My plug-in is a fairy grass

Chapter 31 Paper Crane Communication
Bang, bang, bang—

"Little Stone, get up and eat!"

"Xiao Langjun, it's time to eat!"

……

Yang Zhen was woken up by a knock on the door. When she woke up, she was still a little confused and didn't know what happened.

Open the door, Tie Zhu and the maid named Caisi are outside.Tie Zhu was wearing a short coat, and he was still steaming, apparently just finished exercising.

Yang Zhen followed the two of them to the middle of the courtyard. Breakfast was already set up on the table, such as pancakes, steamed buns, porridge, etc. Although they were simple, the quantity was large enough to fill the stomach.

After the two of them finished their breakfast, Caisi bowed to them and ordered: "Madam said, you will stay in this yard today, and I will call you if you have something to do. You can also walk around this yard, but don't go there. far away."

After Caisi left, Yang Zhen had completely recalled what happened last night, as if it was a dream.He was a little unsure if it was true or not, and after talking to Tie Zhu casually, he returned to his room.

After some searching, the cloth bag, as well as the copper coins, wood carvings, and spiritual drops in the cloth bag were all gone.Yang Zhen remembered that she fell asleep lying next to the seedling last night, without the cloth bag in her hand.

"Did all these things fall into the stone?" Yang Zhen looked at the small stone picked up from the bed, thinking secretly.

In addition to the stone, he also found a purse, which was rewarded by his wife yesterday, and he put it on the table after returning, without bothering to open it.This will be opened and looked, there are ten silver coins inside.

"Ma'am is really generous! Even if the spirit drop is gone, I can live on these silver coins for a while." With money in hand, Yang Zhen felt much more at ease.

The whole morning was spent studying stones.During this period, Yang Zhen and Tie Zhu strolled around the yard.This is a halfway up the mountain. Under the cover of trees in the distance, you can faintly see some pavilions and pavilions, which are well arranged.There are also strange rocks and cliffs nearby, and various unknown flowers and plants bloom in the mountains.

"What a great place!" The two sighed in the same way.

……

Caisi brought lunch again at noon.After the meal, Tie Zhu was called away.

About half an hour later, Tie Zhu came back. He knocked on Yang Zhen's room, his voice still slightly excited:
"Little Shitou, I'm going to live somewhere else, and the housekeeper has already arranged work for me."

"Really?" Yang Zhen was also overjoyed.

"Well. In the morning, they sent people to Xuanyang County to get my identity deed back, which confirmed my identity. Just now the housekeeper asked me what I could do. I thought about it for a long time, and finally chose the medicine garden. "

"Medicine garden? Have you ever planted flowers and plants before? Can you do it?"

"Yes, our Tianjia Village used to be rich in various medicinal materials, and everyone in the village knows how to grow flowers and grass."

"That's good. Tie Zhu, you must work hard! Remember our goal, earn money to buy panacea... get a wife as soon as possible!"

"Okay." Tie Zhu nodded vigorously, smiling a little shyly.

"When my matter is settled, I will go to you." Yang Zhen also said with a smile.

……

Not long after Tie Zhu left, Caisi came again, saying that Madam invited her.

Has your own affairs come to fruition?

Yang Zhen anxiously followed Caisi to the hall. Inside were her wife, Caiyan, and a new face.

This is a middle-aged man in his 40s, slightly fat, with two beards on his mouth, sitting in front of a short desk.

Madam beckoned Yang Zhen to come forward and took out a stack of manuscript paper, which was the "Preliminary Numbers" written by Yang Zhen yesterday.

"I looked at this thing, it's very interesting. According to the above, if you use digital calculations, the speed can be improved a lot?"

"Yes, the biggest advantage of using these numbers is that it is quick and easy..." Yang Zhen glanced at the middle-aged man, and found that he had an abacus before his case, and quickly added: "But if someone uses utensils, the latter may be faster .”

"You mean the abacus!" Madam smiled, pointing at the middle-aged man: "This is the accountant of the house, surnamed Jia, and I asked him to come here to test your arithmetic."

Seeing that it was a young child, the accountant Jia didn't take it seriously, he bowed his hands to his wife, but he didn't look at Yang Zhen directly.

Yang Zhen didn't care about it, and saluted respectfully: "I have met Mr. Jia, Mr. Jia is good."

"Okay." Madam frowned slightly, showing that she was also dissatisfied with Jia's accountant's attitude: "Caiyan, please ask a few questions first, and let them calculate it."

"Yes"

Caiyan then reported a multi-digit multiplication.

Na Jia's accountant took out the abacus loudly, and with the sound of crackling beads, he quickly reported the answer.

Yang Zhen asked for a pen and paper, listed the vertical formula on the paper, and calculated the answer after a while.

Caiyan reported two more questions, and Jia accountant came up with the answer first.His abacus was really slick, and his fingers could be switched quickly and freely, which Yang Zhen secretly admired.

Afterwards, Caiyan asked to put the abacus on hold, but Jia accountant was quite reluctant, so after arguing, he took out the abacus and started to calculate.

Yang Zhen continued to calculate on paper with a pen.

This time, Yang Zhen was much faster.After he finished a question, Jia's accountant over there was still fiddling with calculations slowly.

Madam knew it well, she clapped her hands: "Let's stop here. Mr. Jia, what do you think of this calculation? Is it fast?"

"It's just playing tricks." Jia's accountant was quite disdainful: "Compared with my abacus, it's heaven and earth."

"Hey!" Yang Zhen smiled brightly, ignoring him.

"Mr. Jia, let's not mention the pros and cons of the numbers for now. Please comment, how is this child's arithmetic? Is it still qualified?" Madam continued to ask.

"Fair enough." Accountant Jia thought for a long time before uttering these two words.Although he looked down on Yang Zhen's figure, he couldn't deny that Yang Zhen was right about those questions just now.

"That's very good." Madam smiled and said, "This son has just entered our residence, and I'm worried that I can't arrange it. Since he has such a talent for arithmetic, how about letting him learn how to keep accounts from you?"

"What?" Jia's accountant's face changed slightly, and he felt something bad.

"What? Is there a problem?" Madam asked coldly.

"This, this, this son is too young, it will take another two years." Accountant Jia gritted his teeth and replied.

"Young?" Madam suddenly slapped the table: "You, Jia Sheng, were only ten years old when you entered the accounting room as an apprentice! How did you become so young when you came to him? I also heard people say that when you first entered the accounting room, even a hundred I can’t even count them, is this child not as good as you back then?”

This lady usually looked gentle and graceful, but now she became angry, her brows stood on end, not to mention Jia Sheng, even Yang Zhen who was on the side was startled.Cai Yan also had a straight face and became serious.

Jia Sheng flinched immediately: "What Ma'am said is that it's the little one who didn't think carefully, I..."

"Then you agree?" Madam pressed her step by step.

"Yes." Jia Sheng bowed his head in response, secretly groaning in his heart.

"That's good. Caiyan, you can send two people to Jia's accountant later to find some old account books, and let Xiaoshi learn how to keep accounts with them."

The madam finally revealed her true purpose - ledger!
……

"Sister Caiyan, what does Madam want me to do?"

Caiyan brought two maids with her, and brought a large stack of account books from Jia's accountant, and put them in a side hall beside the yard.At this time, the wife was no longer in the courtyard, Yang Zhen saw that there was no one else, so she quietly asked about Caiyan.

He actually saw some clues, but Caiyan definitely didn't understand.

Caiyan probably got orders from his wife, knowing that Yang Zhen should not be kept in the dark, so she told Yang Zhen the whole story.

"Madam came to the county this spring. Although the patriarch agreed to let Madam take over the affairs of the county, many elders in the family objected. Some people here were not happy, and even secretly went to the clan to appeal , Madam was called back to the clan because of this yesterday, and she was almost not allowed to come back!"

"What! Then what happened?"

"I heard that Ms. Yue'er lost her temper on the spot, and she was supported by the mother. Those people didn't dare to push too much, so they had to continue to let the madam manage the place..."

Yueer?That yellow-haired girl who is less than ten years old!Yang Zhen felt a little unbelievable.

"Miss Yue'er? She, she has a high status in the family?" Yang Zhen asked.

"Oh, what are you inquiring about, kid!" Cai Yan probably realized that she had made a slip of the tongue, she stretched out her finger in shame, and knocked three times on Yang Zhen's forehead.

It's really good not to learn, but bad to pick up samples.After listening to "Journey to the West", these women have all contracted the bad habit of knocking on people's foreheads.

"Hey, Sister Caiyan, lighten it up, if the knock is broken, there will be no story to listen to." Yang Zhen quickly protested.

"Hey, look how proud you are, it's great to be able to tell stories." Caiyan tapped Yang Zhen's forehead again, this time much softer.

She continued:
"Madam wanted to check the previous account books several times, but this Jia Sheng always pushed back. Not long ago, a clerk in the account room had an accident. Jia Sheng wanted to recruit another person, and Madam pushed you out. This time, Jia Sheng really couldn't stop him. "

"The ledgers are all here now, you should take a good look at them, and check in some places to see if there is any problem."

"But I haven't touched these things before?" Yang Zhen had a bitter face.

"Madam said, I don't really ask you to find out what's wrong. As long as this account book is left here for a few days, then if Qian Sheng has a ghost in his heart, he will naturally come to ask Madam." Cai Yan said with contempt.

……

Yang Zhen stayed in the side hall to look through these ledgers, and even ate dinner here.In Caiyan's words to relay his wife's words, you still have to tell stories here at night, so you don't need to go back and forth.

The methods of these bookkeeping are still very rough, and many of them are in the form of running accounts, which are only summarized once every ten days and a half months.When summarizing, many items are not clear, and the classification of items is also very confusing.Yang Zhen frowned, remembering the two financial training classes he had attended in his previous life, he simply took a pen and paper, and faced these accounts one by one according to "borrow", "loan", and "asset". , "debt" and so on are re-transcribed.

Soon it was getting dark, and a maid was lighting candles nearby. Yang Zhen continued to copy, and the more she copied, the more she found that there were many problems in it.

Suddenly, a servant girl lit up the lanterns in the courtyard, and there was a sound of footsteps.Yang Zhen raised her head and found that Madam, Yue'er, and Nanny had all returned.

Madam quickly recruited Yang Zhen.After a while, Yang Zhen continued to talk about "Journey to the West" following yesterday's episode:
"The monkey king was named Bi Mawen, and he took office happily..."

Yang Zhen controlled the rhythm, and spoke at a leisurely pace for about half an hour. It happened that Sun Wukong was pushed into the gossip furnace by the Taishang Laojun, so she stopped talking again, smiling and not speaking.

"You doll, you always stop at the critical point, it's really uncomfortable!" Mammy joked with a smile.

Having experienced yesterday, Yue'er also knew that this was a common trick used by storytellers. Although she really wanted to know the plot behind it, she refrained from asking, and just pouted to express her dissatisfaction.

"Let's stop here today, little brother Yang has worked hard too." Madam knew that Yang Zhen would be busy all afternoon, so she asked Caiyan to reward Yang Zhen, and was going to order everyone to rest.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew by, Mammy stretched out her hand, and a paper crane fell into her hand.

"It's a message from the county watchman." Mammy opened the paper crane.

After reading it, Mammy handed the paper crane to Madam silently, then turned to look at Yang Zhen with pity in her eyes.

"Brother Yang, follow me to Zhujia early tomorrow morning!"

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