Otherworldly Days

Zhuangzi planted a lot of things outside, Cao Xiangnan got up early in the morning and went out for a walk before returning. When he came in, he saw Fang Ziye looking at the account book sent by the steward yesterday.After there was nothing to do here, Cao Xiangnan wanted to come over and tell Fang Ziye that he wanted to go back to Fenshui. He didn't want to bother people when they were busy.

"Sit down, I'll finish this book first." Fang Ziye said without raising his head, he felt a headache seeing these densely packed things now.

"Okay." Cao Xiangnan sat down at the side. Seeing Fang Ziye frowning, he reached out to pick up a ledger and read it.After seeing Fang Ziye put down the account book in his hand, he grinned and asked, "I have a better bookkeeping method than this one, do you want to hear it?"

He usually uses modern bookkeeping methods for his own accounts, and what he taught Sun Ji is also his method.

"Oh, tell me." Fang Ziye raised his eyebrows and said.

"In this way, the first page of each account book is the table of contents..." Cao Xiangnan explained to Fang Ziye as he said, for example, what is this table of contents, and each page is marked with a page number. A set of Arabic numerals is used here. Interspersed with Arabic numerals.

"Every transaction is recorded, and the page number here corresponds to the previous table of contents, so that it will be clear at a glance after the table of contents." This is like these messy accounts that don't even have a label. It seems much more convenient.

Hearing what Cao Xiangnan said, Fang Ziye immediately became interested, and the drowsiness from reading the account book just now disappeared, and he shouted, "Go get the pen, ink, paper and inkstone."

Pens, inks, papers and inkstones were delivered quickly, and Cao Xiangnan used the method he said to take an account and recorded it page by page. When Shi Chen was done, he handed over the new ledger to Fang Ziye and said, "There is a discrepancy here, take a look."

First of all, if you don’t read carefully, it’s hard to see if there are any problems. For example, Fang Ziye mostly flips through them casually and has no interest in taking a closer look. It counts, so he doesn’t know if there are any problems.What's wrong with these Zhuangzi, he probably has a little bottom in his heart, as long as it's not too much, he is tolerant to the people under him.

In such a day, even if they ate, they simply ate two meals in the house, and the two of them stayed in the house for a whole day.

Now that we have talked about accounting methods, we will inevitably touch on modern arithmetic.Arithmetic in this era is still relatively backward, there was a moment of hesitation in my heart, and in a flash, Cao Xiangnan still taught Fang Ziye the modern set of Arabic numerals and arithmetic.

In fact, he taught the children in the family arithmetic every day, and he taught them the same way.

Compared with the children at home, Fang Ziye learned faster, and this person's brain was more flexible than Sun Ji's.He basically explained these numbers and algorithms once, so Fang Ziye could memorize them, draw inferences from one instance, and use the algorithms he taught to start calculating the accounts, which were accurate.

It was late at night, and the lanterns were lit in the room. Er Shun went to the kitchen to bring desserts, and had to interrupt him loudly, "Master, Mr. Cao, it's late at night, why don't you let these things go and do it tomorrow Master, do you think so? Er Shun asked the kitchen to cook two bowls of bird’s nest with rock sugar for you and Mr. Cao, master, you and Mr. Cao have a bowl.”

Seeing that it was getting late, Fang Ziye also realized that he asked Cao Xiangnan to teach him arithmetic for a day. It happened that these things were of his interest, and he had never heard of these things, but this set of accounting methods and arithmetic It was the best one he had ever learned, and he forgot the time when he heard it, "Okay, put it away." He said.

"Xiangnan, thank you for being willing to teach me these things. Let's continue with the rest tomorrow, do you think so?" Fang Ziye looked at Cao Xiangnan with a flash of research in his eyes, but he didn't ask anything after all.

When he was in Fenshui Town, he asked someone to find out about Cao Xiangnan. He asked someone to go to Caojia Village for a little investigation, and he knew that this person's birth was ordinary.But it is undeniable that he admired Cao Xiangnan. He took Qi Wanfeng and the child out of the house when he broke his leg. Later, he set up a stall on the pier and found shopkeeper Liu.

Ever since he knew this person, every time Cao Xiangnan showed him something, it always made his eyes shine.There was something he couldn't figure out in his mind, but there was no need to figure it out. Cao Xiangnan was willing to teach him these things, and he wouldn't ask or delve into things that shouldn't be asked.

He just needs to know that this person can be used by him, and that these things in him are exactly what he needs.

"Ziyu, you don't have to be so polite with me. I'm glad I can help you on the ground. It's getting late, so let's continue tomorrow." Cao Xiangnan smiled frankly, and he didn't notice the time when he talked about it. , feel a little embarrassed.

The two drank a bowl of bird's nest, and Fang Ziye felt sleepy when his mind stopped, and then he yawned again and again.Cao Xiangnan smiled when he saw the yawning person, bid farewell to Fang Ziye, followed the guide boy to the courtyard where he lived, went back and took a shower before going to bed.

In the room, Fang Ziye was soaking in a wooden barrel. He didn't let Er Shun stay to serve him as usual. I don't know if it was something in his heart. Fang Ziye always felt that the position of his lower abdomen was slightly raised after taking off his clothes. Putting it in this position on his lower abdomen, with his head leaning against the barrel, he closed his eyes.

He didn't know what to do, that person probably didn't like him having a child...

But, he wants this child!

Taking a deep breath and letting it out, the person who opened his eyes regained clarity.

Er Shun came in to serve his master to bed, when a man came at night, dressed in travel and dust, half-kneeled in front of him, and presented a letter.Fang Ziye sat on the bed, Er Shun handed the letter to the master, and took him down.

He was the only one left in the room. After opening the letter and reading it, Fang Ziye put the paper on the candle and lit it.

This night, the person who fell asleep on the bed frowned, as if he was not sleeping peacefully.Woke up from a dream at night, his forehead was wet with sweat, his chest heaved violently, and his face was full of panic.

The summer night sky is full of stars, the time wheel turns, the night slowly passes, the stars in the sky fall down one by one, even the crescent moon in the sky fades away, the light breaks through the darkness, Its daybreak.

When he woke up the next day, Cao Xiangnan remembered that he went to Fang Ziye yesterday to tell him about his plan to go home. He didn't expect to mention the bookkeeping later, so he forgot about it. If he wanted to continue doing arithmetic to Fang Ziye, he might not be able to go back for a while, so the matter of going home had to be put on the back burner.

I don't know if Wanfeng and the children are doing well at home. The children are always well-behaved and sensible, and he doesn't have to worry about the children being disobedient. His late wind belly.But he would never admit that he liked that little guy greeting them in this way, but he was very distressed when he thought of Wan Feng's physical discomfort.

Fortunately, the house is built now, the house is surrounded by a wall, and Cao Gang is entrusted to take care of Wan Feng and the child, so there should be nothing wrong with the house.

But what Cao Xiangnan didn't expect was that his house was burglarized last night.

Sleeping at night thinking about the several children who slept separately, when he woke up, he went back to his room after seeing the children, before he wanted to lie down, he heard dogs barking outside the yard, and people shouting He knew that a thief had entered his house.

Now Fulang is not at home, and there are thieves in the house, and now he is pregnant and dare not go out.

"Wang Wang Wang..."

"Wang Wang Wang..."

"Dead dog, go away, go away..." As soon as he turned over into the yard, he was chased fiercely by two dogs, and his butt was bitten, making him cry in pain.

The people outside asked the accomplice, "There are dogs inside, should we go in?"

"What should I do, Erzi Liu is still inside."

"You flip in, hurry up."

"But there are dogs in it."

"Take a stick and go in, go in and open the door for us."

"faster."

Now that there is so much movement, they will be in trouble if they are caught.

Hearing the shrill barking of a dog from outside, Qi Wanfeng went out cruelly to shake Xiangzi awake, and whispered to him, "There is a thief in the house, you go to the room and watch your brother, don't come out .” He carried Xingxing into An An’s room and let Xiangzi in.

Xiangzi doesn't want to, does he want to accompany him, "Hey, be obedient, you lock the door inside, and don't open the door until I come in and knock on the door. If An'an and Xingxing wake up, you can coax them." Pray for the evening wind to push people in.

I lit the lights in the house, and there happened to be a pot at home. Qi Wanfeng lifted the lid of a pot, ran to the gate and didn't go out, knocked it with a stick, and shouted, "There are thieves!" , there are thieves..."

"Kang kuang kuang... come here, there are thieves..."

"Turn in quickly!" The people in the outer corner wanted to push the person hanging on the fence down. When the person inside shouted that there was a thief, the person hanging on the wall fell out again in fright.

The men who lived in the bamboo house opposite heard the shouts at night, and someone woke up suddenly from the bed, and several men woke up at once, got up and rushed to Cao Silang's house.From a distance, I saw a few sneaky people under the corner of the wall. I talked to my partner, and two of them chased after the thieves.

The thief who entered the yard was bitten twice by the dog, and his face was covered in blood when he fell to the ground. He pulled the latch and ran out, but was caught on the spot by the man who came outside.

"Where is the little thief going!" Li San kicked the little thief over.

The little thief cried for his father and mother, knelt down and begged for mercy, "Master, please forgive me, I will never dare again."