"Miss! Look! There are so many glass beads here, so round and beautiful! Huh? Why are they strung together with wooden sticks and placed in a broken wooden frame?"
Xiao Ai was following the young lady bored and looking around. Xiao Han's living room was actually very simple. It could even be described as simple. It was empty, with only the simplest tables and chairs, no famous paintings, and few ornaments.
, so simple that it can’t even compare to some middle-class homes. I was about to persuade the lady to go back and sit down, but my eyes accidentally caught something shining in the window. When I walked over and took a look, I saw very round colored glass.
The beads were embedded in a rectangular wooden frame, shining crystal clear through the sunlight through the window.
"Where are the glass beads?" Xue Pan on the side heard this and gently put down the broken porcelain vase in his hand. This porcelain vase is worth a lot of money at most, and it is simply a shame to put it here!
He also curiously took a look at the spot pointed by Xiao Ai, and sure enough he saw a touch of seven colors. He let out a light sigh and went over to take a closer look.
Xiao Han always feels that women are like dragons, born to like crystal clear things. This has not changed much for thousands of years. In future generations, would you still want to propose without a diamond ring?!
I don’t know why a broken stone can be used as a witness of love?!
It's better now. Diamonds are called the stones of other mountains. They are mainly used by porcelain and jade craftsmen. The saying that diamonds are forever has not been invented yet, so they can only be compared with things made of sand.
, the colored glaze made by Xiao Han is the mainstream of this world.
Xiao Han walked over in a hurry. Before he entered the house, he saw Xue Pan and Xiao Ai fiddling with his glazed abacus. He didn't know what he was thinking, but suddenly stopped and quietly poked his head outside the door to look inside.
The set of glazed abacus that Xue Pan is holding now was specially made by Xiao Da and given to Xiao Han.
I don’t know how Xiao Da pierced the holes, but the round glass beads were pierced on small wooden sticks, more like handicrafts than tools. When Xiao Han came here, he thought it looked pretty good, so he left it in the guest room.
Xue Pan had never seen anyone make colored glaze like this. He fiddled with it curiously and asked Lao Cao next to him: "Lord Registrar, what is this and what is its use?"
When Lao Cao who was following him heard this, he quickly raised his hands and said to Xue Pan: "I can't be an adult. I can't be an adult. Miss, just call me Lao Cao. This is called the abacus. It was invented by our Lord Marquis as a tool for calculating accounts."
, they were all supposed to be made of wood, but those idiots under my command took it upon themselves to make them with colored glaze. As a result, the colored glaze was too slippery. As I calculated, the colored glaze slipped out of place and was impractical. In the end, it was replaced by my Marquis.
here……"
"Abacus?" Xue Pan didn't notice that Xiao Han was at the door. He frowned and asked Lao Cao: "Is it the same as abacus?"
"It's different, this is completely different!" Lao Cao smiled and took the abacus from Xue Pan's hand, held it in his arms, stroked it a few times, returned the abacus to its place, and then said to Xue Pan: "Return
Please ask a question, Miss."
Maybe Lao Cao was very proud of his abacus, and he couldn't help but look a little complacent when he spoke. Xiao Ai looked at it and couldn't help curling her lips, rolling her eyes, and quickly said in Xue Pan's ear: "Miss,
Make it difficult for him! Let him not figure it out and see if he is still arrogant or not!"
"Why are you so arrogant?" Xue Pan rolled his eyes at Xiao Ai with dissatisfaction, but he just had this idea in mind. He lowered his head and thought about it in his heart, and then said warmly:
"A mansion has a total of 718 servants. The low-level servants are paid 50 copper coins per month, a total of 322 people. The middle-level servants are paid 108 copper coins per month, a total of 246 people. The high-level servants are paid 268 copper coins per month, a total of 132 people.
People, the rest are stewards, and they only have money every month. So, let me ask you, how much money does this mansion have to spend in total every month?
While Xue Pan was talking, he heard Chief Cao flipping the glass beads with thunder. When Xue Pan finished speaking, Chief Cao had just finished dialing the last number. He looked at the abacus in his hand. Chief Cao looked up and smiled.
Said to Xue Pan: "Go back to Miss, a total of 96044 copper coins!"
"Ho..." Seeing Lao Cao come up with the answer so quickly, Xiao Ai looked at him as if he had seen a ghost. After looking at him for a while, he quickly turned to look at Xue Pan and said with difficulty: "Miss, he is
Isn’t that nonsense?!”
Xue Pan's face turned a little pale at this time, staring at the abacus in Lao Cao's hand: "This is what it calculates? How can it be so fast!"
"To answer my question, young lady, I have only used this abacus for a short period of time. If my Marquis or Xiao Er were to do the calculation, it would be much faster!"
"Even faster..."
Xue Pan was really shocked now. The scene in front of her simply overturned her knowledge. As far as she knew, the most powerful shopkeeper in the family had to calculate this number for a long time, and he had to check it more than three times.
Are you sure, now, just such a small wooden frame can outperform an experienced old shopkeeper?
Just when Xue Pan and Xiao Ai were extremely shocked, Xiao Han could hardly stand listening anymore, and walked in from the door while stroking his nose. When he saw Xue Pan and the others turned to look at him, he smiled awkwardly and said:
"Haha, it's good for you, Xue Pan. Don't look at me like that. Master Cao is exaggerating. In terms of abacus, I'm not necessarily better than him."
"But you invented this!"
"It's just wisdom that picks up people's teeth, it's just wisdom that picks up people's teeth..."
Xue Pan obviously didn't believe Xiao Han's words. Since Xiao Han appeared, many new things have appeared one after another. If there are one or two, it can be said that outsiders are ignorant, causing these rare things to wander in the wild, but so many of them appear together.
This argument is untenable!
But fortunately, Xue Pan is also a smart person. Seeing that Xiao Han is unwilling to tell, naturally he will not break the casserole and ask the truth.
Suddenly he looked at the abacus in Master Cao's hand with his big eyes, thought for a while, and finally seemed to have made up his mind, hesitantly said to Xiao Han: "Xiao Han, I... I also want to learn this abacus,
Can you teach it to me? I promise! It will never be passed on to others!"
Originally, it was always a taboo for people like Xue Pan to ask other people's knowledge about their families, but Xue Pan really wanted to learn this magical knowledge. Such magical calculation methods would be very useful whether in business or family business.
It is a very practical knowledge!
"this……"
Seeing Xiao Han's sudden pause, Xue Pan's heart suddenly sank. He endured the feeling of sadness and said to Xiao Han: "If this embarrasses Brother Xiao, then it will be treated as rude by Xue Pan..."
Xiao Han was very happy to see Xue Pan's disappointed look. He just made a long sound, and Xue Pan was just like a child who didn't get the candy, he was very cute.
"Of course there's no problem with this! I'm going to lecture on this abacus in the classroom in two days. Then you can just follow along and listen. It's very simple. You are so smart, you must learn quickly!"
"Really?!" Xue Pan was lost when he heard what Xiao Han said. He almost jumped up with joy. He hugged Xiao Ai and spun around, and suddenly saw Xiao Han looking at him with a half-smile.
He quickly let go of Xiao Ai, showed a big smile, and bowed to Xiao Han as a disciple: "The student has met the teacher."
"No gifts, no gifts, you have to study hard and don't play around~ Hahaha..."
Xiao Han had a straight face, but before he could finish his sentence, he couldn't help but laugh first, and Xue Pan even laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten up...
Chief Cao looked at the two people who were smiling at each other, and felt very happy in his heart. He laughed twice, then quietly stepped back, giving space to these two people.
Although he lacked the experience of being alone with girls, Xiao Han was not a dull person. After laughing, he diligently led Xue Pan around the house. Unfortunately, he built the place in a hurry, and the layout
It is also a bit old, so there are really not many attractive places. However, it would be wrong to say that there is no one. At least, Xiao Han’s kitchen is still very attractive!
When we first planned it, the kitchen was actually not that big. As a result, the person who drew the sketch was blocked by the fat chef at the door and yelled at him. He had no choice but to revise it again. The result was that after the kitchen was built, it was simply outrageously big.
…
The kitchen is located at the very back of the Marquis' Mansion. It was built here mainly because there is a river behind it. Although the Marquis must use well water for cooking and other tasks, river water is better for washing dishes and pots and draining water, so a canal was dug.
The river water is brought in and flows through a room next to the kitchen. Occasionally, fish can enter the room.
It's still early now, and the kitchen where breakfast is finished is no longer busy. The fat chef moved a deck chair and lay in the small yard, basking in the sun leisurely while listening to the apprentices report on today's food purchases. In the farmhouse, most of them
It is self-sufficient, but the Hou Mansion cannot.
There are too many people! Even if Xiaohan has just started, it is not easy to grow so many vegetables. So now every morning, there are always dedicated people going out to purchase the day's vegetables. By mid-morning, farmers will start to grow them.
The freshest dishes are delivered.
As for chicken, duck and fish, we need to prepare new ones every day. The ice cellar built under the kitchen has not yet been used. We have to go to the river to collect large pieces of ice in winter and store it in it. It will not be used until the next year.
When the weather is hot, use it to make ice cream and preserve some precious ingredients.
The fat chef was mid-hearing when suddenly there was no sound. When he opened his eyes strangely, he found Xiao Han and Xue Pan standing in front of him looking at him with a half-smile.
"Ah... Mr. Hou, why are you here? I would like to say hello to you~"
Seeing Xiao Han suddenly, the fat chef jumped up from his chair. He first glared at the apprentice who lowered his head and remained silent, and then started to hand over Xiao Han and Xue Pan with a smile on his face.
Xue Pan covered his mouth and snickered, and Xiao Han gave the fat chef a helpless look: "Why can't I come? How could I find you lazy here if you don't come!"
