Medicine in Song Dynasty

Chapter 11 Accounts
After a busy day, the patients in the Qingchun Hall were finally gone when the moon was on the treetops. Although the female shopkeeper didn't do much, she was still exhausted. Walking around the streets, I feel that he is not going to see patients at all, he is just hiding away!"

The doctor sitting in the hall couldn't laugh or cry: "You still complain, no matter how tired our pharmacy is, we won't be exposed to the wind and sun and rain. I saw Jiulang the other day, and he was so thin that he took off his appearance, which made people feel distressed."

The female shopkeeper puffed her face, but finally swallowed back the words that came to her lips, stopped talking to the old doctor, turned her head, and turned to the young guy with a flushed face and sweating profusely who was holding a fortune teller He shouted: "Have you finished the accounts? I'm waiting for you to eat, I'm starving to death!"

The young man was about to cry, and shook his head with a mournful face: "Shopkeeper, I'm not Accountant Li, but I have studied with his old man for a few days, so I can't compare with his old man, so why do you push others to make things difficult for you!"

"It's useless!"

The female shopkeeper was glaring, and wanted to roar, when she saw the little lady who was deliberately neglected to make trouble, got up from the counter sleepily, rubbed her eyes and said, "Is there anyone else?"

As he spoke, he grabbed the few pieces of paper in front of him, wobbled to the side of the guy who was doing the accounting, and took the account book in his hand.

The young man was startled, and said in surprise: "Little lady, don't make trouble, I'm busy, you should rest for a while, and leave after dinner."

Before he finished speaking, he saw the little lady glance at the account book, and then use the brush to draw twice on her paper, spread her hands, and said with a smile: "The accounts are finished, I read the accounts of Brother Zhou, and they are generally good. , but there are two patients whose drug prices are not matched."

As she spoke, she opened the account book and drew a line on the two accounts with a brush.

The female shopkeeper was taken aback for a moment, walked over to take a closer look, took out the calculation chip and tossed about for a while, then wiped the sweat from her forehead, and muttered to herself: "It's really..." She dug out the prescription she had kept, and calculated it again , and finally found that there were two patients who had made a mistake in the settlement of the medicine money. One patient asked for thirteen coins more, and the other patient asked for two coins less.

The young man acted as the accountant and was also in charge of settling the medical expenses. He was already blushing at this moment, and said in a low voice, "It's my fault, the shopkeeper."

But he didn't make any excuses. In fact, there were indeed more patients today, and the shopkeeper asked him to sort out the entire month's accounts today. When he settled the patient's medical expenses, he was still thinking about that A mountain of account books is negligent.

The female shopkeeper sighed, not blaming him, but looking at Su Tong as if staring at a monster: "When did you settle the score?"

Su Tong smiled without saying a word, just pushed the paper in front of her.

A group of people looked down, and saw a rather peculiar form drawn on the paper, which listed income, expenditure, and balance in detail. The accounts were clear and clear. It was clear that she raised her head and glared at Su Tong, and then took the calculations for a while, at least all the calculations she had made were correct.

Everyone was amazed.

The shopkeeper's eyes were shining.

The little guy's eyes widened even more, as if a few flowers had grown on Su Tong's face: "I saw you write and draw, and it's useless to even count, how did you do the math?"

Abacus has actually been around for a long time, but the calculation method has not kept up with it. In the Song Dynasty, people were still accustomed to using abacus.

Su Tong felt uncomfortable under the fiery eyes of these people, coughed lightly, "I don't need to count, just use a pen."

As soon as this sentence came out, the female shopkeeper was overjoyed: "The sky is endless, a teenage girl is smarter than that old bastard Li Changsheng, let's see what else the elder brother can say!"

No matter how thick-skinned Su Tong was, she was a little embarrassed. In fact, she just listed the accounts casually, which was far from being called an account book. Even junior high school students and even elementary school students could list them and know how to calculate them. , if serious accountants in the 21st century were to read these things she wrote, I'm afraid they would scoff.

Moreover, even if she is compared with the old accountants of this era, she may not necessarily be smarter than others. After all, being an accountant is similar to the nature of future accounting work.

All she could rely on was her math skills, her ability to do mental calculations and quick calculations. However, with her ability, there was no problem in dealing with the accounts of this small pharmacy.

After carefully reading Su Tong's calculations, the female shopkeeper made a contract without saying a word. She still wanted to sign for five years, at least one year, but Su Tong was only willing to sign for one month, and agreed to stay here During the period, the female shopkeeper had to continue to find other accountants, and she couldn't do it for long.

If it were someone else, they would definitely not accept such a condition. The accounting office is very important to a store, even a pharmacy. Generally, when opening a store for business, the accounting office will use cronies, even if it is hired outside, it will also sign a contract Long-term appointments, and look for those accountants who are famous and stingy with feathers.

But the female shopkeeper in front of her was very sympathetic to Su Tong's difficulties. After all, she was a woman, and she was not suitable for long-term exposure. Even being an accountant was a relatively decent job.

After the contract was written, the female shopkeeper exhaled, clapped her hands and smiled, "Eat, eat quickly."

When the food was served on the table, Su Tong realized that this Qingchuntang pharmacy was 'very unruly'. Those who were in charge of grabbing medicines and doing chores, the doctor in charge, and even the shopkeeper all ate at the same table. The materials are all good, but the cooking is very rough. The large pieces of fat meat are placed in a large pot. It seems that they are boiled in plain water, and the vegetables are also cut into pieces. The brown rice looks ugly. After that, she lost her appetite.

The others didn't mind at all, they all carried bowls and stuffed them into their mouths desperately.

The workload in their pharmacy is not small, and everyone consumes a lot of energy, so it is different from other places, eating three regular meals a day, plus snacks, Su Tong did not notice the difference, because she is also used to three meals a day, Although the other people didn't say it, they were very grateful to the host in their hearts. They worked extremely hard on weekdays, and they didn't dislike how bad the food was.

But not long after, the eating speed of these people inexplicably slowed down a lot, and Su Tong felt that a group of people were secretly looking at him from the corner of their eyes.

Su Tong couldn't help frowning, looked up and down, his clothes were still clean, touched the corner of his mouth, and there was no rice sticking on him, he couldn't help being surprised, and asked in amazement: "What are you looking at?"

"No, no."

The sturdy female shopkeeper was caught peeping, her face flushed, and she said in a low voice, "Young lady doesn't come from ordinary people, she looks really refined!"

(End of this chapter)