamed by Master Jia?"

"Master Zhu Wu, are you kidding me? Just a concubine, which man would care about my wife?" said Nu Cai with a funny expression, "I know that the Zhu family has always been upright and has no three wives and four concubines, so there is no such messy things, but if I switch to someone else's house, you will know that the backyard is in chaos."

Zhu Wu: “…”

——So, that's why his mother has always opposed "concubine"?

After seeing off the slaves of the Sun family, Zhu Wu told Ye Yuran about the information he had heard.

He sighed with a look of exclamation, saying that these wealthy families really don’t take human lives as their lives.

When Bian Qiuying was at their house, she was so fussy that they just "scared" her and didn't dare to attack her.

"It depends on what's going on. If you are forced into a desperate situation, you can do anything." Ye Yuran was not particularly surprised when he heard this. "What's more, in such a wealthy family, servants are not valuable 'things'. What is 'thing'? It's an object, like a table or chair, and if it is broken, you can sell it or throw it away. Then the new one will be replaced."

"But... that's a human after all..."

"People are of different ranks," Ye Yuran stared at Zhu Wu's eyes, not wanting him to be too naive. "Just like I asked Lao Qi to study, Dabao and Erbao to study, just to make them stand out and be able to read a little bit of reputation. Haven't you noticed that since there were many scholars in our family, what family in the village is disrespectful to our family?"

Apart from their big mouths, Zhu Wu really couldn't find a few. Although they might say bad things about their family behind their backs, no one dared to make trouble in front of their family.

However, this is not just because their family has scholars, right?

The clan leader was being attracted by their family, including sweet potatoes, rice cultivation, etc., and the whole village also depends on their family's "face". They are stupid to offend their family.

When Zhu Wu said it, Ye Yuran expressed his approval: "Yes, I'm quite sober. That's why, besides sending Lao Qi, Dabao, Erbao and others to study, I brought a handful of sweet potatoes and rice to the villagers. Only when you tie them to your boat and they get benefits will they care about whether your boat will overturn."

She also asked Zhu Wu, do you remember how bad her reputation was in the village?

At that time, was she really not good enough?

No.

It’s not that she is not good enough, but that she makes people "eye" - the only woman in the village who has given birth to many and has raised everyone.

Life was so difficult at that time. In order to support the children in the family, the original owner had to become arrogant, making people feel that she was not easy to bully. Because only that, even if others were jealous of the Zhu family, they would not dare to provoke her.

When she first came over, she had to hide what she had to eat at home because she was afraid of "absorbing people".

But now it’s different. The whole village is waiting to "get rich" with the Zhu family, so they have to hold the Zhu family. Since they want to "support", no one will always stare at their family and find ways to cause trouble.

They just thought, how can I get on the big ship of the Zhu family?

The topic was a bit far off, and Zhu Wu asked Ye Yuran: "Mom, what should we do if Brother Leopard really has an external heart?"

"What should I do? What should I do." Ye Yuran said, "You should not have the intention to harm others, and you should be careful. No matter what happened to Bian Qiuying, Brother Bao hides it from us and is not in the hands of Master Sun. This is true. Even if it is true, it will arouse our suspicion. This is normal. If you have suspicion, then investigate it."

"What if Brother Bao finds out later..." Zhu Wu was a little worried.

After all, he has been working with Brother Bao for so long, and has also established many connections through Brother Bao.

"If you know, you know. Are we going to not investigate because we are afraid that he will know? What if he really has an external heart?"

Zhu Wu: "...what shouldn't?"

"No, then we will apologize to him and break it apart. If he says this, he will be angry, it only means that we are destined to be together." Ye Yuran dared to say such words, naturally because Zhu San and Wu Jiang had agreed on the business.

Otherwise, the economic chain of Brother Bao suddenly broke down will move the foundation of the Zhu family.

The incident of Brother Bao also made her realize that she needed to develop multiple lines and further consolidate the foundation of the Zhu family as "farming and reading and passing on family members", so that some of them could be avoided and affected the entire Zhu family's industry.

It is actually very simple to investigate whether Brother Bao has any intentions. He secretly hired a few people, count the number of people who went to the stalls and restaurants every day, and then compared them with the account book in Li's hand, and then he knew it.

There are so many people coming in and out to eat, and everyone cannot have the lowest consumption. Even if you take an average, you can see how the business of this store is.

"Mom, this flow of water... seems a bit wrong..." Zhu Wu looked at the data he counted, and then the account book on Li's side was a bit big.

"Is that true? Where is the purchase?" Ye Yuran's expression remained unmoved and continued the question.

"It was purchased from our side..." Zhu Wu said, "If we only look at the amount of purchases we purchased, there is no problem. But this amount... Mom, are they all eating on the table? Why do you feel that the purchase volume does not match the flow of people entering the store?"

Once the data on both sides is compared, the vulnerability will appear.

"Whether you come in to eat or buy things, you always have to have something. The amount of this thing is far less than the number of people entering the store, so there is a problem. It's impossible. So many people who come in the store want to ask for a bowl of water or borrow a toilet, right?"

"Uh..." Zhu Wu was also confused.

"Have you checked their purchases?" Ye Yuran stared at him and reminded, "I mean, have they purchased something from other places but didn't tell us?"

"That's right. If Brother Bao bought things from outside and sold them with us, it would be normal that the sales volume could not match the flow of people. We only have the purchase volume here..." Brother Bao breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, he still has a friendship with Brother Bao. Whether it is public or private, he does not want to have a quarrel with Brother Bao.
Chapter completed!