"I'll see!" Zhang Meng was also shocked when he heard this, hurriedly stepped forward, came to the barrel, grabbed the edge of the barrel, and looked inside...

At this glance, I found that there were more than a dozen dead fish with white bellies floating on the water surface of the barrel...

Seeing this, Zhang Meng immediately breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at the dead fish in the barrel casually, and then sneered indifferently and said, "What's the matter, look at the two of you in a hurry, isn't it just a few dead fish!" ”

"How many!?" Sankui glared angrily, stared at his father angrily, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Ah Weng, look for yourself, no less than fifteen or sixteen fish have died in this bucket alone!" ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Meng frowned, turned his head to Zhang Ran, who also had an ugly face, and said, "Ah Ran, you go and get a wooden basin and fish out all the dead fish!" ”

"Good!"

Zhang Ran immediately agreed, took the only wooden basin from the wheelbarrow according to his words, and then forcibly endured the nausea, and together with Sankui, who was crying and sad, he picked up the dead fish in the wooden bucket one by one and threw them into the wooden basin.

Taking advantage of the gap between the two fishing, Zhang Meng reached out and lifted the lid of another wooden barrel, and calmly explained to the two: "Our Zhangli is more than 20 miles away from this new abundance, and it takes more than an hour just to get here, so for such a long time, it is common for more than a dozen fish to die, there is no need to make a fuss!"

If you look at the fishmonger stalls around us, how many of them sell live fish? Our situation here is quite good, there are still more than half of the live fish, and the situation of the other fishmongers will only be worse, you must know that their fish are all transported from the Weishui River dozens of miles away! It's good to have two or three of the ten alive! ”

After speaking, Zhang Meng didn't wait for the two to answer, so he waved his hand and said, "Okay!" Hurry up and divide the fish, you two! While it's still early, let's open as soon as possible and strive to sell out the fish as soon as possible! ”

......

"Freshly caught carp, don't miss it when you pass by!"

"Good fish is sold cheaply, three dollars a catty! Live fish only costs four dollars! ”

After a while, Zhang Meng's angry shouting sounded on the street.

Not to mention, after Zhang Meng's loud howl, almost all the eyes of the surrounding pedestrians were attracted, and soon the first business came to the door.

"Hey, this carp is good! Or a live fish, give me one! ”

"Okay, which one do you want, I'll weigh you after you choose!"

"Well, I want this carp!"

......

"Hey, it's fresh, there's a live fish today, bring me one too!"

"I want that grass carp!"

......

Seeing that the business is becoming more and more prosperous, and there are more and more people selling fish, Zhang Meng hurriedly beckoned Zhang Ran and the two to help together, and the grandfather was almost busy for a while, especially Zhang Meng himself, not only to be busy greeting customers, but also responsible for weighing fish for customers, as well as settling accounts and collecting money.

"This guest, this is your fish, one or two, one is one catty and six taels, one is two catties and two taels, a total of ..., a total of ..."

The fish was just weighed here, Zhang Meng suddenly got a little stuck, it was the first time to do business, and he was not very familiar with the numbers.

Seeing Zhang Meng squeaking and whining, and he didn't count it for a long time, a trace of impatience flashed in the eyes of the middle-aged customer, and he couldn't help but urge: "How much?" Can it be fast? What else do I have to do here? ”

"One catty six taels plus two catties and two taels, a total of three catties... Three pounds.."

"It's three pounds and ten taels in total!"

At this moment, Zhang Ran, who was waiting to collect the money, suddenly spoke: "Because it is a live fish, it costs five yuan per catty of fish, and three catties and ten taels make a total of fifteen and a half yuan!" ”

"That's right! It's three pounds and eight taels! After Zhang Ran's reminder, Zhang Meng's heart totaled and found that the result was not bad at all, so he hurriedly nodded and said: "One pound and five dollars, a total of fifteen and a half dollars, wipe a fraction of your fifteen dollars!" ”

"Fifteen cents, huh?" The middle-aged customer was silent for a few seconds, then nodded and counted out seventeen copper coins, handed them to Zhang Ran and said, "That's right, this is fifteen coins, you can collect it!" ”

It may be that there is really something urgent, and after paying the money, the middle-aged customer turned around and left with two fish threaded with hemp rope.

After the customer left, Zhang Meng couldn't help but glance at Zhang Ran in surprise and said, "Brother Ran, I didn't expect you to settle accounts?" ”

"Well, a little! When my father was alive, he taught me! Zhang Ran replied calmly.

"I see!" Hearing Zhang Ran say this, Zhang Meng suddenly felt a little stunned, patted Zhang Ran's shoulder, and happily praised: "Not bad, not bad!" As wise as your father! ”

While talking, other guests who bought fish stepped forward to ask for the price, Zhang Meng continued to chat with Zhang Ran regardless of it, hurriedly ended the topic, and began to greet the guests.

Maybe it was because he had a little bit of Zhang Ran's mind about taking the school exam, or maybe it was to save trouble, almost every customer who bought fish next, Zhang Meng would ask Zhang Ran first.

"Ah Ran, how much does this fish cost for five taels a catty?"

"Well, maybe a little over five cents!"

"One is one pound and eight taels, and one is two pounds and five taels, how much is it?"

"A total of three catties and twelve taels, a total of fifteen dollars!"

......

At the beginning, due to the fact that there were sixteen taels per catty in the Han Dynasty, Zhang Ran, who was accustomed to the unit of measurement in later generations, was a little unaccustomed to it, and would always hesitate for a few seconds. When Zhang Ran slowly became familiar with the conversion unit that one catty is equal to sixteen taels, he quickly gave the correct answer almost without thinking.

asked more than a dozen times in a row, and each time Zhang Ran would quickly give the most correct answer, and the speed of the answer became faster and faster. In the end, before Zhang Meng even opened his mouth to ask, Zhang Ran took the lead in answering, and the answer was almost completely correct, without any mistakes or omissions.

At this time, Zhang Meng was finally completely relieved and recognized Zhang Ran's ability to settle accounts. So, Zhang Meng happily handed over all the things of settling accounts and collecting money to Zhang Ran, and he was only responsible for shouting and weighing fish for the guests.

And after getting familiar with the current unit of measurement of sixteen taels, simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division is a piece of cake for Zhang Ran, a college student in later generations.

In this way, it not only solved Zhang Meng's troubles of difficult accounting, but also greatly accelerated the speed of the three of them selling fish, and all the fish were sold out before noon.

After selling the fish, while it was still early, the three of them quickly cleaned up, pushed the wheelbarrow, and left the fish market with empty barrels.

Then, Zhang Meng took Zhang Ran and the two of them, crossed the two streets, bought a few bags of corn, a few bags of beans, and daily necessities such as salt in the corn market of the market, and filled the wheelbarrow to the brim, until he couldn't put anything anymore, and then took the two out of the city and set foot on the way home.