Cannon Fodder Just Wants to Farm (MTL)

Chapter 102 Extra 3: The Gong family collapsed

He Zifeng had just gone to the county government office when he was urgently called into the house by the county magistrate: "The Gong family has been stolen!"

"Ah?" He Zifeng hadn't heard this name for a long time, and he couldn't react for a while.

The county magistrate said: "They reported to the official just now that their warehouse was stolen and they lost fifty thousand taels." When he said this figure, even he was very surprised. There was not so much money in the county's books.

The big, established merchants do have a solid foundation.

Zhu Captou has already passed such a big matter.

The county magistrate and Ren He Zifeng also passed by. In the place where discipline was once strict, you can now hear yelling and cursing everywhere. The atmosphere in the air was very tense, and many people did not dare to breathe loudly when they came here, for fear of offending someone.

Zhu Captou said: "We have basically found out that it was their housekeeper who took the money and ran away." The housekeeper has been here for decades, childless and has been working hard for the Gong family. He has the deep trust of the Gong family. Who will succeed? I thought he actually gave the Gong family a fatal blow. He said that the housekeeper was ill the day before yesterday and never came. It was only today that he discovered that there was a shortage of things in the warehouse.

During the inquiry, only the housekeeper and a few young ladies came, and the Gong family lectured the young ladies one by one. In the end, they found out to their disbelief that the truth was actually their unsuspecting butler.

Fifty thousand taels of silver is not a small amount for a family as big as the Gong family.

The butler took away all the cash and banknotes.

The Gong family is a businessman, they have no cash, and they have run out of several shops. Not all of his businesses are his own, many of them are joint ventures with others. Those merchants are the most shrewd. If they find that they are "weak", they will definitely annex their businesses.

At that point, years of hard work and struggle are ruined. The old lady of the Gong family fainted, and Gong Xiyuan came to report to the officials, hoping to catch the evil servant.

Zhu Captou had asked carefully just now. It had been two days since he was robbed, and he had already left the county. If he had sailed in two days, he would have gone to other provinces. Unless he was a repeat offender of the imperial court, he would be arrested beyond the level of the official.

The county magistrate said: "I know, call the portrait artist over later, draw a portrait, and then post a wanted notice." This was the only thing he could do.

If they had discovered it early and stopped the person in the county, it would have been easier to say anything.

Now that people have been released, looking for them is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

The arrangement made by the county magistrate is the most suitable arrangement now.

But the fourth young master of the Gong family got angry next to him: "You are a bunch of drunkards and ricebags, what do you do with the money that the imperial court spends to support you? When something happens, you know how to shirk the blame, why don't you arrest people? Your family is not losing money, don't you?" in a hurry."

The county magistrate's expression immediately changed. He is the head of a county, and he is not a slave of the Gong family. It is they who use villains to create a situation of self-stealing and self-stealing. Instead of reflecting on themselves, they scold others.