DOOMED TO BE CANNON FODDER -1

CHAPTER -91

That is correct. That’s why the old madame fixed the accounts a little.” He took a careful look at his surroundings, the meaning of his action very clear.

“Xiao Shi, don’t mention this matter to the prince. Understood?” Lisa wasn’t very clear on the circumstances surrounding the Long family’s old estate either. So all she could do was suppress the matter and keep it to herself. Since both the old madame and Long Shutting wanted to keep the truth hidden, she didn’t need to bring the truth to light.

After looking through the books, she learned that the estate has businesses in two other prefectures other than the capital. Their accounting books would be delivered to the prince’s estate every month for the stewards to inspect, and then return to their respective locations.

These accounting books had already been inspected once by Namjoon. Every issue with the accounts had also been annotated. Bai Lisa had gone through it as well, and there wasn’t anything more to add to it. Namjoon was exactly as described in the novel – an altogether very capable man.

“I will leave everything else to you then. Only, how will you handle the issue of the tavern in the Yue province?”

It had been denoted as a profitable venture in the books, but its profit hovered around 100 taels every day without much variation. Didn’t this seem like too much of a coincidence? Other businesses all pulled in more than 200 taels a day. Logically speaking, the tavern should’ve been one of the most profitable businesses.

Namjoon nodded his head and said, “I’m afraid the shopkeeper there will not be keeping his job there anymore. I will personally handle the matter.”

“Very good. Then that should be all for bookkeeping. Are there any other matters of the estate to handle?” Lisa’s back was aching from reading through so many accounting books. She wished that she could rest for the remainder of the day.

However, Namjoon’s unforgiving voice shattered her hopes, “There are no other important matters at the moment, but the lady cousin’s birthday is coming up soon. May I know what present I should prepare for her?”

Lisa felt irked as all hell as soon as the female cousin was mentioned. Although it’d only been a few days since she’d come back, her animosity towards the female cousin still hadn’t declined. Although she didn’t have the best feelings towards her, sending her a gift was still a bit difficult.

For one, she didn’t know what the female cousin liked. For another, even if Lisa did know what the other liked, she feared the other party would still dislike it all the same because it came from her.

Lisa looked at Namjoon who was sitting casually outside and smiling, “The chief steward has made many contributions towards the estate. Even the prince often mentions this to me!”

Contribution, what does this have to do with anything? Namjoon only treated the words as a compliment, because he didn’t realize why it would come up at this moment. “You flatter me.”

“Then the matter of sending a gift to that lass shouldn’t be too difficult for the chief steward, hmm? Why don’t you be in charge of it!” Lisa blinked her eyes shrewdly. It’s not like he could see her mischievous expression anyways.

Namjoon almost spat out his tea. Was she distracting him with candy first and then pushing off all the troublesome stuff to him?

He hadn’t expected that a lass over ten years younger than him would try to use such a scheme on him. His first instinct was to reject her, but then he remembered that the relationship between the two of them was indeed a little complicated. So he responded, “If it is Fourth Madame’s instruction, then it is a responsibility I cannot relinquish. However, the matter of finding someone to replace the kitchen steward is keeping me busy. How about…”