Heng Wu calculated the account for her with his fingers, "One tael of silver is one thousand five hundred copper coins, one ounce of silver is one thousand coins, and one thousand coins can buy more than two hundred kilograms of rice, and there are also good portions of rice." , for ordinary people, rice and noodles are precious things and are not eaten often. If you have enough money to buy pork during the Chinese New Year, you will want the kind that is full of fat, boil the meat and oil for cooking, and you will see the oil star. For example, Mrs. Su from Cuijinlou could not eat Youxing a few times a year when she was in her husband's family. Those farmers were reluctant to eat the vegetables they grew at home, so they kept all of them and sold them in the city, selling them to wealthy families or restaurants. I just save so hard for restaurants, and I can’t save more than ten taels of silver a year.”
Hearing her calculations like this, Islam was shocked, "Girl has been here for a few months, and she earns more than ten taels a month, which is forty or fifty taels of silver! This mother Wu treats our girl as a money leaker. Are you fighting?"
In the Li family before, everyone in the yard was his own. Li Qingyi never asked questions, and the accounts were all in order. After arriving at the Wei Mansion, Heng Wu was almost killed on the first day, and the girls focused on precautions. Seeing that he was being assassinated, he didn't care about the ten taels of silver every month, so he casually handed it over to Mother Wu, who was in charge of the yard.
Now there is indeed a deficit, which is not surprising.
Previously, the second wife and the third wife were fighting for the chancellery. The servants in the house had fewer children and were not so loyal. Today the east wind will blow, and tomorrow the west wind will blow. There will be no big troubles, but minor problems will definitely be inevitable.
Silan snorted, "Even if the money is not much and the master doesn't like it, what is the master's is the master's, and what is given to her is hers. Taking it without giving it to her is stealing. Girl, do you want to give Mother Wu the money?" Call me over and see what she says?"
Old Li Qingyi was flipping through the account books, "Then call me over and ask."
One code equals one code. Even if she is the God of Wealth and wants to know where the money is lost between her fingers, there is nothing wrong with her.
Mother Wu will come soon.
Heng Wu was the most gentle person on weekdays, but today his face looked gloomy, and Heng Lan even looked bad when he saw her.
Only Li Qingyi sat calmly at the kang table, flipping through the account books slowly, and raised his finger to ask Mother Wu to sit down.
Mother Wu sat down, glanced at the account book in Li Qingyi's hand, and said with a smile: "The girl suddenly called the slave over. Do you have any instructions?"
"It's the end of the year. I have nothing to do with my mother's accounts in Panfu these days, so I took out Zhuoxiangyuan's accounts and looked at them. There are a few things I can't see clearly, so I asked mother to come over and ask."
Mother Wu heard that she wanted to do an accounting, but she didn't panic at all. Seeing Li Qingyi's pleasant appearance, her sitting posture relaxed a little, and she said with a smile: "Thanks to the trust of the girl, I entrusted this job to the servant. I have done my best." The reason is that every amount of money in this account book has been carefully calculated by me. Miss, I can’t see anything clearly. Could you please explain it carefully?"
Li Qingyi said nothing and picked up the tea.
Mother Wu looked at Li Qingyi, then at Heng Wu and Isatis Lan.
However, Li Qingyi didn't speak, and they didn't say anything either. The huge room seemed particularly quiet.
Mother Wu subconsciously moved her buttocks and took the initiative to speak: "Girl usually doesn't pay attention to these mundane things. I'm afraid she doesn't know. Apart from food and clothing, there are also many places to spend money in this house. Let's talk about this silver frost charcoal. The things allocated in the house are definitely not enough. I will buy the best for the girl, so I will not let her down. Look at the fruits and refreshments on the table. I don’t dare to buy bad things for the girl. I always choose the best. The freshest ones, as well as the invisible needles, threads, and corners in this room. You don’t have to spend money on any of them, but they all cost money..."
Heng Wu said with a cold face: "Mother Wu, our girl spoke politely to you, but you didn't say a word of sincerity. Are you thinking that our girl is easy to bully, or do you think that our girl is not a serious master in this house and doesn't like to argue with you? "
Ji Lan said more directly, "Most of the food in the girl's house was sent by the princess. How many of them were purchased by you? Besides, even if you picked all the things in this house, Choosing carefully, you have spent more than ten taels of silver at the beginning of the month? Also, our girl has never touched a needle or thread once from beginning to end. You have to add new ones every month, so you have saved a lot, right? Take it out and let me Look, what makes the gold and silver threads so valuable?"
Mother Wu's face turned green and white when she was told that. Then she realized that today was a Hongmen Banquet, and she suddenly felt unhappy.
"You girl know how to settle accounts, but you are unreasonable. Even if you buy things for free, someone still has to run errands for you, right? There are a lot of people in and out of the courtyard. Without any benefits, who would be willing to run errands for you for nothing? ? Why don’t you take a break when you have some time?”
Seeing Mrs. Wu speaking so confidently and eloquently, Iris' little face turned red with anger. new
Li Qingyi called her.
"Silan, since Mother Wu said this, we can't accuse her unjustly. You should go and ask clearly, whether from the outer courtyard or the inner courtyard, when did anything be sent to our courtyard? If you can tell clearly, It only costs 500 yuan, and I will make a profit for everyone during the festival."
Mother Wu was talking enthusiastically, but she suddenly lost her temper when she heard these words.
Before Li Qingyi came to the Wei Mansion, the Third Madam had arranged for her to go to Zhuoxiang Courtyard. However, the Third Madam’s instructions at that time were to watch Li Qingyi everywhere and not to let her become arrogant because of her surname Li. She clearly knew that she was relying on someone else and wanted to test her temper.
Not only did Li Qingyi never see the light of day, but he also didn't dare to talk about the Li family.
But after she came, not only did she not receive any treatment, but the second wife and the third wife suffered losses at her hands one after another, and the old lady couldn't control it. Li Qingyi was much more free and comfortable than the girls in the Wei family. You can go out whenever you want. If you want to go back to Li's house, you can go back to Li's house.
So what use does Mother Wu have?
I went to ask the third lady, but she just said she would wait and see, but later she didn’t believe her.
Mother Wu was anxious for a while and then discovered the benefits of Li Qingyi.
She only regarded Zhuoxiangyuan as a temporary place to stay. She didn't care about anything as long as it didn't touch her, so Wu's mother took another injection of chicken blood.
Since I can't do my job well and get benefits from the mansion, I will get benefits from Zhuoxiangyuan instead.
Zhuoxiangyuan earns 20 taels of silver a month, but Li Qingyi rarely uses it here. Li Qingyi always rewards Li Qingyi casually when he encounters trouble, so there is no need for her! Most of the money was put into her pocket, which was much more fragrant than the third lady licking her face.
But every time she was cautious and didn't "use up" all her money until the end of the month. But this month coincided with the Chinese New Year, and her family had a lot of expenses, so she spent her money in advance.
Who would have thought that Li Qingyi would check the accounts at this time!
