Chapter 4

When they arrived at the shop on the street, Miss. Xue jumped out of the car with her cat in her arms.

She approached the counter.

The shop was not as tall as the counter in the modern time. It was just a very ordinary facade with a table.

An old gentleman was sitting behind a table with a sand table in front of him.

Xue Qian saw it clearly and understood. "Sure enough, it's a Shashi."

What she wanted was to see if there was anything like a pearl calculation on the street.

Xue Qian was born in the era of outer space, and there would be a human terminal in their minds.

A person's terminal point was like a super computer. Any knowledge could be found, and there was no need to memorize it, which made it easy for people in the era of outer space to learn. A person's terminal point was also an identity card of a person, and everyone was a unique one.

Just like her space, Xue Qian's private terminal had inexplicably followed her through time.

So far, she was not sure whether she had been blown up by the particle cannon and had had an absurd dream or really time-travel.

If she wanted to make money, she needed to make something valuable. Xue Qian was the first to think of a quick calculation.

In her own yard, she had seen her wet nurse use a sand table to settle accounts with her mother.

It was to put a pot of sand, write, draw, and count, which was relatively convenient at the moment.

Xue Qian thought of a quick calculation.

Bead divination was very practical. It lasted for more than a thousand years, and it was not banned until the birth of the new system.

As for which era the bead had appeared, the conclusion on her terminal point was not different.

Some of the scholars on Earth believed that there had been a calculation during the Northern and Southern Dynasties; some believed that the more reliable idea could only be found in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Xue Qian didn't know either. She just found that Nanny Dai didn't know how to calculate.

She thought that in ancient times, the place where there were most likely to be pearls was definitely a shop.

If there was really a calculation, no matter how expensive it was, it would appear in the shop. After all, it needed to be calculated.

Therefore, she drew the drawing of the pearl calculation and planned to make one. Before making it, she went to the shop first. Sure enough, there was a sand table in the shop.

"The shop is also made of sand. There shouldn't be a pearl in this era, right?" Xue Qian thought.

The shopkeeper asked her what she wanted to be.

Xue Qian just smiled and said, "Sorry, I went the wrong way. I thought this was a tavern."

The old man's old face fell. He suspected that this little girl was here to pick on him. Seeing that she was well-dressed and had a maid with her, he knew that she was from a big family and did not dare to make trouble for her.

"Miss, you'd better see it clearly before entering." The old man snorted.

Xue Qian agreed.

Hongluan was very embarrassed and went to pull Mr. Xue. "Miss, let's go."

Xue Qian wanted to turn around, but stopped and asked the old gentleman, "Do you want to use this to settle accounts?" "What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"

"It's not that. I just want to ask you, is there any other way to settle accounts?" asked Mr. Xue.

The old man frowned and said, "Are you talking about schemes? I'm old, so I'm not so sure."

"Don't you have an idea?"

"Why didn't you have an idea? Isn't that the case? Don't you know her?" The old man pushed the sand table on the table and said rudely. Xue Qian smiled.

It was confirmed that there was no such thing as a pearl.

Later, it was also called an abacus. It was because it replaced the sand table. Otherwise, how could it have anything to do with the word "round"?

"What did you say? How did you talk to our young lady?" Hong Luan saw the old man's contemptuous tone and immediately spoke up for heryoung lady.

The old man was about to lose his temper.

He was not the owner of a shop. His boss was also decent and could bully any cat or dog. How could he manage a shop under the emperor's feet without status?

"Alright." Xue Ao smiled and gently tapped Hong Luan. "Why are you arguing with the elderly? You should respect the elderly and love the young."

Hongluan, "..."

When they walked out of the shop, the old man was still muttering, "Is he out of his mind?"

They got on the carriage, and the coachman looked at them. Hongluan asked Xue Qian, "Miss, are you going back now?"

"No, I'm going to find a carpenter shop," said Mr. Xue.

Hongluan didn't understand again.

When they arrived at the carpenter shop, Xue Qian did not avoid the red phoenix. He gave the drawings to the carpenter and asked him to follow some side frames.

Because all the parts drawn by Xue Qian were opened, HongLuan did not understand. "Miss, what are you doing?"

"You'll know in a while," said Mr. Xue with a smile. He then asked the carpenter, "I'll get it in two hours. I'll give you one tael of silver. Is it enough?"

What Mr. Xue wanted were a few large and small wooden strips. It didn't take much effort to do it, and it could be done in an hour. However, the carpenter had something on hand, so it was definitely impossible to make it for her immediately. However, the carpenter worked for at most 80 copper coins a day, and one tael of silver was worth 1,000 copper coins.

Such a high price was like a pie falling from the sky.

The carpenter was stunned for a moment and then became a little excited. "Don't worry, you can definitely make it in two hours. Wait and get it."

Xue Qian gave the silver on the spot and left the drawings behind. She went to the next room with Hongluan and found a small jewelry stall.

There were some cheap jewelry on the stall, such as wooden hairpins and wooden hairpins, which were worn by poor women. In addition, there were also some beads made of wood.

Xue Qian picked up those Buddhist beads.

There was a kind of Buddha bead that was relatively flat and small. There were twenty or thirty of them in one string, and Xue Qian bought three.

"A set of 80 yuan." Seeing that she was wearing a golden hairpin and a thick golden bracelet on her wrist, and her clothes were made of silk and jade pendant, the vendor felt a little uneasy.

He didn't know why such a rich lady wanted to buy his jewelry.

Xue Qian asked Hong Luan to go to a bank not far away and exchange one tael of silver for a string of money. A single string of coins was equivalent to a thousand copper coins.

Xue Qian counted 300 copper coins and gave them to the vendor. "The rest is the reward."

As a small merchant, he had never seen such a generous man. Holding the remaining 60 yuan reward, he was stunned for a long time.

Usually, the women who came to buy wooden hairpins would bargain with him for more thanhalf a day. Such kind of Buddha beads could only be sold by chance.

Unexpectedly, he sold three strings of them in one go today and got 60 yuan as a reward. The vendor couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Hong Luan sighed beside him.

Miss is really poor and generous.

Xue Qian walked on the street for a while and saw a teahouse. He took Hong Luan into the teahouse to eat tea and listen to the play. She had been holding her cat in her arms.

The cat's quiet eyes fell on her arms and did not move.

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