Hu Ran still had a sad face, it cost thirty taels to buy useless test papers last time, and ten taels to buy the list without a young master this time, and forty taels before and after, all of which had no effect. She only spent one or two to go to Chen Tangji once, and forty taels is a full forty Chen Tangji, which is really distressing.

At the beginning of late spring, the sky is already a little hot, but the evening is still a little cool, and eating a meal of sheep and scorpions will not be sweaty. After seeing Hu Ran's ability to tidy up his house, Ning Du categorically didn't dare to hand over such a thing as cooking to her. Fortunately, he has been a fellow for eight years, and he is also skilled in this matter, so he started on his own.

While Ning Du was cooking, he was thinking about why Qingteng Yuan didn't admit him, which was extremely unreasonable.

"Young master, it's a pity, you didn't pass the exam, and I spent so much money in vain. Hu Ran, who was sitting next to him, was a little reluctant to eat the melon seeds in his hand, as if the price of this melon seed was the usual five.

"I'm wondering if all the people in the Ivy Garden are blind. ”

"Hey, young master, how can the people in Qingteng Garden be blind?"

"Then why can't they read my paintings?"

"Young master, the paintings you drew are incomprehensible. ”

"Go, go, go. ”

"Go and go, cook your own in the kitchen!"

Bang!

The gate was almost smashed, and the door that was knocked open could not catch the culprit and could only squeak and moan to himself, and the culprit had already broken into the yard as fast as he could.

Hu Ran, who was walking out, looked up and saw the person coming, and sighed heavily.

"Hu Ran, where is your young master?"

"Fatty, the young master didn't pass the exam. ”

"Oh, where's your young master? Brother Ning! Brother Ning!"

"Well, what about the kitchen?"

Pang Jiushan immediately ran in the direction pointed by Hu Ran, and at this time, Ning Du also heard the movement and stood at the door of the kitchen.

"Brother Ning!"

Seeing that Pang Jiushan, who was like a big stone, pounced over, Ning Du's heart jumped, and he hurriedly flashed to the side, making Pang Jiushan pounce in the air, and the other party stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

"Hahahaha! Brother Ning, you have been admitted! Not only have you been admitted, but you are also at the top of the list!" suddenly remembered that it was inappropriate for him to shout like this, Pang Jiushan immediately stopped his voice, grabbed Ning Du, and whispered, "Brother Ning, let's go to Yuyinliang tonight to talk slowly." ”

Ning Du pointed to the cauldron in the kitchen and said, "I stewed sheep and scorpions, and I didn't go to Yuyinliang." ”

"Okay, then we'll talk about it here. I'm also here to try the craftsmanship at the top of the Ivy Garden. ”

......

Hu Ran looked at the list in his hand angrily and annoyed, and wanted to tear it up but was reluctant, so he had to say hatefully: "Tomorrow I will go to the guy who sold the list, sell me the fake list, and cheat me out of ten taels of silver!"

Pang Jiushan said with a smile: "The list sold by people is true, but the top of the list was changed later." ”

"I don't care, if it doesn't have the name of my young master on it, it's fake!"

Ning Dugu nibbled on the sheep scorpion, added a mouthful of shallot dipping sauce from time to time, and ate a huge pot helmet, stuffing his mouth. However, while eating, Ning Du's tears flowed.

Pang Jiushan was taken aback for a moment, and asked cautiously, "Brother Ning, what's wrong with you?"

"Really...... It's delicious! You know, I used to only eat bones, but today I finally got meat. This sheep scorpion is so delicious!"

Hu Ran was nothing, but Pang Jiushan was even more stunned. As for Ning Du's origin, as long as the other party didn't say it himself, Pang Jiushan wouldn't inquire, but now he was very curious about what kind of environment would shape a person like Ning Du.

It wasn't until Ning Du gnawed down a huge pot helmet, then ate half a pot of sheep scorpions, a small bundle of shallots, and burped that he had the leisure to start talking.

"It turned out that when the list was released, the results of Brother Ning's fourth door were missed. After making up for it, Brother Ning became the first. It's just that I think it's a bit mysterious. Otherwise, Brother Ning would not have been able to jump from the top 100 to the first. "Qingteng Garden has always had little contact with the outside world, and there is not much news that Pang Jiushan can find.

"It's natural to know when you enter school. ”

"Brother Ning, you are really amazing! I really didn't expect you to be admitted to the top of the list. In this way, let you go in to do chores, but it will really be a little wronged for you. ”

Ning Du smiled: "You can do it if you have money." ”

Pang Jiushan immediately laughed out loud and said, "Don't worry, this Brother Ning, I will definitely be richer than anyone else." It's just that Brother Ning, you took the top exam, this matter has become a little tricky, I have become the target of the public, as the days go by, it is inevitable that the horse's feet will be exposed, Brother Ning, it has become difficult for you to enter the Qingteng Garden...... "Pang Jiushan was not carried away by joy, but immediately realized the hidden crisis, and came up with corresponding countermeasures.

didn't care about the conversation between the two people next to him, Hu Ran still hated the melon seeds, staring at the fake list worth ten taels in his hand.

——

"Yunqi, I heard that the fat man of the Xuanhemen family was admitted to the top of the Qingteng Garden? Is it really fake?" the third aunt asked softly while serving Pan Yunqi vegetables.

"Is that fat-headed and big-eared Pang What Mountain? All of them have been admitted to Qingteng Garden? Wouldn't we lose the bet we Yunqi made with him?"

"I'm so scared if I lose, isn't it just a penny?!" the fourth aunt said with a smile.

"Yes, yes, it's just a penny. The Pang family won me a penny, and they were not ashamed to panic. The fifth aunt also chimed in.

The second aunt said with a smile: "Ming'er, we will use eight big sedan chairs to carry this money to the Pang family! Obviously, it is possible to bet on winning the gambling game of Yicaitang, but the son of the Pang family only won one penny, he is really stupid!"

"Yes, yes, humiliate him like this!"

Pan Yishi couldn't eat a bite of food at all, and shook his chopsticks angrily as he listened.

Syllable!

This move undoubtedly surprised the family at the dinner table.

"Yo, old man, what's wrong with you today, so angry?" the second aunt raised her eyebrows slightly, glanced at Pan Yishi with white eyes, and said with a slightly strange look.

Pan Yishi sneered and said, "Yu Leng, and a few of you, don't think that your father is a member of the court, you can really do evil here." This is the Pan family, only surnamed Pan!"

The third aunt's face suddenly turned angry, she slapped her chopsticks on the table, and asked sharply: "Master, what have we done wrong, can you point it out? Don't slander people's innocence out of thin air like this! If you have the ability, you can say it!"

Pan Yunqi clenched his teeth, bowed his head deeply, and the chopsticks in his hand had been broken.

Pan Yishi sneered a few times and said, "Heh! I'm really bloody! I'm not going to eat this meal today!"

The second aunt snorted coldly in her nose, the third aunt also looked at it coldly, the fourth aunt looked at the two eldest sisters, and the fifth aunt peeked at Pan Yunqi.

Tonight's family banquet broke up unhappily again.

......

Pan Yishi stood in front of the window of the study like a dead tree, and his gray temples made him look much older than his actual age, but he could still see that he was handsome when he was young. His son Pan Yunqi also inherited this very well.

Hearing the knock on the door, Pan Yishi was silent for a long time before saying, "Come in." ”

Pan Yunqi stood respectfully in the middle of the house, his head bowed.

Pan Yishi suddenly turned around, took a big step, raised his arm, and gave Pan Yunqi a big slap.

Syllable!

Pan Yunqi, who was a little thinner than his father, was immediately knocked to the ground, and there was blood on the corner of his mouth, making his originally fair little face pale.

Pan Yishi's whole body was trembling, and he could only hold back a few points by gritting his teeth.

Pan Yunqi looked at his father and slowly got up from the ground.

"Yunqi, our Pan family, Yicai Hall, it's over. After Pan Yishi said this, he couldn't help it at all, and his whole person trembled like a sieve.

Pan Yunqi hurriedly picked up his father, put him on the chair, pinched it for a while, and poured a pot of hot tea to make his father feel better.

Pan Yishi seemed to be getting old all of a sudden, he looked at his son whose face was swollen by himself, and said distressedly: "Yunqi, you look very much like your mother, you are really reluctant to be a father, but you really hate your father!"

"Father, son knows wrong. ”

"You might as well be Pang Jiushan, don't fight him anymore. ”

Pan Yunqi suddenly raised his head, looked at his father, and his voice gradually became excited: "Father! Pang Zhixing's time is short, Pang Jiushan is not yet an adult, such an opportunity can no longer wait, and annexing Xuanhemen is our only way out! Father! Our Yicaitang has been sucked clean by those wolf-hearted officials all these years, if we don't find a way out, we will really die!"

Pan Yishi closed his eyes and said helplessly: "The building is about to fall, the power of one person is too small, Yunqi, you have to think about a way out early, protect yourself wisely, and leave roots for my Pan family." ”

Pan Yun said angrily: "Father! We only have the only way to swallow Xuanhemen!"

Pan Yishi patted the chair and scolded: "If you lose your reputation, what else is there?

"I have been fighting with Pang Jiushan for so many years, although I am indeed inferior to him everywhere, but I still don't know how much he has a pound and two? He is indeed talented and talented in business, but this is not enough to support him to enter the Qingteng Garden! What ability does he have to climb to the top of the Qingteng Garden?"

"What do you mean?" Pan Yishi's eyes suddenly filled with hope.

"If he Pang Jiushan is admitted to the Qingteng Garden, I can accept it, but it is absolutely impossible for him to be at the top of the list! I suspect that Pang Jiushan is cheating! Otherwise, why would he swear to bet with me? Since he has been admitted to the top of the Qingteng Garden, I believe that he will not be long before he will show his feet! Once this matter is exposed, he Pang Jiushan and Xuan Hemen will be finished!"