Pulling his thoughts back from his memories, Yu Qiuping rubbed his temples and calmed down, and continued to pick up a small wooden stick and list it vertically on the sand table, counting the list of accounts sent by a restaurant in the morning. This single business can bring him 35 yuan, which is a lot of income, enough to cover the day's expenses and surplus.

But Yu Qiuping looked at the expensive set of furniture behind him, well, a total of 26 guan, that is, 26,000 wen. How many days does it take him to earn before he can pay back Asahina Taehyung.

"Eh," Yu Qiuping sighed sadly, pinning the bangs in front of his forehead to the left side with his left hand, speeding up the speed of writing. "After finishing this order, I'll go to the silk shop today to help settle the account." He secretly calculated it mentally.

Suddenly, the right hand holding the wooden stick was patted by someone, and the vertical style that was halfway through the writing was also scratched out of order. Yu Qiuping looked up at the right-hand side again with some helplessness, and sat on the edge of his counter, holding Jiro's legs on the table. To be honest, Taehyung Asahina is actually quite handsome, with big eyebrows and big eyes, but the ruffian aura he exudes from the inside out makes him more like an underworld boss - and indeed it is.

"How did you calculate that?" Asahina Taehyung asked the question in slow Japanese. In fact, although Yu Qiuping has not practiced Japanese for a month is not good enough, he can understand this sentence without slowing down the speed of his speech to Bina Taihyung - because he has been pestering Yu Qiuping to ask the same question no less than a hundred times for four days.

Ever since Asahina Taehyung happened to pass by Akihei's shop when he returned from a hunt five days ago and found that Akihei's way of settling accounts was very novel, he had a new hobby - watching Akihei settle accounts vertically. I sat at the counter of Yu Qiuping all day long, staring at each step like a child, and asking questions about what I didn't understand at any time.

This anomaly has attracted the attention of the entire Sunpu Castle. The inhabitants of Sunpu Castle were surprised to find that the swaggering second son of Asahina had not frolicked in the market for several days, and the soldiers at the city gate began to wonder why they had not seen Asahina Taihyung and his attendants return to the city with a large amount of prey for several days, and the singers of the whale house in the city were also at a loss as to why Asahina Taiheng had not come to have fun for several days. Even Asahina Taiheng's elder brother, Asahina Taichao, was overwhelmed by his younger brother's sudden change of sex, and it is said that this incident also alarmed the rulers of Imagawa Yoshimoto, Imagawa Ie, Mikawa, Enoe, and Suruga.

After people found out that Asahina Taehyung had been hiding in a book office for four consecutive days, the business of Woo Akihei's shop suddenly became popular. Originally, he only waited for one business in two or three days, but now he has to take two or three orders a day. It was a good thing, but the endless interruptions and problems of this Asahina Taehyung around him caused his computing efficiency to drop dramatically.

"Big brother, can we talk about it later, let me finish this business first?" With an impatient expression, Yu Qiuping pushed away Asahina Taehyung's hand, and saw that Kondo Yasuso behind him was in a cold sweat. If Yu Qiuping didn't know how to be polite at first, it could be considered that he didn't know Japanese etiquette and didn't know how noble Asahina Taehyung's identity was, then a month later, he still had that "you and I are equal" attitude, which was inevitably a bit excessive.

However, Asahina Taehyung, who has always loved face, is the only one who is not angry at Yu Qiuping's rudeness. "Okay", he took his hand back depressedly, and continued to shake his stool back and forth, "For the sake of you shouting big brother, let you count it first." ”

Half an hour later, Yu Qiuping took a breath, put down the wooden stick in his hand, and wrote down the last few accounts with a brush in the account book. The shopkeeper of the restaurant who was waiting on the side hurriedly took the account book, and after hastily flipping through a few pages, he couldn't help but admire: "It's really fast, much faster than our guys with abacus." ”

"It's just these symbols, eh, really," the shopkeeper scratched his head with little hair left, and sighed as he looked at the Arabic numerals and addition, subtraction, multiplication and division symbols on the Yuqiuping sand table, "Eh, I'm old, I can't understand what these are." ”

After the shopkeeper handed the reward to Woo Akihei, Woo Akihei turned his hand and put some of it in the bag containing the money beside him, then picked up the bag and put it on the table, and pushed it in front of Asahina Taehyung.

"Childe, this is the usual money, I'll pay it back to you first," Yu Qiuping said as he put the remaining few pennies into his pocket, "The remaining 25 yuan is estimated to take a while to pay off." ”

"What's that?" Asahina Taehyung frowned, and pushed the money bag back in front of Yu Qiuping with his backhand, "Who asked you to pay back the money?" Those pieces of furniture are for you! ”

"Childe, you..."As soon as Yu Qiuping spoke, he was immediately interrupted by Asahina Taehyung.

"Call Big Brother!" He snorted.

"Okay, big brother," Yu Qiuping smiled, "Big brother, you are kind enough to help me settle down, I am already very grateful." As for these furniture, I really don't dare to ask for them, and I will slowly earn money to pay you back. ”

"What do you mean, boy?" Asahina Taehyung glared at Yu Qiuping, "Do you look down on Ben Gongzi?" How much money am I missing from Nai Taehyung? ”

"Big brother, it doesn't matter if you are close to this amount of money, the important thing is that I don't want to owe you money." Yu Qiuping reluctantly pushed the money bag back in front of Asahina Taehyung, "I don't really like the feeling of being chared by others, I want to support myself, otherwise I will feel very uncomfortable in front of you, big brother, this is my principle." ”

"Eh, it's a bad thing for your kid, I don't want the furniture for free, this is two years of living expenses for ordinary people," Chao Bina Taehyung waved his hand again and again, "You kid is interesting, I really didn't mistake you at the time." ”

"Forget it," he shrugged his shoulders at Bina Taehyung, "I'll take these pieces of furniture back and use them myself, and get you a cheaper one, the kind that will cost you two or three times, okay?" ”

"Thank you, big brother." Yu Qiuping sighed with relief, "Finally, I don't have to eat soil to pay off my debts for two years." ”

"Eat dirt? What does that mean, it sounds interesting, hahaha..."Asahina Taehyung jumped straight from behind the counter to the front of the counter, "Okay, big brother, I'm going to find some soil to eat, and I'll come back later to ask you how these things are calculated." With that, he left in a hurry.

After can't wait to get rid of the annoying Asahina Taehyung, it wasn't until two minutes later that he realized he had been tricked - the bag of money was still on the table.

"No wonder I walked so fast, I really thought I was going to eat dirt." He muttered wryly.

"Pingjun, the shopkeeper of the silk shop is here." Kondo pointed to the round figure walking in the distance on Guide Street. interrupted Yu Qiuping's musings.

"Okay, okay," Woo Cho Ping wiped the dirty counter that had been stepped on by Asahina Taehyung as he cleaned up the things on the table. "Let's get started."

Two months have passed, and Yu Qiuping has gradually integrated into the society of Japan's Warring States period, and the debt owed to Asahina Taiheng has finally been paid off. Without the pressure of debt, Yu Qiuping suddenly felt that his motivation to work was much less, and fatigue was surging like a tide. On May 28, 1558, after calculating the accounts for the morning, Yu Qiuping felt extremely tired, and his neck was so sore that he could barely straighten up, so after lunch, he hung up a sign to close, intending to go around Sunfu City.

Walking along the south street of Sunburgh to the south gate, the roadside is lined with shops of all sizes, and then there are rows of residential areas. Merchants come and go to inject commercial vitality here, and from time to time, there are large groups of horse-drawn carriages carrying goods into Junfu City, waiting at the entrance of the hotel to check in. The people on the street seem to have long been accustomed to a peaceful and relaxed life, strolling around in twos and threes, and the enticing aroma of the food stalls attracts the little ones to hold their parents by the skirt of their clothes and stagger over to buy something to eat. In the distance, there seemed to be a dance going on, and the audience was watching in multiple circles on the third floor and the outer three floors, standing on tiptoe to see what was going on inside. Two or three little children held sugar gourds in their hands, riding on their father's neck, and were amused by the performance.

Occasionally, there were some tightly covered ox carts passing by on the road, and Yu Qiuping thought at first that they were made of dignitaries. It wasn't until the owner of an ox cart accidentally lifted the curtain that the cheeks of the two maidens were revealed. Yu Qiuping just glanced at it, and turned his face away with some unhappiness. The girl's cheeks were covered with a thick layer of white powder, painted like a face, sickly, lifeless, and without the vitality of a girl. However, this style of dressing seems to be still a trend in Miya-shi-style Suruga. At least those upper-class women who are different from the common people are dressed like this.

Further south, loud cheers can be faintly heard. After passing a large shop and turning a corner, Yu Qiuping finally found the source of the sound - Keju field. There were more than a dozen Keju fields in that area, and there were many people around the middle of the field, which was the most lively, so Yu Qiuping walked straight to the middle.

In the Kemari field, which is about the size of half a football field, there are 12 people divided into two teams and fighting hard. At the bottom line on each side of the Kemari field, two tall planks are erected, and a hole is opened in the middle of the top of the plank, which is called the eye of the wind flow. Both teams have to work hard to get the ball into the Merry Eye to score. Kemari is very similar to modern football, except that the gate that stands on the ground has become a hole in the air and there is no goalkeeper.

The Keju field was dusty, the scorching sun was in the sky, and even the people around the venue were sweating profusely, but the people in the field continued to fight unnoticed. On the sides of the field, two rows of lanterns are hung each, presumably for scoring. The team on the left has two lanterns, and the team on the right has a lantern. Yu Qiuping glanced at the ground, and there were still two lanterns that had not been hung.