[Strong female lead in ancient times | farming and business | political intrigue and face-slapping | mutual devotion]
The Shen family’s legitimate eldest daughter, forgotten for seventeen years, has returned home with a rosewood abacus in her arms.
Everyone on the estate is waiting to see her make a fool of herself. What can a country girl who grew up in the countryside, with shoes so worn they’re falling apart, possibly do?
They don’t know that the abacus in her hands is no mere decoration.
It represents the “intuition for numbers” she has honed by moving its beads a thousand times every day for seventeen years.
A granary catches fire? With a couple of flicks of the beads, she finds seven flaws in the falsified accounts.
The mistress of the household gives her a hard time? She counters with the silk and mulberry accounts of farming women, then sets up a women’s mutual aid society.
The clan elders try to pressure her? She introduces a budget system, and from then on, she decides how every tael of the Shen family’s silver is spent.
“Abandoned for seventeen years, she uses her abacus to win back the entire clan.”
When the newly appointed top candidate, who can’t stand the “smell of money,” first sees her working the abacus, he freezes.
“The numbers you worked out… Do you know how your mother died?”
She looks up, her fingers still moving over the beads.
“No. But I’ll work it out.”
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