After eating at Shangguan Xue's, Li Man talked to her sister again, and then returned to her residence.

As soon as I returned to the house, I saw several men sitting around the table and settling accounts.

Li Huanian, Li Yan took the pen and drew on a piece of white paper, Li Mo and Li Shu sat quietly on the side, with solemn expressions.

Li Man didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of disturbing their thoughts, so he walked to the west window alone, took the cup on the small table, poured a cup of tea and drank it.

However, Li Shu's sharp eyes soon spotted her, and before she had time to boo him, this guy was already excited to pounce on him, "Daughter-in-law, you're back." ”

"Hmm. Have you all eaten it? Li Man put down the cup and asked.

Li Shu nodded, and pulled her to the table together, "The second brother and the fourth brother are counting the accounts in the shop." ”

Li Man sat down, saw Li Yan's eyebrows locked, and asked, "Is there a problem with this account?" Why so many? It's rare to take all the accounts confiscated all these years? Fall"

"It's not." Li Yan shook his head, and only after reading the book in Li Huajiang's hand did he make a mark, and then replied to Li Man.

"This is the account of the five shops for the year."

"Oh, that's a lot." Li Man turned his head, looked at the thick stack on the couch, and frowned slightly, "Haven't seen those yet?" ”

"Hmm." Li Hua nodded, put the one in hand and took another one.

Li Man took a copy casually, looked at the dense records on it, and frowned even more, "What is this?" Why is it so messy? ”

In some places, there are even altered ink, but one is even more eerie.

She took the ledger and sniffed it carefully at the end of her nose, and then gently wiped it twice on the handwriting with her fingertips, and sure enough, the ink ash in her hand.

She looked at Li Yan and Li Hua suspiciously.

Li Hua pursed her lips, and Li Yan nodded, admitting the guess in her heart, "Yes, the book you are holding in your hand should have been made by them recently." ”

"Fake accounts?" Li Man was surprised, these people are too bold, right? Aren't you afraid that the emperor will find out and kill their heads?

"It's not entirely fake, but fifteen shops, only five of them lost money in the end, and three of these five are currently semi-closed, one is seriously loss-making, has closed its doors, dismissed the guys, only the old shopkeeper is left, still waiting for them to settle the accounts, and the last one is still in business, but it is only a small profit."

Even, the profit is not as good as their small ready-to-wear store in Shennugou.

After hearing this, Li Man's eyes widened, with a look of disbelief, and he said angrily, "How can this be?" It means that the remaining five shops are also paralyzed, and this is returned to us, and then we will declare bankruptcy by ourselves? ”

Li Yan didn't say anything, things were far worse than he imagined.

Li Man didn't give up, pointed to the stack of account books on the couch, and said, "There are so many over there, why don't we take a look at them again, what about the five families, why have they all become dead horses?" ”

"Pretty much the same." Li Yan said.

Li Man was annoyed, "Then what do these people want to do?" One by one, they lost money and were going to go out of business, and they showed us these account books, isn't it in vain? ”

Li Yan sneered, "This mess is not easy to clean up, I'm afraid you still want us to fill these gaps." ”

"Ahem." Li Man was choked, "They are"

Thinking of the few shopkeepers who came over in the morning, and remembering their little eyes that were shining brightly, Li Man only cursed fiercely, "Old fox." ”

"No matter, Li Yan, don't look at the account book, Ming'er called them to come, and threw them all."

"It doesn't work." Li Hua said helplessly, "The emperor has decreed that these shops will be returned to the Shangguan family, which is the Shangguan family, so we must take care of these things, otherwise, when things get worse in the future, it will still affect the Shangguan family." ”

Li Man was a little stunned, and secretly gritted his teeth, no wonder the old emperor returned the shops so easily, it turned out that these shops have now become biting traps, not only did they not enter the account, but they also waited for them to fill in the deficit.

"Then let them close their doors, okay?"

Come to think of it, they don't have any extra money to fill this shop with.

"Only one is open now, and the other four are closed, but even if it closes, the accounts have to be clarified." Li Yan said.

Li Mo listened to it for a long time, and was speechless, and then he heard them say that he wanted to close the door and not do it, so he said in a deep voice, "I can't help it, these are the only properties left by the Shangguan Mansion, if there are no more, what will the Shangguan Mansion do in the future?" ”

"yes." Li Man thought about it and was also depressed.

In the morning, she also promised in front of the ancestors of the Shangguan family that she would keep the family business of the Shangguan family, including those shops, and she wanted to use them as Shangguan Xue's dowry in the future.

In less than half a day, was she discouraged?

"Nope." Li Man took two deep breaths and regained his strength, "Big brother is right, I can't help but do it." The shop is ours, although at present, it is basically in a state of loss, but as long as we all work together, I think we can always get through it. ”

The face she said was difficult to do.

In particular, the livelihood of these shops, two porcelain shops, one silk shop, is in a state of serious loss, one tea shop, which can basically be maintained, and one similar to a modern grocery store, which is slightly profitable.

They would have opened grocery stores, but porcelain, silk

Satin, including tea, they don't understand the market at all.

Seeing that none of them spoke, Li Man thought for a while and said, "In this way, let's use a dead horse as a live horse doctor, anyway, no matter how bad it is, you can still get five stores." ”

"Daughter-in-law, let's open a restaurant." Li Shu suddenly suggested, anyway, the business accounts they talked about, he listened to the first two big ones, but since the daughter-in-law said that there is a storefront, in his opinion, it is best to open a restaurant, after all, the daughter-in-law's craftsmanship is there, he dares to say that it is definitely stronger than the imperial chef in the palace.

As soon as he said this, several other people looked at him in unison.

"Am I wrong? The restaurant is stronger than the porcelain silk. Li Shu said.

Li Man looked at him with bright eyes, "I didn't say you were wrong." ”

Then, she looked at the others and said happily, "I think Li Shu's suggestion is very good, we can change to a familiar business to do, even if we don't do a restaurant, we can do something else." Trees are dead, people are alive, maybe, our reform will bring the business back to life. ”

"Hmm." The others nodded.

Li Yan pushed these ledgers aside and said, "In a while, let's go to these shops to see what the problem is, and then discuss other things." ”

"Okay." Li Man agreed.

Once there was a clear goal, everyone was much more active in doing things, and they didn't rest anymore, so Li Mo personally set up the carriage and took his daughter-in-law and younger brothers to these five shops together.

In one afternoon, all five shops were finished.

There are three big locks on the door, directly lock the door and close down, and another tea shop, only one young Xiaoer, sitting on a bamboo chair napping, he doesn't know Li Man and them, and he is just an ordinary guest, and his expression is very casual.

Even if Li Man claimed to buy some good tea to give away, he didn't bother to recommend it, he just waved his hand at them, saying something, go to another house, this shop will not be able to hold on and close the door.

The last grocery store, the business is still deserted, and there is only one young child, but he is very enthusiastic and can speak.

After Li Man and the others entered the store, he followed behind their buttocks, enthusiastically introducing all kinds of products, and he could really say that the dead were alive.

Li Man thought that this person must be a chatter, but the business in this store was really cold, but he couldn't hold back the chatter, and when a customer came, he grabbed it and said it.

In the end, Li Man actually bought a wooden basin and two wooden brushes.

When she returned to Shangguan Mansion, it was already dusk, and Shangguan Xue was waiting in her room despite the injury on her face.

"Sister, what are you doing in the afternoon? I've been waiting for you for a long time. ”

"Is there something wrong?" Li Man asked curiously, while taking the water brought by the maid and washing his face.

Shangguan Xue looked at her brothers-in-law and was embarrassed to speak, so she pulled Li Man's sleeve and pulled her to the inner room, and then took out a small medicine bottle from her arms.

"This is what the great wicked man sent to me."

"What?" Li Man picked up the medicine bottle, opened it and smelled it, and there was a very special fragrance coming to his nose, "It smells so good, what is this?" ”

"It's medicine." Shangguan Xuexiao's face flushed, pointed to her nose, and explained, "It is said that if you wipe this, there will be no scars on your face." ”

"Oh, that's good stuff." Li Man picked some with his fingertips, feeling that it was very similar to modern alabaster, and suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he asked, "Can this thing remove scars?" ”

Shangguan Xue was stunned, "Yes, right?" ”

"That's great, you can't use up so much, give me some." Thinking of the scars on Li Yan and Li Shu's faces, Li Man was very distressed, if this thing could really remove the scars, it would be great.

Shangguan Xue was stunned by what she said, "Okay, sister, take it if you want it." ”

"Thank you very much." Li Man went out with the medicine bottle, she wanted to find two men to try, anyway, this thing can be used by women, and the two of them are not afraid of being disfigured by using it.

Besides, what Yan Jin gave will definitely not be too bad.

It's just that Shangguan Xue, who was left alone in the back room, was annoyed, she didn't come to her sister to talk about this, and besides, leave some ointment for her.

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