Feng Manlou followed Xiao Tao into the house, and saw that there were a lot of people, going in and out, very busy.

"Looks like business is good!" Feng Manlou said.

Xiao Tao explained: "These people are from various branches, and they came to report the situation to the big shopkeeper. For example, there is a store where the fabric is not enough, and someone has to be sent to pick it up! There's also some mess around. Anyway, I don't understand the business matters! ”

Feng Manlou immediately understood, and said: "It turns out that the fabrics in your store are all shipped out from here, or are they put here after they are purchased?" ”

Xiao Tao said: "Yes, it is also convenient to dispatch in this way, and I am also good at management." And he is not afraid of thieves. You see, there are a lot of families in the yard. ”

Feng Manlou nodded and said, "Where is the rainbow, let's go find him!" ”

Xiao Tao brought Feng Manlou into the door of the study, and there was a panic on her face. Feng Manlou was surprised and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Xiao Tao's lips moved, but he didn't speak, Feng Manlou saw that he wanted to speak, and asked, "What's the matter, you are talking!" ”

As if after a long time of ideological struggle, Xiao Tao said: "Actually, Miss didn't know that I came to invite my uncle, wait to see Miss, but don't say that it's a slave to invite you!" ”

Feng Manlou smiled: "I see, don't worry, I won't betray you!" After speaking, he tidied up his clothes, glanced at Xiao Tao, and smiled in his heart: "This little girl!" ”

I saw that the door of the study was tightly closed, and even the window was not opened, and there was only the crackling sound of the abacus beads plucking inside. I guess it's reckoning!

Feng Manlou knocked on the door, but heard a voice inside: "I told you, I don't want to eat!" ”

"I'm not here to bring you food! I'm here for you! Feng Manlou said, his voice was very loud.

Yang Hongcai was pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly stopped what she was doing, opened the door, and saw Feng Manlou standing at the door, and said, "How did you find it?" ”

Feng Manlou touched his forehead, smiled embarrassedly, and said, "It's all my fault, if I had asked carefully, it wouldn't have been as troublesome as today!" Oh yes, busy? ”

Yang Hongcai nodded, it seemed that Feng Manlou still made a special trip to see him, and he was also a little moved in his heart, but he heard Feng Manlou say: "Don't you want me to go in and sit?" ”

Yang Hongcai turned sideways and got out of the way, Feng Manlou was not polite, and went directly to the desk to find a place to sit down. At this time, Yang Hongcai opened the door upside down.

"I haven't eaten since yesterday to today, just to settle accounts?" Feng Manlou asked with a smile.

Yang Hongcai ignored him, feeling that Feng Manlou always had nothing to say today, but he just buried himself in the abacus again.

Next to the abacus is the ledger, next to the ledger is a brush, and a piece of rice paper, which is full of numbers. It seems that all the places that are in doubt have been recorded, but I see that a lot of numbers are recorded on the paper.

Feng Manlou looked at the ledger, which was hundreds of pages. If it goes on like this, it is indeed tiring enough, and the progress above should be less than half.

"If you continue to count like this, it will take at least three days to finish, and it is really enough!" Feng Manlou seemed to have a heart, but he also said unintentionally.

Yang Hongcai was stunned for a moment, stopped the abacus in his hand, and said, "Will you be much faster?" ”

Feng Manlou said with a smile: "It's a lot faster, I don't dare to think about it, but it's definitely faster than you, how much is this, is there five hundred pages?" It's a matter of two hours at most, and it takes so long! I'm tired of my body, and see how you give birth to me in the future! ”

Yang Hongcai's face was gloomy for a while, and she said, "This is the life of a woman!" It seems to be a bit of a submissive feeling, a sentence stabbed Feng Manlou's heartache, not only did he not want to talk to himself, but he didn't seem to want to take care of himself, Feng Manlou felt a great failure, and now he has made a marriage. If it weren't for the fact that he had already made a marriage, Feng Manlou was sure that this woman might ignore him.

"Forget it, who told me to be kind-hearted!" Feng Manlou said: "I'll help you take a look, don't worry, I won't reveal any of your secrets, our Feng family and your Yang family's business is different!" ”

Yang Hongcai was silent for a moment, as if she had made up her mind, and said: "I have been checking for one night, and now it is afternoon again, and I have not found any problems at all." Give it a try! ”

Feng Manlou took the account book, only read two pages, and said: "Give me paper and pen!" ”

Yang Hongcai is very strange, why doesn't he use an abacus. handed over the paper and pen, but saw Feng Manlou write some strange symbols on the paper, and then continued to read, and when he met those who had doubts, he made some symbols.

Yang Hongcai couldn't understand these symbols, and she didn't know what they meant.

After about a quarter of an hour, Feng Manlou had already finished three or four pages of content. Then he put down the ledger, took the paper full of symbols and looked at it, and there were words in his heart, and after a while, he only heard Feng Manlou write a few more symbols, picked up the ledger, looked at the pages just now, and said: "It turns out that the problem is here." ”

Yang Hongcai was about to speak, when he saw Feng Manlou take the account book again, start from the first page, hurriedly read a few pages, and put it down.

I only heard Feng Manlou ask: "You checked the account books for one night and one day, what did you find?" ”

Yang Hongcai thought that Feng Manlou had found something, seeing that he was beginning to be full of confidence, but now he came to ask himself, and couldn't help but say: "How can it be so easy, aren't you very capable, what did you find?" ”

Feng Manlou opened the ledger and said, "Look at your ledgers, it's a mess. The accounts of the purchase, the accounts of the sale, the rent of the shop, the deposit, etc., as well as the wages of the shopkeeper, and even the tools of your house, are all recorded on it. It's a mess! ”

Yang Hongcai said: "The shopkeeper's bookkeeping is also recorded once a day and recorded separately, which is why there is so much trouble!" ”

Feng Manlou explained: "These accounts, every account of each one, there is no problem. Don't say that you count one day and one night, even if you count ten days and ten nights, you can't find a problem! However, let's look at these items separately, you see, pick out the incoming goods and outgoing goods separately, and it will be clear at a glance! ”

After speaking, he handed Yang Hongcai the paper that was slowly recorded as a symbol, Yang Hongcai stared at the paper for a long time, and said: "I don't understand, what do you mean by these strange symbols?" ”

Feng Manlou reacted at this time, the people of the Great Song Dynasty did not know Arabic numerals at all, unlike later generations, Arabic numerals have been popularized. Hurriedly said: "These are Arabic numerals." Oh, that's the number used by the Great Cannibal. These numbers are easy to remember and easy to calculate. Unlike your abacus, which crackles all the time, I only need to do this on paper, hundreds and thousands of numbers, and it will be calculated soon, faster than you plan to disk! ”

Yang Hongcai was surprised for a while and said, "It's really so amazing, then you have to teach me!" By the way, what is written on it? ”

Feng Manlou said: "The above only records the purchase and inventory, don't you find that once the above fabrics are bought, there is no record of how much the quantity is, but only how many pieces of cloth are bought." And when it was sold, it was written how much silver was received today, but there was no record of shipment! In this way, there will be no shipments, and such excess inventory goods will be difficult to manage. ”

Yang Hongcai heard it and said: "In other words, we only have to buy goods, and all the fabrics sold can be recorded in silver?" ”

Feng Manlou nodded! These accounts, without decades of experience as a shopkeeper, are simply incomprehensible to ordinary people. Even if you Yang Hongcai is proficient in mathematics, it does not mean that you are proficient in accounting. And you need to be familiar with the price of the sale.

Of course, Feng Manlou doesn't know, but for this part, he has been in contact with it when he used to work, and he still knows a little bit about it.

Feng Manlou said with a smile: "The most important thing is that you see, those who have come back have not been sold half of them, and they have gone to buy again." So where did the unsold ones go? ”

Yang Hongcai looked at the account book carefully and said, "That's true, how do you know that only half of it is sold?" ”

Feng Manlou said: "Isn't there an answer on the ledger? If you think about it, the cloth that was purchased for four hundred taels of silver was sold for less than three hundred and eighty taels, isn't it less than half? ”

Yang Hongcai said: "Isn't that only twenty taels, by the way, the price of selling out must be higher than the purchase price." At least it should be twice the purchase price to make money, that is to say, it should be sold for eight hundred taels, and now it is only three hundred and eighty taels, which is indeed only half! But where did that half go? ”

"That's the key to the ledger! And in my opinion, this ledger should have been deliberately manipulated. What we need to do now is to understand the situation first. There is a good saying: from the masses, to the masses! We are all ordinary people and don't understand anything! Then you have to learn, and after you have learned, you can use it! That's what it means! ”

Yang Hongcai's eyes flashed, and she asked, "You mean, you want to go to the store to investigate?" ”

Feng Manlou said: "Of course! How else do you know where the remaining goods have gone, do you think they are still waiting for you in the warehouse now? Maybe someone will have exchanged it for silver a long time ago! ”

It's no wonder that I've been losing money lately, but it turned out to be here. It seems that it is just a waste of time to keep checking the accounts here.

Yang Hongcai knew what the problem was, but she removed one of the biggest problems in her heart, and said, "Hey, why do you feel so hungry?" ”

Feng Manlou knew that this little lady Yang had finally let go of the burden in her heart, and stared at her carefully, Yang Hongcai found Feng Manlou's gaze, and hurriedly said with a red face: "What do you see, there are pockmarks?" ”

"I think I know the true meaning of being haggard for Yi, and never regretting the gradual widening of the belt, which is what you look like now!" Feng Manlou sighed softly, it was noon at the moment, and Xiao Tao outside saw that the door of the study was open, and hurriedly asked someone to bring lunch.

Looking at the table full of food, Feng Manlou put down the dishes and chopsticks and said, "I have no appetite, I don't eat it!" ”

Yang Hongcai only noticed at this time that although Feng Manlou was still talking and laughing, there always seemed to be a sadness between his eyebrows, and asked, "Did you encounter any troubles?" ”

Feng Manlou sighed and said, "I'm really troubled now." On the second day of coming to Yamen, so many things happened! So from the time I met Zhang Xiaocai's gangsters, I talked about Xiao Zhang's suicide today.

After listening to this, Yang Hongcai said: "After all, a person can't think so comprehensively, why not find a helper!" Why don't you ask Xiao Tao to send a bowl of chilled sour plum soup to give you an appetizer! ”

Feng Manlou smiled: "What are you kidding, iced sour plum soup, what season is this?!" Where does the ice come from on such a hot day? As soon as Feng Manlou's words fell, he couldn't laugh.

Yang Hongcai looked at him like an idiot, and said: "Of course it's a cellar, ordinary people have it, how can our family not have it?" ”

Feng Manlou was reminded of this, as if he remembered something, as if he was asking Yang Hongcai, and as if he was talking to himself: "Then do you think there will be an ice cellar in the yamen?" ”

Yang Hongcai said: "Of course there is! ”

Feng Manlou suddenly felt that his mouth suddenly opened, slapped his thigh, and shouted, "I think I finally know!" I've finally solved the puzzle! Little lady of the Yang family, you are really my lucky star! ”

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