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.