In the conference room of the art garden, more than a dozen staff members or their capable subordinates were in charge after summarizing the Mid-Autumn Festival performance, and discussed new products with Dong Ce, and it took half an hour before leaving one by one, leaving Dong Ce alone in the empty conference room to keep accounts.

The art garden has been completely put on the rails, Zhu Dashan is responsible for ticket sales and ticket speculation, the theater matters are handed over to Lu Qing, and the safety and order of the art street is managed by Zhou Cong, and even Dong Ce's role in the broken jade case has also recruited suitable actors, and the new drama Liang Zhu has also been arranged, Dong Ce just needs to supervise from time to time.

"Host, drink tea." Zhen Wan brought the tea to Dong Ce's table.

Dong Ce raised his eyes and glanced at this unadorned woman, Zhen Wan's beauty is very simple, it is not easy to notice, if you describe a woman in Dong Ce's ten beautiful pictures, it is definitely Huansha Xi Shi, a woman who is more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people!

"Can Wan'er know how to count?" Dong Ce said.

Zhen Wan tilted his head and said, "The maid has only learned to do the tricks." ”

"The calculation is too slow, today I will teach you to use the abacus." Dong Ce said, grabbed a new abacus on the table and shook it twice, and the crisp sound of the abacus colliding was very pleasant.

"How do I use it?" Zhen Wan bent down and approached the abacus, his face full of curiosity.

Dong Ce asked her to move the chair to her side, ordered her to sit down, and then said: "The abacus is very simple, if you dial this bead up, it will be one, and if it is five, if it reaches six, then dial the upper abacus bead, and subtract four from the five below......"

"I see, the number of beads in that row can be as big as fifteen, and after fifteen, it will be counted from the second row." Zhen Wan smiled.

"Yes and no!" Dong Ce shook his head and said: "A row of large numbers can indeed reach fifteen, but in this way, it seems to restrict freedom, so the first row can be one, the second row is ten, the third row is hundred, and in the fourth row, an abacus can be allocated to wait for money!" After Dong Ce finished speaking, he glanced at Zhen Wan, who was staring at the abacus and nodded lightly, and continued: "I'll pass you a formula, add one, and one on one...... Plus 2...... The law of subtraction is subtract one, and one ...... at a time"

After Zhen Wan listened carefully to Dong Ce's formula, he smiled and said, "The owner is so smart that he can think of such a subtle algorithm. ”

"I also learned it from my master, now you come to familiarize yourself with it, calculate this account, and when you are completely proficient, I will pass on you the multiplication and division, nine return formulas."

Zhen Wan suddenly looked at Dong Ce very seriously, and said, "Why does the owner have to pass on these to me?" ”

"Do you think I spent a lot of money to poach you just to get you to serve tea and water?"

"Isn't it?" Zhen Wan was a little surprised.

Dong Ce smiled, put the abacus beads in place one by one, and said: "I don't ask about birth, regardless of morality, as long as you want to learn from me, I will teach it." ”

"The proprietor means that even if the wicked want to learn, you will teach it?" Zhen Wan said unexpectedly.

"It depends, if he is studying to change his face and get a proper job, why don't I teach? In other words, will a wicked person who does not want to be reformed come to me for advice? ”

Zhen Wan is a little distracted, Dong Ce teaches the way to make a living, and he can easily learn a skill that does not worry about food and clothing, but the human heart is sinister, he is not worried about others competing with him after learning it?

The business of Art Street is obvious to all, Zhen Wan observed for a day, and found that in fact, Dong Ce can do eighty percent of the goods by himself, and many of the goods have been improved by his opinions, but he only charges rent and gives many money-making businesses to others, which is not what a businessman should do at all!

But on second thought, is Dong Ce a businessman? Or did he preach his teachings as a businessman?

Zhen Wan couldn't figure out what Dong Ce was thinking in his heart, he only knew that he was a good person, but it was because of this that Zhen Wan was shocked, because there are no good people in this world, some are just stupid and shrewd!

Before the boom of the jade case passed, the turmoil of Liang Zhu began to sweep through Jinling Mansion!

Tickets for the art garden are still scarce as always, just for a ticket, relying on relationships, and more and more people are going to the door, because there is too much lack of entertainment these days, especially at night, in addition to the festival lanterns to see, what else can there be? Qinglou? There are also two kinds of places, one is for the peddlers and pawns, where there is no fun at all except to vent, and the other is where you can enjoy singing and dancing, taste wine and food, but you are embarrassed to go in without a silver or two rewards, how can ordinary people go.

And the art garden is different, only twenty wen can watch an hour of opera, there is no more cost-effective than this, and even if you don't spend money, you can also go to the art street to stroll, see all kinds of strange gadgets, and enjoy the gradual maturity of the flower lady's lacquer paintings, it is also a fun.

"Master Dong, let's see if our Ming Jianxuan's spotlight lantern can satisfy you this time? After your proposal, we have improved again, and it must be difficult for you not to pay this time! Haha......" Lu Kexuan looked at Dong Ce with a smile.

Dong Ce stared at a huge copper lamp on the table that was like a trumpet and polished inside, but he still shook his head and said: "The effect is indeed good, but it won't be long before it will be blackened by the lamp, so you must open a smoke vent on it and take it back for processing." ”

Dong Ce's words surprised Lu Kexuan a little, but he still responded with a smile, but he sighed in his heart that it was really not easy to earn Master Dong's money!

Now that the art garden has a little spare money, Dong Ce began to improve the equipment, lighting is very important for the stage, but in these years, electric lights, even candles are rare, so he can only try his best to improve the quality of oil lamps and the design of lanterns.

In this regard, Ming Jianxuan and Lan Fan Fang gave Dong Ce a lot of help, yesterday he spent fifty yuan to buy a batch of lanterns from Lan Fan Fang, speaking of which, this thing was still designed by him, so he only paid for the materials.

This lantern is to imitate the kerosene lamp, as long as a twist can stretch out the wick to continue to burn, some of the lampshade of the silk cloth is also embroidered with beautiful patterns, for a time provoked the rich women of the whole house are crazy, have to the Lan Fan Fang and the art street to buy, Xi Demei Niangzi has not stopped smiling these days.

"Ah~ Brother Dong!" Meng Feng came to the attic on the stage with a large brocade box, and when he saw Dong Ce, he put down the brocade box and stretched his tone to make a gesture.

"Ah~ Brother Meng!" Dong Ce also responded immediately.

This is the singing style of Liang Zhuzhong in the new play, and now it has infected many people, and now the talents of Jinling, as long as they meet, they will come to a sentence nine times out of ten: "Ah ~ Brother Tai!" Even Meng Feng was deeply infected and couldn't extricate himself.

"Brother Dong~ This is the Xi Qin you wanted, but it took me a lot of effort to get it~" Meng Feng said, and carried the big brocade box to the table.

"Oops~Thank you, Brother Meng~"

Dong Ce opened the brocade box and took a look, just nodded, and listened to Meng Feng again: "Brother Dong~ The junior brother will go to Gusu tomorrow~ I don't know what Brother Dong has to say~?" ”

"Meng~cough!" Dong Ce coughed, returned to his normal tone and said: "Brother Meng arrived in Gusu, just go to Shuiweixuan to find Shi Shiliang, he wrote to say that the address has been selected, and the price has been set, although the place is smaller, but the surrounding area is not rich, and I will expand immediately after I negotiate with Uncle Zhou, as for the construction, I have already talked to Tao Rong, but Brother Meng also has to supervise more, and try to keep the style consistent with here." ”

"Brother Dong ~ put ~ heart ~ let's ~ little brother go too~~" Meng Feng hugged his fists, then turned around and hummed a small tune, slowly walked out of the house, and after a while, he sang a cappella outside the door: "The green grass and blue flowers are in full bloom, and the colorful butterflies are wander......ing for a long time."