Gu Qian had never touched the abacus at all, let alone the ancient ledger like a ghost-drawn talisman. But fortunately, the original owner's super memory worked, and he walked over and flipped through the account book, and could roughly understand that this was a simple account book that recorded the income and expenditure of the silver kiln.

"How is it, does Mr. Gu see what's coming?" The third master sat down at the bottom of the second master, looking at Gu Qian with quite interesting eyes.

Gu Qian flipped through a few pages of the account book, and gradually had a score in his heart, in order not to let himself be abused by the ancient numbers, he chuckled, threw the account book aside, and said with a smile: "Zhang Ergou, come and read the number!"

Zhang Yong glanced at Gu Qian, he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the eldest master's gourd, in fact, he himself was the secretary of the household, and he was quite proficient in the account books.

This is a great opportunity to show his face in front of the eldest lord and help the eldest lord to break the siege, Zhang Yong is only in his twenties, and naturally wants to go further, the book is a hurdle to the scrivener, how many people can't cross this hurdle in a lifetime, if he can enter the blue eyes of the eldest lord, won't he have one more chance than others?

Zhang Yong cleared his throat and sat down with the account book.

"On the twentieth cashier, three taels of money, two cents

"On the 21st, pay the bank three taels and two cents!"

"Buy 30 baskets on the 22nd, it costs 60 yuan!"

Zhang Yong's official speech is quite fluent, but the reading of the lines is enough to make people dizzy, especially in this book, the income and expenditure are mixed, and the official and private affairs are mixed together, not to mention the layman, even Zhang Yong is a little confused.

Zhang Yong's line of thoughts, Gu Qian just paced in the room with his hands behind his back while listening intently, and when Zhang Yong finished reading, Gu Qian's footsteps also stopped, and after a little thought, a calm smile appeared on his face.

"Mr. Gu, how is it?" Seeing that he was so calm, the third master couldn't help urging.

"Last month, a total of 52 27 cents and 9 cents and 6 cents were cashiered, 223 cents were handed over, 17 29 cents and 8 cents were disbursed, and the remaining 14 taels and 5 cents were 1 cent and 6 cents. ”

"Hey, it's been calculated so quickly?" Yao Er's master was taken aback, and looked at each other with the third master, he hadn't seen anyone who could calculate the account without an abacus!

Gu Qian's face was calm, and he sat back in place.

Zhang Yong was also stunned when he saw that the eldest master was so calm. After he read this long list of numbers, he just had a preliminary idea of this account, and if he wanted to calculate clearly, he had to use the abacus at least two or three times, but he saw that the old man didn't even use the abacus, and he only listened to it once and gave a conclusion, and he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, the big man wouldn't be talking nonsense, right?

"Call the Accounts Room. The third master asked the chief to write down Gu Qian's conclusion, and sent someone to the account room to call a thin old man over.

The old man came to the hall and saluted the second and third masters.

"Mr. Li," the third master was very polite to the old man, and said to him with a smile: "I just brought back the account books of the small silver kiln in the mountain village, you can check it." ”

"Yes. Mr. Li nodded, sat down in his robe, opened the account book, took the abacus, and counted it crackling. Seeing that Mr. Li was planning to plate again, and he was sketching with a pen, everyone nodded one after another, this is what Mr. Ledger should look like!

After about two quarters of an hour, Li finished his abacus and stopped writing.

"Back to the third master, last month, a total of 53 27 yuan 9 cents and 6 cents, 223 cents, 17 29 cents and 8 cents, and the remaining 15 taels and 55 cents and 6 cents. ”

"A tael of silver is missing?" The third master keenly felt that there was a discrepancy between Li Shufang's conclusion and Gu Qian's conclusion.

"The small one has been counted twice, and there should be no mistake. Li's face was proud, as if he was confident in his conclusion.

"It's a tael of silver, and Mr. Gu is already very good. The third master touched his chin, and said to Yao Er's master with a smile: "Second brother, I think the identity of this Mr. Gu is seven or eight points accurate." ”

"Does the third master think that the accounts under him are inaccurate?" Gu Qian smiled: "The total income calculated by Mr. Li is fifty-three taels of silver, where does this fifty-three taels come from?" As he spoke, he spit out a string of numbers from his mouth, which was the income number that Zhang Yong reported to him just now, and dozens of numbers were reported out, just like they were imprinted in his mind, exactly the same.

He usually has a high self-esteem, not only because he is the general ledger of the Nanxiang Federation, but also because no one can beat him in Nanxiang because of his ability to settle accounts, but in front of the second and third masters, he was accused of inaccurate accounts, which makes his old face go where?

"The three masters, the little courage to ask the three masters to call a few veterans of the account room to check!" Li Accounts didn't believe that this white-faced and beardless boy was better at settling accounts than himself, he was in a hurry to get back face, and he turned around to call someone.

At this moment, Zhang Yong, who was suspiciously looking at the account book, raised his voice and shouted: "Wait!"

Li Shufang paused, looked at Zhang Yong puzzled, and said, "What's the matter?"

"I don't think Mr. Li needs to call someone, your accounts are clear, but our Mr. Gu's accounts are also correct. ”

"Why is that?"

Zhang Yong's words made everyone even more confused, just when everyone was confused by the second monk, Zhang Yong smiled slightly, picked up the account book, pointed to one of the ink dots and said: "The difference cuò is on this account, the handwriting of the previous account is capitalized, but this account, I don't know who wrote it, it is lowercase, this word is a little more scribbled on it, so I reported one tael, but Mr. Li saw it as two, recorded it as two taels, Mr. Li, please see, is it here?"

Zhang Yong took the account book and pointed it out to Li Ledger, who looked at the ink dot on the word and had to admit that he saw the word as two.

The account book was sent to the front of the three masters, and the three masters were stunned, and then laughed loudly: "It turns out that this is a misunderstanding, Lao Li is right, Mr. Gu is even more accurate in arithmetic, I Yu Sanli has lived in vain for more than 20 years, and it is the first time I have seen this strange person!"

Everyone in the room knew that Gu Qian had only listened to it once and counted it, and he could still retell the accounts he had just heard intact, and everyone was stunned, Yao Er's master hadn't come back to his senses, but he saw that the third master had already gotten up and came to Gu Qian, and said with a smile: "Mr. Gu, Yu has just been rude." ”

"The politeness of the three masters!" Gu Qian returned the salute.

From ancient times to the present, everyone admires people who have the ability, especially Gu Qian's hand not only shocked these laymen, but even Li Jifang and Zhang Yong were not lightly shocked, especially Zhang Yong, who found that his boss's boss was also proficient in this skill, and after being proud, his face became more and more pale.

If anyone dares to fool the big man in the accounts, won't he be in a hurry to find death?

After some tossing, it soon got dark.

Because Gu Qian is a capable person, Yao Er and Yu San also gave him face and personally set up a banquet to entertain him.

Nanxiang is a poor place, even if the local silver vein was discovered and the small silver kiln association was formed, but the lives of the villagers have not been fundamentally improved. From the account book that Yu San took out just now, you can get a glimpse of the doorway, a small silver kiln is only fifty taels a month, in addition to the handed, there are also necessary expenses, and it is only thirteen or fourteen taels in his hand. And these incomes add up to maintain the operation of the entire federation, and it is estimated that they will not have much left in a year.

What's more, mining silver kilns itself is a great risk, the ancient mine technology is not developed, and from time to time there are fatal accidents, and this silver mining is like carrying your head into battle. Rao is like this, the big men of the government still harass from time to time, and draw a bonus or something.

To say that in the past, the villagers of Nanxiang also endured it, after all, the people didn't fight with the officials. As a result, they were also unlucky, and the consequence of forbearance was to make the appetite of the officials bigger and bigger, and when it came to the time of the previous Wang County Order, the surname Wang actually wanted to take these silver kilns into the possession of the government!

The villagers of Nanxiang and Beixiang finally couldn't bear it anymore and picked up the guys and ran to the county office, but they burned the county government and scared away the county magistrate, but in the midst of the chaos, they let those servants arrest all the big bosses of the two townships.

At present, Nanxiang and Beixiang have no leader, and the government has been slow to send people to negotiate, which has made the people of Nanxiang and Beixiang panic, and no one knows what to do.

"Mr. Gu, please. Yu San asked Yao Er to sit in the first place, and then turned back to ask Gu Qian.

Gu Qian didn't dare to hold it up, so he took Zhang Yong and Gu Xiaojiu to sit down.

The dishes on the table were fish and meat, and they were quite sumptuous, and after Yao Er raised his glass to toast, he quickly opened the table.

"Mr. Gu's hand really shocked Yu, I don't know how Mr. practiced such a skill?

"Gu has loved counting since he was a child, and as for the craft of bookkeeping, it is just a family heirloom. ”

"A few people are from the county seat, I don't know if you have heard any news in the past few days?" Yao Er was not as patient as Yu San, he put down his chopsticks and asked directly.

"News, what news?" Gu Qian pretended to be stupid.

"Our big boss was arrested by those dog thieves, and we sent people to investigate several times, but we didn't know where the big boss was locked up!"

"Gu has just come here and is not familiar with the situation. Gu Qian took a sip of wine, turned his head and asked Zhang Yongdao, "Ergou, have you heard any news?"

"I don't know specifically, but I heard that after the accident of the county government that day, a team of officials came to Linshui County next door. ”

"Could it be that you have been locked up in Linshui County?" Yao Er and Yu San glanced at each other, and looked at Zhang Yong together: "Little brother, is your news accurate?"