Chapter 174: Settlement
"The files from Gusu have been delivered to Dali Temple, and Wen Po is also there. I'm going to check." Zhao Yuanxun stood up, "Also, I want to ask why Wei Qiu was exiled instead of beheaded.
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The eldest lady nodded: "You have to ask."
But she is not worried about this. If Cen Taifu and the others take action, they will definitely not give Wei Qiu a chance to make a comeback; if Liu Chengde's grandson died in Wei Qiu's hands, they will definitely not let him go. Do something on the way to exile.
What kind of hands and feet can make him die an unexpected death? Don't make it too easy.
"Have you taken care of Li Mu and Po Wen's place?" the eldest lady asked.
Zhao Yuanxun nodded: "Li Mu killed someone, he must die. Mr. Liu is watching, and no one dares to protect him. However, his wife, a pair of children, and Grandma Li all got angry after being scolded by the cane."
The same goes for selling Wen Po. When the time comes, I will ask someone to sell them, treat their injuries, and let them go free after their injuries are healed. This will be regarded as fulfilling my promise."
The eldest lady said: "They are the knives in the hands of the Wei family. Although it is the Wei family who used the knife to kill people, they are not completely innocent. But after all, they helped us, and they said they would save their lives at the beginning. Now it does not count.
I have broken my trust."
She asked someone to go to the kitchen to bring a breakfast for Zhao Yuanxun to eat on the way, and watched him leave.
She ate some snacks by herself and sat down at the table to put together her account.
Because the family was about to be separated, she had been collecting the property and checking the account books during this period.
Worried about Wei and Zhao Yuankun discovering clues, everything was done secretly, so the process was very slow, and the accounts have not been settled yet.
Aunt Zhou felt sorry for her hard work, and wanted to promote the mother-daughter relationship between her and Xu Xi, so she suggested: "Why don't you invite the fifth girl to come and have a look. She should also be learning arithmetic in the academy, and she should be able to help you. Besides, girl
Now that I'm fourteen, it's time to learn to keep an accounting book."
"It's true." The eldest lady smiled, raised her head and told Cai Die, "Go and call the fifth girl."
Xu Xi heard Cai Die say that the eldest lady wanted to ask her to settle accounts, so she came without saying a word.
The academy was going to hold arithmetic classes, and the imperial examinations were about to be taken. However, the arithmetic master originally invited got sick, so the academy gave the class to other arithmetic masters. When the arithmetic master came back from illness, the arithmetic class would be given to him.
So until now, she still doesn't know what level of arithmetic is in this world.
However, the glory of Queen Shengyao shines on the Jin Dynasty. She should have brought advanced arithmetic to the world, right?
But when she arrived at Longyuyuan and saw the eldest lady's account book, she gave up the idea.
There were no Arabic numerals and no advanced accounting methods. It seems that the glory of Queen Shengyao did not shine in the field of mathematics; or perhaps, it did, but the eldest lady Zhu did not get this sunshine.
In her previous life, she was good at computers, but she couldn't do abacus.
"Mom, I can do mental arithmetic, but I can't use arithmetic chips. I'll do the math for you and see if it's right. If it's right, I'll do part of the math for you using mental arithmetic. How about that?" she said.
The eldest lady asked her to come over, but she didn't expect her to help. Just like Aunt Zhou said, she just asked her to come over and learn how to take care of the account book.
"Okay, forget it then." The eldest lady smiled.
"I won't disturb you, I'll go over there." Xu Xi pointed to the corner next to him.
If it were before, the eldest lady might not be happy. But this is her own cub, and it doesn't matter what she does. The eldest lady has the tolerant heart of an old mother.
She said nonchalantly: "Go ahead, go ahead."
So several servants helped Xu Xi move the Eight Immortals table from the middle of the room to the corner, and placed it as Xu Xi requested. They also moved a few account books to the table. They made tea for her and served it again.
A plate of snacks.
Xu Xi sat down, with the wall behind him and the window on the side. The scenery outside the window was unique; the room was spacious, and it was quite far away from the eldest lady, so the privacy was excellent. As long as the servants were not allowed to disturb him, what would Xu Xi do?
It doesn't matter how you settle the accounts.
After sending Qing Feng away, Xu Xi followed the eldest lady's request to calculate the accounts.
Because Xu Xi has to teach painting, Xu Xi is locked up in Xinlan Courtyard and has nothing to do these days. Apart from practicing calligraphy every day, memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics to get marks, he is also tinkering with his paintbrush.
This so-called paintbrush is to ask the kitchen to use hard miscellaneous wood to burn a lot of charcoal sticks; then ask them to cut small bamboo strips, cut them in half, sandwich the charcoal strips in the middle, and then wrap them tightly with cloth strips. The original
The pencil came into being.
One of the advantages of being in the exploiting class is that if you just talk, the servants will break their legs. Xu Xi didn't even have to do it himself. Qing Feng, Dian Jiang, and Yicui made one or two hundred sentences in a few days.
Such a simple pencil comes.
Xu Xi knew that he had to settle accounts, so he brought the pencil.
Use a pencil to convert the uppercase Chinese numbers into Arabic numerals on the paper, and then make the equations. In just a few minutes, a page of accounts will be ready.
The eldest lady was working hard over there with the abacus. Before one of the account books was finished, Xu Xi shouted: "It's done." Looking up, she saw that the five account books she had taken were placed in front of her eyes.
"You mean, you've already done all this?" the eldest lady asked in surprise.
"Yeah." Xu Xi said, "There are eight mistakes."
"Let me take a look." The eldest lady finished counting her page, wrote down a number on the side, and then took the place marked by Xu Xi and started counting.
In order not to disturb the mother and daughter settling their accounts, the servants were all waiting outside. Only Aunt Zhou was sitting in the corner silently.
Seeing this scene, she stretched her neck and looked this way, as if she could clearly see the accounts calculated by the eldest lady.
"Hey, that's really wrong." The eldest lady checked the figures she calculated with the original account books, then looked at the figures calculated by Xu Xi, and found that they were the same as Xu Xi's.
She raised her head and glanced at Xu Xi in surprise, then turned to the second mistake and counted it again.
After finishing the calculation, she let out a breath of relief or regret, and said to Xu Xi: "My calculation here is different from yours." Well, it is also different from what is in the original account book.
"Then you can do the math again." Xu Xi was very confident in himself.
She always got perfect marks in mathematics. If she hadn't liked to study design, her mathematics teacher would have forced her to apply to the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University when she was taking the college entrance examination.
It was different from the figures in the original account book, so of course the eldest lady had to calculate it again. When she reported the figures for the second time, her eyes widened - just like Xu Xi's.
Now, she was convinced. After all the eight mistakes were taken care of, her eyes sparkled when she looked at Xu Xi.
Parents always put heavy filters on their children. In the past, she would have asked Xu Xi how he calculated it.
Chapter completed!