The west courtyard of the General's Mansion, just after the time of the lantern, this is the smallest courtyard, a few lights can illuminate the whole courtyard brightly, compared to the quiet and solemn rest of the General's Mansion, it is a lot noisy and cheerful here. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Not far away, Li Cai'er saw the brightly lit appearance of this place from a distance along the corridor, and the maid Shuang'er next to her secretly looked at the young lady's face, and thought about the young lady's cold words to Steward Qiu in the afternoon, although she didn't blame anything, but the tone and eyes when she spoke were clearly warnings, until she turned around and left, Steward Qiu's head was always low, and her face was also pale, this was the first time she saw Li Cai'er talking to the other party in such a tone.

"More mutton, and tofu, all of them!"

"Zhu Hu, you eat slowly, hot ......"

Someone in the courtyard was talking, it should have been time to eat, not to mention that this was obviously not Li Huai's voice, Li Cai'er frowned, and Shuang'er walked a few steps quickly with a lantern, waiting for the two to walk into the courtyard, everything in front of them still shocked them, this is definitely a scene that the two of them have seen in their lives.

In the living room of the main house, a round table was set up, on which was a variety of small copper stoves, as well as all kinds of meat and tofu, etc., Li Huai and several maids and guards around him were all sitting around the round table, eating happily, and some people even fought over there.

"Sister?" When Li Cai'er and Shuang'er appeared at the door, someone had already noticed the two and notified Li Huai, but the other party was in a hurry to eat the things in the bowl, so he didn't go out as soon as possible, when the two passed the small door and were about to arrive at the main hall, Li Huai stood at the door, his mouth was still shiny, "Have you eaten, I've just finished this, and I guess I don't have any food, so I ate hot pot with them." ”

Li Cai'er listened to Li Huai's words, and couldn't help but glance at the frost beside her, and the other party's face suddenly turned red, thinking that it was also a general's mansion in Nuoda, even if it was late, there should be food, unless I didn't want to make it for you.

"The third brother is tired, but I didn't make it clear to them, if you can't finish reading those account books, give them to me first." Li Caier thought that the other party should have delayed the meal because of reading the account book, and she suddenly felt a little relieved, but when she thought that the other party could take it seriously, she breathed a long sigh of relief in her heart.

"It's okay, the ledger is a little harder, but fortunately, I've seen everything." Li Huai smiled, turned to Cui Ping behind him and said, "Go to my room and take out those account books." ”

Cui Ping hurriedly led Yue'er to Li Huai's house, and after a while, the two of them each returned with a stack of account books, "Sister, I just have a general look, I have marked out some unclear things on the accounts, wait for you to check it again." ”

Li Cai'er looked at the accounts in Cui Ping and Yue'er's hands, and then listened to Li Huai's words, the expression on her face was stunned for a moment, and then she nodded, "Okay, I'll go back and take a look." She naturally knew that these accounts had been checked by a few stewards for an afternoon, and there should be no mistakes or omissions, but the other party's words were not like a joke, which made her a little surprised, and then thought that it should be because the other party couldn't understand it.

"Zhuhu, don't eat it, follow Miss to send things over." Li Huai shouted Zhu Hu, who was still eating and drinking, and saw that the other party did not move, so he glanced at Yue'er, and saw the girl walking behind Zhu Hu, holding the account book with one hand, and slamming the back of the other party's head with one hand, with a crisp sound of "pop", followed by the sound of the young man's wail.

"Foodie, didn't you hear what Childe said?" Yue'er is a few years younger than Zhu Hu, but both of them are still children, so they have the most trouble on weekdays, and Zhu Hu didn't dare to really do anything with her, and slowly became the target of bullying.

The heat in the house was already boiling, Li Cai'er saw that the account books were here, so she didn't disturb Li Huai to eat, and when she left, she explained a few words to Li Huai, asking him not to care about other people's thoughts, Li Huai just smiled, "By the way, if you have nothing to do tomorrow, go out with me, go out with me first, go to see the fields in the countryside first, and then see what else you need, let's buy it together." Li Cai'er thought about taking the other party out for a walk, after all, Li Huai hadn't gone out much for so many days, Li Huai thought about it, and saw the eager expressions of the two girls behind him, thinking that the two of them were also suffocated, so he nodded and agreed.

Sending this Li Cai'er out of the courtyard, Li Huai couldn't help but talk, thinking that this sister was beautiful, a little cold, and everything else was not bad, with a smile on his face, he returned to the main hall with Cuiping and Yue'er, and continued to eat hot pot with everyone.

"Your young master, I also eat with you on weekdays? What's that for food? As she walked, Shuang'er lowered her head and whispered to the young man named Zhuhu next to her.

Zhu Hu held the account, although it was not heavy, but because of his height, he couldn't see the road in front of him, as soon as Shuang'er lowered his head, the lantern in his hand also lowered, and Zhu Hu couldn't see clearly, "Sister, I can't see the road." ”

"Oh." Shuang'er shone for him, and then looked at Li Cai'er on the side, and couldn't help but stick out her tongue, knowing that she had more mouths again.

And at this moment, the young man said, "It's a hot pot, the young master specially asked people to make it, saying that they would get together to eat hot pot in winter, so it was lively, hehe, mutton, tofu, and vermicelli or something, hot and fragrant." Thinking of the heat in the room, as well as the hot soup boiling in the hot pot, the young man's face couldn't help but show happiness, since he followed Li Huai, he has also eaten a lot of things that he has not eaten before, this hot pot is definitely his favorite.

Shuang'er couldn't help licking her tongue, but Li Cai'er on the side didn't care at all.

The hustle and bustle of the West Courtyard ended at night, Zhu Hu was left by Li Caier to ask about something, so he went back a little late, only ate some leftovers, the boss was unhappy, and complained in front of Li Huai, saying that Li Caier kept asking Li Huai about things in Yecheng, Zhu Hu was also clever, and did not mention the matter of Dulonggang, so Li Huai specially asked Yue'er to bring him a plate of mutton as a reward.

And in the courtyard on the other side of the general's mansion, Li Caier is checking the accounts one by one, there are several pages marked in each account book, Li Huai also specially thanked the note and sandwiched it in the middle, at first Li Caier didn't care, but after a closer look, there are really some problems, the marked places are relatively hidden places in the account books, and there are not many problems in income and expenditure, but the basic together, you can see the mistakes, some people use this method to hide duplicate expenditures in several account books, each amount is not much, But it adds up to a lot of money, and there is no shortage of these silver in the house, but there is a difference between giving and stealing after all, which is also secondary, Li Caier is concerned about herself and those shopkeepers who didn't find it in a day's time, but her third brother only took less than four hours to find it all, which already surprised her, and then thought of some things that she asked Zhu Hu before, knowing that he also did some business when he was in Yecheng, now that I think about it, I feel more and more uneasy in my heart, it turns out that I seem to be an idle person, suddenly realized that the other party had more sophisticated means than himself.

The night was dark, the candlelight in the room was never extinguished, Li Caier looked out the window, I don't know when, the snowflakes had fallen to the ground, the woman sighed, and there was a slight mocking smile on her originally cold face, thinking in her heart, "It turns out that winter is still winter, but my mind has changed, and I feel that this year's winter is particularly cold, which is really ridiculous......"