Eleventh Lady didn't even look at the bundle, but smiled at Luo Zhenxing: "Brother, this is my sister's property, and I will leave it to Brother Zhun in the future. I don't understand these business matters. I'd better ask you to help me manage it!"

Before Luo Zhenxing came, he had planned to persuade Shiyi Niang to let him help look at the accounts. He didn't suspect Shiyi Niang of any ill intentions, but he felt that she was young and was afraid that she would not be able to control Lu Yonggui for a long time and be cheated of money by Lu Yonggui. When the grandmother heard Amber say that Lu Yonggui had returned and Shiyi Niang wanted them to discuss the property left by Yuanniang, she felt that with Shiyi Niang's cleverness, she would definitely not just let the two of them be witnesses... Unexpectedly, she would let Luo Zhenxing take charge, and let go if she said so, so straightforward.

For a moment, both husband and wife stood there in a daze.

Mother Tao looked delighted.

Nephew is close to uncle. This industry is a hundred times or a thousand times better in Luo Zhenxing's hands than in Shiyi Niang's hands!

Lu Yonggui looked at it and his eyes flashed.

In fact, he came back at the end of August and was going to attend Xu Lingyi's wedding. But he was stopped by Mother Tao: "... You know best how much property the eldest aunt has. How many people can look at it without being greedy. Don't worry, hide for a while. Take this opportunity to sort out the accounts, show her one set, and keep one set for the Marquis to check."

He had some personal matters to attend to at the time. He had saved some money by helping Yuanniang run around in the past few years, and he didn't know what the new boss's temper was like, so he wanted to leave. So he agreed.

Who would have thought that when they met for the first time, Shiyi Niang gave Luo Zhenxing the power to manage the industry, and he couldn't help but look at her with admiration.

Even ordinary men don't have such courage!

He couldn't help but look up at Shiyi Niang.

She was no more than thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing a plain apricot-yellow jacket, her skin was as fair as snow, her figure appeared tall and slender, and she had a pair of big eyes that were clear and gentle, peaceful and quiet, and very comfortable to look at.

She pushed the bundle on the square table and said with a smile, "Brother, although this is an unwelcome request, please accept it for the sake of Brother Zhun."

Luo Zhenxing was a little hesitant, but the grandmother who was sitting below him laughed and said, "How can this be possible? You should be in charge..."

"Sister-in-law." Eleventh Lady smiled, "I really don't understand these things about business. If you let me manage it, I'm afraid I will be powerless and cause Brother Zhu to lose money."

"Alright." Luo Zhenxing said resolutely, "Let me take care of these properties. Eleventh sister will take care of the accounts. This way, we can remind each other if there's anything wrong."

Eleventh Lady was very pleased.

Luo Zhenxing is a gentleman after all.

That's how it was settled.

Luo Zhenxing and Lu Yonggui settled the accounts in front of everyone.

Eleventh Lady watched Lu Yonggui calculating very quickly with his abacus, and listened to him reporting the accounts of previous years. She could not help but nod secretly as she saw that he had grown the property left by Yuanniang from a mere 20,000 taels of silver to the current 160,000 taels of silver, with an annual income of 20,000 taels of silver.

Not to mention anything else, just looking at the people Yuanniang left behind - Mother Tao inside and Lu Yonggui outside, is enough to make people admire them.

After a busy afternoon, several people finally had a rough outline.

Eleventh Lady breathed a sigh of relief, asked Amber to make tea for everyone again, and said with a smile: "Thanks to Manager Lu for his good calculation, otherwise I don't know when this account will be settled."

Lu Yonggui said hurriedly, "Madam, you are too kind. It's just a trivial skill."

As he was speaking, Xu Lingyi came back.

Everyone stood up and saluted.

He looked at the collected account books and smiled faintly, "The accounts are sorted out!"

"It's sorted out!" Luo Zhenxing thought that this was also related to Zhun Ge's well-being, so he smiled and told Xu Lingyi about Shiyi Niang's decision, "...I am also careless. So Shiyi Mei should still take care of the accounts, and I will help take care of the trivial matters outside!"

Xu Lingyi listened, looked at Shiyi Niang deeply, and did not comment on this matter, but just invited Luo Zhenxing to have dinner. It happened that the lady's side also sent someone to invite dinner, Lu Yonggui and Tao Mama hurriedly left, Luo Zhenxing and the eldest grandmother followed Xu Lingyi to pay a visit to the lady's. The Xu brothers entertained Luo Zhenxing in the flower hall of the outer courtyard, and the eldest grandmother stayed with the lady's place to have dinner.

During the dinner, the Third Lady kept glancing at Eleventh Lady. Eleventh Lady thought of the businesses that the Third Lady mentioned, so she simply told everyone in front of everyone that she was in charge of the accounts and Luo Zhenxing was in charge of the properties, so that the Third Lady wouldn't have any ideas about those properties: "... I'm young, and I have my elder brother to help watch over it, so I don't think anything serious will happen."

The lady nodded secretly after hearing this.

The Fifth Lady looked at Eleventh Lady with a serious look.

Only the third lady curled her lips slightly, looking very disdainful.

After dinner, the grandmother teased Zhun Ge for a while, and when Luo Zhenxing finished his meal, she came over to greet the lady, and the couple said goodbye together.

Eleventh Lady and Xu Lingyi sent Luo Zhenxing and Grandma away.

She deliberately fell behind a few steps and whispered to the eldest grandmother: "...Opening a dried fruit shop is a great idea. But I think that doing business will inevitably involve money. If there is a rift between the relatives because of this matter, it will not be worth the loss. But if I tell Fifth Sister openly, I am afraid that Fifth Lady will lose face. I want to ask the eldest sister-in-law to mediate. If Fifth Sister needs my help, I will never refuse, but forget about the investment!"

The eldest grandmother nodded and took Eleventh Lady's hand, "You and I are thinking the same thing. Fifth Aunt also invited me. I thought the business was not big, and if three families were to attract four families, I'm afraid something would happen. What I mean is that if she really wants to open this dried fruit shop, we will each contribute fifty taels of silver, whether it's a loan or a gift, it will be a help to her.

Eleventh Lady secretly groaned.

This really proves what Amber said.

Left hand in, right hand out!

But can she refuse?

Naturally, I had to nod my head and said, "This is a great idea, sister-in-law. When the time comes, get the approval of the fifth sister and send someone to tell me."

The eldest lady nodded, and Eleventh Lady sent her to the Chuihua Gate. She watched the carriage leave before returning to the house with Xu Lingyi.

On the way, Xu Lingyi saw that she was a little depressed and said, "Let you take care of the accounts, and Zhenxing will take care of the industry. Was it your idea or his?"

Eleventh Lady heard his unfriendly tone, looked at him in surprise, and whispered, "It was my idea."

If it was your own idea, why do you look unhappy?

When Xu Lingyi thought about returning home in three days, the eldest wife scolded him mercilessly.

A woman should obey her father at home and her husband after marriage. She was originally a girl from the Luo family, but now she is a girl from the Xu family.

Thinking of this, a hint of coldness appeared between his brows.

Eleventh Lady was shocked when she saw it.

Doesn't he agree?

Shouldn't?

He is not a person who says one thing and means another. Since he said he would not ask, he would not ask. Why did he say such a thing at this time?

She patiently explained, "This is the property that my eldest sister left to Zhun Ge. Zhun Ge is still young, and I know nothing about business. Although we have Lu Yonggui, he is the manager after all. How dare he tell me if I did something wrong? Now that my eldest brother is helping to manage it, we can give each other advice, and even if we make mistakes, it won't lead to an unmanageable situation."

It was actually her idea!

Xu Lingyi stopped and looked at her with a deep and distant gaze.

I just thought that she was young, but I didn’t expect her to have such a broad mind and insight!

Eleventh Lady could not sense his emotions, and felt quite uneasy when he looked at her. She hurriedly said, "Don't worry, my eldest brother is not the kind of person who forgets his principles when he sees profit. I am in charge of the accounts, and he is in charge of the property. It was he who proposed it. According to my original intention, I will just leave everything to him..."

"Got it!" Xu Lingyi's lips curled up slightly when he heard it. "Why are you so anxious? I didn't say anything."

Fortunately, I didn't say anything? If I had said it, I'm afraid it wouldn't be so easy to let it go...

Eleventh Lady muttered to herself.

"Please tidy up the house tomorrow!" Xu Lingyi suddenly said, "I'll ask Manager Bai to find a few maids to help you."

Although it was said lightly, it carried a commanding tone.

Clean up the house? How? Should she put away the big red curtains that were hung at the wedding?

She immediately agreed: "I will pack it up tomorrow."

Xu Lingyi nodded and said calmly, "Among those maids, there is one named Xiang who can do face pulling and scraping for people. She is familiar with the maids, wives, and maids in each room. Unfortunately, she talks too much and mother doesn't like her, so she has never given her a proper job."

Eleventh Lady’s eyes lit up.

Xu Lingyi is still the best!

The people in his house were set, and if there was an extra person for no reason, everyone would definitely speculate and ask questions. Like Xu Lingyi, he used the excuse that he had something to ask a few maids to help, and when everyone chatted together, some things would naturally be asked unconsciously.

"...I'll let Amber know that I'm not satisfied with the two women and want to change them!"

Xu Lingyi knew that she had understood what he meant, but her reaction was so quick... He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and turned to go into the house.

Eleventh Lady hurriedly followed him in. Then, while Xia Yi was helping him change his clothes, she called Amber and told her about this matter: "...When the time comes, you can tell that Xiang Po that I want to change people. It's a good opportunity to clean up the house." She told Amber in detail how to clean up the house.

Amber nodded repeatedly and took note of Eleventh Lady's words.

The next day, when the steward Bai brought people, she asked Luyun and Hongxiu to bring the maids to replace the red curtains and chairs in Shiyi Niang's room with the stone blue curtains and chairs that the Xu family used every day, and instructed several maids to move Shiyi Niang's dowry in the east wing to the back room, where Binju counted and locked it. The east room of the main house was decorated as a banquet and resting place, and then the east wing was decorated, and she and Dongqing, Binju, and Zhuxiang's things were moved in.

That old woman surnamed Xiang is indeed a talkative person.

Everyone was working quietly, only she was chatting with Amber, and of course she soon found out that Eleventh Lady wanted to replace the two maids in her room.

During lunch, she was beside Amber and rubbed her body: "...Miss, do you think I am suitable?"

"Everything in our house needs Madam's approval!" Amber said ambiguously.

Xiang smiled flatteringly at the mother-in-law: "Then we should also listen to what the girls say about which one is good and which one is bad, right?"

Amber just smiled and said nothing.

At night, Mother Xiang brought two roast chickens to Amber and said, "Please say a few good words for me, young lady!"

Amber complained to the old woman: "…It's not that my wife can't tolerate anyone, it's just that we met two people who don't know the rules. If we don't change them, won't people laugh at the people in our house for being ignorant?"

Xiang said to the mother-in-law: "Don't worry, young lady. No one knows more about family affairs than me!"