After this round of competition, the accounting clerk of Xie Mansion no longer dared to look down upon this young woman from the countryside.
It's really unreasonable that a little country woman can actually make abacus better than they, a group of old accountants with many years of experience.
It's accurate and fast. It can also use two abacus with two hands at the same time!
If they all learned this skill, then how could they, as a group, face the thick pile of account books that were taller than themselves?
The accountants who were watching on the side suddenly became jealous. They wished they could take out the things in Qiao Mingjin's head and put them in their own heads.
The young accountant who was competing with Qiao Mingjin had an even more complicated look on his face.
I originally thought that with this ability, I would be favored by the old man and taken into the mansion. I could earn a salary of ten taels a month and live in a comfortable place. No one could compare with me.
Little did he know that this country girl who appeared out of nowhere could be better at abacus than him.
The young man's face was blue and red.
Everyone had no time to look at him, and only stared at Qiao Mingjin with eager eyes. Xiao Wan'er was so frightened that she lay beside her mother's legs, looking timid.
The old man of the Xie Mansion was even more jealous. He pulled Qiao Mingjin on the spot and said, "Little lady, your surname is Qiao, right? I will give you twenty taels a month, no, fifty taels! You can stay in our house!"
Qiao Mingjin's face was sweating, and she said quickly: "Thank you for your kindness. I have a lot of things at home and my children are young. I really can't live in the city. I have to thank you for your kindness."
Mr. Xie didn't intend to let Qiao Mingjin go, and wanted to drag Qiao Mingjin into the inner hall to talk in detail.
Qiao Mingjin couldn't help it, so she had to say: "Thank you, old man. It's just that our family is here to sell this abacus today, and there are other brothers and sisters selling it nearby. And we still live in the countryside, and we have to rush back. Wait for me
After you are busy with this matter, come and visit me at home."
Then the old lady of Xie Mansion saw that he couldn't keep it, so he had no choice but to accept it.
He stamped his personal seal on the paper and placed the order with Qiao Mingjin as he said before the competition.
Qiao Mingjin originally wanted to say that this was too much. Previously, she was just looking down on the counting house, so she sold the abacus for two taels a handful, and the small abacus was priced at five taels.
I also saw that some of those people looked down on others, wanted low prices, and were arrogant. They insisted on raising some conditions and wanted to see if she could win in a trial before placing an order with her.
She then took a gamble and raised the price of the big abacus by fifty taels and the small abacus by ten taels.
This was a gamble.
I never thought of recruiting the old man from this house. He also increased the lottery bonus, doubled the order quantity, and added a bonus of one hundred taels.
These one hundred and twenty large abacus and sixty small abacus add up to one thousand two hundred taels!
Can these nearly two hundred abacus be used? There are so many accounting rooms?
She originally thought that there was no need to take the paper seriously, but unexpectedly, Mr. Xie pressed the seal.
This old man is a good man, doesn't he know what Qiao Mingjin is thinking?
Then he said: "Ms. Qiao, don't worry. There are more than ten or twenty people in the accounting office in my house. Each person is equipped with a big one and a small one, which is forty. And there are always some in my shop.
Set up one or two accounting rooms? Then you can’t have a lot of people? There are also various Zhuangzi, I’m afraid these are not enough. Even if there are many, my old man will give them to others, and others will only be grateful. This is a gift of abacus.
God of Wealth. How can anyone be immune to this?"
Qiao Mingjin laughed after hearing this.
Yes. Business people these days like to give abacus as a gift. Just like a pregnant woman gets a Guanyin statue to give her child.
It’s just that most people give away gold abacus. How can anyone give away a wooden one like this?
Then Mr. Xie glanced at her and said: "The price of your abacus is quite high. I'll give it away. I'm sure this abacus is like nothing they've ever seen before. How can I be unhappy? Besides, I don't take the money seriously."
Here, girl, just keep it. Remember, you promised me that you would be my accountant."
Qiao Mingjin felt ashamed. When had she promised to be the accountant of the Xie Mansion?
You want her to work for their family for one thousand two hundred taels?
Then the money is a bit less.
Qiao Mingjin didn't say anything, and he didn't promise you. He didn't sign the deed with you, and most importantly, he didn't tell you where I live.
The old man from the Xie Mansion glanced at Qiao Mingjin with his fox-like eyes. Little girl, do you think I don't know what you are thinking?
My old man has crossed more bridges than you have walked.
Qiao Mingjin, however, was filled with joy as she thought about the money she was about to get.
An order of one thousand two hundred taels! Plus a bonus of one hundred taels!
How much is this? Wow, wow, wow, that’s a lot of money!
What is this? This is an explosion of character. I, Qiao Mingjin, am about to turn around!
Wow haha.
Qiao Mingjin had an uncontrollable surprise on her face.
Then old man Xie glanced at her and cursed in his heart, Damn you, how could you be so happy with just one thousand taels of silver? He almost didn’t know what his last name was!
She just pretended not to notice, pulled Xiao Wan'er over and touched her left and right, and the two of them talked with their foreheads pressed against each other. Qiao Mingjin only glanced at them, and then followed the account manager to settle the bill.
The man counted thirteen 100-tael silver notes and gave them to her.
Qiao Mingjin took it, looked at it carefully, ordered it again, and then put it in her pocket.
Oops, will I be robbed?
Mr. Xie was really speechless when he saw Qiao Mingjin pressing her purse tightly with both hands and turning her eyes again and again.
One thousand taels of silver, if you rob it, you will rob it. Look at how useless it is!
She turned her head away from him and continued to whisper to Xiao Wan'er.
After Qiao Mingjin put away the banknote, she quickly took Xiao Wan'er and said goodbye.
It's better to leave early. That old man is very energetic.
By this time, it was already noon.
Qiao Mingjin took her daughter and went straight to Huitong Bank in the city.
After saving all the banknotes, I broke open the fifty taels of silver banknotes given by the king's accountant in the Lin Mansion and exchanged them for ten taels of broken silver and took them with me.
Seeing that it was getting late and my daughter looked a little confused, I picked her up.
As soon as the little thing was hugged by Qiao Mingjin, he wrapped his arms around his mother's neck and lay on Qiao Mingjin's shoulders.
"Is Wan'er hungry?" Qiao Mingjin asked, stroking her daughter's small back.
The little thing thought for a while and then said: "Well, Mom, Wan'er is hungry. Tangtang is gone."
Qiao Mingjin blamed herself for a while after hearing this.
Just now when we were in Xie's Mansion, my daughter whispered that she was hungry.
At that time, Qiao Mingjin was about to take a gamble with them, so she told her daughter to eat sweets when she was hungry, and she would not be hungry after eating sweets.
The daughter then ate the candy given by the boy from the Lin Mansion.
"It's mom. Can mom take our Wan'er to eat now?"
"Yeah." The little thing responded hesitantly.
After speaking, he raised his head and said to Qiao Mingjin: "Let's go find uncle and aunt and eat together."
Qiao Mingjin kissed her daughter's little face and said distressedly: "Okay, let's go find uncle and aunt."
The mother and daughter walked towards the street where they usually sell things.
Unexpectedly, they actually found Mingheng, Mingjue and others who were also looking for them.
"elder sister!"
Mingheng, Mingqi and Qiao Mingjin all rushed over excitedly when they saw him.
Qiao Mingjin looked at her excited younger siblings, and even the usually reserved Mingjue and the dull and talkative He Xiaochun had smiles on their faces.
The smile on Qiao Mingjin's face became even bigger.
"Come on, sister, I'll treat you to a restaurant today for a nice meal!"
"Yeah. Let's go to a restaurant and have a good meal!"
Mingheng and Mingqi were very excited, walking beside Qiao Mingjin one on the left and the other on the right.
Mingjue came over and took Wan'er: "Is Wan'er hungry?"
"uncle……"
"Be good. Uncle hugs you."
Mingjue couldn't help but feel heartbroken when he looked at his beaten niece.
I have only eaten a bowl of porridge before dawn this morning. Now, adults can still bear it, such a small child...
Unconsciously, she hugged Wan'er tighter.
"Let's go find something to eat quickly!" Mingjue said and strode forward with Xiao Wan'er in his arms.
The family found a pretty good restaurant and went directly to the second floor to get a private room.
After eating, Xiao Wan'er calmed down.
It made everyone feel heartbroken when they saw it.
The little thing said a few words to everyone, then obediently fell asleep in Ming Jue's arms.
Qiao Mingjin looked at her daughter's small body lying in Mingjue's arms and fell asleep tiredly. Her eyes were a little hot.
I think I need to make some changes. It doesn't matter if the adults suffer a little, but we can't let the children suffer too.
After eating, several people talked about the sales situation of the abacus this morning in the private room.
Mingheng said first.
Things went smoothly between him and He Xiaochun today.
Because they both went to shops on the street, and there was no way to place an order there, they took a fancy to it. If they thought the price was right, they just took it.
The two of them only brought two large ones each and two small ones as examples.
So they made a note of the people who wanted it, and in the afternoon they would go to Green Willow Villa to pick up the goods, and then deliver them to those stores one by one.
Mingheng could say that, but he persuaded more than forty shops to buy their abacus.
Some nearby shops are also very interested, but I still feel that one tael of silver is too high. I think if I wait and see for a while, there will be cheaper ones.
Anyone who opens a store or does business has a keen eye.
This thing looks good, and it's not difficult to imitate. I'm afraid you'll be able to buy it cheaper in a few days.
Mingheng and the others didn't care either. It was pretty good to be able to sell more than forty handfuls after just walking a few streets.
After they finished speaking, they both couldn't wait to go to Green Willow Villa to get goods to exchange for silver.
Ming Jue's side was also going well. There was an academy that was willing to sign an order with him for fifty pieces, but they were only willing to pay half a tael of silver.
Mingjue finally secured an order for a hundred pieces and signed for half a tael of silver.
Qiao Mingjin also told Mingjue about this price. After all, these scholars are different from the people she and Mingheng sell to.
In addition to this academy, he and Ming Qi also sold about twenty pieces sporadically.
I happened to come across another academy that had a break between classes, so I sold about twenty handfuls. I had to deliver them in exchange for silver in the afternoon.
They mainly spent too much time in that academy in the morning, so they only visited two academies and one private school.
Qiao Mingjin asked them to speed up in the afternoon and go to a few academies with many rich students. After all, not everyone can afford a poor student to spend a tael of money on an abacus.
If this academy moves slowly, imitators will come out in a few days and sell them at low prices. They want to seize the opportunity.
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