Ruohong looked at Ruoxue in surprise, why didn't she see a pomegranate tree in this yard! Well, she remembered that under the corridor of the West Wing, there was indeed a clump of dead branches, which she saw every day, but she never cared about it.

Ruoxue also smiled: "This year, I also ate two pomegranates with the knots on the top, which are very sweet, and many pomegranates have been eaten by small insects, which is a pity!" ”

"These two aren't on top of that, are they?" Ruohong asked.

"No, I bought it from outside." Ruoxue said.

Lian Xin brought a handkerchief, wrapped two pomegranates, and put them on the coffee table in Mei Zhiyuan's hand.

Mei Zhiyuan sat for a while, then took the pomegranate and said goodbye and went back.

After Mei Zhiyuan left, Ruohong asked out her puzzlement, "Isn't there no separation?" Then, why can't the second uncle take the fruit in the ice cellar himself? She said.

Ruoxue walked back to the bookcase and sat down, picked up a quill and dipped it in ink, "There is no point on the surface, but the bonus silver at the end of the year of each room is distributed to their own hands at the end of the year, so each room has its own kitchen and purchasing steward."

It's just that the items bought here in the house will be given to them somewhat. She said.

"Oh, so is this year's bonus divided?"

"No, I'll divide it after Laba." Ruoxue said.

Ruohong thought in her heart, it shouldn't be an average score, otherwise, the Yang family wouldn't want to be a housekeeper's wife like that.

"The family's income is divided into ten shares, our family gets four shares, and they get three shares for each of the two houses." Ruoxue lowered her head and wrote the numbers of 20 to 30, raised her head and said: "Only ten percent or twenty percent of the total profit is distributed every year, and the rest is still to be put in the public account." ”

If it is popular, this is why Changfang looks richer than the other two rooms, and he can take some running water more or less, which is nothing, after all, Changfang has to manage a Mei family in Nuoda, and it is natural to take some at will.

When the water is clear, there are no fish!

It's those housekeepers in the family, or the housekeeper's daughter-in-law, who doesn't deduct a little running water in their hands, otherwise who is willing to work for you.

The next day was the day when 500,000 taels of silver were out of the warehouse, and there were more than 30 guards of the Mei family standing at the gate of Jiutong Fortune, as well as 50 guards of Li Tao.

As soon as they stopped on the street, no one dared to cross the street, and they all preferred to take a detour rather than find something to be unhappy.

There are also some idlers, standing at the corner of the street and looking at this side, waiting to see what is lively, and seeing it, they can go to the tea shop and wine shop to sell their mouths.

Ruohong accompanied Ruoxue to sit in the private room on the second floor of Jiutong Fortune, watching boxes of silver carried out, a box of five thousand taels, a total of 100 large black lacquered wooden boxes with copper horns, loaded with more than 20 carriages, crowded next to each other for most of the street.

Ruohong secretly slandered in her heart, so much silver is not something that can be robbed by anyone, at least a few hundred people can do it!

"People don't come to take the money early because they don't have any money in the library, right? That......" Ruohong didn't continue, it was a bit unlucky to say it.

"Then there will be a run." Ruoxue said what Ruohong didn't finish, and said: "This is only the silver that was put in the warehouse last month, not this year, if you are afraid that the silver will be gone, just come and get it." ”

What Ruohong didn't know was that in ancient times, the deposit of silver was to give money to the bank, and the money bank was responsible for the obligation to keep it, unless the money bank was robbed, otherwise there would be no run at all.

In the next few days, Ruoxue was either looking at the account books sent into the house every day, or writing the arithmetic problems that Ruohong taught her, and Ruohong's questions became more and more difficult, not only calculation questions, but also application questions.

Ruoxue can be said to be able to cope with the calculation problems easily, but the application problems make her think a lot, which always makes her feel a little dizzy, and always calculates the wrong results.

Ruohong stayed in the study every day, either holding those history books, or practicing calligraphy with a tube of brushes, or watching Ruolan write.

Mei Zhishu didn't go to school with his brothers because of the cold weather, and ran to Guanfang Academy with his sister every day to learn mathematics with Ruohong.

A five- or six-year-old like him is the best age to learn, that is, the first grade of primary school.

Mei Zhishu doesn't like to go to the school with his brothers, he doesn't like to sit with a group of adults, sitting in the school, he always has a feeling that he is an outsider, and he will never be able to integrate into them, and he feels that he is an alternative existence.

Mei Zhishu likes to learn mathematics very much, and has a paranoid fanaticism about numbers, Ruohong gave Ruoxue the addition and subtraction questions within twenty, he only had to think for a while to say the answer, but he couldn't tell how it was calculated.

At first, Ruohong thought that she had met the same kind, and she was both surprised and delighted, and later repeatedly tested him with various questions, such as: "Is the burger delicious?" ”

He looked at her blankly, "What's a burger?" I haven't eaten it. ”

"Is Coke good?"

Puzzled, he asked, "Coke?" Isn't Coke laughing? How can you drink it! ”

"Ultraman fights monsters, the longest is a few minutes over?"

"Who is Ultraman? What does a monster look like? He asked.

"What time is it?"

Ruohong's most frequently asked question is this one, always asked inadvertently, so that he may inadvertently say something.

But he always looked dazed, "What time is it?" Can you eat it? ”

Ruohong can only say that Mei Zhishu is very sensitive to numbers and has the potential to become a top science student.

After Laba, Ruoxue gathered the four bookkeepers in the family, and the seven or eight bookkeepers of Jiutong Wealth, and more than a dozen people into the hall in the front yard to calculate this year's surplus and the dividends of the three houses.

Ruohong followed Ruoxue for two days to calculate the annual surplus as of the end of November this year.

It's just that for the sake of fairness, count it twice under everyone's noses, and what the two of them said can't be trusted.

Mei Zhiyuan and Mei Zhigao, on behalf of the second and third rooms, watched the accounting process, they sat there very bored, listening to the sound of the chaotic abacus beads colliding, and didn't even dare to say a word, for fear that their voices would be loud, which would distract the accounting gentlemen and miscalculate tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Mei Zhiyuan came to see the year-end settlement for the first time this year, and the second master Mei Jishan did not come this year, he deduced that there were classes in the school that could not be separated from him, so he would not come, and he would come out to participate in this year's year-end bargaining.

In the first two years, the third master, Mei Jitan, became the parent official of Gaochun County, so he couldn't come, so he asked his son Mei Zhigao to come over instead of Sanfang to watch a scene.

Mei Zhigao has participated in such year-end accounting for two years, and he also received the silver of the third room on his behalf.

On a few beside them, there were tea snacks, melon seeds and peanuts, which were really boring, so Mei Zhigao would peel the peanut shell, peel out five or six peanut kernels, throw them high one by one, and then catch them with his mouth and chew them.

Mei Zhiyuan is old, sitting there drinking tea slowly, looking steady and composed.

After two days of accounting, the calculated result is the same as that calculated by Ruoxue and them, so the result must be the same twice before it is considered the final result.

Entering the wax moon, I began to be busy with the New Year, and this year's Mei family's New Year was not as lively as before, because Master Mei died this year, and he was still in the filial piety period, so there was no wanton operation.

Ruo Hong let the building blocks that people make also get back, originally for Ruolan to play with, Ruoxue saw the assembled house, so she didn't immediately give Ruolan to play.

The simple square and triangular houses are not only loved by children, but also by her!

Ruoxue meant not to make a noise for now, she was going to let people make hundreds of sets, take them out and sell them, and then give them to Ruolan to play with.

Ruohong didn't insist on giving it to Ruolan right away, and told Ruoxue some ideas, such as coloring the building blocks with different lacquer for the square carved doors or windows, which would look better.

The building blocks that Ruohong played with in her previous life were all colorful and beautiful together, but she found that Ruoxue didn't want to dye the blocks colorful, she said it was too ugly.

Ruohong is not an ancient, and she can't understand what the ancients thought about color matching, she just thinks that colorful colors can attract children's attention more and make children like to play with such building blocks more.

Just like a multi-colored pastry that always catches the eye of a child.

Ruohong said that where she lives, there are houses of all colors, and there are paintings on the outer walls of the houses, and there are tiles on the outer walls, painted with various colors, and such houses are beautiful!

In Ruoxue's consciousness, ordinary people are not allowed to live in houses with colored walls, and even some princes' houses dare not use red bricks to build houses.

Therefore, she didn't dare to let the children play with the colorful building blocks, in case she was sued to the government, it would be something that she couldn't tell.

There is no excuse for the sin that you want to add.

Ruoxue sent those blocks out again, and after Chinese New Year's Eve, when Ruohong saw those blocks again, she was amazed by the fine carving on them.

The carved doors and windows can be opened and closed, and the flowers and birds on the landscape are like paintings, which are pleasing to the eye.

With such building blocks, she didn't dare to start playing, for fear that she would accidentally break the doors and windows.

"Master, this is just delivered." Wan Yun took two pieces of paper and sent them to Li Tao's desk.

What was drawn on the paper was the shape of the two building blocks, one triangular and the other square.

"This is what the eldest lady of the Mei family asked her to do? Do you know what it is used for? Li Tao looked at the pattern on the paper, he turned the paper half a circle, and then half a circle, not knowing what the use of this was.

"Miss Mei asked her to make it, but she didn't know what it was for, she asked the carpenter to carve doors and windows on it, and other tricks." Wan Yun bowed and replied.

"Why didn't you get a few?"

"The people of the Mei family are very strict. Every day when the carpenter finished work, the people of the Mei family put away all the wooden pieces and looked at them very tightly like treasures. Wan Yun said.

Wan Yun said again: "My subordinates have already found two carpenters to do it, and it will be good in a day or two." ”

"Why two carpenters?" Li Tao asked puzzled.

Wan Yun was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly replied: "Because Miss Mei just found two shops and made these two types of wooden blocks." ”

Li Tao's eyes flashed, there was something strange in it, he thought for a while and said, "You find a reliable person and see what the relationship between these two pictures is." ”

Wan Yun patted his head, he understood why Miss Mei was looking for two shops to do, she should be afraid that the two things would be learned if they were combined.

"If you don't invite Mr. Jin here, he'll be fine in the capital anyway." Wan Yun's head seemed to have opened up, thinking of the old man in the house who liked to fiddle with machine springs.

Li Tao touched his chin and stood up, tapping his index finger on his cheek, walking back and forth between the table and the chair twice, tilting his head to look at the two pieces of paper again.

The things drawn on two pieces of paper should be able to be combined in one place, but I don't know what the use is.

Li Tao stood still, picked up the paper of the square drawing, looked at it, and then folded the extra paper around him to form a square and put it on the side of the triangle.

"Come and see, what does this look like?"

Wan Yun approached and looked down sideways, "I can't see it, it seems to be ...... It seems to be crooked. He said.

Li Tao picked up the square again and put it on the other side of the triangle, "What does this look like?" He said.

"Like ...... Like a house. ”

Wan Yun turned the paper half a circle for Li Tao to see, so that Li Tao could see that it was a triangle on the top and a square below, which looked like a roof ridge and a wall.

"Write a letter and ask Mr. Jin to come to Jinling." Li Tao said.

In the hustle and bustle of firecrackers, Jinling City ushered in the new year.

The third old man, Mei Jitan, had half a month of annual leave, and it was dark for the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, so he arrived at home, finished washing up briefly, and went to Songhe Courtyard.

A large family of people ate Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at Mrs. Cao's place, and gossiped for a while, and when they saw that Mrs. Cao's physical strength was exhausted, they dispersed, and each went back to their own courtyard.

Ruohong was in her sister Ruoxue House, staying up until almost four watches, but she couldn't hold it anymore, so she fell asleep on the kang.

Ruoxue sat on the edge of the kang wrapped in half a quilt, fiddling with a bunch of dominoes, which were processed by craftsmen in the house, and the numbers were engraved on the back, which were unique to Ruoxue.

Ruoxue uses these dominoes for reading and calculation, Ruohong is already teaching her multiplication and division calculations, and she will have difficulty learning when the progress is fast, and she will have to work harder harder.

There are many things that can't be done during the Chinese New Year, so she takes the dominoes and puts them into three digits, or four digits and recites them several times, and then takes a domino to do the calculation of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, so that it is not considered to be doing things.

Lianxin and five or six maids gathered around a big table to play another deck of cards, Lianxin was not lucky, and she lost a lot of money to go out, so she stopped playing.

Mi Pearl and Gong Yue have only learned to play dominoes in the past few days, perhaps because the novices are lucky, and the two of them have won a lot of copper coins by changing the village.

The two of them have been at Mei's house for more than a month, and they follow Ruoxue every day, feeling that they don't know what to do, and seeing that those maids are busy with things, they feel more and more useless.

Mi Pearl and Gong Yue also said to Ruoxue that they would do something, Ruoxue just said that the two of them should follow her, and they really wanted to do something, and when the maids were too busy, they just reached out to help them.

These days, they are also used to doing some things like serving tea and pouring water by Ruoxue's side.

This year, I can't go to my relatives and friends' houses to pay New Year's greetings, so there is a lot less excitement, and relatives and friends rarely come to the house to walk around, so it seems a little cold and desolate.

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