Chengjun didn't eat dinner that day, so he went back to the school.

What followed was the unspeakable etiquette, and Nangong Jin felt that the day was like a punishment. Every day, you have to eat dinner to have freedom. Then you can go back to your room and write and draw on the big pile of books. On the map, the 23 parishes were already covered with small slips of paper, and all the places that had dealings with each parish were also nailed with small slips of paper one after another. Each hall took all kinds of notes and suggestions, and even a few halls, and asked Nangong Pu for a few detailed accounts.

Du Ling was busy building a medical hall every day, and at Zhou Tang's suggestion, he decided to wait for the ceremony to be completed before opening. However, Nangong Jin asked him to find a reason to move out as soon as possible. Who knows, Du Ling moved without even looking for a reason, and happily, he was finally able to put all his instruments away.

Fuqin Xuan.

Because he couldn't stand Mr. Etiquette, Nangong Jin was an excuse to pick up Nangong Wan every day, and pushed Nangong Wan to Fuqinxuan early. talked and laughed, coaxed Nangong Wan very happy, made several clothes for him, and embroidered the decorations on the dress by himself.

Cheng Jun came in with Nangong Dingkang and Nangong Pu, and there was Cheng Rui in front of him. In Fuqin Xuan, Li Songran, Nangong Jin, and Nangong Wan were discussing how to change the decoration.

Cheng Jun stood still in front of the three of them, took out a piece of paper and handed it to Nangong Jin.

"Huh? Closed today? Nangong Jin took it and saw that a nine-square grid was drawn on the paper.

On the side, Cheng Rui said happily: "No, my brother wants to come back, and we will come back." ”

Nangong Jin looked at Cheng Jun and asked with a smile, "What do you mean?" ”

"This is the nine-palace abath, and it is ...... to add horizontally and vertically." Cheng Jun said seriously.

"I know." Nangong Jin interrupted him.

"Then I'll give you three days, and you will win if you make it." Chengjun looked at Nangong Jin's eyes with a hint of contempt.

"Three days?"

Cheng Jun raised his head, his expression smug and proud: "What? Isn't it possible? ”

Nangong Jin picked up the pen with a smile, filled in nine numbers on the map casually, and handed it back to Cheng Jun, "Twenty-four is the shoulder, six or eight is the foot, three on the left and seven on the right, one on the nine, and five in the center." After speaking, he looked at Li Songran: "In this way, is it considered bullying a child?" ”

Li Songran rubbed his nose, turned his eyes away and said to Nangong Wan: "Ah, Sister Wan, I think that the stroke you just changed can be ...... in another way." "The face says 'Don't talk to me, I haven't heard or seen anything'.

Cheng Jun looked incredulous: "You, you know? ”

"No, you're only teaching this in your academy now, are you?" Nangong Jin asked with a smile.

Cheng Rui didn't seem to know how to look at his face at all, and said happily: "Yes, yes, this is so difficult." My brother has been thinking about it for a day, but I haven't learned yet. Uncle, you're amazing! ”

Nangong Jin touched Cheng Rui's head and said with a smile: "Uncle is not good, because this is a formula." ”

Cheng Jun looked at the piece of paper in his hand in a daze and said nothing.

"Since you like this, then I'll also give you a Nine Palaces to play with." Nangong Jin picked up the pen and paper around him casually as he spoke, and drew a nine squares, but in each grid there was a set of small nine palaces, with a total of nine hundred and eighty-one squares horizontally and vertically, and while thinking about it, he seemed to fill in the numbers in some grids without any planning. After painting, hand it to Chengjun.

Cheng Jun took the paper, looked at Nangong Jin puzzled, and listened to Nangong Jin explain: "The numbers in these grids are hints. What you have to do is fill in the other spaces from one to nine, and the requirement is that each number appears only once in each row, column, and house. Got it? ”

Cheng Jun thought for a moment and asked, "Appear once, including the prompt number?" ”

Nangong Jin nodded, followed his example and said, "Give you three days, and you will win." You can also ask your parents, your husband, and your classmates ......"

"No, I don't. Three days is three days! Cheng Jun put the question paper into his arms as if he was ruthless.

Zhou Tang just wanted to help Chengjun say a few words, but was stopped by Nangong Dingkang and shook his head.

Nangong Wan smiled and said, "It sounds very interesting." Ah Jin might as well draw another one, and I'll take it back and calculate it. ”

"yes, give me one too." Li Songran also smiled and played a round game: "If I calculate it in three days, will I also win?" ”

"Sort of."

"That's a bet." Li Songran smiled and said, "If I win, let me see what is hidden in your room?" The door is closed every day, and no one is allowed to enter, so I'm curious. ”

Nangong Jin thought for a while: "If I win, can you show me the Li family's account books?" ”

"What?" Li Songran said strangely.

Nangong Jin sighed: "Don't worry." ”

Nangong Dingkang also laughed, "In that case, Ah Jin, you can draw a few more, and we will all try it." ”

"Yes."

"Seeing that you are so confident, I'm afraid you won't be able to win, and if you let you win, you will suffer." Zhou Tang also joked with a smile.

This meal was finally cheerful, Shen Xueying didn't seem to expect her sons to go home after only three days, and her eyes kept staring at the two children, afraid that they would be unhappy. Cheng Rui had no heart or lungs, and as soon as he finished eating, he stuck to Nangong Jin's side and secretly told him that he wanted to go to the West Courtyard to play. Although Nangong Jin didn't particularly like children, Cheng Rui was cute, and he was embarrassed to refuse in front of everyone, so he only nodded. The children happily waited for dinner to go.

It's just that Chengjun didn't think about it at all, ate a few bites randomly, and sat on the side in a daze and waited for the end of the show. That night, Nangong Jin used straw to weave a few grasshoppers, made a bamboo dragonfly, and sent Xiao Chengrui back.

Two days later, Li Songran entered the West Courtyard with two boxes of account books.

"Huh? What about the gentleman who teaches etiquette? Seeing Nangong Jin rummaging through the cabinets in the study, he asked curiously.

"Mr. has diarrhea, please take two days off." Nangong Jin replied while looking for something.

"Huh? You can't do it, right? ”

"Of course not." Nangong Jin pointed to the box he carried, and looked at him funny: "Are you, admit defeat?" ”

Li Songran pouted: "I suspect that there is no answer to this question at all." If I say yes, I win. ”

"Hah......." Nangong Jin took the pen and paper, filled it in while thinking about it, it took a quarter of an hour to finish, and handed it to Li Songran: "The answer is not the only one, you can continue to try." ”

Li Songran looked at it carefully, and finally shook his head and gave up: "Forget it, let's talk about Quanzhou." Now, I hand over the freight to Cheung Kee for all the stores under my name. According to Mr. Wu's calculations, it can solve the food and clothing of Xiang Ji. For other cooperation, Mr. Wu would like to wait for your opinion. ”

"Wait, before the cooperation, how much did you spend a year on transportation?"

Li Songran shook his head: "I knew you would ask, but I didn't care about it before." He patted the box: "I brought these things, not all for auspicious memory." My uncle has said many times that I will take over. I'm really ......, I don't have confidence. ”

Nangong Jin looked at Li Songran and didn't believe it: "No, you?" ”

Li Songran sighed: "This cooperation, in fact, is all arranged by Mr. Wu, to be honest, I don't know what to do." He smiled embarrassedly: "I envy you, you have a way to do anything, and you know how to deal with it." ”

"Huh? I've always envied you. ”

"Also, Cheng Rui is now opening and closing his mouth is my uncle, my uncle's. I've been playing with him since he was a kid, and he hasn't been like that. Alas, it took you an hour. Li Songran didn't know whether to be envious or jealous.

"Uh, jealous?"

Li Songran nodded very straightforwardly: "Yes." ”

"You like children so much, hurry up and get married, give birth."

Li Songran blushed and opened the box: "Let's read the accounts?" ”

"You wait." After speaking, he ran out of the study, took out several books from the main room, ran back, and gave the books to Li Songran: "Let's read them together." ”

"Huai'an Local Chronicles?" Li Songran took it, a little surprised.

"This is all about the specific situation of Huai'an, including population, specialties, scenic spots, and even topography and landforms."

"Topography? Do you remember this too? ”

"That depends on what you think." Nangong Jin thought about it, and looked at Li Songran as if he had made up his mind: "Don't you want to enter my room?" Come. ”

Li Songran entered the room, and what he saw at a glance was the complete map of the Ming Dynasty on the table. There are mountains, rivers, and passes, and many towns have nails on them, and each nail has as little as a dozen or as many as dozens of notes of various colors. Li Songran was completely shocked.

"I don't let people in because of this picture. The family is stared at by the government, in case I am accused of rebellion, hehe, I am cowardly, I am afraid of going to prison. ”

"Y-You painted?"

"It is not very accurate to draw on the map and local chronicles. However, we are not marching to war, we just need to know where the place is, how to go and how far it is. Mostly these things. He pointed to the small note, "Actually, I only finished it yesterday." There should be additions and modifications later. ”

"What is this?" Li Songran flipped through it in confusion.

"That's what I just said, population, special products, major crops, rice prices, etc., of course, these are not all from the local history, a lot of them are based on our accounts, and they are compared."

"The purpose of doing this?" Li Songran still didn't understand.

Nangong Jin pointed to the account book: "Do you know that at least seven halls should have been withdrawn five years ago; At least more than 40 percent of the churches have made false accounts, and half of these 40 percent have made false accounts since at least 10 years ago, including Binh Duong, I don't know if it was intentional. There are only three halls that support our entire clan. I don't know where the 200,000 was spent at that time. Because just from the books, you can't take it out at all. Now it's just a preliminary review, if there are no hidden accounts, then I can only say, is it to consider changing the way Binh Duong manages the subordinate halls? ”

Li Songran looked at all this silently, and for a long time: "You ......." "I didn't know what to say for a moment.

Nangong Jin nodded: "Actually, you know better than me." ”

"I don't know. I don't even know what you're saying. Have you ...... thought of a way to change it? Li Songran asked.

"I think about it, there are some preliminary ideas in the details, which are incomplete. If you want to go through it again, it will take time. ”

"No wonder Mr. Wu is waiting for your opinion, I thought he was just talking." Li Songran turned his head, looked at Nangong Jin and said, "Ah Jin, you are like this, I want to beat you." ”

"If you want to beat it, you can beat it, you are now my gold master." Nangong Jin said indifferently.

Li Songran thought for a while, and whispered in his ear: "You are honest, you don't want to be a ...... Emperor? ”

Nangong Jin was taken aback: "What are you kidding?!" I want to live to the end of my life! ”

"Okay." Li Songran spread his hands, "Is there anything I can do?" ”

"Huai'an, you should be familiar with it, right?"

"Twice a year."

"Qingming, winter solstice?" Nangong Jinchai.

"There's no one over there, what are you going to do?" Unexpectedly, Li Songran actually acquiesced.

"Haven't you seen those industries in Huai'an?"

Li Songran looked at Nangong Jin uneasily: "Don't be like your eldest cousin, always nagging me." ”

"You don't even know how much money you have, do you?" Nangong Jin was a little incredible.

"This matter, I actually mentioned it to my eldest cousin and aunt, you can set up a hall in Huai'an, and those in Huai'an can come in directly. They didn't agree, saying they had promised, and they would ...... when I got married. Speaking of this, Li Songran's voice softened.

"No, it won't! So, you've been refusing to start a family?! Nangong Jin was very surprised, and reluctantly patted Li Songran's shoulder: "Little brother, you are really good!" ”

Li Songran lowered his head in frustration and said, "I know, if you were me, I wouldn't be like this." ”

Nangong Jin was silent, and said with a smile for a while: "In this way, let's sort out Huai'an's industry first, and see how much net worth we have." Pointing to the map: "Then, Huai'an, like these places, will gather all the information." Then find out if there is a directly available industry and Quanzhou here to dock, and discuss what ways and methods to use. Finally, find a time for us to go to Huai'an, you leave me a room there, and I will drive Xiangji to Huai'an. Ha. ”

"Okay." Li Songran nodded solemnly.

"Have you been doing anything else lately?"

"My uncle talked to me and wanted me to take over Huai'an's industry, and I stopped everything else at home." Li Songran was embarrassed.

"Heh, if you don't get married again, they are all responsible, and the Li family is still waiting for you to spread the branches." I didn't expect Li Songran's face to be so thin, and he could blush when he said this: "Since that's the case, that's just right." Before it turns out, you should come here first. Thankfully, the gentleman took two days off. However, in two days, I will still go to the execution, you alone during the day, and we will discuss it together at night. In a moment, I'll have someone bring you a desk. And those boxes of ledger ....... Oh, by the way, you're going to do it, right? ”

"Learned."

"That's great, let's do it." said that he went out first, beckoned his subordinates to move tables and chairs, and carry boxes.

Li Songran looked at his back, and finally nodded with a resolute expression and followed out.