Your Excellency has a discerning eye, and the thirty taels of grain silver are your Excellency’s gain.”
The man who opened the handicap passed through the crowd and came to Zhu Pingan’s side, offering the ten times the amount of money Zhu Pingan had won from his bet with both hands.
“Thank you.” Zhu Pingan took the money bag and arched his hand to thank him.
The betting money was in a small money bag, all the loose silver from everyone’s bets, totalling thirty taels.
“How dare you, Your Excellency’s discerning eyes are admirable. Dare I ask the gentleman’s name?”
The man who opened the handicap slightly staggered, not daring to accept this salute from Zhu Pingan. Regardless of whether the bet placed by the young gentleman in front of him was a wise eye or purely bold, either way, the future of this seemingly naive young gentleman was unlimited.
“I don’t dare to take the big name, a certain River Zhu Pingan.” Zhu Pingan weighed his money bag and casually said.
“Huh?”
The man at the opening was unusually surprised, not thinking at all that the naive young man standing in front of his eyes was the snake-bitten and crowing-bird-sniffing sh*tty-luck young man from the woodshed that he had heard about and written down in his booklet.
Completely wrong number.
“His Excellency is Zhu Pingan.” The man at the opening muttered, slightly silent for a moment, then made a long bow and said, “I hope you will bear with me if there is anything in the book that offends you.”
Zhu Pingan received the money bag into his arms and looked up at him with a naive smile, “How could I, it’s too late to thank you, thanks to your blessing, the discus for the governmental examination is now available.”
“Gongzi is generous, very human.” The man who opened the discus thanked again and left.
It was only at this time that eldest uncle Zhu Shouren truly accepted the reality that Zhu Pingan had once again passed the high school A list, but he had mixed feelings in his stomach, which was difficult to describe. This reality is really too difficult for them to accept, Zhu Pingan is only thirteen years old, he has not eaten as much rice as he has eaten salt, but if the first time was a lucky break, then how to understand this time, this kind of luck in the imperial examinations is a hundred years, how can you even hit the two lucky breaks, but in the examination room to eat and drink and sleep, how did it happen to hit the two times in the list of the A!
“Congratulations to An Ge’er, this several times three times is our Menglang.”
One of the people who lost the list seems to have gone through a blow of losing the list, fading away from the original frivolity, becoming a bit more stable, also has a new view of Zhu Pingan, sh*t luck that can go twice, visible Zhu Pingan is also a bit of real talent, and so apologetic congratulations to Zhu Pingan again high school A list.
“Where, just a fluke.”
If you can change your behaviour, there is no greater good, Zhu Pingan is not a person of small degree, he responded aloud and gave others a step down.
However, not everyone thinks so, the other three people on the list, including the eldest uncle Zhu Shouren and others insisted that this exam, Zhu Pingan either got lucky again, or maybe he just happened to encounter the original question and so on, just like a bull hitting the south wall and not turning back.
“This time Ping An luckily won some lottery, since the government exams to stay twenty taels, the remaining ten taels is also about you all gambling capital, each take back it.” Zhu Pingan won thirty taels of lottery, kept twenty taels for himself, and the other ten taels were to be returned to his eldest uncle Zhu Shouren and the others.
In fact, it’s not that Zhu Pingan is more generous, not to mention the Virgin Mary Sue repaying grudges with virtues and greatness, but the situation makes it so. On the one hand, after all, the shooting fortunate interests, their own to 3 two silver bo thirty two, they stay twenty two has been enough, do not be too greedy; on the other hand, this is after all the ancient times, is a preoccupation with benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith of the times, to pay back a grudge, their own with ten two silver bo a good reputation, why not do it.
As for the eldest uncle Zhu Shouren and others, right, Jun did not hear of Zheng Zhuang Gong in the Spring and Autumn.
Sometimes indulgence is also a means.
Zhu Pingan’s words, uncle Zhu Shouren the first time to react, will be ten taels of silver in the hand, and then according to their respective bets, one by one to the crowd, to the end of the hands of the eldest uncle Zhu Shouren left more than half a taels of silver, do not show a movement, a turn of the hand in the sleeve.
This time to repeat the list, including the A and B two lists, the list of people in total more than 500 people. In the list of people cheerfully return to the inn to prepare for the next examination, the list of people lost soul to return to their hometown, only Zhu Pingan waves, look as before.
“Some days ago, we had eyes that did not recognise the gold and jade, I hope that Brother An is not to blame, this time we even returned to our hometown.”
After Zhu Pingan’s behaviour of returning the bet just now, the failed scholar scholar had a great change of opinion towards Zhu Pingan, before the three scholar scholars packed up their things to return to their hometowns, they purposely came to Zhu Pingan’s room, arched their hands and bowed longingly to say goodbye to Zhu Pingan.
“How come, it is also because I behaved too badly.” Zhu Pingan was reading a book in his room, immediately put down his book and got up to return the greetings one by one.
“Brother An, can you have a message that we can bring back to Brother An’s home by the way.” The scholarly scholar who had fallen off the list asked kindly.
“Well, that would be a pleasure. I’m sorry to call my parents, saying that everything is fine outside, and that I have the inventory for the government exam, so I don’t need to bother with it at home.” Zhu Pingan also did not polite, entrusted them to bring a message to the family, the family’s money saved for the big brother to get married with it, do not have to worry about yourself anymore.
“Brother An is as good as good.” The failed students praised.
When it was time to leave, some students looked at the four books and five sutras spread out on Zhu Pingan’s desk, as well as the Xuan paper that was used repeatedly on the front and back, and said with emotion, “We can’t see Mt. Taishan from the blinders of our eyes, and Brother An’s use of his strength is far beyond what we are capable of.”
“I am not talented enough, I can only work harder, the so-called learning is like a bow, talent is like a cluster of arrows.” Zhu Pingan spread his hands and said casually.
Unexpectedly a word out, the eyes of the failed scholar are bright, repeatedly murmured: “Learning as a crossbow, talent as a cluster of arrows, good sentence good sentence, An brother’s great talent.”
Er, looking at the three failed students’ admiring looks, Zhu Pingan only realised that he had accidentally said Yuan Mei’s famous sentence from the Qing Dynasty, but once the words came out, there was no way to change them, so he had no choice but to explain:
“Not my words, this is what I heard from hearsay.”
I don’t know how much of Zhu Pingan’s explanation these three failed students believed, anyway, when they finally said goodbye and left, Zhu Pingan didn’t see it.
After sending away a few failed students, Zhu Pingan returned to the room to read books, Zhu Xi did note of the four books, read up really make people brain. Zhu old man may go to the toilet when inspiration, write down; also may be shut himself in the study for seven or eight days to create a sentence, write down in the book. When you read the four books that he made notes on, you have to guess his intention, which is very brain-damaging. No wonder there are always students and scholars while reading Zhu Xi do note of the book, while cursing.
But no matter what again hurt the brain, also have to try to calmly study, who let him do note of the book is the imperial examination reference book it.
The sunlight through the window, Zhu Pingan dyed a golden yellow, leaving a shadow on the floor and wall of the hand.
