Everyone turned their attention and saw that the waiter was holding Tang Ji's answer sheet. A bloated man who failed to calculate the results immediately broke through and shouted loudly: "If you have already chosen this boy,
You can just recruit him directly, why do you have to engage in this competition to humiliate us?"
In the eyes of these people who often come into contact with arithmetic, no one can solve such a difficult problem without using an abacus. The key is that the other person is still so young. This can not only be explained by freaks and monsters, but also people believe that it is due to the early death of the people.
Revealed the answer to Tang Ji.
"Yes, even if you want to highlight your accountant's ability, there is no need to step on us to get the position!"
"Hmph, that's ridiculous. It's my fault that I came here to take the exam. It turns out that there's already an appointed candidate."
"What's so great about Jianghai Chamber of Commerce? I don't want to leave you here, I have my own place to stay!"
The three people who couldn't figure out the answer stood up angrily, cursed and were about to leave.
He Bin's eyes were full of "question marks". He, the shopkeeper, didn't even know when the candidate would be appointed.
If rumors about today's incident spread, the whole organization may be affected.
He stood up abruptly, walked to the door and stopped the three of them: "Don't be anxious, everyone, just make it clear if you have something to say. Our competition is fair and impartial, and there is no way to reveal the topic in advance."
Immediately, He Bin turned his attention to Tang Ji: "Tell me how you calculated the answer!"
Tang Ji sighed. If he used the method of later generations, he could set up an unknown number and explain it clearly in a few words. But if he said this now, he would definitely be regarded as a madman. Suddenly, an idea came to his mind, and a certain fragment from his previous life appeared in his mind, making him see a flash in front of his eyes.
Liang explained: "Three people walking together are seventy-nine years apart. Five plum blossoms are sweet and one branch is sweet. The seven sons are reunited in the first half of the month. If you divide it by one hundred and five, you will know."
A famous mathematician in the Ming Dynasty compiled an easy-to-understand four-sentence formula to answer this problem.
He happened to see it when he was browsing something in his previous life, but he didn't expect to use it today.
After a while, seeing that several people still looked confused, Tang Ji shook his head and wanted to explain.
Unexpectedly, He Bin took the lead. He was not proficient in arithmetic, but that didn't mean he was a fool. He needed to solve the problem himself. The other party actually responded with a broken poem. An angry look appeared on his face, and he raised his hand and said, "The answer is not what you asked.
Since you can’t tell a cause and effect, your results will be invalid and leave quickly!”
Hearing this, several other people stopped and thought one after another. No matter what the meaning of this poem was, it was impossible for anyone to figure out the answer without using an abacus. They looked at Tang Ji with disdain.
"I can explain it to you..." Tang Ji walked back to his original position and wanted to use pen and paper to explain to everyone, but He Bin didn't give him a chance and grabbed him by the collar and threw him out of the room.
"I've seen something wrong with you a long time ago. Leave quickly, or I'll ask the guards in the building to take you out." He Bin waved his hand impatiently, then turned around and comforted the four people in the room with a smile.
Tang Ji sighed, it was a self-defeating thing. It seems that sometimes it is not good to have too advanced knowledge, but it was a pity that he had been busy all morning in vain. He glanced inside the room again, turned and walked towards the stairs.
Just as he was about to go down the stairs, a voice came from behind: "Master, please stay."
Tang Ji stopped, turned around, and looked around. He saw a charming woman walking over. She was wearing a dark red fairy skirt with gold rims on the outside, and two slender hair with two hairpins in it.
Jin Chai, with a pair of black pearl-like jade eyes under Liu Ye's eyebrows, her beauty is natural and delicious.
Yue Shuhua raised his hand in a "please" gesture and said softly: "I wonder if I can have a chat with the young master alone."
"What are we talking about?" Tang Ji replied casually not wanting to waste any more time.
"Let's talk about whether the young master can stay." Yue Shuhua replied, then waved her skirt sleeves lightly and led the maid towards a room very close to the stairs.
Tang Ji was a little confused. After thinking about it for a moment, he followed slowly.
This room is much smaller than the one just now, but it is much richer in content. There are several dark and shiny exquisite wooden shelves on both sides, with various porcelain antiques placed on them. There are also other things on the wall opposite the door.
There are two ancient paintings with age hanging on them, a desk is placed on the side, and the brushes are still on the inkstone, obviously they have just been used.
What satisfied Tang Ji most was that he finally had a normal chair to sit on. His knees were very uncomfortable after kneeling for so long.
Yue Shuhua sat down at the round table at the entrance, raised her hand to signal Tang Ji to sit down, then asked the maid to pour him a glass of water, and said with a smile: "What do you call the young master?"
"Tang Ji, the season of the seasons." After Tang Ji answered, he picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
Yue Shuhua held the cup body with her slender fingers and whispered: "It is said that Mr. Tang solved the problem written by the slave family without using an abacus?"
"Did you come up with those questions?" Tang Ji raised his head and looked at her, looking a little surprised.
The chicken and the rabbit in the same cage and the soldier-pointing problem are all very famous ancient mathematics problems. If the other party really solved the problem, then her arithmetic skills must be very strong.
Yue Shuhua did not continue to ask further. He held his chin with the back of his hand and asked, "Although I don't know how Master did it, I am willing to give you a chance to stay."
Tang Ji drank all the tea in the cup and asked: "Does the girl have the final say on whether to stay or go?"
As if she heard something interesting, Yueshu Hua smiled delicately, then covered her jade lips with the small paper fan she brought in, and gave him a wink: "Girl? It's been a long time since anyone called me that, my family."
My name is Yue Shuhua, the shopkeeper of the Jianghai Chamber of Commerce. This cloth shop is just a branch of the Chamber of Commerce. Do you think my words have the final say, Master?"
Tang Ji trembled all over and quickly avoided her sight.
Although this woman looks young, her temperament is mature. She is not thirty, but probably twenty-six or seven. It is really inappropriate to call her a girl.
However, he just learned some information about Jianghai Chamber of Commerce from the people who participated in the competition, and he never thought that the person in front of him was the big boss.
"What opportunity did Shopkeeper Yue talk about?" Tang Ji asked tentatively after thinking about it.
"I called you girl just now, but now I am the shopkeeper Yue, alas!" Yue Shuhua held her head and sighed.
Then, she put down the tea cup in her hand, walked to the desk and took out a blue-covered book, and said with a smile: "It's very simple, help me see if there is anything wrong with this account book."
After hearing this, Tang Ji opened the account book. Judging from the dryness of the ink, it should have been written in the past few days. He stopped thinking about it and quickly flipped through the paper to browse.
Yue Shuhua observed the speed at which he turned the pages of the book, doubts in his beautiful eyes. Are you sure you can see clearly? Or does he have a photographic memory?
But she didn't interrupt him, she picked up the tea cup and put it to her mouth, looking at this strange young man.
It didn't take long for Tang Ji to flip through the entire account book and hand it back to her: "There are a lot of false accounts."