Mrs. Li and Yan Zhigao returned to the way they used to be as respectful as guests before, but the atmosphere between the two made Daohua feel a little weird.

Her mother doesn't seem to be as considerate and attentive to her cheap daddy as she was when she first came here.

As for the cheap dad, he often glances at his mother from time to time, and sometimes stops talking when he says something, which is very weird.

"Did the cheap dad finally realize how good her mother is and change his mind?"

"What are you mumbling about?"

Mrs. Li knocked Daohua on the forehead.

Daohua immediately shook her head: "It's nothing." After saying that, she immediately lowered her head, flipping through the account book with one hand, and doing abacus with the other hand, her speed was very slow.

During this period, Mrs. Li's eyes turned red because she was checking the account books. She felt that as her daughter, she should help share some of the burden, so she recommended herself to Mrs. Li.

There are many things to do in the year, and Mrs. Li does not have time to teach her daughter to read, keep accounts, and settle accounts, but she knows that this is her daughter's filial piety and cannot bear to live up to it. She also thinks that her daughter is now 9 years old, and it is time for her to learn some housekeeping skills.

So, Mrs. Li took some time out of her busy schedule to teach Daohua how to read the ledger.

Compared with a wealthy family, Mrs. Li's dowry is nothing, but for the Yan family, who was born in a poor family, it is definitely very generous.

Although the family has spent a lot of money on expenses and money for Yan Zhigao over the years, Mrs. Li, who has always been good at increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, has gradually added some family assets.

Therefore, every year at the end of the year, I have to look at Yitui’s account book.

Mrs. Li looked at her quirky daughter with a smile, and asked softly: "If you think there is any problem in the account book, write it down first, and then I will explain it to you when my mother comes back."
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Daohua didn't even raise her head: "I understand, I understand, mother, you can go and do other things. You can just leave the account book to me without any worries."

Mrs. Li smiled silently, looked at her daughter who was seriously settling accounts for a while, and then quietly left the room and went to the next door.

"Madam, this is the list of annual gifts sent by some people over the years."

At the end of every year, annual ritual exchanges are a very important matter, which is related to the maintenance of family friendship.

In previous years, Mrs. Li had to check the accounts for the year and prepare New Year gifts for each family, so she was often top-heavy.

This year, I didn’t expect that she would actually enjoy the blessing of a daughter.

She was already preparing to stay up late at night to teach her daughter how to read accounts, but who would have thought that she only gave her daughter some rough guidance, and her daughter took over the account books directly.

She checked and found that every expenditure in the account book was calculated accurately by her daughter. Moreover, her daughter also carefully changed the accounting method to make the account book look more clear at a glance.

This gave her a new understanding of her daughter's intelligence.

"This year is probably the most relaxing year for Madam."

Seeing that Mrs. Li always had a smile on her face, Pingtong said jokingly.

Ping Xiao took over: "Isn't it? Since the eldest lady came, Madam's smile has not stopped every day. I can see that Madam's complexion is much better than before."

Pingtong also laughed and said: "The old lady said that the eldest girl is a lucky star. I used to be a prosperous old lady in my hometown, but now I have come to the county government and I am prosperous again."

Mrs. Li also thinks so.

She knew how bad the old lady Zeng Jin's health was, but look at now, some people who are younger than the old lady, their bodies and bones are probably not as good as hers.

I don’t know if it’s her imagination, but she also feels that her skin has gotten better during this period.

"Okay, you two are not allowed to praise that girl anymore, and you are not allowed to talk nonsense about her like a lucky star."

Reputation is very important to women, but if it is too big, it is not necessarily a good thing.

Some women are so famous that they attract snakes, ghosts and gods, and end up with a miserable fate.

Her rice flower only needs to be peaceful and happy for a lifetime, and there is no need to attract the attention of outsiders with an illusory reputation.

Pingtong and Pingxiao saw that Mrs. Li didn't want to say more, so they honestly started to help organize the New Year's gift list.

"There are still no new year gifts from the capital this year?"

After reading all the gift lists, Mrs. Li sighed.

My mother-in-law’s family is not strong-willed, and the young girl’s life in her husband’s family is probably very difficult. She can’t even send New Year’s gifts to her mother-in-law’s family.

Pingtong: "Madam, are we still going to the capital to send New Year's gifts?"

Mrs. Li nodded: "Of course we have to give it away. Even if the Yang family doesn't like what we send, we must let them know that my sister-in-law has a natal family."

Mrs. Li made some calculations in her mind and added 10% to the new year's gift sent to the capital.

Pingtong saw Mrs. Li adding things to the Yang family's gift list. She thought about it and couldn't help but said: "Madam, if this happens, the family will be in some financial difficulties next year."

Mrs. Li did not stop writing: "There are not many people in the family who can help my sister-in-law. If the New Year's gift looks better, she will have an easier time at her husband's family."

She deeply understands the pain of a married woman.

She herself is a high-married woman!

In the Yan family, everyone seemed to respect her, but she knew very well that most people only valued her because she brought a large dowry and had a relatively wealthy natal family.
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Even the old lady valued this point when she agreed to her marriage to the master.

The natal family is really important to a married woman.

She has a good life. She has two brothers who love her and respect her. Even though the Li family's lintel is not as high as the Yan family, the gifts that the Li family sends every year during festivals can help her stand upright in the Yan family.

After that, Mrs. Li carefully sorted out the New Year gifts sent by each family, and then sent back the corresponding New Year gifts.

Here, Daohua finished calculating a ledger, stood up and stretched.

The ancient account books were so ugly, it made her eyes hurt and swell.

She needs to take a break.

In ancient times, she suffered from myopia, but there were no glasses for her to wear.

Daohua walked in front of the window and admired the cold orchid she specially gave to Mrs. Li to relieve eye fatigue.

Hanlan was found in the mountains of her hometown, and she has been raising her in the space ever since. At the moment, it is blooming in full bloom.

At this moment, Ping Xiao walked in, holding a bowl of freshly boiled milk.

"Girl, my wife specially asked someone to boil milk for you. Come and drink it quickly."

Daohua walked to the table and sat down, picked up the milk and took a sip: "Sister Pingxiao, where is the pot of red plums I gave to mother? Isn't it put out?"

Ping Xiao smiled and said: "The master is resting in his wife's room these days. Seeing that Hongmei is a good sight, he said he wanted to take it to the front office to show it to everyone."

Daohua curled her lips: "Father is embarrassed to take it."

In order to see the red plum blossoms early, she planted them in the black soil in the space for more than half a month, so that the red plums not only bloomed well, but also had a pleasant fragrance.

In this cold weather, smelling the faint fragrance of plum blossoms makes people feel refreshed.

Her mother has been so busy and tired during this time, and her energy levels are low at first glance. It would be better for her cheap dad to just take the red plum away.

Daohua: "Father will be on annual leave in a few days, right?"

Ping Xiao nodded: "I started taking baths on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month."

Daohua: "Please remember for me, I will have to ask my father to get the red plums back when the time comes."

Ping Xiao looked at the eldest girl who was stingy with the master and smiled secretly.

Although the master valued his wife in the past, he often suffered because Aunt Lin made her angry.

Now, the eldest girl is here. Thinking of the scene where the eldest lady stood up for the madam, Ping Xiao couldn't help but admire her.

At the same time, Yang Mansion in the capital.

Seeing her mother-in-law and three sisters-in-law laughing and talking about how to give their parents New Year's gifts, Yan Siyu pursed her lips tightly and held the hands hidden under her long sleeves tightly, letting her nails dig into her flesh.

This scene happens once every year at the end of the year.

She knew that her husband's family looked down on her mother's family, and she was prepared. But she never expected that the Yang family would go so far and not even prepare a new year's gift for the Yan family.

Although the eldest brother has been the county magistrate for nine consecutive years, this does not mean that he has no possibility of promotion.

The Yang family treats the Yan family with such terrible indifference!

If she wasn't still thinking about her two children, she really wanted to escape from the Yang family.

Old Mrs. Yang glanced at her little daughter-in-law, who looked unhappy, and snorted coldly in her heart.

She knew that her younger daughter-in-law was still dreaming of her elder brother being promoted, but unfortunately, this dream was about to be shattered.

If they hadn't known that Yan Zhigao would never be promoted, how could they have gone so far?

The reason why she agreed that her younger son should marry Yan Siyu, who was born in a poor family, wasn't it because she valued his eldest brother's future?

Unexpectedly, this Yan Zhigao is an arrogant person who doesn't understand the way of being an official at all. When he first entered the officialdom, he offended the nobles he could not offend.

If it weren't for the fact that he could really do something practical, he wouldn't even be able to be a county magistrate.

Nowadays, even if you serve as a county magistrate, you will only be sent to a backward and remote lower county to work as a cow or a horse to add political achievements to the people above.
Chapter completed!