The eldest daughter is not easy to bully

Chapter 45 Reconciliation
"Chen Steward, take out this year's account book, I want to check it myself." Ling Qing returned to his seat and sat down.

As soon as these words came out, Chen Xing was so frightened that he staggered, this was adding trouble to him!

Can a little girl understand ledgers? !

"Miss, this old slave has other things to do. If you don't wait until tomorrow, this slave will ask someone to teach you how to read accounts."

"This girl is already in charge of this house, so naturally I have to look at the accounts today. There are still things to do tomorrow, Housekeeper Chen, don't you think so?"

Chen Xing laughed and said, "What the eldest girl said is true."

"Then hurry up and take out all the accounts."

This time, Chen Xing had to sort out all the accounts and move them to Ling Qing one by one.

"Girl, these are the account books for the past two years." Chen Xing heard Ling Qing say to take out the account books for this year, but he wanted to show the account books for two years.

If Ling Qing wants to blame, he has reason to refute.

However, Ling Qing didn't mean to blame at all.She opened the box, took out a copy, and really started to look at the ledger from two years ago.

The corners of Chen Xing's mouth twitched, and he said resentfully: "Miss, look first, and you can ask questions at any time if you don't understand anything. The old servant will go in first to help." After finishing speaking, Chen Xing entered the compartment, where there is still a seat.

After he sat down, he began to reconcile the accounts, but his mind had already flown to the outside room.

"Girl, this slave will read the account book." Zhu Xin picked up another book, opened it, and frowned, "Why is it such a mess?"

The ledger looks like a ledger on the surface, but when it is opened, the writing inside looks like a dog bites, and it is obvious that it was written by a beginner.

This is a ledger, not a practice book.

The few servants who were still cleaning at the side were all hiding and laughing.

Zhu Xin glared at them a few times impatiently, telling them not to hold back, but laughed even more unscrupulously.

Ling Qing turned a blind eye, and at the moment they laughed, he read all the books of two years.

She closed the ledger and shouted to the cubicle, "Butler Chen, I'm done reading."

Chen Xing was so frightened that he flew up from the chair, and immediately walked out of the cubicle and asked, "Miss, have you really finished watching?"

These ledgers were all copied by the people under his hands, and the characters were like ghostly drawn symbols. If he read them, he would definitely throw them away.

"Of course, Steward Chen can take the test at will." Ling Qing said confidently.

Chen Xing dubiously picked up one of the books, opened a page at random, and asked maliciously: "Zi Nian 38, the total expenditure on the [-]th day of the first lunar month, how much money is there at the end?"

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When Zhu Xin heard this, his anger rose.

It is already very good to be able to tell exactly how much money is in taels, and how much money is accurate, isn't this embarrassing people!

The rest of the people were all eagerly waiting to see Ling Qing's good show.

Nothing is more proud than Chen Xing who solved this problem.

Ling Qing met Chen Xing's eyes, Zi Nian was the title of his father's reign, in order to distinguish the grandfather and father's years, the father's year and the son's year were added.

她唇角一勾：“前院支出56两三钱十六文；西院区支出780八两六钱380一文；东院区支出210二两九钱零六文；客院支出370七两八十钱。”

"Bihua Academy spent 380 taels and seven coins; Qingyun Academy spent 290 taels and five coins, and the remaining 180 taels and eleven coins were used in Xinghui Academy."

"Lanzhouyuan spends 60 taels and three yuan; Zhulin Shenyuan spends 90 taels; Yueman West Building spends 62 taels and eleven coins. Guest courtyard."

What Chen Xing wanted was the final amount of the total, but Ling Qing memorized the daily expenses of each courtyard verbatim.

Ling Qing also continued: "Mr. Chen, there are additional expenses for kitchen purchases and monthly expenses for maids and servants in each courtyard. Would you like me to recite them to you in detail? Then I will add them up again. , how many texts are there at the end of the total?"

Chen Xing was sweating profusely, and he was ashamed and did not dare to meet Ling Qing's gaze.

This accident surprised him.

Unable to rub Ling Qing's spirit, he slapped himself in the face instead, and there was a resounding 'papapa'.

The joy in Zhu Xin's heart showed on his face.

Ling Qing propped his chin, staring at Chen Xing's colorful face without any emotion or expression.

The sum of the two years' accounts, the expenditure in a single month exceeds twice the income in a month.

And most of the people who withdraw the money are from the Xinghui Academy.

Ling Zhao's people.

Ling Qing pursed her lips: "Has Xiaozheng's money for this month been delivered to you?"

Chen Xing wiped the sweat from his forehead, shook his head and said: "Xiaozheng sent the money collected from the mall to Chen Chang immediately, and it was in the hands of my younger brother. He is in charge of the accounts and money of the shops in Ducheng. "

"He will reserve enough for the store in the public account, and the rest will be handed over to the old slave as the government's expenditure."

"Xiaozheng has been back for several days, and the public money has already been in your hands." Ling Qing paused for a while, and said, "It's been five days, and Chen Chang probably won't need five days to prepare, right? Butler Chen?"

"Yes, yes." Chen Xing smiled and said: "But half of it was used up, like the flower appreciation banquet held the day before yesterday. The money has not been recovered yet, and then, Aunt Jiang posted it for preparation first. The money has been recovered." , naturally return it first.”

Ling Qing skipped all these nonsense and asked, "How much taels have you received this month?"

Chen Xing wanted to cheat, but he saw that the account book pressed under Ling Qing's elbow was this month's account book.All expenditures and expenditures are clearly written on it, and the pen and ink are not dry yet!

Ling Qing came in for so long, and sat in that position for so long, he couldn't believe that she hadn't seen it.

Therefore, he could only answer honestly: "A total of more than [-] taels."

"Gold or silver measure?"

Chen Xing's heart was beating wildly, his face was calm, but the sweat betrayed him: "Jin."

"As much as you have left, take it all out."

Chen Xing raised his head suddenly: "Take them all out??"

"have opinions?"

"No, no, this old slave will go get it now." The sadness on Chen Xing's face was vividly displayed.

The bottom of my heart is already counting the reasons for the loss of money.

There was not much money to hold the flower viewing banquet, but Jiang Qing hadn't received the money yet, so she posted it as an excuse first, and wanted to get more money into her pocket.

This time a quarter went away, and then Ling Han, who bought this and that, went another quarter.

There is also Ling Zhao, who has everything to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and he went to a quarter of it all at once.

Misappropriation does not count.

The sporadic expenditures in the government are not much left in the end.

Even the wages of the servants may not be enough.

Chen Xing quickly went back and forth, handed the wooden box to Ling Qing tremblingly, and opened the box as if using all his strength.

"Why is there only one gold bar?" Zhu Xin asked in surprise.

There is also a purse of broken silver next to the gold bar, which is not worth much.

Chen Xing immediately knelt down, not daring to make a sound.

Ling Qing looked around, the boys watching the theater had long since fled without a trace, and even forgot to take away the clean water bucket.

Withdrawing his gaze to the box, he turned to Chen Xing and said coldly, "Is it all here?"

"All, all are here."

"Explain, explain, where did the money go?" Seeing that Chen Xing didn't respond, Ling Qing took out the account book under his elbow and threw it in front of Chen Xing: "If you don't understand the explanation, just start writing. What this girl wants is there." sequence without omission.”

(End of this chapter)