Chapitre 212: Test to Choose a Shopkeeper

Han Qiao had thought about this problem for several days before she and Shopkeeper Zhu finally managed to come up with a test.

Most of the questions on the paper were about arithmetic, addition, deduction, and all kinds of tricky mathematical traps. It was not easy to get all of them correct.

They chose the day of the test on the first day of the third month after the employees of the Hot-Pot Restaurant and Fast Food Restaurant were paid on the 28th of February.

The Fast-Food Restaurant earned 4,000 taels of silver this month, while the Hot-Pot Restaurant earned 6,000 taels of silver.

When the chefs and waiters heard that the dividends were 800 taels and 1,200 taels respectively, several of them coughed excitedly.

"Our fast-food restaurant still has a thirty taels budget for the month. I took it out to buy food and send it to the lonely old people in the county and the countryside. There are flour, rice grains, salt, sugar, and two feet of cloth,"