The poisonous widow, who had experienced the ups and downs of the world, suppressed the shock in her heart and tried her best to keep her face calm.

The three of them have arrived at the study between the words, it seems that the old man in the countryside also likes to be vassally elegant before his death, although the room is a little nondescript, but there are a lot of books of all kinds, Tang Que roughly looked at the three rows of bookshelves, and estimated that the total number of books is not less than three hundred.

"There are geese in the Zhuangzi, right?" When he took the teacup handed by Sister Lan, Tang Que asked casually.

This question was really abrupt, and Sister Lan was stunned for a moment before she said: "Wow, there are chickens, ducks and geese."

"Then I'll bother Sister Lan to work hard to help me find a few goose feathers, and I want the kind of hard feathers on my tail", Tang Que finished speaking, looked at the bookshelf and turned his head to the poisonous widow and said, "I want to see the collection of books in the house, Madame doesn't mind, right?" ”。

"Ah...... You are free to be".

"Madame......", the poisonous widow couldn't guess what Tang Que meant, so she simply waved her hand to let Lan Cao'er do it.

After seeing Lan Cao walk out of the study, the poisonous widow who retracted her gaze took the opportunity to fall on Tang Que who was wandering in front of the bookshelf, but there was no curiosity in her eyes at the beginning, more exploration, faintly mixed with a few traces of natural gratitude.

watched Tang Que wander around the bookshelf with interest, watched him fold his arms in front of his chest and prop up one hand to support his chin, and watched him stroll leisurely under his feet...... In short, in the eyes of the poisonous widow, all of this Tang Cheng's actions have never been seen in anyone he knows, which is a little weird, but this eccentricity reveals an indescribable bearing, focused, calm, but there is a bit of the informality and ease of the legendary talents.

Tang Que naturally didn't expect the poisonous widow behind him to observe him so carefully, now he is the posture when he visited the school library stacks in later generations, the books in the shelves are nothing more than the Four Books and Five Classics and the like, and there are many collections or other collections of poets of the previous generation, and occasionally a few similar books can be found, but these can't arouse his interest.

It wasn't until he slowly walked to the far right in front of the third horizontal frame that Tang Que, who was only reading the book just now, suddenly brightened his eyes, and stretched out his hand to pull out the book of "Shuowen Jie Zi".

"Shuowen Jiezi" is a character book written by Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty for 21 years, and it is the first dictionary in the history of Chinese Chinese to analyze the shape of characters, explain the meaning of words, and identify pronunciation. Of course, there are many important meanings in this epoch-making book in the history of linguistics, but those are not Tang Que's interests, what he likes is the most basic function of this book - a dictionary.

After Tang Que opened the page of the book and successfully checked the word "Tang" with radical checking, the stone in his heart fell to the ground completely.

Naturally, there is no problem with counting when sorting accounts, and Tang Que has also won the championship of the district-wide mental arithmetic competition, and the daily application is more than enough. As for writing, this is why he wants goose feathers, anyway, this is not to participate in the literary meeting or scientific examination, and there will be high requirements for calligraphy. Among the three, it is the most troublesome to write, but Tang Que, as a graduate of the Chinese Department of 211 University in the later generations, although the traditional characters are not fully recognized, some basic ones are not a big problem, and there should not be too strange words to do accounts in a rural Zhuangzi, it is precisely after considering these three points comprehensively, Tang Que who is too short of money only revealed the notice. But even though he thinks so, he still has some apprehension in his heart, and now that he has this dictionary, at least there is nothing to worry about in the current job.

Put "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" on the desk, when Tang Que held the goose feather in his hand and dipped the thick ink in the inkstone to write the poem "Song of the Goose" by the famous poet Luo Bin Wang of the Wuhou Dynasty in one breath, the surprised and inexplicable expressions on the faces of the poisonous widow and the maid still did not change.

If you want to say that Tang Que can't write, the eighteen words in front of them are clearly in front of them, and from the surface alone, these words are quite good-looking; But to say that he can write, who ...... Who has ever seen someone write in goose feathers? Don't say you've seen it, or you haven't heard of it?

But no matter how surprising he is, one thing is certain, that is, no matter what he uses, what he writes is words after all, and there will be no problems with bookkeeping.

Subsequently, Tang Que revealed a "miraculous" mental arithmetic level in the surprised eyes of the master and maid, often Sister Lan had just reported the number before, and Tang Que had casually reported the answer, but at this time, the poisonous widow on the side didn't even fiddle the abacus beads neatly.

This hand was exposed, the poisonous widow felt incredible, Sister Lan'er's eyes were almost undisguised admiration, feeling such eyes, Tang Que was in a good mood and a little embarrassed at the same time, the words in "Song of the Goose" just now were exactly the same as the simplified Chinese used in later generations, after all, it was a poem written by Luo Bingwang when he was seven years old, so naturally it was not too obscure. This avoids the embarrassment of him showing his ugliness and flipping through the dictionary. As for the later calculations, it is even simpler, and the most difficult problem reported by Sister Lan is not more than two-digit multiplication, even if he has no mental arithmetic training, he can cope with it.

At this point, the poisonous widow no longer doubted Tang Que's ability to do accounts, although she was still surprised how this Tang Cheng had such a great ability.

From this, Tang Que also knew the reason why the poisonous widow was suddenly in a hurry to recruit the account office, but not long after Emperor Zhongzong re-ascended the throne, he issued an edict asking all prefectures in the world to re-count the acres of land, population and livestock, and verify the number of rents and taxes in the local registers. After the new emperor ascended the throne, the first major policy was vigorously promoted in the territory of Datang.

Originally, something like this that happens every ten or twenty years is nothing, and the place can deal with it according to the old French way, but this time the style is really wrong, and the place is extremely tense. Not to mention that the Ministry of Household has strictly ordered the time for the completion of this matter to be completed within one year, you must know that such a huge project used to take at least one and a half years, and the long one dragged on to two or three years; Just looking at the faces of those household officials who came down to supervise and manage, it also made officials at all levels feel chills. Please don't eat wine, please see that it looks like a businessman again, and even Bingjing, who has changed his way of filial piety in various places, doesn't accept these poor Beijing officials, what does this mean, I need to say more?

The household department is so nervous, for the sake of the black gauze hat on the head of the magistrates are more and more strict, not only the secretary and the sword and pen officials under their command to death, but also issued a notice to the masters of the great business in the jurisdiction, not only do they have to cooperate with the measurement of the acres of land, but also to hand over the accounts of the last four terms of the family within eight years, as for the purpose of this is naturally to take precautions, everyone can see that the current political smell of the imperial court is a little wrong, so it is better to leave a capital to protect themselves, as for chasing the first three, Naturally, if there is something to talk about, although officialdom has a tradition of not chasing after the predecessor, but in such a harsh situation, if it involves one's own black yarn or even one's life, the need will not be taken care of.

As the largest landlord within a radius of 100 miles, the poisonous widow is a well-known wealthy household in the entire Yunxi County, so naturally she can't hide from it. It is precisely because she has her mother's relatives working in the county government that she understands the importance of this matter, but there has never been a scholar in her Zhuangzi who is willing to do the accounting room, and it was nothing before, but now the accounts are in a hurry when they are to be handed over to the county government for the record, and there is a notice outside the village school.

When the poisonous widow introduced Tang Que to the background she had heard from her relatives, Sister Lan had already brought in the account books that the poisonous widow had kept by herself in the past few years, and a thick stack was piled on the bookcase beside Tang Que.

Flipping through the top account book, after seeing what was recorded in the account book, a smile suddenly appeared on Tang Que's face, and with his smile, the poisonous widow's face was flushed with shyness.

"Madame is shy! This has not been a thing for many years", thought Sister Lan, who was standing on the side.