my grandmother

Chapter 180 Li Xiaonan's Ghost Talisman
Gu Yan glanced at the crown prince, and pointed to the long case by the window, "There are a few pages, please take a look."

"Okay!" Li Xiaonan responded readily, stood up, walked to the long case, took a roll of transparent bamboo paper from the case, unfolded it, and said in surprise, "This is from Mr. Niu?"

Gu Yan and the prince looked at each other, and said with a smile: "Well, it was delivered just now, is this the symbol agreed by the two of you?"

"Yes, I wrote it for Mr. Niu, and Mr. Niu also thinks it is very useful. Do you want to write it out?" Li Xiaonan pulled out the chair and sat down, leaning over to take the abacus.

Gu Yan and the crown prince stood on the left and the right, standing behind Li Xiaonan, Gu Yan pointed to the dense numbers on the thin transparent bamboo paper, and said with a smile: "Can you match these ghost symbols and numbers one by one?"

"Well, it's just twenty or thirty symbols. I'll write them out, and you can understand them at a glance. You can count numbers quickly with symbols." Li Xiaonan took a piece of paper and twisted it subconsciously. This kind of familiarity is extremely expensive.

Gu Yan stretched out his hand to pull the beautifully carved and slender pen case on the long case, opened it, and pushed it in front of Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan looked at a dozen beautiful charcoal pencils neatly arranged in the pencil case. The charcoal pencils were extremely beautifully cut and arranged in order from thick to thin.Li Xiaonan reached out to stroke a row of charcoal pencils, and sighed contentedly.

She likes the best paper and beautiful stationery.

The prince watched as Li Xiaonan picked up a thick charcoal pencil, and quickly wrote the corresponding number of ten numeral symbols on the familiar Xuan, and asked Gu Yan with a smile: "How is her handwriting?"

"Zanhua Xiaokai is the best, very neat." Gu Yan replied.

Li Xiaonan quickly wrote [-] or [-] numbers and symbols, pushed them to the front, first read through the ten or so sheets of bamboo shadow paper that were so thin and transparent, took a few sheets of cooked rice paper, pressed them with a paperweight, and wrote with the right hand and turned them over with the left hand. Start counting the number of characters sent before the ox cart.

"Her temperament is actually the best in Chinese characters written in Zanhua Xiaokai." The prince said casually while carefully looking at the dozens of symbols.

"She said that the purpose of practicing Zanhua Xiaokai is to copy books to make money." Gu Yan replied.

The prince laughed.

When the sheet was full, Li Xiaonan grabbed the abacus and quickly picked up the beads.

The crown prince and Gu Yan stopped talking, and looked at Li Xiaonan flicking the abacus beads with his left hand and writing numbers with his right hand.

Li Xiaonan counted for nearly two quarters of an hour at a time, pushed away the abacus, shook her hands sore from exhaustion, patted the stack of books and said with a smile: "This should be a fake account made by Mr. Niu for them! These should be more than one One month and two months' account."

The prince and Gu Yan looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

"Can you make these accounts again? It's best to compare the real and the fake." Gu Yan laughed.

"Yes, but it's troublesome." Li Xiaonan pinched her chin and frowned.

It is really troublesome to restore these numbers and list them line by line.

"You don't have to pay back the money you borrowed from me. I'll give you another 100 taels." Gu Yan smiled.

The prince raised his eyebrows.

"Am I that kind of person?" Li Xiaonan glanced at Gu Yan sideways, "You don't need to give me another 100 taels, just take it as repayment for the favor you let me go to your library to read. It will take three or four days to list everything, and then here?"

Gu Yan glanced at the prince and hummed.

"Then I'll start doing it tomorrow. It's too late today. There are some ready-made blank ledgers, find me a few, maybe a dozen." Li Xiaonan pointed to the row of charcoal pencils again, "These few sticks are too thin, these are too Rough, it’s just right from here to here, so prepare more.”

"Okay." Gu Yan simply agreed.

"What do you want to eat?" the prince asked with a smile.

"Is there any mochi left?" Li Xiaonan asked casually.

That mochi was the best mochi she had ever eaten.

"Yes, I asked them to teach Bieye's dessert room, so that they can make it for you often in the future." The prince smiled.

"Thank you." Li Xiaonan thanked, and looked at Gu Yan, "I'll go back first, and come back tomorrow."

"Ah."

Watching Li Xiaonan leave the flower hall, the prince smiled and said: "She just said that she doesn't need to pay another 100 taels, and your debt still needs to be cancelled. How much money does she owe you?"

"100 taels." Gu Yan smiled.

The crown prince was stunned unexpectedly, patted Gu Yan and laughed loudly: "100 taels? Then you have taken advantage of it!"

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The next day, just as the sun was rising, Li Xiaonan arrived at the Palace of the Palace, it was still the same as yesterday, the servant waited at the second gate, and led Li Xiaonan into yesterday's flower hall.

Li Xiaonan devoted herself to sorting out the accounts all day, and the two servants who had been waiting at the door were both unfamiliar faces, but the thoughtfulness and dexterity of the two of them made Li Xiaonan amazed.

As the sun was setting, Li Xiaonan sorted out two accounts. She was so tired that her waist ached and her neck ached. She stood up, twisted her neck, kicked her legs, and said to the two boys at the door: "I'll go back first, come back tomorrow." .”

The servant hurriedly led her to the second gate, inside the second gate, Wan Qing was already waiting, and when she got into the car, Li Xiaonan was so tired that she lay on a big pillow.

"Shi Gun told me not to ask you a single word, and you don't talk, I'll give you a hug." Wan Qing dragged Li Xiaonan to lie down, and squeezed her shoulders.

"Be gentle with your hand! Lighten up again, just like this, up, too up, down a little bit, yes, pinch for a while longer. Wan Qing, your skills are not very good." Li Xiaonan directed Wan Qing, disgusted by the way A sentence.

"How many times have I told you that I didn't intend to work in the mansion, and I never learned to serve people! This is a little bit I learned from pinching my mother's shoulders. If you don't like it, let Shi Gun pick someone who can pinch tomorrow. The car is waiting for you!" Wan Qing said angrily.

"You pinched it very well, you don't need to find someone else, change your shoulder, lightly!" Li Xiaonan instructed Wan Qing to squeeze all the way, got off the car at the entrance of Cailian Lane, yawned and went in.

After immersing herself in sorting out for a full four days, Li Xiaonan sorted out eight thick account books, stacked them on the long case, and patted them hard, feeling satisfied.

She loves the sense of accomplishment of completing a job!
Li Xiaonan stood up, turned around in the spacious flower hall, jumped over, jumped back, took a few photos of the stack of account books, picked up one, opened it and looked at the neat numbers that she had written down, and was satisfied again. Sighed.

She is so capable!
On this day, just after feeding, Li Xiaonan returned to her home in Cailian Lane.

Sister Mei was cooking cowpeas and drying cowpeas, and Wang Yuting followed Sister Mei, gossiping and helping.

"It's so early today! There's tea in the room, just made it, you pour it yourself." Sister Mei didn't stop, and raised her voice to greet her.

"Don't worry about me." Li Xiaonan took a book from the house, sat on the old rocking chair on the porch, swayed and read for leisure.

Sister Mei and Wang Yuting continued to work and gossip.

"Where did I just say?" Sister Mei sat on a small bamboo chair to wash cowpeas, while Wang Yuting brought a bucket of water from the well.

"Speaking of yesterday, your brother, your sister-in-law and your eldest nephew came."

(End of this chapter)