Zhàngfáng xiānsheng dàizhe lǎohuājìng, zǐxì de héduì zhàngmù.
The bookkeeper, wearing reading glasses, carefully checked the accounts.
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账房先生 is the old shop-and-household accountant — pictured with abacus, brush pen, and ledger book. The role is now extinct (replaced by 会计 kuàijì) but the term lingers in period dramas, novels, and idiomatic asides about 'old-school' money handlers.
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账房 = the counting room itself; 先生 (xiānsheng) here is the old respectful term for a learned man (cf. 教书先生 'schoolmaster'), not just 'mister.'
