It is still the accounting office of Tongdatang...
Compared to yesterday when they were just strangers, today the two of them are obviously much more familiar with each other...
Pei Xueyan poured the tea, took out a piece of paper from the account book, handed it over and said, "Here, I copied the arithmetic you wrote last time."
"oh?"
Liu Shen took the paper and looked up and down in surprise, and muttered: "This arithmetic was indeed written when I was calculating the weight of the Bodhisattva statue that day, but this paper... why is it wrinkled like this?"
"..."
Pei Xueyan's face froze when he heard this, as if he had thought of something, and his earlobes felt a little hot.
She stretched out her hand and tied the broken hair behind her ears to hide her evasive eyes, and said casually: "I copied it down that day, but I couldn't understand the arithmetic. I was a little annoyed, so I crumpled it into a ball."
"I see…"
Liu Shen nodded and didn't pay much attention. He smiled and said, "Arithmetic is a very broad and profound subject. If you have anything you want to ask, you can just say it."
He has the blessing of Su Hui, and others dare not say that, even in the area of spells, compared to people of his time, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a dimensionality reduction attack...
"This...this..."
Pei Xueyan came to his side, pointed at the small characters representing volume and cube on the paper, and asked hopefully: "What do these symbols mean?"
"..."
Liu Shen thought of Su Huizhong's junior high school physics knowledge and opened his mouth, but for a moment he didn't know how to explain the concepts of 'volume' and 'cubic' to her...
Just now he was confident about asking for advice on arithmetic, but now he was embarrassed. The key was not because he didn't know how to teach him, but because he didn't know how to teach him...
"..."
Liu Shen was silent for a while and then said: "Young lady, please forgive me, this thing is a bit too much for you now."
Pei Xueyan blinked blankly when he heard this and asked, "What is super class?"
"It's just too difficult..."
"..."
The two people in the room looked at each other and fell silent.
Pei Xueyan was so shocked that he expressionlessly took out an account book from the side and an abacus, and put them in front of him.
Looking at Liu Shen's puzzled gaze, she said numbly: "If you can calculate the accounts in this account book within half an hour, I will believe what you say."
"..."
Liu Shen also knew that although what he just said was true, it was somewhat hurtful, so he did not refuse at the moment, took the account book and started reading it without saying a word.
Pei Xueyan looked at him curiously and saw that he was not using the abacus. Every time he flipped through one page of the account book, he only paused for a few breaths before flipping to the next page. She thought he was going through it in advance and then doing the calculations.
But as she looked at it, she felt something was wrong, because the account book was almost finished.
"Are you... forgetting it?"
"Forget it."
"Then you don't need abacus?"
"Need not…"
Liu Shen learned to be smart this time. He didn't say anything like "My mental arithmetic is faster than an abacus" or "There's no need for it" that hurt self-esteem. Instead, he said: "I am calculating in my mind..."
"Have you got a plan in mind?"
Pei Xueyan chuckled, obviously thinking of some ambiguities, and joked: "Then what is your plan?"
"alright…"
"Ah? What's better?"
"Forget it."
In order to avoid blurting out and hurting others, Liu Shen pretended to pinch his fingers, and then said: "The total account number in this account book is two thousand seven hundred and forty-six taels."
"..."
Pei Xueyan blinked blankly, as if he couldn't believe that someone could calculate the accounts so quickly.
She called the shopkeeper, gave him the account book, and said: "Find out the accounts, remember to find a few more clerks, and be sure to do it quickly."
"yes…"
The shopkeeper of Tongdatang didn't know why, and thought there was something wrong with the accounts, so he hurriedly called a few clerks to settle the accounts.
Pei Xueyan, on the other hand, had dull eyes and said nothing, as if his self-confidence had been greatly affected.
About the time of a stick of incense.
The old shopkeeper and several other people made the calculations, presented the account book and said: "Back to Young Madam, the total account is two thousand seven hundred and fifty-six taels."
"Wrong! Liu Shen, you calculated wrong!!"
When Pei Xueyan heard that the answer given by the old shopkeeper was different from Liu Shen's, her eyes suddenly brightened and she shouted, "Liu Shen, did you hear that? You made a mistake in your calculation!"
It seemed that only Liu Shen's miscalculation could make her feel that she was not so stupid...
"..."
Liu Shen curled his lips, took the account book, looked through it briefly, and said, "The shopkeeper just did the accounting because there were so many people talking. He must have made a mistake. Why don't you do it again?"
The old shopkeeper's face froze, and he was about to retort when he saw the young lady looking at him with an unkind expression. He was frightened and quickly took the account book and recalculated it with several clerks.
After a while...
After confirming it again and again, the old shopkeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead, presented the account book again, looked at the old face and said: "Young lady, what this guest officer said is right, the calculation just now was really wrong, the correct account should be two thousand Seven hundred and forty-six taels is right.”
"Two thousand seven hundred and forty-six taels..."
After hearing this number, Pei Xueyan covered her mouth and asked with disbelief: "Are you sure this number is correct?"
"I am sure…"
The old shopkeeper didn't know why the young lady was so surprised, but he knew that this matter was related to his job. He immediately patted his chest and promised: "I was just too quick, and there were some small mistakes. This time, I calculated carefully with a few of the guys and checked it several times. , there is absolutely no possibility of error, it is two thousand seven hundred and forty-six taels."
"..."
Pei Xueyan's eyes kept lingering on Liu Shen and the old shopkeeper. After a long time, he waved his hand and motioned for them to leave.
Liu Shen drank tea leisurely, and after seeing everyone left, he joked in a teasing tone: "Young lady, you should believe it now, right?"
"I believe it..."
Pei Xueyan's expression was very complicated. On his face, he showed the dissatisfaction of being hit, but in his heart, he was secretly delighted: "What kind of jade is this? This is obviously a treasure."
She seemed to have thought of something, her eyes moved slightly and she said, "Liu Shen, can you do me a favor?"
"Young mistress, you are out of town, aren't you?"
Liu Shen smiled and said: "My young lady helped me solve the livelihood problem of brother and sister Yuan Xiaofei and Yu Hong with just one word. This is a big favor for me. I will remember this favor."
His voice paused and he said seriously: "Young lady, if you have any questions, please speak up. As long as it's something Liu can do, I won't say anything!"
"Okay, okay..."
Pei Xueyan said hello three times before she suppressed her mood and said, "I would like to ask you to help me check the accounts of the Song family's property!"
"Checking the accounts of the Song family's property with the young mistress?"
Liu Shen frowned slightly when he heard this, and asked rather puzzlingly: "The Song family has been established in Heyang County for many years, and has a lot of properties. Why do I ask you, young lady, to check the accounts in person?"
“It’s not what it used to be.”
Pei Xueyan seemed to have thought of something sad, and explained rather resentfully: "The only son of the Song family, my husband, died of illness a year ago. Now Mr. Song is old, and his body is also suffering from the pain of losing his son. Things are getting worse and worse, and there is no one to inherit this huge family fortune, what can we do?"
"Young mistress is a widow?"
Liu Shen grabbed the keyword and blurted it out, but regretted it as soon as he said it, and hurriedly explained: "Sorry, I didn't mean that."
"what does that mean?"
Pei Xueyan glanced at him in surprise and said, "My husband is ill in bed. The Song family married me as a surprise, but I became a widow less than half a year after we married. Isn't this known to everyone in the south of the city?"
"..."
Liu Shen was silent, but wanted to say that I am a worker who sold myself at the dock, not from the south of the city...
