Chapter 05: Mr. Bookkeeper
It is said that this He Mansion is a big family that has recently settled in Yun'an City, and it has a big background, mainly doing official and commercial business.
After the disguise, Tao Yao shook the jade fan and looked at the decoration in the He Mansion Hall, it was really magnificent, although it was not as good as the palace, but it was not comparable to ordinary large families.
Looking at the people in the hall again, more than thirty men of different ages stood in a pile.
She thought to herself that Mr. He Fu Xuan was also very popular, and there were more than 30 people competing for a position together, just like in modern society, the competition was really big.
But she didn't look at it at all, looking at everyone in the hall with a calm look.
Soon an old steward with thick eyebrows and white hair walked out, followed by several housekeepers holding dozens of rolls of lists and abacus. He invited them all to a wider courtyard, where tables and chairs were already set up, and it felt like an examination room.
After everyone was seated, the assessment officially began.
In fact, the assessment questions they came out with were really simple, and they directly gave all the applicants a stack of bills and an abacus to see who could calculate quickly and accurately.
Abacus, Tao Yao is really not good at it, modern society has computers, there are computers, there are not many people who can use this ancient thing.
But just applying for this little ancient bookkeeper, isn't the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in her mind faster than it? She felt that their assessment was a question for herself, and it was really pediatrics.
In about ten minutes, she sorted out a stack of bills and handed them to the old steward in charge of the assessment, only to see that although the steward was old, his eyes were shining with shrewdness.
When the others saw that she was calculating so quickly, they all looked incredulous, and a few seemed to be making fun of her, thinking that she was dealing with it casually.
She smiled evilly, and shook her head at them in her heart, this ancient man is really pedantic, she is a modern lively soul, and she can't cope with this little arithmetic assessment? Ridiculous, ridiculous.
The steward examined her answer, nodded at one moment, shook his head at another, and she couldn't guess what his reaction was.
He suddenly asked: "This son, the old man saw that you have not yet used the abacus, and you can settle the bill in such a short time, I don't know what your Excellency has to do?" ”
She smiled in her heart, and replied coldly and calmly: "This is an exclusive algorithm taught by the master, and it is not allowed to be passed on, I hope Mr. will forgive me." ”
The old gentleman was not embarrassed: "Since you can't spread it, then give up, dare to ask the son's surname?" ”
He asked her name, she thought to herself that she had a play, and after thinking for a while, she replied, "In Xia Tao Yao." ”
"Tao Yao, you've been admitted." The old gentleman still said lightly.
"Thank you, sir!" Tao Yao waved his hands and saluted him.
So, she became one of the bookkeepers of He Fu, and this is indeed a rare good errand.
She was in charge of the accounts of one of the larger commercial houses. Because of her high efficiency, she doesn't have to get up early every day to report. After sleeping until she wakes up naturally every day, it takes another hour to sort out the day's accounts, and when she is done, she can go into the back hall to do her own thing.
At first, the steward of the merchant house was very dissatisfied with her lazy appearance, but then he knew that she had done all the work to do this, so he turned a blind eye to her.
She was thinking about this job, and her heart was very satisfied: simple and easy work, food and lodging treatment, and twenty taels of silver per month as a salary.
Although it is not as good as the palace and the brocade and jade food of Yunshan here, she is also happy, she relies on her own hands to work and make money here, and there is no one she doesn't want to see.
Unconsciously, a week has passed, and there is no sign of Lin Rui looking for her, very good, it seems that she has successfully avoided his search this time, or is he no longer looking for her?
Whatever the reason, she was secretly glad in her heart, but she didn't know that something more serious was about to happen.
On this day, after Tao Yao finished a day's work, she was a little sleepy and went to the back hall to take a nap.
Suddenly, the sound of the steward woke her from her sleep, and he asked her out with a slightly panicked expression.
Tao Yao was not in a hurry, rubbed her sleepy eyes, got up, and walked out of the store, only to see a very bewitching man in a blue brocade robe sitting in the steward's seat looking at her.
I saw his phoenix eyes squinting slightly, looking at her. If you can ignore the anger on his face, that look is really overwhelming.
The steward wiped the sweat on his forehead and introduced Tao Yao: "Mr. Tao, this is Young Master He, who came to inspect various commercial houses today. ”
She knew in her heart that this Young Master He was here to find her.
"You?" The man spoke.
She was puzzled: "Me? "What the hell happened to her? She's really confused!
"You're not this bookkeeper, why don't you work well in the middle of the day, and you actually sleep lazily in the back hall?" He opened his mouth to ask her.
Tao Yao didn't panic, and replied with a well-behaved look: "Back to the young master, my accounts have been fully calculated"
His good-looking eyes turned, a hint of suspicion drifted through, and his slender fingers picked up the accounts she had made and looked at them.
After a while, he looked at her with a noble attitude: "How do you calculate this?" He pointed to the multiplication and division symbols on her scratch paper.
This Young Master He is really good, but she still kept calm and took out her set of words that fooled the old gentleman: "This is a unique algorithm taught by the family teacher. ”
"I don't know where Your Excellency was taught?" The young master asked meaningfully.
She didn't plan to go around with him in her heart: "The family teacher is just an ordinary teacher in the countryside"
But the young master still didn't give up: "I don't think this algorithm is ordinary." ”
Tao Yao asked Qingtian speechlessly at the young master, she had already indicated in her words that she didn't want to say more, why should he be aggressive? This man is really tough.
She replied cheekily: "The young master has a good reputation." ”
I saw the corner of the young master's mouth twitch, hehe, I was afraid that she said something inappropriate, but he didn't ask any more.
I only heard his cold voice say: "I see that you are quite literate, since this little bookkeeper cannot satisfy you, then you will start following me tomorrow." After saying that, he walked away with the little guy on his long legs.
Tao Yao's mind flashed a thunderbolt from the sky. This...... This is just too much.
She raised her hand 10,000 times in her heart, and she was really very satisfied with this job, which was very good and comfortable. She also knows that being a human being should be content, and she really thinks that this bookkeeping job is too suitable for her, and it is really fulfilling.
However, she can't influence the young master's decision, she is just a subordinate in this He Mansion, and she can only obey the master's words.
But this works with the young master? God knows what that would have been.
The steward on the side said to her very concernedly: "It is also your blessing that you have been appreciated by the young master, and you should follow the young master well."
She nodded in response, and when she was woken up, she was completely sleepy, so she started to stay.
"Don't learn from other people, you have any thoughts about the young master that you shouldn't have!" The steward said to her with great concern.
Others? Thinking about the young master? Hehe, not to mention that she is now a man. Tao Yao is also self-aware, and his appearance of turning sentient beings upside down must have caused a lot of trouble.
And Tao Yao naturally understands that truth: the more beautiful things are, the more dangerous they are, and she knows that she can't afford to mess with him.
Now she just wants to be an An'an subordinate and do what she likes, that's all.