冯云卿这天从上午十一点半起身后就把一个算盘打过了不知多少遍，直到此刻已有两点钟，他忘记了吃早饭，还是想不出办法；

• Ever since he had got up at half past eleven that morning, Feng Punching had been hard at work with an abacus. It was now two o'clock in the afternoon and he had not had a bite of food; and still he could not find a way to make ends meet.