The county magistrate's daughter only wants to farm

Gu Yin ignored her and walked on. The two of them bought a lot of snacks along the street.

When passing by an alley, Gu Yin suddenly stopped, and Song Ruorou, who was walking behind Gu Yin, accidentally bumped into him.

"What's wrong? You're not angry, are you?" Song Ruorou asked softly.

"Shh, look." Gu Yin put her index finger to her lips and pointed to the alley next to her with her other hand, signaling Song Ruorou not to speak for now.

Song Ruorou looked in the direction Gu Yin pointed, and saw a group of five or six-year-old children surrounding a little boy who was about seven or eight years old against the wall.

"You, clean up this mess on the floor!" one of the taller and stronger boys shouted.

"This is not some messy thing, these are words." The surrounded little boy, wearing coarse cloth clothes and two small buns on his head, retorted calmly.

"I don't care, this territory is ours, I won't let you paint here!"

"No." The little boy refused decisively.

"What did you say?" the tall and strong boy was angry, and the other children who were watching stared at the little boy fiercely.

"I said... No! I don't want it!" the little boy said word by word.

"Are you looking for a fight?" Someone actually dared to challenge his authority. He is the little bully on this street and all the kids have to listen to him!

However, the little boy was unmoved. His bean sprout-like body stood straight and said, "No matter where I write, you always come to mess up. That's your problem."

If the floor at home wasn't made of rammed earth and couldn't be drawn on, he wouldn't have come out here to draw. But it must be said that since the street was built, the alley was also paved with bluestone slabs, which made it much more convenient for him to practice calligraphy.

"You!" The tall and strong boy got angry when he saw that the boy was not willing to listen. He called the other kids and wanted to go forward, "Come with me and beat him up!"

Without Gu Yin's words, Song Ruorou planned to step forward to stop it when she saw this scene.

Unexpectedly, although the little boy was young, he was not panicked at all when a group of children rushed forward. He spotted a direction where the children were weaker, and when other children ran forward, he got close to the child in that direction, pulled down his pants, and quickly slipped out of the encirclement.

The little boy whose pants were pulled was not paying attention, and as he rushed forward due to inertia, he tripped over his pants and fell flat on his face. This would not have been a big deal, as he habitually pulled to the side when he fell, and then he pulled the two children to the ground with them. Soon after, the others were either pulled down or tripped, and they all fell into a heap, with a group of children screaming in surprise.

Song Ruorou braked and stabilized the car.

The little boy who escaped ran forward with his head down, but unexpectedly he bumped into someone. He kept saying sorry but kept running forward.

Song Ruorou stood there in a daze for a moment and let him run past her, but Gu Yin reached out and grabbed the little boy.

"You can't escape the danger. Even if you run away now, they will still cause trouble for you." It seems that this group of kids all live in this area.

"I can run fast." The little boy was suddenly grabbed and looked anxious. He couldn't beat them and could only run.

"What if they catch you like I did?" Gu Yin said calmly.

The little boy stopped struggling because the group of kids had already caught up with him.

"Hand him over to us!" the tall and strong boy pointed at the little boy and said angrily.

Hey, quite arrogant. Gu Yin raised an eyebrow: "Why?"

The tall and strong boy was speechless for a moment.

Gu Yin let go of the little boy, clapped her hands, bent down nonchalantly and looked directly into the tall boy's eyes: "Are you jealous of him?"

"How is that possible!" The tall and strong boy said in a timid tone, "My father is a butcher!"

Nowadays, butchers have a lot of money and are the envy of their neighbors.

Gu Yin smiled and said nothing. She walked to the place where they had been blocking the way before. She saw the numbers written on the ground and some villagers. She turned to the little boy and asked, "Do you recognize all these?"

The little boy nodded.

"Can you count?"

"Yes!" The little boy nodded confidently.

Gu Yin nodded and looked up at all the children present: "Would you like to compete?"

The children looked at each other in bewilderment. Finally, the tall and strong boy stepped forward and asked, "What are you competing for?"

"Of course it's a math contest." Gu Yin took out a bag of maltose she had bought earlier, narrowed her eyes and smiled like a wolf grandmother, "The winner will get a prize."

When a group of children saw the maltose in Gu Yin's hand, they almost drooled.

Seeing them swallowing their saliva, Gu Yin's smile deepened. Few half-grown children could resist the temptation of sweets.

"Will there be punishment for the loser?" the tall and strong boy looked alert.

Gu Yin raised an eyebrow. She didn’t expect this kid to be so cautious. “No.”

If you win, you get candy, and if you lose, there is no loss. All the children agreed to it.

"Let me tell you the rules first. It's very simple. The person who answers the fastest and correctly wins." Gu Yin announced loudly, "Let's start with the first question. Everyone listen carefully: Pork belly is 15 wen per pound, fat is 16 wen per pound, and lean meat is 13 wen per pound. If you buy one pound of each, how many wen do you need in total?"

"Forty-four!" The little boy was the first to answer.

"Forty!" the tall and strong boy continued.

Some of the other children gave their answers quickly, but some were still counting on their fingers, and gave up when they couldn't figure it out after a long time.

"The results are out, first round..." Gu Yin looked at the little boy, "What's your name?"

"Zhao Anmin." The little boy pursed his lips.

Gu Yin then announced: "In the first round, Zhao Anmin wins."

As he said that, he handed the little boy two candies. The other little boys' eyes lit up when they saw them. They didn't expect that they would get two candies if they won.

Zhao Anmin won the next few games, and Gu Yin gave him one more candy each time. In the end, the little boys were so excited that their eyes turned red. They scratched their heads and tried hard to calculate, but in the end they still couldn't beat Zhao Anmin.

"How is it? Are you convinced?" After the game, Gu Yin asked meaningfully.

The tall and strong boy muttered softly: "What's so great about it."

However, that look didn't seem confident at all.

"Pfft..." Gu Yin chuckled, "You always underestimate the money, the most you've underestimated is ten cents. If your father's business was as bad as yours, wouldn't he have lost everything?"

The tall and strong boy's face turned red instantly when he was mocked by Gu Yin.

He is still shy, so he is not that bad. Gu Yin stopped laughing, looked at him and said, "You said you had the opportunity to make a fortune, but you didn't know how to cherish it. What will you do when you grow up?"

The tall and strong boy looked at Gu Yin as if he was a liar. Don't think that he didn't know what a fortune meant. Although his family was better off than his neighbors, where did the fortune come from?

Gu Yin seemed to understand his thoughts and began to deceive him seriously: "Think about it, if you don't study, when you grow up you will at most inherit your father's butcher knife and become a butcher. Being a butcher is not a big deal, you may even underestimate the money, and if you underestimate, you will lose money, but if you overestimate, the customers will make trouble for you."

"But if you study hard, it's different. You'll be able to keep accounts, calculate costs, think and explore. Even if you become a butcher, you'll be the one that sells the most. What's more, you might also want to open a breeding farm? Raise a few hundred big fat pigs, and once you sell them, wouldn't you make a lot of money?"

The tall and strong boy's eyes gradually brightened up after hearing what Gu Yin said...