In the study of the main courtyard, Yu Qingyi, dressed in a sky-blue beizi, sat behind the desk, clicking away at an abacus.
"What are you calculating?" Yang Zhengshan walked in and asked, somewhat curious.
Speaking of which, he did not know how to use an abacus. He had learned it in elementary school in his previous life, but he had forgotten everything that ought to be forgotten.
He had thought of learning the abacus before too, but after only trying it for a little while, he gave up. Learning it was not hard; mastering it took real effort.
Without raising her head, Yu Qingyi said, "I'm calculating how much income our family has every year."
"Uh, how much?" Yang Zhengshan asked, rather curious.
Yu Qingyi looked at the abacus, sighed lightly, and said, "Excluding the horse farm, the yearly income is less than three hundred taels of silver!"
"..."
Yang Zhengshan felt a little embarrassed.
Three hundred taels was already a lot to ordinary commoners, but for the current Yang Family, that bit of money was not even enough to pay the servants' monthly wages.
But this was normal too. The Yang Family did not have many assets to begin with.
Aside from the horse farm and the hundred-some mu of fields in Anning County, there were only the few shops Yu Qingyi had just bought over the past month.
"It's fine. The horse farm's earnings won't be low, enough to support the household expenses!" Yang Zhengshan said.
Yu Qingyi stepped forward to help him take off his outer coat. "But the horse farm has only just been built. There shouldn't be any earnings this year!"
"There will be. You'll know when the time comes!" Yang Zhengshan chuckled.
Under normal circumstances, after a horse farm was built, it would