Chapter 2: Abacus
got up the next day as usual, and went to work for three days in a row, and finally it was her turn to rest, and when the people next door were gone, Qu Xiaomo slept again, and when she woke up, she slowly boiled hot water in the small kitchen and washed it from head to toe while there was no one.
Washing hair in winter is the most troublesome, and it is waist-length long hair, and it has to be dried with charcoal fire after washing, otherwise you will be frozen into a dog when you go out.
It took two hours for her hair to dry out, and the ends of her hair were still a little damp, Qu Xiaomo didn't care, she used a wooden comb to roll it up on the top of her head, and then hugged it with a headscarf, and then tied it tightly with a strip of cloth, there was no bronze mirror in the house, and she had to tie her hair according to the original body, and she didn't know if it looked good or not, but she should always be able to go out to meet people.
Today is the day of the salary, yesterday the old shopkeeper had an explanation to her not to forget, what day do not remember the day of the money must remember, clean up and close the door to the restaurant.
At this time, it was the meal, everyone was busy, and the old shopkeeper was also crackling in front of the tent with an abacus to settle the bills for the guests.
When Qu Xiaomo passed, he had just finished settling the bill for the guests in a box at a table, and when he saw her enter the door, he stomped his feet and waved at her again and again as if he was seeing his own son.
Twisting his eyebrows, he walked over and asked, "Shopkeeper, what's wrong?" ”
"Yes, yes, come, come." The old shopkeeper pulled her into the account with a bitter face, and said, "You help me stand here for a while, I'll go and relieve my hands, I'm in a hurry." ”
After speaking, without waiting for her to respond, she ran towards the thatched house behind the restaurant, and Qu Xiaomo, who was forced to stay in front of the account counter, had to raise a smile to greet the guests who had just entered the door.
But there are people who come in and go out, and the guests who have just finished eating at the table rush to the account counter to slap the table to settle the bill, looking at the big man with a beard in front of him, Qu Xiaomo smiled and said to him: "Guest officer, you sit and wait for a while, and the shopkeeper will go to relieve his hands and return to the future." ”
"What are you waiting for, I'm in a hurry." The big man slapped the table with a fierce look on his face.
The sound in front of the account attracted the attention of many nearby diners, although Qu Xiaomo was startled by his slap on the table, but he still persuaded with a light smile on his face: "The shopkeeper came to the checkout in person, and the small one is just here to stand for him for a while, can the guests wait?" The small ones will send someone to urge. ”
After speaking, he glanced at Zhou Xiaodi, who was ordering food for the guests nearby, and looked here, and Zhou Xiaodi received Luo Erniu, who had just finished ordering for the guests, to replace him, and turned around and went to the thatched house in the backyard.
And the big man in front of the account desk was still unrelenting, and he was pulling his throat to ask Qu Xiaomo to settle the bill immediately, and the voice was so loud that the guests on the second floor all stretched out their heads to look down.
If it goes on like this, it will not have a good impact on the restaurant, Qu Xiaomo squinted at the wandering eyes in front of him, obviously trying to take advantage of the shopkeeper's absence, seeing that she was just a substitute and looked like a bully, he came to make trouble and wanted to swallow the money The smile on his face should not be.
glanced at the food on the table, took out the abacus that was placed aside by the shopkeeper, shook it in front of him, and the abacus was all zeroed, and then raised his finger and said calmly: "The guest officer ordered one or two halves of fat chicken and cabbage, two taels of mutton egg soup, one or two vegetarian fried wild vegetables, half a coin of appetizing sour radish, and two hundred yuan of white rice, which can be continued indefinitely, adding up to a total of five taels and two hundred two hundred wen." ”
The big man smiled at the little two who looked like a girl in front of him, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes and said in surprise: "You can settle accounts?" ”
He also looked at the shopkeeper who was standing here and went to the backyard, and the new guy looked stunned again, so he thought that after eating, he would come over and make a fuss, maybe this kid was scared and nervous, and he could save some money by calculating the wrong account, but he didn't expect that others would not only calculate the account, but also the abacus.
Qu Xiaomo raised his eyes to look at him, and still smiled lightly: "What's so difficult about this, I don't know if the guest officer wants to settle the bill now?" ”
The big man opened his mouth, and it took a long time to hold back a sentence: "Touch a zero!" ”
Qu Xiaomo smiled at him and said: "Guest officer, you are joking, two hundred wen is not change, these two hundred wen can make you eat enough white rice with an open stomach, if you add those delicious snacks, melon seeds, and snacks that you just entered the restaurant and served on the table, it is more than two hundred wen, you know how long our restaurant has been open, and you will not charge more than a penny from the guests. ”
The big man listened to her and said the truth, but he couldn't find the words to refute it, so he had to take out an ingot of five taels and one tael of silver from his bosom and throw it on the account table, and said with a straight face: "Tie it." ”
Qu Xiaomo was in trouble with the silver, she didn't have a key to open the drawer with the silver on the side! I was thinking about whether to find a few juniors to scrape together money to send the big Buddha in front of me away first, when I saw the old shopkeeper coming with a smile.
gave him a place, and watched him make up the money and send the person away, Qu Xiaomo said: "Shopkeeper, I'll get the salary." ”
The old shopkeeper turned his head and touched his beard, looked Qu Xiaomo up and down with a smile, and said, "I can't see that you kid can settle accounts, can you read?" ”
Since it was known to so many people, Qu Xiaomo didn't want to hide it, so he nodded and said, "I know." ”
The old shopkeeper nodded with satisfaction and said, "Very good, you will follow me in the future to familiarize yourself with the accounts of the restaurant, and there will be someone on top when I am not there." ”
Qu Xiaomo's eyes lit up when she heard this, this accounting is much easier than being a shopkeeper, she also looked at the accounts in her previous life, her old business!
Brother Zhou on the side was also happy to pat her thin little shoulder and said, "Congratulations!" This is much easier than being a junior, so thank you for it. ”
Qu Xiaomo hurriedly bowed down and bowed respectfully to the old shopkeeper, and said, "Thank you for the promotion of the shopkeeper!" ”
The old shopkeeper also saw that this kid was interested and motivated, so he also accepted all of her, and then raised his hand to help her, and said, "I will take you as an apprentice, and make me a bowl of tea when I am busy in the evening." ”
Qu Xiaomo thanked him again and again when he heard this, and immediately bowed his hand and said, "Master, please accept the apprentice's worship." ”
Because the restaurant was still busy, Qu Xiaomo didn't want to continue to disturb the old shopkeeper and took his salary out of the restaurant after worshipping.
The sun on these two days is not bad, although it is still the same cold, but at noon you can see a little sunshine, Qu Xiaomo walked on the road with silver in his arms, and spent a few pennies to buy two hot buns while eating and looking for a shop with rouge gouache.
Because this emollient cream is only available in the rouge gouache shop that sells women, I went to two or three but the prices inside are very expensive, and a small box of three fingers wide costs one or two silver, which is half a month's salary for her!
All the way down, every shop is about the same price, and she now has a total of more than three taels of silver, and this box will cost her all her savings! Uncomfortable! Lentinula edodes!
Qu Xiaomo continued to wander around after eating the buns, and saw a fat powder shop in the corner of the road in front of him, so he walked over to take a look.
The color on the door plaque of the store has turned gray, and I don't know if the things inside are expensive or not, and whether there is any moisturizer.
When I opened the curtain and walked in, I saw a woman about thirty or so combing her head in front of the counter by the door, looking over, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and she greeted her: "The guest officer is free to look." ”
Qu Xiaomo answered and walked in and looked around in front of the shelf, and really saw the moisturizer, but a box was as big as a palm, and the amount of money inside was sufficient, and the floral fragrance emitted did not make people feel too strong, but made people feel refreshed, and it smelled much better than the ones in other rouge shops.
But looking at such a big box, I think it costs a lot of money, Qu Xiaomo, who only has three taels of silver on his body, hesitated for a long time with the emollient cream and didn't dare to ask the price, turned his head to look at the boss who was still embroidering seriously, and still had the courage to ask: "Boss, how much silver is this emollient cream?" ”
The boss glanced up at the box in his hand and said with a smile: "Four hundred wen a box." ”
Hearing the price, Qu Xiaomo was a little incredulous, and said in surprise: "Four hundred Wen? Boss, are you right? ”
The boss looked at her with a look of surprise and said with a smile: "It's really four hundred wen, this moisturizer is poured out of my spare time, but the emollient effect is no worse than that sold by those famous rouge shops outside. ”
Qu Xiaomo heard the words and said, "Can you try the effect?" ”
The proprietress nodded, got up and opened the drawer at the counter, took out a box of moisturizer that had been used for most of the time, walked over and handed it to her, "This is what I use on weekdays, try it at the guest officer." ”
Qu Xiaomo opened the box and dug a small piece, wiped it on his hands, it was really moisturizing, and the faint fragrance of chrysanthemums was exactly the same as that on the boss's body, and he said, "I'll buy two boxes." ”
The boss smiled and pointed to the emollient cream on the shelf, and said: "The top row is peach blossom fragrance, the middle is chrysanthemum and osmanthus, and the bottom is plum blossom fragrance. ”
Qu Xiaomo picked out two boxes of plum blossom incense, paid eight hundred wen and went out with two boxes of moisturizer, although there were only more than two taels of silver left on her body, but these two large boxes of moisturizer were enough for her to apply all over her body for two months, which was really profitable, and glanced back at the door number that said Aroma Fang, and remembered it in her heart, and next time I will buy it here.
Back in her own room, Qu Xiaomo closed the doors and windows while everyone else was not there and smeared moisturizer on her body, in fact, although she dressed as a man all day long, she was also a girl who loved beauty very much, when she first came, she also looked at her general appearance according to the water in the basin, the same as in the memory of the original body, goose egg face, big eyes, small cherry lips, skin is quite white, a proper beauty embryo, more beautiful than her own saltless dignity in her previous life, 108,000 miles beautiful, so no matter what, she has to protect her face and body.
After smearing it and putting it on again, her body was dyed with a faint plum fragrance, fortunately, in this era, rich men can also draw eyebrows and powder, and there are more moisturizers in winter, and she is not afraid of attracting other people's eyes and gossip when she goes out with this fragrance.
When he had nothing to do, Qu Xiaomo took out the clothes that he had changed out of a few days ago and sat by the well to scrub them, and took advantage of everyone's absence to take out all the underwear and wash it, and hung it in the room to dry.