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Ji Junyang deliberately said vaguely, encouraging Murong Chong to ask Lin Ruo by himself, which made Murong Chong's heart even more irritable, so he simply walked out of the tent alone, letting the cold night breeze blow on his body. The icy wind made his mind much clearer, but the depression in his heart had not yet dispersed.

The lights in Lin Ruo's tent were still on, and a figure was outlined in the warm yellow firelight, swaying with the candlelight, not knowing what he was doing.

Seeing Zhu Xuan coming out of the tent, he ran away in small steps, and after a while, he came back with a pot of hot water. Murong Chong hurriedly stepped forward to stop her and asked, "Yi'er hasn't rested yet?" ”

Zhu Xuan saw that it was Murong Chong, and immediately saluted and replied, "Back to the fourth young master, Miss and Steward Wang are discussing things. ”

"It's so late, still deliberating?"

Zhu Xuan nodded: "Yes." The young lady asked me to bring her some hot water and warm up some spirits to sober up. ”

Murong Chong frowned, he had seen Lin Ruo's amount of alcohol, but it was the first time he had heard of it when he drank spirits at night, and he always felt that it was not good for her. Suddenly, he remembered that Aunt Luyun beside the Queen Mother had mentioned a recipe offered by Lin Ruo - Snow Honey Ginger Tea, which is the best way to drive away the cold and calm the nerves in winter, so he asked Zhu Xuan if she knew how to cook Snow Honey Ginger Tea.

Zhu Xuan nodded, and Murong Chong instructed her to prepare snow honey ginger tea for Lin Ruo, took the teapot in her hand, opened the curtain and went in.

"Fourth Young Master."

Steward Wang hurriedly stood up and saluted.

Lin Ruo, who was originally holding his head down and holding a pen to calculate carefully, looked up and saw Murong Chong holding the kettle, he was also slightly surprised, and said in a daze: "Fourth brother, why are you here?" ”

Murong Chong looked at Lin Ruo's stunned appearance, and suddenly felt that he was in a much better mood, and he especially wanted to reach out and pinch her round cheeks, but because of the presence of Steward Wang, he finally held back and said softly: "Seeing that you haven't rested so late, come and have a look." I asked Zhu Xuan to cook snow honey ginger tea for you, and drinking spirits at night hurt your body. ”

Lin Ruo was stunned again, and then smiled: "It's rare that Youcao and Boyu are not there, no one is holding me back, I wanted to be willful once, but I was caught by the fourth brother." ”

"It's not too early, what's the matter, you have to discuss a result tonight?" Murong Chong walked up to Lin Ruo's side, looked at the various symbols that he couldn't understand on her paper, and frowned slightly, "How long will it take to agree?" ”

Lin Ruo tilted his head and thought for a while, and said to Steward Wang: "Steward Wang, you go and rest first, and I'll tell you how to negotiate the price with the Beiqi people tomorrow." ”

Steward Wang answered the account and went out of the account, Lin Ruo put down the pen, relaxed his muscles and bones slightly, rubbed his somewhat sore shoulders and neck with his hands, and suddenly felt a pair of hands gently pinching her shoulders, and the whole person stiffened: "Fourth, fourth brother? ”

Murong Chong's methods are very rusty, and he should have never helped someone pinch his shoulder.

For a while, the temperature in the tent seemed to rise sharply, and Lin Ruo's face was faintly red, and he didn't know what to say.

During the day, what Zhu Xuan said to her came to mind again.

Subconsciously touched the corners of his mouth: When I saw him, did I smile sweetly?

Murong Chong noticed Lin Ruo's stiff back, and he was also surprised that he had helped her pinch her shoulders so naturally. He coughed lightly, let go of his hand as naturally as possible, sat down beside her, pointed to the strange symbol on the paper and asked, "What is this?" ”

"Oh," Lin Ruo retracted, "settle the score." ”

"Reckoning? These...... Strange symbols? ”

Lin Ruo nodded.

Murong Chong looked at Lin Ruo with some disbelief: "I remember you said that the Lin family's accounts are all well-known 'golden abacus', but if they count the accounts for an hour, you can finish it with only two sticks of incense." It's hard to do it, you just rely on these...... These strange symbols? ”

Murong Chong really didn't know what to call these Arabic numerals and operation symbols, and even all kinds of complicated formulas, so he didn't know what they meant, so he could only call them "strange symbols".

Lin Ruo nodded again, tilted his head and thought about it, and solemnly explained: "This is the method of counting passed down by the Lin family. ”

Murong Chong nodded abruptly and didn't ask any more.

But he didn't want to, Lin Ruo added seriously: "The main reason is that I can't learn to use an abacus." ”

Murong Chong looked at Lin Ruo with strange eyes, and asked word by word, "Can't you learn?" ”

In his eyes, the smart Lin Ruo seemed to have nothing to stump her, but she just admitted lightly that she couldn't use abacus, which really made him a little unacceptable.

Lin Ruo pursed his mouth: "I don't want to learn." Except for my uncle, no one else knew. However, my uncle said that this set of calculations without an abacus is more difficult than an abacus, and he only knows a half-knowledge, but I didn't expect that I have a good understanding, probably because I am talented and intelligent, and I should not use an abacus by nature. ”

Looking at Lin Ruo's smug appearance, Murong Chong couldn't help laughing.

Lin Ruo looked at Murong Chong, who was smiling very good-looking, with a blank expression, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is it so funny?" ”

Murong Chong stopped laughing, but the smile on his face never faded, and he explained good-naturedly: "I just think it's a little unexpected." ”

Lin Ruo glanced at Murong Chong without a trace, picked up the pen again, and began to calculate.

Murong Chong watched her neatly write down a series of numbers and symbols, and finally wrote down a list of detailed data on another piece of paper, which took about half an hour to finish. At this time, the snow honey ginger tea sent by Zhu Xuan had been warmed twice in warm water. Lin Ruo was a little repulsed by the pungent taste of ginger, but when he looked at Murong Chong's caring eyes, he finally gritted his teeth and poured it down in one go. Then with a bitter face, he quickly rinsed his mouth and removed the pungent taste in his mouth.

Murong Chong looked at Lin Ruo's hurried appearance, and couldn't help laughing, but he secretly rejoiced that he knew Lin Ruo a little more—he didn't like ginger.

Lin Ruo also ignored Murong Chong's stealing pleasure, and threw all the calculus notes on the table into the brazier and burned them to ashes, including those sent by Steward Wang that recorded the prices of Jinling and Beiqi furs. All that remained on the table was a piece of paper on which she had recorded her last detailed data, which was simply folded and pressed down with a weight.

Murong Chong hesitated and reminded her, "You don't plan to lock this into a thousand machines?" ”

"No, someone else stole it, and I don't understand what it means, it's just a piece of waste paper."

Murong Chong thought about it and smiled with relief: "That's right." However, you didn't boast before, the time of two sticks of incense can calculate the total amount of grain owed by the grain merchants, why did it take so long today? ”

Lin Ruo burst into laughter, feeling that Murong Chong's question was quite a scumbag asking Xueba, these two questions look similar, why is there so much difference in the time between solving the method and solving the problem, it is a reason.

"These two are not the same. The debts owed by the grain lords can be simply added and subtracted, and it is a brainless physical work, as long as you are careful, you will not make mistakes. This time is different! ”