"Isn't it?" She actually had the nerve to ask herself.
"Then my wife is unjustly accused," Qiu Ju said: "The food standards for the master and servants in this mansion are still based on what the young lady marked when she was in charge. The kitchen steward takes half a month to come in the first two days.
The cost of the ingredients is sixty taels. After careful calculation, according to the previous standards, fifty taels is enough, just a lot more. My wife will not reduce the food on your table, old lady.
, not to mention not allowing the servants to eat meat!"
Therefore, this must be the fault of Mrs. Zhang.
Fifty taels? Ms. Liu didn't expect that the food expenses for this half month would be as much as fifty taels. She thought that the food expenses for this house for a month would only be about this amount.
Qiu Ju felt really sorry for her wife, and said: "My wife is in charge of this house. She takes so much trouble and money, but she hasn't settled well yet."
Ms. Liu: "Paid money?"
Qiu Ju nodded and said: "There is no more than one tael of silver in the public account. The steward came to pay me money in the past two days. My wife gave it with her own money, which is a total of ninety taels."
"Where did the money go?" How come her son's salary of one hundred and twenty taels a month was gone at the beginning of the month?
Qiu Ju said: "Is this what I have to ask the young madam?"
Mrs. Liu frowned and complained in her heart: "This Lin Qingxue is too capable!"
Shen Wan said: "If mother feels that my family is not well managed, I can hand it over and let mother manage it." She really didn't want to take over this mess.
Mrs. Liu hurriedly said: "How can I be the head of the family? You are Heng'er's wife, so naturally you have to be the head of the family."
If she were the head of a house and didn't know how much money to put into it, she wouldn't want to be the head of the house! Qingxue could run the house so well in the past, but she probably didn't know how much money to put into it!
"Since the food has not been reduced, then why can't the servants eat meat?" Xiaohua, who was standing aside after serving tea, frowned and said.
Shen Wan smiled and said, "Of course I have to ask Aunt Zhang."
Mrs. Liu said: "You need to ask carefully."
Fifty taels of silver for half a month is a lot of food expenses, and the servants will not be deprived of meat. I am afraid that Granny Zhang is a ghost.
In order to question Aunt Zhang properly, Shen Wan gathered all the servants in the front hall.
The servants stood in the hall, looked at the eldest lady sitting on the throne, and whispered: "What is the eldest lady doing by summoning us here?"
"Who knows!"
"Could it be that our monthly payment is going to be reduced?" The food has been reduced, so I'm afraid our monthly payment will be reduced.
"Maybe it's true."
"We can't surrender!"
"How can the monthly payment, which has finally gone up, be reduced?"
They can accept it if they are barely able to eat, but they will never agree to a reduction in monthly payment. If the eldest lady really reduces their monthly payment, they will really make a fuss.
Shen Wan heard the commotion below, monthly money was mentioned many times, and several people even shot her with eye daggers.
She thought to herself, "Do these people think that she asked them to come here to reduce their monthly payment?"
Shen Wan said loudly: "Everyone, please be quiet."
The servants standing below gradually became quiet.
"Is everyone here?" Shen Wan asked, but no one answered her.
She didn't feel embarrassed, nodded and said: "Okay! I'll just pretend that everyone is here!"
"I heard from the old lady that in the past two days, everyone in the house has been complaining about the drop in food, right?" Shen Wan asked, looking at everyone.
Grandma Zhang's heart skipped a beat. She didn't expect that the reason why the lady called everyone here in such a big way was because of this matter. But it didn't matter, she had already thought about how to deal with it.
The people below thought she was going to scold them for complaining about the bad food, so they kept their mouths shut.
They all said in their hearts: "The eldest lady is really overbearing. She is so stingy that she has reduced our food supply and does not allow anyone to complain."
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