Chapter 32 "The First Abacus is Born"
On this quiet and sleepy summer night, a warm breeze blows, and in the deep sky, the full moon shines brightly; The fragrance of magnolia flowers flutters in the wind, and begonias and peonies bloom under the moon; Secluded corridors, pavilions and pavilions, a little silver light ripples in the sparkling water waves, the willows are blowing, the clear stream is murmuring, and the flower pavilion is still elegant and pleasant.
"The mandarin duck tile is cold and frosty, and who is the jade and cold? The Toad Palace is bright and the stars are sparse, and the clouds are low. Smoke is burned everywhere and sacrifices are being sacrificed to teach Su'e the most prophet. The city is full of wind and frost Chang'an guests, three cups and two lamps are unrecognized......"
"Huh?" As soon as he stepped into the Banghua Pavilion, Ah Zhen was immediately stopped by the gripping melody.
Guqin mournful, the sound of notes embedded in the silk strings with heavy sorrow, tear-jerking loneliness and sighs, even he who doesn't understand Qin Shao is deeply infected.
The eldest lady is really old! Looking towards the goose yellow fairy shadow in the pavilion, Ah Zhen sighed secretly, shook off the mess in his head, and walked towards the pavilion.
Walking into the pavilion, Ah Zhen looked at Su Tingting, who was sitting on the chair and stroking the piano, for a long time, before calling softly: "Miss, the slave is here." "Aren't her ears very sensitive? Why did he come to her today and still haven't found out?
"Ah......" Immersed in her own thoughts, Su Tingting heard this voice, and exclaimed softly in her heart, and the beautiful ancient strings broke apart.
"Su ......" raised his stunned eyes, and when she saw that he was coming when he walked away angrily in the afternoon, Su Tingting naturally wanted to call him Su Shi, but she thought of the second brother's instructions and urgently changed her words: "Brother Zhen, you are here." ”
Ah Zhen rolled her eyes upward, and this voice of Brother Zhen came out of her mouth as if he was mocking. "It's okay for the eldest lady to call me Su Shi, I can't afford to be a real brother."
"This ......" Seeing that his handsome face was full of sternness due to anger, Su Tingting sighed sadly, and then called out to the chair in front of her: "Su Shi, you sit first." ”
"The villain doesn't dare to sit on an equal footing with the eldest lady, just stand." Ah Zhen was sour than a lemon, hugging her chest and squinting at Su Tingting, seeing that her eyes were lonely and her face was pale. A surge of reluctance struck in my heart.
Hearing this, Su Tingting was full of impatience, stared at Ah Zhen with confused eyes, and asked sadly: "Su Shi is still blaming me?" ”
"How dare the villain?" Suppressing the reluctance in his heart, Ah Zhennu asked with a nu mouth: "The slave still has a lot of things to do, if the eldest lady is fine, please allow the slave to retire." The words fell, and the mood was not happy for some reason, and I didn't want to see her turn around in a hurry.
"Wait......" Seeing that he was about to leave as soon as he came, Su Tingting hurriedly stood up and said, "Su Shi, can you talk?" ”
"What are you talking about?" Ah Zhen didn't know why, as if he had drunk a whole bucket of vinegar, he turned around and hummed: "You have something on your mind, you can go and talk to that dog, what is there to talk about with me, a slave......" Before the words were finished, he was stunned, why did he want to be so sour? Who does Miss Su like about him?
Su Tingting also heard the strong sour taste in his words, her fairy face suddenly turned pink, biting her lip, her mood was complicated, and her thoughts were like entangled embroidery threads.
"Su Shi, you ......" was a little happy in his heart, but he was chaotic, and his heart was beating when he raised his autumn eyes. Why do you care so much about Yuan Gongzi. ”
If she doesn't mention it, she just mentions that Ah Zhen's fire is burning.
"Yuan Gongzi, Yuan Gongzi ......" said two sentences in front of him, Ah Zhen hummed to the eldest lady in a heavy voice: "I have something to talk to your Yuan Gongzi, the slave is very busy, so I will not accompany you." As the words fell, he turned around and strode down the steps.
Su Shi ......" Su Tingting saw that he suddenly lost his temper again, and eagerly walked to the side of the pavilion steps and called: "Su Shi, come back." ”
"Let's go find your Yuan Gongzi." Ah Zhen didn't look back, and strode towards the stone road. Fuck dog men and women, I'm phew! Lao Tzu is a minion, the Yuan is a high bull fight, a rich bull fight, where is he a dog slave with the demeanor of a family Yuan Gongzi? Ah Zhen didn't go away in a sour mood, and his mood was in extreme pressure.
"Su ......" Su Tingting stammered, looked at the angry figure with a pale face, and hung her arms helplessly. Looking at the long figure of the negative qi leaving, the tears in Yingyingqiu's eyes slowly condensed, and then slowly overflowed from the fairy cheeks and fell to the ground.
"Su Shi, Ting'er and Yuan Gongzi are just general friends." With tears in her eyes, Su Tingting didn't understand why she cared so much about him, his misunderstanding could make her so miserable. Thinking of the Tang girl he was stalking about, she took a step in a trance, and her tears suddenly became more urgent, why did a heart seem to be ripped away by life?
In the quiet study, Kacha, knock, bang, with the arrival of the carpenter Laosuo, the quiet world is no longer peaceful.
Su San, who was standing next to Lao Suo, looked at Tianyu outside the room, and then stared at the old man sitting on the ground carving. I don't know what kind of mystery the son is playing, but he found a carpenter to carve a small round particle all over the ground. Do these tiny pieces of copper money have anything to do with the account?
Just when Su Sanhu was at a loss, a sudden gust of wind blew in, and then ......
"Damn the dog lifts people." Winding into the bookcase, Ah Zhen retook the case with one palm, and was in a very unhappy mood, blocking it, stuffy, and suffocating to copy the account book, and smashed it to the ground in anger. As if he had a thousand years of hatred with the tent, the angry big feet slammed on the poor tent book, and stomped on it.
Su San saw Gongzi stepping on the account book so angrily, and every time the account book was stepped on by him, his heart throbbed. said silently in his heart, his uncle, don't be angry and don't send it to the tent, the tent didn't mess with you. But he didn't dare to say anything, and he didn't dare to drink it, and his face was cramping with gritted teeth.
"." After stepping on it dozens of times, Ah Zhen's mood eased a little, and he fell into the sandalwood chair and sat down.
Su San saw that his uncle's anger was finished, and he looked forward carefully, and saw that his face was pale, and his body exuded a violent and fierce aura. The grunt foam kept swallowing a few mouthfuls into his throat.
"Gong ...... Childe, you ...... You eat...... Full? When asking, Su San quietly moved inch by inch to the book of tents on the ground, arrived at the destination, and picked up the ravaged and inhuman-looking book from the ground with lightning speed, and hid it behind him in fear.
Squinting angrily and seeing Su Sanyi's angry movements, Ah Zhen pursed his lips and said, "Whatever you eat, I'm full of gas." ”
"Gong ...... Childe is ...... So angry about something? Su San looked at him expressionlessly and swallowed his saliva.
"Hmph......" As if a fish bone was stuck in his throat, Ah Zhenniu spewed out a large breath of white gas in his nose, pointed to the craggy old man on the ground and asked, "How is it?" How's it going? ”
"This ......" Su San turned his eyes to look at the old man who was sitting on the ground and was working hard, and shook his head very confusedly: "I don't know how the progress is." "I can't even read it, where will I know where it has progressed.
Seeing his face, Ah Zhen forcibly suppressed the anger in his body and asked the carpenter on the ground, "Old man, how is it going?" ”
The carpenter, who had no ears to hear what was going on around him and was only dedicated to carving disc beads, did not raise his head and said, "It will be fine in half an hour." When the words fell, Xi Zizi added: "These ninety-one round particles look laborious, but I didn't expect it to be quite easy to engrave." ”
"Hmm." Glancing at the ground beside Lao Suo, he saw that the frame had already been completed, and the thirteen wooden pillars had been formed, and he owed nothing but the ninety-one beads to be installed, and the first great abacus of this century was born.
Ah Zhen stopped talking, propped his ribs on the desk, and put his hands together in front of his lips. Gazing carefully at the busy figure on the ground, his unkempt thoughts instantly sank a little. Thinking back to the eldest lady's eyes inlaid with indifference and sadness, a sadness crept into her heart in an instant.
Su San felt that the violent aura of the master in front of him stopped, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and stood quietly beside the wooden case, waiting for the carpenter to finish his work in an uncertain way, and was extremely curious about what this thing could be used for.
In the dead of night, the crescent moon is like a hook.
In the boudoir, a candle is flickering. In the hollow incense burner, a curling fragrance emerged, and under the window, Su Tingting lightly faded the goose yellow clothes on her body. In the bronze mirror, the face of the immortal man dressed in a single cloth was pale, and a pair of hazy eyes were full of sourness, and I felt pity.
The maidservant had already left, sitting in front of the bronze mirror, Su Tingting sighed secretly, and then picked up an amber comb on the mirror and combed the ethereal green silk.
Looking at herself in the mirror in a daze, Su Tingting's heart was also uncomfortable, Su Shi's misunderstanding and anger were like putting her to death, and then thinking of Miss Tang, her eyes were full of fog in an instant.
"What the hell am I doing?" Surprised to see that the person in the mirror shed tears again, Su Tingting came back to her senses in a trance, put down the comb, quietly raised her little cotton hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, indifferently gently blew out the flickering candle flame, walked to the eaves of the bed tiredly, lifted the quilt, lay down in the bed tiredly, and gently closed the tearful autumn eyes.
Outside the silent window, the willows are reflected on the painting screen with the moonlight, dancing chaotically and shaking heart.
The sleeping fairy on the bed was extremely unstable and twisted slightly, her nightmarish little head swaying from side to side on the soft pillow, and a trace of green tears overflowed down her white cheeks in her closed autumn eyes. I don't know why my heart is broken; The little head writhing in a trance whispered: "Su Shi...... No...... No...... Su ......"
The mercury is flooding, the wind is light and the moon is full. In the Banghua Pavilion, the immortals who were entangled in nightmares murmured, and Yingying's body under the brocade quilt was extremely uncomfortable and twisted, and in the closed eyes, tears overflowed. The night is silent, and the night is quietly far away......
After two hours, the carpenter knocked on the last frame and immediately jumped up from the ground excitedly: "Childe, it's done." ”
"Oh!" Caught in his own thoughts, he suddenly heard this excited voice, Ah Zhen immediately came back to his senses, and saw the complete abacus in Lao Suo's hand, and he was immediately happy.
"Bring it to me." Ah Zhen beckoned urgently.
"Give." Although I don't understand what Childe asked him to do with this thing, he finally got out within two hours.
"Hmm." Holding the sturdy abacus in his hand, Ah Zhen shook it up and down, and the sound of ping-pong in his ears made him very satisfied.
Fingers picked up the abacus beads on the plate, and called happily: "Su San calculated twice the price to this old man." "Although the beads are a little rough, they are indeed a complete abacus.
"Thank you, Childe, thank you." The old man happily took the usual copper coin, and his excitement was overflowing. He knew it, and he knew that Su Fu would not treat him badly.
"Hmm." Putting the abacus in his hand on the table, Ah Zhen smiled and said, "Okay, it's not early, old man, you should go back quickly." ”
"Yes, the villain is retiring." With a lot of money in his arms, Lao Su bowed deeply to Ah Zhen again, and then happily turned around and walked out of the study and ran towards the night.
"Okay." The left hand pressed on the abacus, and the right hand opened the unfinished account, and Ping Pong began to get busy.
"Huai Chang six thousand four hundred taels, Huang Peng eight thousand six, Zhetong six thousand six ......" the five fingers of the left hand split the calf and quickly knocked on the abacus, the right hand holding the pen was not idle, and the left and right bows were in full swing.
Just when Su San was curious about what Gongzi was going to do with this little thing, he was surprised to see that Gongzi sitting on the bookcase hurriedly opened his hands left and right, and his chin, eyes, and head fell to the ground.
I saw that the prince's eyes were busy left and right, and after writing down the silver number with the pen, his eyes quickly glanced at the beads on the left, and then turned over the page, and without hesitation, he filled in the silver number on the place, and he didn't see him use straw paper to count, and he didn't see him stop, only for a short while, and the thick book of Pu was instantly less than half.
"Huh?" The ink was pasted, Ah Zhen frowned slightly, raised the head buried in the tent and shot it to the side. Seeing Su San like a stupid donkey, he stared at the tent in his hand stupidly. The uncle was immediately upset. "Grinding ink."
"Ah......" Su San was stunned, frightened by such a speed.
"Ahh After frowning, he pointed to the inkstone next to him with a pen, and then called: "Sharpen the ink." ”
"Oh, yes!" Closing his chin in horror, Su San hurriedly added ink blocks to the inkstone, and immediately added water.
"Ping Pong...... Ping Pong ......"
After calculating an account, Ah Zhen immediately opened another account without stopping, with both hands non-stop, and with a broken scolding: "These shopkeepers all grew up eating, and they were sloppy and let them pass a few lines of money, but ......" The more he calculated, the more angry he became, and he muttered and scolded: "Gwangju alone is less than two hundred taels, and I can't even count the accounts, so what kind of shopkeeper should I be." ”
Su San was frightened, and his palms of grinding ink did not stop, but a pair of thief eyes couldn't help but look at the tent in Ah Zhen's hand. "Childe, is there more than two hundred taels less in Gwangju? Could you be miscalculated? "It's so fast, he must have miscalculated.
"Miscalculated?" Seeing that someone said that he had miscalculated, Ah Zhen, who didn't raise his head, was busy humming: "Although I'm not an accountant, I'm not a bad guy if I count such a thing." The words fell, looking at the page of accounts in front of him, he cursed incredibly: "I thought Gwangju was the most outstanding, but I didn't expect there to be an even more outstanding one." This Yuezhou shopkeeper can go to jump into the river, and he is missing three hundred and sixty-five taels and three dollars. ”
"What?" Hearing this, Su San was startled, and hurriedly stretched his neck to look, but saw that he had already turned the page.
Seeing that he had turned the page, Su San's face turned pale, and he asked weakly: "Gong...... Childe, no...... Unlikely, right? "It's too godly to be able to even calculate the difference of a few dollars, isn't it?
"You can't be wrong." Ah Zhen was very sure: "If you ask this Yuezhou shopkeeper to jump into the river, you will definitely not be able to wronged him." ”