Gu Xin can count; her grandfather taught her, and she can count up to ten thousand.
However, she could only count and didn't know how much one tael of silver was. The three time travelers all assumed she knew and didn't specifically tell her.
"Xinxin, one tael of silver is worth a thousand coins. Do you know how much your father owes?" Grandma Gu asked.
"Three hundred taels," Gu Xin blurted out, then mentally calculated the amount before her smiling face fell.
They only sell a little over four ounces a day.
Five days have passed since her father said ten days, and there are still five days left.
To earn 300 taels in five days, you need to earn 60 taels every day. Ten cakes are worth four taels of silver, so you need to make 150 cakes to earn 60 taels of silver.
Beating egg whites is very laborious; I can't make 150 a day.
Oh no, they're not coming!
As Gu Xin was calculating in her mind, she also muttered it aloud.
Grandpa Gu and Grandma Gu were very surprised. This girl is so good at math!
“Didn’t your mother and sister say they made other things? Don’t panic, just wait a little longer. Maybe the other things will sell for even more money! Besides, Grandpa and Grandma are here, so don’t be afraid.” Grandpa Gu didn’t like seeing Gu Xin unhappy, so he comforted her.
"Grandpa and Grandma, I'll go back and discuss it with my parents and sister first. I'm not going to talk to you anymore, I'm going home now!" Gu Xin said goodbye to her grandparents and ran home.
She wanted to settle accounts with her parents and sister.
"Xinxin, slow down!" Grandpa Gu instructed.
"This child seems particularly quick with numbers! He's usually a bit silly," Grandma Gu said.
“The second child’s family has changed a lot recently. When I was teaching Xinxin to count before, she often made mistakes! I didn’t expect her to get it right this time.” Grandpa Gu was also a little surprised.
"Perhaps this gambling debt will really change the second son's family! Look at the eldest daughter, she used to only do embroidery, but now she even knows how to cook. She's not as cold-hearted and aloof as before. The second son's wife is the same, she's not as timid and hesitant as before, and she doesn't always have that face that looks like someone owes her two hundred and fifty taels of silver. Old man, this time the second son said he wants to study, I have a feeling he'll make something of himself!" Grandma Gu commented on the changes in her second son's family.
“You’ve forgotten, we have three sons and one daughter, and only the second son and daughter are smart. When the second son was young, the teacher at the town school said that he would at least be a Xiucai (a successful candidate in the county-level imperial examinations), and with a little effort, he might even become a Juren (a successful candidate in the provincial-level imperial examinations). If it weren’t for that incident, the second son… sigh…” Grandpa Gu sighed regretfully at the end.
Grandma Gu frowned: "Forget it, I already beat them up back then, and they moved away anyway, didn't they? It's just a pity that the second son wasted all these years. But you can't blame him. A real man can't even handle this kind of setback; it's his own fault for being a coward!"
Grandma Gu thought about what happened back then and felt a sense of disappointment and frustration.
"Alright, children and grandchildren have their own destinies. If the second son can't pay off his gambling debts, we'll help him out, and we won't interfere with his schooling. If he can pay them off, we'll help him with his schooling as much as we can. There's more than one son in the family, we can't just favor him, otherwise, in the long run, the eldest and fourth sons will be unhappy, and it will damage their brotherly relationship." Grandpa Gu sighed deeply.
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