Favoring concubines and ignoring wives? The mistress of the marquisate remarried a powerful official

Song Wanning brought the account book to Fengxian Restaurant, one of the largest businesses in the Prime Minister's Mansion. This restaurant was well-known even in the entire capital.

But few people know that this was originally the restaurant in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

When Song Wanning first entered the restaurant, the person in charge was Jiao Rong, the son of Jiao Da, Yin's father's old servant. Jiao Da had always been in charge of the restaurant, but now that Jiao Da was old and could not do things well, he arranged for his son to take charge.

Originally, the restaurant should have re-selected a manager, but the Yin Mansion had no hostess before, and Yin Yichen was too busy to take care of the restaurant. Jiao Da took advantage of this opportunity and let his son Jiao Rong take over. Who knew that Jiao Rong became more arrogant when he saw that the boss didn't care about the restaurant's affairs. Now it seems that everyone who runs this restaurant has the surname Jiao.

Jiao Da used to follow Yin Yichen's father and was already an old man. He was highly valued by Yin's father, which was why he was able to run this restaurant. Who would have known that this family would run the restaurant like this now? The account books sent to the Prime Minister's Mansion were always very perfunctory, and the money flowing in was not even as much as that of an ordinary shop.

The Jiao family is now in the capital, and they have bought a large mansion. It is said that Jiao Rong has several concubines at home, and those concubines wear gold and silver every day.

Song Wanning is a person who cannot tolerate any grain of sand in her eyes. Now seeing such a scene, she naturally wants to find a way to rectify it.

As soon as Song Wanning entered the door, Jiao Rong came to greet her with a dozen waiters from the restaurant. Jiao Rong has now become a fat man in his thirties, with three layers of fat on his belly that can be seen through his clothes, and he looks like he has a big belly.

Jiao Rong saw Song Wanning with a smile on his face, nodding and bowing, "Madam, I heard that you were coming a long time ago. I was afraid that you would come to see the account books of the restaurant in recent years, so I asked someone to send all the account books of the past few years to you. Madam, you can take a look at it, so that you can understand how difficult it is for me to manage this restaurant."

"Don't be in a hurry. I'll take a look around and see how the restaurant is doing now." Song Wanning also brought people with her. Since she had never been to this restaurant before and didn't know who Jiao Rong was, she brought seven or eight guards with her.

When Song Wanning entered the door, she looked at the layout of the restaurant. Fengxian Restaurant was indeed one of the four major restaurants in Beijing. There were nine floors in the room alone. The first and second floors were for dining. The second and third floors were private rooms. The fourth and fifth floors were for the rich to have fun. The sixth, seventh and eighth floors were for people to rest. The ninth floor was a place for officials from Beijing to discuss matters.

Song Wanning walked into the restaurant and saw that it was still early, so not many people came to eat in the restaurant, but there were quite a few people coming down from upstairs. The business of Fengxian Restaurant seemed to be good, but Jiao Rong put all the money into his own pocket.

Seeing that Song Wanning was silent, Jiao Rong immediately spoke of the achievements of Jiao Da and Old Master Yin beside Song Wanning, "Madam, I'm afraid you don't know that my father Jiao Da went through life and death with the old master, and this restaurant was specially managed by the old master. Although we didn't make much money over the years, we have made a name for ourselves. The old master also said that this restaurant would always be managed by our Jiao family. Look at this restaurant now, it is doing well. These decorations, door panels, and renovations cost a lot of money. After all, money has been flowing into it over the years. Madam, don't you know that I work hard every day for the business of the restaurant."

Song Wanning only glanced at Jiao Rong calmly, chuckled and said, "This will embarrass Manager Jiao."

"This is what I should do. When working for the boss, I have to do my best." Jiao Rong smiled warmly and led Song Wanning inside.

Song Wanning followed Jiao Rong upstairs, walked from downstairs to upstairs, and looked at the entire layout of Fengxian Restaurant.

What Song Wanning didn't know was that at this moment, Pei Xuanzhi was sitting in a private room on the third floor, having just finished discussing business with someone, and he saw her at a glance.

The servant next to Pei Xuanzhi was very sharp-eyed. He couldn't take his eyes off Pei Xuanzhi and immediately said, "Second Master, it's so hard to meet you now. You and Miss Song haven't spoken to each other for a long time. Since you meet here, why not go up and say hello."

Pei Xuanzhi just smiled faintly and said to the servant beside him, "Looking at her current appearance, I'm afraid she has something to do. Since she has something to do, I won't delay her."

Pei Xuanzhi said this, picked up the wine jug beside him, poured himself a glass of wine, put it to his mouth and took a sip.

Song Wanning didn't know that she was met by Pei Xuanzhi. She was now thinking about the business of the restaurant, so she immediately went up to the private room on the second floor with Jiao Rong. The restaurant's account book, all the accounts in recent years, were all placed here. Song Wanning wanted to take a good look at these accounts and see what was going on and where the problem was.

When Song Wanning entered the room, Jiao Da laid out several stacks of old account books. Jiao Rong explained, "Madam, these are the account books for the past five years. In fact, the accounting methods are basically the same, but the materials used for buying vegetables in recent years are somewhat different. I will explain this to you in advance."

"Got it." Song Wanning glanced at the account books and asked slowly, "Where are the account books for the past six months?"

Seeing this, Jiao Rong took a stack of account books from his side and handed them to Song Wanning.

Song Wanning took it and opened the account book to take a look. On the surface, there seemed to be nothing wrong with the account book. It seemed that Jiao Rong had spent a lot of effort to falsify the accounts. It would take some effort to root him out.

However, Song Wanning was very familiar with the restaurant's business and prices, and she grasped the key point after a short look. "You said that this restaurant has so many ways to make money, why does it cost so much to hire waiters? I saw that there were not so many waiters cooking and busying around downstairs."

Jiao Rong hurriedly explained, "Madam, you don't know, Fengxian Restaurant is a big restaurant in the capital, and the chefs we hire are all top-notch in the capital, so the prices are naturally higher. The other guys don't want to stay here to work because they are busy, so paying them can give them more stability, so they spend more. Madam, you stay at home all day, you really don't understand the difficulties of our restaurant."

Song Wanning glanced at Jiao Rong who was talking nonsense and just smiled faintly, but this smile made Jiao Rong feel a little guilty.

Song Wanning said, "Manager Jiao, do you think I'm easy to fool? Write down how much money the employees get every month and what tasks each employee is responsible for in a book and bring it to me."