The late Emperor Nanyue had eight sons, and King Wei was the youngest, who was Xiao Jialan's father.
Later, the prince succeeded to the throne and became the current Nanyue Emperor. However, the prince valued brotherhood and took no precautions against his brothers.
And because Emperor Nanyue was frail and sick, he only had one prince under his knees.
However, the prince suddenly died of illness when he was ten years old, and Emperor Nanyue had no heir, so the other seven kings began to think of rebellion.
They fought openly and secretly with each other, and the king of Wei died as a result, leaving only a pair of young children.
Xiao Jialan and her brother, without the protection of their parents, they are still alive and well, but they must have suffered a lot.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for an eight-year-old child to learn to read the account books and be responsible for the rise and fall of the palace.
Yuan Chen said: "You are injured now. Let's wait until you recover from the injury before looking at it."
Xiao Jialan couldn't wait any longer, so she said, "I have nothing to do anyway, so just treat it as passing the time."
Seeing that she was determined, Yuan Chen agreed and ordered Ye Jinming to bring all the store's account books.
When it got dark, Ye Jinming came back with a cartload of ledgers.
Looking at the piles of account books, Yuan Chen had a headache. He said, "Otherwise, let's forget it. This is too much."
Xiao Jialan said: "The flood in Ganzhou has left countless people displaced. As the prince of Beichen, don't you want to seek justice for them?"
Yuan Chen didn't want to think about it, he wanted to find the real culprit more than anyone else.
He said: "I will not let go of any clues, and I will definitely find out the person behind this."
Xiao Jialan smiled and said, "Then give me the account book. I'll look at the food store first."
Ye Jinming found the account books of the food store and gave them to her. These account books were from the past year. There were twelve of them in one food store.
Xiao Jialan started flipping through it in January. She flipped through it very quickly, which surprised Ye Jinming and Yuan Chen.
They haven't finished one book yet, but Xiao Jialan has already finished two.
The two men looked at each other, feeling quite ashamed of themselves.
They lowered their heads and continued to check the accounts of other stores, but stopped when they heard Xiao Jialan flipping through the account books.
Yuan Chen raised his head and saw that she was looking at something with concentration.
He walked over and heard Xiao Jialan say: "The account for March is wrong."
She pointed to the record in the account book and said: "It is recorded here that on March 15th, a businessman named Sun bought two thousand shi of rice.
But the price of this rice is far less than half of the market price.
According to this calculation, these two thousand kilograms of rice cost the grain store a month's worth of money, which is completely unreasonable."
Yuan Chen said: "You are right, this kind of low-priced food is indeed unreasonable, unless..."
His face darkened and he said in a cold voice: "Maybe this is not a business, but a cooperation."
Xiao Jialan continued to flip through it, and then discovered another mistake: "In mid-June, this businessman bought another three thousand stones."
She directly found September's account book and said in surprise: "There is also one at the end of September, which means that this person will come to buy grain every three months, and the amount of grain and grass has been increasing."
Xiao Jialan said strangely: "Even if we are doing business, it is impossible to sell thousands of stones of grain in three months.
For example, Liu's grain store usually only sells two hundred shi a month.
But if you eat it by yourself, you won’t be able to eat so much.”
After hearing this, Yuan Chen had a flash of inspiration and said, "Why can't I eat it? The military camp consumes thousands of stones of food and grass in a month."