1024 Close the shop and hand the money over The shop had a great location and the business was good as well. What was more no one paid attention to her as Master Jiang was busy with his own troubles while the Jiang family was stationed at the borders thus she could muddle things as much as she wanted before handing some poor financial records to Master Jiang.

Madam Lian remembered that she had hinted to Jiang Fenhua to hand the lease of the shop to her at a low price, telling him that it was better for a woman like her to do business in this shop instead of a mer like him who was due any minute. A few weeks ago Jiang Fenhua finally went into labour and gave birth to a daughter, Madam Lian thought that after giving birth to a daughter Jiang Fenhua would limit his visit to the town and even think of handing the shop to her.

This was why she saw that Jiang Fenhua had come to visit her, she thought that he was here to hand her the documents from the shop, who would have thought that he would ask her to move and look for another job?! n𝔬𝑣𝖊.𝐥𝗯.1n

Where would she find a shop where she did not have to work and just needed to sit tight before filling her pockets?

Madam Lian tried to coax Jiang Fenhua, even asking him to sell her the shop at the market price. She did not even dare to make use of the price that she had offered earlier thinking that she would offend Jiang Fenhua.

Jiang Fenhua however simply placed the cup of tea down and then stated calmly, ” I might be a mer but I know the market situation better than anyone else, Madam Lian. The shop that I gave you to take care of is obviously in a good place, any other shop on Main Street generates a revenue of more than two hundred taels.. and that is the minimum amount that I am speaking of, but you complained to me saying that the fabric that our shop sold was not good enough or the dresses were too old fashioned which caused lack of traffic. You always failed to bring me the revenue that you were supposed to, crying and making a fuss saying that you would try better but the situation hasn’t improved. I think that it’s better for this shop to be closed as it cannot generate any more revenue.”

” You…”

Madam Lian wanted to scold the workers but upon being glared at by Jiang Fenhua, she couldn’t say anything and lowered her head before stating, ” I.. that .. I might have made a mistake because of greed, Master Jiang but please give me a chance.”

” It doesn’t matter if you made a mistake or not, you have broken the trust of your master and now you dare to say that you want me to give you another chance that is something that I don’t think will happen with how much money you have stolen from the shop,” he then turned to look at the account book that his aide had found from the back of his shop and then pushed it in front of Madam Lian. ” I can see that you have stolen ten and thousands of gold taels in the past ten months, I will not ask you to pay everything back but you should at least return half of it, do you understand ?”

When Madam Lian heard that she had to return the money, her expression was really unpleasant. Especially when she saw that she had to return half of the money that she had taken from this shop, just the very thought was enough to make her heart feel stifled.

From the money that she had stolen along with the extra bribes that she took everything was mentioned in the account book, this was something that she wrote to keep track of her earnings never did she think that one day this account book would come and slap her in the face!