For a manor or a power, managing the accounts is a major undertaking.
If people aren't managed well and money isn't accounted for clearly, problems can easily arise.
If an ordinary person wanted to be an accountant at Three Talents Manor, even if they were very capable, Three Talents Manor wouldn't dare let them be the accountant. Unless their family background was clean and their history was known inside and out.
It was precisely because of Hua Xiaomei's recommendation that Zhan Ming brought Shi Feizhe to the accounting office of Three Talents Manor to let Accountant Wang test him.
Accountant Wang was a rather thin middle-aged man, looking about fifty or sixty, who was busily working the abacus with the other accountants, checking the accounts.
His brows were tightly furrowed, and he was suddenly interrupted by Zhan Ming. He was originally very impatient and about to lose his temper. Only after seeing Hua Xiaomei did he smile and greet him.
"So it's Young Master Hua! This old man failed to welcome you properly, my apologies!" Accountant Wang cupped his fists and said to Hua Xiaomei.
Hua Xiaomei returned the greeting gracefully and told Accountant Wang about Shi Feizhe.
"Oh? Is this young brother truly proficient in arithmetic?" A strange light flashed in Accountant Wang's eyes.
Young Master Hua has already checked the accounts, why send someone to the accounting office? Could it be that he doesn't trust this old man?
"I know a little!" Shi Feizhe said confidently.
He had just looked around the room and felt relieved when he saw the abacus.
Ancient accounting was nothing more than addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, borrowing, lending, daily journals, detailed ledgers, and the like. The difficulty wouldn't exceed a system of two linear equations!
It couldn't stump him, a social animal!
Accountant Wang casually asked some questions about daily accounts, general ledgers, and interest calculation methods. Shi Feizhe answered without hesitation; these were too simple for him.
"I didn't expect this young brother to be truly proficient in arithmetic!" Accountant Wang saw that Shi Feizhe answered fluently and his problem-solving ideas were very clear. He truly looked at Shi Feizhe with high regard. He was much stronger than the few useless people around him!
This is good too. With this person in the accounting office, it will just dispel Young Master Hua's doubts!
"Since it's recommended by Young Master Hua, and with this young brother's ability, the first few months will be twenty taels a month!" Accountant Wang thought for a moment and cupped his fists towards Young Master Hua.
"This young brother actually has such ability, I truly misjudged you!" Hua Xiaomei looked at Shi Feizhe and said. He hadn't expected Shi Feizhe to actually understand arithmetic.
Arithmetic wasn't something ordinary people could access!
I hope that when I take this great medicine in the future, it can also improve my arithmetic! Hua Xiaomei thought silently.
Shi Feizhe was surprised by twenty taels a month! But considering the cost of living in Three Talents Town and Hua Xiaomei's face, it was reasonable for Three Talents Manor to offer this salary.
"Young brother, familiarize yourself here. I still have some small matters to attend to!" Hua Xiaomei looked at the sky and suddenly said to everyone present.
"Thank you, Brother Hua!" Shi Feizhe cupped his fists and said. He was sincerely grateful to Hua Xiaomei. Without Hua Xiaomei's help, he would have no martial arts manuals and no means of livelihood, like a weed in the Jianghu!
"Young Master Hua, please feel free!" Zhan Ming and Accountant Wang bowed to Hua Xiaomei and said.
Hua Xiaomei returned the greeting to the few people, then fanned himself and walked out of the accounting courtyard with a flourish. After turning a few corners, he arrived at the main hall of Three Talents Manor.
The main hall of Three Talents Manor was quite grand, with slightly curved eaves pointing upwards. Under the black tiles and black eaves were several nanmu pillars that a person could barely embrace. There was a couplet on the two pillars near the main hall entrance.
The upper line: "Fragrance fills the garden, Three Talents prospers." The lower line: "Bamboo shadows sway by the window, all directions are bright." The horizontal inscription: "Flowers bloom, the moon is full."
This was the main hall of Three Talents Manor, "Hua Hao Hall"!
Every time he saw "Hua Hao Hall" and this couplet, Hua Xiaomei couldn't help but sigh that Zhan Yunfan was truly a talent at flattery.
As soon as he walked into Hua Hao Hall, a fragrant breeze rushed towards him. He quickly turned around and kicked out!
"Oh dear!" With a shy cry, a stunningly beautiful woman dressed in bright clothes was kicked to the ground by Hua Xiaomei. She said coquettishly, "Brother Hua, what are you doing!"
The bright yellow silk only covered a small part of her body, revealing her beautiful figure and fair skin. Coupled with her face like a lotus emerging from water, bright eyes and white teeth, and her coquettish tone, she exuded infinite charm.
"Brother Huang, why are you here!" Hua Xiaomei said with a dark face.
"Oh dear~ What Brother Huang, I am clearly Brother Hua's Little Sister Huang!" The beauty who was kicked to the ground wrinkled her nose and said rather cutely.
"..."
Hua Xiaomei's face grew even darker.
The Central Plains Demonic Sect was divided into four families: Hua Huang Xiong Jiang. Among them, the Huang family had an evil scripture called the Celestial Transformation Secret Record.
Celestials were a type of creature in the legends of the Nine Provinces Buddhist Sect, neither male nor female. Practitioners of the Celestial Transformation Secret Record needed to have a male body and a female heart. When cultivating, they would visualize the Celestial diagram. As the cultivation of the technique deepened, they would develop more female characteristics while retaining male characteristics.
At this point, they needed to absorb the yin and yang essence of all beings, experience love, hate, and emotions, and finally enter the realm of great accomplishment without form, without male form, without female form, and without the form of all beings.
Throughout history, those who cultivated the Celestial Transformation Secret Record all ended up cultivating themselves into neither male nor female, yin-yang people who supplemented yin with yang and yang with yin, and were finally beaten to death. No one had ever cultivated to the realm of great accomplishment.
When he was young, Hua Xiaomei had met the Huang family's boy. At that time, he was a little chubby and was bullied by him all day long! If it weren't for the housekeeper watching, he might have even tricked this chubby fellow into dying in a cesspool.
He never expected that as men grew older, they changed. The little chubby boy of the past had turned into a delicate beauty, and what was even more terrifying was...
"Brother Hua, I'm so lonely, why don't we cultivate together~~" The beauty sat slumped on the ground, staring with wide eyes, and said coquettishly to Hua Xiaomei.
"Huang Wufeng! You'd best behave yourself!" Hua Xiaomei said.
He was already thinking of finding an opportunity to dunk this fellow into a cesspool!
It was just that the Celestial Transformation Secret Record was quite strange. He had fought with this fellow before and only had a slight advantage, making it difficult to kill him.
Alas! When he was out and about, he was pestered by demonesses from the Jianghu. When he returned to the Demonic Sect's territory, he was still pestered by the sect's transvestites!
He was too difficult!
There was nothing he could do, who made him so handsome!
"Oh dear~ Brother Hua has said it many times, I am now Huang Wufeng! The 'Feng' of Phoenix!" Huang Wufeng said.
Among phoenixes, the male is called Feng, and the female is called Huang. Wufeng, Wufeng, the meaning is self-evident!
"Bah! Maybe when you take out your treasure, it's even bigger than mine, what are you pretending for!" Hua Xiaomei was a bit annoyed by Huang Wufeng, left a sentence, and entered the main hall.
Inside the main hall, a woman in green sat in the main seat, propping her head with her arm, tilting her head and looking at Hua Xiaomei and Huang Wufeng with great interest, unable to help but let out a bell-like laugh.
"Hahaha~ This is truly too interesting. It's rare to see Brother Hua suffer a setback!"
Hua Xiaomei knew that the person in front of him was the difficult one!
Hua Xiaomei: No choice, I'm too handsome!
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