After Manager Li finished speaking, he looked at Jiujiu and said unyieldingly, "No matter what, this lowly one has been a manager for the Li family for more than ten years. If young master doesn't give me a reason, I won't let it go."
He was clearly the one in the wrong, but he was even more self-righteous than Jiujiu. This shameless appearance was also worthy of the shameless things he had done.
Jiujiu sneered and asked the old housekeeper to pick up the account book. She used a pen to draw out the areas where she saw the problem and threw it at Manager Li again. She said sternly, "Look at it yourself. What is this?"
When he saw Jiujiu using a pen to draw on the account book, Manager Li's heart couldn't help but tighten. Clearly, Jiujiu was only a child in her teens, but she made him feel pressured.
This kind of pressure, even when the Li family was alive, they didn't feel it.
When Jiujiu threw the account book at Manager Li, Manager Li instantly caught it. When he opened it and saw the areas where Jiujiu had drawn lines, Manager Li's face instantly turned white and his forehead broke out in cold sweat.
His contemptuous attitude was gone in an instant. At this moment, Manager Li's mind was filled with thoughts of how he could make Jiujiu happy.
Embezzling the master's silver and falsifying the accounts, no matter which one it was, once he was accused, he wouldn't be able to bear the consequences.
Moreover, Jiujiu had pulled him out in front of everyone. There were witnesses and evidence, and his attitude just now clearly showed that he was unrepentant. No matter which one was picked out, he would still be dead.
Even if Jiujiu didn't pursue the matter, if he embezzled the master's silver, he wouldn't be able to find a good master in the future.
When he thought of his miserable future, Manager Li instantly regretted his past actions. If he could, he couldn't wait to rush home and beat up the woman who had persuaded him to falsify the accounts for embezzlement.
Unfortunately, there were no 'ifs' in this world. At this moment, Manager Li could only kneel on the ground and continuously kowtow to Jiujiu, begging for leniency.
Seeing Manager Li like this, the managers who had problems with the account books all turned pale, while those who didn't have problems looked at Manager Li angrily.
Looking at the different expressions of the people below, the corners of Jiujiu's mouth slowly curled up, revealing a cold smile.
The Li family's parents were very good to these stewards when they were alive. Every year, they would distribute dividends according to the profits of the shops. Therefore, even though they were only stewards, they still made a lot of money in a year.
To do such a thing when the Li family's parents had just passed away, they were worse than pigs and dogs.
Manager Li knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing. After begging for a long time, Jiujiu finally relented.
"I can spare you, but you have to spit out all the money you have embezzled. Furthermore, from today onwards, you are no longer a steward of the Li family."
Hearing Jiujiu's decision, Butler Li instantly heaved a sigh of relief.
He originally wanted to return the embezzled money to Jiujiu.
Jiujiu didn't report it to the officials and only dismissed him. Although in a way, she had cut off his source of income, she had also spared his life. As long as he moved out of the capital and continued to find a steward outside, he could still live.
After dealing with Manager Li, Jiujiu looked at the other managers who had problems with the account books. She casually flipped through the account books on the table. Just when those managers' hearts were in their throats, Jiujiu put down the account books in her hands.
"There are too many account books, I can't finish reading them all today. This is the account book I made yesterday. In the future, you can just fill in the corresponding numbers according to the categories. It's convenient for me to read, and it's also convenient for you to do it."
After Jiujiu finished speaking, she asked the steward to make the new account books she designed and distributed them to each manager. She asked them to send the new account books over tomorrow and report to her every seven days. Only then did she let them go.
After Jiujiu let them leave, those who originally had the same thoughts as Manager Li immediately hugged the account books to their chest and left with the new account books the steward gave them.
Even so, there were still some who didn't give up and wanted to get away with it. However, when they saw the new account books Jiujiu gave them, they instantly dispelled those thoughts and spat out all the embezzled money. This was because they knew that if they didn't spit out the money, Jiujiu had plenty of ways to make them spit out the money. At that time, what awaited them wouldn't be a few light sentences.
Thinking of Manager Li's ending, everyone couldn't help but shiver. Then, according to Jiujiu's instructions, they filled in the form and prepared to report back in a few days.
The form Jiujiu gave them was made according to modern forms. It was simple and clear, much simpler than the complicated and error-prone account books of the ancient times. It was also clear at a glance whether or not someone had embezzled money. If anyone dared to continue to cheat, it could only mean that this person valued money more than his life.
Manager Li was caught red-handed by Jiujiu. The next day, he returned the embezzled money and moved his family out of the capital.
What Jiujiu didn't know was that Manager Li's daughter, Li Ruyi, was the woman who took Li Jiu's sweetheart, Zhenyuan Marquis Lin Zeyu's jade pendant and asked to marry him.
And Li Jiu's story was just a small episode in a book.
The male lead of this story was Lin Zeyu, and the female lead was naturally Li Ruyi.
Li Ruyi secretly liked Lin Zeyu for a long time, and finally found an opportunity to force Lin Zeyu to marry her. Although Lin Zeyu always had Li Jiu in his heart, Li Ruyi endured and stayed by Lin Zeyu's side. In the end, she saved Lin Zeyu and blocked a sword strike for Lin Zeyu. Only then did Li Ruyi move Lin Zeyu, and the two of them were together. The book ended.
The ending of the book directly stated that Lin Zeyu accepted Li Ruyi, but the story after that was left unsaid.
Because Li Ruyi was the female lead, the book wrote Li Ruyi as a considerate person. Even when she used the jade pendant to force Lin Zeyu to marry her, it was said that she liked him too much. Her three views were also properly twisted.
However, these were all things that Jiujiu didn't know, or rather, Jiujiu was too lazy to know.
In other words, if Jiujiu knew, the fate of Manager Li's family wouldn't be so easy.
After Jiujiu dealt with the matters in the shop, she grasped all the affairs of the Li family in the palm of her hand, and then waited to save Lin Zeyu's life.
Although Li Jiu was dead, Li Jiu still liked Lin Zeyu in her heart. Moreover, Lin Zeyu wasn't a heartless man like Li Jiu thought, so Jiujiu still felt that she had to save Lin Zeyu, or in other words, continue the relationship between Li Jiu and Lin Zeyu.
At this moment, Li Ruyi, who left the capital with Manager Li, was furious. Even if she had never seen Jiujiu, Li Ruyi wanted to cut Jiujiu into pieces at this moment.
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