Fish only seek revenge, not leap over the Dragon Gate

After Lu Xian left, Lu Yu called Lu Ping and told her, "Go and make a list of my expenses for the next fifteen years."

"Including the dowry that will be given when you get married."

As soon as Lu Ping heard it, she understood what the young lady meant. The young lady wanted to get the money that was due to her in advance.

If we want to send the little lady to the Duke's Mansion, we naturally have to bring the money for raising her as well.

"I will sort it out right away."

Lu Ping sat at the table in her room and started writing.

The monthly salary is thirty taels, which means three hundred and sixty taels a year, and five thousand four hundred taels in fifteen years.

Eight sets of clothes per season cost 600 taels of silver, which means 2,400 taels for four years and 36,000 taels for fifteen years.

Two sets of head ornaments and jewelry each season cost three hundred taels of silver, which means one thousand two hundred taels for four years, and eighteen thousand taels for fifteen years.

A rough estimate of the red envelopes given during festivals is 500 taels a year, which would be 7,500 taels in 15 years.

A rough estimate of three meals a day, based on one tael of silver per day, would be thirty taels per month, three hundred and sixty taels per year, and five thousand four hundred taels in fifteen years.

The dowry given by the Duke when she got married was 30,000 taels for the legitimate daughter of the Duke's Mansion.

There is also the monthly salary for the young lady's maids, food, and clothing, which totals 15,000 taels.

In addition, there were expenses for the young lady to hire various gentlemen, and the total settlement was 30,000 taels.

The above totals 147,300 taels.

After sorting everything out, Lu Ping took the list to Lu Yu for review.

Lu Yu looked at the total directly and was a little dissatisfied, it was a little too little, but he still nodded, "Take it to the accountant and bring back the silver for settlement."

"Yes, miss!" Lu Ping pointed to two or three servants and walked towards the accounting office.

When the accountant saw the list, he was stunned at first, and then he looked at the list carefully.

I was thinking, how can one settle accounts like this? It's extremely treasonous. Suppose, what if the young lady doesn't even live to be fifteen years old? Then I wouldn't need so much money.

However, he only dared to think about it in his heart and did not dare to say it out loud.

"Miss Lu Ping, please wait a moment. I cannot make the decision on this order. I need to ask the young lady for permission."

"Snapped!"

The accountant was confused. Why was he beaten?

Looking at Ersan who was beating the man, he angrily asked, "I don't know what I did wrong to deserve this slap."

Lu Ping said coldly, "Because you just said the wrong thing. The young lady is our young lady Qin Shu. Do you want to go down and ask her for instructions?"

Er San stared at him with a gloomy face, and the other two women rolled up their sleeves, looking like they were ready to beat him up.

The accountant was no fool. He immediately understood his situation and apologized hastily, "It was my fault. Please forgive me, Miss Lu Ping. I will go to ask Mrs. Liu for instructions."

"Snapped!"

The accountant covered his face with grievance, "Why did you beat the kid again?"

Lu Ping looked at the accountant with a look of disappointment, "Our young lady is a legitimate daughter. Do you think a little concubine can be the master of our young lady? Is she worthy?"

The accountant thought why not, Young Master Liu... Second Madam is the housekeeper, it is only natural for her to be in charge of these things.

The situation was stronger than the person, and the accountant admitted his mistake and said, "I was wrong. I will go and ask the major general for instructions."

After hearing this, Lu Ping and the others were satisfied, "Well, go ahead!"

After Lu Xian and Lu Yu finished their discussion, they returned to the study and picked up a piece of white jade to start carving.

Lu Yu mentioned this birth gift many times. It seems that he cherishes this father's blessing and he has to make up for it quickly.

While carving, I was thinking about her reaction after receiving it. I think she would jump for joy!

"General, the accountant has something to ask for your instructions."

Zhang Tu's voice came from outside the door. Lu Xian kept moving, "If there is anything in the accountant's office, he should ask Shao... Yuzhu for instructions."

After a while of silence outside the door, Zhang Tu's voice sounded again, "General, the accountant said that he didn't dare to ask Second Madam Liu about the list sent by Miss Lu Yu."

Zhang Tu was a man who knew the current situation. Ever since he saw Lu Yu beat someone up for a name, he had given himself a hint that only Qin Shu was the young lady.

Hearing that it was about Lu Yu, Lu Xian stopped what he was doing and said, "Let the accountant come in."

The accountant came in with his head down, and without saying anything, he handed over the list.

Lu Xian took a quick look and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. This little guy is really greedy for money.

But there were still some omissions, so he picked up a pen and wrote another line at the end of the dowry list: six shops and three farms.

After finishing writing, he blew on it and handed the list to the accountant, saying, "Prepare it according to this list and send it to Xiao Yu'er."

The accountant looked up in disbelief. Are you ready to deliver it?

What did he prepare?

Doesn’t the young general know that his wife has taken all the money from the general’s mansion to gild the Buddha statue in Lingshan Temple?

Lu Xian looked at the accountant's incredible expression, frowned and asked, "Why, is there a problem?"

"Major General, we only have three hundred and seventy taels of silver left in our mansion."

Lu Xian stood up suddenly. How could there be only this little silver? Not to mention the gold and silver he brought back from the war, even from the division of the family, he had received 260,000 taels of silver in cash.

He slammed the table and said, "Tell me clearly what's going on!"

The accountant knelt down with a thud and said, "General, all the gold and silver in the mansion has been taken away by the Madam."

Hearing this, Lu Xian immediately understood what was going on, and he sat down on the chair weakly.

He also forgot that his mother wanted to gild the Buddha statue in Lingshan Temple. Although Master Wuwang said that it was not necessary to gild the entire body, only a layer of gold was needed on the outside, but that was only a little bit.

Now his mother has gone crazy and I don’t know how this matter will end.

"Major General, this, this young lady..."

"Go and sell some things in the warehouse and raise enough money for Xiao Yuer." Lu Xian waved his hand to signal the accountant to go down.

The accountant did not leave, and hesitantly said, "Major General, the warehouse has been sold out."

Lu Xian was stunned for a moment, and finally called Zhang Tu and asked him to sell things from his private warehouse to raise money for Lu Yu.

The accountant had nothing to do after that, so he left the list and went back.

When he saw Lu Ping and others, he told them that the young general would send the money to Dewuyuan.

After hearing this, Lu Ping took her people back.

In fact, Lu Yu already knew the situation in the mansion clearly, and now she also knew that her scumbag father had used her private treasury.

The land fish are very happy, and it would be better to clean them all up.

"Okay, let's start packing up. Don't leave anything behind."

After these words were spoken, the entire Dewu Academy became busy.

To be honest, there are so many good things in Dewuyuan. In fact, even without Lu Yu's instructions, they would never leave anything behind.

All these pieces of furniture were sent by the Qin family. The wood used is all century-old Huanghuali wood, and the craftsmanship is all from Master Yuan. Each one is worth a lot of money.

Dewuyuan was bustling with activity, while other places in the general's mansion were silent.

The crazy one finally fell asleep and stopped making noise, and the other sick one found out that Lu Xian had opened a private treasury to raise money for Lu Yu, and he started smashing things in anger.

Lu Xian sat in the yard in a daze. His mother was now crazy, his wife had changed a lot, and the general's mansion had become an empty shell.

He was very skeptical, would things really be better without Lu Yu?