"One jin and two liang of top-grade tea leaves, costing fifteen silver liang; one madam's gown, twenty liang. Tuition fee for the young master, fifty liang; procured thirty jin of pork, twenty jin of mutton, and ten jin of fresh fruit and vegetables, coming to a total of forty-six silver liang."
Listing the accounts one by one after the ink had dried, Zhao An, who had been working in the Revenue Department for over a month, took the bill and headed to the office of Master Ji, the senior secretary.
The specific job assigned to him by the Revenue Department was none other than keeping the ledger for the county magistrate's household expenditures, while also doubling as an errand boy and purchaser for the family.
Chapter 18