CHAPTER 44: CHAPTER 44: PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY

Shen Qinglan stiffly tugged at the corners of her mouth upon hearing this, then followed him back to the counter in the main hall on the first floor of the restaurant.

"I’ve recently taken over this account book. Miss Shen, you can take a look at how it’s recorded."

Shen Qinglan took a book and casually flipped through it. The account book was simple, with only income and expenditure listed, not as complex as the ones in her previous life.

Old Tang asked, "Can you understand it?"

Shen Qinglan nodded, "Hmm, it’s simple."

Old Tang raised his eyebrows in surprise but refrained from praising her prematurely, instead handing her another booklet, "Familiarize yourself with the prices of each type of drinks and dishes first."

Shen Qinglan closed the account book, placing it on the counter, and then took the booklet from Old Tang’s hand and began to look through it.

It was a menu, recording hundreds of dishes and about a dozen types of alcohol, including rice wine and various fruit wines.

Shen Qinglan considered herself to have a good memory, but not to the extent of photographic memory. However, when she looked at the prices of these drinks and dishes this time—hundreds of prices—she actually remembered them after just one viewing.

It seemed that since she had time-traveled, many things had changed.

She could run faster, had more strength, and now even her memory had dramatically improved, becoming photographic.

This time travel, had the cunning heavens really given her a cheat?

Could it be that after striking her into a crisp, they felt guilty and decided to compensate her?

Shen Qinglan thought it was very possible!

Seeing her flip through a few times and then close it, Old Tang raised an eyebrow and smiled, "What? Can’t understand it?"

Who knew, Shen Qinglan returned the booklet to him and calmly said, "I’ve memorized it."

"Mem... memorized it?"

Are you kidding?

Old Tang was very shocked!

Just by casually flipping through it, she memorized it? What a joke!

However, seeing Shen Qinglan’s demeanor, it didn’t seem like she was lying.

Her dark eyes seemed to say, "I’m not lying, I’m telling the truth!"

Old Tang, full of suspicion, randomly listed a few dish names, asking Shen Qinglan to state the prices.

He originally thought that Shen Qinglan would have to think for a moment. Who knew she would respond instantly, without the slightest pause.

Unwilling to accept it, Old Tang randomly listed a few more dish names, and Shen Qinglan still accurately stated the corresponding prices one by one.

This time, Old Tang was nothing but shocked.

He had heard of photographic memory before and had seen it in his family’s Young Master. He had thought the term "genius" only applied to his family’s Young Master, and now another genius had appeared!

Old Tang remained silent for a long time. It wasn’t until a customer came to settle the bill that he snapped back to attention.

After settling the customer’s bill, he looked at Shen Qinglan and said, "I have a few account books here that aren’t fully calculated yet. Can you help me calculate them?"

Shen Qinglan nodded.

Receiving the account books and pen and ink from Old Tang, she started flipping through them. Old Tang handed her an abacus as well.

But as she finished looking at a page, she didn’t use the abacus, instead, she wrote a subtotal directly beneath it.

When she finished a whole book, she still hadn’t touched the abacus once.

Old Tang, while settling a customer’s bill, watched her in shock.

When she finished a book, he quickly took it and recalculated with the abacus. When it yielded the exact same numbers, he couldn’t help but swallow.

He thought to himself: Could this be the legendary mental calculation?

Such an amazing girl, what kind of family raised her?

Old Tang suddenly felt wistful. If his own children were half as smart as this girl, he wouldn’t have so many worries.