Tao Pu took the booklet handed over by Zhao Yuan, opened it and saw that there were only more than ten pages in the booklet, but there were a lot of contents in it, such as the placement of goods, the behavior of employees, the abilities of employees, and some strange-looking things called Arabic numerals in the booklet.

"Boss, what this Arabic numeral is, I've never heard it before." Tao Pu pointed to one of the pages of the booklet by the light of the candle and said.

"It's a number, all the goods in our supermarket must be clearly priced, so it's easy to remember, you see, these numbers are read like this, this is one, that is, a vertical ......" Zhao Yuan explained to Tao Pu according to the content of the book, combined with the management of the supermarket in later generations.

In this era, most people are illiterate, and when all supermarkets are running in the early stage, they need a lot of literate waiters to point out the price of each item to customers, which requires employees who come to work in Zhaoyuan supermarket to learn Arabic numerals.

"It's simple, just learn these numbers, and you should be able to train it quickly." Listening to Zhao Yuanyi's explanation, Tao Pu understood the meaning of this symbol, I really don't know how the owner was young, how could he think of such a simple counting method.

"Uncle Tao, you bring back this store design drawing and the "Employee Handbook", take a good look, contact the master who helped with the decoration in the past few days, we are ready to start work at any time." Looking at Tao Pu with a thoughtful look, Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

The shops in the bazaar will be mainly handed over to Tao Pu in the future, Zhao Yuan will only check the accounts regularly or irregularly to understand the operation of the store, and the hundreds of acres of land at home will soon be spring ploughed, and he has to invite someone to help loosen the soil and sow seeds.

After letting Tao Pu's family go back to the room to rest, Zhao Yuan carried a bucket of hot water and came to the bathroom to take a bath. After talking to Meng Ying, Zhao Yuan was ready to sleep. After climbing the mountain for a day, Zhao Yuan, who felt very tired, fell asleep almost as soon as he stuck to the pillow.

"Luoluo, do you go back to your room at night, or do you sleep with us?" Meng Ying asked after helping Luoluo wash up.

"Auntie, I want to go back to my room to sleep, but I'm afraid, or you go with me first, and then leave when I fall asleep." Luoluo said pitifully.

"Okay, auntie will accompany you." Meng Ying said with a smile.

Holding the candle, Meng Ying took Luoluo to her room, now the night is not so cold, Luoluo sleeps relatively quietly, there should be no problem to fall asleep alone.

"Auntie, you sleep with me first." Luoluo pulled Meng Ying and said.

"Okay, go to sleep."

After Luoluo fell asleep, Meng Ying got up and returned to the room, looking at Zhao Yuan snoring slightly, sleeping very sweetly, Meng Ying was a little stunned.

smiled sweetly, turned into the quilt, drilled into Zhao Yuan's arms, and fell asleep after a while. Zhao Yuan seemed to feel Meng Ying in his sleep, stretched out his hand and hugged Meng Ying in his arms, and replied twice with his mouth as if he was eating.

The next morning, when Zhao Yuan woke up, the voices of Meng Ying and Luoluo had already sounded in the kitchen, and it seemed that they were late today.

"Sss As soon as he sat up, Zhao Yuan felt some soreness in his thighs, which seemed to be the sequelae of climbing the mountain yesterday.

"Brother Yuan is up, the water is hot, let's wash up." Meng Ying saw Zhao Yuan coming to the kitchen and said with a smile.

"Uncle, you're in bed, didn't you say you're going to get up in the morning to exercise?" Luoluo said with a pout.

"It's uncle's fault, why didn't Luoluo call Uncle to get up?" Zhao Yuan patted Luoluo's shoulder and said apologetically.

"My aunt didn't let me, saying that you were tired from going up the mountain yesterday, so let you sleep more." Luoluo glanced at Meng Ying and said.

"Tomorrow, Uncle must get up early and exercise with Luoluo, by the way, what about Grandpa Tao?" Zhao Yuan asked.

"After they finished breakfast, they sent Brother Xingxing to school, and said that they wanted to go to see our family's yard in the market, and my aunt gave the keys to Grandpa Tao." Luoluo said.

"Uncle Tao read the drawing you gave him for most of the night last night, and said that he would go to the small courtyard today to have a look and combine the scene." Meng Ying said on the side.

"Uncle Tao, he's a little anxious, he's been idle for so long, and now he has something to do, and his morale is high." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

When Zhao Yuan explained to Tao Pu last night, many of the questions asked by Tao Pu were on point, and it can be seen from this point that last time Zhao Yuan told Tao Pu that after letting him manage the shops in the market in the future, he was thinking about the corresponding things, and he was much more self-motivated than Zhao Yuan.

"Uncle, I'll help you scoop up the washing water, come and wash your face and eat, we've already eaten." Luoluo shouted from the side.

"Okay, I'll see what to eat." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Egg fried rice made by my aunt, put it in a pot and heat it." Luoluo said.

"Okay, when I'm done eating, let's go pull the pear tree." Zhao Yuan finished washing up and said with a smile.

After breakfast, Zhao Yuan put on the donkey cart, took Meng Ying and Luoluo, locked the door, and prepared to go to Uncle Wen's house in Yakou Village to have a look, I don't know if they dug up the pear saplings yesterday.

Yakou Village is located at the other end of the market, Zhao Yuan has already said hello to Uncle Wen for the way to Yakou Village, and directly drove the donkey cart with Meng Ying and Luoluo towards Yakou Village.

"Xiaoying, have you been here?" On the donkey cart, Zhao Yuan asked.

"I've been here, because there are many pigs fed at home, I need to walk a long way to hunt pigweed, Brother Yuan, I have been to the waterhole where you passed by the mountain yesterday." Meng Ying and Luoluo sat in the donkey cart and watched Zhao Yuan driving the donkey cart in front.

"Uncle, this side is much more desolate than ours, it's all mountains, it's so shaking." Luoluo said on the side.

"Compared with Xiaheba and Zhaojiazhuang, there are more mountains here, and the soil quality is not good." Zhao Yuan nodded and said, during this time, Luoluo has grown a lot, and he can also observe the surrounding environment and draw some conclusions.

"There are fewer people living here, many people's land is a mountain, and there are several families in Songjiazhuang who marry here, but not many girls are willing to marry here." Meng Ying nodded and said.

Uncle Wen's family is in this area, although he has a good pear tree planting and management technology, but the family is also very poor, and his son Wen Dong is twenty-three years old and has not been able to marry a daughter-in-law.

"I took a look, and the soil here may be because there are some minerals underground, so the crops don't grow well, and maybe you will have to deal with people here in the future." Zhao Yuan saw some black things that appeared from time to time on the hillside on the side of the road, which seemed to be coal mines.

"Brother Yuan, do you still understand minerals, is it iron ore?" Meng Ying asked in surprise.

"Auntie, Uncle is amazing." Luoluo said on the side.

"It's not iron ore, it's coal, oh, it's supposed to be coal." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

There should have been no large-scale use of coal in this era, and the massive use of coal should have started after the Song Dynasty, I don't know if the arrival of Zhao Yuan was a coincidence, and now I happen to see that there may be a large number of shallow coal mines in this area.

"Luoluo, do you remember the Arabic numerals that Uncle gave you?" Driving the donkey cart, Zhao Yuan saw that there was no good scenery on the side of the road, turned his head and asked Luoluo.

"I remember." Luoluo said proudly.

"In this way, our store is about to open, and some brothers and sisters are invited to help, but they don't know Arabic numerals, but Arabic numerals are needed in the store, Luoluo, can you teach them then." Zhao Yuan said with a smile, Xiaobao and Xingxing have gone to study, and there is only one child in Luoluo at home, Zhao Yuan thought that he could find something to do for Luoluo.

"Okay, is Uncle going to make me a gentleman again?" Luoluo giggled.