On the twentieth day of the lunar month, Yuan Mao reported to the Bai family that the accounts had been summarized and asked the Bai family to go to see the accounts. Bai Shi was very happy to hear this and said to Qingshuang: "This Mr. Yuan is really capable, he did it so quickly, I thought it would be after twenty-five." ”

Qingshuang said while putting on the red gorilla felt cloak for the Bai family: "I and Steward Chen Cai have been helping him, and we went to our various businesses with him, where are we looking at the accounts now." This Mr. Yuan not only has a strong ability to settle accounts, but also is upright, knowing that the shopkeepers everywhere are from the house, and there are also Ziyu and Feiguang These are all people around the lady and girl, but he still unceremoniously pointed out the mistakes in their accounts and asked them to explain their whereabouts. As soon as we saw that the account room in Beijing was the companion room next to the eldest lady, we vaguely passed, where did we dare to ask. ”

Bai Shi was surprised when he heard it: "Yes, then this person is really good, but it may also be that he did it on purpose to show us, let's observe it again, if it is really a good one, we will give it to her in the future." You and I can save snacks. This year, I didn't care about a lot of things for the sake of business, I attended fewer ladies' meetings, and Mrs. Shangfeng went less, which is not good for a long time. ”

Chen Wenhui on the side suddenly interjected and said, "Mother, I was about to tell you, Sister Qingshuang will be busy in the future." Bai Shi was surprised: "What is Qingshuang going to do?" Chen Wenhui said: "Mother still remembers the perfume I asked Sister Qingshuang to make? Bai said: "Oh, that is very useful, especially the plum blossom perfume that Qingshuang just gave me recently, it smells fragrant and sprinkles on my body, and my head is very good, and I don't need to be as troublesome as incense." Chen Wenhui said: "I was about to tell my mother that the fruit trees on the hill of our grange will not produce until a few years later, and it will be a pity that they will only be left in vain in the past few years." The Bai family has already taken care of everything, and it was very strange to hear her daughter's words: "What can I do if I don't let it go in vain, is there a way to get results in a year?" ”

Chen Wenhui smiled when she heard this: "I haven't heard of this method, but although the fruit trees take a few years to bear fruit, they bloom every year." Bai said: "Of course, flowering, what can flowers do, and they can't be sold for money, ah, by the way, I understand, your perfume is made of flowers, you want to use the flowers on the mountain to make perfume." Chen Wenhui clapped her hands and said, "Mother is the smartest, and I guessed it right at once, I originally wanted to sell it." Bai Shi smiled and scratched Chen Wenhui's little nose and said, "Just your ghost elf, but too, it's the flowers of several mountains, and you can't finish it alone." It seems that an incense shop is going to be built. Oops, so Qingshuang is going to be released, and there really is no one around me. ”

Chen Wenhui smiled: "It's all because my mother is too powerful, and the people around me are all talents, next time I can't train it so well, and no one will use it." Bai Shi smiled when he heard this: "As long as you can speak, okay, I'll discuss this with your father later, now go and read the accounts first, you come and read together, you can settle the accounts very quickly." Help me watch. ”

Chen Wenhui hurriedly agreed, and Qiu Bi, who was beside her, hurriedly took the cloak and put it on for Chen Wenhui. The group came to the account room to look at the account for a morning, but they haven't finished reading it. Bai Shi is a Lisuo person, and directly ordered people to put the food in the account room, and continued to read after eating, so that he saw that dinner was about to be eaten, and then he finished reading.

Although Chen Wenhui was just helping with the calculation, she was also very tired, after all, this body was still a child's body, and she felt that this method of accounting was too tiring. At this time, the accounts are all running accounts, so the memory is not good. After a while, there is a period of money and money embezzled from each other, because the business money of several industries is borrowed from each other, and it is even more troublesome, an account has to be counted by Chen Cai, Qingshuang, Bai, and Yuan Mao, and Chen Wenhui arithmetic, and it took a day to complete, which is really troublesome. They should be taught to use modern methods to keep accounts, and it is easy to calculate them, and the loans and loans are separated at a glance. Chen Wenhui thought about it, and didn't speak for the time being, because her mother said that this Yuan Mao would have to be inspected for a while, and when her mother said that she could use him, it would not be too late to teach him, so that she wouldn't have to be so tired next year.

Just thinking about it, he had already walked to Bai's upper room, the meals were all set up in the dining room, Chen Yuanheng, Chen Wenjun, and Chen Wenlin were all ready, and they could eat when their mother and daughter came. Seeing Bai come in, Chen Yuanheng got busy helping Bai untie his cloak and said, "Madame has worked hard, have the accounts been settled?" Bai Shi was a little embarrassed: "Don't you need the master's help, there is green frost." After speaking, he handed the cloak to Qingshuang: "The accounts are all settled, and Mr. Yuan has also made a general account, and I will show it to you after the meal." Chen Yuanheng nodded: "Okay, let's not talk about this now, Mrs. and Hui'er are also hungry, hurry up and eat." ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Yes, father, I have been hungry for a long time." Chen Wenlin said: "My sister is so young, why do you follow to read the accounts?" Bai said: "Lin'er, don't underestimate your sister, she is not as good at reading as you, but she is very fast in arithmetic, and even Mr. Yuan, the bookkeeper who has been trained since childhood, is surprised." Now Chen Wenlin was surprised: "Sister, you are a girl's family, how can you be good at arithmetic, I heard that girls are good at reading poetry, and most of them don't know how to settle accounts, so you have to invite internal and external housekeepers, and you have to invite internal and external account rooms, why are you different?" ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Okay, the second brother is still not allowed to eat, I am starving to death." I'm most afraid of poetry and words in my life, as soon as my father tells me this, I will lose my teeth, and I am hungry at this time, and you say, peace of mind will not let me eat. The whole family laughed.

Chen Yuanheng, who loves his daughter, hurriedly pulled his daughter to sit down for dinner, and kept serving vegetables for his daughter. After dinner, I was supposed to chat for a while, and when I saw that my daughter was very tired, I asked the maids to take the children back to the room to rest.

Only then did the Bai family take out the general ledger and show it to Chen Yuanheng. On the other hand, he also said: "Master, we are also a bumper harvest year this year." The farm alone has made a lot of money because of this year's large orders. We received orders for a total of 90,000 taels of silver, and made 5,000 taels ourselves. After all, the amount of money for chickens and ducklings is small, but these five thousand taels are a lot of money, an egg is three cents, and the hatched chicks can be sold for ten cents, and we make five cents net by removing labor, taxes and other expenses. The 5,000 taels alone earned more than 2,000 taels, plus the previous earnings, the farm earned more than 3,000 taels in less than a year, but the land to buy the farm, the built factory, and so on can still be left with 2,000 taels. ”

Chen Yuanheng nodded. Bai Shi also said: "There are more than 80,000 taels of orders for Li Huan to sell livestock, this is not produced by himself, and he earns less, but because there is no cost, that is, Li Huan's contacts buy and sell, so the net profit is also very good, there are two percent, and this one will earn 16,700 taels." This Li Huan is really an elf. It's just that this business can't be done for a long time, it's just this season. ”

Chen Yuanheng said: "What Mrs. said is that we still concentrate on doing farms, this year is an exception, we will not sell it next year, and it is not worth it for the province to be known by the imperial history and then join me." Bai nodded. In fact, I have thought of this for a long time, but this year is too hasty, in order to make the loan plan go smoothly, I can only do it with my own family, and prepare a little earlier next year, so that the merchant can do it, and I can also get personal favors.

Bai said: "Anyway, we don't rely on this profit, in fact, this is not profitable, the most profitable is our winery." The brewery had only been selling wine for a few days, and then it came back. Because the Chinese New Year is the best wine to sell, we had too much wine stored before, and Yubing Yao and Yuquan wine were sold in the restaurant earlier, so the Yu family, who sold wine, wrapped up all our wine at once. If we hadn't sold it for more money to save some wine. In total, he earned more than 60,000 taels of silver, and in addition to the more than 10,000 taels for the construction of the winery, there were 50,000 taels left, which was just enough to cover the money for buying grain. Although there is no money left, there is a lot of food left, and even half of it has not been used up, and half of the wine has been saved, and next year it will be a net profit. ”

Chen Yuanheng said with a smile: "So we don't make money, we make things." Bai said, "That's the same." However, there is also a restaurant whose business is very good, and there are one or two thousand silver in the account almost every month, but there are more than 10,000 taels of money to be built in the restaurant, so there is not much left. But next year will be fine. ”

"And then it's Cuijin Lou's. In fact, the capital invested in Cuijin Building is the smallest, but the profit is very large, and now there are almost 1,000 taels of silver in the account every month. The capital was only a few hundred taels at the beginning, and it had already been repaid, so this item left us with more than 6,000 taels of silver. ”

Chen Yuanheng listened and said, "Finally, there is a surplus of money." Bai said: "There are also oil mills and soybean oil businesses." These are basically costless. The oil mill and soybean oil also have more than 7,000 taels of silver left. Chen Yuanheng said: "That's right, so we have more than 10,000 taels of silver left." ”

Bai Shi frowned and said: "Actually, there is still no left, because we used almost 10,000 taels to buy silk, and we also bought more than 1,000 acres of land, plus the mansion also spent more than 2,000 taels, so there is actually no money left." At this moment, Chen Yuanheng was happy: "There is no money left, and Mrs. still says that it is a bumper harvest year?" ”

Bai Shi thought about it: "Hey, I'm just happy to make money, and I forget to spend a lot." It's good next year, always happy. Chen Yuanheng said: "There will be things for next year next year." I discussed it with Chen Cai before. Next year, we will open branches in Deqing City and Qingyang City, the provincial capital, to open our Cuijin Building and Qinghe Building. The two restaurants are estimated to cost about 30,000 taels. Cuijin Lou doesn't have much money, but two thousand taels are always needed. ”

The Chen family's career is developing steadily, and my recommendation votes and collections are also growing, but they are too bad compared to Chen Wenhui's family.