What a sin, what a sin! Xiaokang quickly stepped forward to help Yuntian up.
"It's not your fault. We were so busy that we forgot. You did the right thing. You should be able to adapt to the situation like this.
If you're stupid and the landlord kicks you out, I'll blame you!"
Yun Tian heaved a sigh of relief, "Thank you, Master Kang, for not blaming me."
The others followed suit: "Thank you, Master Kang, for not blaming us."
Xiaokang came over to check the accounts, but it was dinner time, so Yuntian could only ask, "Master Kang, have you eaten yet?"
Xiaokang then remembered that they were having dinner and hurriedly said, "We've already eaten, you guys go eat now! Don't worry about us."
They were all children, so how could they understand the politeness of adults? Xiaokang said not to bother with them, so Yuntian really took everyone to eat and ignored them.
Xiaokang and Xiaoqi were not embarrassed either, they just strolled around the yard and looked around.
Unfortunately, the yard was so small that they quickly finished looking around. They then went to the long table where the children ate and watched them eat.
Seeing that their bowls were filled with a hodgepodge of vegetables, without even a hint of oil, he couldn't help but ask, "Is this what you usually eat?"
Yuntian stood up and replied, "Yes, Master."
He then said with a guilty look, "The rice, noodles, oil, and meat that Brother Pingxing sent us were quickly eaten up as our number increased.
So, I bought some more on my own, and also, I spent twenty coins every day to buy vegetables..."
"So many people only spend twenty cents a day on vegetables?" No wonder there is no meat.
After hearing this, Xiaokang couldn't help but glare at Pingxing and Pingsheng.
It seems that we have been too nice to them, so we became so lazy and asked them to remember to come and deliver food, but we didn't even notice that the number of people here has increased.
I'll have to punish them when I get back.
After calming down for a while, Xiaokang patted Yuntian on the shoulder and said, "You've been through a lot these days. Let's buy some meat for every meal from now on! You're all growing up!"
Since you have followed me, I will not let you suffer any injustice."
When they heard that they could eat meat in the future, the children jumped for joy.
They are all beggars, and they are very good at coaxing people. They say nice things without asking for money. Xiaokang and Xiaoqi were very happy and felt that a lot of weight was lifted on their shoulders.
At this moment, they seemed to understand a little bit how Tian An felt when he led the refugees to farm.
Yuntian naturally didn't want to keep Xiaokang and Xiaoqi waiting, so he quickly ate two bowls of rice and took them into the room.
The account book was still as confusing as ever. Xiaokang skillfully took out the booklet from last time and asked Xiaoqi to help Yuntian translate and copy it. Then he took it and started checking it with an abacus.
Fortunately, Yuntian remembered the account book. Although they couldn't understand it, the accounts were very detailed, including what vegetables were bought every day, how much per pound, and how many pounds were bought.
After the accounts were verified, Xiaokang and Xiaoqi were really surprised. After deducting various expenses, the small stalls made more than 80 taels of silver in a month.
The two couldn't help but sigh, business really does make money! No wonder Brother Peng Zhang and his son are both so... potbellied and rich.
Yuntian pulled the only small table in the house to the middle of the room, then carefully stepped on the table and climbed up the highest beam, taking down a half-worn wooden box from it.
After Xiaokang took the wooden box and helped him down, he took out a small key from his neck and opened the wooden box.
The wooden box contains the profits from the stall during this period.
Yuntian must have gone to the money shop to exchange all the copper coins. There were only eight silver ingots of ten taels each, and the rest were some scattered copper coins.
Xiaokang and Xiaoqi counted the items together to make sure they were correct, then took away seven ten-liang silver ingots.
"Keep the rest for future use. As for the wages I mentioned earlier, follow the standards I mentioned. I'll calculate the bills and pay everyone a few days at the beginning of each month."
Xiaokang noticed a problem when he was walking in the yard just now. They seemed to have no spare clothes except the set of clothes that he bought for them at the beginning.
Now all the new clothes have been washed and hung in the yard, and the clothes they wear are the tattered clothes they wore when they were beggars, but they have been washed clean.
It is speculated that they probably put on their good clothes when they went out to set up stalls during the day, and then changed into beggar clothes after returning home. They took their good clothes to wash and waited for them to dry so that they could continue to wear them out the next day.
Then he said, "Buy each of them a set of clothes, and throw away their beggar clothes!
From now on, I don’t need to tell you that I will buy two sets of clothes for everyone to wear when the season changes.
From now on, I won’t let Pingxing Pingsheng send you food. You can just take the money and buy it yourselves. Every meal must have vegetables and meat. Don’t treat everyone unfairly.
Also, when the rent arrives, you can renew it yourself and keep a record of it. If there is anything urgent, please go to the General's Mansion to find Pingxing Pingsheng, or wait for us at the entrance of the academy."
Speaking of bookkeeping, Xiaokang felt a bit overwhelmed and said helplessly: "I will teach you how to write numbers later. You should study hard and stop using those messy symbols.
I will teach you other characters when I have time later, and you should gradually correct them all."
Hearing that Xiaokang wanted to teach him how to write, Yuntian was excited and touched. He knelt down and said, "Thank you, Master Kang. I will definitely learn it well."
The three of them stayed in the room for a long time without coming out, and Pingxing Pingsheng was guarding the door.
Yunxu and the others couldn't hear what Yuntian was saying to Xiaokang and the others inside. They were afraid that Yuntian would be scolded by Xiaokang and Xiaoqi for acting on his own initiative, but they didn't dare to go up and knock on the door to disturb them.
I could only endure my anxiety and stare at the door without blinking.
Inside the room, Yuntian was clumsily marking the numbers written by Xiaokang with symbols that only he could understand. (Just like when we used to mark homophones in English words.)
Xiaokang and his friends don't have much time, so they can't stay here to teach him all the time, so he has to rely on himself to remember.
Yuntian was afraid that he would not be able to remember it, so he could only come up with this stupid idea to first write down what the word was and then practice it slowly later.
Fortunately, Xiaokang and Xiaoqi did not urge him or look down on him. Instead, they thought his method was good and asked him to teach other children after he learned it.
Yuntian readily agreed. Although he had been a beggar since he was very young, he knew the importance of literacy. Now everyone had the opportunity to learn a few words, which was naturally a good thing.
If he wasn't afraid that the two young masters would think he was getting too far, he would have asked them to teach him how to use an abacus.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but take a few more glances at Xiaokang's abacus.
Xiaokang noticed his gaze and said casually, "I like it! I'll give it to you then."
Yuntian was immediately overjoyed, "Thank you, Master."
Seeing him pick up the abacus and couldn't let it go, Xiaokang asked again: "Do you know how to use it?"
Yuntian shook his head in embarrassment.
Xiaokang could only patiently teach him a few more times, "Go down and practice on your own first. If you really can't learn it, I'll teach you next time I come."
Yuntian thanked him again, and after seeing Xiaokang and the other three off, he locked himself in the room to practice abacus.
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