Chapter 174: The Lucky Farmer is at Ease, While the Husband with No Heirs is Busy Pursuing His Wife 34

Zhezhi's voice was very soft. After she finished speaking, she put down her writing brush and pointed with her little finger at the numbers labeled on the tea leaves.

"May I see?" the Empress asked, taking the account book from her small hands and reading the fine print carefully.

At the beginning of the year, the Internal Affairs Office had procured a great deal of merchandise from various places, plus the tributes from small nations and various treasures offered by the State Office, all of which piled up, dazzling and overwhelming. What Zhezhi pointed out was the account for the tea leaves.

The Empress favored white tea, and "white" and "hundred" looked very similar in the account books. At a glance, the characters for "four hundred tea" were easily misread.