Manager Zheng hurriedly wiped the tea from his clothes and asked, "What?"
He just said casually that he didn't even know the answer to the question just now, and he also knew that it took a while to add up the numbers on the abacus, and he didn't believe that this little official from the Duzhi Yamen could tell them in one sentence.
Tang Ning looked at him and said, "Add them up one by one from one to one hundred. The answer is five thousand and fifty."
"Still trying to fool around!" Chief Zheng looked at him, snorted coldly, turned to look at the person following him, and said, "You figure it out!"
The man picked up the abacus and started counting immediately.
Tang Ning sat back down, picked up the tea cup, and drank tea leisurely.
The clerk from the household department was doing his abacus so fast that Tang Ning was dazzled by it. If he was comparing speed, he really couldn't beat these veterans who had been playing with abacus all their lives. But in arithmetic, besides calculations, there were also skills. Although he was doing abacus calculations,
Well done, but does he understand the arithmetic sequence?
He is also a person who has studied and passed the academic test. He is very knowledgeable about Chen Guo's mathematics level.
After drinking a cup of tea, the man put down his abacus. His forehead was sweating and his fingers were trembling. He looked at Mr. Zheng and said, "Sir, I have calculated it. The result is five thousand and fifty."
"Hiss..." Manager Zheng took a breath, a little disbelieving, but he didn't want to embarrass himself in front of his subordinates. He looked at Tang Ning and said, "From one to a thousand, if you can still calculate it..."
"Five hundred thousand and five hundred."
Before Chief Zheng finished speaking, he stopped abruptly. When he looked at the young official, the young official trembled and said, "Sir, I can't calculate the skill of drinking tea."
"I still don't believe it." Director Zheng looked at him and said: "Thirty-six, twenty-four, seventy-eight, ninety-five..., one hundred and thirty-six, what is the total of these numbers?"
"Three thousand six hundred and seventy-one."
Tang Ning looked at him and said something, and the gong sounded.
He stood up, looked at Mr. Chen, and said, "Mr. Chen, see you tomorrow."
Chief Zheng looked at the young official and said angrily: "What are you still doing in a daze? Forget it!"
The clerk picked up the abacus and said, "Sir, please tell me again."
"Thirty-six, twenty-four, seventy..." Director Zheng thought for a moment and said, "Did I just say seventy or more?"
When Tang Ning walked out of Duzhi Yamen, she found that many people were gathered outside the door.
When the officials saw him coming out, they all made way for a passage and looked at him very strangely.
Fang Xiaoyue jumped out from the side and said happily: "Brother Tangning, I heard it from outside just now. You are so awesome! I didn't even remember the numbers that person said, but you calculated it all at once!"
In fact, Tang Ning didn't remember the string of numbers that Director Zheng just mentioned, but he felt that Director Zheng couldn't remember them either, so he reported a random number.
Tangning touched her head and asked, "Are you waiting for your father here?"
"My dad will go back very late today." Fang Xiaoyue held his arm and said, "I will go back with you. I made an appointment with Xiaoxiao yesterday to go catch butterflies in the garden today..."
Two figures, one large and one small, walked out of Duzhi Yamen, and the many officials surrounding the door began to make an uproar.
"Doesn't he even have to think about this?"
"Yeah, he's too fast!"
"When did such a person come to Duzhi Yamen!"
"What kind of person is this? It seems to me like a master of abacus!"
…
While everyone was shocked and talking, Director Zheng said with a sullen face: "Before the superior officer leaves, the inferior officer will leave the office first. Mr. Chen, the new guy in your Duzhi office is quite arrogant."
Dr. Chen shook his head and said: "Master Zheng has misunderstood. Chief Tang's superior officer is not me. If you have any objections, you can go to the two ministers or the minister..."
Director Zheng was stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you mean?"
Doctor Chen looked at him and said, "He is the new Chief Tang."
Director Zheng was shocked and said: "What, he is Tang Ning!"
…
Tang Ning's first day at the Ministry of Household Affairs was actually quite peaceful.
It's just that if he was asked to settle the accounts for two days, but if he was asked to settle the accounts for three months, Tang Ning felt that he would collapse.
Putting aside other things for now, he had to learn abacus from Tang Yaoyao first.
Although he got over it today, he should still encounter situations in which he uses an abacus in the future. If someone discovers that he doesn't even know this basic skill, he will lose face.
He once saw Tang Yaoyao's abacus. Although she had no education, her abacus was so smooth that Tang Ning couldn't even see the movements of her hands.
Tang Yaoyao, who was reading the account books in the room, glanced up at him and asked, "You can't even do abacus?"
"..."
Tangning thought for a while and said, "Actually, I knew how to do it, but then I forgot about it after being hit by you. You have to be responsible for this matter."
Bo Yuntian, a woman from the Tang Dynasty who was chivalrous and courageous, took out her little white jade abacus neatly.
"I'll teach you the fingering technique first. Generally, you use three fingers to move the beads. The three fingers are the thumb, index finger and middle finger... What you are doing is not the fingering technique, that is chicken claws... The little finger is bent naturally. The thumb moves the beads down to the beam, and the index finger moves the beads.
"Xia Zhu Li Liang..."
The abacus seemed simple, but when Tang Ning started using it for the first time, her finger movements were still a little uncoordinated. Tang Yaoyao frowned, grabbed his hand, and said, "How many times have I told you, this is the correct posture..."
Although she danced with knives, guns and abacus all day long, Tang Yaojing's fingers were still exceptionally smooth and delicate. Not only that, they were also as cool as a silk.
"uh-huh!"
A deep voice came from the door. Rich Man Tang coughed heavily and said, "Yaoyao, come out for a moment. I want to talk to you about the wine shop."
Tang Ning was alone in the room fiddling with abacus for a while. Tang Yaoyao walked in again and said, "Do you have time? Let's go to the wine shop together."
"Okay." Tang Ning stood up, and when she and she walked out of the Tang Mansion, she looked at Rich Man Tang in the yard and said, "Uncle Tang, if his throat feels uncomfortable, you can eat some snow pear, which can moisten the lungs and reduce phlegm, reduce fire and clear away heat.
…”
Rich Man Tang glared at him and said loudly: "I'm not angry, so why bother!"
Tang Ning glanced at him and spoke as if she had eaten gunpowder. She also said that if there was no fire, Xue Li would have to eat at least two...
She and Tang Yaoyao looked at the wine shop that was about to open. She stayed in the shop while Tang Ning came back alone. When passing by Tian Tian Ju, she paused and thought for a while before walking in.
He walked to Su Mei's courtyard door and knocked on the door. Xiao Tao's head came out from inside, with an expressionless face. He turned around and said: "Miss, your medicine is here again!"
I didn't have time to talk to her last time, so I couldn't let her talk nonsense this time. Tangning walked into the yard, looked at her and said, "Xiao Tao, stop."
Xiao Tao turned around and looked at him calmly.
Tangning looked at her and said seriously: "I am a human being, not a drug."
Xiao Tao waved her hand and said: "It's all the same, you can call it whatever you like..."
"Stop." Tangning walked forward, looked at her, and said, "You are very disrespectful and rude."
Xiao Tao looked at him and said matter-of-factly: "But with you by my side, the young lady can sleep well. If you are not her medicine, what are you doing?"
Tangning reached out and gently pulled her face and said, "Miss Tao, if you are so rude again, I will punish you."
Xiaotao looked at him and said, "Xiaoqing, someone is bullying me."
Tangning looked around and asked, "What Xiaoqing?"
"hiss……"
Suddenly there was a faint sound in her ears. Tangning lowered her head and saw a green snake crawling out of her sleeve, crawling along her arm and onto her shoulder, spitting a snake message at him.
Tang Ning let go of the hand that was holding her cheek and walked towards Su Mei's room while smiling: "When is the time to retaliate? If there's anything we can't say properly, in this life, if you endure the calm for a while, take a step back and the world will be brighter..."
Su Mei was sitting at the table. When she saw him coming in, she asked, "What did you say to Xiao Tao just now?"
"It's nothing, I just taught her some principles of life." Tangning came over, sat down at the table, and asked, "She is a girl, and she actually carries a snake with her. How dangerous it is, you don't care if it bites her."
How bad it is to attract someone..."
"You mean her Xiao Qing?" Su Mei stood up and said, "Xiao Qing is a green snake. It is not poisonous and does not bite."
Tangning was stunned and said, "Even if you don't bite, scaring people is not good..."
He seemed to have remembered something, and suddenly looked at Su Mei, took two steps back warily, and said, "Don't you have snakes, scorpions, or other poisonous insects on your body?"
He knew that Su Mei knew more than just the art of charm, her bewitching skills were equally powerful.
Su Mei rolled her eyes at him and asked, "Don't you know if I have these things on me?"
