Approaching the Chinese New Year, needless to mention the excitement in the capital, Shu Yierha has been here for seven years, and this kind of excitement has long been commonplace, except for less homework, I don't feel much different from usual.

Although Xilin Jue Luo did not let Shu Yierha officially get into charge of housekeeping, when she dealt with housework, she often asked Shu Yierha to observe, and would also explain to her the purpose of each expenditure.

Accounting is Shu Yierha's forte, she as early as a year ago under the pretext of understanding the world, asked Jing Gule and Jing Guji brothers to inquire about the price of various things, and then compared with the records in her own account book, Shu Yierha found that she was misled by the novel again, at least the novel in the false high price did not appear in her house, the eggs on the market are about 100 Wen 50, and her family account book is also at this price, and even because the family buys more, it will be cheaper than this.

However, Shu Yierha will not be naïve to think that her comprador is really not greedy at all, people must have a place to fish for oil and water, but this should be an unspoken rule that everyone knows, she can't figure it out now, so she will put it in her heart first, ready to observe slowly, if they don't harm the interests of their own family, she will also turn a blind eye like others, but if someone really writes in the novel, use the money of the master's family to make their own home, she can't tolerate this kind of person.

In the past, Shu Yierha thought that the most expensive thing in a year should be several major festivals of human relations, and after an in-depth understanding, I knew that in fact, the cost of this piece is not much, because of the New Year's gift, the emphasis is on you coming and going, the people who come and go at home, the foundation of the door is almost the same, how many gifts you send out, almost can be recovered, this in and out can be basically flat, and, because there are old ladies in the family, uncles and aunts have filial piety every New Year's holiday, and the old lady who comes from filial piety is not used up, most of them subsidize the family, and the only two are not in the place, one is the birthday gift of the Longevity Festival, and the other is the filial piety of Erhe to the peak, but these two items are not too much because Erhe officials are petty and lowly, and they have no intention of bribing Shangguan.

In fact, Shu Yierha's family spends between 4,000 and 5,000 taels a year, most of them are daily expenses, food and clothing are inseparable from silver, and the monthly money of nearly 100 servants in the family is also a large amount of expenses.

Shu Yierha has always hoped that the family can be thicker, and can save more silver every year, in order to achieve the goal, the four words of open source and throttling are the best explanations, on the issue of open source, Shu Yierha can not come up with many ideas, she knows a few ways to make a lot of money, but her family does not have a backstage, she is afraid that the limelight is too popular to attract people's eyes, easy to have accidents, it is better to earn a little money, accumulate a lot;

In order to find a place to save, Shu Yierha specially borrowed a year's running water from Xilin Jue Luo, and counted the accounts with his fingers every month, thinking for several days, and found that he had done useless work again. Her family's current expenses, if she really wanted to be frugal, she could save some of them, but if she really went according to Shu Yierha's expectations, she would either cut the monthly money of the servants or reduce the quality of life of the masters, both of which would be quite difficult.

Shu Yier's family now has more than 100 servants, several housekeepers have a different monthly salary, they even have year-end dividends, and the rest of the people are divided according to the rank, the first class is the old lady and the grandmothers around Xilin Jueluo, the monthly money is two two a month, the second class is the big girl around each person, the monthly money is one or two silver, and the others are different according to the type of work, ranging from 800 to 300 Wen, this price is at the upper middle level in the capital. Although Shu Yierha is now a landlord class, she can't do this kind of thing if she doesn't treat her subordinates as people like now, and her family is not really having a hard time, she feels that she can't be too harsh on her servants.

Can't reduce the monthly salary, Shu Yierha considered whether she could reduce the staff, but she gave up after thinking about this idea, not to mention anything else, as a big lady who has never come to the clothes to reach out for food and open her mouth, she now has a total of six people around her to serve, so that she has two less people to serve, she feels a little inconvenient, people, it has always been difficult to be frugal from luxury.

As for reducing the quality of life, Shu Yierha was not reconciled, who wants to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, who wants to eat radish and cabbage every day, can wear silk and satin, who wants to wear coarse cloth clothes? Isn't it a matter of course to enjoy life when economic conditions permit?

When she returned the account book to Xilin Jue Luo, Xilin Jue Luo asked her what she saw, and she only had one feeling: "I originally wanted to find out where to save money, but I didn't find it after looking for a few days, it was not easy to maintain a family, Ama and Eniang worked hard." ”

Xilin Jue Luo smiled: "You girl, I really don't know what you think in your head, our family is not short of money, what do you do all day long to save money?

Shu Yierha was taught, knowing that it was Xilin Jueluo who taught her, so she was busy remembering what she said in her heart.

Every Chinese New Year, the exchange of etiquette between relatives and friends is a university question, which is also Shu Yierha's weakness, she has the heart to learn early, but Xilin Jue Luo is very busy, she is not good to always bother her, so she will write down the gift list she sees every day, and go back to ask her two parenting grandmothers, the two will explain to her why this family sends these and that family send that, slowly, what friendship people should send what specifications of the New Year's gift, Shu Yierha has a general framework in his heart.

For the first time, Shu Yierha realized the power of the people who came out of the palace, what relatives and friends the Fucha family had, and which families they were good friends with, no one told Bai Mama and Wu Mama at all, but they could analyze it from the gift list that Shu Yierha asked, and the two of them also silently wrote down the relatives, friends and relationships of Shu Yierha's family, including the children of Shu Yierha's thirty cousins and cousins.

Shu Yierha was a little surprised, and after careful questioning, he found that the two grandmothers knew a lot, the number one person in the capital, they all knew the general situation, it was completely an encyclopedia of interpersonal relationships, after realizing this, Shu Yierha found that he had picked up the treasure, but then think about the situation of his own family, the two grandmothers are completely overkill, and they are really condescending in their own home, but they are very happy to see the two grandmothers, and Shu Yierha will not say anything, it feels really good to be able to recruit two talents.

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