"Abacus!" Jiang Zhishan said, gently fiddling with the beads of the abacus, making a crisp sound.
“With this, you won’t have to count on your fingers anymore! For example, like this…” Jiang Zhishan began to demonstrate how to use the abacus.
Jiang Yaojie listened with great enthusiasm, his eyes almost glued to the abacus.
"Alright, who wants to come up and try?" Jiang Zhishan asked, placing the abacus on the ground.
“Me!” Jiang Yaojie stood up from his chair and said.
Jiang Ling discovered that Jiang Yaojie seemed to have a great talent for arithmetic, and he mastered the use of the abacus in a short time.
The remaining four little ones were also curious and carefully fiddling with the abacus.
After teaching literacy and arithmetic, today's lessons came to a temporary end, and Zhao Dabao left Jiang Ling's house in a daze.
Jiang Suihe stared intently at the Three Character Classic, occasionally scribbling and drawing on the ground.
Jiang Yaojie kept fiddling with the abacus, trying to recall what Jiang Zhishan had just said. As for Jiang Wenxi, she leaned back in her chair with a troubled expression. She couldn't understand why these checkmarks and crosses were so responsible, or what those numbers were all about.
"Zhishan, how much does one of these abacuses cost?" Jiang Ling asked Jiang Zhishan as she walked up to him.
“I remember the cheapest one from Shangruzhai in Pingxi County costs three hundred copper coins, and the more expensive ones can cost seven or eight taels of silver!” Jiang Zhishan said after thinking for a moment.
Jiang Ling was slightly surprised to hear this. Although she was mentally prepared, she did not expect an abacus to be so expensive, not to mention the cost of writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstones.
Jiang Ling sighed helplessly, thinking that she would go to the mall to check the price of the abacus after the children fell asleep.
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