Chapter 36 Settling Accounts

"I'm back, I'm back, Fourth Uncle and the others are back..." Hearing the joyful voices of the children, the family put down their work and went to the gate of the courtyard to welcome them.

"It's all sold?!" Mrs. Zhou held the cloth bag containing the money, looked at the newly bought grain in the basket, and wondered if she was dreaming?

"Grandma, let me count." Jiang Yun tiptoed anxiously, the corners of his mouth almost grinning happily.

It can be regarded as making money...

Jiang Yang, who was unloading the food, heard the words: "We need to count and see if the number is correct."

This time, no matter the amount of income and expenditure is not small, I am afraid that it will be bad.

So the family returned to the main house with the things they bought and the remaining money.

Zhou Qiao carefully bolted the door of the main room, Jiang Miao took out and lit the only candle in the house, and the family sat around the dining table.

This is a rare large amount of income for the Jiang family, and it deserves to be taken seriously.

Liu Su held the bark and carbon sticks, "Let's talk about income first."

Old man Jiang and Jiang Bai looked at Jiang Yang.

Jiang Yang: "A tangerine-stuffed kudzu root powder drug store charges two cents, a total of 220 four, and four are considered gifts."

Liu Su nodded, wrote down the key figures on the paper, and then looked at Jiang Yun.

Without an abacus in hand, she couldn't calculate this number accurately, but she knew that Jiang Yun could do it.

The others only thought that Liu Su had taught Jiang Yun, and they were taking the opportunity to test her, and all looked at Jiang Yun expectantly.

In fact, Jiang Yun hasn't learned this yet, but she has already learned the basic addition, and she can still calculate it by making a detour.

I saw her writing and drawing on the bark with a carbon stick, muttering in her mouth: "One two Wen, that is, each counts twice. Among the 220, there are one two hundred and one twenty, one two hundred Counting twice is... two hundred plus two hundred..."

Jiang Yun stopped and snapped his fingers, "It's four hundred, and there are two counts of twenty, that's... forty, a total of... 440 words!"

Liu Su wrote it down.

Jiang Yang glanced at Jiang Yun with complicated eyes, and continued: "Eleven catties of uncaria, ten wen per catty."

"Ten wen per catty, ten ten wen is ten ten wen." Jiang Yun continued to snap his fingers, "ten wen, twenty wen, thirty wen... one hundred wen. And ten wen per catty, the total is... 110 wen !"

Liu Su wrote it down and asked for a sum by the way, "440 wen plus 110 wen is 550 wen."

Jiang Yun wrote and drew on the bark, then nodded.

Jiang Yang continued: "Chai sold for 45 coins."

Liu Su wrote down, "...that's a total of 590 five articles."

Hearing this result, everyone was silent, and then boiled up.

"I earned 590 yuan in one day!" Zhou Qiao grabbed Jiang Bai and said excitedly, "If I sell it again, I can buy a whole boar!!!"

Thinking of the fat and thick boar, everyone swallowed in unison, and even Liu Su felt a little hungry.

Fortunately, Mrs. Zhou is still sober, "What are you thinking, the money is brought by the strong wind? Can you earn 590 five cents a day? It took more than ten days to make kudzu root powder, and Uncaria, how much firewood did you burn into it?"

That being said, Mrs. Zhou still smiled so hard that her teeth could not see her eyes.

Although time-consuming and labor-intensive, as long as you have money to earn, what's the point of being a little bit tired? !Give her another ten days and she can do more!

Everyone thought the same way, wishing they could go into the mountain with a hoe now, dig kudzu roots, cut vines, and chop firewood.

Liu Suping regained his composure and brought everyone back to their thoughts, "Next, let's calculate the expenses."

Everyone came to their senses, yes!I even bought food!
Jiang Yang: "A bucket of wheat costs twelve Wen, and I bought two stones, which cost 240 Wen."

Jiang Yun counted with his fingers: "One stone is ten buckets... 240 words is right!"

Mrs. Zhou was very distressed, "When we sold grain, it cost ten yuan a bucket..." It was a big loss.

"One bucket of rice costs 26 Wen, and I bought five buckets, which cost 130 Wen."

After writing and drawing for a while, Jiang Yun said, "It took a total of 370 essays."

Granny Zhou felt even more distressed when she heard this, but eat the food tightly, at least it can last a month, and she can't care about the money.

Finally, Jiang Yang looked at Liu Su, "Sister-in-law's embroidery cloth shop is very satisfied, I first bought some good material and silk thread, and it cost 65 Wen. The shopkeeper of the cloth shop said, use this material to make embroidery like before. Items, one thirty cash."

While talking, he handed the purchased material and silk thread to Liu Su, "The shopkeeper said that these materials can be used for six embroidery pieces. Sister-in-law, do you think so?"

Liu Su couldn't help laughing after reading it carefully: "Yes, I can embroider six pieces within ten days."

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhou didn't feel sorry for the money for buying materials anymore.

Although there were only 160 Wen left in the end, but with such a large income in the cold winter months, Mrs. Zhou put away the copper coins contentedly, slapped the table, and said proudly: "Erlang, Shiro, move out the stone mill, Grind the noodles, and eat steamed buns tonight!"

The children immediately cheered.

After the steamed buns and vegetarian buns were steamed, a special sweet smell wafted from Jiang's kitchen.

Jiang Yun and the other children poked their heads outside the door, inhaling forcefully through their noses.

As soon as the buns came out of the pan, Jiang Yang held the steaming buns in his mouth and walked towards Mr. Su's house with a bamboo basket covered with a cloth, followed by three children who were devouring the buns.

After eating a vegetarian bun, Jiang Yang heaved a sigh of satisfaction.

"Yunniang, show me your bark." Jiang Yang waved to Jiang Yun behind him.

Jiang Yun reluctantly ate the last bite of the bun, took out the bark from his bosom and handed it to Jiang Yang.

Jiang Yang pointed to the formula listed in the two Arabic numerals on the bark and asked, "What does this mean?"

Jiang Yun pointed to each number and explained, Jiang Yang opened his mouth, "Is this what my sister-in-law taught you?"

Naturally, Jiang Yun couldn't say that this was the number used in the system, but since Jin Ba asked her to write it out, he naturally helped her think of an excuse.

"No, this is what I thought. It is too troublesome to write numbers when counting. It looks simpler and easier to write."

Jiang Yang: ...

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"Sir!" Jiang Yun and the three stood outside Mr. Su's courtyard and shouted in unison.

Mr. Su, who was collecting herbs in the yard, was taken aback by the loud shouts of the three of them. He turned his head and saw Jiang Yang, and knew that their trip down the mountain was smooth.

Compared with the three children, Jiang Yang who faced Mr. Su was much more cautious, "Sir, the family steamed some steamed buns and vegetarian buns tonight, and brought them for you to try."

Mr. Su didn't refuse this time, but accepted it with a smile.

As soon as Jiang Yang came, it was not Mr. Su's turn to collect herbs.

Mr. Su was sitting on the porch, eating hot tea with vegetarian steamed stuffed buns with great relish.

The three children sat aside and watched eagerly.

They are too young to drink hot tea.

As for the buns...

Mr. Su pushed the basket in front of them.

The three of them swallowed together, then shook their heads, resolutely resisting his temptation.

Mr. Su, who knew the three of them, nodded in satisfaction, and continued to eat steamed buns and listen to Jiang Yun talking about their family's harvest today.

At first, Mr. Su just listened casually. Jiang Yun used to talk a lot, and every day when he came to play chess, he would always chat with him about trivial matters at home. Mr. Su was used to it.

After hearing her open her mouth and count the numbers clearly, Mr. Su couldn't help but straighten up, "You did all the calculations yourself?"

 See you tomorrow~
  
 
(End of this chapter)

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