Ji family

After lunch, Ji Xiaogu sat in the courtyard, did not let the concubine room accompany him, drank tea after the meal alone, flipped through a nameless account book in his hand, and a steward wearing a cloth towel hurriedly ran in, bent down and said in his ear:

"Master, something happened in Baorenli, someone came to smash the field, from the first six games, to win thirty-one games, and one game of twenty-five games did not fall. A lot of easy customers heard the news and rushed over to gamble, this morning alone in the easy area into three hundred taels of silver, all swallowed by a few guests, we didn't get a penny. ”

The tea cover in Ji Xiaogu's hand bumped into it, rubbed off a corner, and his heart was secretly shocked, Baoren Gambling House is not as good as other places, the daily questions are personally made by more than a dozen Yike in his clan, it is inevitable that the topic will be repeated, and a routine will be changed every three days, and someone can win twenty-five games in a row, where is the character from?

"Since you noticed the signs, why don't you 'invite' people to leave, but let him make a big fuss?"

The steward complained: "Master, you don't know, the one who came to smash the field was for the Taoist master, and he still had a sword weapon on his body, how dare the villain ask someone to 'please'." ”

"Is it a Taoist priest?" Ji Xiaogu was embarrassed, if he wanted to come to a Taoist priest to make trouble on his territory, he would not be polite, but a Taoist priest who could break his gambling house for twenty-five games in a row must be an extraordinary teacher, and there is really a mountain gate behind him, but he is not easily offended.

"Yes, master, now everyone has sent people to our gambling house to see the excitement, the first and second floors are crowded, and then ask him to win, our Baoren's signboard is afraid to smash, now the guests are gathering more and more, and the gambling money in each game is also big, he really bets on another twenty or thirty rounds, we have to make four or five hundred taels less!"

Hearing this number, Ji Xiaogu also felt painful, don't look at his family's big business, with so many people in his three rooms, the annual expenses are more than 1,000 taels, and now someone has borrowed his territory, sitting on the ground and hugging gold, not only smashing his signboard, but also plucking his hair.

Ji Xiaogu couldn't sit still, stood up, didn't change his clothes, and while walking out, he instructed his followers:

"Go to Jingshutang to find Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zheng will come, prepare the car."

When he walked outside the door, he collided with a master and a servant who were walking inside, and the door page covered the figure, revealing only a corner of the ruffled silk skirt outside, and a string of crystal milky white jade rings pressed the corners of the skirt.

"Third Uncle" Ji Xiaogu raised his head and smiled first: "Why did Star Swirl have time to come to Third Uncle today?" ”

"I'm here to Xie Lu Xie Third Uncle sent the pair of white-headed birds to my yard yesterday, I like it very much-are you going out?"

"I'm going to go out."

"Well, third uncle, I see that your eyelids are slightly protruding, the backs of your ears are white, and you look like you are ruined, so it's best not to go out today."

Hearing this, Ji Xiaogu looked at the people outside the door, and his mind moved, and he said: "Star Swirl, didn't you say last time that you want to see the gambling easy, and the third uncle is about to go to the gambling house on Vientiane Street, do you want to go out with me, go and see the excitement, and help the third uncle come up with ideas by the way?" ”

"Huh? But if Dad knew the truth, he would be unhappy. ”

"Hehe, if you don't say it, I won't say it, how can your father know about it, didn't you just say that the third uncle would break the fortune today, just now you came to help the third uncle check and go to bad luck."

"Then, I'll go and take a look with the third uncle."

Ji Xiaogu's face swept away, and he led the way with a smile, "Let's go." ”

His baby four nieces are good at counting, and everyone in Yiyang City knows that the fourth lady of his Ji family has passed the Dayan exam and entered the Taishi Shuyuan to learn easy, but they don't know that she has passed two subjects at once, in addition to one face, the other is arithmetic, and arithmetic is even more than 100.

The Ji family has a sixteen-year-old arithmetic, and this is something that the Kong and Liu families don't know yet

"The thirty-sixth game - one person in the middle - seven pick up the number nine card!"

On the high cabinet, the guy rang the bell, and heard that someone was outnumbered, almost at the same time, everyone moved their eyes to the front of the counter, and on the beggar, seeing the little beggar's action of flipping the card, there was another sigh, and looking at Jingchen's eyes became more and more curious and respectful.

Yu Shu flipped over the black card in his hand, handed it to the guy with a stiff face, grabbed a handful of silver in his hand, counted it, and stuffed it into the cloth pocket hanging in front of him.

Jingchen was next to Yu Shu, and as soon as she lowered her head, she could see the red marks on the neck of Yu Shu's sign from under the brim of her hat, and the collar was wet with sweat, she leaned on the counter with one hand and changed her foot to support the weight of her upper body.

They stood here for a whole morning, a full three hours, and even he felt slightly uncomfortable, let alone her, and what surprised him more than her winning these dozens of games in a row was her physical strength, or perhaps endurance.

Because no matter how he looked at it, she didn't seem to be a patient person.

Yu Shu's throat was itchy and uncomfortable, taking advantage of the time when Yi District took off the sign to change the topic, he took a sigh of relief, took off the bamboo tube hanging on his belt, opened the stopper and drank a small sip, looked at the small half tube of water left in it, regretted not bringing one more tube, turned his head and saw that Jingchen was looking at her, so he handed him the bamboo tube:

"Take a sip of water."

Jingchen can go without eating or drinking for three days, of course he won't care about these two mouthfuls of water, he shook his head, stretched out his hand, and held her left wrist, which was a little hot, and his palm was lightly touching her pulse.

Yu Shu was startled by Jing Chen's sudden move, and then the cool feeling from her wrist made her shiver comfortably, she was covered in sweat as if she had swallowed a mouthful of ice into her abdomen, and her heart was cold, and she didn't think about anything men and women holding hands and not kissing, she stared at Jing Chen magically with her eyes, and asked in a low voice:

"Why are your hands so cold?"

Jing Chen shook his head, and his eyes motioned for her to look at the wall: "It's a problem." Yu Shu turned his head, and saw that the new problem on the wall had been changed, the bell rang, and he shouted the beginning, which was an arithmetic problem to solve the product of multiple digits, and the number string full of paper was obviously much more complicated than the previous ones.

She was held by Jingchen with one hand, and pulled the abacus with the other, silently reciting the numbers in her heart, when she was calculating her intentions, the coolness of her left wrist receded, and she didn't think about it, so she turned her hand to catch up with the retreating coolness, and closed her five fingers and held it firmly.

"Don't move."

Jing Chen lowered his eyes to look at the hand that was grabbed by Yu Shu, and looked at her dirty side face, his eyes swept over her sweaty, glittering eyebrows, and did not move.

On the second floor, Ji Xiaogu stood by the window, looking at the crowded Yi District downstairs, at a glance, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the conspicuous white shadow:

"Is that them?"

Someone on the side replied respectfully: "It is the Taoist chief in the white robe and wearing the hat." ”

Ji Xiaogu pinched the purple clay pot and took a sip of it, squinted his eyes and said, "What is the little beggar next to him doing?" Still holding an abacus? ”

"It's a follower who fights the tricks."

It's no wonder that the people upstairs have no eyesight, although it is Yu Shu who plans to calculate, but it is Jing Chen who writes the answer and bets the most, thinking about a Taoist and a beggar standing together, a few people will think that the beggar is in charge.

It was still Ji Xiaogu's poisonous eyesight, he stared at the downstairs for two rounds, and then found the subtleties, snorted coldly, to:

"Where's the henchman? It's clearly a thorn in the head. ”

Sitting next to Ji Xiaogu, there was a young lady covered with a veil, looking at the scene downstairs with a novelty, quiet and quiet, and did not interject.

Ji Xiaogu turned around and said to the two Yi Shi brought by himself on the round table behind him: "Please ask the two of you to ask the question, be sure to stump them, and don't ask them to be reckless." ”

The two looked at each other, nodded, and soon someone handed over a pen and paper specially designed to solve the problem, and the two of them put together one by one, while discussing, while writing down the problem, and appending a small piece of paper to solve the problem.

Every time a volume is written, someone sends it down.

Half an hour later—

The people downstairs were full of voices, and I don't know how many times the horn sounded-

"The forty-sixth inning-one-in-one-pick up the number plate!" Ji Xiaogu stared at the two figures downstairs with an ugly face, and behind him, the two Yi Shi were already sweating on their foreheads, their faces were ashamed, and their hands holding the pen were unstable.

The eight questions that just came out turned out to be a good one!

"Third uncle, those two people are not simple, Mr. Zhou and Mr. Zheng's questions are already difficult, they can still make a good bet, and each dish is half a cup of tea, it can only be said that they have real skills, no wonder the two gentlemen."

The two Yi Shi who came out of the question glanced at their fourth lady gratefully, and only then did they regain a little face.

Ji Xiaogu smiled bitterly: "Star Swirl, do you know that these two people are making money from the third uncle's meat, if you connive at them to continue to win, I'm afraid that tomorrow my gambling house will be closed." ”

"Is it that serious?"

"Do you know, our gambling house in the Yi District, the reason why it can become the largest one on Vientiane Street, depends on the topic, others a dime of silver and a brand, we sell two dimes, Yi Ke is not short of silver two, what is the Yi Ke diagram of the back and forth, is in our gambling here, more capable, both win money and earn face, but today people have broken the overall situation, and it is rumored that who cares about the high of our topic, people only say that my Baoren Gambling House has been smashed brand, and its reputation is stinky, who still comes to play?"

Ji Xiaogu explained, sighed: "Although it is said that opening the door to do business, it is to make profits and losses, and the Taoist chief downstairs should be polite, and accept it when he sees it, and the third uncle will admit it, and give them one or two hundred taels of flowers for nothing, but look at their appearance, they will not give up today, if they can't kill their majesty, change the Yi District in this building, you can withdraw directly, and the less money is small, and those who know the inside story of the Dao know that this is our Ji family's territory, where to throw that face." ”

Listening to Ji Xiaogu's sigh, the young lady sitting by the window looked downstairs, and the two figures of Li Tai in Yi District, one clean and one dirty, became interested in her eyes, and after groaning, she turned her head and said:

"Third uncle, I'll help you with a few questions."

Ji Xiaogu waited for her to take the initiative to speak, if it was an ordinary junior in the family, he would have ordered it directly, but these four nieces even he had to be careful, if he forced her to help in this muddy place today, and let the second brother and mother know afterwards, he would definitely make him look good for a while.

"That's great, the third uncle is just trying to see what new skills you have learned in the Taishi Academy, come here, prepare paper and ink again."

Ji Xiaogu's face was cloudy and clear, and while planning to plate in his heart, he called the servant to come in, and the two Yi masters at the table got up and moved the place, Ji Xiaogu stood up and followed, beckoned to the chief manager who was waiting on the side, whispered a few words, and his eyes flashed.

The guests downstairs are more than when the business is the best, he is a businessman, in his eyes is the biggest interest, it is rare to encounter this opportunity, how to take the opportunity to make a fortune, not only to get back the previous loss, but also to take the opportunity to start the price, maybe after today, he this Baoren gambling house a brand, you can mention the triangle.