Li Ran looked at the shopkeepers with different expressions and retreated in a mess, signaled Miao Zhong to stay, picked up the tea and took a sip, and then ordered: "Please come in."

Madam Huang was outside and came in immediately.

Li Ran put down her cup. "Three things, one is that there must be an accounting room in the mansion. Do you have someone here who can manage the accounting?"

Li Ran looked at Shinan.

Shinan shook his head and said, "Go back to the princess, no, the small account management is actually just to record income and expenditure. From the day you receive your salary, to the next time you receive your salary, you will calculate the account and settle the account."

"Well, where are you here?" Li Ran looked at Madam Huang.

"Liu Wen's wife has always been in charge of the inner tent in the village outside the city." Madam Huang hurriedly bowed and replied.

"Well, call her in." Li Ran ordered Qingqi and continued: "The second item is the vegetables and fruits you mentioned that day, if you have time, you will be sent in from tomorrow."

Li Ran looked at Miao Zhong and ordered, and Miao Zhong hurriedly lowered his hands and said that.

"The purchase will be returned to you from tomorrow. The previous account will be paired with Shinan and take the account."

Li Ran then ordered Madam Huang, whom Madam Huang hurriedly bowed and said that.

The little girl outside reported: Liu Wen’s wife has arrived.

Li Ran called Liu Wen's wife in and looked at her.

He was slightly fat and short, with a slightly dark complexion, and looked very solid. He was wearing a plain autumn dress, and was properly and peaceful. He kowtowed and stood up, looked at Li Ran, and bowed slightly.

"In this mansion, no matter whether it is an extra room or an extra room, there is only one room, and all the internal and external expenses are handled by you."

Li Ran looked at Liu Wen's wife and said.

She never judged others by her appearance. She looked at Liu Wen's wife and just recognized others.

Liu Wen's wife was obviously stunned, "Yes, what about the pair of cards?"

"Only use one set, all of them are used from me." Li Ran already understood what this pair means and the right to sign.

"Yes." Liu Wen's wife answered very quickly, with only one set, so it would be easy to deal with. For her, she would just have to pay attention to one account.

Li Ran gave a few more instructions. The matters that day were roughly arranged. She stood up and took Madam Huang, Liu Wen's wife and Qingjia to see the warehouse with Shinan.

Shinan walked in the front, walked all the way between the front yard and the back garden, walked through a corner door hidden behind a piece of dry vines, and entered a horizontal alley.

Shinan stopped, pointed to a row of seven or eight doors in the shape of doors, and looked at Li Ran and said, "These are warehouses, where to start?"

Li Ran was stunned. There was no such door, what's the use of that small box key?

"Let's go over there." Li Ran pointed casually.

"Yes." Shinan went over and kicked the door frames. There was a crisp sound of wooden boards bursting. Behind a thin layer of white painted wooden boards, the dark and thick door was revealed.

Li Ran was stunned.

"The prince has never paid attention to these warehouses since they are piled up in things until now, for the sake of..."

Shinan tied a knot on his tongue and said a little vaguely: "It is clear that this is a small idea. The thin plate of paint seals the door. Under this paint, there are seals written by Xiao and Xiqing and others."

Shinan said, bent down and shook little by little from the cracked thin plate, pulling out a piece of fine cotton paper, which read the names of Shinan and others.

Li Ran took the tissue and looked at it, handed it to Shinan, wanting to laugh but feeling speechless.

Shinan sealed this door, which is to avoid suspicion from the plum tree in front of the melon.

It seems that the things in the warehouse are really as Xie Ze said, and he didn’t count them, and others didn’t count them.

Qingqi had already opened the small box in her arms, pressed the sign on it, took out the key, saw Li Ran nodding, and stepped forward to open the heavy and large bronze lock on the warehouse door.

Li Ran went back and looked at Shinan, Madam Huang, and Liu Wen's wife, and pushed open the two heavy copper-covered wooden doors together.

A sensation of old aura came out of the warehouse.

Madam Huang and Liu Wen's wife retreated to the door. Shinan came prepared and touched a big candle and lit it.

Li Ran entered the warehouse and turned around and looked at the large pile of boxes that were so high that it was airtight.

The boxes are piled neatly, with numbers written on them and seals posted.

"The box is very heavy, the small one can't move it, the small one asks someone to come?" Shinan looked at Li Ran and asked for instructions.

"Yes." Li Ran nodded.

Shinan came back quickly, and took two servants, carried the ladder, found a row of casually, and carried a box from the top.

Li Ran tore the seal and opened the box.

The box was chaotic and filled with silver horseshoe, with gold turtles of all sizes mixed in the middle.

"Is this what I got from the war?" Li Ran felt a little upset when she saw it.

"Yes." Shinan pointed to the seal, "This is the reward for the battle to capture Caicheng, when the general was seventeen years old."

"Put it back first, and then sort it out slowly after the Chinese New Year."

Li Ran closed the box, took a few steps back and ordered.

Shinan responded and watched the servant put the box back.

Li Ran looked at the locking of the warehouse door and ordered Shinan to clean up the warehouse door and went back straight back.

Xie Ze did not come back at noon, nor did he come back for dinner, nor did Zhou E and the An brothers. It was not until the beginning of Hai that Xie Ze came back.

Li Ran was sitting on the kang, looking at the account that Liu Wen’s wife sent in.

This account is very particular and complex, with many terms and symbols. Li Ran reads it slowly little by little.

Xie Ze lifted the curtain and entered the room. Li Ran looked up and saw that it was Xie Ze. He exclaimed and hurriedly closed the account book.

"Don't come here first, your clothes are thin and I'm cold."

Xie Ze went to the cloak, took off his big clothes outside, reached out and shook Li Ran's hand, "I don't let them spread it. It's snowing outside and it's very cold. Has he eaten? What are you watching?"

"Well, check the account, your hands are a little cold, it's snowing?" Li Ran held Xie Ze's hand in both hands.

"It's been very heavy. Let's watch the snow tomorrow. I just came back from outside the city."

Xie Ze let Li Ran hold it for a while before sitting on the kang, cleaned his hands, took the bowl of soup and drank half a bowl.

"General Zhou, how many brothers from the An family are going out of the city with you?" Li Ran looked at Xie Ze and drank the soup before asking with a smile.

"Well, I went to Chang'an Hou's army. You have been busy with housework? Are you not tired?"

Xie Ze picked up the account book and flipped it out.

"I'm not tired, I went to see the warehouse today." Li Ran held her chin and looked at Xie Ze.

"Hmm? How do you think?" Xie Ze raised his eyebrows slightly and asked with interest.

"Do you know how much stuff is piled in your warehouse and what it is?" Li Ran asked at Xie Ze.

"It used to be mine, now it is yours. I never care about those things, what are they?"

"I just saw a box, it was full of gold and silver."

"It should be all gold and silver." Xie Ze was neither surprised nor cared.

"Shinan said it was your reward for capturing Caicheng."

"Cai Cheng..."

Xie Ze thought about it.

"Well, the one who occupied Caicheng at that time was named Niu Qiang. Niu Qiang was born as a porter, fierce and strong, and had a lot of trouble with a group of porters. He first robbed the business where they worked for them, and then looted several villages.

In the chaotic times, he occupied Caicheng with his cruelty and called himself emperor, snatching almost all the women in Caicheng into his harem.

When I attacked Caicheng, Niu Qiang was already in a state of stagnation and was rushing to stop the emperor. Niu Qiang used the living people as military rations, which was a terrible sight.

When siege, he tied the women to the city wall, called the Meat Shield.

In that battle, Zhou E was the pioneer. She captured Niu Qiang alive. Zhou E wanted to peel him off, so I agreed, Zhou E's own hands."

After a pause, Xie Ze looked at Li Ran and added, "Zhou E's skinning skills are good."

Li Ran took a while to take a breath, moved her head against Xie Ze's chest, and sighed.

Xie Ze stroked her back, "It's all over, Caicheng is very lively now."

"Will the war start after the New Year?"

Li Ran took a while before she looked up from Xie Ze's arms and asked at him.

“Maybe one night later.”

Xie Ze looked at Li Ran's expression carefully and raised his hand to stroke Li Ran's back.

"There are not many like Niu Qiang in the past, so don't think too much.

In the south, the name of Renzong's benevolence and righteousness, he loved the people very much. Several old families were also knowledgeable people, and the south was very good."

"If two strong people really need to coexist and fight, who knows if it is another chaotic world?" Li Ran smiled bitterly.

"Don't worry, now that you have the people's hearts and people's hearts are the first, and there are also brothers in the An family, who have a lot more chances of winning than before."

Xie Ze paused and then said:

"There is one thing I didn't plan to tell you. Do you still remember the top scorer in Qianliang?"

"The top scorer in Ding Wei's year? He called himself Huang Zi'an?" Li Ran remembered it very clearly.

"Well, shortly after I took you away, he became a monk, with the name of Hui'an.

On the day we got married, he was in the capital, watching you and me pass by. After leaving the city, he sang all the way north.

Hui'an's scholars in the south, especially poor scholars, have great prestige.

When the prince and the emperor heard that Hui'an became a monk, they made up their minds to recover the south."

Li Ran listened intently, and after a while, she sighed softly, "I feel ashamed of it."

"The inheritance of aristocratic families depends on a bloodline. You are the only bloodline of Renzong, Princess Leping's daughter, which is enough. What they respect is just this bloodline, and you are worthy of it."

Xie Ze lowered his head and kissed Li Ran lightly on the forehead.
Chapter completed!