Chapter 4 Promotion
"Sister, the child you gave a piece of oatmeal yesterday seems to have been following us."

The next day, the three siblings, who had slept under the eaves all night, got up early, went to a nearby well to fetch water to wash, and then walked to the grain and grass warehouse.Yesterday, the steward said he was in charge of the meals, so Lu Weimang just bought pancakes for her two younger brothers, and she went to the warehouse to eat.

Lu Weimang was dragging his two younger brothers to the warehouse in a hurry, but Changfeng suddenly pulled the corner of Weimang's clothes to make her look back.

After hearing this, Lu Weimang turned his head to look, sure enough, the ragged boy from yesterday was not far behind them, his face was thin and his eyes wandered, and he didn't dare to look at Lu Weimang who was looking back.

Lu Weimang was in a hurry to get to work, and before he had time to ask him why, he tightened his grip on his two younger brothers, not getting in touch with this person yet.

When they arrived at the warehouse, they received pancakes and rice porridge, and Lu Weimang started working after eating them in two or three bites.I earned 25 Wen in just half a day yesterday, and today I have to carry more and earn more.

I heard from the coolies who worked together that this was food and grass for the army in Linxian County. They only had work for a few days, and the wages were high.

Taking a deep breath, Lu Weimang used all his strength to carry it one after another, as if he was tireless.She has to save as much money as possible when she has work these days.Otherwise, judging from the experience of hitting walls everywhere on the day she entered the city, it would be difficult to make money so easily if she missed this opportunity.

Because it was hard work, when the sun was shining at noon, the steward called a stop and asked everyone to drink some mung bean soup and eat a pancake.

Lu Weimang breathed a sigh of relief, took out his counting chip from his pocket, and waited in line to find a secretary.

"Miss Lu, I see that you are walking fast. You have gained a lot this morning, right?"

The steward sat by the side, helping the clerk to do the counting, and it was Lu Weimang's turn to meet, and he said hello with a smile.

Lu Weimang smiled slightly, took out all the counting chips in his pocket and handed them over, "You count, no more, no less, a total of 50."

As he said that, he handed over the short stick used for counting to the steward.

The clerk was holding a pen to count, and was a little surprised when he heard this. He looked at the pile of counting chips on the table, and then at Lu Xiaoniang.

After the steward counted them one by one, he finally announced, "That's right, no more, no less, 50."

More than the average man can carry.

Whether it was those who were waiting in line behind or those who had just registered for work and hadn't gone far, they were a little dumbfounded when they heard the numbers in the steward's report.

Other men would inevitably talk to their companions when they were working, and take a break in the middle, but Lu Weimang thought about doing more to make more money, so he held his breath, and he hasn't stopped since the morning.Moreover, she is born with supernatural strength. To others, a strenuous sack is fine to her. After getting familiar with yesterday, today she has the experience to distribute her physical strength well.

"Miss Lu, that's amazing."

The steward sighed, and the "workmates" next to him also echoed. Even if they were jealous and wanted to say a few words, they were reprimanded by those next to them. Such a young girl is so capable, you old man, do you have the nerve to make sarcastic remarks? ?

The steward watched Lu Weimang staring at the clerk to record his work in the ledger without blinking his eyes, his heart moved, and he asked, "Ms. Lu is staring like this, is it possible that you can still read?"

Lu Weimang hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "I know a few words."

This is really immodest, because from the shop's signboard, she can recognize that this character is similar to the simplified characters she knows. Although there may be obstacles in writing and she is not familiar with the strokes, she can recognize it.

I am ashamed to say that after studying for so many years, I have become semi-literate here.

She could still read the words on the account book, but they were just numbers.She had just handed in the fifty counting chips, and stared at the document under her name, and wrote the three characters Wushizhen.It's not that she's narrow-minded, it's really hard work, so of course she has to pay attention.

As soon as Lu Weimang's literacy words fell, the crowd buzzed with exclamations of surprise one after another, as well as various expressions of disbelief and even admiration.

Although I vaguely heard some news about the new emperor of the imperial court mentioned by others, but it doesn't match up with any emperor in Lu Weimang's memory, so she doesn't know how the current civilization is developing, but she can know from the surprised and sighed tone of the people around, This era seems to be more advanced?

The steward twirled the short beard on his chin, then raised his head and said to Lu Weimang, "Since you can read, let's call it a day. I don't know if Lu Xiaoniang can stay and check with the clerk? Dong Weng just came to the mansion to have complicated affairs. , if Lu Xiaoniang can help me take over the work of reconciling with the paperwork, I will give you an extra [-] Wen every day, how about it?"

Lu Weimang was overjoyed, and bowed to salute, "Lu Weimang has nothing to repay the kindness of the steward, and I will definitely reconcile the accounts for you clearly, so you won't bother."

This is the opportunity given to him by the steward, how could Lu Weimang not take it ecstatically.

The steward smiled kindly, "Hurry up and go get your meals. I've been busy all morning. I have to reconcile the accounts for me in the afternoon. I've agreed in advance. Do you understand? "

Lu Weimang stared at the steward with bright eyes, "Don't worry, I will do my best."

The steward waved his hand with a smile and asked her to go to eat. Lu Weimang was no longer polite, and took the two younger brothers to get the meal.

The people queuing up behind and the onlookers discussed more, and at the same time looked at Lu Weimang with more admiration.It took only one day to go up to the "management management". Although it was a temporary worker, it could be seen that knowledge is power, which is different from those coolies who only have strength.

When the clerk heard the steward's words, he looked at the steward sitting beside him. The two of them looked at each other and understood each other's meaning.

It was a rare event for a handsome young lady who was half a person tall to carry a big bag. From morning until now, many people who heard about it came to watch and stop, and those who witnessed it with their own eyes yesterday came behind Science, what kind of grace is the manager, making an exception to let her a young lady do the work of the yamen, and give her pancakes, and today I added another one.Now this news probably won't pass today, and it will spread throughout the county. At that time, it will give Lu Weimang a chance to make money, and secondly, let everyone in the county know the tolerance and kindness of the new county magistrate. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone. .

Over there, Lu Weimang didn't care about other people's thoughts and comments, she just took a few more pancakes from the pancake master, and found a clean corner with her two younger brothers, sat down to eat pancakes, and took a break by the way.

"Sister, why don't I know you can read?"

Cheng Yang endured it for a long time, and there were only the three of them around at the moment, so he couldn't help asking, with a hint of worry on his face, as if he was afraid that sister would not be able to do the errand given by the steward.

The fourth brother, Changfeng, also stared at his elder sister with big black and white eyes.

Lu Weimang said vaguely, "I recognized it when Dad was here, and I didn't need it at home before, so you don't know."

Using the father who had disappeared for five years as a shield, the two brothers breathed a sigh of relief.They were indoctrinated by the villagers since they were young, saying how capable their father is, so literacy shouldn't be a problem, right?

After eating pancakes and taking a breather, in the afternoon, as expected, there were more people around in twos and threes to watch Lu Weimang, a half-person tall little bean carrying big bags.

Often when Lu Weimang threw the big bag on his shoulders, the people around would scream in surprise. She put the big bag on the car and put it down, and there was another scream, ordinary people are fine, but pointing with fingers, there are one or two conditions Some of them even held a handful of fried beans in their hands, and watched while eating, some exclaimed and admired, as if watching her like a monkey show.

Lu Weimang ignored the ignorant people around him, and only focused on working to make money.

In her childhood concept, people live to work.When I was young, I had no ability, so I had to study hard and do some housework. When I grew up, I entered the society and went to work to earn money.So she didn't think there was anything wrong with working to earn money, but work harder now, when she saves up money, she can think of other ways out, so she won't let herself work so hard anymore, earning money really can't stop .

The secretary in charge looked at each other with a smile, and was very satisfied with the impact of taking Lu Xiaoniang in front of him.

Before Lu Weimang knew it, she had already become a "celebrity" in Feng County.Even though I now know that I haven't seen much, I can imagine that after the ten-day period of carrying the big contract is over, it is estimated that most of the county will come to see the excitement and recognize people.

After all, this was the ancient times when there were no entertainment items, so boring. If anyone had a quarrel, there would be two streets of people watching. This nature of watching the excitement has not changed since ancient times.

The sun was slanting to the west, everyone went home from work, and the people who watched the excitement saw that Lu Xiaoniang hadn't appeared in the warehouse for a long time, and they also dispersed one after another.

At the moment, Lu Weimang is taking his younger brother to reconcile accounts with the clerk in the warehouse.

After all, the document is more familiar with the warehouse layout than Lu Weimang, so the document records the remaining inventory in the warehouse, Lu Weimang's account books, and sorts out the quantity of today's warehouse, and then subtracts it from yesterday's inventory to get On the ledger, the inventory quantity today.

Lu Weimang didn't know how to use a brush, so he didn't waste time doing calculations with a brush. He found a small branch, wrote and drew on the flat floor of the warehouse, and made simple vertical calculations.

The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled into the warehouse door, Lu Weimang squatted on the ground, and the small shadow was stretched long, and the two younger brothers squatted on the other side of the warehouse door, trying not to block the light of sister, but still able to see clearly Sister's actions.

Seeing sister skillfully writing incomprehensible numbers and symbols on the ground, muttering words, the eyes of the two younger brothers seemed to be full of stars reflected by the setting sun, and they thought in unison, "Sister is so amazing!" Inexplicably, the future seems to be brighter.

After checking the warehouse with documents and returning to the door of the warehouse, Lu Weimang had counted his experience three times.

The two accounts are put together as a pair, and the numbers are exactly the same.

"The younger generation is awesome, Miss Lu. I saw that you finished your calculations early. It seems that you are not only literate, but also good at arithmetic."

Lu Weimang's face flushed, these should be addition and subtraction in the first grade of elementary school, right?Lu Weimang scratched his head embarrassingly because he was praised for this.

Looking at Lu Weimang's red face and shy movements, the secretary feels that although Lu Xiaoniang is small, she is tenacious and humble. She is really a good seedling, but it's a pity...

Seeing the document shaking his head inexplicably, Lu Weimang quickly asked, "Is there something wrong with me?"

The clerk smiled, "No, you've done a good job. Come on, here's the [-] cash for today's account reconciliation. Put it away. The sun is going down, and it's getting late. Go get some rest early."

Lu Weimang took the black copper coins with both hands, bowed to the document, and walked out of the warehouse with his two younger brothers.

"Sister is really amazing!"

"That's needless to say? Sister is the best..."

The two younger brothers praised Lu Weimang on one side and the other on the right, and the clerk behind him laughed unconsciously.

(End of this chapter)

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