Rise From the Humble

"please"

Zhu Ping'an, who was in the center of everyone's ridiculing and criticizing eyes, remained calm and unfazed. He was not entangled in this issue at all. He raised his head and looked at the ghost hand Zhang, raised the corners of his lips, smiled calmly, and stretched out his right hand to point. Gui Shou Zhang held the abacus in his hand and said a word of "please" to indicate Gui Shou Zhang to continue statistics.

Pretend, keep pretending, see how you end up!

Guishou Zhang snorted coldly, placed the abacus heavily on the table, and fiddled with the beads with both hands like a gust of wind.

Two dragons playing with pearls;

Open the bow left and right;

A visual feast strikes again.

Zhu Pingan gently shook his head while appreciating Gui Shou Zhang's performance. It is undeniable that Gui Shou Zhang's abacus arithmetic has reached the level of perfection, but mathematics that is hundreds of years ahead cannot be achieved simply by hand speed. To catch up.

When he noticed that Zhu Pingan was looking at him and shaking his head, his face changed even more. You, a person who doesn't know how to calculate and gave up, are addicted to pretending, right? !

hehe

This Zhu Ping'an is really a real person. Upon seeing this, the officials in the room shook their heads and laughed.

In their view, Zhu Ping'an was just playing tricks on his class and playing tricks on Guan Gong. He was a master figure in the world of abacus. You, a person who can't even do abacus, have the right to shake your head.

Forget it, forget it, he's so good at showing off, let's see how he ends up in the end, everyone had this idea, looked at Zhu Pingan with ridicule, and waited for the situation to develop.

"My lord, please have some tea."

The Taicang officer came to Zhu Pingan with tea.

"Thank you, um, nice tea"

Zhu Ping'an stretched out his left hand to take the hot tea brought by the guard, put it to his lips and sniffed it gently, curled his lips slightly in praise, and then put the teacup on the table.

Although he was a little thirsty, for the sake of caution, Zhu Pingan would not drink any food or tea outside before the inspection was over.

"Haha, it is really good tea. Why don't you have a cup, Mr. Zhu?"

An official scraped the tea cover twice, took a big sip of tea, praised it loudly, turned to look at Zhu Pingan and asked.

"Sir, please use it with caution. It's safe and you won't be thirsty."

Zhu Ping'an licked the dry corners of his lips, cupped his hands and smiled slightly.

I'm thirsty for you.

Idiot.

The official glanced at Zhu Pingan's dry lips, pulled the corners of his mouth down mockingly, and deliberately took another sip of tea in front of Zhu Pingan.

Jia Langzhong glanced at Zhu Pingan and narrowed his eyes slightly.

After Zhu Pingan said it was over, another two quarters of an hour, or half an hour later, Gui Shou Zhang, who was shooting left and right with both hands, also stopped, deliberately moved his body, turned his back to Zhu Pingan, and blocked it with his body. Zhu Pingan's gaze picked up the brush and wrote the statistical results on the blank rice paper.

After a while, the other four accountants also stopped fiddling with the abacus beads, looked at each other with Gui Shou Zhang, nodded without any trace, turned their backs to Zhu Pingan, and also blocked Zhu Pingan's sight with their bodies. Print the statistical results on rice paper.

"Reporting to you sirs, we have already compiled the statistics."

Guishou Zhang bowed his hands and reported back to Zhang Guanku and other officials.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

Zhang Guanku nodded, then turned to look at Zhu Ping'an, "Since Zihou has already finished it, let's check it out."

Zhu Pingan nodded, stretched out his hand and unfolded the rice paper in front of him, revealing the numbers recorded on it.

"Ghost Shou Zhang" and other five accountants also came forward with the rice paper recording the numbers, placed them on the table where Zhu Pingan was interviewing and unfolded them, revealing the numbers on them.

Zhu Pingan wrote two lines on the rice paper he unfolded.

The top line reads: "Check the bank today and find the actual amount of silver: 1,237,250 taels."

After this line of words, there is a number enclosed in parentheses: (Nine hundred and three thousand eight hundred taels).

The following line reads: "Actual deposit: three hundred and sixteen thousand five hundred taels", followed by a number in parentheses: (one hundred and twenty-five thousand five hundred taels).

The number enclosed in Zhu Pingan’s brackets is the amount of silver in poor quality in the bank, which means that there are currently 1,237,250 taels of silver in the bank, of which 903,000 Eight hundred pieces of silver are of poor quality and are not pure silver.

The rice paper displayed by the ghost hand Zhang said: "Actual silver deposit: 2,127,200 taels; actual gold deposit: 720,000 taels."

The statistics of the other four accountants are consistent with the data displayed by the ghost hand Zhang. They are all actual silver deposits: 2,127,200 taels; actual gold deposits: 720,000 taels.

"Well, the data recorded by several accountants are exactly the same. The actual silver deposit: 2,127,200 taels; the actual gold deposit: 720,000 taels. Hahahahahaha The data recorded by Master Zhu are the same as those recorded by several accountants. It’s different, hahaha”

The officials who were watching checked the rice paper displayed by Zhu Ping'an, Gui Shou Zhang and other five accounting clerks, and couldn't help but read it with a smile.

"Hahaha, it's really only Mr. Zhu's statistics that are different, hahaha."

"Haha, Mr. Zhu couldn't be dazzled by tiredness and missed half of the numbers, hahaha."

"Haha, Mr. Zhu counted so quickly, isn't the number normal? In fact, it is very rare for Mr. Zhu to calculate such a, um, a relatively close number."

"Haha, Mr. Wang, your standards are too low. The difference is hundreds of thousands taels, but it's still close, haha."

Other officials watching also laughed.

"Haha, look, look at the data he collected. He also used a strange arc ghost symbol to wrap up a number. Haha, it's funny. He wouldn't have just written one more number, so there would be more chances of getting it right. Double it, hahaha, I can’t help it, hahaha.”

There were no brackets in ancient times. The officials who were watching did not recognize the bracket symbol. When they saw the bracket symbol on Zhu Pingan's rice paper, they thought it was a ghost drawing and laughed at him.

The moment the six pieces of rice paper were unfolded at the same time, a burst of laughter erupted in the room, and it didn't stop for a long time.

The statistics of six people are the same. Only one person's statistics are different. Needless to say, the different person must have made a mistake. It cannot be that all four people have made a mistake. You are the only one who made the statistics. Right, hahaha.

Indeed, if four people made a mistake in counting, they could still get the same number wrongly. This probability is too small.

Therefore, the officials onlookers naturally believed that Zhu Pingan's statistics were wrong. His mistake was so normal that he couldn't even do abacus. He pretended to draw a few ghost symbols in half a cup of tea. If he was good, there would be no justice.

However, it was different from the officials watching.

When Zhang Guanku, Jia Langzhong and other senior Taicang officials saw the data displayed by Zhu Pingan, they seemed to have seen a ghost. Their faces instantly turned gray, and they stared blankly at the rice paper Zhu Pingan unfolded, as if Like pieces of wood.

Although it was a hot summer day, their whole hearts felt as if someone had tied a stone and sunk into the ice cave, and they felt a chill all over their bodies.