Yu Shu was puzzled, followed Xue Rui into a deserted tavern on the adjacent street, found a no-one corner on the first floor with few guests, sat down, and ordered a pot of wine.

Yu Shu also thought that Xue Rui had something to say to him, who knew that after the wine was served, he drank it himself, cup after cup, Yu Shu stared at him for a long time and didn't see him speak, after two pots of wine, he saw him refill the glass with an expressionless face, and there was no sign of caring for her, she finally came back to her senses, and this person called her to accompany him to drink stuffy wine.

Yu Shu was happy for a while, but it was rare to see that this person was troubled, she rolled her eyes, pulled a pair of chopsticks from the bamboo cage, stretched them out in front of Xue Rui on the other side of the table and knocked them to arouse his attention.

"In a bad mood? Do you want me to guess what it's for? ”

Xue Rui didn't show up in court today, and she wondered at the time that he was investigating this case, so it stands to reason that he shouldn't be sitting here drinking in a casual suit at this time.

Xue Rui's expression remained unchanged, and he continued to pour wine, "What about you, you are just outside the yamen, what are you wondering about?" ”

Yu Shu turned the chopsticks in his hand and pun on him, "Isn't my strange thing the reason why you are in a bad mood?" ”

The wine glass stopped at his mouth, Xue Rui looked at her deeply, and said, "No matter what, Xia Jiangying's case has been closed, and it is better not to have too much curiosity about things that have nothing to do with you." ”

Xia Jiangying's case was closed in such a hurry, and there was really another hidden secret, Yu Shu thought to himself.

"Do you think I'm the kind of person who asks for trouble?" Yu Shu asked rhetorically, took an upside-down wine glass on the table, took the wine jug in Xue Rui's hand and poured it, and was about to take a sip to quench his thirst, when he was intercepted by one hand.

"I'm borrowing wine to kill my sorrows, what are you doing to make a scene." Xue Rui pinched the round mouth of the blue porcelain cup, gently shook the clarified wine inside, and raised his eyebrows.

"Do you want me to be worried? Bring it," Yu Shu sighed, what she was going to do and not to do. didn't need others to make the decision for her, she pressed the table with one hand and got up halfway, stretched out her arm to grab the wine glass in Xue Rui's hand.

Xue Rui shrank his hand and dodged. He tilted his head and put the glass of wine in his mouth.

Yu Shu pounced, and without doing anything, he made a gesture at the wine jug, and the arm on the table swept over, and the wine jug fell into his hand.

He put down the wine glass, raised the wine jug, and poured the half jug of wine into his mouth while looking at Yu Shu with a sullen face, and the wine dripped into his throat. My heart suddenly felt happy.

Seeing Xue Rui's playful gaze, Yu Shu squinted his eyes lightly, a wicked smile hooked up at the corner of his mouth, and suddenly leaned forward, grabbed his wrist and pressed it down, and poured the half pot of wine into his mouth violently.

Xue Rui was caught off guard, she was choked, a lot of wine overflowed, and she hurriedly pressed her hand to make her stop, coughing at the same time. A big smile was smiling:

"Ahem, hahaha, okay, okay, don't make trouble. I've got something down to business. ”

Yu Shu rolled his eyes, who had a trouble with him, it was clearly him who started first, "You still have business?" When I come to me, I want to show how good you are. ”

"Of course there is something serious," Xue Rui grabbed Yu Shu's slender wrist, pinched it lightly without a trace, and then let go, wiped the wine stains on the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, cleared his throat, and said:

"Didn't you say a while ago that there was a business introduced to you, do you still want to do it?"

Yu Shu's eyes lit up, "Of course you have to do it, you can talk about what business first." ”

Xue Rui said: "It's what you're good at." ”

Yu Shu said unashamedly: "I'm good at a lot, I don't know what you're talking about." ”

Xue Rui's eyes flashed, and he spit out two words unhurriedly:

"Easy betting."

Yu Shu's smile froze, and his heart rose vigilantly, sat back on the stool, and pretended to be stupid at Xue Rui: "Why don't I know that I am good at gambling, just because I was caught by you last time I gambled in Chunxiang Building?" ”

Cao Zixin's cognition of her arithmetic ability is limited to the level of a bookkeeper, and even the Ji family was confused when she swept the Baoren Gambling House in Yiyang City, where did he know that she was good at this.

Xue Rui played with the empty wine glass on the table and said, "Since you remember that you were caught by me last time, don't you know what happened to me, I know it clearly, I don't know if you want to come, who came up with the two questions worth a hundred taels." ”

It turned out that she showed her feet here, Yu Shu now thinks about the events of that day, and she still feels depressed, that time she came out for Xia Mingming, and she still wanted to make money from others, but she was pitted by others in turn, and seeing two hundred taels of snowflakes and silver fly with wings, Bai made her excited.

"Didn't you say that it was the title of the dealer, it should be someone from the Evergreen Gang."

"If the Evergreen Gang can invite such helpers, it will not only occupy a Qiu Gui Fang in the south of the city," Xue Rui said, "Those questions were leaked from the Taishi Academy, and the person who wrote the questions was Mr. Han Wenguang from the arithmetic department, and it was originally left for students to use as homework. ”

Yu Shu touched his chin and said, "It's Mr. Taishi Shuyuan, no wonder those questions are so difficult, it takes me a long time." ”

Xue Rui asked with a strange expression, "You haven't heard of Mr. Han from Taishi Academy?" ”

"Why is this man famous?"

"Ten years of the Great Yan Examination, the three Great Operators are all his personal students, do you say he is famous?" Xue Rui asked rhetorically for a long time.

Yu Shu opened his mouth wide in surprise, he had monopolized the first subject of Dayan trial arithmetic for ten consecutive years, so this old man was good enough. Fortunately, she didn't pretend to solve all four questions that day, otherwise it would be too suspicious.

"The problem he came up with is that his students often have a headache for a few days before they can get results, can you solve two problems in half an hour, I said that you are good at this way, is it wrong," Xue Rui looked at Yu Shu with a puzzled gaze, and said suspiciously:

"To tell you the truth, sometimes I'm really curious about where you learned your skills, the Ji family's Yi Xue is a Qimen faction, why are you so good at arithmetic? If you're just self-taught, you're too talented. ”

Yu Shu smiled: "You just think I am talented." ”

You can't tell him that she came from five hundred years later, and that her level of mathematics was centuries ahead of their ancients.

Fortunately, Xue Rui was not more serious, and did not continue to explore, but returned to the topic just now:

"What do you think of my proposal just now, do you want to take my business?"

Yu Shu sat up straight: "How do you say this, it has become your business again?" ”

Xue Rui explained:

"There are many rich idlers in the north of the city, and there are naturally many ways to have fun. Every month, there are always one or two who do the gambling of the East Swing Field, which is ridiculous, most of these people don't understand it. It's just that there are easy customers in the house around him, so as to compare and compete for the first face. I've only been back in Beijing for two months. I received four or five invitations, but I couldn't avoid them. It's not a way to be talked about behind their backs. There is a bet at the end of this month, would you like to go with me to see the world and open your eyes? Not to mention anything else, there are seven or eight Great Yi Masters here, and I will introduce you to one or two later, so it will be convenient for you to visit in the future. ”

Yu Shu was quite moved by these words. The level of Yi learning in the south and north of the city is not at the same level at all, and it is indeed a good thing for her to have this opportunity to mix in the circle of Yi in the north of the city, she can't always set up a stall in Qiu Gui Fang, sooner or later she will have to climb up.

She understands Xue Rui's kindness, although what he said seems to be asking her for help, but with the Xue family's background, how could the house not find a customer to act as a façade, and she had to make up for it.

What made her hesitate was his kindness. Did she get it by heart, or did someone get it?

The more you owe, the harder it is to pay back, and this backlog of favors has reached a certain level. It's also a burden.

Xue Rui saw that Yu Shu couldn't make up his mind at this time, and somewhat guessed what she was worried about, so his neatly trimmed fingers flicked on the table and asked a completely irrelevant question:

"How's Minor Xiu doing now?"

Yu Shu couldn't understand why he asked, but he still replied: "Stay at home, lively." ”

"I remember when he was in Yiyang City, he learned Yi in the bookstore of Kong Ji and Liu San's family, right?"

Yu Shu nodded.

"If I'm not mistaken, you're going to teach him something on weekdays now, so that he can continue to learn."

“．．． He was taught some arithmetic or something. ”

Xue Rui said: "Have you ever thought about finding another place for him to enroll?" ”

Yu Shu was stunned, she really hadn't thought about this stubble.

"Xiaoxiu will be twelve after the New Year, a boy of this age, it is time to contact people and deal more, you can teach him Yes, but let him experience outside, isn't it better."

Yu Shu's expression was whole, and she quickly faced up to this matter, she had to admit that after entering Beijing, because of the many trivial matters, she was negligent to Yu Xiaoxiu, but this does not mean that she doesn't care about his growth, it's just that the child is too worry-free, and she doesn't worry about him unconsciously.

Xue Rui observed Yu Shu's expression and felt that the heat was almost over, before he spoke:

"There are a few schools in the north of the city, which specialize in accepting children of his age, with good reviews, and the masters are all Yi teachers who have been famous on the list of Dayan exams, with me helping you match, it is not difficult to enroll in school, do you want to think about it, change the environment for Xiaoxiu, after all, you are such a brother, the incense of your Yu family, I think there is only one left."

There is almost no need to think about this matter, Yu Shu is a modern person who has received nine years of compulsory education and seven years of higher education, and of course knows the necessity of a school for a growing child.

"Looks like I'm going to owe you a favor again." Yu Shu pinched his forehead and said, indirectly accepting his suggestion.

Xue Rui laughed: "I can't talk about favors, I'm just helping to say a few words, and as for the tuition, you have to pay it yourself." ”

"Tuition?"

Xue Rui nodded.

Yu Shu asked cautiously, "How much can you want?" ”

Xue Rui smiled more and more kindly: "Miscellaneous, after a month, fifty taels of silver can't run." ”

"Ahem, ahem, five, fifty and twenty a month?"

Obediently, I just took her life!

Yu Shu still doesn't understand why Xue Rui suddenly mentioned Yu Xiaoxiu at this time, then she is really a few years older than him, this guy is obviously younger than him, why is there more than her?

"You said I did the business. But let's talk about it first, I don't have the capital to gamble, you have to give me a cushion first, and I will score if I win, at least three seven, I will three you seven. "When it comes to this, just be thick-skinned to the end, Yu Shu is not afraid of boiling water and making requests.

Xue Rui saw her take the bait, his expression was happy, and his hands were staggered on his chin:

"You don't have to be three-seven, it's mine if you lose, it's all you who wins." (