Shen Zhiyao broke off a dry bamboo branch from Mrs. Wu's kitchen.
She took the bamboo branches and drew a table on the dirt.
"Use lines to draw grids as an aid, which makes it easier to see. One row, one column, and multiple grids form a table..."
She slowly talked about other uses of forms, and her words revealed that she was inspired by Mrs. Wu's drawings of bills on wooden boards.
As the two of them discussed, Madam Wu became more and more excited.
She didn't know how to describe it, she just felt that her ideas and things she had done were affirmed, and she was very happy.
"So, this form of recording method can be used in many places, but..."
Shen Zhiyao paused for a moment. She took the wooden board on which Mrs. Wu kept accounts, pointed to the vertical and horizontal bars on it, and said:
"Use these to represent numbers. If the amount is too large, it will be difficult to draw and count the specific amount."
After finishing her words, before Mrs. Wu could speak, Shen Zhiyao took out a piece of paper and charcoal and scribbled ten words.
"Ms. Wu, these are the numbers one, two...ten. Do you want to learn how to write them first? Once you can write numbers, you don't need to draw horizontal and vertical bars instead."
"My boss, I want to learn!" Madam Wu nodded without any hesitation.
Shen Zhiyao handed the paper to her: "Just write it down when you have time. I hope you will learn it as soon as possible."
Mrs. Wu took it with both hands, vowing in her heart that she would not disappoint her employer.
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Shen Zhiyao arrived at Aunt Chen's house the next day and saw that Carpenter Chen had completed ten valley windmills.
Since she said she wanted to sell the Valley Windmill last time, she has also been thinking about what kind of family the first batch of Valley Windmills will be sold to in the past few days.
However, now that Magistrate Gan has said something, the sale of the grain windmill must be slowed down.
With this in mind, Shen Zhiyao told Carpenter Chen and the others what she thought.
"Come in, come in and give it to the emperor!"
Carpenter Chen and Chen Zhu were stunned, and their eyes widened.
"Yes, I will give one to Magistrate Gan later." Shen Zhiyao nodded, "So I would like to ask Uncle Chen to make more windmills and sell them after the news comes from the capital. I will definitely sell more many. "
"In case the Valley Windmill is unfortunately not favored by the emperor, we can sell as much as we can. If we can't sell it, I will buy them all."
In order to put Chen Carpenter's mind at ease, Shen Zhiyao added.
"Zhiyao, your second aunt is here."
Aunt Chen's voice came from outside the house.
Second aunt? What does she want from me?
Shen Zhiyao and Chen Carpenter had almost finished talking. After hearing Aunt Chen's words, they stood up and walked out.
Arriving at the main room of Aunt Chen's house, Shen Zhiyao saw Liu Zhaodi playing with a bamboo dragonfly with Yue Ya.
"Zhiyao."
Seeing her coming, Liu Zhaodi stood up.
"Second Aunt, I wonder what you want from me?" Shen Zhiyao was a little curious.
Liu Zhaodi took out a purse: "Last time you helped Second Aunt, Second Aunt didn't thank you properly. This is the purse Second Aunt made for you. I hope you won't dislike it."
That day, Xiaocao heard that the old doctor could save her only because of Zhiyao's obstruction, so she wanted to thank Zhiyao.
But she couldn't come up with anything good, so she could only sew a purse from the fabric she saved every day.
"Second Aunt, the purse is very nice, thank you." Shen Zhiyao reached out and took it.
The fabric of this purse is ordinary, but the flowers embroidered on it are simple and elegant in color, and each stitch is so meticulous that it looks like it was woven by a machine.
It can be seen that the person who embroidered the purse is very careful.
After delivering the purse, Liu Zhaodi didn't stay much. She said goodbye and went back to Shen's house.
As soon as she returned home, Shen Qizhu approached her.
"Second sister-in-law, did you go to Chen's house next door? I heard that Shen Zhiyao was here. Didn't you go to find her?"
"I'm here to find Zhiyao." Liu Zhaodi walked into the house, took out a basket, and prepared to call Shen Xiaocao who was sweeping the floor to dig some wild vegetables together.
Shen Qizhu stopped her: "Why does Shen Zhiyao often go to Chen's house? Second sister-in-law, have you seen what they are doing?"
Liu Zhaodi didn't answer her. After calling Shen Xiaocao, she took Shen Xiaocao's hand and crossed Shen Qizhu. The two opened the fence gate beside the courtyard and walked away quickly.
"Wait until my mother comes back and see if I don't let her deal with you!"
Seeing Liu Zhaodi ignoring her, Shen Qizhu stared at her back, slammed the door in anger, and went into the house to continue embroidering the wedding dress.
After Shen Zhiyao brought the valley windmill back to Tongfang County, he drove the valley windmill directly to the county government on a donkey cart.
"Zhao Rufang, you have had nothing to do for six years and I haven't divorced you yet. What qualifications do you have to care about where my money goes?"
When passing by an alley, Shen Zhiyao suddenly heard a quarrel coming from inside.
"You can't have children like this. Only I don't dislike you. If you dare to tell your father about us, you will be the one who loses face."
The man's voice sounded arrogant.
"Okay, I won't tell you, and I won't ask about the money. Give me the wine in your hand, but you don't want to drink it."
The woman's voice was a little helpless.
Shen Zhiyao felt as if she had heard this sound somewhere. The moment the donkey cart passed by the alley, she turned her head and looked into the distance, and saw the shopkeeper of Yihua Pavilion and her husband.
With just one glance, Shen Zhiyao looked away and drove the donkey cart forward.
After she left, Zhao Rufang looked down in the alley, staring at the wine bottle in the man's hand, and continued: "Have you forgotten what you will do when you are drunk?"
"I won't do anything to you again." The man held on to the wine bottle.
Zhao Rufang frowned sullenly, not sure whether to believe what he said or not.
Shen Zhiyao had no idea what happened between the two of them.
She took the windmill to the county government office, and then she said her name, and the government officials welcomed her in.
Seeing Gan Lixin, Shen Zhiyao gave him the Gufengchao directly, and also told him the usage and some details of the Gufengchao.
Gan Lixin listened carefully. When Shen Zhiyao left the county government, he immediately began to write a memorial and began to prepare for sending the Gufengcha to the capital.
After Shen Zhiyao gave Gan Li a letter from Gu Fengche, he stopped paying attention to it for the time being.
She continued to run around Qinglian Lane, Pier and Zhuangzi every day.
After Mrs. Wu and the others had processed all the rice she should receive this year, Shen Zhiyao immediately pulled the donkey cart to collect it.
More than a dozen baskets and three buckets, all filled with white rice, were neatly placed in Mao Dazhuang's home.
Shen Zhiyao brought several large cloth bags. She handed the bags to Mao Dazhuang and He Wangluoquan and asked them to help put the rice into the bags.
They packed it, and Mrs. Wu and others were responsible for tying the mouth of the bag filled with rice tightly with hemp rope.
Several people divided the work and cooperated, and after a while, a dozen cloth bags were packed.
Shen Zhiyao put the scale he brought on the ground and prepared to move the bag to weigh the rice.
"Master, let me do it." Mao Dazhuang immediately stepped forward
Shen Zhiyao did not refuse.
After weighing all the rice, Shen Zhiyao calculated that she had a total of one thousand five hundred and twenty kilograms.
This is about the same as the expected yield rate of 70% per pound of rice.
