The daughter of a noble family is reborn, and she is doted on by her godmother.

"Oh!" Upon hearing her son's account, Aunt Hua immediately closed her eyes and shook her head. After slapping her son twice, she quickly put her hands together in prayer.

"Amitabha! Amitabha! This is truly tragic."

"Haidong, be careful on your journey back and forth. The water level in the city is quite high, so be careful on the road," Yun Yuke emphasized.

"By the way, since the rain is so heavy, let's talk to Manager Hao and decide not to let them go into the city to deliver vegetables. It's not safe along the way."

"Don't worry about that. Our manager has already thought of that. He gave the vegetable farmers a lot of money, which will cover all the vegetables from now on. The extra vegetables will be sold directly to the neighbors nearby, so everyone will have something to eat."

Liu Haidong waited at the Yun residence for a while, and left after the rain stopped.

The incessant rain over the past few days has made it impossible for Yun Yuke to go out and run errands. However, her preliminary investigation has yielded some results regarding the falsification of accounts.

However, the original plan to "find the real ledger" has been temporarily shelved. Instead, he stayed home and helped Yuan Chen organize the existing ledgers.

Even little Yun Qingjin was pulled in to help tidy up.

Yun Qingjin had done a lot of bookkeeping in her previous life, so she could say she was quite familiar with the relevant stuff.

Although the specific details of each company's ledgers differ, most of the records are quite similar.

"The problematic ledgers belong to the following companies: bricklayers, brick factories, Huaji Embroidery Workshop, Renshoutang, and of course, the most problematic one is Linji Timber Shop."

After several days of organizing, Miss Yuanchen had compiled and consolidated the information on all the shops under her care.

"Although there are some problems with the accounts of these companies, they are not incomprehensible and can be put aside for the time being. The most important one is Lin's accounts, which are more obvious and more outrageous than the others."

As Yuan Chen spoke, he placed a stack of Lin Ji's account books in the center of the table. The remaining problematic shop account books, which had been placed on the ground, seemed to have been sorted out.

"What exactly is the problem? I see that the records in Lin's account book are fine. There's no sudden profit or sudden major loss."

Yun Yuke had looked through these ledgers before and didn't notice too many problems. "Chenchen, are you overthinking it? The manager of Lin's is quite honest, there shouldn't be any problems, right?"

Yuan Chen let out a long sigh.

"The biggest problem with their accounting books is that the growth rates are too similar. It feels like they just filled in the costs and turnover figures randomly."

Yuan Chen pointed to the other ledgers on the ground, "The problems of the other companies are mostly related to their operations. For example, Renshoutang, you could say that they sometimes over-purchase goods, which leads to higher costs. As for medicinal materials, there are indeed seasonal differences, so it can't be considered a problem with their accounting."

"But the situation with Lin's is that the costs are not much different each month, and even the output volume does not fluctuate much. If the cost is higher in a certain month, the income will be higher in that month, and if the cost is lower, the income will be lower."

Yun Qingjin, who was listening nearby, understood what Miss Yuanchen wanted to say.

In my previous life, I also ran several shops. Each shop had different circumstances, which directly affected my monthly income.

Although he had never been in contact with a timber shop, he had done renovations at the General's Mansion and bought timber from some familiar timber shops, so he could be considered to know the situation.

The lumber shop is arguably the most stable among this group of problematic shops. As long as someone needs furniture making or house repairs, the lumber shop's income will remain relatively stable.

But the monthly shipment volume is about the same? That doesn't seem reasonable.

Just as Yun Qingjin was flipping through the ledgers and recalling the events, Yuan Chen had already explained the situation to Yun Yuke. Her explanation was similar to Yun Qingjin's recollection: the timber shop's average income was far too normal.

"Look, even Qingqing is more serious than you." Yuan Chen teased his older sister, Yun Yuke, as she earnestly flipped through the account book.

"Qingqing has surpassed her teacher, and I'm very happy to see her better than me." Yun Yuke was naturally proud when she heard someone praising Yun Qingjin.

"How is it, Qingqing? Can you understand the words on this?" Yuan Chen was worried about something else.

"Teacher Zhu showed me what the ledger looked like before, so I basically know her." Although Yun Qingjin was using Teacher Zhu as a shield, there was nothing wrong with her words to a certain extent.

Teacher Zhu did show Yun Qingjin what the account book looked like before, so it wasn't exactly a lie.

“Alright, now that we know each other, let’s organize some more things. In order to explain the problems with Lin’s restaurant to our good sister and boss, let’s make another copy of these account books. After all, although we can guess that Lin’s restaurant has problems based on the current account books and speculation, these things are not real evidence. So we need to filter out the clues and find more suitable evidence.”

Yuan Chen's idea was simple: record costs and sales separately. Especially the purchasing section, which allowed for detailed analysis of patterns in purchasing, the types of common suppliers, and any issues with the goods purchased.

They got right to work. All three of them could write. Although Yun Yuke's handwriting was crooked and Yun Qingjin was small and weak with an unsteady hand, they tidied it up themselves and didn't care whether it looked good or not.

This lasted for two or three days straight. During this time of sorting out the account books, Yun Qingjin felt a sense of familiarity, similar to when she had just gotten married and was sorting out the account books of the General's Mansion.

The general's mansion's account books are much more complicated than this.

"Hmm? It seems there's a problem..." When Yun Qingjin picked out the suppliers from the ledger, she noticed some issues.

"Sister Chenchen, I feel something's strange here." Yun Qingjin, carrying an account book, ran up to Yuan Chen.

"Sister, look, in the section on suppliers, although it lists a merchant named 'Yu Lei,' the 'mouth' radical under the character 'Lei' on the following pages of the ledger has become rounded. The 'mouth' radical was written normally before."

Although the subtle differences in the handwriting on the ledgers are very minor, they are still very useful for analyzing the accountants who kept the books.

This can be considered as experience from a previous life.

When Yun Qingjin first took over the General's Mansion's account books in her previous life, she keenly noticed that the people who kept the accounts at different times were different.

Of course, the situation at the General's Mansion was quite complicated. Initially, the person who kept the accounts was a rather confused accountant, and many things were not recorded clearly. However, after a certain ledger, a professional was brought in to record the accounts. The handwriting was elegant, the layout was clear, and every item was written clearly.

Later I found out that the first accountant could not be considered an accountant at all. That person was actually a common soldier who could read and write, whom my husband had found from his subordinates when the mansion was being built. He was not a good accountant at all.

The second accountant was serious and meticulous; he was a tutor specially brought from his hometown by the general's grandmother. He was very professional, and his attitude towards Yun Qingjin was quite normal, unlike the others who looked down on this adopted daughter of a marquis.

So the accounts were a mess before, but the accounts afterward were much neater.

The two accountants' notes were quite different, but they were relatively easy to distinguish.

But let's talk about the accounts right now...

Apart from characters like "磊" which have the radical "口", other characters can also reflect the personality of the writer to varying degrees.

In Lin's shop, this "second accountant" wrote more elegantly than the previous one, but his strokes were slightly unsteady, and his overall appearance was somewhat frivolous.

Font analysis was an experience Yun Qingjin had accumulated in her previous life. Of course, Yun Qingjin didn't say this aloud; she kept it to herself, waiting for an opportunity to subtly hint at it later.

"Mother, Sister Chenchen, have you seen this person before? The Lin family's accountant? Who is that person?"