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Su Zhi was shocked, and instinctively retreated and hit the corner of the table, causing her to grimace in pain.

After all, stealing a peek at someone being caught was not something to be proud of.

"Are you alright?"

Seeing her pale face, Xiao Qian stood up to check on her injuries.

"Don't worry about it, General."

She, Su Zhi, sucked in a cold breath and refused again.

Xiao Qian did not force it, the tent was not big at all, and the familiar sweet scent lingered on the tip of his nose.

Su Zhi's chest rose and fell unevenly from the pain as she panted incessantly.

Xiao Qian felt a little unnatural. When he thought back to last night, his ears turned red.

Su Zhi rubbed her sore spot, but did not notice Xiao Qian's abnormality, and continued to speak: "I have nothing important to do today, I heard that the general has been handling military matters for the entire night, I want to see if there's anything I can help you with."

Xiao Qian glanced through the books that he had only read a few pages of the accounts after a whole night of reading, and unconsciously rubbed his nose.

"It's best if you can help."

Without being rejected, Su Zhi brought over a small stool from the side and sat down in front of the desk. Her slender fingers quickly moved the abacus up and down.

"Why don't I give you a list of ninety-nine times multiplication method?"

Su Zhi said.

Xiao Qian looked over in confusion.

What the hell was that?

"Or simple operations and laws? It's all very simple, even children know how to do it. "

Xiao Qian remained silent, and was shocked by Su Zhi's expression, which was obviously filled with common knowledge.

Although he was a martial general, he had studied proper books before, and even though he was not proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics, he still understood the general's principles, as for what simple calculations Su Zhi had mentioned, he truly did not know anything.

Xiao Qian thoughtfully looked at the innocent looking woman in front of him, feeling that she was no ordinary mountain village woman.

The general did not speak, and Su Zhi did not know why either. She bit her pen and waited for the general's signal, then continued to calculate.

When within a hundred times add, subtract, multiply, and divide, the result can be easily calculated without the need of a click-clack abacus.

"Wait a minute, if you were to calculate in this place, how did you end up flipping a page?" The man suddenly spoke up.

Su Zhi blinked, and then turned to the previous page, and puzzledly said: "This place has already been calculated. "The garrison city has given out grain a total of 11 times, and each time, there would be 4,611 stones, right? Then, we can just multiply it by 11 and get a total of 5,0611 stones, right?"

Xiao Qian stared blankly at her. He took the abacus and calculated it quickly, the result was indeed correct.

He looked at Su Zhi in shock.

Su Zhi shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly. 11 was a mysterious number, no matter how complex the multiplier was, it could be calculated verbatim.

The simple truth was that any misplaced numbers were the result.

"You ? You worked in an accounting office before? "

"Is that so, my university, cough, my ? "I inadvertently received the teachings of an old mister and was told these simple calculation methods. The general is interested in them, so I can teach you."

That was close! He had almost said that he was a major in university.

What relative mass energy equation, Newton's second law... This was just a small matter.

"If that's the case, then I'll have to thank Madam Su first."

Xiao Qian did not pretend to be awkward, he was very sincere in seeking knowledge. In the past, when the military accounts were being investigated at the end of the year, he would always make things easier, if he could learn Su Zhi's method, it would be much easier.

"Alright, I'll take the general as my disciple."

Su Zhi squinted her almond eyes and chuckled. This is nothing, she knows a lot of things, if you want to learn it, you just need to have a high level of comprehension!

The thick stack of account books was finished with no effort at all.

Su Zhi organized the various data on the white paper and compared them with Xiao Qian to determine the amount of bad debts he owed and the amount he owed.

After the time it took to brew a cup of tea, Su Zhi thought that it was about time. She had to busy herself with lunch, the remaining two books would be ready by tomorrow at the latest.

A faint crying sound came from outside the tent. Su Zhi quivered, and after being away for too long, she had even forgotten that Little Pancake knew how to cause trouble.

"young lady Su, your child ?"

"Mother ~"

Su Zhi was in a difficult situation, she closed the account book and said apologetically: "General, please forgive me, but my child is still young ?"

"No problem, Mo Qi will let them in."

Only with permission did the soldiers guarding the camp dare to let them through.

Ah Jin, whose face was filled with uneasiness, apologized as the flap of the tent was lifted. "My sister has not seen my mother so she's crying, she's still young and inexperienced, please don't be angry."

"I don't blame you. This general was wrong."

Little Pancake struggled to land from Ah Jin's embrace, his face still covered with tears and a snot.

Su Zhi doted on the child and could not help but scold him. Seeing that Xiao Qian's attitude was calm, he felt at ease.

"Good child, come here."

The two year old child held his mouth in grievance. His eyes were red and wet as he ran towards the two of them.

As expected of his own child, her crying little appearance made Su Zhi's eyes ache, she wanted to embrace him and play with him.

"Little Pancake..."

Su Zhi was still thinking about how to coax the child when Xiao Budian suddenly turned in front of her and threw himself into Xiao Qian's embrace. She even called out in a childish voice, "Daddy ~"

This... They were indeed the children of their own family, without a doubt.

She was wondering why Little Pancake always mistook this man for her father. Could it be that Xiao Qian's temperament was similar to her father's?

"Little Pancake, don't shout randomly, call for the general, come and say this to mother, general ~"

The snowy-ball-like child gave her a serious look. He frowned as he couldn't see clearly, but then turned his head to look at the extraordinarily handsome man behind him.