Chapter 474 Haute Couture
"Hmph! So you are that Tang Yu! As a junior, not only do you not know how to wait for your elders, you actually want me to wait for you here! It is really a waste of time to read the book of sages! "The old man wearing a felt hat said angrily.
Liang Yan saw that he was rude and ignored him at all. Instead, he turned his attention to the middle-aged scribe aside.
This man looked gentle and elegant. Seeing Liang Yan looking at him, he raised his hands and said, "I, Meng Deyi, am also the one who passed the test. Speaking of which, the rules of the Miao Mansion are very strange. Only the three of us who have passed the examination can go in together."
"Is there such a thing?" Liang Yan looked around the house, feeling a little curious.
"Humph, you kid with a yellow mouth, how do you know the rules of the Miao Mansion!" The old man wearing a felt hat glanced at the two of them with contempt, and said with an unfathomable look: "The Miao Mansion has always been recruiting servants. We go in and out together, we won’t give anything to you This is also to show fairness!”
This old man is called Chen Qiao, and he is an old scholar in the capital. He has failed to get the honors many times, so he can’t help but feel a little angry! . Now when he met two young people, he immediately assumed the airs of an elder, and his words were full of sarcasm.
Liang Yan frowned slightly, flicked his right hand in his sleeve, and an invisible energy shot into the old man's body.
He didn't do anything. He just disliked this person, Luo Su, so he did some tricks inside Chen Qiao's body, and then sent him to the land of reincarnation.
While several people were talking, a maid came out of the courtyard of the Miao Mansion. She was wearing a goose-yellow short shirt, with sideburns hanging down and bright eyes. She was the one who led Liang Yan in a few days ago. small ring.
The maid stood at the door and glanced at the crowd. A look of surprise suddenly appeared on her face, and she looked at Liang Yan with a pair of big eyes.
"Huh? You actually passed too!"
Xiaohuan looked at Liang Yan and immediately recalled in his mind the assessment a few days ago. The scholar in Tsing Yi only took half the time to pass. Here comes the scene of handing in papers.
"Lucky lucky." Liang Yan said with a slight smile.
When Xiaohuan heard this, he immediately shook his head and said: "It's not a fluke. Butler Gu said that the three people who passed the assessment this time all got perfect marks. I can't tell that Young Master Tang is not good at arithmetic at a young age. He is a great talent.”
Chen Qiao saw that she only talked to Liang Yan after she came out, but did not greet him immediately. He couldn't help but said angrily: "What a maid who doesn't know etiquette. When I become the accountant, I will have to use some tricks on you in the future!"
He was full of confidence and felt that with his talent, the position of Mr. Accountant of the Miao Mansion was really within his grasp.
"We have been waiting here for a long time. Now that you are out, maid, why don't you lead the way quickly? If you delay the affairs of the executive's family, I'm afraid you won't get any benefits." Chen Qiao glanced at Xiaohuan. , although his tone was calm, the arrogance in his words was clearly revealed.
Xiaohuan was slightly stunned. She was also a smart person. Knowing that this old scholar seemed to be dissatisfied with her, she didn’t say anything more. Instead, she smiled and said: "Please follow me. Let's go."
After Xiaohuan said that, she turned around and led the way. Liang Yan and the other three walked slowly with her, and soon they arrived at the door of a private room.
"Executive family, I brought you someone!" Xiaohuan shouted to the people in the room.
"I know, I'm busy, girl. Leave the rest to me." The person in the room responded.
When Chen Qiao heard the conversation between the two, he couldn't help but feel something in his heart. He thought to himself: "The senior executive is so polite to a maid. Could it be that this maid has an unusual status in the house?"
He He was originally an old Confucian scholar who had failed many tests. He had a weird temper and was not very understanding of people, so he put on airs for a maid at the gate of the Miao Mansion. Now after listening to the conversation between the two, I have woken up, and I can't help but feel a little regretful. "Everyone, come in." A faint voice sounded from inside the door.
Liang Yan took the first step, stretched out his hand to open the door, and stepped in. Meng Deyi and Chen Qiao also followed into the room.
I saw a middle-aged man in the room, about forty years old, wearing a purple robe, and his whole body was very delicately groomed. He looked like an old man who paid great attention to appearance and details.
It’s just that his legs and trouser legs are empty, and he is sitting on a wooden wheelchair. He seems to be a man with disabled legs.
"My name is Gao Ding, and I am the steward of this mansion." The middle-aged man said calmly: "Everyone who can come here is the one who got full marks in this assessment. I will get straight to the point."< br>
As Gao Ding spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed at the three people beside him. Stacking up the account books, he then said: "Here are some of the current accounts that I ordered people to fabricate. There are many loopholes hidden in them. Each of you can review them. The one who finds the most loopholes within the specified time will be the next president of our Miao Mansion. Mr. Accountant.”
After listening to the high-definition test questions, the three of them didn't delay. They each selected a stack of ledgers and silently flipped through them.
Liang Yan only glanced through it for a while and found that there seemed to be nothing wrong with the stack of books on the surface. But if he examined them carefully, he would find that there were too many tricks hidden in them, so he reluctantly He couldn't help but slandered in his heart: "It seems that this executive is a veteran in making false accounts."
Liang Yan cultivated and sought Taoism. His spiritual consciousness was already developed, and his insight was different from ordinary people. He only read a few pages. If you flip through it, all the loopholes in the account book will be revealed.
As he was turning his thoughts, he slightly hooked his fingers hidden in his sleeves, and heard a "Ouch!"
The old Confucian scholar Chen Qiao, who was looking at the account book not far away, suddenly His expression changed, he reached out to cover his stomach, and couldn't help but scream.
Gao Ding frowned and glanced away, only to see that Chen Qiao's face was as pale as pig liver.
"What happened to the old gentleman?" Gao Ding asked lightly, with a hint of dissatisfaction in his tone.
"Executive executive, I'm sorry, Chen suddenly wants to go to the toilet"
The old Confucian scholar was also ashamed. He always paid attention to dignity and prided himself on being dignified and a role model for his peers. Unexpectedly, this time when I applied for a job at the house of a third-grade official, something like this would happen.
Gaoding's frown deepened. He did not speak, but clapped his hands. Immediately, servants came in and took the red-faced old man out.
It's just that as soon as Chen Qiao left, he had obviously lost the election. In Gao Ding's heart, it was absolutely impossible to give this person another chance.
Time passed bit by bit, and there were only two people in the room, Liang Yan and Meng Deyi, each writing the loopholes they discovered on the blank paper beside them.
Another hour passed like this, and suddenly Gao Ding said: "Okay, the time has come, let's hand in your papers!"
(End of this chapter)