Sister-in-law Liu Qingqing found a job for Lu Heng as an accountant in the palace.
The palace is not the residence of a prince, but the residence of a wealthy family named Wang. It is said that this high-ranking official named Wang was once a second-rank official of the imperial court, but now he is idle at home.
Today's imperial court does not inhibit the development of business, so the palace also has its own industry. However, due to its reputation, it is only left to the people below to operate it.
The main industry of the Wang family is cloth. Jiangnan is already famous for its silk. After years of development and Mr. Wang’s court background, the Wang family has become a famous cloth merchant in the Jiangnan area.
The expansion of business scale will inevitably require more employees. Therefore, Lu Heng's sister-in-law, Liu Qingqing, asked someone to find this job for Lu Heng.
Early the next morning, after the uncle and sister-in-law had breakfast quietly, Lu Heng held the intermediary's letter of introduction in his arms and walked out the door towards the palace. At the door of the wing, Lu Qingqing quietly watched Lu Heng walk out.
After walking far away, he turned around and returned to the house.
At this time, the sun had just revealed half of its face. It was still early, and the shops on the street were not open. The road paved with bluestones was a little slippery. Occasionally, a bunch of withered yellow weeds could be seen on the roadside, which was also covered with white.
of frost.
It is winter now, and in the morning, a light layer of mist floats on the Qinhuai River. Several boats are parked quietly by the river. The breeze blows, and the small flags on the bows of the boats move gently with the wind. Occasionally,
A few guests who stayed out all night came out of the cabin and secretly looked around. When they found no one there, they straightened their messy hair and clothes, then quickly disembarked and left.
I heard that there is a war with the Turks in the north now, and the war is a bit tense. However, you can't see it in this land south of the Yangtze River.
Lu Heng was wearing a thick cotton coat and a long gown outside. He looked a little bloated. He wore a thick hat on his head and put his hands in his sleeves. He looked like a businessman from the north. He was smiling all the way.
Angry, he walked towards the palace.
However, when they arrived at the location, they found that the gate of the palace had not yet been opened. Several servants, dressed in thick clothes, were sweeping the fallen leaves on the ground in front of the door.
After a while, they swept the fallen leaves in front of the palace into a pile and dumped them before preparing to go back with their brooms.
"Brothers, please stay!" Lu Heng stepped forward and said while rubbing his ears.
A servant turned his head, looked up and down at the ordinary-dressed scholar in front of him, and asked, "What's the matter?"
Lu Jian nodded, took out the letter of introduction from his pocket, and said, "Brother, please give it to Manager Fang of your house! Thank you very much!"
"You wait!" After receiving the letter of introduction, the servant left a word and turned around and walked in.
After Lu Heng waited outside the door for a while, he saw the door open again, and a chubby middle-aged man with a mustache came out.
After looking Lu Heng up and down, he tilted his head and said, "Are you Lu Heng, Lu Yongzheng?"
Yongzheng's surname is Lu Heng. This person can pronounce Lu Heng's surname. It seems that he knows him beforehand. However, Lu Heng does not feel any awkwardness. After all, as a bookkeeper, he must handle huge amounts of money. The master
You should do some research beforehand.
Lu Heng nodded, cupped his hands and said, "Exactly, you are Manager Fang, right?"
The fat man nodded and hummed, which was regarded as recognition. Then, he shook his sleeves and said to Lu Heng, "Come with me!" After that, he turned around and walked into the mansion.
Lu Heng glanced at the gate of the palace, smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Oh, I have to find a job again!"
After entering the door and walking along the long corridor for more than ten minutes, Manager Fang and Lu Heng arrived at the west courtyard. In the courtyard, several servants wearing dark blue shorts were walking in and out holding stacks of thick account books.
Those rooms.
Manager Fang pointed to a room and said: "That's your room. Remember, when doing accounting, you are not allowed to visit other rooms or talk to other accounting offices. More importantly, you are not allowed to leave until the end of the day.
You are not allowed to go out! You are not allowed to go out of the yard! The servants will move the accounts for you into the room for you, and you are not allowed to get close to the servants, remember?"
Listening to Manager Fang's series of disapprovals, Lu Heng felt a little funny, but he still nodded.
As soon as he entered the yard, Lu Heng could see the specific work of the accounting room here. The one on the left, which is his future work area, should be the junior accounting. The one on the right should be responsible for auditing the account books. That's right.
The big room in the center should be where the person in charge of the Wang family lives.
This arrangement not only improves work efficiency, but also prevents some accounting offices from making false accounts to defraud the employer of money and materials.
"Your salary is twenty cents a day. The salary is paid every seven days and will be paid to you personally by the lady. Okay, here is your door key. Remember, ask what you should ask and don't ask what you shouldn't. This
That's the rule here!" Manager Fang untied a large key from his waist and handed it to Lu Heng, then walked out of the yard with a swaying step.
Lu Heng weighed the keys in his hand and walked towards his room.
As soon as I opened the door, a cold feeling rushed through my body. It was winter, and the dark room was extremely cold. There was only a table and a chair, and there were pens, ink, paper and inkstones on the table.
There was also a small stove on the ground. I opened it and clicked it. There was a pile of ashes inside.
Lu Heng put his hand over and tried it, but there was no warmth at all.
"It's so cold!" Lu Heng breathed hot air into his palms, rubbed his hands and scanned the cabin to see if there was anything he could keep warm.
Bang bang bang...
It was at this moment that there was a knock on the door.
Lu Heng opened the door and saw two servants standing at the door. One was holding a pile of ledgers in his arms, and the other was carrying a large basket of charcoal.
"Ms. Lu, Mr. Fang asked me to bring you some charcoal!" The servant's hands were red from the cold, and he stamped his feet as he said.
Lu Heng hurriedly opened the door and said with a smile: "Thank you two brothers! Please come in, two brothers!"
The two of them entered the room, put down their account books, and then lit the small stove for Lu Heng. Then they bowed and left.
The small stove soon made a rumbling sound, and the temperature emitted by the burning charcoal quickly dissipated the cold air in the room. After a while, the small room became as warm as spring.
Lu Heng moved the table next to the stove and put his feet under the table. In this way, he could warm himself by the fire and keep accounts at the same time.
After grinding the ink, Lu Heng picked up an account book, opened it and placed it on the table. After looking through it roughly, with a smile on his face, he picked up the brush and began to write on it smoothly.
In his previous life, due to work needs, he needed to consult a large amount of information. This included various classical materials, so he could write traditional Chinese characters, and he could write them well.
I thought as the fire crackled, and the firelight flashed from the cracks in the stove, illuminating the entire small house.
The result of relying on computers for many years is that writing is extremely slow. However, even so, at noon, Lu Heng still finished writing all the seven or eight account books.
After finishing writing, Lu Heng was originally ready to hand in the assignment. But after taking a look through the crack in the door and seeing other accounting rooms, he gave up the idea.
Three days of accounting, I have been a little out of line all morning and last night. Now that I am stupid and go out to deliver goods, isn't it just showing off in the eyes of others? Oh, why should I be hated by others!
When he had nothing to do, he looked through these account books again. Out of professional habits and vision, this time, he still saw some clues from these account books collected from all over the south of the Yangtze River.
So, he spread out a piece of paper and habitually began to list the problems of Wangjiabuhang in the market. Then, he organized these problems into four parts: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Then based on these four parts, he
From these parts and combinations, we came up with some countermeasures. When a complete set of countermeasures was completed, there was a knock on the door.
I got up and opened the door, and it turned out to be the food delivery boy.
Lu Heng took the food, thanked him, closed the door, and returned to the table.
After sitting down, I saw the plan I had just scribbled out when I was extremely bored and my balls ached. I couldn't help but shake my head and smile bitterly.
This is really a pain in the ass, causing trouble over nothing.
Then he crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it into the stove.
With nothing to do in the afternoon, Lu Heng found a book of The Analects of Confucius in his room, then sat by the fire and read it with gusto.
When the light in the room gradually dimmed, the sound of the work gong also sounded in the yard.
On the way home, the setting sun hung obliquely on the sycamore trees in the west. The Qinhuai River was shimmering with light, and the wind blew, and the golden water patterns spread out.
On the flower boat parked by the river, the lanterns have been lit up. The brothel girls in gorgeous costumes are already standing on the bow of the boat, shaking their handkerchiefs, and starting to solicit customers.
The setting sun shines by the Qinhuai River, and Lu Heng, alone in the sunset, walks in this historical picture.