After Qiu Ju left, everyone was waiting in the main hall. After half an hour, Qiu Ju led the shopkeeper Wang into the main hall.
"Wang Fu has met Mrs. Song." Shopkeeper Wang bowed his hands to Shen Wan. He lowered his head and glanced at Grandma Zhang with his peripheral vision, feeling very anxious.
The maid from the General's Mansion went to invite him and said that there was something wrong with the rice noodles he bought in the shop. However, although the rice noodles were old, there shouldn't be any problem?
Is it possible that something went wrong with the people in this house eating those old rice? Otherwise, they wouldn't have invited him here, right?
"Wang..." As soon as Shen Wan opened her mouth, Grandma Zhang said to Shopkeeper Wang: "Shopkeeper Wang, I spent sixteen taels of silver to buy a thousand kilograms of rice from you, and spent eight silvers to buy it from you. I bought five hundred kilograms of noodles, right? My wife suspects that I am greedy for money. Shopkeeper, please tell my wife if it is this amount! I am about to die unjustly."
Shen Wan looked at Nanny Zhang and smiled. This old woman was smart enough to tell Shopkeeper Wang the amount of rice and noodles before she could open her mouth, and she made peace with him.
Shopkeeper Wang breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that Mrs. Song invited him here for this matter. He thought there was something wrong with the rice and noodles!
Grandma Zhang was his regular customer. She didn't forget about him when she was making money, so naturally she had to help her cover up.
Shopkeeper Wang said: "This mama did buy a thousand kilograms of rice for sixteen taels of silver and five hundred kilograms of noodles for eight taels of silver at our grain and oil store the day before yesterday."
This mama is really making a lot of money! She spent a total of sixteen taels of silver on rice and noodles, and she was actually quoted twenty-four taels of silver.
Shen Wan calculated in her mind and said: "Sixteen taels and one thousand kilograms of rice are sixteen cents per catty, and eighty taels and five hundred kilograms of noodles are also sixteen cents per catty, right?"
Shopkeeper Wang thought about it in his mind for a while, then nodded and said, "Yes, they are all sixteen cents per catty."
"Qiu Ju, before I let you enter the grain and oil store, Shopkeeper Wang, first ask the people who bought rice and noodles in the grain and oil store, how much the rice and noodles they bought in the store cost? Are you asking?"
As soon as Shen Wan finished speaking, Nanny Zhang and Shopkeeper Wang both changed their expressions. They didn't expect that she would ask Qiu Ju to ask the customers who had bought rice and noodles in the shop the price first. Wouldn't this be a betrayal?
Qiu Ju said with a smile: "I asked, the price of this rice and noodles has indeed increased. This new rice and new noodles are sixteen cents per catty, old rice is ten cents, and old noodles are nine cents."
"So much difference?" A maid exclaimed in surprise.
"There are six or seven more articles!"
"This lady is greedy for money."
"It's really disgusting." Many maids and servants gritted their teeth and looked at Mrs. Zhang and cursed.
Shen Wan raised her hand to signal everyone to be quiet.
After everyone calmed down, she looked at Mrs. Zhang who had turned pale and said, "Maybe it's not that Mrs. Zhang is greedy for money, but that shopkeeper Wang saw that the people in the General's Mansion were mischievous and deliberately raised the price to sell it to our town. Where is General Bei’s Mansion?”
Shopkeeper Wang immediately panicked, and hurriedly waved his hands and said: "It's okay, I didn't sell it to the General's Mansion at a high price. It was the woman who was greedy for money and quoted a high price to Madam. She spent a total of ten yuan on me. Just six taels of silver."
As a small shopkeeper, he couldn't afford the crime of raising the price to buy it for the General's Mansion.
"Aunt Zhang, you must be too dark-hearted! You have spent so much money to give us old rice and noodles."
"Needless to say, she also quoted too much money for buying vegetables and meat."
"A black-hearted woman."
Everyone blamed her, and Granny Zhang, who was sweating coldly, cursed loudly. This Granny Zhang is really hateful. She was greedy for money. Instead, she told them that the eldest lady had reduced their food supply, which caused them to misunderstand the eldest lady.
"Oh?" Shen Wan looked at Shopkeeper Wang and said, "Then why did you cover up for her just now?"
If there were no interests involved, there would be no reason for him to cover up this woman.
The shopkeeper Wang lowered his head and said with difficulty: "If I don't reply to this post, I will buy it. I will give me one or two cents more for every catty, so..."
Shen Wan: "That's why you helped her cover it up?"
Shopkeeper Wang nodded and looked at Shen Wan with pleading eyes: "I was wrong about this matter. I would like to ask Mrs. Song to please don't argue with me and don't tell my boss about this matter."
He also works for his boss. If his boss finds out about this, his boss will definitely think that he is dishonest and he will not be able to be a shopkeeper. There are seniors and juniors in his family. If he loses this job, The whole family wants to drink the northwest wind.
Shen Wan didn't want to do anything to Shopkeeper Wang, so she let him go.
Naturally, the mother-in-law had no way to defend herself, so she had to admit her guilt. Shen Wan asked Qiu Ju to take people to the place where she lived and found out all the money she had accumulated over the years. There were more than three hundred taels. Shen Wan He left twenty taels for her, then asked her to pack her things and kicked her out of the general's mansion. He confiscated the three hundred taels of silver and promoted an honest and capable cook to the position of manager.
The servants all said that Shen Wan was kind-hearted and that a person like Granny Zhang should be slapped with dozens of bans before being kicked out of the house.
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