Ding Youtian picked up the backpack and asked Ah Man, Da Niu and the others to follow him to the backyard. He poured the copper coins on the porch in the backyard and taught them to count from one to ten, and then put the ten copper coins in a pile.
"I can count. I can count to a hundred." Ah Man took the lead and began to count, "One, two, three, four..."
"Now that you can count, you'll be responsible for teaching the three girls, Da Niu. Count by tens, put them in a pile, and then start another pile." Ding Youtian watched for a while. Ah Man did a great job and taught her seriously and responsibly. He patted Ah Man's head and praised her. "You count with the sisters here, and Daddy will go and talk to your grandfather."
"Well, I can do it. Daddy, please accompany my grandfather."
Every time Ding Youtian heard Ah Man call him dad, Huo Jincheng's reaction after hearing it came to his mind, and he felt happy just thinking about it.
He curled the corners of his lips and went to find the tutor with a smile.
"I found the mechanism." Jian Ning blocked him in the aisle. There was a small mechanism inside the opening of the bamboo basket. If he pushed it to the left, a hollow layer would appear under the bamboo basket. All the bamboo pieces with words written on them that he had shown to everyone before were put into the hollow layer.
"Not bad, faster than I expected." Ding Youtian turned sideways and glanced at the backyard with a smile. "So, it's much more than 5,000 wen, right?"
"What are you so proud of? This is a crooked way. If someone finds out and starts to argue with you, I won't help you."
"One penny for a big hen. Who has time to think about anything else in that situation? If you were a little slow in pulling it out, the people behind you would have urged you to do it. Besides..." He pushed Guoguo, who was following him, with his foot, "I didn't bring it out for nothing."
Ding Youtian took the bamboo basket from her hand, put it on the ground, and gestured to Guoguo. Guoguo immediately bit the bamboo basket with her mouth. Ding Youtian motioned Jian Ning to take another look. She took her hand and felt inside but couldn't find the switch.
"If anyone questions it or wants to check it, I just gesture towards it, and the gap disappears, and the two become one."
This guy is no ordinary dog!
"Don't do these tricks again." Jian Ning rolled his eyes at him and went next door to ask Sanniang for a hemp rope.
Jian Ning took a hemp rope and strung up the copper coins in piles of ten. Eighteen hundred coins made up a string, and one string was worth one or two taels of silver. Master Ding San and Lai Xi, the servant of the Grand Tutor, wanted to help, but the little girls refused to let them. Even Maoqiu, who wanted to help, was beaten by A Man.
"Stop making trouble, go away!"
Just as Maoqiu picked up a copper coin in his mouth and was about to hand it to her, she hit him on the head and the copper coin was snatched away by Ah Man. She finally became a teacher again, and even Erniu, who had always disobeyed her, shouted at her that she was amazing. Maoqiu's courtesy was not offered at the right time, and she was so angry that she bared her teeth and yelled at her a few times, then turned around and ran outside to find Ding Youtian.
He had half a basket of copper coins, a total of twenty-one strings, with forty-seven remaining, which meant he had earned twenty-one taels and forty-seven coins.
"Here, this is Ah Man's. Teach your sisters to count and I'll give you an extra penny." Jian Ning took out three copper coins and gave them to Ah Man. Da Niu and the other three gave them two copper coins each. "Mom will ask Brother Lai Xi to take you out for a walk for half an hour. When you're done, we'll go back."
Jian Ning gave Lai Xi and Ding Sanye ten copper coins each as payment for their service in maintaining order.
"Thank you, Doctor Jian." Lai Xi was a smart man who knew how to handle things. Although he had no shortage of these ten copper coins as he followed the Grand Tutor, it depended on who gave them the reward. How could he not know that the Grand Tutor valued the couple very much? He accepted it with a nod and many thanks, then led A Man and the others out.
"I'm going to go to Pu Ren Hall and visit the old man."
After Jian Ning finished speaking, the Grand Tutor said, "Let's go together. I'll go take a look too."
Although he did not recognize Yang Taigong, he knew Yang Jinyu and his father, so there was no reason not to meet them when they came.
"I'll stay and look after the house, and wait here for Xiao Xizi and the others." Uncle Ding San didn't go with them. He stayed and filled a bag of cigarettes. Before he finished smoking, Lai Xi brought A Man and the others back.
The four maids pooled their nine coins and bought some malt sugar, which was rolled up on a small wooden stick. Each of them held two pieces. Sanniu handed the extra piece to Master Ding Sanye, saying, "Uncle San, this is yours. It's delicious. Come and try it."
Lai Xi said with a smile: "Uncle, you always fail to see that this little girl can bargain. She is very good at talking. She even asked for one piece for you. This one is an extra gift."
"My daughter Sanniu loves her uncle the most. She is a good girl with a promising future." Uncle Ding San took it and said happily.
"Third Uncle, I also helped to say it. We all said it." Erniu came forward and said.
"Okay, okay, you are all good kids, you all have..." Before Uncle Ding San finished speaking, Ah Man screamed "Ah", she pulled the candy out of her mouth, and one of her front teeth stuck on it.
"It's okay, it's okay. It's just the teeth changing." Lai Xi took out the front teeth and asked her to open her mouth to see that it was the upper front teeth. "The upper ones fell out and need to be buried. Let's bury them together."
Lai Xi heard Meixiang talk about Jian Ning's rules, so he didn't call her Miss Sun. He took her and the big girls to find a place at the door to bury her.
Jian Ning and the others came from Purentang. Erniu rushed to tell Jian Ning, "Sister A'man's tooth fell out. Mom, this candy is for you."
The big girl also gave the extra one in her hand to Ding Youtian.
"The upper front teeth are buried in the ground." Lai Xi told the tutor, and signaled Ah Man to give the extra candy in his hand to the tutor.
A'man was about to give it to them, but when he saw that Jian Ning and Ding Youtian didn't want to eat it, he hesitated.
The Taifu wouldn't eat sugar, especially malt sugar, but Ah Man didn't give him any, so his face fell and he got angry.
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