Yu Shu and Xue Rui made it clear that this account book was the inside story. In order to avoid heavy taxes from the government, there were two accounts, one for external purposes, and one for internal purposes.
"I did some calculations the other day. According to Wang Ji Lou's wine list, the two accounts together can reduce at least fifty percent of the tax, which is equivalent to about twenty percent of a month's profit. If the business is booming, this twenty percent is not just a few hundred taels of profit. I see that it is not as if you do not know about this business. I told you about it because I wanted to ask you what are your plans? Are you going to abide by the law, or are you going to push the boat with the current, so that I can have an idea. "
Facing Yu Shu's question, Xue Rui was not in a hurry to answer. After drinking half a cup of tea, he deliberated and said, "I originally wanted to wait for this restaurant to open for a month or two before mentioning this matter to you, but since you took the initiative to ask today, I might as well tell you in advance. I originally planned to make two accounts, but not to avoid taxes, but to prevent people from being jealous. "
"Ha," Hearing this, Yu Shu could not help but laugh and said bluntly, "You have not even opened for business, and you are already worried about other people's jealousy. What if you lose money?"
Hearing this jinx, Xue Rui glanced at her and said, "This business of mine, only profits and no losses."
Yu Shu laughed dryly and did not say goodbye to him. She asked, "Then have you found someone to do the accounts?"
Xue Rui shook his head and said, "I have not found a suitable person. Making fake accounts is much more difficult than making real accounts. The two accountants I found are not proficient in this field, and I am afraid that there will be a mistake. It is also not appropriate to go outside to hire someone, in case the private accounts are leaked and be used against by others. I am worrying about this matter, do you have any good ideas?"
Yu Shu thought for a moment and said, "How about I recommend a person to you?"
Xue Rui asked curiously, "Where is the person from?"
Yu Shu raised her hand and pointed at her nose. "It's me."
Xue Rui laughed and said in delight, "Don't try to tease me. Making accounts isn't the same as making calculations. You've only studied at the Tai Heng Trading Company for a few days, so how could you possibly know how to make false accounts?"
When Yu Shu saw that he didn't believe her, she felt depressed. If she didn't want to help him, she wouldn't have done this.
"How do you know that I can't?" Yu Shu slapped the table and interrupted his laughter. "I have a ready-made account right now. It's the one you showed me a while ago. It's the cost of building this restaurant. Give me one day. Tomorrow, I'll make another account for you. Then, you can decide whether I can do it or not."
Xue Rui thought she was trying to be brave. He didn't want to discourage her, so he smiled and said: "Okay, you can try."
Xue Rui didn't have lunch at Wang Ji Tower and left. It wasn't that he didn't want to stay for lunch, but Yu Shu took his words and went into the study to calculate the accounts. He didn't want to be alone, so he left after a while.
Yu Shu didn't come out of the restaurant until dusk. She locked the account in the cabinet and didn't take a single one with her. She went back to the Ji family.
As soon as she entered the courtyard, she heard from Sonny that Ji Xingxuan came to see her in the afternoon. Sonny learned what Yu Shu said before she left.
"Miss Minglan also said that she will come back after dinner."
"Okay." Yu Shu was a bit surprised. She thought that the three copper coins would make it difficult for Ji Xingxuan for at least three to five days. In less than three days, she already found all of them?
She sat on a chair to rest and put Kim Bao on her lap. Yu Shu ordered Sonny, "Go tell the kitchen that they don't need to bring me dinner. I already ate outside."
"Yeah," Sonny said, glancing fearfully at the thing on her leg and running away.
Yu Shu went into the room and found a book of Yi Shu. She lay on the couch in the living room and flipped through it. Her mind was thinking about the unfinished account for the day. It was quiet outside. The sound of footsteps was very obvious.
The curtain rustled. She didn't look up for a long time when she heard a displeased female voice say, "Miss Yu, our young miss is here."
Yu Shu covered her mouth with the book and yawned. She turned her head to look at the master and servant pair who came in. Ji Xingxuan was still the same. She had her face covered and looked like a thief. The maidservant was holding a tray with soup bowls on it.
"Did you find the three coins for divination?"
Ji Xingxuan nodded and walked straight to the couch. She stretched out her hand and showed her three old copper coins in her palm. There were also a few fingers wrapped in gauze. There was a strange smell of medicine. It was obvious that she had suffered.
Yu Shu, the scoundrel, was amused and didn't have any sympathy. She pretended to pick up the three copper coins and examined them. She put them back in her palm and asked, "Did you personally find the one thousand and twenty-four copper coins?"
"Yes." It was hard to tell whether Ji Xingxuan was happy or angry. Only her reddened eyes revealed that she hadn't slept well for the past two nights.
"Did you pick out the three coins according to Daoist Qing Zheng's method?"
"Yes."
Yu Shu squinted her eyes and smiled. She deliberately stepped on her sore spot, "How many times did you throw them?"
Ji Xingxuan's eyes flashed and she said in a low voice, "Eight times."
Choosing three coins from the one thousand and twenty-four copper coins would take at least five hundred times. If the last two times didn't get three coins, they would have to throw them again. Eight times would be less than five thousand times.
"Haha, you only threw eight times ah. I thought you would throw at least ten times. You're really lucky." Yu Shu didn't hide the gloating expression on her face.
Ji Xingxuan's maidservant, Yun He, glared fiercely at Yu Shu and slammed the tray in her hands on the table. She picked up the bowl of soup and handed it to Yu Shu. She coldly said, "Miss Yu, our young miss wants to thank you for your advice. She specially ordered the kitchen to make chicken soup for you. You should drink it while it's hot."
Yu Shu was amused again. She looked back and forth between the bowl of chicken soup and Ji Xingxuan and thought, 'What kind of show is this? Is she repaying evil with good?'
"There's no need for chicken soup. My body is very healthy, so I don't need nourishment. Let your young miss drink it later. I think she has lost weight in the past two days. Her wrists are very thin."
As Yu Shu spoke, she reached out and pinched Ji Xingxuan's wrist. She clicked her tongue twice. Ji Xingxuan calmly broke free and said, "I found the divination money. You should continue to teach me."
Yu Shu said, "Of course I'll teach you. Tonight, I'll first teach you how to make a divination. This is the first step of the six lines divination technique."
Ji Xingxuan saw that she was lying on the horizontal couch with no intention of getting up, so she asked Yun He to bring a stool and sit beside her. Yu Shu looked at her and didn't say anything. In any case, she had been happy today. She put the book in her hands to the side, put on a serious expression, and said to her while lying down, "The six lines divination technique is different from the other copper coins. It needs to be thrown six times in a row to get the divination. The three divination coins all have two sides. When you throw one back up, it's recorded as' single ', which is called Shaoyang. When you throw two back up, it's recorded as' open ', which is called Shaoyin. When you throw three back up, it's recorded as' heavy ', which is called Old Yang. When you throw three back up, it's recorded as' cross', which is called Old Yin or Taiyin."
At this point, Yu Shu suddenly stopped and asked Ji Xingxuan, "Did you remember what I just said?"
Ji Xingxuan nodded.
Yu Shu waved her hand and said, "Repeat it."
Ji Xingxuan repeated what she said. She didn't say that every word was correct, but the key points were all there.
Yu Shu nodded with satisfaction and said, "That's right. Don't make me repeat the next sentence twice. Next, there are eight parts to the universe. The first six lines divination is also divided into eight types. According to the six times you throw each time, they are three consecutive, six broken, Yang Meng, Overhand Bowl, Middle Empty, Middle Full, Upper Flaw, and Lower Broken. This three consecutive means that three out of the six times you throw six times in a row are 'single', which makes a 'qian' hexagram. These Six Breaks were three times to get the Earth hexagram. This Yang Meng was the first single time. The second and third times were the Zhen hexagram.
Seeing that Yu Shu's explanation was getting more and more complicated, Ji Xingxuan did not dare to be careless. She secretly noted it down as she asked Yun He to bring a pen and paper. Then, she brought over a coffee table and hurriedly jotted it down on a piece of paper.
After Yu Shu explained the method of the six lines divination once, she stopped and asked her, "What I just said, repeat it."
Ji Xingxuan repeated it once. Occasionally, there would be one or two mistakes, but Yu Shu would interrupt her, point them out, and correct her. Once or twice, Ji Xingxuan couldn't help but look at her in a different light. At the end of her explanation, Yu Shu asked for the piece of paper that Ji Xingxuan used to record it down. She scanned it and handed it to her, saying, "Practice makes perfect. When you go back, throw all eight types of divination two hundred times, then come back to me."
Hearing this, Ji Xingxuan, who had just started to look at Yu Shu in a different light, suddenly stopped.
Yun He said unhappily, "Are you purposely making things difficult for our Miss? Can't you see that her right hand is already injured? How can she continue tormenting it?"
Yu Shu said coldly, "If your right hand is injured, then use your left hand. It's up to you whether you want to throw or not, it's not like I'm the one learning. I'll say the unpleasant things first. When I first learned the six lines, Daoist Qing Zheng made me throw more than ten thousand times before he started to teach me properly.
What she said was true. It was just that she had thrown chess pieces and not copper coins.
Ji Xingxuan looked at her expression and felt that she was not lying. She hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "I'll throw."
Yu Shu yawned and sat up from the couch. She put on her shoes, took her book, and silently went to her bedroom. With a bang, she closed the door and went to sleep.
"No wonder she's a concubine's daughter. She doesn't have a good upbringing," Yun He muttered and turned her head to say to Ji Xingxuan, "Young Miss, let's go back."
Ji Xingxuan put away the recording paper and stood up. She glanced at the cold chicken soup on the table and said to her, "Pour it."
"Yes." Yun He's eyes flashed with disappointment. She put the soup bowl on the tray and carried it away.
After the master and servant left the small courtyard, Yun He asked, "Young Miss, didn't you make an appointment with Miss Xia Jiang to visit her tomorrow? It wasn't easy to find the divination money these past two days, but that lass is making things difficult for you. Are you still going out tomorrow?"
Ji Xingxuan said, "We can put aside the matter that Miss Yu asked us to do for now. We must go to Xia Jiang's Residence."
"Oh."
As they walked through the garden, Ji Xingxuan suddenly turned her head and asked, "What did you secretly put in the chicken soup?"
Yun He paused and then stuck out her tongue, saying, "It's not much. It's just a little laxative that will make her have diarrhea for three days. It's for Young Miss to vent her anger. Who knew that she wouldn't drink it."
Ji Xingxuan shook her head, "Don't do this next time. Don't delay serious matters."
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