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Chapter 458

As soon as Song Heng left, Song Ziling and Ling'er stepped forward and reached out to take the brown sugar pot helmet held by Qiu Ju.

"Wash your hands." Qiu Ju raised the plate holding the pot helmets.

The two of them hurried into the kitchen and washed their hands. Since there was still room in the kitchen, they started eating in the kitchen.

Although Shen Wan didn't like sweet things, she still ate two.

After eating Guokui, Qiao Mu gave him the account book and the key to the warehouse, and took away more than ten brown sugar Guokui when he left.

Shen Wan knew without looking at the account book that there must be one tael of silver missing from the account. However, she still took a quick look and found that there was indeed not one tael of silver left.

She took the key to the warehouse and went to the warehouse to see if there was anything in the warehouse that she could sell for support. But there was nothing in the warehouse except a few rags.

This is still the first half of the month. Although the monthly payment has been paid, there are still expenses for up and down the house!

Shen Wan felt a severe pain in her head and wanted to throw the key and account book at Song Heng's face. In fact, she did so.

Song Heng also took out twenty taels of silver from his body and gave it to her. Looking at the twenty taels of silver, Shen Wan pursed her lips and did not ask for it, turned around and left the study.

Early the next morning, Shen Wan hadn't had breakfast yet! The nuns in charge came to the door.

There is only one reason for them to come here, and that is money.

The kitchen needs to buy ingredients! The flowers in the yard are frozen to death and we need to buy flower seedlings. The grass in the stable is gone and we need to buy fodder!

In the small hall, Shen Wan was holding a hand stove and sitting on a chair. Qiu Ju was sitting aside, with a ledger in front of her and a brush in her hand. There was also some broken silver in the small box on the table.

"You come first." Shen Wan pointed to the fattest kitchen steward, Aunt Zhang.

Grandma Zhang took a step forward and said, "The rice in the kitchen is gone, and the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are all gone. We still need to buy vegetables and meat."

"How much money do you need?" Shen Wan asked.

Aunt Zhang opened her mouth and said: "I want sixty taels."

Sixty taels? Qiu Ju almost jumped up.

"Oh! How long do you plan to use these sixty taels?" Shen Wan gave Qiu Ju a calm look.

Aunt Zhang thought for a moment and said, "About half a month!"

"How much rice do you plan to buy?" Shen Wan asked again

"One thousand jin."

"One thousand kilograms?" Shen Wan said: "There are now seventy people in our house. Each person eats one kilogram of rice a day, which is almost one thousand meters in half a month. How much does one kilogram of rice cost now?" Shen Wan looked at it. Qiu Ju asked.

"Fifteen cents," Qiu Ju often goes shopping for groceries. She knows best how much the firewood, rice, oil and salt cost.

"Fifteen cents, that's one thousand catties, is fifteen taels of silver."

The ladies in charge all exchanged glances. This lady is not fooling around! Moreover, the calculations are done very quickly, without the need for an abacus.

Then, Shen Wan asked again about the amount of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar that the nanny wanted to buy, as well as the amount of meat and vegetables, and finally decided to give the nanny fifty taels of silver.

"Fifty taels? Not enough, not enough." Nanny Zhang shouted.

"What's not enough?" Qiu Ju said: "I have settled the account clearly. I will give you fifty taels in half a month. There is only more, not less."

Moreover, Madam has not lowered the food standard. She still follows the Lin family's standard. If Madam was the head of the family before, the food expenses for a month would not be more than fifty taels.

Shen Wan took a sip of hot tea and said, "If you feel it's not enough, maybe someone else can be the kitchen steward, and that might be enough."

Aunt Zhang muttered in a low voice: "In the past, the little madam was given seven or eighty taels for half a month."

Shen Wan smiled and said: "Then you go to her and ask for it!"

The kitchen manager was a fat man. Lin Qingxue had given her seventy or eighty taels before, but she was afraid that thirty taels had gone into her pocket.

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