Chapter 1298 Audit

Daquan still replied very respectfully: "Returning to the master, General Bai Lie has gone to the barracks. When General Bai is away, the villa is taken care of by the slaves. If the master wants anything, he can just tell the slaves."

It turned out to be like this, no wonder there is no need to apply: "So you are the housekeeper of this villa?"

Da Daquan shook his head: "If you go back to the master, General Bai will almost never leave the villa, so there is no butler in this villa. Usually, when guests come to the villa, the slaves will receive them and then go to inform the general."

Qian Jiujiu snorted, and continued to ask: "Then Daquan, do you have many people coming to your villa all year round? Are they all here to hunt? What do you usually do in your military camp?"

Daquan glanced at Qian Jiujiu, and continued to answer: "If you go back to the master, usually the soldiers will run around the mountain, around the hunting ground, check whether the animals in the hunting ground are all built, and place some other things."

It sounds like there is no difference, and there is a sense of responsibility! Qian Jiujiu snorted: "Day after day, year after year, don't you feel bored? And you haven't said, are there many guests on weekdays?"

Da Daquan was a little helpless, maybe he had never seen such a master who could say: "The most people come in spring and autumn, and people will come to hunt every two days. In summer, there will be fewer people, and in winter, it is almost No one's."

That's right, after all, it's not easy to walk when the road is blocked by heavy snow, not to mention that in winter, there are no animals, and there are few people coming, which is strange.

"Then if they keep hunting, will they give money?"

Before he left, Bai Lie specifically explained to Daquan, if these two have any problems, they must know everything without saying anything. Sure enough, did you guess that these two would have so many problems?

"If you go back to the master, of course you need to pay silver for hunting. One day of hunting, the site fee is ten taels of silver. If you don't find prey, you only need to pay the site fee. If you find prey, you need to pay for these things. It's the prey, and the specific money depends on what you get."

Qian Jiujiu became more and more curious: "Oh? Then what kind of animals are there in your hunting ground?"

Daquan had already given up resisting, and still replied with a respectful face: "Returning to the master, there are still a complete range of prey, including rabbits, foxes, roe deer, deer, tigers, wild boars, etc."

Tsk! Qian Jiujiu sighed, as expected, the variety is quite complete. Looking at Daquan again, he continued to ask: "How many chefs are there in your villa? Why didn't I see any women?"

Daquan continued to answer: "If you go back to the master, the nobles who come to hunt will bring their own servants. And our villa is all men, so naturally there are no women, even the cooks are men."

There are no women in the whole villa. Daquan said that he paused here: "There is no one around the master and the princess, it's because the servant has neglected his duty. The servant is thinking that he will send someone to the village on the mountainside, and invite a few women to come and take care of the master. .”

Hearing what Daquan said, Qian Jiujiu knew it. This person must know that Qingye had left. Otherwise, it would not be said that she has no one to serve her. Thinking of staying here for a long time, Qian Jiujiu agreed.

"Okay, let people go down the mountain to find two women, and come up the mountain to serve them."

Da Daquan nodded immediately: "Your master and you two wait here for a while, the servant will go and order people to go down the mountain now."

Turning around and walking outside, Daquan went to find other servants in the villa. Qian Jiujiu looked at Daquan's back and raised his eyebrows: "This person is very interesting, he seems to know everything, but he didn't say much useful things."

Mu Yexiao was funny: "All together, there are quite a lot of disclosures. There are quite a lot of people who come here, and this hunting ground should be quite profitable. As far as I know, this place sends enshrinements from the military camp every year, saying Maybe everyone here is rich."

Speaking of which, all the money here should belong to the imperial court. Thinking of this, Qian Jiujiu thought of one thing to do: "We can check the accounts. In this way, some of the money should be leaked."

Mu Yexiao frowned, "That's not necessarily a problem."

Qian Jiujiu glanced at Mu Yexiao in confusion, what does this mean? Before he could continue talking, Daquan had already returned: "Master, the slave is back. Do you want to visit other courtyards, master?"

The place where they live now is already the best yard in the villa. After walking through the two courtyards, I found that the courtyards were all built in the same way, only the difference was in size.

"No, by the way, you just said that there are many people who come to hunt all year round, so the income should be pretty good, right? Is there any accounting?"

Da Daquan nodded: "If you go back to the master, it has been recorded. If the master wants to see the account book, you need to go to the accountant."

Qian Jiujiu hummed: "Okay, then go to the cashier, the waiting time is boring anyway, so let's go and have a look."

Da Daquan was respectful from the beginning to the end, but there was some contempt in his heart. It's not bad for this person to make excuses. Are all the superiors so interesting? It's just because of the money here, and I have to say it aboveboard. I want to take a look when I'm bored. It's really interesting.

Bringing Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao to the accountant soon, the accountant is also a middle-aged man, he looks very burly, he doesn't look like a simple accountant.

"Mr. Fei, these two masters want to come over to look at the books, and also look at the hunting ground's income for a year."

Although Mr. Fei looks burly, but so far, he is a very good-tempered person! Looking at Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao: "I don't know which year the two masters want to see their income? This year or last year?"

Qian Jiujiu raised his eyebrows, this year has just started, they are probably the first batch of people to come, how can there be any account books? He smiled and replied, "It must be from last year."

Mr. Fei suddenly slapped his forehead: "Look at me, I'm confused, this year's account book has just started, I'm going to get last year's account book, and it hasn't been long since it was sealed! General Bai has read all these account books, so I will seal them up now." of."

As he said that, Mr. Fei went to the inner room and brought out a huge wooden box: "Please take a look at the two masters, last year's account books are all inside."

Open the wooden box, and there are ledgers of various colors inside: "Master, look, this is the ledger of last year's income, it records how many people came in last year, and each income is on it. "

"This is the annual expenditure of the villa, labor costs, and animal raising costs. They are all classified in order. The master can check and see clearly. If you don't understand, you can also ask me. I will watch it aside. on."

So the preparations are quite complete, Qian Jiujiu randomly picked up a book and read it, and saw that the labor cost was so fast.

The records above are also the monthly silver for these people. After looking at it, I found that there are really a lot of people in this villa. There are accountants, cleaners, and animals. There are also many people who are responsible for animal reproduction.

After reading it, Qian Jiujiu grabbed the income account book and looked at it. If he didn't read it, he wouldn't know it. He was shocked when he saw it. It turns out that Daquan said that there are many people coming in spring and autumn, and there are basically people coming every day, and the income is quite high.

"It seems that there is a balance in the annual income. Where is the money?"

Mr. Fei immediately answered: "They are all stored in the warehouse. There is a special warehouse and there are people guarding them. They are waiting for people from the court to come and collect them. But after all these years, no one from the court has ever come to collect them."

The annual balance is only tens of thousands of taels, and the imperial court probably didn't even know that there was still such a sum. But it has been kept, and it has not been divided up, which is a bit confusing. Is Bai Lie really so loyal to the court?

It seems that my previous thoughts are about to be dispelled. After taking a look at Mu Yexiao, Mu Yexiao is still very good. Mu Yexiao laughed: "Okay, it's getting late, and I'm a little hungry, let's go eat."

Qian Jiujiu put down the account book: "Alright then, Daquan, let's prepare dinner."

Mr. Fei was a little curious: "Do you need to withdraw the money from your treasury? I can do the accounting."

Qian Jiujiu waved his hand: "That's not necessary, you should keep your own records. I'm just bored and looking at it casually."

Mr. Fei was a little surprised. It turned out that he really didn't want it. Qian Jiujiu and Mu Yexiao had already walked outside, and when they returned to the courtyard where they lived now, the dinner had already been delivered.

Naturally, the residences of the guards have also been settled. After dinner, some guards came forward to report: "Master, this subordinate has followed Bai Lie to the barracks. Bai Lie has indeed sent the news and portrait to the barracks, and ordered the barracks The soldiers have gone out to find the stranger in the mountains."

Everything is going on in an orderly manner, but in this huge mountain, it may be quite difficult to find traces of a few strangers, or even fewer people.

Qian Jiujiu sighed, and waved the guards to go down: "What should I do? Everything here is too normal. This makes me feel a little abnormal."

Mu Yexiao stretched out his hand and touched Qian Jiujiu's head: "Isn't this normal? All the hustle and bustle in the world is for profit, and everyone understands the truth. Then Bai Lie has been here for at least seven or eight years, but he didn't take it Have you ever thought that he might be holding more important things, so don’t dare to touch these obvious things!”

Something more important? What could it be? Qian Jiujiu absolutely didn't believe that he could still steal the treasure below, and shook his head: "What is it?"

Mu Yexiao raised his eyebrows: "Where do you think the fresh human bones we saw underground came from?"