Daughter of the royal palace

Chapter 34 Auditing Accounts (2)
"She is Ling Xihan? That stupid woman." A woman made an unbelievable voice.

"What, she's not stupid anymore, don't you know?" Immediately, someone in the know talked about what happened yesterday, and everyone suddenly realized what was said.The look at Ling Xihan was also somewhat strange.Especially her face, which is absolutely more beautiful and refined than Ling Xihan, made the group of wealthy ladies envy and envy.

Ling Xihan glanced lightly over everyone's faces, and finally fell on the face of the attentive shopkeeper: "Bring me this year's account book."

The shopkeeper was startled, his shrewd eyes flashed, and he looked at Ling Xiqing.

Ling Xiqing glanced at Ling Xihan, "Sanmei, do you want to check the accounts?"

Ling Xihan's lips curled up slightly, "Second Sister was joking, I just see that Qianshangfang's business is good, and I just want to see how much the harvest is."

Ling Xiqing nodded, and said to the shopkeeper, "Bring it here and show it to Sanmei."

The shopkeeper's eyes flashed, and he quickly replied: "Yes." Anyway, the third lady was a fool before, and even if she returned to normal, she is just a young lady who doesn't know anything, what can she understand?

Ling Xihan and Ling Xiqing followed into the inner hall, found a stool and sat down. After a while, the shopkeeper came out with a stack of ledgers.

"Second Miss, Third Miss, this is the account book for this year."

Ling Xiqing took a look, "Third Sister, take a look."

Naturally, Ling Xihan would not be polite, and took a look directly.A string of numbers flashed across her eyes, she flipped the pages with her fingers, glanced at ten lines, and soon finished reading one account book, and then looked at the second and third books...

The shopkeeper's eyes widened in surprise at the astonishing speed at which she read the accounts, but after thinking about it, it turns out that the lady who doesn't understand anything can't even read the accounts.

'Crack' Having finished reading the last account book, Ling Xihan's eyes were slightly condensed, with faint waves of light dizzying his eyes, and the gloomy luster interlaced.

"Shopkeeper, are these all the account books for this year?" She held a teacup and asked calmly.

The shopkeeper was suspicious, maybe he really saw something.But this thought just passed by in a flash, and he didn't take it to heart.

Respectfully: "Yes."

Ling Xihan raised his eyes, his eyes were as clear as water, and suddenly they froze.

"Bold!" She suddenly shouted coldly, and the shopkeeper's subconscious legs gave way in fright.

"Miss Third?"

Ling Xihan casually picked up an account book in his hand, and said slowly: "I'll give you a chance, if you tell the truth, I can consider a lighter punishment."

Ling Xiqing raised her eyebrows slightly, put down her teacup, and did not speak.

The shopkeeper's heart trembled, did Miss San really see it?No, it's impossible, he did it so secretly, even the accountant may not find out the mistakes, the third lady must be scaring him.

"Miss San, I don't know what you're talking about."

Ling Xihan's eyes turned cold, and he sneered: "Very well, I've given you a chance. Since you don't know how to repent, you won't give up until you reach the Yellow River, right? Well, I'll make you understand today." She flipped through a ledger , the numbers on it kept rolling in her eyes, like a trickle, flowing.

"This year, Qianshangfang received a total of 670 taels, excluding the cost of 69 taels. After this calculation, the profit turned out to be 960 taels? Then I ask you, what about taxes? Is it just Pay 37 a tael?"

The shopkeeper's head was sweating coldly. He didn't expect that Ling Xihan had memorized all those complicated numbers with just a casual swipe just now, and with a clear mind, he quickly calculated those accounts accurately and found out the account books. loopholes.

"And this one." She casually picked up another ledger, "Last month, I sold 120 bolts of Boguang brocade, and each inch was worth five taels of gold. And it was recorded that each bolt of Boguang brocade was only bought for 50 taels." Gold. Is it possible that this piece of cloth can only be cut into less than ten inches?"

The shopkeeper's face turned pale, but Ling Xihan continued to say: "The Lianyun brocade that was purchased last quarter was worth twelve taels of gold per inch..." She flipped through the ledger, with a hint of sarcasm on the corner of her mouth. "You are smart. You know that Lianyun brocade is more precious than Boguang brocade, so it is recorded on it that each piece of cloth was bought for 100 taels of gold. It is still only ten inches per piece of cloth." When she said this, her eyes were faint Glancing at the pale shopkeeper, the corner of his mouth curled into a smile.

"Shopkeeper, could it be that the size you used is wrong? Each piece of cloth is only enough to measure ten inches?"

The shopkeeper's body trembled, "Third...Miss three..."

'Crack' Ling Xihan threw the account book on the table casually, and the shopkeeper's legs softened in fright, and he immediately knelt down.

"Third Miss, please forgive me, I..."

Ling Xihan didn't listen to him at all, picked up another ledger and flipped through it a few times.

"Last month's income was 220 taels. After deducting the cost of 670 seven taels, the profit was 7000 taels. Then the remaining 540 six taels should be tax payment. Huh? Not to mention one Is it reasonable to pay more than 500 taels of taxes and fees every month? Let’s say that there are twelve months in this year, and it’s now September. Even if you pay 500 taels of taxes and fees every month, how much is the total of nine months? Huh?”

The shopkeeper's face was already pale, cold sweat stuck to the quilt, his dry lips were wriggling, but he didn't say anything.

"As for the others..." She rested her fingers on the thick stack of books, "Do you still need me to list them for you one by one?"

"Miss Third?"

"You haven't brought out the real ledger yet!" Ling Xihan's eyes turned cold, and he shouted coldly.

"Yes, yes, yes." The shopkeeper hurriedly stood up and staggered to get the ledger.

Ling Xiqing's slender eyebrows were knotted, and her face was cold. She didn't expect that the shopkeeper of Qianshangfang would dare to make false accounts.But what surprised him even more was the performance of the third sister.

She couldn't help but look sideways, but Ling Xihan was sitting on the chair lazily, half-closed her beautiful eyes, and leaned back lazily. .

Ling Xiqing was stunned for a moment, her eyes flashed, and she said, "Sister, why did you finish reading those account books so quickly?" In the past, my mother would read every account book for one night, and it was only the account books of the shops belonging to the palace's public property every month. .The third sister just read it for less than a stick of incense, but she actually read all the account books that would take ten accountants three days and three nights to read, and even said the numbers recorded in it exactly?Such amazing memory is really rare.

Ling Xihan explained the doubts in her heart about the way of nature. She was originally from a wealthy family, and although she lived in gangs since she was a child, in the three years since she returned home, she has learned all the etiquette, literature, and communication...all of them.In addition, she was gifted and intelligent since she was a child, and she almost has a photographic memory, so she can learn everything quickly.It's just a few ledgers, so what's the problem?
(End of this chapter)