I go to the ancient imperial examinations

Chapter 161 Willing to gamble and admit defeat
The arrival of Zhifu Zhang stunned the scholars in the lobby, and they all stood up to salute. It seems that the rumors were true, and Zhifu Zhang really valued Zhan Feiyu, so he came in person because of a bet.

"How can you use the government to try and mess around!" Zhang Zhifu scolded a few words with a straight face. Although his tone was severe, he looked at Zhan Feiyu with the kindness of his elders.

The scolded Zhan Feiyu admitted his mistake obediently, "I know I was wrong."

"Master Zhang, Zhan Feiyu is also concerned about border soldiers. If I lose, I have to donate all the rice and grain hoarded by the Chen family. In the first year, there will be a full [-] shi." Fatty Chen brazenly told Zhan Fei Yu's excuse was actually to block her escape route.

If it's an ordinary act of anger, Zhang Zhifu can naturally stop it, but Fatty Chen deliberately raised the fighting to a higher level, involving border soldiers, if Zhang Zhifu doesn't handle it well, he will definitely lose people's tongues, and it may become the impeachment of the Chen family His reason, and will offend the military generals in the court.

Looking at the proud Fatty Chen with cold eyes, Zhang Zhifu took the bet and looked at it with a glance, "Can you represent your father to make the decision?"

"Of course!" Not wanting to be underestimated, Fatty Chen held his fat chin high, showing off in a huff: "My father is in poor health, and now I am taking care of the business of the Chen family. This is Chen Ji. seal!"

Fatty Chen took out a bloodstone seal from his purse, which was the seal representing Chen Ji, and he is now Chen Ji's real owner, "Li Feng, you are also a merchant, tell Zhifu Zhang the truth."

"Report to your lord." The uncle of the Li family saluted Zhang Zhifu respectfully, and then continued: "From the end of March, the business of the Chen family has been taken care of by Young Master Chen."

Fatty Chen, this dude's business, is doing well. Although the business of the Chen family was suppressed by Zhang Zhifu, it is the eldest prince's natal family after all, and with Chai Yi as an aide, the business of Nanxuan Mansion was also affected. Despite the influence, Chen Ji's business in other places is still booming.

Zhang Zhifu nodded, and looked at Fatty Chen again, "According to the bet agreement, if you lose, you must fulfill the bet agreement, then this year you will donate [-] shi of rice grain to the border, next year it will be [-] shi, and so on. Until the tenth year ten thousand stones."

"I won't lose!" blurted out the confident words, if it was a Wen fight, it would be fine, since it was a martial fight, Fatty Chen felt that he could kill Zhan Feiyu, that damn girl, with one hand!
And to take a step back, even if you lose, you just fill the chessboard with rice grains. Although Fatty Chen didn't figure out how much rice will be used in total, the chessboard is only 64 squares, and if one hundred catties is not enough, then one thousand catty!

Fatty Chen, who was invincible, said loudly: "Master Zhang, please be a witness instead of interfering!"

As for why Zhan Feiyu was stupid, Fatty Chen squinted his mung bean eyes and looked at Zhan Feiyu suspiciously. She must have a false name and was afraid that she would fail the government test, so she found a reason not to take the government test.

"Well, my government will be a witness. According to the Daqing law contract, a total of three people are needed. How about Li Dong's family being the second witness." Prefect Zhang glanced at a group of scholars in the lobby.

"Master Zhang, Xiong Rui recommended himself." A middle-aged scholar stood up.

Zhang Zhifu recognized the other party, "So I will trouble Xiong Juren."

Xiong Juren is the master of the private school. He is entertaining some old friends in Liji today. something like this.

"Master, there may be fraud." Chai Yi said in a low voice, always feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out the mystery.

"Zizhang, you are too careful. Zhan Feiyu is singing empty city tricks. If I dare not bet, I will fall into the trick instead." Fatty Chen glanced at the cautious Chai Yi with disgust.

Zizhang is smart but clever, but unfortunately, the structure is too small, he looks forward and backward, and he is afraid of wolves and tigers. But it is also true, Zizhang's family is poor, and it is estimated that the [-] shi of grain has frightened him.

Seeing that Zhan Feiyu had already signed, Fatty Chen pushed away Chai Yi who was in the way and strode forward. He signed the signature and stamped Chen Ji's seal, and the bet was established.

The six arts of a gentleman include archery and imperialism. Even though today's imperialism has been simplified from driving horse-drawn chariots and chariots to daily horse-riding, for Fatty Chen, who can shake the ground with one step, he is not good at archery or horseback riding.

"Zhan Feiyu, use the circle drawn by Bai Hui as the boundary, whoever gets out of the circle first will lose!" Fatty Chen stepped into the circle first, tucked his robe into his belt, and assumed a fighting posture.

The onlookers all showed disdain. This man was extremely shameless. They thought the fighting was shooting and fighting. In fact, Zhan Feiyu also suffered from his younger age. How could he have imagined that Fatty Chen would be able to fight like this!

Thinking of Zhan Feiyu once slashing the killer's neck under the water, Zhang Zhifu's old god sat on the chair where he was, and even picked up the teacup to drink tea leisurely.

Zhan Feiyu also stepped into the circle with short legs, "Master Chen, please!"

The moment the voice fell, Zhan Feiyu's originally smiling expression turned into a stern expression. Seeing Fatty Chen charging like a bear, Zhan Feiyu clenched his fists to meet him head-on.

A moment later, there was the muffled sound of fists hitting the flesh, and everyone looked at Fatty Chen, who was scurrying around with his head in his arms and screaming, feeling inexplicably sympathetic.

Yelling, Fatty Chen, with a bruised nose and swollen face, fell to the ground. Seeing Zhan Feiyu rushing towards him again with his fists swung, he yelled in horror, "I surrender...don't fight..."

Zhan Feiyu gave full play to what is called the offensive of lack of strength and skill, and punched Fatty Chen's face to the flesh.Who made him have too much flesh, he probably wouldn't feel any pain with a punch.

Seeing that Zhan Feiyu was about to hit, seeing her flying body in the air, and seeing the right foot that was about to kick him in the face, Fatty Chen gathered a force and sat up suddenly from the ground.

Just when everyone thought he was going to make a final resistance, they saw Fatty Chen rushing out of the white circle with his head in his hands. The speed fully explained what a flexible fat man is!

Panting heavily, Fatty Chen, who was finally safe, looked at Zhan Feiyu's angry accusation: "You are cheating! You didn't say you had practiced!"

Even though Zhan Feiyu is only nine years old, she may not be able to beat those real masters with this skill, but to deal with a dude like Fatty Chen, it is definitely a one-on-one, two-on-one pair.

Zhan Feiyu breathed calmly, and laughed frivolously, "Master Chen, can't afford to lose?"

"Can't afford to lose? My Chen Ji's rice grains can drown you!" Fatty Chen wiped his nosebleed, his face was numb from the pain, and he cursed angrily at Chai Yi who was behind him, "From Chen Ji Send me five hundred catties of white rice!"

Soon, the shopkeeper and the staff of the Chen family brought the rice, and sacks of sacks were piled up in the middle of the hall.

Fatty Chen, who was beaten, was so angry that he cut open the bag with a knife, and dumped a bag of white rice on the ground with a whimper, shaking the empty sack, "I'm willing to bet! I can afford to lose! If there is a lot of rice, I will give it to you as a kindness of my young master!"

Fatty Chen pushed aside the shopkeeper beside him, and grabbed a handful of rice from the ground, "Zi Zhang, just fill in a grid, just draw a grain of rice!"

Here Fatty Chen threw a grain of rice into the sack, Chai Yi took the ink pen and tapped on the first grid of the chessboard, and a red dot fell.

"Second grain, four grains of rice in the third grid, eight grains in the fourth grid..." Before the handful of rice in Fatty Chen's hand was finished, he had counted to the eighth grid and placed 120 eight grains of rice.

Whether it was a group of onlookers or the people watching the bustle outside Li Ji's shop, including Zhang Zhifu who was sitting on a chair, they didn't see anything at the moment, except Zhan Feiyu who looked calm and waited for Fatty Chen to continue.

"I'm too lazy to count, shopkeeper Qiu, come here." Fatty Chen pulled the chair and sat down, too lazy to count the rice one by one.

"Yes, master." Shopkeeper Qiu took over from Fatty Chen and continued to put rice into the sack.

But gradually, Fatty Chen's smile froze on his face, he stood up abruptly, and glared at Chai Yi beside him, "Did you calculate correctly? How come there are so many?"

The Zhubi has drawn No.16 grids, but the calculated rice grains are 3 grains of rice. According to the weight of shopkeeper Qiu, 68 grains of rice are almost eight catties, and more than 3 grains of rice It is 24 catties.

The key is to fill in the No.16 grid, and there are 48 spaces behind.

And the next space will be nearly fifty catties of rice, and the next one will be one hundred catties, then two hundred catties, four hundred catties, eight hundred catties, one thousand six hundred catties... soon the next box will be filled [-] catties of rice, then it will be [-], fill in a few more boxes and it will be a million...

"How is this possible?" Most of the scholars present, although the levels of mathematics are not uniform, but they can roughly estimate the weight of rice grains, and everyone will find something is wrong.

Take out all the 20 shi rice hoarded by Chen Ji, and even one-third of the chessboard can’t be filled. The key is that each grid in the back is twice the size of 40 shi, [-] shi, [-]... and then calculate later Let alone the Chenji rice and grain shop, even if all the rice from the Daqing Dynasty was brought over, it would not be able to fill the chessboard.

"It is said that Zhan Xiaomengtong is proficient in arithmetic. When I saw him today, he really deserves his reputation!" Xiong Juren looked at Zhan Feiyu with great admiration. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, who would have thought that this small chessboard, with 64 grids, would have It can hold the rice of the entire Daqing Dynasty.

"I can't bear to be praised by others, it's just a small way, and it can reach the elegant hall." Zhan Feiyu said with a smile, and turned to look at Zhang Zhifu beside him, "Master Zhang, I plan to send someone to the capital to give the teacher this bet. .”

"It's up to the Holy Majesty to decide if border guards are involved." Prefect Zhang agreed. With him as a fourth-rank prefect, it is estimated that there is no way for the Chen family to fulfill the bet.

But if Xueshi Gu reported this matter to His Majesty, even if the Chen family was unwilling, they would not be able to deny it. After all, the Chen family was as rich as an enemy country. Of course, a lot of silver would be lost.

Fatty Chen's face was pale, and he opened his mouth, but he couldn't say a word. He was finished, and the Chen family's rice and grain shop was also finished.

……

At night, after Fatty Chen returned to Chen's house, he fell headfirst on the bed and passed out.

In the study, Mr. Chen, who was supposed to be lingering on the sick bed, glared at Chai Yi, and squeezed out words through his teeth with a ferocious face, "Chai Zizhang, why didn't you stop? Do you know that our Chen Ji is ruined!"

"I underestimated Zhan Feiyu. I didn't expect her to be so vicious!" Chai Yi, who was being scolded, looked ugly. He had always looked down on Zhan Feiyu before. What talent he said was just luck. If he could learn from Xueshi Gu , what is the difficulty of being the number one scholar?
But at this moment, Chai Yi had to admit Zhan Feiyu's intelligence. Her small bet directly caused the Chen family to lose hundreds of thousands of shi of grain. If they refuse to carry out, those military generals in the DPRK will probably eat the Chen family alive.

"Master, why don't you send someone to snatch the bet back?" Chai Yi asked tentatively.

Although everyone in the Nanxuan Mansion knows about this, if Zhan Feiyu loses the bet, even if the Chen family reneges on the debt, it will only cause a bad reputation. At least they don't have to lose 55 shi of rice every year, a total of [-] in ten years. stone.

Master Chen suddenly raised his head, stared at Chai Yi with bloodthirsty eyes, and asked with a sneer, "Are you going to kill people or set fire? Zhang Zingli was worried that he couldn't catch me, or did you say Do you think Xueshi Gu will let the Chen family bully his only disciple?"

The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, the old man Chen smashed all the things on the shelf, fulfilling the bet, the loss is Chen Ji, his money, but if he offends Gu Xueshi, what awaits him is a prison sentence !
"What if the young master buys murder?" Chai Yi's voice was calm, but his cold eyes were full of murderous intent. Such a talented little girl should not be alive. A little girl is so crushed that she can't turn over, what face do they have to live in this world?
The enraged Mr. Chen squinted his eyes and pondered. This is a good way to kill two birds with one stone. If the legitimate son makes a big mistake and dies, only his well-bred son outside can be brought back in a fair manner.

"What we can think of, Zhang Chengli and Zhan Feiyu can also think of. They may have laid a net and waited for us to take action." Master Chen finally gave up. The boy next to Zhan Feiyu is a master. The secret guard of Gu Xueshi's sect.

Sui Baode is a member of Nanxuanwei Qianhu. He used to be a powerful general under Prince Yu's command. Since Zhan Feiyu has a share in the beauty makeup industry, it means that Prince Yu has some relationship with Zhan Feiyu. Normally, military generals will not interfere with state government affairs. , but if someone is sent to assassinate Zhan Feiyu, Sui Baode will definitely do it.

At this time, Chai Yi also discovered that Zhan Feiyu could not touch Zhan Feiyu in the Nanxuan Mansion. He was clearly protected by Zhang Zhifu, but secretly escorted by Sui Qianhu.

In one day and one night, a secret letter was sent from Nanxuan Mansion to Gu Xueshi Mansion in the capital.

On the second day, after the morning court was over, the Royal Study Room.

"Uncle Huang, who are you?" After being seated by the Holy Majesty, he looked at the impatient Prince Yu with a smile. The uncle was already getting old, but his temper hadn't changed at all.

"Your Majesty, as the saying goes, you are willing to gamble and admit defeat. This is all signed and signed. It is a firm matter. If anyone dares to break the contract, although my beard is white, it is still possible for me to run thousands of miles!" Prince Yu's loud voice almost Overturning the roof, these nonsensical words made the Holy Majesty confused.

Putting down the teacup, the Holy Majesty looked at Gu Qingzhou who was sitting down calmly, "Gu Aiqing, can you clear up my confusion?"

"Reporting to the Holy Majesty, it's all caused by my little disciple who is not doing business properly. She is going to be tested by the government in the next few days, and she is still messing around. It seems that I have to discipline myself." Gu Qingzhou shook his head helplessly, Take out the received secret letter.

Eunuch Liu immediately walked over to pick it up, and after checking it calmly, he confirmed that there was no problem before presenting it to the imperial court.

Zhan Feiyu's letter to Gu Qingzhou is full of intimacy, and the words are more like homely words. In summary, it is: Teacher, the unworthy disciple has caused you trouble again. Bachelor of the Academy, let me solve this little trouble for my disciples.

The letter did not reveal anything, the Holy One picked up the bet that was presented with the letter, and after reading it, the Holy One was not showing any emotion, and his expression cracked instantly.

"Your Majesty, this is a letter sent by Sui Baode in a hurry." Prince Yu hurriedly put the letter in his hand directly on the dragon case, without passing through the hands of Eunuch Liu. trust.

Sui Baode explained the bet in detail. Of course, as a member of the military general, the key point of his letter is that the [-] shi of grain will be sent to the border, so please ask Prince Yu to let the Chen family fulfill the bet. about.

(End of this chapter)