Ji Xingxuan got up early in the morning and took a sedan chair to the annex of Xia Jiang's house, and after the doorman reported, he was invited into the Xiyuan Flower Hall for tea.

Ji Xingxuan sat on the circle chair, with his hands on his knees, pinching a Tongbao between his fingers wrapped in white gauze, rubbing it gently, not knowing what to think in his eyes, as soon as he heard the sound of talking outside, he raised his head, and saw a beautiful figure walking in on the side of the two open rattan doors, a twenty-eight-year-old girl, her appearance is not so delicate, her black hair is twisted into a shock, a little red hairpin, a butterfly shirt and yellow skirt, like a spring flower.

"Sister Star Swirl, it rained for a while in the morning, and I thought you weren't coming." When someone opened his mouth, it was the crisp sound of the yellow oriole, with a little coquettishness and distress.

Ji Xingxuan put the Tongbao into his sleeve, stood up, and said with a smile: "Why didn't you come to the appointment, Minmin, are you feeling better?"

The girl who just entered the door was none other than the fifth lady of the Xia Jiang family in the south, Xia Jiangmin.

"It's been warm for the past two days, I'm much better," Xia Jiangmin walked over with a smile, affectionately took Ji Xingxuan's arm and pulled her up and down on the short couch above, and saw her wrapped yarn in her hand at a glance, hurriedly raised it in front of her, and said in surprise: °

"What's wrong with your hand?"

"The day before yesterday, I played the piano, and I was injured when I was moved."

"Why are you so careless, rubbing the medicine?" Xia Jiangmin asked a few more words with concern, and Ji Xingxuan cleverly picked up the topic:

"Did I show you two last time?"

Xia Jiangmin nodded happily: "Read, that book is very interesting, I was still reading it before you came."

I was not in good health a while ago, and my father didn't let me go out, thank you for bringing books to relieve my boredom. ”

"It's good if you like it, I still have two volumes there, the latter and the other collection, and I'll give it to you when you're done."

"That's great."

The two girls chatted for a while, it was a book and a miscellaneous, and after a pot of tea, Xia Jiangmin couldn't sit still, and suddenly pulled Ji Xingxuan and said:

"Sister Star Swirl, I've been bored at home for a while, and I want to go for a walk, can you come with me?"

Ji Xingxuan hesitated: "Didn't Mr. Xia Jiang let you go out?"

Xia Jiangmin hurriedly said: "Daddy won't allow me to go out alone, my illness is cured, with you by my side, he will definitely agree, okay?"

Ji Xingxuan smiled warmly and nodded indulgently.

Xia Jiangmin cheered, and then pulled her to see her father, and after the request, Xia Jianghelang really agreed, entrusted Ji Xingxuan with two sentences, and asked people to prepare a sedan chair.

As soon as she walked out of the door of the annex, Xia Jiangmin's face was obviously much brighter, Ji Xingxuan asked her where she planned to go, she scratched her chin and proposed:

"There's nothing fun in the north of the city, let's go up to the south of the city for a walk, I know that there is a tavern in Ludao that sells rice wine, which is particularly delicious, take you to taste it."

"Okay · Ji Xingxuan was not disappointed, so the two of them each got into a sedan chair and went to the south of the city.

In the sedan door, Xia Jiangmin fumbled in the cuffs for a while, took out a letter from the wax mouth, brushed it and stuffed it back.

It is said that Yu Shu boasted in front of Xue Rui yesterday, and wanted to make a fake account for him to see, as soon as he arrived at the Wangji Building this morning, he continued to fake yesterday, and the abacus beads crackled.

Xue Rui appeared at the Wangji Building at lunch, Yu Shu was called downstairs by Xiaoqing to his study, and when he entered the door, he stuffed a book of accounts into him, took the tea handed by Xiaoqing, and sat aside to wait for him to take a look.

"Done so quickly?" Xue Rui opened her new account with some joking thoughts, and couldn't laugh after turning two pages, and gradually showed a little surprise on her face, and after reading this small half of the account, she had to admit that she had two brushes in the account, if it wasn't for the real account he had seen before, only the book in his hand was the cost of his two-month construction of the forgetting machine building, but the total amount was more than half wrong, I really don't know how she stuffed such a large amount of money into it

Yu Shu waited for him to turn to the last page before he spoke confidently:

"In fact, making fake accounts is nothing more than three things, concealment, coaxing, and cheating. What is hidden is the income, what is coaxed is the cost, it is the outsider who is deceived, and the most important thing is to make a fuss about the cost, and if the article is done well, it will make outsiders unable to see the truth and falsehood. I'm doing this account now, but I'm purely coaxing the cost, and as for the income, I added it to show you. If you think it's good, don't worry about leaving this matter to me, and when the restaurant opens, I'll make a whole account for you in the first month, and then you decide whether to use it or not. ”

Xue Rui silently put down the ledger and turned his head to stare at her.

Yu Shu was uncomfortable with him, and frowned: "What do you think I do?"

"Look at what you've got in your head, tell me what else you wouldn't have?" Xue Rui teased.

"Ha Luha," Yu Shu smiled and waved his hand, "I won't go much, that is, I am proficient in such a skill, and I just change the soup and not the medicine." ”

Xue Rui listened to her speak modestly, but looking at the little appearance of the bent eyebrows and eyes, he was clearly complacent, and he found it very interesting, so he did not demolish her, but straightened his expression and asked:

"If the actual accounts and details are sorted out by two account offices, you only need to be responsible for the external false accounts, and how much time do you have to spend on this every month."

Yu Shu thought for a while and said, "If you want me to do it, I will tidy it up in ten days, and I can do it in a month at most three days."

Xue Rui saw her relaxed tone, thought for a moment, and said, "Okay, I'll send this matter to you." You can just show me this fake account, and I'll reward you every month in the future. ”

Yu Shu frowned and said: "What do you want to reward, it's not that I didn't get paid, eighty taels of silver a month."

Originally, she was a good person, and taking his advantage was like trying to do something to him.

Xue Rui shook his head and said, "It's one thing, I didn't invite you here to let you do the accounting."

Yu Shu blurted out: "I didn't do the accounts for your reward."

Hearing this, Xue Rui's eyes jumped, put one arm on the coffee table between the two, and asked her with a smile: "Then what are you for?"

"Of course it's because—" In the middle of the words, Yu Shu stopped suddenly, and for some reason felt that it would be strange to say the words later, so he swallowed back the four words "I miss you", and said with a displeased expression:

"Why do you talk so much nonsense, don't say don't want it, anyway, I can't do it for a few months, let's say it's good on the deed, wait for the big Yan to try the list, if I am photographed by the Taishi Academy, I won't do it here, and then you can find whoever you like, I'll take care of you."

As soon as the words came out, Yu Shu knew that she had gone too far, but seeing that the smile on Xue Rui's face faded, it was too late to take back the words, so she awkwardly picked up the teacup and poured it, and before she could taste it, she listened to Xue Rui

"I know, you go to the front to eat first."

̈ Don't you eat it?" Is this angry?

"I have something to do later, so I won't stay."

"Oh." Sure enough, I was angry.

Knowing that Lu Dao was being kicked out in disguise, Yu Shu stood up stupidly, walked to the door only to find that he was still holding a teacup in his hand, and went back to put it down, and by the way, he glanced at Xue Rui, and when he met Xue Rui's gaze, he looked at her generously, but his face was a little less gentle:

"Anything else?"

"No, no."

Yu Shu left depressedly, I couldn't understand why he was angry, she was just quick to talk, in fact, she didn't say the wrong thing, right?

Xue Rui saw that there was no one in front of the door, so he raised his hand and rubbed his forehead with a faint pain, and secretly told himself not to be like her, otherwise he would still be angry in the future.

On the sixth day of the first month, the clothes were not measured, and the two tailors on the ninth day of the first month were called by Xue Rui, and Yu Shu saw people after lunch.

first measured the figure, shoulders, neck, chest, waist, back and legs, and then held the atlas to Yu Shu to choose the style, both of which are spring, and a small box of rags of fabric to make a small sample.

Yu Shu is now rich and willing to spend some effort on the façade, so he carefully picked, but the whole book didn't fit his eyes, and his eyes suddenly lit up until the last page, pointing to the clothes on the little man on the painting, and said to the tailor:

"I think it's good."

The tailor stepped forward to take a look, looked at each other, and said truthfully: "Girl, this style of Hufu was worn in the early years, especially for the ladies who love to make men's clothes and go out on horseback.

The clothes on this painting are indeed changed from Hu clothes, with lapels and plackets, and knee-length clothes, tight trousers, and hooked boots, which look full of sass, if there is a fly in the ointment, it is less feminine and too capable.

Yu Shusheng didn't care what the tailors said, the more she looked at it, the more she liked it, and she had already planned to buy a horse and learn to ride, which was more in line with her mind.

Later, two sets of regular skirts and embroidered shoes were added, and the flowers were carefully splintered together, so that the tailor could settle the settlement, Xue Rui must have taken care of her face, and did not have much to pay for her, Yu Shu was ready to have cash, and happily went into the back room to take two ingots of silver for them to make a deposit, and the rest was taken until the ready-to-wear.

Before leaving, I didn't forget to tell the tailor to bring a few albums that boys can wear when she comes back, so that she can pick a few for Yu Xiaoxiu.

When she returned to Jifu in the evening, Yu Shu went to see Aunt Cui first, and gave her two silk flowers that she bought on the street, thinking of coaxing her to be happy for Yu Xiaoxiu, but she asked where the money came from.

Aunt Cui knew that Yu Xiaoxiu was now living in someone else's house, and only two days ago she heard from Yu Shu that she had recognized a godmother, so she didn't give Yu Shu a good face:

"Your mother recognizes it cheaply, and people will give you a corner and two corners to bluff you so much that you can't distinguish between north and south, and you will be a girl for nothing."

Yu Shu saw that she didn't know what to do, she didn't bother to reason with her, she put down her things and left, and the angry Aunt Cui scolded her behind her back, but Yu Shu took it as a deaf ear.

Anyway, it's not her own mother, what's wrong with her.