Chapter Ninety-Five: What Sticks?
"Little grandfather, the third girl has arrived in Taizhou. Now he lives in the He family mansion in Taizhou. ”
A guard came in and reported the news from the secret guard to the little grandfather.
"The third girl met that Ah Ah in Lingnan in Yao County, and the secret guard said that Ah A's teacher may be the third girl's maternal grandfather."
Sima Ji glanced up at the guard fiercely, frowning.
"Since it was her maternal grandfather, why did she go to Lingnan? Let someone check it out. ”
The guard led the order out, and before leaving, he glanced at the middle-aged man who had collapsed on the ground, and a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes.
Sima Ji took a step back and called: "Drag him down, since his two daughters want to climb into bed, then send him to Dongfeng Pavilion, and he is not allowed to leave in this life." ”
The middle-aged man's body trembled, and he wanted to speak, but he couldn't say a word.
Sima Ji didn't look at him again, turned around and left the room.
"Little grandfather, what about his wife?"
"Let her remarry. For the sake of her being the girl next to my mother, I can let her live. ”
The big butler leaned down and sent the little grandfather out of the side yard, he straightened up, shook his head and sighed and walked to the backyard.
On the southeast side of the backyard is the small courtyard of several of their housekeepers, and it is also the place where the stewards of the house with a bit of status live.
The middle-aged man before was originally the third housekeeper in the house, and his wife was still the dowry girl of the little grandfather's biological mother. If he does things well, it is completely possible to live a worry-free life without saying that he will be prosperous in the future. Even for his wife's sake, if the two daughters get married, the little grandfather will not treat them badly.
It's a pity that people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants.
"The little grandfather's bed is so easy to climb?" The butler muttered something in his mouth.
When he arrived in the southeast courtyard, a guard had already come over to seal the things in the third housekeeper's mansion, and together with the money he had been greedy for all these years, the mansion he had purchased outside fell everywhere.
His two daughters were taken away early, and now only the housekeeper is left in the courtyard.
"Brother and sister, are you ...... Why don't you go to my house to rest? ”
The chief butler stood at the door, and it was not convenient to enter.
"The little grandfather said, your man has nothing to do with your daughter, if you want to remarry, the house will prepare everything for you."
The woman closed her eyes and held back tears.
"Big butler, can you tell me where the little grandfather sent my daughter?"
The chief butler was silent for a long time before he spit out three words.
As soon as she heard the word "Dongfeng Pavilion", the woman was dizzy and reached out to hold the stone table beside her.
Her heart hurt so much that she couldn't breathe, but she also knew that what the little grandfather decided, there was no room for others to refute. Besides, this matter was done by her two unconscious daughters shamelessly, even if she wanted to ask for mercy, she didn't know how to speak.
"Brother and sister, we can't make him change his mind about the decision made by the little grandfather, but, for the sake of you saving my mother's life back then, I will show you the way, whether it will work out or not, I dare not guarantee it."
After listening to the words of the big housekeeper, the desperate eyes of the third housekeeper finally had a bright light.
"Little grandfather, the big housekeeper pointed out that Zhenniang went to Taizhou to find the third girl."
Sima Ji sat in front of the bookcase, holding a pen and copying the notebook with a serious attitude. He waited until a note was written before he spoke.
"Let her go, if she can talk about the third girl, that's also her ability." Sima Ji put down the pen and softened his gaze a little, "If the third girl thinks that I have been punished heavily and wants to change it, then listen to the third girl's orders." ”
The guard was stunned for a second, then bowed his head and withdrew.
Sima Ji took out another piece of white paper, dipped it in ink, and wanted to draw the person in his memory, but unfortunately he couldn't draw one percent of her after putting pen to paper. With a sigh, he fetched a brazier, and he burned all the paper he had painted.
In the summer in Taizhou, the sea breeze is very strong. Although the state capital is still some distance from the sea, compared with the inland Ganzhou, even the air has the salty smell of the sea.
I have been living in the He family's mansion for three days. During these three days, the sisters attended classes with several girls from the He family in the morning, and in the afternoon, they studied according to their interests and future plans.
Wei Jin doesn't like female celebrities, and she is not interested in settling accounts with housekeepers. Although she majored in liberal arts, even high school graduates could beat the teacher who taught them math. And it's not that she dislikes it, this teacher's skills are not as good as her second sister. You also need to use a calculation chip to calculate an account, and her second sister can do mental arithmetic!
The eldest girl's arithmetic is not bad, and she can do it all slowly with the calculation chip, and the second girl is weaker, as long as she can read the account book, she will enter the palace in the future anyway, and the arithmetic is basically useless to her.
The most painful thing to learn is that the third lady is elegant, and she looks like she has nothing to love when she takes a math class.
"It's not difficult, you follow me."
Today's course is to calculate the expenses of a month's entry and exit, including cooking, monthly money, women's clothing, men's entertainment and other trivial content.
The number is not large, but it is very fragmentary, and it is really not difficult to slowly calculate page by page with the calculation chip. Like Wei Jue, who has practiced mental arithmetic and oral arithmetic with the second sister, it doesn't take much time to calculate and calculate again.
But for some reason, for the same content, Miss He San does not have the same number every time.
Wei Jin found it strange that she learned from the ancient book "Records of Mathematics" that someone had studied the beaded abacus before the previous dynasty, but no one had ever used it. She originally thought that it could only be used by large families, but now it looks like the He family is also using a calculation chip. Even if He's abacus is jade, it is not as good as a wooden abacus.
She didn't open her mouth to ask Shuya, but found an opportunity, and she asked Mrs. He directly about this question.
"Beaded abacus?" It was the first time that Mrs. He heard this term, and her face was full of puzzlement.
"There are 14 kinds of algorithms in this book, and the 13th is called 'abacus', and it says, 'abacus, control belt four times, longitude and latitude three talents'."
Seeing that Mrs. He was still puzzled, she asked someone to send paper and ink, and in front of Mrs. He, she drew the original abacus form.
"The stereotype is divided into three points, and the upper and lower parts are divided into two points to stop the swimming beads, and the middle points are divided into fixed positions. There are five beads each, the upper bead and the lower four beads are different in color, the beads of different colors on it are five, and the lower four beads are each one. To the lower four beads of the lead, so 'the cloud with four hours'. Its pearls swim in the three directions, so the cloud 'warp and weft three talents'. ”
Draw and give an explanation at the same time. She focused on the pen and paper, and did not see the surprise and surprise in Mrs. He's eyes.
"If I give someone to Ah Jin, can I make this abacus?"
"Yes. Just find a carpenter with good craftsmanship. ”
Abacus, most of the children in China have seen it, especially Wei Jin's generation, who has been learning abacus since kindergarten, and then mental arithmetic, and then mental arithmetic. Even if you haven't made an abacus yourself, you know where the point is.