Chapter 12: Outwitting the Evil Slave
The sun is slanting in the west, and after more than half an hour, the gongs and drums of the West Market will be beaten, and then the shops will be closed, and customers must go home, and Chang'an City has a very strict curfew system. The vendors outside shouted even harder, trying to sell more goods in the last half hour.
In Li Kee's ready-to-wear shop, it was quiet.
Xu Hongzhi stood beside Li Zexuan and watched Li Zexuan write and paint. I saw that he drew some horizontal and vertical lines on the paper, these horizontal and vertical lines formed a grid, and the daily expenses and income were listed in the grid for classification, and finally comprehensive calculation, Xu Hongzhi admired in his heart, this accounting method is unprecedented, but what is the tadpole-like text in it?
Xu Hongzhi, who wanted to come over to promote his juniors, looked at the Arabic numerals in front of him with a confused expression. He really wanted to ask this young man now, but seeing that Li Zexuan was writing and painting there very seriously, he couldn't resist the idea of asking questions.
Before a quarter of an hour arrived, I saw Li Zexuan take a long breath, stood up and said to Li Jingmo: "Okay, Dad, the child found out where there is a problem with this account." ”
Xu Hongzhi was shocked, he didn't calculate it for more than an hour, and this young man didn't even find the problem before he arrived in a quarter of an hour?
Xu Hongzhi was very skeptical that this young man was fooling himself, although he had never seen the bookkeeping method, and he looked very clever, but with so many numbers together, he couldn't calculate it so fast.
He didn't know how much of a piece of cake these pediatric addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations were for Li Zexuan, an engineering dog who was often bombarded by square multiplication, power series, calculus, and even more complex matrix convolution operations.
Wang Zhengkun panicked when he heard this, but then he secretly sneered, in less than a quarter of an hour, he could find out the problem of his Wang Zhengkun's account and deceive the ghost.
Li Jingmo was also a little incredulous, and hesitated: "Xuan'er, seriously? ”
Li Zexuan took the watch he had drawn, walked up to Li Jingmo and nodded, "Naturally, take it seriously." ”
Then he turned his head to look at Wang Zhengkun, and saw that although he looked scared, the ridicule in the corners of his eyes was still captured by Li Zexuan.
Li Zexuan sneered in his heart: "Hmph, old thing, you still don't believe it, the master is going to expose your sins today and let you go to prison." ”
At that moment, Li Zexuan didn't talk nonsense, picked up the financial statement he made, and said coldly to Wang Zhengkun: "Wang Zhengkun, the twenty-month of this year's first month is less than 16 yuan, eight yuan and three cents, 25 yuan and 9 cents in the first month, and 5 cents in February...... March 20 is yesterday, less money 13 yuan 7 yuan 4 cents, in the accounts of less than three months, Wang Zhengkun, you secretly deducted a total of 26 silver coins, a total of 280 yuan 9 yuan and 6 cents, do you admit guilt! ”
Li Zexuan's voice was like thunder, and every sentence was terrifying, Lan'er looked at her brother with admiration, although she didn't know much about the twists and turns between adults, but she just felt that her brother was just so majestic, so powerful.
Xiaohe Xiaoxi also had a ripple in his eyes, and admired his young master in his heart for his handsome appearance, and his martial arts skills, now he even understands arithmetic, and he is better than the student of Dr. Guozijian, it is simply both civil and military, and the two little maids are now a bit nymphomaniac.
But Wang Zhengkun is not in such a good mood now, as Li Zexuan reports the accounts one by one, although it is still spring, his sweat can't help but drip down drop by drop, and the sarcastic look in his eyes is no longer there, replaced by endless horror.
By the time Li Zexuan finished speaking, his back was completely soaked, his legs trembled, and he couldn't help but kneel down to Li Jingmo anymore, crying: "Master, master, the old slave knows that he is wrong, he blames the son of the old slave's family, he was tricked into the gambling house, and he owes a gambling debt, and if the old slave doesn't help him pay back the money, the gang will break his hands and feet, the old slave is such a son, master, all blame the old slave for being obsessed, the old slave has spared the old slave this time for the sake of the old slave's conscientious work in the ready-to-wear shop for so many years." ”
Xu Hongzhi didn't believe that Li Zexuan had found out the problem of the accounts, but when he saw Wang Zhengkun like this, it was obvious that what Li Zexuan said just now was not bad, and he was extremely shocked in his heart, and he jumped a little to try, and he really wanted to pull Li Zexuan to ask him about the bookkeeping method and the strange text just now, but now this occasion is obviously inappropriate, and old friends still have family matters to deal with.
Li Jingmo saw Wang Zhengkun confess, he was very surprised by his son's arithmetic ability, and was very angry at Wang Zhengkun's malicious deception, if it wasn't for his son's help today, he would have been fooled by this old slave, he was really a bad slave and bullied the master, and he was very indignant in his heart, and he was going to send this old slave to the official, but after listening to Wang Zhengkun's words, he was a little soft-hearted, he was also a man with a son, as a father, he also sympathized with Wang Zhengkun's experience, but he deducted so much money, it was really unreasonable not to send him to the official.
Seeing that Li Jingmo was a little soft-hearted, Li Zexuan hurriedly said: "Dad, you must not be soft-hearted, even if he wants to repay his son's debts, he can't harm the interests of the garment shop, he can borrow money from your father, and if you don't tell him, it's for stealing, and he makes fake accounts just to escape responsibility."
If he really knew that he was wrong, he should have taken the initiative to admit his mistake when your father questioned him just now, instead of waiting until now when the evidence is ironclad. If the price of crime is so low, then who will abide by the law in the future, the poor man must have something to hate, Dad, you should send him to the official, and you should choose a loyal and honest shopkeeper in the garment shop. ”
Xu Hongzhi nodded again and again after listening to it, and when he saw Li Zexuan finish speaking, he also said to Li Jingmo: "Brother Jingmo, what Ling Lang said is the truth." Wang Zhengkun and others must not be connived up. ”
After speaking, he looked at Li Zexuan and praised Li Jingmo: "Brother Jingmo, you gave birth to a good son, so that Lang knows arithmetic, understands things, and is very impressed by the foolish brother who said the truth, it is really a hidden dragon in the abyss, and he will turn into a dragon when he encounters a storm." ”
Li Zexuan hurriedly said that Mr. is too famous, he can't afford such a praise.
Li Jingmo also felt that his son's words were quite reasonable, and he was very happy when he heard the praise of his old friend, but it was not easy to show it in front of others, so he said reservedly: "Mr. Xu is really too famous, the dog has a lazy temperament, and he needs to polish it." ”
Then he ordered: "Sanbao, Ah Fu, you two will send Wang Zhengkun to the official, and then you can go back to the house directly." The two of them took their own orders and stepped forward to hold Wang Zhengkun, who had already fainted in fright.
"Dad, it's time to go home, the West Market will close in a while." Seeing that it was not early outside, Li Zexuan urged.
"Well, let's go home together." Li Jingmo nodded, and invited Xu Hongzhi again: "Mr. Xu, do you want to go to the cold house to sit together?" ”
Xu Hongzhi hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Forget it today, I will definitely visit the door another day, the foolish brother still wants to ask Ling Lang for advice on this method of bookkeeping, and I hope that Ling Lang will give him advice." ”
Li Zexuan didn't even dare to say no. Several people parted ways in the West Market.
Li Jingmo hired a carriage, and the family of three got into the carriage and drove slowly towards the Li Mansion.
On the way, Li Jingmo asked, "Xuan'er, why did you come to Xishi today?" Don't say that you're here to see your father, but you don't believe it. Li Jingmo saw that Li Zexuan wanted to come up and pat himself, and immediately added.
Li Zexuan really wanted to say this just now, but he didn't expect to be seen through by his witty father, so he had to swallow back the words that came to his mouth, and he was choked a lot, and only said after a while: "The child saw that his sister was quite bored at home, and today I accompanied Lan'er to the West Market to watch juggling." ”
"That's right, Daddy, that juggling is good-looking, my brother also made Lan'er a gnawed chicken that Lan'er had never eaten in Zuixianlou, but it was delicious, Lan'er's belly was big, and in the end, there were still a few pieces of gnawed chicken that we couldn't eat and were snatched away by a black-faced brother, and the black-faced brother almost licked the plate clean, and my brother also asked Shopkeeper Liu to take out the gnawed chicken and sell it tomorrow, and I will definitely be able to earn a lot of money for my father at that time."
Lan'er immediately chirped like a little sparrow next to her to share today's happy events with her father.
Li Zexuan was sweating profusely when he listened to it, what "holding up the belly is big", is this what a girl should say? There are also those words of Cheng Chumo, the "black-faced brother", Cheng Chumo didn't know if he would vomit blood when he heard it.
Li Jingmo didn't care when he heard the gnawing chicken, he just thought it was his own child's play, and he didn't care if he made money or not, but the name was weird......
As night fell, so did the carriage......