Ming Dynasty: At the beginning of the game, Lao Zhu resigned and retired.

Chapter 762: The Girl from the Hu Mansion is Really Amazing

Hu Renbin and his wife arrived very quickly.

In other words, since Master Hu had summoned them, they dared not come late.

Master Hu glanced at the two people who had just come in and were greeting each other, nodded slightly, and gestured to the side.

"sit down!"

"It's just right. I'll take this opportunity to let you learn something."

"Just learning the art of cultivation will strengthen your body, but it will also be good to strengthen your mind at the same time!"

Hu Renbin was still a little confused when he heard this, but Anqing quickly came to the desk and asked with a happy look on his face.

"Dad, can I have some ink?"

“I want to record this!”

Master Hu looked at Anqing with satisfaction, and then glared at Hu Renbin fiercely.

"of course can!"

"Besides, I have always believed that a good memory is not as good as a bad pen!"

"Don't think you can forget things just because you have a good memory. You can remember things for a while, but can you remember them for a lifetime?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the remaining three people lowered their heads and hurried over to Master Hu, and each took a set of writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone.

Then, without any help from others, the four of them picked up a small table from the side and placed it in front of themselves.

Looking at the four men with their chests puffed out and their eyes bright, Master Hu grinned.

"Looking at you like this, hahaha, it really looks like you were still learning to read and write."

"Well, that's OK. In that case, I'll use another tool so you can see more clearly."

After Mr. Hu finished his joke, he turned around and picked up the white paper that was originally on the table. After dipping the four corners in water, he directly pasted it on a vertical drawing board behind him.

This drawing board was originally used by Hu Xinyue when she was learning painting in this farm.

I usually put it here. If I want to draw on the table occasionally, I use this thing as a pad, and it can also block the ink from seeping in.

Now it is being used as a blackboard by Mr. Hu.

Seeing that the paper was pasted, Master Hu picked up a small wolf-hair brush and casually drew three rows and four columns of squares on the paper.

"This is called a statistical table!"

"Among those present, I'm afraid only Yue'er has learned this systematically."

"But for Yue'er at that time, this was just a method used by the housekeeper."

"But in reality, this is a tool that can detect changes in things and see the patterns and results of the changes at a glance."

At this point, Mr. Hu casually wrote "January", "February", "March" in every box on the first line except the first one...

Then in the first column, the first box remains blank, and then write "Tea", "Friends Club", "Liulichang"...

"Okay, let's just pretend this is our family's statistics table, so let's just fill in a few numbers."

"Of course, if it is normal work, we will naturally follow the reports and even send people to verify the accuracy of these figures."

"But if it is confirmed, we can fill in the numbers."

When Master Hu said this, he casually wrote the six words "eight thousand", "five thousand" and "nine thousand" in the blank boxes on the first line.

After finishing writing, Master Hu turned his pen around, tapped the white paper where the ink had not yet dried, and said to Hu Xinyue.

"Yue'er, first of all, you should explain to them what this line of work means."

At this moment, Hu Xinyue seemed to have really returned to the days when she was the eldest daughter of the Hu Mansion, and she answered with a smile.

"Uncle, this means that the tea shop's sales in January, February and March were 8,000, 5,000 and 9,000 taels respectively."

"Yes, Not Bad!"

Master Hu nodded with a smile on his face, and then turned his gaze to the others, especially Zhu Biao.

"Biao, look at these three numbers, tell me first, what do you think of it?"

Zhu Biao was stunned at first, then looked at it thoughtfully and answered with a frown.

"Uncle, I don't know how the store's sales are on weekdays. I'm just guessing that with such high sales this month, it must be because people visiting relatives and friends are buying gifts!"

"Then, in February, the gift-giving trend was over, so sales fell."

"But in March, the store owner must have worked hard to come up with some tricks, so sales soared?"

Zhu Biao's answer was not certain and seemed to contain a lot of speculation.

Mr. Hu didn't say whether he was right or not. He turned his head and looked at the young couple sitting on the other side.

"Anqing, tell me, where do you think the biggest problem is in this line of numbers?"

An Qing simply stood up and pointed: "Dad, it's obvious that there is something wrong with the sales in March."

At this time, Zhu Biao showed the demeanor of an elder brother, with his head tilted and his brows furrowed.

"Anqing, sales clearly increased sharply in March, so why is there a problem?"

"Could it be that the shopkeeper is wrong to make more money for us?"

An Qing has now become a mother, and the key is that she has to manage many of the Hu family's businesses on a daily basis.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to say that the business has failed. He turned his head and looked at his eldest brother and sneered.

"Tsk, bro, what are you thinking about?"

"The data for the same month of the previous year is not listed here, so if we only use the data from these three months for analysis, then there is something wrong with the sales in March."

"In theory, tea shops have the best business during the first month of the lunar year. After all, when visiting friends and relatives, bringing a bag of tea with you won't seem rude or cliché."

"But in the end, the sales in the first month of the year couldn't catch up with those in March!"

"Or maybe something went wrong with the shopkeeper during the first month of the year, causing the sales volume this year to be far lower than in previous years."

"Or maybe the shopkeeper did something weird in March!"

At this point, Anqing rolled his eyes at his elder brother.

"Brother, don't think that an increase in sales is necessarily a good thing. This kind of huge increase without any clear reason can cause big problems if not handled properly."

"It's like when you were in charge of the Ministry of Revenue, and suddenly found that the fiscal revenue for a certain quarter of this year had doubled. You would probably be nervous and quickly look for the reason!"

"Only steady growth is the best, even staying the same is acceptable, but big ups and downs are unacceptable."

clap clap clap...

Master Hu gently applauded his daughter-in-law.

"Anqing, well said, Biao, you are not as good as your sister!"

"That's why I said this subject requires sensitivity to numbers and carefulness."

"This table actually lists all the numbers very intuitively. If you still can't tell the difference, it proves that you are not careful enough."

“The first thing you need to master is how to create a suitable form.”

"The second is to find the problem from the table!"

"And now, our two girls are ahead of you!"