Zhang Huan thought for a long time and couldn't figure it out, so he put the account back in its place, but suddenly found that a folded note appeared on the table at some point, he opened it curiously, and there was only one sentence in it, 'Please go to the snail house for a light meal in the evening', and there is naturally the address of the snail house below, but there is no signature.

Zhang Huan looked up, he saw it, saw an eggplant face and nodded meaningfully to him.....

In the afternoon, Zhang Huan approved several expenditures, such as replanting flowers and trees, repairing ancestral halls, etc., the amount is less than 100 yuan, but the approval of Zhang's money and material expenditure has always been very strict, and there is a detailed budget list.

This made Zhang Huan even more surprised, since the approval was so strict, why was it so simple in the bulk expenditure account book, he had a faint hunch, maybe there was something hidden in it.

It was getting evening gradually, but Steward Yang never appeared, and the people who went to look for him only said that he was not at home, and that he did not know anything else.

At this time, 'When! While! The bell rang, the sound was thick and melodious, echoing in the sky above Zhangfu, this is the signal of Zhangfu to call it a day, of course, it is only for the people who work for the Zhang family, and the house slaves are not among them.

But even those who worked for the Zhang family and received wages were originally slaves from the Zhang family, but later the master returned the deed of sale to them and restored their original surnames.

Zhao steward with an eggplant face is like this, his father rescued the sixth master Zhang Ruojun in fifteen years, was sent to the slave status of the Zhang family, and became an ordinary person, but he is still a florist of the Zhang family, and has an income of three times a month, which is not expensive at the time, but his son Zhao Shun is even more competitive, went to school, writes a good hand, and under the inquiry of the sixth master Zhang Ruojun, he entered the tent, and now he has become a steward, and the income of fifty times a month is enough to make people red, buy a house, take a concubine, maids, and servants, In today's parlance, it can be regarded as a gold-collar class.

Steward Zhao's house is not far from Zhang's house, located in a deep alley, the alley is called Willow Lane, close to a street next to it, the street is naturally called Flower Street, the name of 'Flower Street Willow Lane' is easy to understand, almost everyone in Taiyuan City knows, as soon as the sky is dark, Zhang Huan found Steward Zhao's house.

"This is for my sister-in-law and Ling Lang, a little heart!"

As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Huan handed the things in his hand to Steward Zhao, and gave his wife a few boxes of 'Qili Xiang' fat powder, although it is not a high-grade product, but it is also from a famous store, and he can get it;

In Taiyuan, the words 'Jinyang Academy' can only be printed on the special items of the academy, no one dares to fight this idea in the stall vendors, and the sheep's hair pen with golden words is even rarer, this is the top three prizes in the academy's annual general evaluation, Zhang Huan ranked third in the academy last year's general evaluation, and won ten sheep's hair pens, and he gave two to Zhao's fifteen-year-old son today.

Steward Zhao was already overjoyed, he was also a scholar, how could he not know the special significance of these two tubes of sheep's pen, his son was even more cheering, with these two pens, he will become the focus of the school tomorrow.

"It's just a light meal, and I let my son take such a heavy gift, I'm really ashamed!"

Steward Zhao was polite, while letting Zhang Huan into the house, and called out the concubine to pour wine, although there has been a saying since ancient times that a wife is not as good as a concubine, but that means that after blowing the lamp at night, in front of outsiders and on formal occasions, concubines are not qualified to eat at the same table, but Steward Zhao's wife was busy wiping the newly acquired fat powder, and did not appear at the banquet, only Zhang Huan and Steward Zhao were at the banquet.

"Speaking of which, Childe and I are not outsiders, my father was the entourage of Childe's family back then, and I was also a favor from the sixth master to do the book, and it is difficult to repay the great favor!"

After a few glasses of wine, Steward Zhao's face began to turn red, until it reached the back of his hand, and his speech gradually lost his proportion.

"You know what? In fact, although there are not many people in our account room, the relationship is very complicated, Lao Qian is the head of the family from a scholar, needless to say, one of the three stewards is the brother-in-law of the second master, and one is the henchman of the third master, and I am the person of the sixth master, and the relationship is complicated! ”

Steward Zhao put the wine in the cup 'squeak!' He raised his neck and drank it all, smacked his lips, burped and said: "Don't talk about being in charge, even the small tent below has its own relationship, and it's so chaotic that even I can't figure it out!" ”

At this time, his face had become a purple eggplant, and he put the wine glass in his hand on the table, and asked the concubine to pour wine, and the concubine saw that he began to speak unscrupulously, and hurriedly pushed him, "Master! Just drink less! ”

"Go aside!" Steward Zhao snatched the wine jug, poured himself a glass of wine, and pinched the concubine's buttocks, and said with a smile: "Go to your own room, I'll sleep with you tonight!" ”

When the concubine saw her husband making a fool of herself, she couldn't help but be ashamed and anxious, and saw Zhang Huan laughing on the side without saying a word, she stomped her foot with hatred, and ran out by herself, Steward Zhao stared at her back and disappeared, so she proudly drank all the wine in the cup, put her mouth to Zhang Huan's ear and smiled ambiguously: "This woman is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and only I have the ability to satisfy her, uh!" Where did I just go? ”

Zhang Huan filled him with a glass of wine and replied with a smile: "You just talked about Steward Yang!" ”

"That's right! Steward Yang. ”

Steward Zhao habitually looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "Steward Yang is the confidant of the third master, if it weren't for the face of the eldest master, Lao Qian would have been killed by them a long time ago, and the two of them would be stiff!" ”

Zhang Huan glanced at him and said quietly: "But I don't think the level of Yang Steward is good, looking at his account today, he doesn't write the content of every account, can this still be called an account room?" ”

"You're talking about a large amount of money and material expense account!" Steward Zhao patted Zhang Huan's shoulder and said earnestly: "Brother! You don't understand this, that account is for Lao Qian, he actually has an account, at home! We all know that, but who dares to say it? Even the old money doesn't dare to say anything, as soon as the eldest master leaves, isn't this the world of the third master? ”

Speaking of this, Steward Zhao sighed and said, "Chaos! There was something wrong with it at a glance in the tent, and it was not small. ”

He was depressed, drank a few glasses of wine in a row, tilted his head, and lay on the table unconscious, Zhang Huan called him a few times, and saw that he had fallen asleep, so he said goodbye to his wife and hurried home.

Zhang Huan still lived in the original place, and politely refused the preferential treatment of letting him move into the inner mansion, Zhang Ruofeng was naturally not reluctant, he was only doing it temporarily for a few months, and he was not necessarily promoted too much.

Walking into the courtyard, I saw that the dumb uncle was bending over in a corner to turn the soil, Zhang Huan knew that he wanted to grow some vegetables, once he graduated from the academy, the monthly money for two times a month would be gone, and the dumb uncle had already begun to take precautions.

This is also what Zhang Huan has been worried about, he will enter Beijing at the end of the year to catch the exam, not to mention it will take half a year, and he usually has no money to spare, so what does the dumb uncle live on? But now that this problem has been solved, in the afternoon Lao Qian told him that in the future, he will have 20 yuan per month, which is ordered by the eldest master, and he will be treated the same as his son-in-law.

Zhang Huan had something in his heart, so he didn't tell the dumb uncle about it for the time being, but walked back to the house quickly, he lit the lamp, turned around and closed the door, and took out an old and yellowed account book from the cupboard, which was the one he read in the morning.

Since Steward Zhao said that the problem could be clearly seen in the account, he believed that he should also be able to see that the night was getting deeper, Zhang Huan still sat intently under the lamp to check the amount one by one, although the account book was not thick, but every page was densely filled with the amount, and there were more than 200 records on each page.

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"Three thousand guan expenditure, it should not be; 6,000 guan expenditure, it should not be; Four ......"

Zhang Huan's hand suddenly stopped, and he finally found a record in the gap between the account pages, the amount was not 4,000 guan, not 40,000 guan, but 400,000 guan.

'400,000! 'A one-time expenditure of 400,000 guan, Zhang Huan can hardly imagine this huge number, and the amount of money minted in Datang a year is only 4 million guan, he can't help but think for a long time, is this the problem?

Zhang Huan looked further, only the word 'expenditure' was written in the content column, and the time happened on the fourth day of October last year, and he suddenly had a strong curiosity in his heart: Where did the money go?

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