Be a matchmaker in an otome game

Chapter 354 Teaching people to learn arithmetic

When Jane's husband returned home in the evening, the first thing he said was to ask about his daughter Anna.

Jane was still a little upset and regretful when talking about this matter: "It would have been better if we had taken Anna to see a doctor earlier. If we had gone earlier, Anna would have only needed three days of medicine, and Anna would have had to take ten days of medicine."

The husband was a little impatient: "What's the use of talking so much? It would be nice if the disease can be cured."

Seeing her husband not taking it seriously, Jane was a little angry: "Do you know how much Anna spent on this treatment? One hundred and ten copper coins. The family doesn't have much money left."

As she spoke later, Jane's voice was a little hard. She carefully counted the recent family expenses and worried about her future life.

There is only one source of income in the family. Jane is usually responsible for taking care of the children, cleaning the house, or doing some laundry work. Although her life is not bad, she still has to save some money, so the family of three is still very tight.

Not just their family, everyone lived this way.

When he heard that so much money had been spent, the husband couldn't help but sigh heavily: "Don't worry, I will look for any jobs in the next few days and pick up a few more."

But it’s hard to find work for craftsmen like them. Whether there is work depends entirely on the owner’s wishes. Sometimes there may not be work for ten days and a half.

Jane, who has been married to him for many years, also understands this very well, so she has no expectations. She just wants to pick up more clothes and wash them tomorrow. After all, it is also an income.

But she didn't trust her daughter to be alone at home, so she took her daughter to her brother and sister-in-law's house very early, planning to ask them to take care of her daughter.

Anyway, Ken and his sister-in-law are at home, so it shouldn't be difficult to take care of a girl.

But she saw Ken getting ready to go out.

Jane stopped Ken: "Why do you want to go out? Isn't your health still good?"

Ken's sister-in-law came out from behind and complained: "What can he do if he doesn't work? Can he make money lying down like this?"

Money is always a dilemma that common people cannot avoid. Jane has nothing to say: "Then remember to take your medicine."

The sister-in-law still said, "Now that everything is fine, let's take some medicine. I'll save it and maybe I can take it next time."

This sounds unlucky, but many people do think so. The cost of medicine is also money. If you take less this time, you can save it for next time.

Although Jane felt that it was not good to do this, she couldn't control it too much, so she could only leave Anna to her sister-in-law and ask her to take care of it.

The sister-in-law said readily that it was no problem. This was not the first time that she had helped Jane take care of Anna, and she was very familiar with this job.

Jane went out with Ken.

When Ken arrived at work, the co-workers came to express their condolences when they saw Ken with gauze on his head. Mark also saw it and walked up to him, frowning: "Why did you go to work? Didn't the pharmacist tell you to at least rest?"

Three days?”

Ken smiled reluctantly: "Mark, I have to work to have an income. If I lie down for a day, I will lose a day's wages."

Their wages are settled based on daily wages, which is a bit troublesome, but the money they receive is reassuring.

Of course, Mark is not a person who is indifferent to the world. Hearing this, he just sighed: "Okay, then try not to do heavy work."

Ken looked at Mark strangely: "Why do you still come to work? You shouldn't come here to compete with us for jobs."

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Mark has a close relationship with that hospital, so it is very strange for Mark to appear here.

"My lady said," Mark's voice was filled with obvious pride, "Since you have done it, you have to finish it, so I will help you finish the work before leaving. Don't worry, I don't want any wages."

Of course, the more laborers who work for free, the better. Their job is to first negotiate how much the project will cost and how much will be paid every day. If the work is completed in advance, the remaining money will be paid. If all the wages are paid, the work will be done.

They had to finish before they could leave, so Mark's appearance allowed them to speed up the work process and get their wages in advance.

In fact, it was not just for this reason, Mark actively wanted to stay.

Without further chatting, everyone quickly started working. Soon someone discovered: "I'm still short of five bricks here."

Someone stood up and said, "Then I'll pick it up."

Someone immediately said, "Then I'm still short of three yuan."

"I'm short of two pieces here."

"Bring me seven dollars by the way."

"Stop, stop, stop," the brick picker said, "I can't remember so many things you said."

"What's so difficult about this?" Mark patted the crumbs in his hand, "Just calculate the total."

"Then I won't count it either."

"I'll calculate it for you." Mark found a branch and scratched it on the ground a few times. "First five yuan, then three yuan, and then..."

Others gathered around to see how Mark calculated, but they couldn't understand. In their eyes, Mark looked like a talisman. The ground was covered with symbols they couldn't understand. After a while, Mark came to the conclusion: "

Just bring me seventeen bricks."

Others' eyes were filled with circles: "Really?"

Mark was confident: "Just bring it over and you'll find out."

The brick pickers quickly picked up the bricks. Everyone divided the bricks they needed, and then they found that there were exactly seventeen bricks, no more than one and no less.

In the eyes of ordinary people, arithmetic is a magical skill like magic. Some people do not believe in evil, but they want to take Mark's test. As a result, Mark finished the calculation formula on the ground and counted it on his fingers before he could finish the calculation.

"Do you want to learn?" Mark said generously, "I can teach you."

But there was no rest time from their work, so Mark took the time to teach them how to recognize the ten Arabic numerals from 0 to 9.

In the evening, Jane saw her husband gesturing with his fingers on the table and muttering something.

"What are you doing?" Jane asked casually, massaging her palms that were sore from washing clothes.

"I'm learning to read," my husband told me what happened today, and he was very moved. "Mark is such a good person and is willing to teach us."

Jane thought thoughtfully: "Speaking of which, when we treated Anna yesterday, the noble lady also figured out the numbers very quickly. Maybe he learned from that lady."

Isn't it normal for nobles to know things they don't know?

Suddenly Jian was shocked: "Stop learning. What if we can't learn this thing? Do you still want to die if the nobles blame it?"

They had heard too many cases of people being beaten to death for secretly learning magic. It was a consensus that magic was a taboo that civilians could not touch.

"Can't you?" The husband stopped hesitantly, "Mark didn't say anything when he taught us."

Jane insisted: "Then who knows what his intentions are."

"There's no need for him to be so roundabout if he wants to harm me." Although her husband didn't agree with Jane's view, he still stopped, "What is he trying to do?"

"I don't care," said Jane, "you have to ask him what he wants to do tomorrow."

(End of chapter)