Chapter 9: What to do to reduce costs

 At Yun Chou's command, the boys immediately carried the bench into the courtyard.

Xie Shiyuan was pressed by the boy on the stool, he struggled desperately, "Mother, I'm wrong, I'm really wrong, please mother let me off this ... time."

 Yun Chou coldly said, "Start."

Two strong and sturdy boys stood on each side, holding long, thick planks of wood in their hands.

 "Pop!"

 A hard slap on Xie Shiyi's ass.

 He let out a wailing scream.

 "Stop!"

He, who was dressed in green-colored underling clothes, suddenly rushed in from outside the courtyard and pushed the person who was beating the board away.

She lowered her head to hide her anxious look, walked to Yun Chu, bent her knees and said, "Madam, using the family law is a big deal, shouldn't you ask the old lady and the wife's meaning ... And, the second young master is young, I'm afraid he can't hold out for twenty slaps, if he's beaten up, the old lady will pursue the matter ..."

Yun Chu laughed softly, "How come mother He seems to love惟哥儿 more than me as a mother, it's as if mother He is her own mother, while me as a first mother is like a stepmother instead."

He's face suddenly turned white, "Madam, the slave girl didn't mean that, the slave girl is worried that the old lady blames madam for injuring the second young master ..."

"It's not your turn to worry about the master's affairs, you're an inferior, back off!" Yun Chu's voice is extremely cold, "You guys continue!"

The two boys walked up and snapped down, Xie Shiyuan let out a series of miserable screams.

 He bit his lower lip.

 I'm sure it's not my own child, so it doesn't hurt at all.

 She turned, and ran toward Ansou Hall.

Yun Chu blandly watched the boy hit the board, one one two three, at the beginning Xie Shiyuan can still make a miserable scream, behind the voice is getting weaker and weaker.

 By the tenth board, it was straight up fainting.

 "Dan!"

 The old lady arrived late on her crutches and was simply horrified at the sight.

 "Quick, get the doctor!"

 Her old man panicked and had people hurry to carry Xie Shiyuan back to his room.

"If I don't come, are you going to beat惟哥儿 to death!" The old lady stares at Yun Chu, word by word, "A cricket is just a cricket, if it's dead then it's dead, just go and buy another one, as to beat the child like this! Even if you want to punish, there are a hundred ways to do it, who allowed you to use the family law, you're asking for the life of惟哥儿!"

 Xie Shi'an stepped forward, "Great-grandmother, this is what I meant."

 The old lady was staggered.

He came panting to complain that Chor was going to beat Dan Gao'er to death, and she thought that Chor had ordered someone to go to the family law.

 How come it's An Xiao'er?

"Shiyi this temperament, indeed it should be suppressed, otherwise there's no telling what big trouble he'll get into in the future!" Xie Shi An opened his mouth, "Father's transfer is imminent, and if he angers the people of the Ping Xi Wang Fu, there's still no telling what consequences there will be, and this twenty big slaps, Shi Wei must be subjected to."

 The old woman squeezed her cane.

Pingxi Wang, that is the current third prince, war heroes, very favored, is their Xie family can not even dream of contacting the big man.

 However, the granddaughter-in-law befriended the young prince of the Pingxi royal family.

Yun Chu lowered her eyes, "Whether it's punishing An Ge'er to kneel in the ancestral hall, or punishing But Ge'er to hit the board, the old madam is always worried that I'll hurt the children, in the end, it's just because I'm not the children's real mother, perhaps, I can only pamper and indulge them in the future, and give what I want to be able to have peace in the family home."

 The old lady was a little tongue-tied.

Several times over the past few days, she'd sought out Chloe to question her, and in each case, she'd been proven wrong.

"Chu'er, these children are credited to your name, then they are your own children, if you want to beat or scold them, it's your right, I, an intergenerational grandmother, really shouldn't interfere too much." Her old man sighed, "Let's go, back to Anshou Hall."

 He, who was standing behind the old lady, pursed her lips.

If the old lady doesn't care, it's even more unlikely that the wife will care, so won't her children be at the mercy of the madam?

 But what could she, a servant, say?

As she walked out of the Yusheng Residence, she heard Yun Chu ordering her subordinates, "There are still ten planks left, so we'll continue when惟哥儿's body recovers."

 He stumbled and almost fell.

The aunts in the courtyard looked at each other, each with their heads lowered, minimizing their presence.

 Yunchu waved her hand and sent them all down, leaving Xie Ping alone.

 "Mother."

 Xie Ping was a bit baffled.

Once upon a time she thought her mother was extremely nice to be around, but she wouldn't dare think that now.

 She stood at Yun Chou's side with a well-behaved look.

Yunchu told Chen Defu to go buy another better cricket to send to the Pingxi King's Mansion, then taught Xie Ping to read the ledger.

Xie Ping also read books, know the words, can write, is not very good at accounting, listen to the frost hand to teach her how to calculate clearly.

For those who have read the book, this is really not difficult at all, as long as you have someone to teach you.

Xie Ping quickly learned a seven or eight, she took last year's account book to count down, shocked: "I really did not think that our Xie family is so small gentry, a year's expenditure is actually so much, if we just rely on these stores, a large family will have to drink the northwest wind, fortunately, there is a mother in."

Yunchu put down her hands and said in a warm voice, "So the most important thing at the moment is to open up the source of income and cut down on expenses, you, a lady of the house, don't know how to open up the source of income, so why don't you help your mother to think about how to cut down on expenses?"

Xie Ping had a feeling of being reused, and she nodded her head with confidence, "Don't worry, mother, I'll be able to come up with an idea."

 Throughout the afternoon, Xie Ping stayed in Yunchu's side hall to look at the account books.

At the beginning of twilight, she excitedly said towards Yunchu: "Mother, our Xie House rough make grannies total more than twenty, these grannies every afternoon are arranged tea snacks, counted in the head of each person is almost a dozen of money, a day down is more than two hundred money, a month is close to ten taels of silver, if this expenditure is saved, then a year can save at least fast one hundred taels of silver. "

Yunchu smiled and said, "Although one hundred taels is not much, but if you find a few more places to cut back on expenses, the accumulation of less into more, a year down is also a sizable amount of silver, Ping sister, this matter will be handed over to you to do, can you do it well?"

 Xie Ping was encouraged, "I'll try to do it right."

Yunchu nodded, "You're young, even if you do it wrong, it doesn't matter, if there's anything you don't understand, come and ask me."

 "Thank you, Mother."

 Xie Ping's fighting spirit is high.

Seon Seokwon was punished in a row, and she was the only one who received praise from her mother, and she would be able to do what her mother commanded her to do.

 She went back to her yard to continue her research with a large stack of ledgers in her arms.

 Yun Chou pulled her lips and continued to look down at the ledger.

 It wasn't the Xie family's accounts she was looking at, but her own accounts for her store and estate.

Xie's family to do a look on the line, the most important thing is to have to plan their own hand camp ...

She had been busy until it was completely dark, when she heard Frost gently remind her that it was time for dinner.

The meal had just been set on the table when Listening to the Snow came in from outside and said, "Madam, Uncle Chen just returned to the house and said that the young son of the Pingxi King's House was not willing to have that cricket ..."