Chapter 26: Teaching literacy, Xingyun is a math genius?
Mrs. Liu called Cai'er, and Cai'er told her everything about the purchase. Liu Cong seemed to be thinking about something.
"Business is so good on the first day of opening. It really has a bright future."
"Madam, do you think we at Weixianju can cooperate with her?"
Mrs. Liu's heart moved, and she smiled and said, "Master, this is a good idea, but I don't know if the other party is willing."
"Well, let's ask the owner of Weixianju the day after tomorrow."
Liu Cong nodded, not knowing that the other party was Xiao Ying who had come to redeem his son a few days ago.
While the two were talking, Liu Zhao had already gone to the backyard and found Chen Xinghe who had just finished his meal.
As a servant, Chen Xinghe naturally had no right to sit at the table and had to eat with the maids and servants in the mansion.
He is reading a book in the house at the moment, with a focused look on his face.
"Stop looking and come eat."
Liu Zhao took out the book in his hand, sat down on the table, and took out two potato pancakes from his sleeve as if presenting a treasure.
"This is called potato omelet. It's delicious. My dad raves about it. I managed to sneak two pieces in for you."
As he said this, he stuffed it into Chen Xinghe's hand. Chen Xinghe was confused and moved.
Potatoes, what is that?
"Have you eaten yet?"
He handed a piece to Liu Zhao, but Liu Zhao refused and swallowed.
How could Chen Xinghe not know him? He stuffed the food directly into his mouth. Liu Zhao smiled and ate with him.
Chen Xinghe ate it in small bites and found that it tasted really good, which made him even more curious about this potato.
"How is it? Is it delicious? I originally had another dish called Tiancan Potato, but it was served cold, so I couldn't bring it to you."
"According to Cai'er, the vendor selling these two snacks just opened their shop for the first time today, and business is booming. How about we secretly go over there and buy some to try the day after tomorrow?"
Liu Zhao winked and said, this thing only costs five cents per portion. He only has one or two ounces of silver in pocket money a month, which is enough to buy a lot.
"You want to skip class again?" Chen Xinghe was speechless.
Liu Zhao said seriously, "Don't talk about those spoilers. We must go early the day after tomorrow. If we go too late, it will be gone."
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Xiao Ying didn't know that his snacks had been targeted by two major restaurants.
After selling the things, he took his three children shopping.
First of all, eggs are indispensable for making potato omelets, and I can eat them myself, so I bought more than a hundred at once.
Then there are the seasonings. I bought a lot of each, and the cold potato strips were quite wasteful.
Then he went to the paper shop and bought a stack of the lowest quality paper. Even so, it still cost him four hundred coins.
Xiao Ying didn't buy any brushes, ink, or inkstones. He didn't plan to teach them calligraphy. Not only was it difficult to learn, it was also slow to write. Anyway, they weren't going to take the imperial examinations.
She thought that when she had the chance in the future, maybe she could try making paper.
"Mom, are you going to teach us how to write?"
Chen Xinghai felt that this was too wasteful. Just this pile of paper had taken away almost half of the money he had earned in the morning.
He knew that he was not good at studying, and his two younger sisters had never had any contact with it.
Even if you're learning to write, just draw on the ground.
"Well, I have to teach you arithmetic, so that you won't be unable to do business and calculate accounts."
Xiao Ying couldn't do everything by herself, so she would slowly hand it over to the children in the future.
The three of them blushed. They could still count simple things, but they couldn't figure out if there were five or six pancakes.
After buying the paper, I went to buy some vegetables, two pieces of coarse cloth, a few stools, and some hair ties.
Seeing that it was getting late, he went to a noodle shop to have lunch and then slowly went home.
After arriving home, Xiao Ying did the math and found out that he had sold a total of 1,025 coins today, mainly because he had a few more Tiancan potatoes.
The cost was about three hundred coins, so the profit was only seven hundred coins.
And today I spent more than one or two taels of silver on buying things, which means I am not making enough money.
“It’s still too slow.”
She shook her head dissatisfiedly. If this continued, when would she be able to buy land and build a house?
She wanted to build a comfortable courtyard house made of bricks and tiles, which would cost at least a hundred taels of silver. It would take a long time for her to save enough money.
I still have one piece of Ganoderma lucidum and one of ginseng. If it doesn't work out, I'll sell one of them.
She tapped the table lightly with her fingers. It would be great if she could cooperate with the restaurant. She could directly provide potatoes and recipes, which would not only save time and effort, but also make more money.
You can go and see it the day after tomorrow.
Since Xiao Ying had nothing to do in the afternoon, he began to teach the three of them arithmetic.
Each person took a piece of charcoal and started writing and drawing in the yard.
Xiao Ying thought about improving this thing and making it into a charcoal pencil so that he could write on paper.
She first taught the three children how to write numbers from one to ten and three ways of counting.
The first is the capitalization of local characters: one to ten, the same as Chinese characters.
The second is lowercase: one to ten.
The last type is the simplest Arabic numerals: 1 to 10.
As expected, the last one is the easiest to remember, the second one is also okay, and only Chen Xinghai can barely write out the first one.
Xiao Ying simply wrote three copies on paper and asked them to carry them with them and read them at any time. They would naturally remember them after reading them many times.
After dinner, he taught for another half an hour. This time he taught addition and subtraction within ten. The three of them studied very seriously and memorized it almost overnight.
Xiao Ying found that Chen Xingyun learned very quickly and was able to apply what he learned to other situations, which surprised her a lot.
This child might have some talent for mathematics, so she decided to change it the day after tomorrow and let Chen Xingyun collect the money.
The next day, the family of four started making snacks again. This time, they made 150 servings of each kind. Chen Xinghai also picked more lotus leaves and reed leaves.
In their spare time, Xiao Ying continued to teach them arithmetic. Today they taught the multiplication table. The three of them recited it while eating and going to the toilet. Chen Xingyun was the first to finish.
After dinner, Xiao Ying specially tested them. Chen Xingyun could answer almost all the questions without any mistakes.
"Xingyun is very talented in arithmetic. You will collect the money tomorrow."
Xiao Ying smiled with satisfaction and praised.
"Don't worry, Mom. I will collect the money carefully and will not make any mistakes."
Chen Xingyun was extremely happy. She didn't expect that she had such a talent.
My third uncle Chen Tong works as an accountant at Manxiangyuan in town because he is good at math, and he earns one or two taels of silver a month.
The other two were a little frustrated. They still hadn't memorized even the multiplication table.
"You don't have to be sad. Everyone is good at different things. Just do your best."
How could Xiao Ying not see what they were thinking? So he comforted them.
"But I don't know what I'm good at." Chen Xingyue pouted and lowered her head.
"Me too." Chen Xinghai echoed.
He felt so useless. A few days ago, his mother asked him what he liked, but he still couldn't figure it out.
Xiao Ying said, "That's simply because we haven't encountered anything you're good at yet. Before today, we didn't know Xingyun was good at arithmetic."
The two of them thought it made sense, and perhaps they really did have something they were good at.
Before returning to the house, Xiao Ying still helped Chen Xinghai treat his foot injury.
After a few days of treatment, Chen Xinghai felt that his foot had improved a lot, and he didn't limp as badly when walking these past two days.
Xiao Ying was quite satisfied with the progress and thought he would be fully recovered in a few days.
The next morning, the family of four went to the town again, still at the same stall as last time. After paying the management fee, they started setting up the stall.
Unexpectedly, before I finished setting up the stalls, there were already several customers waiting, all of whom were repeat customers who had bought from me last time.
"I want two potato pancakes and one serving of celery potatoes. This is fifteen cents."
"I want three potato pancakes."
"I want a serving of Tiancan potatoes."
“…”
The guests were shouting, fearing that the food would be sold out if they were late, and they kept stuffing money into Chen Xingyun's hands.
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