Pulling his thoughts back from his memories, Yu Qiuping rubbed his temples to calm down, continued to pick up small wooden sticks and lined them up on the sand table, calculating the account list sent by a restaurant in the morning. This business can bring him
35 cents is a lot of money, enough to cover one day's expenses and still have a balance.
But Yu Qiuping looked at the expensive set of furniture behind him. Well, it totaled 26 pieces, which was 26,000 yuan. How many days would he have to earn to pay back the money to Asahina Taehyung?
"Hey," Yu Qiuping sighed sadly, pinning the bangs on his forehead to the left with his left hand, and speeding up writing. "After finishing this order, I'll go to the silk shop to help settle the accounts today." He thought secretly.
Counted in.
Suddenly, the right hand holding the wooden stick was patted, and the half-written vertical strokes were also scratched in a mess. Yu Qiuping looked up to his right hand side again with some helplessness, and sat next to his counter, crossing his legs on the table
Asahina Taehyung above. To be honest, Asahina Taehyung is actually quite handsome, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but the ruffianism he exudes from the inside out makes him look more like a gangster boss - in fact
indeed so.
"How did you calculate that just now?" Asahina Taehyung asked the question in slow Japanese. In fact, although Yu Qiupei has practiced Japanese for a month and is not good enough, but for this sentence, Asahina Taehyung does not need to slow down his speaking speed.
Can understand - because he has been pestering Yu Qiuping to ask the same question a hundred times for four days.
Ever since Asahina Taehyung happened to pass by Yu Qiupei's shop after returning from a hunting trip five days ago, and discovered that Yu Qiupei's way of settling accounts was very novel, he had a new hobby - watching Yu Qiupei's vertical accounting. All day long.
Tiandi sat next to Yu Qiuping's counter, staring at every step like a child, and always asking questions about things he didn't understand.
This abnormal phenomenon attracted the attention of the entire Sunpu City. The residents of Sunpu City were surprised to find that the arrogant Asahina Ergong had not been playing in the market for several days. The soldiers at the city gate also began to wonder why he had not been playing in the market for several days.
Seeing Asahina Taehiro and his attendants returning to the city with a large number of prey, the singers in the whale house in the city were also confused as to why Asahina Taehiro had not come to have fun for several days. Even Asahina Taehiro's brother
, Asahina Taitomo was also at a loss because of his younger brother's sudden change of gender. It is said that this incident also alarmed Imagawa Yoshimoto, the governor of the Imagawa family, and the rulers of Mikawa, Toe, and Suruga.
After people discovered that Asahina Taehyung had been holed up in a cashier's shop for four consecutive days, business in Yu Qiuping's shop suddenly boomed. He originally waited for an order for two or three days, but now he has to take two or three orders a day.
Business. It was originally a good thing, but the endless interruptions and questions from Asahina Taehyung beside him caused his calculation efficiency to drop sharply.
"Brother, can we talk later, let me finish this business first?" Yu Qiuping pushed Asahina Taehyung's hand away with an impatient expression, and Kondo Yasuzo behind him was sweating coldly. If
At first, Yu Qiuping's lack of politeness could be thought to be because he didn't understand Japanese etiquette and didn't know how noble Asahina Taehyung's status was, so a month later, his still "you and I are equal" attitude is a bit too much.
However, Asahina Taehyung, who has always been very face-conscious, was not angry at Yu Qiuping's rudeness. "Okay," he took his hand back depressedly and continued to rock his stool back and forth, "for the sake of calling me big brother.
Come on, let you do the math first."
Half an hour later, Yu Qiuping took a breath, put down the wooden stick in his hand, and wrote down the last few accounts on the account book with a brush. The manager of the restaurant waiting on the side quickly took the account book and looked through it hastily.
After a few pages, he couldn't help but admire: "The calculations are really fast, much faster than those of us guys with abacuses."
"It's just these symbols, eh, really." The shopkeeper scratched his head with little hair left, looked at the Arabic numerals and the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division symbols on the sand table in Yu Qiu and sighed, "Hey, I'm old, look.
I don’t know what these are.”
After the shopkeeper handed the reward to Yu Qiuping, Yu Qiuping turned around and put part of it into the bag containing money next to him, then picked up the bag and put it on the table, pushing it in front of Asahina Taehyung.
"Sir, this is a lot of money. Let me pay it back to you first," Yu Qiuping said as he put the remaining few pennies into his pocket. "It will probably take some time to pay off the remaining 25 yuan."
"What the hell?" Asahina Taihyung frowned and pushed the money bag back to Yu Qiuping, "Who asked you to pay back the money? Those furniture were given to you!"
"Sir, you..." As soon as Yu Qiuping finished speaking, he was immediately interrupted by Asahina Taehyung.
"Call me brother!" he snorted.
"Okay, okay, brother," Yu Qiuping smiled, "Brother, I'm very grateful for your kindness in helping me settle down. As for these furniture, I really don't dare to ask for them. I will slowly earn money and return it to you."
"Boy, what do you mean?" Asahina Taehyung glared at Yu Qiuping, "Do you look down on me? I am still short of this money by Asahina Taehyung?"
"Brother, it doesn't matter whether you are short of this amount of money. The important thing is that I don't want to owe you money." Yu Qiuping reluctantly pushed the money bag back to Asahina Taehyung, "I don't like the feeling of being given charity.
, I want to support myself, otherwise I will feel very uncomfortable in front of you, brother. This is my principle."
"Hey, you are really bad. You don't want the furniture that was given to you for free. This is two years of living expenses for an ordinary family." Asahina Taehyung waved his hands in confusion, "It's funny, I saw you right at that time."
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"Forget it," Asahina Taehyung shrugged, "I'll take these furniture back for my own use, and I'll give you a cheaper one that only costs two or three dollars, okay?"
"Thank you so much, brother." Yu Qiuping sighed with relief, "Finally, I don't have to pay off my debt for two years."
"Eating dirt? What does that mean? It sounds interesting, hahahaha..." Asahina Taehyung jumped from behind the counter to the front of the counter like a carp, "Okay, brother, I'm going to find some dirt to eat. I'll ask you later.
How do you calculate these things?" After that, he left in a hurry.
After he couldn't wait to get rid of the annoying Asahina Taehyung, he didn't realize that he had been tricked until two minutes later - the bag of money was still on the table.
"No wonder he walked so fast, I really thought he was eating dirt." He muttered resentfully.
"Ping-kun, the shopkeeper of the silk shop is here." Yasuzhuang Kondo pointed at the round figure walking in the distance on the South Street, interrupting Yu Qiuping's meditation.
"Okay, okay," Yu Qiuping cleared the things on the table and wiped the dirty counter that was stepped on by Taehyung Asahina. "Let's get started."
Two months later, Yu Qiuping has gradually integrated into the society of Japan during the Warring States Period, and the debt he owed to Asahina Taiheng has finally been paid off. Without the burden of debt, Yu Qiuping suddenly felt that he was much less motivated to work and tired.
It also came like a tide. On May 28, the first year of Yonglu (1558), Yu Qiuping felt extremely tired after calculating accounts all morning, and his neck was so sore that he could hardly stand up, so he hung out after lunch.
There was a closing sign and I planned to go shopping around Sunfu Castle.
Walking along Junfu's South Street towards the south gate, the roadside is lined with shops of various sizes, and beyond are rows of residential areas. The merchants coming and going inject commercial vitality here.
From time to time, large groups of horse-drawn carriages transport goods into Sunfu Castle, waiting to check in at the hotel door. People on the street seem to have long been accustomed to a peaceful and relaxed life, wandering around in twos and threes, and the tempting aroma emanating from the food stalls attracts children.
Holding the lapels of my parents' clothes, I stumbled over to buy something to eat. There seemed to be a strange dance going on in the distance. The spectators gathered in circles on three floors and three floors outside, standing on tiptoes to see clearly inside.
What happened? Two or three children were holding candied haws in their hands, riding on their father's neck and laughing loudly at the performance.
Occasionally, some tightly covered oxcarts passed by on the road. Yu Qiuping thought at first that the people inside were dignitaries. It was not until the owner of an oxcart accidentally raised the curtain that the cheeks of two girls were revealed. Yu Qiuping
Qiuping just glanced at it and turned away unhappily. The girl's cheeks were covered with thick powder, painted like facial makeup. She looked sick, lifeless and lacked the vitality of a girl. However, this style of dressing was
It seems that there is still a trend for Suruga to become a palace minister. At least those upper-class women who are different from the common people all dress like this.
Walking further south, you can vaguely hear the sound of loud cheers. After passing a large store and turning a corner, Yu Qiuping finally found the source of the sound - a Cuju field. There were more than a dozen Cuju fields in that area.
, among them, there were many people surrounding the middle one, which was the busiest, so Yu Qiuping walked straight towards the middle.
In the Cuju field, which is about half the size of a football field, there are currently 12 people divided into two teams and fighting hard to separate themselves. On both sides of the Cuju field, there are two tall wooden boards erected at the bottom line.
There is a hole in the middle, which is the so-called Fengliu Eye. Players from both teams have to work hard to shoot the ball into the Fengliu Eye in order to score. Cuju is very similar to modern football, except that the gate standing on the ground becomes a gate in the air.
hole, and no goalkeeper.
The Cuju field was filled with dust and the scorching sun was in the sky. Even the people surrounding the field shouting were sweating profusely, but the people in the field continued to fight without realizing it. On the side of the field, there were two rows of lanterns hanging on each side.
It was used for scoring. The team on the left had two lanterns, and the team on the right had one lantern. Yu Qiuping glanced at the ground, and there were still two lanterns that had not been hung up.