Yu Shu and Cao Zixin came back from Vientiane Street, it was already evening, the rain was very small, the gate of Zhao Hui's courtyard was ajar, and the smell of rice sneaked out to recruit people, Yu Shu took a breath when he entered the door, and praised loudly: "What is Aunt Hui doing delicious, so fragrant!" ”

"Go wash your hands first, and cook one more dish." Zhao Hui's hearty voice came from inside.

"Sister, why are you still running out in the rain." Hearing Yu Shu's voice, Yu Xiaoxiu came out of the kitchen with a stack of bowls, and his old-fashioned little face was much rounder.

This fragment of going home like in his memory many years ago made Yu Shu in a trance, and after listening to the sound of the door closing behind him, he smiled and strode over with an umbrella: "I'm going to do business with Brother Cao." ”

"What are you doing?"

Cao Zixin said: "It's a good thing, I'll call your sister to tell you after dinner." ”

He took the umbrella, consciously went to the water tank to scoop half a basin of water, brought it to the eaves, waited for Yu Shu to go in and put things, beckoned her to come out and wash her hands, and when she was washed, he handed her a clean hand towel to wipe in time.

Zhao Hui is a good cook, not only can make wontons, but she burned two meat and two vegetables tonight, she got fresh bamboo shoots from nowhere, a plate of shredded bamboo shoots and meat, red, green and green, it tasted no worse than the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet that Yu Shu ate at Ji's house that time.

Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu ate very happily, Zhao Hui just looked at the sweet appearance of their meal, she felt full, and smiled from ear to ear, Cao Zixin occasionally gave Yu Xiaoxiu vegetables, but did not take care of Yu Shu because of etiquette, after the meal, the rain also stopped, the sister and brother asked for the order to go out to wash the dishes, squatted on the edge of the water tank and whispered: "Sister, Brother Cao said before eating that you have any good things?" ”

"I got a job and settled accounts with people at a big chamber of commerce in the city."

"Ah, Chamber of Commerce? Can you make it? ”

"Learn and do at the same time, hehe, I'm so smart that I can't do anything. Guess how much I was paid a month? ”

Yu Xiaoxiu pouted at her previous sentence, but still guessed cooperatively: "Five dimes of silver? ”

He knew that his sister used to work in Cao Zixin's place to work for ten copper plates a day, and it was triangular silver in a month, since it was a big chamber of commerce, he had to give a few more.

Yu Shu shook his head, put down the bowl and shook two fingers at him.

"Two corners, that's not bad." It's also a big chamber of commerce, it's not as generous as Brother Cao, Yu Xiaoxiu thought to himself.

"Stupid, it's two taels of silver."

"Two-two!" Yu Xiaoxiu raised his voice.

"That's right." Afraid that Yu Xiaoxiu would not be surprised enough, she added proudly: "This is the beginning, when I have almost learned, people said that they would mention it to me for five or two months, how about it, your sister is amazing, right?" ”

"Click" The rag in Yu Xiaoxiu's hand fell into the water, and his chin couldn't close, he grew so big, and the biggest money in his hand was only two dimes of silver, and now Yu Shu told him that she could get five taels a month!

"Sister, you're not bragging, are you?"

"If you don't believe it, go ask Brother Cao."

Yu Xiaoxiu stood up and ran into the house, and after a while, he ran out again, squatting down next to Yu Shu, like a little monkey, with two round eyes looking at him brightly and not speaking.

Yu Shu recognized this kind of look, which he often saw on Yu Lei's face before, a gaze called admiration, and his heart was happy, so he leaned over and put his head on the door, and said affectionately: "When I get paid, I will buy you new clothes and shoes, and change the pen and ink for you." ”

Yu Xiaoxiu scratched his head, "I'm a boy, I'm not so particular, sister, you keep your own flowers." ”

Yu Shu looked down at the cloth shoes on his feet, as well as the corners of his trousers with a piece of cloth, his heart was sour, her younger brother has a strong self-esteem, but he is a person who has a hard life, and he is ignored everywhere in the Ji family, and he goes to Sanjue Book House every day to attend classes, and in a group of well-dressed young masters and misses, he is dwarfed, and his personality adds a little inferiority, and he always likes to keep his head down in front of the living.

Xiaoxiao is lifeless all day long, and now he is still laughing at his age, and after another year or two like this, it is difficult to ensure that he will not be worn out of ambition, before this, she has to let him live a happy life.

After washing the dishes, seeing that it was getting late, although Yu Xiaoxiu was reluctant to leave, he obediently asked Cao Zixin to send him back to Ji's house.

Zhao Hui boiled a large pot of water, took a bath with Yu Shu, closed the courtyard door, blew the oil lamp and fell asleep. The next day, Yu Shu and Zhao Hui set up a stall on the street together, and then went to Taiheng Chamber of Commerce to find Pei Jing alone.

After inquiring about two people, Yu Shu found a hall with a grand façade on the north side of Vientiane Street, met Pei Jing at the gate, and said hello, Pei Jing led her to the backyard, found a clean room behind the two rows of houses to house her, and brought her a stack of old ledgers with a slightly musty smell for her to see, and attached a brand-new abacus, which probably explained to her the work of a cup of tea, and was invited away.

By the time he remembered Yu Shu's number at noon, and then turned back, Yu Shu had already cut down the stack of account books.

"You've read it all?" Pei Jing was surprised, he forgot to mention it before leaving, but he was going to show her for three days.

"I've read it all, is there anything else?" Yu Shu was embarrassed to say that she had finished reading it half an hour ago, and there was no other account book in the house, so she secretly practiced calligraphy for a long time.

Pei Jing was only afraid that Yu Shu was talking big, so he frowned secretly, and felt a little unhappy in his heart, so he took an account book and opened it, handed it to her, and said tentatively: "Have you read this one?" ”

Yu Shu only glanced at it, then nodded and said: "This is talking about the rice harvest and trading in Huainan in August of the year of Xinsi, oh, I just saw that there was an account that was not clearly calculated, and the corner of the book was folded." ”

As she spoke, she flipped through the pages, and handed it to Pei Jing, "Well, this is it, there is a place that is not counted well, it is empty." ”

Pei Jing looked down, there was indeed a small corner in that place, on the account, there was a blank space missing, not calculated, it was the old bookkeeper Mr. deliberately left it not to be a mark, not to turn it page by page, and he couldn't see the problem at all.

This kid really read all the stacks of accounts carefully!

This discovery made Pei Jing both surprised and delighted, and a little ashamed, because of the doubt just now.

"Ahem, that's good," Pei Jing cleared his throat, "It's almost noon, you go home to eat first, and come back in the afternoon." ”

Yu Shu touched the schoolbag on the side of the table and smiled shyly at him: "I brought food, it's too far to go home, can you let me stay here at noon?" ”

Pei Jing hesitated, originally he wanted to be strict with Yu Shu for a few days, but this kid was beyond the scope of his hopes, and if he asked him too much, to be honest, he really didn't know what to ask her for a while.

"Then you just stay here, there is tea on the table, and when you finish drinking, call someone in the yard, and someone will come to add it."

"Good"

Pei Jing walked away with his hands behind his back, left a door, went to the side of the window, turned around again, looked in from the half-open window, and saw Yu Shu took out two palm-sized dry cakes from his bag, as well as a booklet, went to the table and poured a cup of tea, while nibbling on the dry cakes, while flipping through the booklet, there was no delay at all.

This is a person who can do things-Pei Jing jumped out of his heart with such a thought, nodded, and left with satisfaction, thinking to himself, wait for someone to move a soft couch over tomorrow, so that this child can have a place to lie down when he is tired and sleepy at noon. Before the sun set in the afternoon, Pei Jing let Yu Shu go home, he had no choice, in the afternoon he took the abacus to test Yu Shu, and showed a double hit red goose, wanting to shock her, but the child asked him to play twice, only tried twice, and then he backhanded to learn the original to him, the position of a bead is not bad, but the one who was shocked became him.

This kid started too fast, too worry-free, but made Pei Jing feel a sense of frustration, he originally wanted to cultivate feelings by teaching her, but now he hasn't taught others twice, and if it goes on like this, will he be able to directly let her make mistakes the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow will be able to let her go to work?

Fortunately, there is one thing that can comfort Pei Jing, Yu Shu's writing is too slow, stroke by stroke, and the pause is insufficient, and it is not even neat, it can only be recognized.

Mr. Bookkeeper writes more well, Pei Jing writes very chicly, and he can't look down on Yu Shu's broken words, so he repeatedly ordered her to go back and practice her words well, and when the people left, he sent a letter to teach her to write in the afternoon.

Yu Shu didn't know Pei Jing's depression, in order to get the standard five taels of wages as soon as possible, she deliberately showed it today, but she still had a proper clumsiness and didn't dare to show too much, so as not to make Pei Jing suspicious.

Take the stack of ledgers in the morning, she looked at the past and found at least five mistakes, but she could only point out the seemingly marked vacancy to him, and the rest should not be seen, as for the plan to plate, blame her for a momentary itch, and she didn't help learning him, but fortunately, she used her hands to make a pair of doubles abacus, and she made two mistakes to find the position. Yu Shu left from the main hall of the Chamber of Commerce, first went to Changmen Pu Street to find Zhao Hui, and saw Yu Xiaoxiu from a distance helping Zhao Hui clean up the dishes and chopsticks on the side, not strange, since Xiaoxiu found her place to stay, she ran to Zhao Hui at two ends in three days, helping her do chores, Zhao Hui was happy to have a child to accompany her, at first refused to ask him to work, and then stubbornly this kid slowly went with him.

Yu Shu knew in her heart that Yu Xiaoxiu was probably helping her repay Zhao Hui's kindness for taking her in, how could she not feel distressed by such a sensible and precocious younger brother.

Zhao Hui stood on the edge of the stove wiping her sweat, and when she saw Yu Shu, she called Yu Xiaoxiu and said, "Xiaoxiu put things away, your sister is back, you two will play by yourself first." ”

Yu Shu and Zhao Hui greeted each other, and seeing that there were not many guests, they chose a table to sit down and beckoned to Yu Xiaoxiu, Yu Xiaoxiu put down the rag and obediently went over and sat down opposite her.

"Sister." Yu Xiaoxiu's eyes dodged for a moment, thinking about what Xue Wenzhe's nasty ghost asked him in the morning, and he made up his mind not to tell his sister.

"Are you done with your homework today?" Yu Shu didn't notice his abnormality and asked him about his homework as usual.

"I'm done, oh yes, I'll give you this," Yu Xiaoxiu paused, took something out of his arms and handed it to her, "Aunt Liu found it under your bed when she was cleaning the house." ”

What he was holding in his hand was the yellow stone that the Dust Daoist had given her a month ago, round and round.

"I thought I lost it," Yu Shu spread her hand and took it, closed her palms and rubbed it, and suddenly remembered that she hadn't looked for Jingchen again for a month, and she didn't know if the little white Taoist priest in Lu Dao had spent all his money, would she sleep in Meilin hungry again?

Yu Shu felt that the probability of her guess was very high, and sighed, feeling that she had to take some time in the past two days, lest such a big living person really starve to death.