The dog looked at the guy who was low, and Yang Xiaotao scolded in her heart. But the face was silent and said loudly, "Open the door to do business, that's what you do" Since doing business is to make money, and word of mouth is more important, the person in front of him should not be the shopkeeper, the general shopkeeper is sitting in the store, since I didn't see it outside the house, it must be in the inner room.

Yang Xiaotao deliberately amplified her voice, just to attract the attention of the shopkeeper of the rice shop.

"Big River, what's wrong?" Sure enough, a slightly older voice came, followed by a man about fifty years old who opened the curtain and walked out.

"Shopkeeper, why did you come out, it's nothing for this little lady to buy rice." The man who was called Dahe immediately flattered.

Shopkeeper Xia looked at Yang Xiaotao, and immediately understood what was going on, this Dahe must have seen that the woman in front of him was shabby and slack.

Dahe is his distant relative, although there is a little problem, but his heart is not bad.

"How many times have I told you, everyone who enters the door is a guest, and you are going to smash the signboard of our rice shop for you, it seems that you can't do it well." Shopkeeper Xia didn't save face for Dahe at all, and directly reprimanded him. He had reminded him before, but today it seems that he doesn't have a long memory.

"Shopkeeper, I don't dare to make a mistake again." Dahe was startled, the shopkeeper used to look at him like this and said a few words to him casually afterwards, it seems that this will be really angry, and immediately regret that he looked down on people.

He himself was a child of a poor family, and it was not easy to find a job in the town.

"If you do it again, you will immediately clean up and leave." Shopkeeper Xia said sharply, warning Dahe that he was serious this time.

"Don't dare again, I won't do it again in the future." Dahe immediately made a sincere guarantee.

"Let the little lady see the joke." Shopkeeper Xia glared at Dahe, turned his head to look at Yang Xiaotao with a smile, and asked very politely, "What does the little lady want to buy?" ”

"I want 5 catties of fragrant rice, I want 10 catties of this rice, and 5 catties of white noodles on the side" This shopkeeper is a businessman, Yang Xiaotao has already calculated just now, buy these enough for her and Le'er to eat for a few days.

Shopkeeper Xia looked at Yang Xiaotao's dress, but he didn't think she could buy so much, he is a businessman who has always been very accurate in looking at people, but the little lady in front of him, although she is wearing shabby, but that temperament is not something that an ordinary woman can have.

And the big river on the side also looked stupid, he knew that he bought so much, he must have politely blamed himself for looking down on people.

Shopkeeper Xia asked Dahe to load rice and fiddle with the abacus by himself.

"One thousand and fifty wen." , Yang Xiaotao said casually, and Shopkeeper Xia raised his head in surprise.

Then he lowered his head and used the abacus to calculate again, and sure enough, it was one thousand and fifty wen.

"How did the little lady figure it out."

"Mental arithmetic, it's very simple." Yang Xiaotao said disapprerovingly.

"Mental arithmetic is faster than an abacus." Shopkeeper Xia said curiously, he is a businessman, the algorithm relies on the abacus, and the inventory and purchase rely on the abacus, if there is such a fast algorithm for this little lady, it is not very efficient.

Thinking of the young owner of his own home... If you can recommend this algorithm, maybe you can make a contribution.

"......" Yang Xiaotao was suddenly embarrassed, do you want to tell him addition, subtraction, multiplication and division? He wouldn't understand that.

"The little lady has difficulties, if it is inconvenient to disclose, it doesn't matter, if the little lady is willing, I can buy this algorithm at a high price." Shopkeeper Xia said sincerely.

Yang Xiaotao paused for a moment, can this algorithm be exchanged for silver? That's not bad, but it takes a bit of work to teach him, and there's a lot to do when he comes out today.

"Shopkeeper, I have some other things to do when I come out today, it's better to wait for two days and I'll come over to teach you, today I'll write you some numbers first, you can recognize them in these two days, and it's convenient for me to teach you in two days." Yang Xiaotao thought about letting him know the numbers from 1 to 10 first, and then it would be more convenient to teach him.

"But I don't know how much money the shopkeeper is willing to give." Yang Xiaotao smiled slyly, she was not a loser, she knew that the shopkeeper's use of these algorithms must also have other uses.

"How about a hundred taels?" Shopkeeper Xia looked at Yang Xiaotao's shrewd little face and knew that this woman must be a person who refused to suffer.

Although one hundred taels is not a big number, it is also a large number for ordinary people.

One hundred taels, Yang Xiaotao pondered in her heart, in fact, arithmetic must be a breakthrough existence in this era, but she doesn't have such a big dream, she is now a problem with food and clothing, so let's be her first pot of gold.

If those old scholars knew that Yang Xiaotao was sold for one hundred taels, they would probably be able to strangle her.

"Deal, can the shopkeeper have pen and paper?" Yang Xiaotao was glad to learn calligraphy for her fiancé, and she worked hard to find a beautiful hairpin, and her good cooking skills were also for the kitchen after marriage, and she specially found a top chef to learn a year in advance.

"Of course there is, the little lady is still literate?" Shopkeeper Xia looked at Yang Xiaotao again in astonishment, this reading and literacy is not something that ordinary people can learn, let alone a woman.

Yang Xiaotao is dressed up, and she doesn't look like the children of a rich family, which is unusual, and it makes Shopkeeper Xia feel that this woman is not simple.

Taking the pen and paper in the hand of the shopkeeper Xia, Yang Xiaotao did not explain, and carefully wrote down a row of Arabic numerals from 1 to 10, and the following also corresponds to the writing of the numbers of the ancients, so that it is convenient for the shopkeeper Xia to identify and record.

Shopkeeper Xia looked at Yang Xiaotao's beautiful font and was even more shocked in his heart, even the boudoir woman of a big family, I am afraid that she can't write such beautiful words, but looking at the circle drawn by Yang Xiaotao, she is also confused.

"Shopkeeper Xia, please trouble you with these two diaries with the numbers above, this is the abbreviation of numbers, as long as the corresponding memory is good, it is best to memorize it by heart, and I will write you two algorithms in two days, it will be easier to learn." It's a rote memorization thing, as long as you are not a fool, you are very easy to learn, Yang Xiaotao has been delayed here for a long time when she looks at the sky, and there are still a lot of things to buy.

"Shopkeeper Xia, I have some other things, so I won't bother much." Yang Xiaotao took out the silver and prepared to settle the bill and leave.

"No need, the little lady should be regarded as a fixed payment, and we will settle the settlement together when the little lady comes next time?" Shopkeeper Xia is worthy of being a businessman, he guessed that the woman in front of him was not an ordinary woman, and as for this dress, he was afraid that he was in trouble.

"Shopkeeper Xia is so relieved of me, I'm embarrassed, aren't you afraid that I'm a liar?" Yang Xiaotao's hand handing over the silver was stopped, and the other party's remarks made her feel that this Xia shopkeeper was really good at being a man and worthy of being a businessman.

"If you're afraid, we don't have to do the Xia family's business, no, I have always been very accurate." The Xia family's business is indeed all over the country, and the shopkeeper Xia has just been transferred back to Xianghe Town.

This time, I accompanied the young owner to come back and live for a while, and the shopkeeper Xia was just an ordinary steward of the Xia family.

Since he returned to Xianghe Town, he naturally took over the business of the Xia family in Xianghe Town, so that it would be convenient for the young owner to take inventory.

As for the few taels of silver that Yang Xiaotao bought, he didn't take it to heart, all he cared about was Yang Xiaotao's novel algorithm, presumably the young owner would like it more, and his own young owner always likes to make some strange things.

"Since Shopkeeper Xia is so sincere, then I'm not hypocritical, put these things here first, and I'll pick them up later?" Yang Xiaotao looked at the small pile of things piled up at the door of Dahe, how to buy other things with so many things, she was tired and half dead.

"Of course you can, the little lady can go and do something else first." Shopkeeper Xia sent Yang Xiaotao out of the door of the shop, looked at Yang Xiaotao's distant back, and muttered, "Interesting and interesting." ”

Dahe actually had a bewildered expression, what is the situation, this little lady has such a big ability, she actually bought such things without spending a penny, and let the shopkeeper Xia send them to the door so politely, I can't figure it out.

Yang Xiaotao delayed too much time in the rice shop, she hurriedly found a ready-to-wear shop, bought some ordinary cotton cloth, unlike the coarse cloth on her body, it was very rough, it was more comfortable to touch, and she wanted to make a few clothes for Le'er, the child's skin is delicate, and it is not good for the skin to always wear coarse cloth, and the cotton cloth is better, and it is not very conspicuous.

As for making clothes, Aunt Zhao has to trouble her, she really doesn't know how to make clothes, she chose two soft yellow and light pink suitable for children, and also picked two horses, one dark blue and one dark purple, and then bought a set of ready-to-wear clothes for Le'er, small clothes, it looks beautiful, Yang Xiaotao likes it very much, and paid two taels of silver to make Yang Xiaotao feel a pain in her flesh, which is really expensive.

The things were also placed in the garment shop first, and I said hello to the shopkeeper of the garment shop.

Yang Xiaotao went to the butcher shop again, bought some meat and bones, and prepared a small piece of fat meat for stir-frying.

Thinking of making up for Le'er, thinking of the thin little face and small body that made Yang Xiaotao's motherly love halo bloom, fat meat is much more expensive than lean meat, Yang Xiaotao bought pork belly, and was ready to boil a pot of bone broth, spent a full three hundred yuan, bought a lot of specially asked the boss to divide it into two parts for her, and bought some seasonings, salt in ancient times was not ordinary expensive, a small package cost 100 Wen, looking at the silver in his hand instantly reduced by half, that meat hurts.

When he came to Shopkeeper Xia with a big bag and a small bag, Shopkeeper Xia immediately instructed Dahe to help Yang Xiaotao deliver things to the gate of the town, and Dahe would be very obedient and took all the things in Yang Xiaotao's hand.

When I was about to reach the entrance of the town, I saw a pillar standing at the entrance of the town from a distance.

"Pillar" Yang Xiaotao shouted, and the pillar immediately noticed Yang Xiaotao, and when he saw the big river behind Yang Xiaotao, he was stunned, but he still ran over and helped take over the things.

After thanking Dahedao, Yang Xiaotao followed the pillar to the ox cart.

When I returned to the village, it was already dark, and the big bags of carambola did not attract the attention of the rest of the village, because when the sky was dark, no one would like to come out and hang out at this time.

As soon as she arrived at the door of Aunt Zhao's house, a small figure rushed out, and shouted softly and glutinously, "Mother" Le'er threw herself directly into Yang Xiaotao's arms, she had never been separated from her mother for so long before, and she was rubbing in Yang Xiaotao's arms, making Yang Xiaotao, who was full of things, cry and laugh.