My rigid, jealous husband has fallen for me, even though I'm a hopeless romantic.

Chapter 159 The Ledgers Have Problems

Xiao Wu racked his brains and finally came to the conclusion: "There doesn't seem to be anything particularly exciting lately."

"Then let's just stay home and look at the account books." Wei Dongning sighed inwardly as she looked at herself in the bronze mirror: "I've only been checking the shop's account books before, and I haven't finished checking the ones sent from the estate yet."

When I was young and ignorant, I thought that rich people had no worries except for having too much money to spend.

But after becoming rich, I realized that just managing the family business was exhausting.

Sensing Wei Dongning's thoughts, Xiao Wu stopped washing her face and racked her brains for a long time: "Is there anyone in this world who has no worries at all?"

The conclusion reached was: no.

Even this little cat faces many troubles every morning when it wakes up.

With the last hair ornament tucked into her hair, Wei Dongning stood up from her seat and, as if brainwashing herself, cheered herself on: "Work, work, I love working!"

Then, as if injected with chicken blood, he quickly finished breakfast with Xiao Fu and sat down behind the desk.

Having reviewed the account books for so long, Wei Dongning has accumulated a lot of experience.

After all, the original owner's memories belong to her, and her experience must be gained through her own practice.

Now, when I go through the ledgers for inspection, I'm gradually becoming more and more adept at it.

No longer as flustered as before.

Xiao Wu leaped onto Wei Dongning's desk with a "piggy pounce," listening to the clattering of the ledgers and abacus in her hands.

In the past, whenever I heard these two sounds mixed together, it always felt like listening to a free lullaby.

But today, it suddenly became interested and wanted to see what was written in these ledgers.

Perhaps the system has an innate sensitivity to numbers, because Xiao Wu quickly discovered the problem with the ledger.

The little paws slapped the problematic area twice: "Ningbao, take a look at this."

Wei Dongning was engrossed in her calculations, and Xiao Wu's voice had absolutely no effect on her.

Having no other choice, Xiao Wu slapped her hand with his paw: "Pay attention to me! This is really important!"

Xiao Fu thought Xiao Wu was just being naughty and wanted Wei Dongning to play with it. Afraid that it would interfere with Wei Dongning's activities, she quickly picked it up and said, "Xiao Wu, be good. Don't disturb the young mistress's auditing of the accounts. I'll play with you, okay?"

"Meow..." Xiao Wu tried to break free, but Xiao Fu held her too tightly, and it had no way to get out.

Xiao Fu stroked Xiao Wu's back, comforting it: "Come on, I'll take you over there."

Xiao Wu simply gave up struggling.

Even without its reminder, calculating the problematic line would only waste a few more minutes.

Wei Dongning genuinely didn't hear Xiao Wu calling her, but the slap it gave her made her hand tremble as she flipped through the ledger.

Pulling my thoughts away from the ledger, all I saw was Xiao Fu carrying it away.

She shook her head with a slight smile, and muttered to herself, "I must be getting stupid, I'm even hallucinating. If I had studied with this much effort in my past life, I probably could have gotten into Tsinghua or Peking University."

After expressing his feelings, he returned to the ledger.

After about three to five minutes, Wei Dongning also noticed that something was wrong with the accounts.

Compared to other villages, Tonghe Village, with comparable profits, spent twice as much on seeds as other villages.

Wei Dongning looked up at Xiao Fu, who was playing with Xiao Wu: "Xiao Fu, go and call Butler Chen over. I have something important to ask him."

"Yes, young mistress." Xiao Fu accepted the order, turned around, and walked out.

Xiao Wu then had a chance to jump back into Wei Dongning's arms: "You finally noticed. I was calling you so much my voice was almost hoarse."

"You really did talk to me just now?" Wei Dongning realized that she hadn't been hallucinating. "Is this what you wanted to tell me?"

"Yes, I wanted to remind you to pay attention, but no matter how I called you, you wouldn't respond."

"I made a mistake, I got too engrossed in it."

"It's okay as long as you can see it." Xiao Wu pretended to wipe away non-existent tears from the corners of her eyes.

Wei Dongning was both amused and exasperated by the green tea's behavior: "Drama queen Xiao Wu."

Butler Chen arrived faster than Wei Dongning had expected. Upon arrival, he stood respectfully outside the table with his head bowed, saying, "Young Madam, you wanted to see me?"

"Take a look at this first." Wei Dongning turned the open ledger toward him and pointed to the problematic parts twice.

As soon as he heard this, Butler Chen realized that there was a mistake in the ledger. Without delay, he picked up the ledger.

After a long pause, he put the ledger down again: "Young Madam, according to the seed varieties reported by Tonghe Manor, the profits should be much higher than those of other manors."

The manager of Tonghezhuang received some seeds of a new variety two years ago and tried planting them. The quality and yield were indeed better than before.

The steward brought the grain grown from the new variety and came to report to him that he planned to replace all the seeds in the estate with this variety next year.

Last year, when the various villages delivered their autumn harvest grain, the steward even opened a bag for him to inspect.

He naturally assumed that the rest were the same as this one, so he didn't check them one by one.

Thinking of this, Butler Chen almost broke out in a cold sweat: "Young Madam, this is all because of my carelessness. I thought that Steward Liu was an old member of the Gu family and would not have such wicked thoughts."

Wei Dongning held Xiao Wu in her arms, staring blankly at Butler Chen.

He stared at him so intently that he felt uneasy, and cursed Manager Liu eight hundred times in his heart.

He even wished he could go to Tonghezhuang and beat him up.

Only Xiao Wu truly knows just how awful the curses Wei Dongning is internally hurling at her.

In short, it was a cacophony of beeps.

The main problem is the difficulty.

It's easy to fire a cook, but firing the steward of the estate is not so easy.

As for Steward Chen, he should also be punished.

“Steward Chen, you have worked in the Gu family for so many years without ever making a mistake. Father and A-Yan trust you, and I am willing to believe that you did not do it intentionally. Therefore, I will only fine you three months' wages. Do you accept that?”

"Yes, yes. I thank you, young mistress, for giving me this opportunity. Well..."

"You should go back first. As for the matter of Tonghe Manor, I still need to think about it carefully."

She couldn't think of a good solution right away; she needed more time.

Manager Chen thanked him profusely and left, leaving Wei Dongning alone with a headache as she stared at the ledger.

Xiao Wu raised his head: "Why can't we just fire him?"

“Because most of the people on that estate are his men, it’s not easy to handle if one thing is done. Xiao Wu, can you help me check if this Manager Liu has any other problems besides this matter? Including the other people on the estate.”

"Okay, I need some time."

"No rush, investigate slowly and thoroughly, then we'll take care of them all at once." That way, it'll be a permanent solution.

Wei Dongning lay back in her chair, staring blankly at the ceiling beams, muttering, "When will Gu Peiyan come back?"