Qinglian accepted Ling Yun's order, so naturally she would not go directly to the tea house. She is Qianxue's personal maid, and now she is half of the new aunt's room, usually walking around in the inner courtyard, and it is good to tell a little maid for such trivial things as going out to deliver letters and running errands. However, although Qinglian thought that the new aunt was good, she still went to the West Courtyard to report to the young lady first. As a qualified personal maid, you have to be the eyes and ears of the young lady, and tell the young lady what she sees and hears.

In this regard, Qinglian's girl is doing better than Mulan. Mulan is usually very aggressive, and if Miss doesn't ask her about these things, she won't take the initiative to report. After Gao Qianxue came back in the morning, he has been busy with the affairs of the village, and is clearing the accounts with the housekeeper Gao Bo and the tent Zhang Bo. If the Gao family wants to win over the powerful families in the south of the Yangtze River, this money is indispensable to spend. However, it is obviously not enough to rely on the money of these manor shops on the surface of Gaojiazhuang, and several people are clearing the accounts and preparing to mobilize funds from the secret smuggling channels in the north to go south. Although Uncle Zhang is the general ledger of the Gao family, he is now old, and most of the financial matters are slowly transferred to Gao Mingyue's hands. Although Gao Mingyue is not Gao Qianxue's Qing sister, because her father Gao Baoning is also a member of the Northern Qi royal family, and Gao Baoning loyally supported Qi to resist Zhou back then, she has a lot of prestige in the hearts of the lonely ministers of Northern Qi. What's more, Gao Baoning supported Gao Shaoyi to ascend the throne as Emperor Yuanzuo, and he was also the prime minister of the Northern Qi Dynasty in exile who Gao Shaoyi worshipped. Over the years, I have grown up with Gao Qianxue since I was a child, and I am like sisters. Up and down, Gao Mingyue and Gao Qianxue are generally treated, Gao Mingyue, who has just passed the age of twenty-eight, is a little less mature and stable than Gao Qianxue, but she is naturally beautiful, and has a talent for arithmetic.

At this time, in the hall of the West Courtyard, Gao Mingyue sat at the desk, with two slender white hands, neatly swinging the small sticks made of ivory in front of her, and quickly comparing these luxurious calculations against the account books spread out in front of her. There was a little flaw in the account, so she quickly found out, and then pointed it out and rechecked it with Uncle Zhang, Uncle Gao, and Qianxue. At this time, she did not have the bright and lively girl appearance in the past, but just had the same temperament and demeanor as Gao Qianxue usually led the Gao family. In this era, arithmetic requires great talent, and it also needs to be guided by famous teachers. Especially those cumbersome accounts, it is even more troublesome. Some complex calculations can only be calculated with a chip about the length of guò and chopsticks, and there is no convenient abacus, nor a simple and practical arithmetic formula, let alone Arabic numerals, which are easy to remember. Gao Mingyue's set of ivory sticks has a total of 276 chips, usually whether at home or traveling, always use a brocade bag to hang on the waist and carry it with you, and take it out at any time when calculating. In Gaojiazhuang, Gao Mingyue's calculation is the best, even Zhang Bo, a professional who once served as an official of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Yecheng, the capital of Great Qi, as early as three years ago, he couldn't put Gao Mingyue in his calculations.

The Gao family up and down, inside and out, openly and secretly, all showed admiration and admiration when they talked about the second lady's arithmetic skills.

After checking the results of the calculations that were all over the place with the numbers on the accounts, Gao Mingyue shook her wrist that was a little sore, and her slightly frowning brows finally relaxed, recovering the appearance of the cheerful girl on weekdays, "Well, I'm done with another one." In the past two years, a lot of industries have been added in the Jiangnan area, but the business is not very good, and many of them are not in or out. My sister plans to draw a large amount of money from various properties in the south this time, but I don't think it's possible. At present, most of the industries in Jiangnan are barely maintained, and if funds are withdrawn from them, I am afraid that these industries will not be able to sustain. I don't know how these stewards operate, Jiangnan has been stable and prosperous in business and trade over the years, and these industries should be very profitable. Just like these account rooms, many accounts are a bit messy, and they need to be tempered a little more. ”

Gao Bo and Zhang Bo both nodded approvingly, after these accounts were sent, they all looked at them for the first time, and they naturally knew what the situation was. The accounts are in a mess, and the various industries are even more disappointing. The two old men are both like human spirits, and they can somehow guess that there must be a situation where the hired Jiangnan stewards are filling their pockets. It may not be that the level of the account office is insufficient, but it is estimated that those managers deliberately let the account room make the account like this in order to cover up their greedy behavior. It's just that they didn't expect that Gao Mingyue, the second lady of the Gao family, was actually a master of arithmetic, and even more a master of accounting. No matter how difficult and complicated the account is, she can sort it out.

"If you want to mobilize a large amount of money and grain from the north to the south, I am afraid that it will easily attract the attention of the imperial court." At present, the shape is becoming more and more strict, and it has reached a critical time. They have to be cautious and cautious, and the flow of large sums of gold and silver can easily arouse official alarm.

"Well, let's figure out another way to deal with this." Gao Qianxue said, in fact, she didn't know about the corruption of the following stewards, she knew a little bit, but when the water was clear, there were no fish, not to mention that when she bought a house in Jiangnan, firstly, it was to leave a way back, and secondly, it was also to do some identity cover. The so-called three holes of the cunning rabbit are nothing more than that. Gao Qianxue has always been stingy, if you want others to follow you and work hard, how can you be stingy. But now there is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, an opportunity to avenge the country's hatred, and she is unwilling to miss it. However, if they want to do things, they need money, especially the things they are about to do in Jiangnan, and they need a lot of gold and silver to open the way. "Prepare a batch of treasures first, in two days Xiao Gongzi will send Chen Gongzi and Gao Ding's team of guards to the village together, we need to reward Xiao Gongzi for the last time, and we can't be rude."

At this time, lunch time was approaching, so she also asked people to pass the meal, and at noon she dined with Gao Bo and others in the West Courtyard. Seeing Qinglian and Mulan, she asked Mulan to call Lingyun over to dine together. Although Ling Yun was not willing to plan against Sui with them now, Qian Xue was not willing to push too hard. But now that the two are considered husband and wife, it is naturally best to dine together. What's more, she also hopes to take this opportunity to eat so that Uncle Gao and Mingyue can know more about him. For her, Gao Bo and Zhang Bo are her family. Now that Ling Yun is her husband, everyone will naturally be a family from now on.

After Qinglian waited for Mulan to leave, she quietly reported Ling Yun's request to make tea to Gao Qianxue.

"Stir-fried tea?" Gao Qianxue smiled slightly, but she didn't care much, she thought about it, this is not a big deal, it may just be a different taste of her husband. However, when she took the letter written by Ling Yun to the tea house handed over by Qinglian, her eyes changed slightly, full of surprise.

"Is this letter written by Yi Lang?"

Qinglian nodded, "The slave and Mulan grind ink, and the son writes it in front of the slave." ”