Updated: 2013-07-18

Chapter Ninety-Six—A Two-Handed Abacus

After listening to Duan Qingming's words, almost all the stewards "snorted" in their hearts! This eldest lady, on the surface, pretending to be like that, really seems to be like that! However, in less than a day, is it all revealed?

Ordinary business people, who doesn't know, in this account book, there is a lot of knowledge - this book out of the account, one into the account, if you want to be flawless, but it takes a certain amount of energy and time! Take this table full of ledgers, every stroke, every page, how many shopkeepers' efforts are condensed! However, in the end, she was taken by this seemingly old-fashioned, but actually extremely naïve eldest lady?

The stewards glanced at each other, and their eyes showed sighs and contemptuous eyes - the girl's family, and there is no mother-in-law to teach, and this kind of insight is only worthy of being beautiful in the back house and showing off, if this is about business, when it comes to account books, it is really 108,000 miles away!

Everyone shook their heads at each other, and they no longer had half hope and interest in Duan Qingming's next moves-they had the duty to take charge of the store and Zhuangzi for the master's family, and to keep their duty, but they had no obligation to accompany this naïve lady to play!

However, Duan Qingming didn't say anything anymore. She beckoned backwards for Xia Cao'er, who was standing on one side, to come over.

Xia Cao'er answered, and walked over from the table behind her with two things! Lightly placed on the table!

Those two things, everyone is familiar with, they are abacus, and they are two newly bought abacus!

However, this eldest lady who doesn't even know much about the account book, even if she comes out with an abacus, she can only be an axe from the class, and she can't count it! Or, this eldest lady actually wants to take an abacus and come to accompany them to talk, say?

Seeing that Duan Qingming was still pretending, these stewards despised Duan Qingming in their hearts again!

Hmph, this Miss Jiao who doesn't know the height of the sky, wait a while to see how she makes a fool of herself!

Xia Cao'er stepped forward, put the two abacus to the left and right of the means, and added tea for Duan Qingming, before turning around and retreating.

Duan Qingming finished drinking the tea in the cup, then raised his eyes, looked at the people in charge, and smiled faintly:

"Now, let's reconcile!"

The stewards didn't even move!

Reconciliation, how? That's a person reading, a person planning to disk, in the end, the accounts on the abacus are not bad with the accounts done before, it is called reconciliation.

But what about now? This pretending eldest lady just took two abacus in front of her, is it reconciliation? It's really funny!

Seeing that the stewards did not move, Duan Qingming raised her eyebrows and smiled disappreciably:

"Oh, I guess, I forgot to say it...... Starting with Shopkeeper Li and Steward Zhang, you come and I'll fight. After reporting one, it's the turn of the next, and there is no need to stop in between! ”

After listening to Duan Qingming's words, all the stewards were taken aback!

A two-handed abacus?

This eldest lady, who seems to only be pretentious, actually wants to use her two-handed abacus to settle accounts with them?

Now, a few people in charge simply laughed out loud!

One of the people in charge also "kindly" reminded Duan Qingming:

"Miss, this is a plan, but it's a science...... It's hard to dial with both hands! ”

After listening to the words of this steward, the other stewards and shopkeepers began to talk about it:

"Yes, yes, this abacus is not easy to play...... Moreover, how can two hands abacus and one heart be used for two purposes? ”

Abacus, if you want to practice to perfection, it is already difficult, not to mention, this two-handed abacus is dual-purpose? Is this half-grown kid really good? I can't say, this is a joke about this eldest lady, in the end, isn't it a mess? Jokes?

Thinking about it like this, the stewards decided that they would no longer let this ignorant girl mess around, and if they didn't agree, they wouldn't support it!

As soon as it came, everyone was in an uproar, and everyone said, "Yes, this abacus is not a small game for children's families,"

In short, everyone has decided, this eldest lady wants to mess around, it's her own business, and everyone is not ready to cooperate anymore!

After listening to everyone's words, Duan Qingming suddenly understood something! She smiled coldly:

"Could it be that this ledger is fraudulent?"

When the stewards heard this, they immediately jumped up like cats that had been stepped on by their tails:

"Who said that?"

Duan Qingming stretched out his hand and flicked the beads of the abacus and said in a cold voice:

"So, I want to reconcile, why are you so vague?"

At this moment, the faces of all the stewards turned green. They can't say, oh, because they don't want to play with you, so we don't want to reconcile!

Duan Qingming's fingertips pressed on the abacus and said coldly:

"Now start reconciling, if anyone delays everyone's time, I will not forgive!"

When the stewards heard this, their faces darkened again. Originally, no one wanted to move. However, unable to stand Duan Qingming's very intimidating eyes, the two shopkeepers sitting at the top had no choice but to pick up the account book. I started reading them one by one!

"March 27, stocking, three hundred and seventy taels ......"

"March 27, shipment, four hundred and fifty taels!"

……

No matter how much the two shopkeepers read, Duan Qingming's fingertips can quickly dial out as much as they want, and when they read quickly, they only saw her light-colored sleeves flying, flying on the black calculation, and other than that, there was no other movement!

Duan Qingming's actions shocked these shopkeepers and stewards!

Originally, these shopkeepers all had perfunctory ideas, and the speed of reading the ledger was not fast. However, looking at Duan Qingming's posture again, everyone knew that it turned out that they really underestimated this young lady of the main family!

The two shopkeepers glanced at each other, you and I, deliberately speeding up the speed of reading the ledger. But no matter how fast they were, they couldn't stand the speed of Duan Qingming's plan!

Inside the room, it was very quiet. Everyone looked at Duan Qingming who was quickly dialing around the abacus with both hands, and for a moment, they were all stunned!

A book in and out of the account is quickly completed, and the score is exactly the same!

Immediately after that, the second, the third......

It turned out that these stewards who were disdainful of Duan Qingming, from beginning to end, looked at Duan Qingming's fast fingers in a daze, as well as the exact number of points reported, and in their hearts, they suddenly felt like they had knocked over the bottle of five flavors, and they couldn't tell what it tasted like!

But in one morning, the account book was one-third right, and when Mama Ning came to ask Duan Qingming when she could pass the meal, Duan Qingming stretched her waist and sighed:

"Alas, this abacus, I haven't fought for a long time, I'm a lot rusty, in the afternoon, it should be faster!"

In the previous life, Duan Qingming was despised because she didn't know how to plan the plate, and later, she practiced hard and slowly mastered a set of skilled abacus methods, and in the end, she began to plan the plate with both hands, one hand out of the account, one hand into the account, the same point!

Below, the crows were silent. These shopkeepers, when they looked at their young masters, all showed indescribable respect and fear!

Relying on this two-handed abacus alone, it is beyond the reach of those of them who have been stewards and shopkeepers for decades!

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In the evening, Mama Ning returned.

She told Duan Qingming that there was a standing girl named Ding'er, and throughout the day, she was close to the people in Zhuangzi, listening to her like that, it seemed that intentionally or unintentionally, she asked others about the direction of Liudianzhuang, as well as the shortest path!

Duan Qingming groaned slightly and said:

"Find someone to watch her, remember, do it quietly!"

And this Ding'er, since the road has been inquired clearly, then, for the rest of the matter, you should find an excuse, take half a day off, go to Liudianzhuang, and help Liu Rong grab medicine, right?

At that time, Duan Qingming only needs to pretend not to know, approve that Ding'er's leave, and then quietly follow, listen to what the miracle doctor says, and then change the medicine bag, will this be done?

After listening to Duan Qingming's words, Mama Ning nodded, bowed to Duan Qingming again, and then cautiously took two steps back and went down to make arrangements!