Chapter 2550 Counting Money
A foreman was driving an ox cart, and Zhou Wulang was sitting on the cart, rummaging through the money in his basket. He picked up a vegetable basket that looked okay from a pile of baskets, put the rotten vegetable leaves inside into the other baskets, and counted out twenty strings of money and put them into the basket.
It was a big basket, filled to the brim with twenty strings of cash.
After thinking about it, he felt that this was not a good idea as it would easily cause misunderstanding in public, so he searched in the car and found a thin bag filled with rice and flour. He patted it lightly, wiped it clean, and then transferred the copper coins into it.
The three foremen watched silently and couldn't help asking, "Brother Zhou Wu, did you make money this time?"
Zhou Wulang said, "I don't know yet."
He sighed and said, "Your food and drink expenses haven't been calculated yet."
Oh, yes, they ate during these six days.
The three foremen took a look at the piles of money in the baskets and felt much more relieved.
I don’t know how much these 300 people ate in these six days.
Zhou Wulang gave the money to the quarry. After the two parties settled the bill, he happily drove his ox cart home.
Old Zhou and Mrs. Qian are not at home. They are out looking after their official fields.
This year, Manbao had three official fields to plow during the spring, one of which was a bit far away, so Old Zhou and Qian, who had originally planned to return to Qili Village after attending Bai Erlang's wedding, stayed behind.
They decided to go back after the spring plowing was over.
His wife was in the workshop with her fourth sister-in-law and others, so there was no one at home.
Zhou Wulang asked the doorman to help move a basket of money into his room, then he went to the study and took out the abacus that Zhou Lizhong and others often used, and took paper and pen to calculate the money he earned bit by bit.
These days, he has recorded in a notebook how much meat and vegetables he bought, how much grain he consumed, and what oil and salt he consumed.
The food was taken from home, but the cost could not be ignored. He calculated it according to the market price.
During these six days, they spent a total of 14,868 coins on food.
Zhou Wulang scratched his face and asked, "So how much is left?"
Zhou Wulang looked at the money in the basket and simply counted out fourteen strings of cash. After thinking about it, he simply took out one more string of cash and put it down.
After letting it go, I felt bad again. Li Jun said that the most taboo thing in accounting is to be almost there, because a penny is still money. If it is almost there today, it will be almost there tomorrow. Over time, the almost there will be a big difference.
So Zhou Wulang took out the hundred coins again and began to count how much money he should take out.
One thousand minus eight hundred and sixty-eight means taking one hundred first, then subtracting sixty-eight from one hundred, which is thirty-two...
Zhou Wulang counted out one hundred and thirty-two coins, strung them together, and put them in a basket. Then he looked at the copper coins in the basket and smiled.
This is the money he earned in these six days.
As for how much, he didn't know yet, so Zhou Wulang decided to count it.
The strings of copper coins that had not been opened were placed aside. One string weighed one thousand. The ones with loose strings had been opened. How could he remember how many copper coins he had opened?
You can only count them one by one, add in the ones that are less than a thousand, tie them up again and put them aside.
Zhou Wulang was quite good at counting. In order not to make a mistake, he counted out ten copper coins. When he counted one hundred, he put one aside. When he had counted ten, it would be one thousand.
So the ten copper coins moved from the left to the right, and then from the right to the left...
The sun is setting further and further west...
First, Fang and the others came back and found that no one was at home. They said, "Oh no, my sister-in-law is not home either. Let's ask someone to go to the restaurant and ask Silang and Wulang to bring back some food."
Then, just as he finished speaking, Old Zhou came back with his whole family.
Fang and the others were curious and couldn't help asking, "Dad, why are you all back?"
Don’t you live in the village near Putian Village?
Old Zhou said sullenly, "There's no water. We're just standing there anxiously watching."
Zhou Dalang said, "This place is just not as good as our Qili Village. Although the land here is flat, our Qili Village has many mountains, but we also have plenty of water. If there is no water in the spring, we can irrigate with water from the river. But it's not the same here. Without rain, even the river is dry."
Old Zhou thought this wasn't going to work. "If it doesn't rain, I might as well just go home."
Zhou Dalang was also worried that he would get anxious here, and it would be bad if something bad happened. "Dad, why don't I ask Mr. Bai when he will be back, and you and mother can go back with them."
Old Zhou nodded.
After Bai Erlang got married, Zhou Erlang and Zhou Sanlang followed the caravan back together. After all, they still had to farm the land at home, and they rushed back just in time to plant rice seeds.
Old Zhou didn't expect that the drought here would be so severe at the beginning of this spring. He also doesn't know what the situation is like back home. I hope there's no drought there.
After saying this, Old Zhou looked around and asked, "Where's Old Five? Why hasn't he come back yet? Didn't Li Zhong and Li Jun say that he could finish the work he had on hand in half a day today?"
Zhou Lizhong (Big Head) said, "Didn't the concierge just say that Uncle Wu is back?"
"You didn't cook when you came back, nor did you ask to go to the restaurant to get food. Is this a habit of being a master? You can't even cook?"
Lu immediately said, "I'll go take a look."
She went back to her room to look for it.
Zhou Wulang was concentrating on counting money and didn't hear any noise at all.
Lu pushed the door open and shouted, startling him and confusing the number on his hands. He saw that he had counted half of the copper coins and couldn't remember for a long time how many he had counted.
He glanced at the copper coins at his feet. There were six coins on the side he had already counted, but this mess meant that the six hundred he had counted before were all in vain, and he had to count again.
Zhou Wulang was depressed. "What are you shouting about? You almost scared me to death. Now I forgot how many I was counting. I have to count again."
Although he really likes counting money, he doesn't like counting repeatedly.
Mrs. Lu looked at the two piles of money on the ground in surprise and asked, "Where did you get so much money?"
Wu Lang said: "You've earned it!"
Zhou Lijun, Zhou Lizhong and others also came over. After listening to him explain why he was sitting on the ground counting money, they were speechless for a long time.
Zhou Lijun picked up the abacus from the ground and asked, "So what do you want to do with this thing?"
Wu Lang said: "Calculate the food money."
Zhou Lijun took the messy numbers he had memorized and sat at the table using an abacus. "Let me calculate it for you. Come on, tell me how much you want to give the three foremen?"
He is not very good at arithmetic, but he has a good memory.
He remembered every single detail very clearly. Of course, he only counted the individual ones and didn't know the total.
Zhou Lijun tickled his abacus, and soon he said, "A total of one hundred and twenty-six thousand one hundred and twenty-eight. Uncle Wu, not counting your own wages for the past six days, you've earned a total of seventy-three thousand eight hundred and seventy-two."
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