More than a dozen accountants sat at two tables, Li Dazhong and the dark belly girl Li Shu sat at a separate table, and the bun maid, Painting Er, waited on the side.
Zhu Pingan was invited to his table by the old bookkeeper with grey sideburns, and the people at the table were all very enthusiastic. Although Zhu Pingan was young, no one at this table dared to belittle him, and in their words, they treated Zhu Pingan on an equal or even higher level.
Li Da Zaobao is generous, many dishes are not necessarily available in the county town, but there is a table full of them.
Colours and flavours are all over the place.
Zhu Pingan naturally no hospitality, eat up not at all constrained, and there is no village people to eat the kind of unproductive feeling, it looks very harmonious, there is no sense of dissonance at all.
During the meal, Li Dazhong suddenly came to say:
“Little Zhu Gongzi, come to my place, would it be good to be a helper for me.”
Zhu Pingan, who was in the middle of eating, heard the words, and his eating movements paused for a moment, raising his head to look at Grand Caioliang Li.
Big Cai Zhu Li gently tapped the table, stretched out a hand towards Zhu Ping An, and then said, “If you work for me as a helper, I’ll give you this amount for a year.”
“Fifty taels?”
A bookkeeper was surprised for a moment, for a thirteen or fourteen year old teenager earning fifty taels a year was quite good, Great Wealthy Master Li was really generous.
Unexpectedly, Great Wealthy Master Li shook his head at his words.
“Erm, it can’t be five taels, it’s too little.” That bookkeeper’s tone was a bit sceptical, as if he was rather unworthy of Zhu Pingan, believing that Zhu Pingan was definitely worthy of fifty taels of silver.
Big Cai Zhu Li smiled and shook his head as he spoke, “How could it be five taels, it’s five hundred taels.”
Five hundred taels?
Many bookkeepers sniffed and sucked in a breath of cool air, it was really generous and enviable.
As soon as Great Wealthy Master Li’s words fell, Li Shu, the dark-hearted girl, dropped her chopsticks and pouted with a mouth that could tie up a cow.
“On what grounds, I don’t agree!” Ventriloquist Maiden Li Shu wore a foul face.
“Shu’er is good,” Big Cai Zhu Li was busy coaxing his own baby to go.
Under the gazes of the envious and jealous bookkeepers, Zhu Pingan slowly got up and arched his hand towards Grand Treasurer Li. With an apologetic face, he spoke:
“Thank you for your appreciation, Officer Li, but Ping An’s ambition is not here, please forgive me.”
For some reason, Zhu Pingan finished this sentence. He felt as if Li Shu, the black-hearted young lady over there, had put down a big stone in her heart.
As for it, not just 500 taels of silver, this girl stingy!
Oh!
I almost forgot, this girl is a gold-digger!
Zhu Pingan belly-laughs differently.
This matter was left unsettled. After that, everyone ate while talking and laughing, the Li family’s cook was not bad, and the flavour of the meal was good beyond words.
After this meal, the sun had already set in the west, so Zhu Pingan put the selected books into his book bag and got up to say goodbye.
The double-entry bookkeeping method, the bookkeepers had already mastered it, the next step was just to follow the steps of verifying it with several years of books using this method. Finding out the problem accounts, naturally, there is Li Da Zaobao decided how to dispose of it.
So. The matter of checking the accounts, Zhu Pingan would no longer care.
Twilight darkened, the remaining sun slowly slid down like blood, colouring the western sky red. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, Zhu Pingan slowly walked towards the Lower River Village with his school bag slung over his shoulder.
Along the way, he encountered villagers returning home from the fields, and Zhu Pingan greeted them one by one, only that the village people had a mouthful of little Master Zhu, making Zhu Pingan somewhat uncomfortable.
When Zhu Pingan returned home, his father, Zhu Shouyi, had already arrived home and was tending to the family’s meritocracy, the Big Black Bull. Father Zhu took good care of the Big Black Bull. As soon as he returned home, he unloaded all the burdens on the big black ox, brushing its hair and bringing it water to feed it, so that when the big black ox saw Zhu Pingan, it held its head high. As if showing off how favoured he was.
When his mother, Chen, saw Zhu Pingan return, she asked with concern if he had eaten well at the Li family home, and if the books were troublesome.
It seemed that the Li family’s subordinates had made things very clear.
Zhu Pingan answered one by one, and said that he had just eaten, so don’t make your own dinner. The mother, Chen, was unimpressed and said, “There is nothing wrong with doing more. If you can eat, eat some, if you can’t eat, don’t eat, anyway, the family still has pigs.
The only good thing in the world is mum, Zhu Pingan looked at his mother Chen, and this song echoed in his mind.
After his father fed the cows, he went to the house and came out of the house in a short while, “His mother, where are my pair of cloth shoes under the bed.”
Mother Chen sniffed and lightly came, “Those cloth shoes are too old, they show two toes, I threw them away.”
On hearing this, Zhu’s father said anxiously, “Where did you throw them, the old ones can still be worn, and it’s okay to show your toes, I’ve been travelling in the oxcart, so I’ll save as much as I can, so that I can live better and better. I’ll go pick them up.”
Mother Chen dug Zhu father a glance, a face of bad, “do not have to pick up, shoes in the money I have taken out!”
Zhu father
Zhu Pingan sniffed, couldn’t help but look at his father twice more, unlike ah, this father of his own was honest to the point of being mute, after so many years, never knew that his father still had the heart and soul to hide his private money.
Mother Chen’s face was cold, her eyelids did not blink as she stared at Zhu’s father.
Zhu father’s face was white with fear.
Err.
Father, you can fend for yourself, who let you hide your private money and still be discovered by mother, forgive my son for being ungrateful.
“Erm, I’ll put the borrowed books in my room first.” Zhu Pingan slipped away on his feet.
When Zhu Pingan returned to his room, he kept an eye on the scene outside from behind the window, if things were not right, he would still have to go out and persuade the fight, of course, he would be pulling the strings, who let his father hide his private money and was discovered by his mother.
“Cough cough cough, his mother, today, what are we eating tonight?”
Outside the window, Zhu’s father rubbed his hands in embarrassment, and only squeezed out a sentence after half a day.
“Ask me what to do ah, you Zhu Shouyi guard the small treasury, buy your own to eat ah!” Mother Chen’s gloomy, spittle sprayed Zhu’s father’s face.
Zhu father did not even wipe, just embarrassed smile, reach out to help Chen’s shoulders, want to coax Chen, just mouth opened half a day, did not say a few words, “his mother, I, I”
“You what you ah, you have the ability, all open a small vault!” Mother Chen laughed coldly and opened Father Zhu’s hand with a slap.
“You say ah, what are you hiding private money for, I’m missing your food or missing your clothes?” Mother Chen was furious.
“I,” Zhu father stuttered.
“Zhu Shouyi, do you think you don’t know who you are with a few stinking dollars in your pocket?!” Mother Chen was so angry that tears were coming out of her eyes, her pink fist greeted Zhu father’s shoulder, “Are you saving up money to go look for which vixen, speak up.”
Zhu father’s face went red, waving his hand repeatedly.
“You also learnt to renege on the debt, Zhu Shouyi, you,” mother Chen’s body trembled with anger.
“No, no, his mother, I just want to give you a bracelet on your birthday, save up a hundred Wen and send it to the town jewellery shop, I’ve been saving up for months, it’s just right for your birthday, if you don’t believe me, you can go to the town and ask at the Zhang Ji jewellery shop.”
Seeing Chen’s anger, Zhu’s father didn’t care to wait for the time to give Chen a surprise, and hurriedly told him everything.
Chen’s mother heard, angry tears did not flow out, all of a sudden gushed out, embracing Zhu’s father to pat his back.
Chen and Zhu father have been together for so many years, naturally can hear that Zhu father is telling the truth.
Zhu father naturally also understands Chen, worried and nervous black face also relaxed, stiff hand holding Chen, not cry not cry coaxing.
Fancy show of love
Zhu Pingan was shown a face again, do not look, turn around and sit down to start copying the book!
