Time Travel: Did My Sister-in-Law Get Slapped in the Face Today?

Xu Youshan was Lin Ruobing's maternal uncle. He wore a wide robe and had a very kind appearance. He said, "Ruoxue, did you come to me to raise money to buy Qingyun Fruit?"

Lin Ruobing nodded and said, "Yes, Uncle, the price of Qingyun Fruit is very high, and the demand is probably huge. I wonder how much silver our Lin family's cloth shop can withdraw from its accounts?"

Xu Youshan sighed and said, "The cloth shop has not been doing well in recent years. Many mulberry farmers in the south have been displaced, and the court has many taxes to pay. I'm afraid we can only come up with three thousand taels at most."

Three thousand taels!

This is a huge sum of money for an ordinary family, but Lin Ruobing frowned and said:

"The price of Qingyun fruit... is about three thousand taels per catty."

"more than!"

Li Lan, standing nearby, spoke up: "The price of three thousand taels was before. Now that His Majesty has issued an imperial decree, all the civil and military officials are anxious, and the price of Qingyun Fruit will inevitably rise!"

To actually buy two catties of Qingyun fruit at this critical juncture, it might cost tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Upon hearing this, Xu Youshan looked at Li Lan with slight surprise. This son-in-law... does have some brains.

Hearing him say that, Lin Ruobing became even more worried. She didn't have enough money... how was she going to buy Qingyun Fruit?

Li Lan then asked, "Uncle, as far as I know, Lin's Cloth Shop has opened more than a dozen branches in the capital over the years. Lin's holds one-third of the market share in the capital. Why is there only three thousand taels of silver in the account?"

He glanced at Xu Youshan indifferently, his gaze lingering on Xu Youshan's hands and waist.

The jade thumb ring on Xu Youshan's hand was of excellent quality, and his belt was also inlaid with jade. These two items alone were worth no less than five hundred taels of silver!

Even Lin Zheng himself, and even his wife Xu Yanrong, rarely possessed such ornaments!

Xu Youshan was just managing Lin's property and working as the manager of the cloth shop. His monthly salary was only twenty taels of silver. How could he wear such valuable items?

Moreover, this person was clearly used to luxury, so even though he knew that Lin was asking him for money today, he didn't care and still wore it casually on his body!

Considering the scale of Lin's Cloth Shop's business, how could it only have three thousand taels of silver in its accounts? This is clearly not right!

Xu Youshan was taken aback for a moment, then his face immediately turned cold. He said, "Young Master Li Lan, are you questioning the accounts of our cloth shop?"

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The questioning tone in Li Lan's words displeased Xu Youshan.

Li Lan chuckled and said, "Li Lan is just a scholar, not knowledgeable in state affairs or governance, so how would I know anything about accounts? However, General Lin has now entrusted the matter of raising Qingyun Fruit to Ruoxue and me, so we must raise enough silver... Ruoxue, why don't you take a look at the accounts yourself?"

Li Lan didn't really want to meddle in other people's business. He could pretend he didn't see how much money Xu Youshan had embezzled from the Lin family... But, what could he do when he was short of money?

Lin Zheng wants to buy Qingyun Fruit, and this is his opportunity!

Therefore, we must find enough money!

Lin Ruobing was puzzled, but she thought Li Lan was full of tricks, so she nodded and said, "Let's take a look."

Seeing this, Xu Youshan's face turned even colder, and he said, "Alright, then young master and young lady, please come with me."

Not long after.

Accounting office of Lin's Cloth Shop.

Xu Youshan had all the account books brought up, a jumbled mess piled up like a mountain. He sneered and said, "Young master, young lady, please!"

Audit?

He smiled.

Although the General of the State's mansion held high positions and power, and had many martial arts masters, in his eyes they were all just a bunch of good-for-nothings.

The Lin family simply doesn't have any talent in this area!

Otherwise, how could he have managed to stay in Lin's Cloth Shop for so many years? As a cloth shop owner, he bought three large houses in the capital, took twelve concubines, and even had annual contracts with brothels... Lin Zheng was well aware of these things.

However, firstly, he was Xu Yanrong's brother, and secondly, because the people in the Lin family didn't know how to do accounts, he was able to thrive.

He had heard of Li Lan's reputation these past few days, but if it were anything else, he could let it go. But when it came to account books, one could not understand the intricacies without years of immersion in them. Even if Li Lan truly possessed extraordinary talent and wisdom, it would be useless to him!