When the family arrived outside the city, they left Mingjue and Mingqi behind and asked them to take part of the abacus to Green Willow Villa.
The remaining four people delivered firewood, sold eggs and other items at the market, sent the oxcart, and then went separately.
Qiao Mingjin warned Mingheng and He Xiaochun, and then left with Wan'er.
Her goal was very clear, rich in the east and rich in the west, so she went straight to West Street.
No matter where you go, you will go up the steps when you see the door.
"Brother, could you please help me call your housekeeper?"
At the gate of Lin's Mansion, two boys of thirteen or fourteen looked up and down at this young and somewhat colorful young woman.
This young woman also brought a three- or four-year-old girl with her. The little girl looked at them with two dark eyes.
Hmm, so cute.
It makes people want to go up and give it a squeeze.
The two young boys looked at the child with smiles on their faces. One of them even ran to the concierge, grabbed a handful of candies and stuffed them into Xiao Wan'er.
The little thing smiled even brighter, grinned, raised his head and said with a sweet milky voice: "Thank you, little brother."
The boy who stuffed her with candy bars laughed so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes: "Eat it quickly and see if it tastes good."
The little guy hurriedly gave one to the boy and said, "Little brother, take it too."
The boy smiled even more happily, peeled off the oil paper for her and stuffed it into her mouth: "Brother won't eat it, but my sister will."
Another boy touched the body for a long time, but couldn't find anything that could comfort the child, and he suddenly felt a little annoyed.
Which noble person usually doesn't give him a lot of food and drink when he comes back from a trip, but why is there nothing today? He glanced at his partner next to him bitterly, huh, he gave him a head start!
Such a beautiful doll, such a pretty little lady, could it be the outer room of the general accounting room?
Oh my god, this is terrible! I have to rush to report it.
Otherwise, if you are late, you may be criticized by the general accountant!
In addition to their old man, the general accountant was a person who even had to give in to the old man and his wife.
"Little lady, just wait here, I'll call for you right away." The young man rolled his eyes in a circle and trotted in.
Before leaving, he kicked his companion to signal him to take good care of the mother and daughter.
Taking the hint from his companion, the young man was excited and said hurriedly: "Madam, do you think you would like to wait at our concierge? Although the concierge is simple, at least there is a stool to sit on."
Qiao Mingjin thought for a while, then nodded to him to thank him, and took her daughter's hand into the concierge.
The concierge is not big. There is only a small table, probably for the concierge to rest, as well as a small table and two chairs.
There is tea and some melon seeds and other things on the table.
The job of the concierge is not easy. It’s hard to say that they need to develop a sharp eye, but at least they can’t let in irrelevant people. And maybe no one comes in and out all day long. It’s hard to wait at the door.
Not a good job.
Therefore, generally large households will have a concierge inside the gate for the concierge to rest.
Sometimes the caretaker would stay there at night. Otherwise, if someone knocked on the door at night, how could he hear it in the courtyard of this big house, which is dozens of miles away from the gate?
Xiao Wan'er gave full play to her advantages and soon became familiar with the guard boy. Half a baby and a milk baby were talking happily.
Qiao Mingjin smiled as she watched her daughter and the boy counting candies.
After a while, Qiao Mingjin heard footsteps.
A male voice asked: "Who is looking for me?"
After Qiao Mingjin heard this, she stood up and walked out the door.
The young man who went to report happened to be following him, and said hurriedly: "This is the young lady in the king's account. She also brought a girl with her. She said she was looking for you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the little Wan'er also came out. When he saw the stranger, he timidly leaned at Qiao Mingjin's feet, looking up at the middle-aged man.
The man didn't look like a smart accountant, but he looked loyal. The man glanced at Qiao Mingjin, mother and daughter, and couldn't help but feel a little confused.
Don’t you recognize this?
I just heard the news in the counting house that someone was looking for me. I didn't pay any attention to it, but I heard from the child that it was a young woman with a three or four year old child who was looking for me.
He thought for a while and then followed him out. But he didn't recognize him. The accountant searched his mind and found that he still didn't recognize him.
Qiao Mingjin met his sizing gaze in a neither humble nor arrogant manner. After he finished sizing him up, she smiled and said, "Is this the king's accountant? The young lady is ready. I really have something to talk to you about. Could you please sit down and listen to the young lady?"
Can anyone say a few words?"
The king's accountant glanced at her, then at the little girl holding his mother's thigh, and nodded.
Said: "Then let's talk in this concierge."
He took the lead in entering the concierge. Qiao Mingjin took her daughter's hand and followed behind her.
The man sat down at the other end of the small table and stared directly at Qiao Mingjin. Qiao Mingjin was not dissatisfied, she was not a woman these days who stayed behind the scenes.
Qiao Mingjin was not in a hurry to sell her abacus, she just chatted with him and asked him if he was busy doing accounting every day.
"Does the Wang Accountant use an abacus every day?" Qiao Mingjin looked at him and said.
The king's accountant looked at the person in front of him and felt really strange.
This little lady didn't know her identity, so she came to find an unfamiliar man, and she followed the man into the room alone to have a conversation. She was not shy about it.
How dare you stare at a man's face so boldly and needlessly. Except for the old master in this mansion, not even the young master below dared to look into his face.
What a strange and bold woman.
Regarding Qiao Mingjin's question, Wang's accountant kept his mouth shut and did not answer. Which accountant uses an abacus every day? This is the question.
Qiao Mingjin saw that he was silent and smiled, then took an abacus out of the bag he carried with him and handed it to him: "What do Wang Accountant think of my abacus?"
The Wang accountant was stunned for a moment, but after he took it and looked at it, his eyes lit up, and then he tried to pick it up with his hands.
Qiao Mingjin watched him start from trying cautiously, then slowly dialing the numbers, and then moving faster and faster.
Then I saw the surprise in his eyes.
Qiao Mingjin couldn't help but feel happy.
"What is this?" Wang Zhangfang asked, pointing to the piston in the upper left corner.
Just as Qiao Mingjin was about to reply, the king's accountant pressed the button himself. The mechanism connected to the back of the piston automatically moved the counting beads on the upper beam and lower beam back into place.
"good!"
The king's accountant said three words in a row, and while he was talking, he pressed the piston several times. He only heard the crackling sound of the beads being cleared.
"What's this called?"
"Call the liquidator."
The king's accountant had a rare smile on his lips after hearing this.
"Did you come up with this?" Wang Zhang looked at Qiao Mingjin and asked.
"Yes. It's what the little woman wants."
He glanced at his daughter and said: "My daughter didn't have any toys to play with since she was a child. When she saw her uncle's abacus, she grabbed it to play with. I thought this abacus can also exercise the child's patience, eyesight, brain power, and finger flexibility.
So I taught her how to play. I saw that her hands were small and the beads she picked often did not return to the right place. She either floated the beads or carried the beads, so I thought of this."
Qiao Mingjin said something that was either true or false.
Xiao Wan'er looked at her mother and blinked again and again. Qiao Mingjin felt ashamed and hurriedly stroked her daughter's head with her hand.
The king's accountant also glanced at Wan'er, who was sitting quietly listening to their conversation.
Then he looked at Qiao Mingjin and said, "Do you want me to buy your plan?"
Qiao Mingjin looked at him and smiled. "You can tell from Wang's accountant that it has been an accountant for many years. You don't need to say more. You can naturally see that my abacus is different from other abacus and that it is good."
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With that said, he pulled the abacus in front of the king's accountant, and in front of the king's accountant, he calculated once to add a hundred pieces, and then to subtract a hundred pieces.
Qiao Mingjin moved very quickly. With flying fingers, it only took less than thirty seconds to complete a set of adding a hundred pieces and subtracting a hundred pieces. In the eyes of today's people, it only took about ten breaths.
Wang Zhangfang's eyes changed from being calm at first to being attentive, and then to widening eyes.
In just a moment, the empty board was added with hundreds of stones, then subtracted from it, and returned to an empty board again.
The king's accountant no longer dared to look down upon the little woman in front of him.
"Have you studied?"
"Yes. I have learned it."
Just kidding, she has been learning it since elementary school.
She learned abacus when she was a child. Her parents were not at home, so she only had an abacus with her. She didn't like to go out to play, and her parents always said that there were too many cars on the street. So she stayed at home and played with abacus.
The flexibility of her fingers improved a lot. Later, she practiced counting money. She could count a stack of hundreds of hundred-yuan yarn in five seconds. She could also find counterfeit money among them.
The abacus examination is divided into expert level and ordinary level. Each level is divided into six levels. The worst is ordinary level 6. After passing the ordinary level one, you can take the expert level 6. The highest level is expert level.
Level one.
Qiao Mingjin is a level 3 expert.
Each set of test questions at the ordinary level and expert level is twenty minutes each. Addition and subtraction are ten minutes each, and multiplication and division are five minutes each.
There are ten addition and subtraction questions at the ordinary level. Each question has ten lines, and there are four mixed addition and subtraction questions. The expert level has twenty addition and subtraction questions, each question has fifteen to twenty lines, and there are eight mixed addition and subtraction questions.
The resulting number may also be negative.
Each line of the expert-level test questions has seven or more digits. In other words, for the expert-level addition and subtraction questions, it takes less than a minute to calculate 20 lines, and each line has more than seven or eight digits.
The numerical results come out.
With her strength and speed, it would be difficult to find many opponents in this era.
In Qiao Mingjin's era, education was all exam-oriented, and abacus was about speed and accuracy. You had to pass the exam. If you didn't pass, you wouldn't get the corresponding certificate. You could only keep practicing and calculating.
This is something that people of this era can understand.
The king's accountant only saw Qiao Mingjin's slender fingers flying, and after just a few breaths, the little woman in front of Baizi and Baizi was finished. There was no mistake or omission.
He was stunned.
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