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Entering the main house in the backyard, Qin Wuya saw a dozen or so women busy cutting, arranging, pitching, and transporting. Although the place wasn't too big, everyone had their own side and were busy with their own things.

When Qin Wuya entered, Madam Li was in the corner of the room doing a day of registration. When she saw Qin Wuya and Wang Nu enter, her face lit up and she immediately went to welcome them.

"Girl, you're finally here."

"What happened to sister-in-law?"

Although Madam Li's face showed joy, she still frowned. She was afraid that something was amiss, so Qin Wuya asked.

Unexpectedly, the moment Qin Wuya said these words, the Madam Li had a bitter face and pulled Qin Wuya to sit beside him. Like pouring beans, she explained everything that happened in the half month that was caused by the registration and clearing house to Qin Wuya one by one.

"Isn't it just for your registration …"

So it turned out that although Madam Li had learnt a few words before, she had not learned them formally. What she needed to do was to count and work on them, which would be much more troublesome.

The wages of the servants in the courtyard in front of them was earned monthly. Furthermore, they did not need to trouble Madam Li, but just the wages of the dozens of women in the courtyard every day was already big enough for Madam Li.

In the beginning, when she saw that Qin Wuya normally only needed an hour to register and enter the books, she felt that it wouldn't be difficult. However, when it really fell into her hands, she discovered that just counting one item would take her two hours of effort. After that, it would be even more difficult to register and settle down.

Qin Wuya understood this after seeing the other booklet that Madam Li had specially opened.

It turned out that Qin Wuya had used the modern form of a table to record her accounts. Since the account book was for him to read, she had used the simplest Arabic number to register it, which naturally made it much easier for him to do so.

But Madam Li was different. Madam Li used the most commonly used language registration method in the Great Li Dynasty.

If it was a small number, it would be very difficult to register it. However, it would not be so easy if it was a large number of people.

Especially since in this half a month, there had been a lot of new wives in the backyard, making it even more difficult for Madam Li to register and settle down.

Previously, Qin Wuya had set the rules for the day of payment.

However, at Madam Li's place, after working for three days, she really could not take it anymore, so she consulted with the female worker in the courtyard. On the next day, she would settle the payment for the day before.

At the beginning, there were a few new women who didn't understand what had happened.

Madam Li had no choice but to ask them to stay. She only said that if they didn't have to waste time waiting, it would be fine to settle the bill that day.

If the family had work to do and was afraid of being delayed, they would go back first. They would settle it with them tomorrow.

Most of the women had stayed at Qin Wuya's place for a long time, so they knew that their boss would not lie about working hours with silver, so they agreed to explain the daily necropolis. The only thing left behind were three or four new women who did not know the reason why they were here, and were patiently waiting for the Madam Li to settle the matter.

Fortunately, there were not many people. Madam Li took more than an hour to settle the scores.

When the afternoon of the second day passed, Madam Li did indeed settle all of the wages of the other few women the day before, not missing a single cent. Now, the other new women believed him. After that, the rules in the backyard were changed to the end of the next day.

Actually, Qin Wuya had no choice but to settle the score from the start.

He was afraid that these women would think that he was too young to believe him, so he had to lay down the rules.

Since the Madam Li had changed to settle the accounts on the next day, Qin Wuya felt that it was good too. Although Qin Wuya had cleared the records quickly, it was still the best if she had a little more time.

If it was possible, Qin Wuya wished that these women could be like the waiters before her, counting every month, how much effort would that save her.

However, because these women would not be able to work in this courtyard for a few days, the head of the household, who was busy for two days, came back. With too much liquidity, it was not that easy to settle accounts by month, so they could only talk about it slowly.

When Qin Wuya returned, the Madam Li was naturally overjoyed to hand over all the registered pamphlets to Qin Wuya.

She was still willing to do the work of the foreman who used to help arrange the quality of the tests, and not be the accountant who could not move a muscle every day.

Qin Wuya was helpless, but she also knew the suffering of the Madam Li. She resigned herself to her fate and sat down in her original position in the Madam Li.

Since the Wang Nu was unable to read, naturally, she could not help Qin Wuya so she followed the Madam Li to check the storage and quality of the candied fruits. With so many of them being sold now, this was not a small matter.

Although Madam Li did not have much literacy skills, she was very diligent when it came to writing. Maybe she was also afraid that Qin Wuya would not be able to read them clearly, so every single one of them drew a square, which was perfect for her. Maybe this was one of the reasons why she had to spend so much effort on it.

However, sorting through the books was indeed the best way to identify good business.

For example, during the two or three days that Qin Wuya had just left, the jobs that the women who worked in the backyard did every day weren't too far off from what she did at the time.

After seven or eight days, the difference became obvious.

In the past few days, the number of new women had increased by three to five, and the number of women who had left had increased by two. Moreover, everyone seemed to be busy working overtime, and the wages for the next day were usually thirty to fifty percent higher than before.

Especially Darling's, her wages that was only between twenty and thirty coins a day suddenly increased to forty coins in these few days. There was even a day that was even more than fifty coins.

Because of this, Qin Wuya specially checked the Madam Li's notes on the work, and discovered that there were no problems with the quality of the work, it was clear that the Darling's had spent a lot of effort to stay to work overtime.

On the other hand, there were more than ten women like the Darling's who had suddenly increased their income.

Even so, when Qin Wuya went to the east room to check, she discovered that there were not many finished products that she had cut.

Later, he asked Madam Li Qin Wuya about it. Other than the Zhang Family's orders, Manager Wu had also received a lot of orders from rich families, causing the production process of pear sugar s that Qin Wuya needed to create to be packed to the brim.

Natural sugar-coated paper is also the most indispensable. This is why every two days Manager Wu would scold the servants and specially come to this place to carry away the newly made sweet paper.

But this portion of the account book was in Liu Da's hands, the Madam Li had only helped to clear the amount, and not the specific part.

The demand for pear sugar was too big, other than the sugar paper in the backyard being too busy, there was even less of a need to talk about the work in the front yard that Liu Da was taking along with him.

Furthermore, he was responsible for the formula and the production process. The front courtyard was far more open and hard to find than the back courtyard.

Behind them, Madam Li and Liu Da discussed for a while, then she called a few wives from her side to help them wash the pears before sending them to the front yard, which would save them a lot of effort.

Naturally, the wages of the wives who did these things were given separately.

30 words a day. Although it was somewhat painful, but many women who were not skilled in cutting and cutting were willing to go to this place.

The wages was also paid daily, but because there was no such payment, the Madam Li marked it out differently.

Qin Wuya felt that the Madam Li and Liu Da's idea was extremely good. Besides Liu Da, all the employees in the front courtyard had been selected from the Manager Wu.

Not to mention that the Manager Wu was so busy that they might not even have the manpower to support it, even if they did, it might not be of great use.

It would be better to choose a few wives to help with the logistics work in the front yard.

Thinking about it, Qin Wuya created a new set of list from the back of the account book that was specially added to the list of materials for the old granny. The wages of these women were fixed at thirty cents a day. One could negotiate with them for a month or two from next month to change to the end of the month.

There was no need for too much money. With only an extra five coins per month, there would probably be many people who would be willing to spend it. This also saved him a lot of time to settle the accounts.

As he still had to calculate the time and place for the convergence of the osmanthus flowers, Qin Wuya did not want to delay his mission. After tidying up the accounts, he asked Madam Li to call the women who had helped to wash the accounts.

Because there was nothing inappropriate about hiding this matter, Qin Wuya did not deliberately avoid Madam Lin and the others who were in the main house. She only called the women over and laughed:

"The reason why they called me here today is to discuss the matter of settling the bill with all of you."

This was not a bad thing, Qin Wuya did not plan to beat around the bush.

As expected, once Qin Wuya finished speaking, two of the women started to feel uneasy.

One of them looked weak and worried, but didn't dare to speak. As for the older person, he seemed much more refreshed. After looking at the others, he gathered up his courage and said,

"Boss." I've heard that our old money was reserved by the Li family's girls without the permission of our boss. It was only right that the boss had returned and ordered a new job from them.

It's just that although we are not as meticulous as we are in the main house when it comes to cutting and cutting, we still earn a lot of money. We spend five hours on time every day, and we never waste a single second. "

"What is your surname, sister-in-law?"

Qin Wuya looked at the lady who spoke, and saw her tall and straight figure, and her square face. Her facial features could still be considered pretty, but there was a trace of heroic spirit between her brows. They matched her brisk and straightforward manner of speaking.

However, Qin Wuya saw that her words were reasonable and unspoken. She felt that this woman might be someone who could do good, and decided to take care of her.

"Boss is too polite. My maiden name is Zhou. "

Madame Zhou did not understand what Qin Wuya was trying to do, but she had a stubborn and strong temper, much more daring than normal women, and was not afraid of Qin Wuya at all.