When Ye Yuxiu woke up, half a bitter wild vegetable was still sticking out of his mouth.
In thirty seconds, he figured out his situation: his father was dead, his degree had been revoked, his land had been seized, and he owed two taels of silver to a loan shark.
His mother was hiding in the kitchen, coughing up blood. His eight-year-old sister clung to the doorframe, staring fixedly at the half a wild vegetable in his hand.
In his previous life, he’d worked himself to the point of a bleeding ulcer at a major corporation. This time, he’d started from the start on hell difficulty.
Fine, then. First, let’s settle the accounts.
His clan uncle tries to collect a debt? Ye calculates it until the man ends up running errands for him at a loss.
Petty officials make things difficult? Ye calculates it until they haven’t even got their underwear left.
County exams, prefectural exams, provincial exams, metropolitan exams...
Ye Yuxiu had only wanted to buy medicine for his mother, get meat for his little sister, and take the imperial exams so they could live comfortably.
But as he kept working the numbers, he somehow became the first-rank Grand Secretary of the Great Jing Dynasty.
Beside him stands his little sister, a penny-pinching miser who keeps a ledger for every last coin.
