"Mr. Liu is now the only student left by his side, and you don't know that we are in Lijia Village, as long as I reach the age, in order to be exempted from military service, I will enter the city to work, and in another year, I will also leave my mother and enter the city. And there are no children in our village now, and most of them have fled with their children! Hearing Xiao Si ask about Mr. Liu and the situation in the village, Shang Yu immediately said, with a trace of sadness on his face.

In addition to his parents, the most respected person in the village is Mr. Liu, who can always teach them a lot of knowledge, which is incomprehensible to all adults, and even the bookkeeping method that Mr. Lu said to Mr. Lu's account office last time was taught by Mr. Liu.

It's just that the population of the merchant village is getting smaller and smaller, just because the number of mountain bandits has increased in recent years, and the officers and soldiers still come to the village to recruit soldiers again and again, so Xiao Si and Shang Yudi's father left home again and went to the city again, and joined the caravan of the Lu Clan's warehouse to go to the Western Regions, so that they can not only escape military service, but also exchange for some silver taels to treat Shang Yu's sick mother.

"It turns out that this year, the village has changed so much! In another month, I can go back to the village to visit relatives, the innkeeper specially promised to give me three more days off this year, then I can accompany Mr. Liu more, but I don't know when he will return to his hometown, he always said that there is something that has not been repaired, if it is repaired, you can go home! I don't know what it is. ”

"Don't say anything, Xiao Yu, you go in! If I tell you more, Uncle Zhang, the housekeeper, will scold me again when he sees that I am not doing my job! Xiao Si said this, and couldn't help but look back at the main entrance of the warehouse with some fear, obviously the manager Zhang in his mouth was very strict with him.

Xiao Si is two years older than Shang Yu, seventeen years old this year, which is why he went to the city to be a buddy.

"Okay, then I'll go in, and by the way, ask my father if there's any news! He has been to the Western Regions for more than a year, and there has been no news, and my mother and I are very concerned! Shang Yu said goodbye to Xiao Si and pushed the wheelbarrow into the courtyard through the small door on the side of the warehouse.

Placing the wheelbarrow in a tool warehouse on the side of the courtyard, Shang Yu passed through the two courtyards and entered the courtyard of the third accounting room, which was the residence of Mr. Lu Shaobei, the accounting room, and the place where he ran the accounts.

At this moment, "Wow! With a sound of the earth, a basin of water fell from the sky and was poured directly on the top of Shang Yu's head.

"Hah! Sorry, wooden fish! I didn't mean to! A silver bell-like laughter came overhead, and there was an unconcealable mockery in the voice, but it was clear that the water was deliberately spilled.

"You...... You've gone too far! Shang Yu raised his head, wiped the water on his face with his hand, and couldn't help but say angrily to a girl who poked out of the attic window.

"I didn't mean to, why do you wooden fish talk like this? It's just a basin of wash water! It's not footwater, look at you like that, you have no cultivation at all, it seems that you must have lost etiquette and rules after dropping out of private school! The girl poked her head out of the attic, her eyes flashing with a mocking gaze, the corners of her mouth turned up, and there was clearly a hint of disdain for Shang Yu.

"You...... It just doesn't make sense! Shang Yu looked at the clothes he was wearing, this was the coarse cloth clothes that his mother made for him on the hospital bed, although it was not worth a few pennies in the eyes of the rich, but this was already winter clothes, and the cotton in it was sewn by his mother when he dismantled an old cotton robe from his father.

Although it was not cold at this time in the sun, a basin of water was splashed on his body, gradually penetrating into his underwear, and a burst of cold came into his body, and Shang Yu immediately shivered. In anger, he wanted to find something and throw it upstairs, but the courtyard was very clean, and where could he find half a tile for a while?

At this moment, the door of the account room in front of Shang Yu opened, and a middle-aged man in a blue cloth shirt walked out of it, seeing Shang Yu's wet appearance, he couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Xiao Yu, what's the matter?" ”

"Mr. Lu, Xiao Wan, she deliberately splashed me with a basin of water! This is my mother's new quilted cotton clothes for me, you see that the cotton inside is in the water, but it can no longer keep warm! Shang Yu looked at the middle-aged man and immediately said with some anger and helplessness.

"Second Miss! Did you deliberately splash people with water? Wait until I go to the master's place to talk about it, you go to the warehouse every day to bully people, I have repeatedly hidden it for you, and now it is more and more unorthodox. Lu Shaobei immediately lowered his face and asked the girl upstairs.

"Uncle Lu, I won't dare next time! Please don't tell my dad about it, I sneaked out of it, he didn't know about it, he complained about this stinky wooden fish, why did I have to go into the yard when I splashed water?" The girl upstairs saw Liu Shaobei's angry appearance, and immediately begged for mercy and said, but she did not admit to deliberately splashing water.

"If you do such a thing again next time, I will tell my lord that he will confine you to your home! You get Xiao Yudi's clothes wet, and this time I will inform the housekeeper to deduct a part of your monthly money as compensation for Xiao Yudi, you can be convinced. Lu Shaobei's face sank and said, as the account office of the Lu family, managing the expenses of everyone in the Lu family, Lu Shaobei still has a very high status in the Lu family's firm, even if he is the head of the family, he has to sell him some face, and he dares to blame this young lady.

"I know it's wrong, don't tell my dad!" The upstairs girl immediately said with some fear, immediately retracted her head, and closed the upstairs window.

Only then did Lu Shaobei turn around, pull Shang Yu into the room, and said with some emotion on his face: "The second young lady has always been used to being indulged!" Please bear with me, I have an old leather robe here, with a slight tear at the edges, just so I can give it to you, take it back and change it. As he spoke, he turned around and took out an old leather robe from a cabinet in the ledger.

Shang Yu stood up at this time, and said with a slightly red face: "Then how can it be done, my cotton coat is only a few dozen yuan, I don't dare to ask for your leather robe!" "You must know that the minimum value of a leather robe is two pieces of silver, even if it is old, it is worth at least a few cents of silver, Shang Yu, who has been strictly disciplined by his father since he was a child, naturally knows that this leather robe must not be accepted.

"Take it! Even if this thing is that I, Lu Shaobei, apologize to you on behalf of the second miss, the second miss's mother died early, and her personality is a little extreme, she has bullied you a lot from the private school, and now she is still waiting for an opportunity to retaliate! I know all these things. If it weren't for your father leaving the Western Regions and your mother being sick, you wouldn't have been able to study in the school for half a year. ”

"As your father's friend, I am also your elder, I didn't wear this old leather robe, but I gave it to you to make the best use of it! Besides, the method of splitting and consolidating accounts that you told me last time is much better than the previous method, and I wonder how you came up with it. That's the reward! Lu Shaobei stuffed the leather robe into Shang Yudi's hand and said.

"This ...... I still can't ask for your things, the kind of bookkeeping method I told you last time was taught to me by accident by Mr. Liu from our village, and it wasn't what I came up with! Shang Yu said with a little red on his face.

"Oh! That's okay, you and the child in the fourth child have great business potential, and they will definitely be rare business talents in the future, even if it is a gift from Lu Bo! Take it, if you don't take it, I'm going to be angry! Take off your wet cotton clothes and put on your leather robe for the time being, you can't wear wet clothes in this weather! I'll take it and let the guys in the back dry it over the fire! Lu Shaobei saw that Shang Yu did not accept gifts easily, and he was not angry, but liked him more in his heart.