Zhangjia Jinzhi

Chapter 118
There was a wind at night, making a rustling sound on the branches and leaves.

Li Yao was lying on the couch, looking at the dark night outside the window, tears could not stop flowing.

Suddenly, something was faintly heard outside.

Li Yao got up, carefully avoiding Xianglan who was sleeping soundly outside.

Pushing open the door and walking into the courtyard, with the help of several lanterns under the eaves of the porch, I vaguely saw a red ribbon tied on the branch of the jujube tree in the corner.

Li Yao's tears fell all of a sudden, she knelt down and covered her mouth tightly so that she didn't cry out.

Looking at the ribbons fluttering in the wind, something seemed to shake in her heart, and suddenly tore open a hole in her resentment, grievance, and despair these days, so that she could finally cry happily.
After crying enough, she stepped forward and tiptoed, carefully took off the ribbon and held it in her palm, feeling warm all over her body.

"Girl? What are you doing in the yard? It's cold, why didn't you add any clothes?"

The woman guarding the gate heard the noise, put on a coat and came out, seeing Li Yao standing with her hair loose, the hairs on her back standing on end
"Isn't the girl stunned?"

Before the gatekeeper could finish her sentence, Li Yao gave her a hard look and quickly fell silent.

Without saying anything, Li Yao quietly stuffed the ribbon into her cuffs, turned around and went back to the room.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Yao came to Hua'an Hall early to greet Mrs. Li.

Li Taiwei heard the news of Li Yao's beating in the afternoon yesterday, her eyes swept over her slightly swollen cheeks, her eyes were still faint, and she didn't make a sound.

"Princess, how good is this? The fourth girl is afraid that she will hate going to our spring garden."

Looking at Li Yao's cold eyes, Nian Xia was still a little worried, and secretly called Li Taiwei to a corner and said in a low voice, thinking of Bai's methods in the past, she was a little worried that Li Yao would just follow in Bai's footsteps.

Mrs. Li smiled lightly and said:
"People, everyone has their own way of life. If she insists on getting into a dead end, no one can help her"

Nian Xia sighed, thinking that this is the reason.

"Come here, all of you,"

Mrs. Li came out of the bedroom, clutching two account books in her hands, and asked Nanny Sun to hand one copy to Li Taiwei and Li Yao, saying:
"These two books are the income and output of my house this year. You should read them first. If you don't understand anything, ask grandma."

"Be careful. When you get married in the future, all the entry and exit of the house will be in your hands. If you encounter some slaves who steal, rape and play tricks, you have to keep your eyes open..."

Li Taiwei and Li Yao nodded in agreement, and sat in the building holding the ledger to look carefully.

Li Taiwei guarded the national treasury in his previous life, and often checked the entry and exit of the palace with the Minister of the Ministry of Households and other veterans. Even Lu Xiao's military expenditures were also eloquent.

For her, this account book is really a piece of cake. After carefully flipping through it, she put it aside and ate tea.

Li Yao raised her eyes and glanced at her quietly, then lowered her head to look carefully at the account book.

After a cup of tea, Mrs. Li went to the Baosha in person, and saw Li Taiwei falling asleep on the table, and seeing Li Yao still conscientiously looking at the account books, her eyes showed dissatisfaction.

"Miss Wei!"

Mrs. Li said in a deep voice,

"Look at what you look like... You are an older sister, and you are not as good as your younger sister..."

Li Taiwei just closed his eyes to rest his mind, then opened his eyes when he heard the sound, stretched his body, and softly called grandma.

Li Yao put down the account book, sat down in a well-behaved manner, and looked at Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Li sighed in her heart, and asked Li Yao:
"Sister Yao, do you understand?"

Li Yao got up, and blessed Mrs. Li, saying:
"Grandmother, Yao'er understands, my mother taught Yao'er some..."

When the Bai family was mentioned, Mrs. Li's eyes turned gloomy, and she pretended not to hear:
"Okay, tell grandma, is there anything wrong with your entry?"

Li Yao was stunned for a moment, then looked at Mrs. Li in a daze.

She only heard her grandmother say to look at the account book, but she didn't say that she had to pick the wrong one.

"This...grandmother... Yao'er didn't see where she went wrong..."

Mrs. Li nodded, she didn't expect them to see many tricks today.After a pause, he turned to look at Li Taiwei again, his face tensed:

"How does Miss Wei look?"

Li Taiwei reached out and handed the account book to Mrs. Li, turned to the fourth page, and said:
"Grandma made three mistakes in this project..."

When Mrs. Li heard this, her eyes widened like copper bells:

"Three places?"

She has personally checked this project, so how could there be any mistakes?
Li Taiwei pointed to the seventh line of characters, and said in detail with Mrs. Li:

"This is the monthly reward issued at the beginning of the year. In addition to their own silver, each person also distributed a reward ranging from three taels to five taels according to the level of the maid. Among them, two maids in Hua'antang were demoted from the second class. It is the third class, but the reward silver is still distributed according to the second class, this is the first mistake."

Mrs. Li couldn't believe it, she took the account book in her hand and looked at it again and again, it really made the girl Li Taiwei hit the mark.

Li Taiwei was not in a hurry, and pointed out the other two mistakes one by one to Mrs. Li, everyone was shocked and leaned over.

Mrs. Li looked Li Taiwei back and forth, and handed the income account book in front of Li Yao to Li Taiwei, saying:
"Look at this book again and see if there is anything wrong with it?"

In this book, Mrs. Li deliberately missed one point, and wanted to test the two of them, but since Li Yao couldn't see it, Mrs. Li decided to test Li Taiwei.

Li Taiwei flipped through the account book page by page, not only easily found out the mistakes in Mrs. Li's design, but also picked out another mistake that Mrs. Li hadn't even noticed. This time, Mrs. Li couldn't calm down up.

She looked at Li Taiwei again and again, and asked:
"Sister Wei's ability to read accounts, but your mother taught it?"

After saying that, Mrs. Li thought about it again, thinking that Zhaohe's temperament might not be as good as Li Taiwei's.

Li Taiwei smiled when he heard the sound, and made up a casual way:
"When I was in Xiliang, my grandmother taught some."

Mrs. Li was surprised that the queen of Xiliang was a good deal when she was still in her boudoir, no wonder sister Wei can make such progress!

"well!"

Mrs. Li smiled,

"This will save grandma a lot of effort. From tomorrow on, grandma will teach you something else..."

Mrs. Lee said yes with a slight smile.

A hint of jealousy flashed across Li Yao's eyes, and she quickly lowered her head to hide it.

"Princess, Master Xiang invites you to the study..."

Dafu came in from the outside and greeted Mrs. Li.

"Since your father is looking for you, go now,"

Mrs. Li turned her head and said to Li Yao:

"Sister Yao stay here, grandma will tell you about these details......"

Li Yao got up and said yes, when she caught a glimpse of Li Taiwei's back from the corner of her eye, her eyes were filled with gloom...

(End of this chapter)