Mrs. Ren and Fang Gui stayed in the Daohua Courtyard for only a quarter of an hour before leaving. As soon as they finished their work, Mrs. Li received the news.

After listening to Daohua Duojia's two rules, Mrs. Li was silent for a moment: "This girl has thought carefully. The food in each room is registered and written in black and white. Everyone can know it in their mind, so that some people don't eat it.

I feel like I haven’t eaten enough.”

Pingtong nodded: "The house has become more affluent in the past two years. I found that the second master and the second wife barked a lot every time they ordered food. It would be a waste if they couldn't finish the meal."

"Also, the one from Shuangxinyuan, ever since she gave birth to the fifth girl, has been using the excuse of needing to replenish her body and going to the kitchen to order food from time to time."

Mrs. Li sneered: "Now the second master and the second wife are learning the ways of the family, but they don't even think about whether our family can withstand such extravagance? Because of the old lady and the master, I can't say anything.

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"As for Shuangxinyuan, it was the master who asked Aunt Lin to let the kitchen cook whatever she wants to eat. With this sentence, Mrs. Lin still eats hard."

After saying that, Mrs. Li smiled again.

"It is said that a daughter is a mother's caring little cotton-padded jacket. This is true. That girl has come up with such a move to suppress the unhealthy tendencies in this house. Even if there is any unpleasantness in the future, we will be justified.

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Pingtong immediately answered: "Isn't it? The big girl's heart has always been towards Madam."

There are some things that even if a madam knows, it is difficult to do them, but an older girl can be different and can take much less care.

Mrs. Li continued: "As for purchasing... Nowadays, our family's expenses are getting bigger and bigger. Purchasing should really be tightened. It's okay to be greedy for small gains. I'm afraid this person's greed will get worse."

If you get bigger, you will end up doing something to enrich your own pockets."

Pingtong nodded, then smiled and said: "Our eldest girl is really a good housekeeper. As soon as she took over the kitchen, she helped my wife solve two major problems."

Mrs. Li also laughed: "That girl is smart, but she is a little lazy. She has to be pushed by someone before she moves forward. We have to watch her more closely."

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One month later.

Mrs. Ren handed Daohua the booklet recording the food details of each room.

Daohua sat in the yard, flipping through the booklet and cracking melon seeds, with a few chuckles coming from time to time.

"In our house, the largest expenditure on food is not the old lady's courtyard, nor the main courtyard, but the courtyard where the second uncle and his concubine live. It costs two to three hundred taels of silver a month!"
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Daohua sneered and shook her head, then stood up and walked to the study, quickly copying two copies. After that, she gave one copy to Wang Maner and asked her to take it to the second room.

"Whether it is for my second uncle or my second aunt, when I see them, I will tell them that it is my first time to take charge of the kitchen and I don't know the expenses at home, so I will do some statistics and let them know."

After finishing speaking, there was a pause.

"If they ask who else knows, just say, I'm worried that one month's expenses are inaccurate, so I plan to record two more months and then report it to my mother."

"That's it, let's go!"

Wang Maner immediately turned around and left.

As soon as she left, Daohua looked at another copy, thought for a while, and looked at the sky: "Father should be going to the office soon, right?"

Guyu nodded: "Yes, girl."

Daohua stood up and said, "Let's go and see Father."

Weeping flower door.

As soon as Yan Zhigao came back from the front office, he saw his eldest daughter and her maid sitting in a pavilion drinking tea on his only way.

Seeing this, Yan Zhigao raised his eyebrows.

People who usually come to block him include people from the Lin family and his wife. Several other children have also met him by chance for various reasons, but the eldest daughter has never met him.

He was very curious, why did the eldest daughter take the initiative to come to him?

"Ahem~"

Yan Zhigao came to the pavilion and coughed twice.

Daohua immediately came out with a smile: "Father, are you out of office?"

Yan Zhigao nodded, walked into the pavilion, saw the tea brewed on the stone table, and said with a smile: "Is this for your father?"

Daohua smiled and nodded: "I don't know if it suits my father's taste?"

Yan Zhigao sat down, picked up the tea and took a sip: "Yes, the heat is well controlled."

Daohua smiled and said: "It's fine if dad likes it."

Yan Zhigao put down the teacup: "What do you want to do with your father?"

Daohua took the food account book from Gu Yu: "Father, my mother asked me to take charge of the kitchen, so I asked the kitchen steward to record the food in each room every day and summarize it. Please take a look."

The eldest daughter took over the kitchen. Mrs. Li mentioned this to him. Yan Zhigao didn't say anything, just reached out and took the account book and read it.

The first thing he looked at was the final summary. When he saw that Erdi Yuan and Shuangxin Yuan spent two to three hundred dollars on food for a month, his brows suddenly furrowed.

Seeing him like this, Daohua hurriedly said: "Father, there are daily records in front of me. When the maids in each room go to the kitchen to get food, they all confirm it." The implication is that she did not make any lies.

Yan Zhigao looked through it quickly and found that indeed, every time he took something, the maid signed it for confirmation.

Daohua continued: "Second Uncle, I have asked someone to send a copy, saying that I will record it for a few months before reporting it to my mother. As for Shuangxinyuan, I can't go directly to Aunt Lin.

That’s why I came to disturb my father.”

Yan Zhigao put down the account book and sighed inwardly at the meticulousness and thoroughness of his eldest daughter's work.

"You did a good job. As for your second uncle, if you change it later, there is no need to mention it again." So as not to hurt the second brother's face.

Daohua nodded in agreement.

Yan Zhigao: "...I will tell Aunt Lin about it. She has been taking supplements for several months now. Her meals will be according to the portions in the future."

Daohua nodded again: "Okay, listen to father."

Second-bedroom courtyard.

After Wang Man'er left, Yan Zhiyuan and Sun's expressions became ugly.

Mrs. Sun was dissatisfied and said: "I knew that something would happen if my sister-in-law asked Daohua to take charge of the kitchen. Sure enough, as soon as this girl came up, she was going to take action on us."

Yan Zhiyuan frowned and ignored Sun's words, but asked with some uncertainty: "Did we really order so much food?"

Mrs. Sun choked and then said angrily: "You don't remember how much you ate?"

Yan Zhiyuan was silent.

What the wife said was an admission that they ordered all the food, and Daohua did not make false accusations against them.

After a long while, Yan Zhiyuan said: "You should be more restrained in the future. My sister-in-law may still consider the face of my mother and eldest brother and not make things happen, but Daohua will never do that."

"Then again, spending two to three hundred taels of silver on food a month is indeed a bit much."

Mrs. Sun curled her lips, they didn't have too much. A banquet for other families would cost thousands of taels of silver. How could they be here? Besides, it's not like the family can't afford to eat now.
Chapter completed!