When the kiln owner heard this, he thought that he would give 40,000 bricks and 4,000 watts, and give 15,000 bricks and 1,05 tiles, which is a lot. The kiln owner can give it, but not so much. He said, "If you buy 40,000 bricks, I can give you up to 4,000 bricks." It's the same with tiles, if you buy 4 kilowatts, I can give you up to 400 watts. Only these are given, not a single brick or tile. ”

The steward said, "We want 55,000 bricks and 5,500 watts, not 40,000 bricks and 4,000 kilowatts." ”

The kiln master listened: "Then 50,000 bricks will give you 5,000 bricks, and 5,000 tiles will give you 500 tiles." In the same way, one more brick or tile is not given. ”

The village owner and the housekeeper were hesitating, hesitating that the kiln owner gave a little less.

The kiln owner took out a small wooden box, which contained rolled dry tobacco rolls, he opened the box, took two, handed them to the village owner first, and said, "Come on a cigarette." ”

The village owner doesn't smoke, and he replied with his hand: "No smoking, no smoking." ”

The village owner didn't smoke, so the kiln owner handed the cigarette to the housekeeper and said, "Here's a cigarette." ”

The housekeeper didn't smoke either, so he blocked it with his hand and said, "I don't smoke." ”

The village supervisor does not smoke, and the kiln owner puts back two cigarettes. Cover the box and stuff it back. Take out a fire fold and light a cigarette.

The fire fold opened the lid and ignited in a flash. The kiln owner took two puffs of his cigarette, lit it, and closed the lid of the fire breaker to extinguish the fire.

The kiln owner tucked the fire fold back into his trouser pocket and took a puff on his cigarette. The green smoke comes out casually, in the shape of a trumpet, and two green smoke is also spewed out from the two nostrils, like two small horns.

The kiln owner then took another cigarette, and said, "The village master, the two adults think about it, I don't make any money anymore." ”

The village lord looked at the housekeeper and asked, "Do you think it's okay, 50,000 bricks for 5,000 bricks, 500 bricks for 5,000 tiles?" ”

The housekeeper didn't know if it would work, so he asked, "Village master, do you think it's okay?" ”

The village lord sighed and replied, "I think he gave a little little." Give 10,000 bricks and 1,000 tiles, I'll buy it right away. The village owner turned his head back and forth and said, "Give me 5,000 bricks and 500 tiles, I will consider it." ”

The housekeeper also followed the village lord back and forth, he looked at the village owner, and the village master was pacing and considering. The housekeeper paced with the village owner, waiting for the village owner to consider.

The kiln owner took a puff of cigarette and said, "It's already okay, I don't make any money." Look at my worker's skinny. Look at me, I'm skinny. We eat vegetables and sweat our work. Unlike you, you eat meat and do the work of growing meat. ”

The kiln owner sighed and said, "I really can't give it anymore." Village Lord, you can't make me lose money. ”

The village lord glanced at the housekeeper and wanted to hear what the housekeeper had to say. He asked, "Steward, let me hear what you mean." ”

The housekeeper is not sure about this, and the money spent is a bit much. He replied: "Village master, you decide this matter, and you can buy it as you say." ”

"I'm determined, he won't let me?" The village owner said.

The kiln owner said: "Village master, it's not that you won't let it, you can't let it." If I give it again, I'll have to lose money. Village master, just let me go, a little people, don't buy my brick kiln yellow? ”

The kiln owner took two puffs of cigarette in a row and flicked the ashes.

The two guys, watching, watched the kiln master talk about business. The black dog, honest and obedient, sniffed, looked up at the two people who came and looked at the two horses. He sniffed the ground as if he were walking around, and as he walked, he walked around to the butler and the village lord.

The housekeeper looked down to guard against the dog, and he asked, "Does your dog bite?" ”

The kiln owner said, "Don't bite." He took a puff on his cigarette.

When the village owner saw the dog, he was also guarding against it, worried that it would bite him. The black dog sniffed the housekeeper sniffing the village master, and when he got behind the housekeeper, he lay down, his tongue sticking out of his mouth, and he was panting.

The dog lifted his head, looked at the wheat field, and ran over with a "Wang" sound. The dog burrows into a wheat field and chases a fat vole. The vole entered the hole, and it stood in front of it, sniffing and looking. Humming, as if a child had been aggrieved.

The kiln owner took two puffs of his cigarette and asked, "How?" ”

The village lord said: "Your brick kiln is too dark. I'm in a hurry to build a house, or I'll go somewhere else to pull it. The village owner took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, walked to the gate of the brick kiln, and he said: "Enter the house, sign and seal." ”

The kiln owner is happy, smokes a cigarette, and goes to talk to the village owner. The steward led the two horses and followed.

The village lord entered the gate and asked, "Which house to enter?" ”

The kiln owner replied: "This house will do." ”

The village lord looked at the room on the left side of the gate, and the door was open. He went into the room, and there were tables, cabinets, and chairs. He put the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table: "There is no water, grind." ”

"Yes." Follow up the kiln owner's reply at the door. There was a water tank outside, which was the water tank where the workers drank water, and the kiln owner went to the water tank to scoop up some water. Put it on the table for the village owner.

The housekeeper handed over the horse to the square-headed and round-headed two men and looked at it, and went into the house, without speaking, and looked at the village master and the brick kiln owner, and signed and sealed it.

The village owner spread out the paper, took water and grinded it. He said, "Buy 50,000 bricks, give 5,000 bricks." 5,000 watts, 500 watts as a gift. Altogether..." The village owner stopped writing at this point. He said, "Abacus." ”

The kiln owner said: "It's all good to calculate the whole number, and you don't need an abacus." He pinched the dry cigarette roll in his hand, crossed his arms to see the village lord write the thing, and calculated: "One brick is a copper plate, ten bricks are a silver coin, one hundred bricks is a gold coin, one thousand bricks is a gold bar, ten thousand bricks are a big gold ingot, and fifty thousand bricks are five big gold ingots." Tile, two tiles for one copper plate, twenty tiles for one silver coin, two hundred tiles for one gold coin, two thousand tiles for one gold bar, and four thousand tiles for two gold bars. There is still a kilowatt left, and this kilowatt is? Be? ”

The kiln owner couldn't figure it out for a while, so he let go of his arm and went to look for the abacus.

The village supervisor was stunned by the kiln owner, thinking that he could figure it out. The two of them looked at the kiln owner, and saw that the kiln owner had taken an abacus on the windowsill. The kiln owner shook and put the abacus on the table, and he said to himself, "How much is a thousand watts?" ”

The kiln owner counts the money of one thousand watts according to the abacus. He calculated, "Two pieces of copper plate, twenty pieces of silver, two hundred pieces of gold, and two thousand pieces of gold bar." The kiln master calculated that there was no need to plan for this, and he said, "A thousand watts is five gold coins." Four kilowatts are two gold bars, two gold bars plus one kilowatt of five gold coins are, is twenty-five gold coins, and two gold bars are five gold coins. ”

The kiln master calculated it, he looked at the village owner, and said: "Two gold bars and hardware coins, plus five large gold ingots of 50,000 bricks, a total of five ingots and two pieces of hardware." ”

The kiln master finished speaking, "Dada! After making an calculation, he said, "A total of five hundred and twenty gold." The kiln owner said: "When the village owner gives money, it is best to give the ingots gold bars, so that you can take them." ”

The village lord looked at the housekeeper and said, "You count it twice, don't make a mistake." ”

The housekeeper listened to the words of the village lord, went to the table and touched the abacus, and put the abacus back in place. Tick it up. He said: "One brick and one copper, fifty thousand bricks and fifty thousand copper..."

The housekeeper calculated, and the kiln owner said: "There will be no mistake, this account is easy to calculate." ”

The village owner said: "It's a good calculation, but you can't be sloppy." Count twice more, insurance. This is not private money, but the money of the village government. ”