Jia Lu through the Red Chamber

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has been half a month since the second princess married into the Ning Mansion, and half a month since Jia Qiang left. In the past half month, Jia Lu has never returned to the garden.

Firstly, it was to accompany the second princess, and secondly, Mrs. Zhang just felt that Sister Lu was getting old now, and her eldest sister-in-law was like a mother. In case a girl gets married and doesn't even have the slightest ability to learn, her in-laws will inevitably say that their Jia family's upbringing, Jia's mother can take advantage of her old age to push things away, but they can't.

On this day, Mrs. Zhang and Jia Lu met the shopper for the kitchen. The wife and husband of the shop were named Zhang Daliang, so people often called him Zhang Daliang’s. , wait respectfully aside, waiting for the master to ask questions, if the master has nothing to say, you can go down.

Zhang Daliang's family lowered their heads, and listened to Zhang's boss closing the account book, saying,

"Sister Lu, you've been listening for a while, why don't you ask first?"

Zhang Daliang's ears twitched, and his heart relaxed a lot, the girl is always easier to deal with than Zhang's.

Jia Lu took the account book that Mrs. Zhang handed over, opened it and read it carefully, thinking about what Mrs. Zhang did before, and asked,

"Ms. Zhang, I lost 220 renminbi last month. Didn't you explain the loss?"

Zhang Daliang's family hurriedly said,

"Girl, you don't know. In our kitchen, these losses are the most difficult to register. For example, if the master has an order to eat duck tongue made with wine, a duck eats a tongue. Other places If you want duck meat for other dishes, then that’s fine, if you can’t get it, then the whole duck will have to be scrapped? The master is precious, how can he use the meat that died overnight?”

Jia Lu put down the ledger and asked,

"Aunt Zhang, I don't often live in the mansion, but when I was in the mansion there, I often listened to the rules there. Let alone the old lady, she is a precious person, and she has to use water for every meal every day. They eat the name of the dishes, but the people around have a set meal every day, if the master wants to eat something extra, then he has to pay for it himself, I wonder what the rules are in our house?"

Zhang Daliang's family replied, "I'm afraid the girl was coaxed away by there. How can there be any reason to pay for food at home? Wouldn't that be the same as eating out? If it wasn't for some precious bird's nest Shark fins and the like, you can make decisions in the kitchen by yourself..."

"So these expenses are also included in the loss?"

Zhang Daliang's family replied, "Exactly!"

Jia Lu took a deep look at her, until Zhang Daliang's family smiled silly, then lowered her head again.

Jia Lu always felt that there was something in it that she ignored, but what Da Liang's family said was reasonable, it was much better than the West Mansion over there, but was she innocent?

Jia Lu was silent for a long time. This time, it was the first time Zhang Shi let her call the shots, and it was also the first time she resorted to tricks in front of the people in the house. This first impression was extremely important, just like when Tanchun was in the Prime Minister's house, There were also servants who wanted to try this young girl's tricks, but who knew that Jia Tanchun's search for the old calendar of his ancestors had exposed it, so that people dare not ignore it.

Hey, wait, old calendar?

Jia Lu suddenly thought of something, so she flipped through the ledger. This ledger records the purchases for this year. Every month is different, and the products of the season are different. Even the loss is different. Not the same, this is of no reference value, Jia Lu asked,

"Sister-in-law, do you have the account books from previous years?"

Zhang was originally drinking tea, put down the tea bowl, and said with a smile, "Yes, why not, you have what you want for several years!"

Jia Lu thought for a while, then said, "Then take a five-year one!"

Afterwards, Mrs. Zhang sent someone to bring over the five-year account book, handed it to Jia Lu, and said,

"All account books within one year are in the hands of their respective managers, just like the account books for this year's kitchen purchases in your hands are in the hands of Zhang Daliang's family, but after the new year, this account book will be returned to me. Here, before recycling, I don’t care if they keep a copy for themselves or not, everything that is collected must be signed and stamped, and if there is anything wrong, just find the one who signed and stamped it.”

I don't know whether to say to Jia Lu or Zhang Daliang's family, "Sister Lu, you have to look carefully, my sister-in-law knows you are capable, if there is something wrong with the account book, just say it, someone will be responsible anyway!"

Zhang Daliang's family only felt that their foreheads were sweating, and their hearts were beating non-stop.

Jia Lu took over the account book, and there are two concepts in the statistics, one is the same period or year-on-year, and the other is the chain ratio. Introduced, because the products are different in different months, there are some differences, and this alone can’t tell much. Jia Lu compared the same period, and specially selected spring, summer, autumn and winter seasons to choose a month for each season, and compared each other, and finally found out what, asked,

"Ms. Zhang, why is the loss on this account book getting more expensive every year? Could it be that it's all in your hands?"

Zhang Daliang's family fell to his knees with a plop, and said,

"Girl, this is a great injustice. You have lived in the West Mansion for a long time, and you don't know the situation outside. Now this year is getting worse every year. Let alone melons, fruits and vegetables, chicken, egg and fish, people are freezing to death." Everything!"

Jia Lu knew it in her mind, she just watched her aggrieved as if she was watching a play, and when she calmed down, she said,

"Who is Mrs. Zhang fooling? It is true that the crops were not good in the past few years, but this year the weather is good. Grandma Liu who came to the house before charged two stones of grain. Even I have farmed the fields myself. How can we I don’t know if the harvest is not good this year?”

Only then did Zhang Daliang's family realize that the girl from my family is a weird girl. She planted some sweet potatoes by herself a month ago, and the harvest seemed to be pretty good. She wished she could slap her in the face. She really fooled her ancestors, so she quickly kowtowed,

"Girl, grandma, I was fooled by lard for a while, please grandma, girl, please forgive me for this once!"

Seeing that she was really embezzled, Mrs. Zhang frowned in anger, and scolded, "Come on, hurry up and suppress her, and interrogate her to see how much she ate!"

Zhang Daliang's family howled and was taken away.

Zhang was very ashamed and annoyed that there was such a big mouse under his control, but was finally caught by his sister-in-law, but he also admired Jia Lu's wit, so he praised,

"Sister Lu, it's thanks to you this time!"

Jia Lu said, "It's also a coincidence. If I hadn't met Grandma Liu and planted things myself, I knew that this year would be a good year, and I might have been deceived by her. Sister-in-law would have known it well, right?"