Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 143 Small Bet on Pleasure
Fan Ning smiled and said, "It's just an argumentative essay. In class, Xuezheng asked us to finish it in an hour. Now that three hours have passed, can't we still write it?"

The confident smile on Fan Ning's face made Zhao Xiuwen slightly relieved, and he asked quickly, "What's the topic?"

""Chunqiu Wuyi War", this is the title of today's argumentative essay, did Xuezheng guess it?"

Zhao Xiuwen frowned slightly, and shook his head, "This topic is easy to do, but it is not easy to do it well. Although I knew that I would take the exam on "Mencius", I didn't expect to be tested on this topic."

Zhao Xiuwen was about to ask Fan Ning about the specific questions, but he heard Guo Yun's roar from not far away: "You bastard, how dare you question the saint? This is an imperial examination, not a classroom exercise!"

Fan Ning turned his head to look, and saw Xuezheng Guo Yun yelling at Jiang Feng. Jiang Feng was blushing, lowered his head, and was rubbing the cloth bag vigorously with both hands.

Zhao Xiuwen suddenly asked Fan Ning vigilantly, "Didn't you question the saint?"

Fan Ning shook his head, "Students can distinguish the occasion!"

"That's right, it's not that we can't question the saint, it's just that the risk is too great, even if the chief examiner doesn't care, there are still the first examiner, the review examiner, and the deputy chief examiner, any one of them is dissatisfied with your questioning, Your paper will be rejected, and it will never reach the examiner's desk."

"Thank you Xuezheng for reminding me!"

At this time, Zhao Xiuwen turned his head and saw two more people handing in the paper, he stared at him, "Why did you two come out?"

The people who came out were Fan Mingren and Fan Mingli. They both looked relaxed, as if they had done well in the exam.

Ming Ren stepped forward to salute Zhao Xiuwen, and said with a playful smile: "The two of us are focusing on participating, just seeing what the imperial examination looks like. As for being admitted to Juren, we know ourselves."

Mingli pretended to be frightened and said, "Xuezheng doesn't have hope for us, does he?"

Zhao Xiuwen rolled his eyes. If the solutions were ranked from the beginning to the end, he estimated that these two living treasures would be ranked at least after [-].

It seems more reliable to expect them to be admitted to Juren than to expect this year's boy to try Wu County to win five tribute candidates.

"Forget it, you go! Continue to take the exam tomorrow and insist on finishing the exam in three days. This is the only request I ask of you."

"Don't worry, Xuezheng! It's not our style to run away from battle."

The two jumped up, grabbed Fan Ning's arms from left to right, and said with a smile, "Ah Ning, I'll take you to a fun place."

Zhao Xiuwen glared at them, "I warn you, don't take Fan Ning to drink, and don't affect his exam tomorrow."

"Xuezheng, how can we affect Aning's exam, I'll be right back!"

The two dragged Fan Ning to the distance. Zhao Xiuwen watched them go away and couldn't help shaking his head. He didn't stop the two brothers from taking Fan Ning away, but he also hoped that Fan Ning could relax a little bit. Being too tense is not a good thing .

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"Where are you two taking me?"

Fanning wrenched himself free from their grasp, straightened his clothes a little, and gave them a hard look.

"It's the store in front, the one with the red canopy hanging, it's the most interesting store we've ever seen."

Fan Ning was somewhat interested, and asked with a smile, "What do you do?"

"Just take a look and you'll know."

The two walked quickly to the door of the store. Fan Ning looked up and looked at the sign, only to see that the sign read: 'Dingyunguanpu store! '

Fan Ning changed his mind, and blurted out an exclamation, "Ah! It turned out to be a gambling house."

"It's not the kind of gambling hall you imagined. It's a regular shop. Let's go! Let's bet."

The two brothers forcibly dragged Fanning into the store.

Guanpudian is a gambling hall in the Song Dynasty, but it is not the enthusiastic gambling hall in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a bit like the mahjong parlor of later generations. There are more than a dozen tables in the shop, and people are gambling on each table. Most of them play leaf games.

There is a large wooden board next to the counter, and a large piece of paper is pasted on the wooden board, with four big characters "betting solution test" written on it.

Ming Li stepped forward, took out an ingot of five taels of silver and knocked on the counter, "Is the shopkeeper here?"

Of course, the money was taken from Zhu's money shop on the way, and the two brothers obviously wanted to make another fortune.

A small door behind the counter opened, and a short, fat, middle-aged man walked out. He saw Ming Ren and Ming Li, and immediately smiled, "The two little officials are here again?"

"Isn't it good to take care of your business?"

Mingren pushed the silver towards the shopkeeper, "Try No. 1 again on the boy, bet on Yao Xi."

The two brothers are extremely keen on business opportunities. The No. 1 candidate for the boys' exam is Shi Jiangfeng from Changzhou County, who currently pays [-] for [-]. They saw Guo Yun reprimanding Jiang Feng at the entrance of the examination institute just now, so they knew Jiang Feng's Didn't do well in science.

The two immediately rushed to Guanpu shop to place bets before the news spread. Many people will come to place bets in the afternoon, and the odds will definitely change.

The shopkeeper found out their betting slip from yesterday, and said with a smile: "You two bet on Fan Ning yesterday, and Yao Xi today, and he still pays four for one. How much do you two plan to bet?"

"Each bet five taels of silver!"

"Okay! Wait a moment, both of you, it will be ready soon."

Fan Ning took this opportunity to pull the two aside and asked curiously, "Did you detain me yesterday?"

"Of course you have to bet on your brother. We each bet five taels of silver. You are currently paying twenty for one. You are in a bad state. You have to work hard! Don't let us lose money."

Fan Ning said unhappily: "Why don't you bet 100 taels of silver? If I get the first place in the exam, you will get rich."

"We're not that stupid!"

Ming Li pointed to a line of small characters under the sign, "Look here!"

It was only then that Fan Ning noticed that there was a line of small words below, 'Bet on the Boy's Trial, the upper limit of payouts is [-] coins. '

Ming Ren put his arms around Fan Ning's shoulders and said with a smile, "That's why I bet you five taels of silver. Whoever told you that you lack confidence will pay you twenty."

"What about betting on the common solution test?" Fan Ning asked with a smile.

"There is no limit to the ordinary test. If you have the ability to escort the top three in the test, the Guanpu shop will give you a high price of one hundred for one compensation. If you win the bet, you will really be paid."

"Is it that high?"

"Of course, the premise is that the three all-in bets must be successful, and the ranking cannot be wrong. A slight mistake will be invalid."

Fan Ning nodded, "How much money do you have?"

"There are still twelve taels for each of us, Aning, what are you going to do?"

"Lend it to me, I'll bet it!"

The two brothers immediately became interested, pulled Fan Ning and asked, "You want to bet on the top three?"

Fan Ning smiled slightly, "Big bets hurt your body, but small bets make you happy. If you play a little, it doesn't matter if you lose. If you win, this Guanpu shop can't afford it."

"You don't have to worry about that. This is the Guanpu store owned by the Yang family, the third richest man in Pingjiang Prefecture. Are you afraid that it won't be able to afford it?"

At this time, the shopkeeper had finished writing the form and handed it to Mingren and Mingli brothers. He smiled at Fan Ning and asked, "It's not easy for this little official to escort the top three!"

Fan Ning took a note, wrote three names on the note and handed it to the shopkeeper, "I bet on these three people, the rankings are marked on the side, 20 taels of silver."

"20 taels of silver, the little official is so courageous, good! The shop took 20 taels of silver."

For Guanpudian, this kind of betting is basically giving money. Thousands of people take the imperial examination. Even if there are popular people, you can bet on all of them, but it is more difficult to bet on the order.

Besides, among the three people Fan Ning bet on, two were unknown and had never been heard of, so the shopkeeper happily accepted the bet.

The shopkeeper gave Fan Ning a betting slip, and said with a smile, "Young official, you have collected this slip. I wish you good luck. If you win the lottery, you will get a hundred times the profit."

"Thank you shopkeeper for the mouthwash!"

Fan Ning put away the betting slip, smiled at Ming Ren and Ming Li, "Let's go!"

The three of them walked out of the Guanpu shop, and Mingren asked in a low voice: "Li Youlin is only ranked tenth on the hot list, why do you think he can win Jieyuan?"

Fan Ning smiled slightly, "I'm only ranked seventh on the Boys' Hot List, so why are you betting on me?"

Ming Li immediately retorted: "You are our brother, of course we have to support you, even if you lose money, but you have nothing to do with Li Youlin."

It was really difficult for Fan Ning to explain, so he could only smile and said: "It's hard to say anything now, let's wait until the list is announced! If you lose, you will admit it."

Ming Ren and Ming Li were full of doubts and asked again and again, but Fan Ning just smiled and said nothing.

(End of this chapter)