Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 522 Let nature take its course
After chatting with Guan Quan for a while, and listening to him talk about what Guan Wen and him were busy with recently, the time passed quickly.

When Guan Wen brought a group of people to the shop, Li Xin was listening to Guan Quan talking about the Shen family that Hu Yueying told him.

"Xiner?"

Seeing Li Xin, Guan Wen was a little surprised, so he hurriedly let go of his work and walked towards Li Xin.

Everyone in the shop called him "Master" loudly.

Li Xin smiled and said to Guan Wen, "I've been waiting for you for a while."

"My sister-in-law is here to reunite with my elder brother. I'm going to buy some good wine and food. Don't rush back today, my sister-in-law. Just rest in the town for a night."

Guan Quan quietly winked at Guan Wen, rather winkingly, and before Li Xin could speak, he greeted a young boy and went out with him.

Li Xin said helplessly, "I don't want to rest."

Guan Wen said with a smile: "It's okay, let's just rest for a night."

"You said it lightly, everyone laughed..."

Li Xin gave him a dark look, Guan Wen took her hand and said with a smile: "We are husband and wife, so what's the joke?"

Guan Wen pulled Li Xin to sit down, and he took a sip of water, presumably thirsty.

Wiping his chin, Guan Wen asked Li Xin, "Why do you think you're going to come to town today?"

Li Xin said seriously: "I'm here to ask you for an idea, Myolie and I are in a dilemma."

Seeing her serious expression, Guan Wen hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?"

"My sister's dowry."

Li Xin paused, cleared his thoughts, and then said to Guan Wen: "At first, I thought that my sister's dowry would be done in a complete way. At the beginning, your fourth brother's marriage was very shabby. My son has no money. Now that the family has something left over, and my younger sister is getting married, I have to do a good job, and the scenery will shine."

Guan Wen nodded and said: "Of course it is necessary to get A-Mei to marry well, after all, this is a major event in A-Mei's life."

"So when it comes to the dowry issue, we have encountered difficulties." Li Xin sighed: "We can't tell Aunt Wei about this matter directly, because I am afraid that Aunt Wei will not say it, but she will not be happy in her heart."

"What happened to the dowry?" Guan Wen wondered.

"You big men just don't pay attention to these little details." Li Xin sighed: "For the dowry, do you think it's a big deal for Amei, or a little deal?"

"That goes without saying, of course it's a bigger aspect..."

"look."

Li Xin interrupted him and said, "You just didn't think it through carefully. You just thought about not making A-mei feel wronged. Then why don't you consider what Aunt Wei and Shusheng Wei think?"

Li Xin said: "Do you still remember that Wei Shusheng was going to the state capital to participate in the autumn? At that time, the two of us discussed for a long time about whether to send him money. This matter is the same as that at the beginning. It's the same reason, if you send too much, the Wei family will feel unhappy."

Guan Wen frowned: "You mean, the Wei family will think that we are using wealth to oppress others?"

"Wei Shusheng has already spent a lot of money to go to Qiuwei, and when he comes back to arrange the wedding, this stall will cost more money." Li Xin sighed: "Wei Shusheng is a scholar, no matter what, he is still a bit noble, If we take care of everything, and there are only his mother and him in their house, the neighbors may also gossip, even if some gossips say that Wei Shusheng is in the door, and the marriage must be handled by the wife's mother's family. ..."

Guan Wen pursed his lips: "Then the dowry will be less?"

"The Wei family has to buy the less ones? I'm afraid the Wei family won't be able to afford them at all."

Li Xin shook his head again: "It doesn't matter if the dowry is thick or thin, it's really a dilemma."

Guan Wen poured Li Xin a glass of water, "Drink the water, don't worry."

"How can there be no rush?"

"It's useless to be in a hurry?" Guan Wen said with a smile: "If you want to buy a dowry, you have to wait for the Wei family to give the dowry, right? Why don't we first see what dowry gifts the Wei family has sent, and then we will pick them up." Can you fill in the missing ones?"

Li Xin said angrily: "You were cramming for a while. If you actually went to Wei's house to give the dowry, and then counted what was missing in the dowry, and then made up for the dowry, wouldn't that seem too hasty?"

Guan Wen sighed: "Otherwise, there is nothing you can do, unless you have a frank and honest talk with Aunt Wei."

It's not that Li Xin didn't want to ask Aunt Wei what she meant, but now that Shusheng Wei has not come back, Aunt Wei's answer is not in Wei Shusheng's mind, and he can't take care of both.

Li Xin looked at Guan Wen with a headache. Guan Wen felt terrified when she saw her, so he took her hand and said kindly: "Daughter-in-law, look... this matter, don't be in a hurry. This time It's already winter, don't worry about getting angry..."

"I'm just a little anxious to get angry."

Li Xin cast a sideways glance at Guan Wen: "It's good for you, you're taking care of your own career right now, and you're letting me take care of your youngest sister's marriage."

Guan Wen hurriedly coaxed: "There is a daughter-in-law, you have to work hard..."

"Small poverty."

Li Xin scolded him with a smile, and then sighed after a while: "You said it, but you didn't say it. If you ask for an idea, you don't have an accurate idea."

Guan Wen was silent, and said: "Actually, if you want me to tell you, it doesn't matter how much the Wei family thinks about it. You can do whatever you want for A-mei. In the future, A-mei will marry into their family. We don't want to covet Wei Shusheng. , Everything we do now is just for my sister to live well in the future. Even if Wei Shusheng is not very happy in his heart, but after a long time, seeing that we have not used these things to restrain him, he must be able to figure it out."

Li Xin hesitated to speak, but Guan Wen said again: "If you really have to think about everything so clearly, you will be exhausted."

"But..." After thinking about it, Li Xin still felt that this was a bit hasty: "This is related to the opinion of Wei Shusheng and Wei Auntie after my sister married into the Wei family. In the future, it is sister who will be in direct contact with them, not us. ..."

Guan Wen laughed and said: "She will get married in the future, and she will live her own life. No matter how well we plan for her, if she doesn't know how to live, isn't that useless?"

Li Xin snorted lightly, and Guan Wen said again: "Then even if we don't plan for her now, it's her ability to get along well with her mother-in-law and husband in the future."

"You can think about it now."

Guan Wen smiled and said: "It's not that you can't think too much about it, it's the truth after all. You've said it before, when younger brothers and sisters grow up, they live their own lives, so we'd better not interfere too much. "

After a pause, Guan Wen added: "It's best to let nature take its course."

Li Xin sighed, pouted and said, "Then you still haven't made up your mind with me? How can there be so much going with the flow...I have to figure it out with Xing'er this time."

Guan Wen smiled and said, "Then let the two of you discuss it."

"Awen!"

"Oh, by the way, if you are really undecided, you can still ask my sister for her own opinion."

Guan Wen hurriedly said, and patted Li Xin's hand.

It happened that a clerk in the shop asked him about something, so Guan Wen greeted Li Xin and went to work on his own.

Li Xin thought sullenly, Guan Wen said that it would be feasible to ask A-mei, but he was afraid that A-mei would not be able to pay attention to it, so he relied on her and Xing'er to make the decisions.

It's okay to stay for now, Li Xin walked into the high counter, looked at the account books on top, and felt that all the records on it were very messy and disorderly.

Looking at the abacus next to him again, Li Xin sighed and missed the modern calculator.

After thinking about it, she still took a pen, tore out a piece of waste paper, and simply drew a table on the north side of it, which was full of words. It was divided into two parts horizontally, one was for purchases, the other was for expenses, and the other was vertically. is the date.Then the rightmost column is set up separately, indicating the income and expenditure of the day.

Just as he was finishing the draft, Guan Wen walked over, lowered his head and asked, "Xin'er, what are you drawing?"

"Account book forms." Li Xin raised his head and said, "Don't you think that writing like this is much more pleasing to the eye than the messy records on that thick account book?"

Guan Wen's eyes lit up, he took the paper in Li Xin's hand, and said pleasantly, "Indeed, it's much easier to cover up and look, and it's easy to find anything you want!"

Li Xin laughed: "In the future, you can keep accounts according to this model. If there are other more detailed classifications, you can draw them one by one, and it will be clear at a glance."

Guan Wen thought about it carefully, with an expression of treasured treasure all the time on his face.

Then he raised his head and said to Li Xin with a smile, "Xin'er, it's a pity that you don't work as an accountant."

Li Xin snorted: "I'll stay in the village and do my job as an accountant."

"Why don't we wait until the shop opens..."

"Hey, stop." Li Xin's eyes widened: "I don't like living in the town, the back room of my house is almost ready for people to live in, I haven't lived in my new house yet, don't you Kidnapped me to work in your shop."

Guan Wen grinned, and Li Xin snorted angrily: "Is it expensive to hire an accountant? If it is really expensive, you might as well let your fourth brother do it. Anyway, there is still time for the shop to open." For a while, I can teach him."

"You know how to count?" Guan Wen asked in surprise.

"Did you underestimate me? Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, whatever you say, I can do it."

The ancient arithmetic system was not perfect, it was nothing more than addition and subtraction, the abacus beads could be dialed clearly, but multiplication and division were relatively difficult.

"Abacus?"

"You don't need an abacus." Li Xin smiled and said, "Just use a pen to calculate."

Guan Wen thought for a while, and said, "Then I will test you."

"Okay, you take the test." Li Xin took the pen, felt that it was not in his hand, and held a small toothpick in his hand, intending to dip it into the ink column equation.

Guan Wen took the account book and said in a deep voice: "Take yesterday's as an example. I bought thirty pieces of leather goods, and each piece cost one to two to five hundred yuan. I paid ten labors, and no one had a thousand yuan... How much did I spend in total?" ?”

Li Xin quickly calculated the result, and said: "The leather goods cost 37 taels, and the wages were paid 42 taels. The total is [-] taels. Is that right?"

Guan Wen looked at Li Xin in surprise, then looked at what was recorded in his account book, and said in a daze, "That's right."

Li Xin laughed: "I didn't lie to you, did I?"

"Xin'er, I really think you can be an accountant." Guan Wen nodded solemnly and said.

(End of this chapter)