In the previous life, although Shen Yan had not taken care of the affairs of the Hou Mansion, she was very clear about the Hou Mansion's family background. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info She only needs to go to the Hou's account office and take a moment to understand it, and she can bluff Zhong Ce. But she wanted to enter the account room, but it was not Wei Min, who had just taken charge of the feed, to do it. Therefore, she didn't trouble her, but directly found Li Chengqi and asked Li Chengqi to take her in.

As soon as she entered the accounting room, she carried several booklets to the table and prepared to fight all night.

Li Chengqi sat opposite her, and asked with some doubts: "What are you doing with these?" You never know the situation of the Hou Mansion, can you understand these things? ”

"Don't underestimate me." Shen Yan raised her eyes to look at him and said proudly, "I have something extraordinary. ”

Li Chengqi smiled, shook his head and said: "I don't have the heart to understand these things, let alone you ......."

"So it would be nice if the second master was here, he knows better than you." Shen Yan suddenly looked at Li Chengqi expectantly, "Can you go and invite the second master?" There are many things, I'm afraid I'll have to ask him. ”

Although Li Chengqi was a little reluctant, he still agreed. He quickly sent someone to Qinxin Garden to invite Li Chengmao over.

Li Chengmao's arrival really helped Shen Yan a lot. There are many things that Shen Yan doesn't understand, and Shen Yan can ask him. Seeing that the two of them were talking and laughing, Li Chengqi on the side was a little unhappy. He slapped the table suddenly, and said angrily: "Isn't it just a housekeeper? What are the difficulties in trying to cure him? Why do you need to do this? ”

"That's not true." Shen Yan put down the booklet in her hand and looked at Li Chengqi in a good mood and explained to him, "People like Steward Zhong are not intimidated by power. I want him to do things sincerely. I have to let him know, our Hou Mansion. Even if he is absent for a while, there are people who can do his job. ”

"This man can do his job. It's you? Li Chengqi looked at her suspiciously.

"Of course it's not me, it's Sister Minmin. But in fact, the Hou Mansion is without Steward Zhong for a while, and it is really going to fall into a mess. I'm just understanding the situation, and then I'm just fooling him with Sister Minmin's mouth. Shen Yan smiled, picked up the book again, and said, "Even if you want to fool him, you have to put in a lot of effort." Tonight," she said, looking at Lee Seung-mo. "I'm afraid it's going to be hard for the second master."

Li Chengmao smiled shallowly and said that it was okay. He wondered why he didn't let her personally learn about the situation in the Hou Mansion if he wanted to bluff Zhong Ce through the mouth of Wei Minzhi, who was in charge of the affairs of the Hou Mansion?

Shen Yan explained: "After all, Sister Min Min has just arrived at the Hou Mansion and knows nothing about the Hou Mansion, so I want her to understand the Hou Mansion through these account books in a short period of time, but I am afraid it will not be easy." The effort she has to put in must be far greater than mine. After all, I've been in the Hou Mansion for a while. ”

Li Chengmao nodded yes. Soon he continued to help her look at the account books.

Li Chengqi sat opposite the uncle and sister-in-law, looking at their focused appearance, bored, and fell asleep on the table not long after.

Listen to his snoring. Shen Yan got up and carefully draped his cloak over his body.

Seeing her move, the corners of Li Chengmao's mouth raised an envious smile. When she returned to him. He asked her, "Isn't my sister-in-law sleepy?" ”

"Sleepy. But there are still so many things that I haven't finished reading......" Shen Yan said and yawned, and then looked at Li Chengmao as if he was in a trance. "Are you sleepy? If you're sleepy, you can squint for a while, right? If I don't understand something, I can mark it first, and it's not too late to ask you when you wake up. ”

Li Chengmao shook his head gently. Say you're not tired.

When Shen Yan had no doubts to discuss with him, he quietly looked at her. Looking at her like this, he wished that time had stopped at this moment, and that the sun would never rise tomorrow.

In fact, Shen Yan had already felt his gaze, but she didn't demolish him. Her mind was naturally clear to her. However, after an accidental eye contact, she had to ask him, "What's wrong with the second master?" How do you see me like that? ”

Li Chengmao looked away a little crampedly, and chuckled: "You know much more about the Hou Mansion than I imagined. ”

"I once delusionally wanted to take charge of the general affairs of the Hou Mansion, and I paid more attention to it, so I naturally understood it more." Shen Yan was half joking, half serious.

Her words surprised Li Chengmao slightly. He had never met a person who spoke so unabashedly about his ambitions.

The night outside, I don't know when it began to be dizzed by white light, and it was no longer so dark. Li Chengmao saw that Shen Yan happily said "I'm done" and lay down on the desk and fell asleep. At this moment, he admired her endurance and admired her righteous heart towards Wei Min—she could have stayed out of Wei Min's difficulties, and even watched Wei Min's jokes.

He took her cloak and carefully draped it over her. Looking at her quiet face, his hands did not move away from the neckline of her cloak.

"What are you doing?" Li Chengqi's cold voice suddenly sounded. He woke up and saw Li Chengmao nostalgic for Shen Yan.

Hearing his voice, Li Chengmao's hands almost flicked open. But he quickly made a silent gesture and said in a very low voice: "Sister-in-law just fell asleep, I'm afraid she will catch a cold...... The cloak on the eldest brother was put on by your sister-in-law. ”

Li Chengqi touched the cloak on his body, and his heart warmed. He thought about fastening the cloak on his body, and then walked to Shen Yan's side and carefully picked her up.

Shen Yan flicked her eyelids, made a few sounds, and vaguely heard Li Chengqi say "go back to sleep" and closed her eyes again.

When he walked to the door, Li Chengqi did not forget to say a word of "hard work" to Li Chengmao.

Li Chengmao sent him and Shen Yan away, and when he looked back, he found that Shen Yan's cloak had fallen. When he left, he chose to take the moon-white cloak back to his Qinxin Garden, thinking that Bai Jian would help her send it to the main courtyard and let Li Chengqi return it to her.

Li Chengqi kept holding Shen Yan and sent her to the bed in Yuxiangyuan. He didn't sleep by himself, and he stayed with her quietly by her bedside, thinking about the bits and pieces between him and her, from the first time he saw her, to the present. But he still inadvertently thought of the woman who had lived in his heart since he was a child-Yingge.

It was dawning very quickly.

Qinghe came to Yuxiangyuan to invite Shen Yan over, but Xiyu told her: "My young lady was busy in the account room all night yesterday, and she didn't come back until dawn." Can you go back and talk to the eldest lady and tell her to wait? Master Hou is accompanying my young lady inside. ”

"This ...... This is a good thing yesterday...... "Qing He couldn't help but be anxious, "My young lady has sent someone to call Steward Zhong, if Steward Zhong arrives, how will my young lady deal with it?" ”

Xiyu was also worried, and after thinking about it, she still walked to the door of the inner room and explained the situation to Ning Anhou.

Hearing her voice, Shen Yan also woke up. Seeing that the sky was bright, she was shocked, for fear that she had promised Wei Min by mistake.

"Don't you need me to go with you?" When she was freshened up and was about to go to Dongyuan, Li Chengqi asked her.

"The matter in the backyard of the Hou Mansion, let Sister Min Min solve it herself."

Li Chengqi had to let her go.

When Shen Yan arrived at Dongyuan, she hurriedly taught Wei Min what to say after seeing Zhong Ce. Wei Min listened carefully and remembered, lest he say the wrong thing or forget what he should have said in front of Zhong Ce.

When Qing He came in from outside to report that Steward Zhong had arrived, she looked very nervous. In order to soothe her so nervous, Shen Yan held her hand and said with a smile: "Sister, don't worry, I'm here." When you say something bad, I'll find a way to help you. ”

Wei Min nodded, and then went to the "battlefield" as if he was facing a great enemy.

Seeing her sitting in the hall accompanied by Shen Yan, Zhong Ce, who had been waiting for a while, respectfully greeted the two of them, and then asked her, "I don't know what the eldest lady is doing to find the old slave?" Is it that the old slave handed over the affairs of the Hou Mansion to you, and there was something that was not clear? ”

Wei Min glanced at Shen Yan and said with a busy smile: "It's not that Steward Zhong didn't make it clear. Steward Zhong and I have talked enough. It's just that I have a poor memory, and I don't remember some things, so I want to check with Steward Zhong. ”

She would say this, Zhong Ce was a little surprised, but to his surprise, it was still to come.

Wei Min began.

"The whole Hou Mansion, including the slaves and servants I brought, a total of sixty-three people, need to eat about twenty catties of food every day, and it costs a penny. The master of the Hou Mansion drinks nourishing porridge for breakfast, eats white noodles, and the subordinates eat white porridge and steamed buns, lunch and dinner, with an average of three dishes for each master, and an average of one dish for each subordinate, which costs three dollars. Steward Zhong, am I right? ”

"That's right." Zhong Ce never mentioned such a small matter to Wei Min at all. Therefore, he was almost shocked when he heard her say it one by one, and without deviation.

Wei Min then talked about the monthly money of the owners and servants of each house and the cost of tailoring in each season, and after dealing with Zhong Ce one by one, she talked about the places that all the masters of the Hou Mansion needed to pay attention to in their daily lives. Every time she couldn't remember something, Shen Yan would remind her from the side, so after about two quarters of an hour, although she spoke with a dry mouth, she was also majestic, and Zhong Ce's eyes widened in surprise, and she only said "yes" at the bottom.

"The eldest lady has such a comprehensive understanding of the Hou Mansion, and the Hou Ye has handed over the affairs of the mansion to you, which is really a wise decision."

"It's all taught by Steward Zhong." Wei Min said and walked up to Zhong Ce, and said with a smile, "In the future, I will have to bother Steward Zhong to continue to help me take care of the affairs in this mansion." ”

"yes." Shen Yan hurriedly agreed, "No matter how capable my sister is, she can't do without the good helper of Steward Zhong." I often hear the Hou Ye say that if there is no Steward Zhong in this Hou Mansion for a day, it will inevitably cause a big mess. ”

"That's what my sister said." Wei Min took her words and looked at Zhong Ce again, "Steward Zhong, I'm going to have to work hard for you in the future." ”

"It should be, it should be."

Zhong Ce was convinced from the bottom of his heart, and immediately had something to explain to Wei Min about the affairs of the Hou Mansion. Seeing this, Shen Yan retreated with confidence.

On the way back to the Imperial Fragrance Garden, she found that many slave servants were looking excited and whispering, so she asked Xiyu to inquire about what was wrong.

"Miss Cousin is back, and she is crying to the old lady in Fushoutang about the grievances she has suffered outside for a while." (To be continued.) )