The Princess of Northern Land
Chapter 461 Loss (3)_1

Chapter 461: Chapter 461 Loss (3)_1

What shocked and perplexed the Ma Family more was that the speed of the Lin Family’s shopkeeper and the children was faster than theirs. From time to time, they could faintly hear the villagers discussing their rapid accounting.

Some of the villagers whom he looked down upon as bumpkins were actually faster than Ma Dala.

After two rounds of calculations, Ma Dala’s confidence began to waver.

In the first two competitions, although Ma Dala was a bit slow, his accuracy was relatively high. However, the third one made him break out in a cold sweat.

Because the problems posed by the visiting merchants were far more complex and involved calculations of taxes, compound interest, and various counts of inflow and outflow at different prices. Very quickly, Ma Dala’s head was spinning from all these intricate calculations.

Although he is a deputy store manager in the city, the shop is not that large and there are superiors like the store manager and the owner above him. He didn’t have the opportunity to deal with complicated matters.

The Lin Family was different. Not to mention formidable shopkeepers like Jue Yuan and Yu Shaohui, who had to deal with large and small transactions every day, even the children in the school learned modern arithmetic, vertical calculations, mental calculations, and practical operations taught by Lin Ziyin. They are much more advanced than Ma Dala, who relies on self-learned and accumulated experience.

Especially for the calculation of goods in and out, the Lin family uses a statistical table method, while Ma Dala uses an old-fashioned and complicated way of bookkeeping. It would be weird if he didn’t lose.

The crucial point is that Ma Dala doesn’t understand.

"No, you definitely had some secret collaboration." In the end, Ma Dala, sweating profusely, threw his pen away and started to play dirty when he couldn’t figure it out.

"Collaborate?" Lin Ziyin looked at him with amusement, "You, worthy?"

This statement was even more embarrassing for Ma Dala than losing the bet.

"No way, I can’t believe that the child could solve such a complex problem." Ma Dala sobered up a bit after encountering Lin Ziyin’s sarcastic gaze, but he didn’t back down, and started to complain loudly, "They have only been studying for a short time."

"With such limited capability, you still dare to be a shopkeeper in the city, forget about it." Some people jeered.

"Exactly, even we are faster than him." Some teenagers also laughed and ridiculed him. Normally, everyone is from the same village and generally there would be some sort of respectful address between each other. However, since the Ma family had done many shady things, everyone began to mock them.

As for the address, everyone started to skip it, after all, they were not of the same surname, there was no need to be that particular.

"What do you want?" Lou Zheng asked with a serious face. If it wasn’t for letting Ma Dala give up, he wouldn’t bother to continue.

"I’ll propose questions for them to solve." Ma Dala quickly calmed down and came up with a solution

Hei Yi’s face turned cold when he saw his insatiable greed.

Lin Ziyin waved his hand and agreed to his request, "Alright, three questions."

Everyone nodded in agreement, who would want to waste time with the idler Ma Dala’s family when it was almost time to go to work. Besides, everyone had seen Ma Dala’s ability and didn’t bother to stay. Everyone was worried that if such a person was let in to manage the accounts in the workshop, their monthly wages and bonuses would be reduced.

When Ma Dala saw her agree, he thought for a moment and brought out three difficult questions he had encountered in the shop. The accounting in and out in the three questions was complex and trivial.

Back then, he and the store manager had spent more than a day sorting them out.

When the questions were released, the looks on the faces of the visiting merchants towards Ma Dala took on additional significance.