Ding Tian's Ancient Life

"Why is the second young master so confident that he can pass the exam?" Ding Tian couldn't help asking: "Has the second young master Wu passed the exam before?"

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"This is the first time he entered the examination room." Master Wu said, "But he did well in the first two examinations."

So this last test, which is also the third government test, is more inflated?

"Is there something... not right about my second child?" Master Wu held back for a long time, but finally Aizi was eager and couldn't hold back.

"The second young master of your family... I heard that he knows the content of the exam questions?" Jing Tian tried to ask: "Do you know?"

"This kid has said it twice, but how could the content of the exam questions be leaked?" Master Wu didn't believe it. Once, I haven't heard of a time when the exam questions were leaked in advance... But I heard that the Four Seas Gambling House opened a plate to suppress the exam questions, and the pressure was quite heavy."

Small people also have the benefits of small people. Mr. Wu came from a grassroots background and has a lot of friends. Most of them are ordinary people, traffickers and pawns, and they are the most well-informed.

Yes, and some of them are regular customers of the gambling house, they have a little money, but they don’t gamble heavily. They go to the gambling house more to try their luck, win some money and leave. Ben, speaking of it, this group of gamblers understand the most.

Jing Tian asked Ding Tian some more questions, and even went to Wu Liangfu's study.

In Wu Liangfu's study room, one wall is an integral bookcase filled with books.

Four books and five classics, a subset of classics and history, is also like a scholar.

It's just... Ding Tian took out a book and saw that the cover was "Five Classics Annotations", so he opened it after a glance and then closed it.

Damn, there is a scholar and a beautiful woman doing that thing, the painting skills are good, every detail is obvious!

The ancient version of the yellow picture book!

It's no wonder Wu Liangfu can study well.

Moreover, the Wu family didn't have any beautiful maids, only a housekeeper, the housekeeper's wife, the housekeeper's eldest son and second son.There are also four servants and four servants. They are four couples, all of whom are strong and healthy, but the servant is not good-looking, but has a very stalwart chest. After inquiring, I found out that their children They got married and worked with the young master in the oil workshop.

The whole family didn't have a maid, but the youngest mistress of the Wu family brought two maids with her when she married, but they were already the maids of the young master Wu.

The rest is gone!

Master Wu said that their family is not a big family, as long as someone does the work, it will be fine: "What kind of maid is not a maid?"

, those maids are all very coquettish, they don't touch the spring water with their fingers, why do they work when they buy it? "

Ding Tian laughed: "You are always a real person."

"I've wandered around outside, why haven't I seen it? Those people said they were maids, and didn't they warm the master's bed? My family doesn't want it." Master Wu is real: "As long as my family is useful and able to work, that's fine."

It seems that he is really a real master.

"Then let's take our leave for the time being. However, after your second young master comes back, he can no longer go out, and we will visit again." Jing Tian left a message, and Master Wu said he knew.

He sent them out the door himself.

After leaving Wu's house, Ding Tian stroked his chin and said, "Why don't you go to Sihai Casino?"

"Don't go for now." Jing Tian said: "Our body is not suitable. If you have to go, you must be more formal, otherwise you will easily be tricked by the gambling house."

"Would it be?" Ding Tian was taken aback: "The casino is so arrogant?"

"The former cell boss, oh, was your predecessor. He didn't know the heights of the heavens and the earth. He went to the gambling house to gamble. The place is not to be messed with, so I didn't go there again, and people ignored him. At that time, I knew that the water in this gambling house was deep. If you want to go, you have to be aboveboard. If you openly fight against the people in the yamen, then it is really the same as rebellion." Track and field education Ding Tian: "Tian Er, you must learn to use this official uniform to protect yourself in the future, don't be so stunned."

Ding Tian is not a person who doesn't know good and bad, Jing Tian is willing to teach him for his own good, so he said seriously: "Well, Tian Er knows

It is. ”

"Let's find a few people first, and then inquire about it." Seeing that he was being taught, Tian Jing was also happy, but it was a pity, and he also understood that it was impossible for Ding Tian to stay here for too long. He heard that the master was going to be a governor. Will the prince stay here for a long time?

If the prince is leaving, Ding Tian will definitely be taken away.

Follow the prince to fly to the sky.

He is also willing to form a good relationship with Tian'er.

Jing Tian took Ding Tian and the others to find a few people.

The first one is the widow who runs a tavern. This widow is not pretty, nor does she wear any colorful clothes, but there are two white flowers on her black hair and no makeup on her face, which represents her widow. identity.

"Widow Liu!" Jing Tian greeted as soon as he arrived: "We each have two catties of wine."

"Okay, give me the money!" Widow Liu stretched out her hand: "If you don't have money, don't open your mouth."

"How much money?" Track and field asked simply: "I will give ^"

"100 taels." Widow Liu really dared to ask for it.

Twenty people, two catties of wine per person, and 80 catties of wine, are enough for 20 taels, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she asked for [-] taels more.

This is an ordinary farmer's family, earning a lot of money for a year.

"Okay!" The track and field really gave a silver ticket of 100 taels: "How about a piece of news for me?"

"Tell me." After receiving the money, Widow Liu was very happy: "As long as I know, I will tell you."

"Sihai Casino has recently opened a handicap. It's quite big. The bet is on the exam questions of this government exam. What's the situation?" Tian Jing also asked straightforwardly: "I heard that you lost money?"

"What's the matter?" Widow Liu immediately lowered her voice: "I heard that the Four Seas Gambling House has been preparing for it as early as the beginning of spring. The strange thing is that in the past, scholars were betting on exam questions, but now even the gambling house is participating in it." In addition, since the gambling house is a banker, it is reasonable to say that it will not lose money, but in private, the gambling house has placed a lot of money on the test questions. proportion!"

The corners of Ding Tian's eyes twitched: "One to twenty? How dare they open it!"

In his time, gambling was forbidden.

Moreover, most people don’t play very much. I even heard that people who have been to Macau, although Macau is a gambling city, there are regulations for casinos in Macau. The highest comparison is one to ten.

The bet size is one to one, which is very fair.

Of course, this is only for ordinary tourists, and there is probably no upper limit for some big bets.

"What's the point?" Widow Liu said, "The biggest odds in the casino are [-]:[-], which is the highest odds at present. [-]:[-] is just here. A King Ning sits in the town, and since King Ning came to Beifeng Mansion, the money earned by the Four Seas Gamblers has been reduced."

Was it because he was afraid of being dealt with, so he honestly lurked?Ding Tian was a little engrossed in his thoughts.

Over there, Jing Tian touched his chin in puzzlement: "What kind of confidence do they have to be verbatim? But they know the correct test questions?"

"Probably?" Widow Liu said, "It's only a day, and the money is dripping out like water, hehe...it's a relief."

Jing Tian looked at the wine jar: "Please send it to the government office tomorrow."

"Okay, got it." Seeing that Jing Tian stopped talking to her, Widow Liu knew that Jing Tian had already found out the information she wanted to inquire about, and she stopped talking to Jing Tian, ​​instead she turned around and asked the waiter to serve some fried peanuts to the guests at another table. , Served with food and drink.

In this tavern, there are only a few kinds of appetizers, the most common ones are fried peanuts and stewed pork.

As for pork head meat and stewed beef, these are all expensive, and few people order them.

So there is only a little bit, put out as a facade.

After leaving the tavern, the second one is a very grand restaurant, but instead of going to the front door, they entered the backyard through the small door at the back. One saw the track and field, and laughed: "

Tian catch the head, rare ah! "

"Tu Maozi, I just want to ask a question. When did the exam questions start to spread?" Tian Jing changed his good attitude towards Widow Liu, and was not polite to this fat man who smiled like Maitreya Buddha.

"Five days ago, at noon, the first person to talk about was a table of young people. They were a few students from the government school. There was the second young master of the Wu family, the eldest young master of the Liu family, and Zhao Mingliang from Zhaojia Village in the suburbs. It's the eldest son of the head of Zhaojia Village, and the other is the son of the teacher's family in Zhangjia Village."

"you sure?"

"Sure!"

"Okay, then I'm leaving!"

Jing Tian led the people away very simply, leaving the fat man to wipe off his cold sweat: "You always walk slowly!"

The third place, which Ding Tian was familiar with, was the tea house where he drank tea that day, and they walked through the back door. After entering, they were taken to a separate courtyard, and a thin man received them: "Tian Butou. "

"Tea shopkeeper, we are here to ask, since when did there start to talk about 'government examination questions'?" Jing Tian bowed his hands, very polite, compared to the gentleness towards the widow Liu, the kindness towards the fat man in the back kitchen. Drink cold, he is polite to the tea shopkeeper.

"About eight days ago, someone was talking about this topic. You know that there are not only tea customers in the teahouse, but also guests who come to the theater. They all like to be lively, and it is easy to have a chat when they get together, but At the beginning, the conversation was normal, but eight days ago, the waiter told me that there was a table of guests in the lobby on the first floor. They were obviously a group of mud legs, but they were talking about the government test? Don’t you think this is a joke? A group of muddy people A vulgar person who rolls around in the bed can't read all the words, how can he be interested in the government test?"

"Oh?" Jing Tian was amused: "Is there such a thing?"

"That's right!" said the tea shopkeeper, "That boy Xiaoshan told me about it, so I'll ask someone to call him."

After a while, the guy named Xiao Shan came over, a very young mistress, dressed in neat short clothes, with a white towel on his shoulders, with a clever look on his face, he looked like a veteran in the waiter son.

As soon as Jing Tian asked him, he said: "It was noon at that time, and there were not many people present. They took their seats in the lobby. They didn't have anything to eat. All they needed was a pot of Gaomo, a plate of melon seeds, and a plate of Peanuts, and a small plate of furnace fruit as a gift from the shop."

Ding Tian nodded in understanding, this is the treatment of ordinary consumers sitting in the lobby, a pot of high foam, high foam is a higher-grade tea... Mozi, good tea is not affordable for ordinary people, so I can only Play around the edges and drink some high foam; a plate of melon seeds is five copper coins, a plate of peanuts is also five copper coins, plus a pot of high foam, twenty copper coins.

The dish of Luguo presented by the teahouse sounds good, but in fact, it is really a small plate, a small plate for eating dumplings dipped in soy sauce, no matter how many Luguo you put, how much can you put?

It's only a few yuan when stacked up, definitely not more than eight yuan!

"When I was refilling the water for them, I heard them talk about the government test, and one of them still imitated who spoke politely, and the others said that no matter how good he spoke, he was not a gentleman." It's time to start the opera, and the younger one also added hot water and went to the next table. It's just a little strange, they are obviously a bunch of rough people, and they still care about the government examination. Our shopkeeper is also a scholar, but he doesn't care about the government examination either. ah?"