"Wanqing, take a look," Li'an said. "The ledger records all the expenses, including the prices of each transaction and the final harvest. See if there are any mistakes." He pulled the silver notes out of his pouch, which surprisingly also contained some broken silver. "It's a long journey, and I was worried it wouldn't be convenient to carry silver, so I exchanged it for silver notes. These remaining few taels weren't enough to exchange for the smallest denomination of silver notes, so I just didn't bother."
Chen Wanqing found it both amusing and endearing. She took the ledger but didn't open it. Since they had even brought one or two taels of loose broken silver, the accounts were absolutely not falsified. Otherwise, they wouldn't have included such small amounts.
Just then, a maid came over and announced that the food was ready. Chen Wanqing told Li'an and Uncle Bai to put everything else aside and hurry to have lunch.
