Transmigrated into a short-lived widow? Cold-faced uncle fights for my life

"You come?" Liu Rulan was surprised.

It’s not that she didn’t believe Jiang Mingwei, but she had watched Jiang Mingwei grow up since she was a child, and knew that she had read a lot of books, but as for female workers... it was almost horrible!

But it was rare to see Jiang Mingwei cheering up and preparing to manage the business, and she couldn't refuse, so she nodded stiffly after a while.

Well, at worst I can ask a master to modify it later!

"Okay, then Auntie Lan will wait for your good news."

Jiang Mingwei was extremely confident at this moment, and puffed out her chest, "Don't worry, Auntie, I will definitely...Who?!"

Before she could finish her words, she caught a glimpse of a figure sneaking out of the back door, and she shouted quickly.

Liu Rulan narrowed her eyes and told the shop assistants to chase after him. After a while, the two of them came back with a shifty-looking man.

Liu Rulan looked carefully and her pupils contracted.

"Wang Ma, why is it you?"

Wang Ma was dejected. When he heard Liu Rulan calling him, he immediately stretched out his voice and shouted that it was unfair!

Jiang Mingwei frowned slightly, "Auntie Lan knows him?"

Liu Rulan nodded, "Exactly. He is the cleaner in the clothing store. He almost died in the snow two years ago. After being rescued by the shop, he stayed here to clean. He is usually diligent in his work. I don't know why he is acting so sneaky today."

"Manager Lan, Manager Lan, you are innocent! I... I just want to go out to relieve myself, I really don't want to do anything else, please let me go!"

Wang Ma kept kowtow to the ground, his face full of grievance.

"If you want to go to the bathroom, there are toilets in the backyard. Do you need to go to the alley outside? I think... you want to inform Zhou!"

Jiang Mingwei snorted coldly and spoke without mercy.

Liu Rulan was shocked when she heard this and slammed the teacup in her hand onto the stone table.

"What? Is what Wei'er said true? You are from Zhou's family!"

Wang Ma was stunned and quickly shook his head, crying and knocking his head to the ground uncontrollably.

"Please spare me, Shopkeeper Lan, please spare me, Miss! I didn't do that, I really didn't! I'm wholeheartedly devoted to our shop, I have no second thoughts! My two masters, my loyalty is evident to all!"

"Who can't say nice things? You two search his body, and the others behind you search his room to see if he is really innocent!"

Jiang Mingwei snorted coldly and gave orders in an orderly manner, without noticing Liu Rulan's gratified look on her.

Nothing was found on Wang Ma, but soon, the shop assistant came out of the house angrily holding his bag.

"Miss, Shopkeeper Lan, this was found in Wang Ma's room. There are seven or eight silver ingots in it!"

Wang Ma stared with his eyes wide open, then sat down on the ground again, his eyes full of despair, knowing that he was finished.

Jiang Mingwei opened the package, took out the silver ingots inside, and arranged them one by one.

Not more, not less, exactly eight dollars.

One ingot weighs ten taels, which is eighty taels. If one spends frugally, eighty taels is enough for ordinary people to live on for three years.

"Auntie Lan is really generous. She pays the shop assistants a lot of wages. In just two years, she was able to save up eight silver ingots!"

Liu Rulan knew that Jiang Mingwei was speaking sarcastically on purpose, and she snorted angrily and slammed the table with her hand.

"Good job, Wang Ma. You get food and lodging in the store, and your monthly salary is 300 wen. Even if you don't eat or drink, you can't save that much money in the past two years!"

"Tell me, did you steal anything from the store? No wonder I always felt that the accounts didn't add up! I took you in out of kindness, but you dared to steal? Someone, arrest him and report him to the police."

After hearing that they were going to report to the police, Wang Ma instantly shook like a sieve and banged his head on the ground.

"Please spare me, please spare me, Shopkeeper Lan. I didn't steal the money from the store. This money is really mine! Please spare me, please spare me!"

"Really? Then where did the silver come from?!"

Wang Ma rolled his eyes and lied, "This is... I won it at the casino."

Jiang Mingwei chuckled and picked up the silver ingot to examine it carefully.

"Auntie Lan, it seems we have to report to the authorities! This silver is minted by the government and can be used for trading, but not for gambling. If a casino can receive this kind of silver ingot, then the casino will be doomed!"

Liu Rulan echoed her words with a faint tone.

"Yes, it is a taboo for casinos to use government silver. Those who hold the silver and those who run the casinos will be beheaded!"

Upon hearing that he was going to be beheaded, Wang Ma was almost frightened to death. He dared not hide anything anymore, broke free from the men beside him, and banged his head on the ground.

"Please spare me, Shopkeeper Lan! Please spare me, Miss! I confess everything! I didn't win this money from the casino. It was given to me by Miss's mother-in-law!"

As expected.

In fact, Jiang Mingwei noticed Wang Ma as soon as she came to the backyard.

There were unfamiliar faces in the store in the past few years since she came, which showed that she was respected by all of them. Only Wang Ma was furtive and observed her cautiously, with an unconcealable guilt in his eyes.

So even when she was talking with Liu Rulan, she was always paying attention to Wang Ma's movements.

When they found that he was trying to escape, they immediately caught him.

Liu Rulan was angry and annoyed. She stood up and kicked Wang Ma hard in the heart.

"You are such a traitor! I felt sorry for you and asked you to stay and clean the house, but you dared to betray me?"

Jiang Mingwei sat upright and said with disdain, "It's not betrayal, but Aunt Lan was plotted against from the beginning."

Liu Rulan was stunned. That’s right!

The clothing store had just been in Zhou's hands for a year, and although business had declined, it was still profitable.

But ever since Wang Ma came, Zhou would rush over and stop her whenever she wanted to do anything.

Gradually, business got worse.

So the ragged clothes and almost freezing to death in the snow were all arranged!

Liu Rulan laughed out of anger, and hurriedly said, "How ridiculous! I was tricked by your mother-in-law without knowing it!"

Jiang Mingwei lowered her eyes and said nothing.

From this we can see that apart from her outward arrogance and domineering behavior, Zhou is also every bit as dirty and secretive as a woman in the inner chamber should be!

It seems that I'd better be careful when getting along with her in the future.

Wang Ma cried bitterly and begged Jiang Mingwei and Liu Rulan to forgive him.

But Liu Rulan was really annoyed by this plot, so she asked the shop assistant to break his legs and throw him at the city gate to fend for himself.

After some consolation, Jiang Mingwei also planned to leave and go to the next shop.

At the door, she seemed to have thought of something and asked in confusion.

"Auntie Lan just told me that my mother-in-law also wants to sell the clothing store?"

"Yes!"

When mentioning this, Liu Rulan became angry: "If I didn't have half of the house deed and land deed in my hands, she would have succeeded!"

"And when the person came that day, she and the seller were very intimate, the two of them were chatting and laughing freely, I guess they must have been planning this for a long time."

When Jiang Mingwei heard this, a string in her heart suddenly tightened!

"Auntie Lan, are you sure?"

Liu Rulan nodded firmly: "I was very angry that day, so I remember it clearly! What's wrong? What's the problem?"

Jiang Mingwei pursed her lips slightly, and suddenly had a very bold guess...