the first lady

Chapter 32

"Third Young Master, Second Young Madam has her reasons for doing this." Qing Ye, who has always been taciturn, opened his mouth on his own initiative. Usually he is so quiet that people ignore him.

Even the Bingshan man opened his mouth. Zongzheng Yan didn't care about his curiosity this time, so he used his intelligence immediately to make things perfect.

On that side, Zong Zhengyi seemed to know what Qiao Linger was going to do, and even put a bowl in front of the spout of the teapot before her, and refilled the previous amount of water.

"Young master, here it is!" When Zongzheng Yi got the previous amount of water, Yueying also came in with three kinds of gold ingots of five taels, ten taels and twenty taels. It's not that there are 20 taels, but the spout is too small to fit.

"Are these enough?" Zong Zhengyi raised his eyes and asked.

Those eyes, which were as bright as black diamonds, shone with a charming light. Qiao Ling'er was almost stunned for a moment, but she quickly calmed down and replied: "Try it first, if it doesn't work, we can change it to something else." Here she There is no guarantee that it will be so accurate, and it will be safer to experiment a few times.

Just like the previous time, Qiao Linger was experimenting, Zongzheng Yi was preparing spare water and bowls, Zongzheng Yan was recording, and finally got the first four sets of data after half an hour.

"Second sister-in-law, it's all recorded, take a look." Zong Zhengyan handed her the paper after the recording.

Qiao Ling'er took a look at the result. Although these characters were annoying, she could barely replace them with decimals in her mind, and after mental calculation, she came up with a satisfactory answer.Although there is a slight difference, it is not much worse.

"Uncle, try calculating and recording the ratio of the data in the first column to the data in the second column." Qiao Ling'er handed the paper back to Zong Zhengyan and said.

Zongzheng Yan was stunned for a moment, but he still didn't understand what Qiao Linger was doing. Ning Xiang and Lan Feng were also confused, and had no idea what kind of medicine Qiao Linger was selling in the gourd.

After taking it over, Zong Zhengyan was looking at two sets of data, and after a glance, he quickly wrote down a data.

Ning Xiang couldn't help being dumbfounded, she approached Qiao Ling'er and asked, "Don't the three young masters count?"

"The third son's mental arithmetic ability is unmatched!" Yueying answered from the side.

Ning Xiang has nothing to say. I have heard that the third young master of the Zongzheng family has a shrewd mind, but I never thought that mental arithmetic is included in it. Now I see that he wrote it in less than a stick of incense. The four sets of numbers couldn't help but admire them even more.

Qiao Ling'er realized that Zongzheng Yan was doing mental calculations, and her abilities might not be inferior to hers, which coincidentally collided with Lan Sa, both of whom had genius minds!
And Zongzhengyan, after the first two sets of data showed surprise on his face, when it came to the next three or four sets of data, he no longer knew how to express his shock.

Is it a coincidence or something else?Why are these four sets of data almost the same?Even when the mental calculation is a little behind, it is almost the same!

"Second sister-in-law, this..." Zong Zhengyan frowned and turned to look at Qiao Linger, as if he still doubted the authenticity of the four sets of data.

Qiao Ling'er was not surprised on the face. There was no decimal point in ancient times, but a special symbol was used to represent it, which is probably similar to the number after the decimal point.And it was only at the last place that there was a slight change, and they were all within "one" interval. It seems that Zongzhengyan really has two brushes!
"The amount of gold contained in each combination is almost the same." Zong Zhengyi glanced at the last four data, and then turned to Qiao Linger, "Linger, is this what you want to express?"

Hearing this, Qiao Linger was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the "combination" that Zong Zhengyi said was a unit of volume.However, regarding Zong Zhengyi's sensitivity, she felt that such an explanation was quite appropriate.

"It can be described in this way, but I can also explain one thing." Qiao Ling'er picked up the bowl of water as she spoke, and said lightly: "It's okay to use cooperation as a unit, but if the gold is big, the water In many cases, you can also use a relative method to calculate, and you can get the same data after the final conversion.”

A few people were confused, Zongzheng Yi and Zongzheng Yan were fine, but Ningxiang's eyes were circled by mosquito coils.

In the end, I was not ashamed to ask: "Miss... what do you mean? I didn't understand..."

"I'll explain this to you later. You can test it with any other things now." Qiao Ling'er is not afraid of trouble, but it is really troublesome to explain. The most important thing now is to solve the matter in front of her .

The next day.

After Zong Zhengyi and Qiao Ling'er went to Qiao's house again, Zong Zhengyan also called Feng Qing together, and did not inform Fifth Prince Helian Feiyu because of his identity.And Zongzheng Yi is the son-in-law of the Qiao family and the prime minister, so it is only natural to participate in it.As for the reason why Zongzhengyan is here, it is even simpler, Feng Qing asked for advice, and he will explain how to judge whether the gold is light or not!

Among them, before Zongzheng Yi and Qiao Linger came to Qiao's house, there was an episode, when Zongzheng Yi came home, Master Zongzheng, Zongzheng Invincible, stopped him.

What is the reason?It's just that Qiao Ling'er is going back to her mother's house again, and the old man is dissatisfied, but his tough wife doesn't allow him to make irresponsible remarks, so he only needs to find his son.

In the end, Zongzheng Yi said: "It was Hai'er who asked Ling'er to accompany me to visit my father-in-law and mother-in-law."

Zongzheng Wudi was so aggrieved that he wanted to squat in the corner and draw a circle. He was the water thrown by the married daughter, and he was the son of the married woman. He was married for four days, and he kept running to the mother-in-law's house. So depressed.

However, he was depressed as an old man, and his son and daughter-in-law were all focused on the batch of fake gold. Zongzheng Yi didn't let Zongzheng Wudi know about this, because he was afraid that he would be restless.

The Qiao family, Fengqing, Zongzhengyi, Qiao Linger and other family members all watched Zongzhengyan's experiment, which was taught by Qiao Linger himself. Although Zongzhengyi could also do it, Qiao Linger The son insisted on Zong Zhengyan.As for the reason, it was because watching him was too idle!
If Zongzheng Yan knew that this was the reason why he was "selected" to take on such a "big job", he might have hit a wall!

Qiao Ling'er quietly pulled Zongzhengyi's sleeve, and while everyone was watching the experiment, she silently said a few words to him, and then the two quietly left the hall.

Feng Qing saw the backs of Qiao Linger and Zong Zhengyi out of the corner of his eyes, his eyes couldn't help but sink, and then regained his composure in an instant, as if he had never seen anything.

Walking in the quiet corridor, Qiao Ling'er and Zong Zhengyi didn't speak for a while.Qiao Linger was thinking about how to speak, while Zong Zhengyi was waiting for her to speak.

Finally, Qiao Ling'er started and asked, "Who do you think is more likely to be the mastermind in this matter?" When talking to Zong Zhengyi, she didn't have to beat around the bush. He knew the situation better than she did, since she had seen through it all. It's impossible for Zongzheng Yi not to know about the tricks.

Regarding Qiao Linger's question, Zong Zhengyi was not at all curious, but raised his eyebrows slightly.

After being silent for a while, Zong Zhengyi gave his guess: "Queen."

"Why?" Qiao Ling'er originally thought that he would say that he couldn't be sure, but he didn't expect him to throw out the word "Queen" so bluntly. "Is it revenge for Uncle Chen?" But wasn't it the prince who killed Uncle Chen?
"Linger, there is one thing you may not have thought of." Zong Zhengyi and Qiao Linger sat down in the gazebo, and under Qiao Linger's surprised gaze, he continued: "On the day of the robbery, the person who hired the killer of Sanssouci Palace , is the person next to the queen."

"What?" Qiao Ling'er couldn't help raising her voice slightly, and she couldn't turn her head around for a while.

Zong Zhengyi immediately glanced around to make sure that no one was around, and then returned to Qiao Linger.

Qiao Ling'er also immediately understood the reason for Zong Zhengyi's actions. Although they are in Qiao's mansion now, there is no guarantee that the wall will have ears. Now they are in the hidden turmoil, so they must be careful, and they will fall into someone with a heart if they have any clues. hands.

She lowered her voice and asked, "I have no grievances with the queen, why did she hire someone to kidnap me?" Qiao Ling'er frowned, and then frowned again, thinking that the kidnapper might have status, but never I thought it would be a queen.

"The queen is not targeting you." Zong Zhengyi shook his head and said softly.

Not against her? "Aiming at Qiao's family?" Qiao Ling'er immediately came to a conclusion, her expression turned cold instantly, and the surrounding temperature couldn't help but drop.

"No," Zong Zhengyi denied again, "The empress is actually targeting the emperor..."

When Zong Zhengyi and Qiao Ling'er answered the hall, Zong Zhengyan's experiment was almost finished, and this time, Feng Qing, Qiao Zhan and Qiao Yilin were responsible for the density value.Although Qiao Zhan is getting old, it does not affect his ability.Qiao Yilin is also in charge of more than half of the Qiao family's business, so this matter shouldn't bother him.As for Feng Qing, let alone, he can take care of himself at a young age. He has handled the Feng family's business all these years. If he doesn't have a shrewd mind, how can he have such achievements?

Six sheets of paper, experiments made with gold and silver, each with [-] sets of data, the size of the gold is different, even the teapot that Qiao Linger used yesterday was replaced with a large teapot in the restaurant, the big gold is also I can let it go.

The first two columns of all the data are fixed. The ancients had tools to measure the volume of the ancients. What kind of units they used is also their business. Anyway, it will not affect the final conclusion.

Comparing the ratios in the last column together, I can't understand it without looking at them. Looking at the twelve sets of identical data, the faces of the three people responsible for the calculations are even more serious.

This is definitely not a coincidence!

"Second sister-in-law, the results are all the same." Zong Zhengyan had tried countless times at home yesterday, and the data he got today is still the same as what he calculated yesterday, he was convinced.

(End of this chapter)