Teach the people in the cold palace to recognize and skillfully use Arabic numerals!
After making the decision, Si Muqiao immediately took action.
After receiving her order, Xiao Xizi went to work without stopping.
Simuqiao asked him to go to Eunuch Zhang from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to get the necessary materials and tools.
Of course, if you need help, you can also look for Eunuch Zhang.
However, Xiao Xizi did not plan to find help. He felt that this was a good opportunity to prove his ability.
He can totally do it himself!
For him, the so-called pool table is not difficult, it's a piece of cake.
But who would have thought that not long after he came out of Simuqiao's room, he met several other eunuchs and palace maids one after another.
Everyone expressed the same idea after seeing him.
They were all asking Xiao Xizi what his master had asked him to do and whether he had been assigned any new tasks.
If they are assigned work, they can definitely help!
Although everyone was very enthusiastic and sincere in wanting to help him, Xiao Xizi still decisively refused!
At times like this, it is time for him to show himself, and he doesn't want others to take advantage of his work.
As for why everyone was like this, Xiao Xizi knew it clearly.
Do you really care about him and want to help him?
No!
Everyone was like him. They had been in the cold palace for several days, but they were still worried.
Although they are now in the cold palace, each doing their own job, they are also doing what they are good at.
But if you think about it, compared with their previous jobs, they now have too much free time.
The leisure time made them feel a little uneasy.
They even had wild imaginations and wondered whether Simi had arranged them this way deliberately and not assigned them any work, in fact, just to test them.
If they are really so careless and only do so little every day, they will definitely be punished by Simian, right?
So, these days, everyone is trying hard to find work.
They even competed secretly for more work.
This made Tangyuan, who was originally quite busy, completely idle and didn't know what to do.
There was no other way, she could only serve Si Muqiao more attentively, and study and practice calligraphy whenever she had time, not daring to stop at all.
Tangyuan said that she had also figured it out.
The nine new people in the cold palace are all very ambitious. Each of them is trying to show off themselves, and each of them wants to replace her and become the most capable person around the master.
Haha, what a joke, is this possible?
Impossible, she, Tangyuan, would never give anyone else this opportunity!
So just as Si Muqiao finished arranging work for Xiao Xizi, she saw Tangyuan standing beside her, staring at her and asking.
"Master, what about me? What can I do to help you?"
"Tangyuan, I really have a task to assign to you." Simuqiao said.
"Master, just give me your orders!" Tang Yuan was surprised when he heard her say that.
"Have you recognized all the characters I taught you before?"
"My Lord, I recognize all of them!"
"Write it for me to see."
"Yes." Tangyuan nodded, then walked over, picked up the pen and started writing seriously.
After seeing the words she wrote, Si Muqiao was very satisfied and praised her.
"Not bad, Tangyuan, you have made great progress. Not only are all the characters written correctly, but they are also much better than before."
"As expected of the senior maidservant beside me, she is as perceptive, smart, and hardworking as me."
"Hehe, master, you are too kind." Tangyuan was as happy as a little fool.
"Come here, Tangyuan, watch this."
As Si Muqiao spoke, he circled the capital letters from one to ten that she had written with a pen, and then wrote the corresponding Arabic numerals underneath.
After writing one to ten, she wrote hundreds, thousands and millions in capital letters and Arabic numerals.
"These are abbreviations of numbers, and they are in contrast to each other. What I ask of you is that you write down all these numbers and be able to calculate them skillfully."
"Yes, I guarantee to complete the task!" Tangyuan nodded solemnly.
Although, she felt that those so-called numbers looked strange and she had never seen them before, it didn't matter.
Whatever the master says is what it is.
She does whatever her master tells her to do.
Isn't it just memorizing these numbers? It's so easy, she can do it!
After just a cup of tea, Tangyuan took the initiative to report.
"My Lord, I have written down everything!"
"Then start from the beginning and write it down for me."
"yes!"
Tangyuan wrote it down in one breath, there is nothing wrong with it.
Si Muqiao randomly said a few numbers, such as 23, 76, 158, 1889 and so on.
Although Tangyuan wrote slowly, he got all the answers correct.
Simuqiao began to teach her addition and subtraction of numbers.
This teaching took about half an hour.
Half an hour later, she wrote a math test paper by hand and asked Tangyuan to do it.
The above question is actually very simple, it’s a first-grade level question, but it’s not just simple addition and subtraction.
She expanded the questions and added some first-grade math Olympiad problems.
In addition to addition and subtraction, there are also questions about counting grids, as well as questions that require some thinking.
For example, how many dollars would it cost to divide a round cake equally among eight people?
For example, two ducklings equal four chicks, three ducklings equal six goslings, so how many chicks are equal to one gosling?
And so on and so forth.
Tangyuan, who was forced to take the exam, sat aside holding a pen, thinking and answering attentively.
During this process, Simuqiao also began to continue copying her "Spring and Autumn Annals"!
Tangyuan finished the test paper after quarter of an hour and handed it to Simuqiao.
Seeing Si Muqiao start to mark her answers, Tangyuan, who was standing next to her, suddenly became so nervous that his palms began to sweat.
"Well, not bad. I answered 98% of the questions correctly." After marking the paper, Si Muqiao nodded with satisfaction.
In the following time, she talked to Tangyuan about her wrong questions and asked her if she had any questions.
After that, she told him her plan.
"What? Master, are you asking me to teach what I learned today to the other nine people in the cold palace?"
"Slave... I don't know how to teach!" Tangyuan's face showed some panic and nervousness.
Teaching people things, isn't that what a teacher does?
She is a little maid, and a maid who has just learned to read and learn numbers. Is it really appropriate for her to teach others?
"No, you will!"
"Just teach us the same way I taught you just now."
"If you really can't do it, then I will have to teach you myself."
"Well, as you know, His Majesty has arranged for me to finish copying the Spring and Autumn Annals within five days."
"If we are delayed because of this, the consequences will be..."
After hearing what Si Muqiao said, Tang Yuan gritted his teeth and spoke.
"Master, don't worry, I will definitely teach everyone well and won't distract you!"
"I will keep this test paper for now, and let everyone do it later. I will then grade them and explain it to them."
"Okay, go ahead!" Si Muqiao said.
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