Seeing the white smoke rising from the chimney, the people outside knew that the master and his family had woken up. Aunt Liu brought her little brother over and saw the master clearing the table. She hurried over to do the work, muttering, "Master, we can do it here. You don't need to do these chores. Just call us if you want to do anything." She

cleaned the table neatly and took the dishes to wash.

"Wanfeng and I are used to doing what we can do ourselves." Cao Xiangnan smiled and watched Aunt Liu take over all the chores. Just then he heard the sound of the children in the house. He wiped his hands and went inside to be a nanny. When

Qi Wanfeng got up, he came out and saw that the children in the house were awake and playing in the living room. "Mom." When An An saw that Mom had woken up, he ran over and climbed into Mom's arms.

Qi Wanfeng responded and kissed his little brother.

Not knowing why Xiangzi was staring at him, Qi Wanfeng asked, "What's wrong with Xiangzi?"

Why was he looking at him like that?

"Ah, Mom!" He summoned up the courage to shout, and Xiangzi turned around and ran away.

"Huh?" Qi Wanfeng was stunned for a moment before realizing that the child had called him Mom, but the child had already run away, leaving only his back to him. There were several other children clinging to him, and he was holding a little one in his arms. He didn't want to chase them and ask, because he knew that the child was shy.

"Awake? Why don't you sleep a little longer?" Cao Xiangnan, who was walking over, happened to see this scene. Xiangzi and the other kid had gone to his own room. He bent down, kissed Wanfeng, and sat down beside him. He drank last night but was not drunk, so he remembered everything that happened last night clearly.

When he heard what her husband said, his waist was still aching, and Qi Wanfeng couldn't help but stretched out his hand to pinch her waist. Cao Xiangnan cried out "spare my life" in an ouch, which was extremely exaggerated, causing his wife to glare at him again, and he smiled and tried to comfort her.

He told Wanfeng what happened this morning, so Xiangzi shyly called him "Mom" just now.

"Oh, so that's the case." Qi Wanfeng smiled and nodded. No wonder the child who had always called him "Mom" changed his name to call him "Mom". This is good, isn't it?

When the little Baoer in Momo's arms saw his daddy kissing Momo, he looked around, probably thinking about it and digesting what he saw, he also followed suit and leaned over to kiss Momo on the cheek.

Qi Wanfeng was stunned for a moment after being kissed by the little Baoer's wet and soft mouth, then lowered his head and kissed the little Baoer twice. Oh, his little Baoer was really adorable, making people want to love him to the bone.

Cao Xiangnan glared and reached out to pick up the kid from Prince Yi's family. He felt that they needed to communicate on some issues. This is his wife, his wife! Is my wife someone that a little kid like you can flirt with?

The little Baoer, who thought his daddy was playing with him, giggled.

"Stupid Bao'er!" Cao Ruixing, he was the only kid who understood what was going on. He saw his father getting jealous, and seeing that stupid little Bao'er was still laughing, he was so angry that he took a bite of the biscuit in his hand.

It was delicious!

The little white fox imitated him, holding the biscuit with his two paws and chewing it. He raised his eyes and took a look, but he was not interested anymore.

"Stinky boy!" Cao Xiangnan threw the child into the air and caught him when he landed.

"Giggle..." Only the child's laughter could be heard. Little Bao'er liked to play the tossing game with his daddy the most. An An, who was standing next to him, saw his father and brother playing, and he also shouted that he wanted to play. Cao Xiangnan had to change people and toss the children who wanted to play the tossing game in turn.

Qi Wanfeng narrowed his eyes with a smile, stretched out his hand to pinch the face of his fat boy, took some water and fed the child two sips of water, wiped the corners of the child's mouth, and said that he should not eat too much. Cao Ruile glanced at his mother and nodded. Qi Wanfeng stretched out his hand to touch the child's head and held the child over.

Lele sat in his mother's arms, smelling the smell of his mother, which was his favorite smell. He rubbed against his mother's arms, feeling satisfied. He liked the present day.

After the cold month, it is the winter month. After the June month, it is the New Year again. The new year is getting closer and closer.

If there is nothing to do outside on snowy days, they will not go out, but stay at home. It's not like he didn't have anything to do during his days at home. All the accounts were handed in, and the income and expenditure of each account were recorded in detail. Cao Xiangnan had to check all these accounts.

In addition to the several shops and workshops under his command, there were also the accounts for the construction of the academy, and some other miscellaneous numbers. Adding up, it was really a lot.

At the beginning, he did the accounts by himself. At that time, he was not as busy as he is now. Later, there were more things to do, and the accounts of various places were divided and given to the manager. So later on, the accounts of various places were left to each place to do, and when they were done, they were handed over to him. He would check them randomly when he had time. This time, he had to check them all together. Fortunately, all the accounts are recorded in the unified way he stipulated. Although there are many, they are still clear and organized, but it seems to take some time to think about it.

There are quite a few accounts this year, and the amount of income and expenditure is not small. He has counted the accounts himself and he also has his own accounts here. He knows all of these in his mind.

Taking advantage of this free time, Cao Xiangnan wants to check all the accounts for the year to see if there are any loopholes. Many problems can be seen from a book of accounts. This account still needs to be checked clearly. After summarizing the problems of this year, he also needs to make plans for next year.

According to this trend, if there are no accidents, theoretically it will get better every year, and he can look forward to this.

But in this era, who can say for sure whether there are accidents or not?

Cao Xiangnan started to bring An An and Xiang Zai with him, and taught them how to do and check accounts. "Here are the amounts for outgoing accounts, and here are the amounts for incoming accounts. Come, let's look at this one first..."

An An said that he likes to study and take the imperial examination in the future, so he should study and take the imperial examination. It is good to have ideals and ambitions. But it doesn't prevent him from learning more things. Learning more is good after all. Xiang Zai said from the beginning that he would help him make money and take care of and support his younger brothers. This child is also very sensible. He would follow him early every day and help him with work.

He remembered that Xiangzi would be ten years old after the Chinese New Year. For people of this era, ten years old meant a lot of different things. When you are fifteen or sixteen years old, you can get married, have children and become a father. Although he did not agree with his children getting married too young, he had talked about this problem with Wanfeng, so the two of them reached a consensus on this issue. The older brother of their family must be over eighteen years old to get married, and the younger boy must be over twenty.

At least in the marriage law of his time, the legal age of marriage for men was twenty-two years old, and for women it was twenty. However, in this era when boys start looking for marriages at the age of 13 or 14, if they are still unmarried at the age of 18, they will be called an old brother. But he and Wanfeng don't think it's OK. Their own children don't need you to say anything. Even if their boy is called an old brother, it's not a problem.

Isn't the boy of the pig butcher Cao's family still unmarried? I wonder if he got married this year.

If their son An An really wants to take the imperial examination and become an official in the future, Cao Xiangnan will not stop him. However, he knows that officials of Feng Dynasty cannot get married. But he can be an official for a few years first. If he finds someone he likes and wants to get married, he can get married without being an official. Although he does not like some of the laws and regulations that discriminate against boys in this era, he can do nothing about some things.

This question has gone too far. After all, Xiangzi is a very stable child at a young age, which is probably related to his growth in childhood. It would be good if this child could be trained to help manage the business in the future. Therefore, Cao Xiangnan began to consciously focus on training Xiangzi, and An An just followed by him.

"Xiangzi, An'an, do you understand?" After explaining it to the two children, Cao Xiangnan continued when they nodded and said they understood, "If there is anything unclear, ask Dad. Now start to look at it. If there is any problem, tell me."

There will be some minor problems. It may be that the person who does the accounting is not experienced or careless. Some minor mistakes are not a big problem. However, if there are mistakes in the accounts, they will be punished later. In

his opinion, those who do a good job will be rewarded, and those who do not do a good job will be punished. He never treats his subordinates unfairly.

At present, Cao Xiangnan still trusts these people under him. As for whether they have other thoughts, he does not know, but now they should not dare to tamper with the accounts. This account is done according to the method he stipulated, and any problems are clear at a glance.

"I understand." The two children listened carefully and nodded in response.

After a year of learning arithmetic, the two children have achieved some small results. When he taught them to count, the two children could understand more or less, and he didn't have to teach them from the beginning. After teaching them once, Cao Xiangnan asked the two children to check the accounts first, and handed the accounts to him. Knowing that her husband was checking the accounts in the house, Qi Wanfeng didn't let the children outside go in to disturb her husband. Her husband told him that he wanted to train Xiangzi to help him, and he didn't object. An'an is a boy who will get married in the future. Lele is still young and doesn't understand these things yet. He can't help her husband so quickly. If her husband takes care of Xiangzi first, Xiangzi can also help Lele in the future.

As for the other child, Ruixing is a little boy, and he will still have to go to someone else's house in the future. Xiangzi can help take care of the family business, and they don't want Ruixing, the little brother, to take care of the business.

There are so many children in the family, but he actually gave birth to only two, a brother and a boy. If her husband didn't disagree, Qi Wanfeng would have wanted to be pregnant again and give her husband two more boys so that the brothers could take care of each other in the future.

The two chatted for a long time at night, so they talked about this issue and reached a consensus. Cao Xiangnan would tell Wanfeng about everything he did. Although he was busy outside, he would tell Wanfeng about the family affairs and ask for his opinion before making a decision. At home, he would make the final decision only if this man said it was okay.

Therefore, on the issue of Xiangzi, Cao Xiangnan asked Wanfeng and decided to keep Xiangzi by his side.

Xiangzi was confused, but he seemed to understand something. He was determined not to let his father down and to work hard.

Checking the accounts was also a very boring job. It would take more than one or two days to finish looking through the account books. Adults would feel uncomfortable sitting for a whole day, and it was hard for Xiangzi to stay with him. An'an went out to play, and Cao Xiangnan did not force An'an to do something he did not like to do. He let the child go out and play.

From time to time, the sound of flipping through the account books could be heard in the room. Cao Xiangnan turned around and saw Xiangzi, who was concentrating on reading the account books. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and a smile appeared on his face.