The autumn exam is over, but the candidates still can't go. Why? Because the results haven't come out yet. Xu Liang learned after inquiring that after the original candidates' examinations, all the test papers had to be sealed, transcribed, and read to form a red paper, which was organized by the chief examiner and fellow examiners, and the rankings were announced. After this action, it will not be completed in ten days and eight days.

In the spare time, nearly 3,000 candidates stayed in Nanchang Mansion, which was crowded with inns and restaurants of all sizes. Xu Liang originally thought that he didn't care about the results of the exam, and the day after the exam, he sneakily pulled the iron head to the Xinghua Building, but halfway through, he suddenly lost interest, and quietly returned to the inn without landing. After this incident, Xu Liang realized that although he said that it didn't matter, there was actually a so-called. Just like the college entrance examination in the previous life, although I changed all the review materials for beer money in one breath after the exam, I couldn't enjoy it when I returned home and walked around, and the reason was because the college entrance examination results had not yet come out.

The mood of the candidates after the autumn is the same as that of the senior students after the college entrance examination.

When Xu Liang returned to the inn, he went to Xu Jiang's room to look for him, but he was empty. When I asked his scholar, I found out that the eldest young master had gone out early in the morning.

Xu Liang had nothing to do, wandering around the inn like a headless fly. I finally stayed until lunch, and I was about to go crazy with my irritability.

At this time, Qin Feng, a student from Ji'an, came over. When you enter the door, you are also full of fire.

"Xu Liang, you didn't go out?" Qin Feng asked at the top of his voice as he entered the door.

Xu Liang glanced at him and replied, "You didn't go out either." ”

Qin Feng stood in front of Xu Liang, a head taller than him, Qin Feng smiled, picked up a cup of tea on the table and drank it in one sip, smacking his mouth, he said: "I was in a panic alone in the house, thinking about coming to you." Hey, where's your big brother? ”

"Leave early in the morning!"

"Oh." Qin Feng glanced at the room for a while, and asked again without words, "What are you doing in the morning?" ”

Xu Liang said quietly: "What you are doing, I am doing." ”

Qin Fengqi said: "Impossible, I didn't do anything in the morning." ”

Xu Liang stared at him and laughed, spread his hands, and said, "What a coincidence, I didn't do anything." ”

The two of them looked at each other and laughed.

After laughing, the two of them stared wide-eyed.

Qin Feng stood up and waved his hand irritably, shouting, "I can't stand it, I'm going to go out and find something to do, I'm going crazy if I stay like this any longer." ”

Xu Liang agreed. The two men went out of the house one after the other, and they were about to go out of the inn. When I passed by another guest room, I saw a group of people sitting around it, shouting and having fun. The two of them walked in with their feet raised with curious expressions.

Xu Liang went in and took a look, and saw that four students were sitting around a square table, each holding a few Puke cards-like things in their hands, and there were three students standing around to watch the excitement. Xu Liang picked up one and saw that there were some Tu'an cases painted on it, which looked a bit like mahjong in later generations.

I saw one of them type out one and shout, "Ninety! But it was a sign with a portrait, Xu Liang looked at it, and it vaguely looked like a character in the Water Margin in later generations.

The other person laughed out loud and typed out a picture, "Ninety dare to show up, look at me million!" ”

Xu Liang looked interesting, how could this be similar to the landlord in later generations, he asked: "Hey, what are you playing here?" ”

The lively student on the side made a fuss and said, "I said brother, you don't know this, Ma Han." ”

Xu Liang sneered embarrassedly: "Hehe, it's the first time I've seen such a fun thing, hey, they're having so much fun, why don't we come and have a fun time?" ”

The man said, "Nobody." ”

Xu Liang glared and pointed around, and shouted: "One, two, three, four, five, there are five of us standing alone, how can there be no one?" ”

The man was stunned when he heard this, glanced at Xu Liang and Qin Feng, and grinned: "Hey, it turns out that there is no one, you can have it when you come." He pulled a person beside him and shouted, "Let's go, there are enough corners, let's open a table too." ”

The person who was pulled asked, "Brother Ziwei, just go, don't pull and pull." ”

The man named Ziwei smiled and shouted: "Lu Changfeng, I Zhang Ziwei can pull you, that's your blessedness, others want us to pull, we are not happy." ”

Zhang Ziwei turned around and explained happily: "Don't be surprised by this brother, Brother Lu and I have been friends for many years, uh, originally we were too idle to come here to watch people play cards, and now that the two of you are here, we just happened to go into battle in person." ”

Xu Liang chuckled: "It turned out to be Brother Zhang and Brother Lu, junior brother Xu Liang, and this is Qin Feng." On the side, the tall Qin Feng also bowed his hand.

Zhang Ziwei laughed and said: "Fortunately, fortunately!" ”

The people sitting here playing horse hangings were not happy, and one of them shouted: "Hey, I said Zhang Ziwei, you want to open the table and hurry up to open the table, and the noisy and noisy next to us will make Lao Tzu have no heart to play cards!" ”

Zhang Ziwei was not annoyed, and said sorry again and again, signaling Xu Liang and Qin Feng to dare to go out.

Xu Liang didn't move, he smiled wryly: "That, Brother Zhang, it's the first time I've seen Ma Hang, and I won't fight yet." He glanced at Qin Feng, who didn't raise his feet, strangely, Qin Feng grinned with a black face, and said, "Heh, I won't either." ”

Zhang Zi was the only one who stumbled, almost didn't lie on the ground, he squeezed out a smile that was more ugly than crying, "No, it's okay, I don't know how to do it, let's learn from each other." ”

Under Zhang Ziwei's organization, a new horse hanging table finally started. Through Guò Zhang Ziwei's explanation, Xu Liang has a deeper understanding of this ancient popular horse tag, and it is said that this horse tag has similarities with the Puke tag of later generations. The difference is that the later generations of Pu Ke have fifty-four cards, and the horse hanging only forty cards, the horse hanging card is divided into four doors, there are "cross door", "ten thousand word door", "suo word door", "Wenqian door", to Xu Liang is amazed, the cross door of the Wan Wan Guan card painted on the avatar is actually the Song Dynasty Liangshan heroes and timely rain Song Jiang Song Gongming!

After Xu Liang fought a few times, he gradually came to feel. Zhang Ziwei and Lu Changfeng saw that Xu Liang and Qin Feng were indeed rookies who touched the cards for the first time, so there was no reason not to agree.

As a result, the horse crane was beaten down in the afternoon, Xu Liang lost nearly 100 taels of silver, Qin Feng was even worse, and he owed Zhang Ziwei 50 taels of gambling debts in the early 200 taels.

In the next two days, Xu Liang seems to have found the great joy of life, pulling people everywhere to play horses and hanging, his level is bad, but the gambling is good, never bad accounts, the students of Xinghua Village Inn like to fight with him, four or five days down, Xu Liang Qian output four or five hundred taels of silver, but also mixed up the students in the inn.

The so-called time to run, lose to the end will win, the sixth day begins, Xu Liang luck turned, card luck, won several games, every time back to the room can bring back a large bag of silver, the most happy thing for Xu Liang is that on August 24, Xu Liang did an afternoon dealer, killed all sides, and won nearly a thousand taels of silver. But since then, the students took a detour when they saw him, and when they saw Xu Liang smiling and shouting to beat the horse hanging, they shivered, either this is something, or that is uncomfortable, in short, they can't make up the game, which makes Xu Liang depressed.

Later, Xu Liang's hands were itchy and there was no way, so he had to go to Xu Jiang and Yang Lin, and the iron head put together the table to fight the horse hanging, but Xu Jiang and the iron head lost really a miserable loss, Xu Jiang lost the 1,000 taels of silver that the old lady Xu sent out of the door, and the iron head was more direct, and even the wife who had worked hard to save was lost, and only Yang Lin could barely make a draw with Xu Liang.

Later, Xu Liang came up with a trick and began to lend money to Xu Jiang and others, just to make up a game.

On this day, Xu Liang and Xu Jiang and others were fighting together again, probably because they lost money for several days, Xu Jiang, Tietou, Yang Lin and others were relatively angry.

"How can you give 80,000? How can I get out if you give 80,000? Xu Jiang glared at Yang Lin with red eyes and scolded.

Yang Lin stared at the iron head with red eyes, and also scolded: "How can I come out with 80,000, what are you out of 60,000 with my mother's iron head?" When will you be ready to play the four or five dollars in your hand? ”

Tietou was very aggrieved, and said in a whisper: "Then, then I won't pay 60,000, will I pay four ropes?" ”

Xu Liang rolled his arms and sleeves and shouted: "Come slowly, come slowly, this game of chess is still particular about making a mistake without regrets, how can you have no cards at all?" Xu Jiang, don't be poor, if you have a card, hurry up, and watch it if you don't have a card! This tone is a little bit like talking to the eldest brother.

At this time, a voice at the door hesitated: "Dare to ask which one is Xu Liang of Ji'an Mansion?" ”

Xu Liang didn't raise his head, and replied, "I'm not free, I'm winning money." He thought about it and suddenly felt that he had to pay attention to low-key when he won money, and when he looked up again, he saw that it was a soldier from the yamen, and he couldn't help but wonder: "That, I am Xu Liang, is there anything wrong with the eldest brother?" ”

The soldier asked in disbelief: "This son, are you really Xu Liang Xu Gongzi of Wan'an County, Ji'an Prefecture?" ”

Xu Liang patted his chest and shouted, "If it's fake, let's say, what's the matter?" ”

The soldier secretly wiped his sweat, put on a smiling face, and said: "Ouch, hey, congratulations to Master Xu, the ninetieth place in the top three in the autumn of high school, congratulations to the master, congratulations to the master!" ”

Xu Liang was stunned, twisted his face slightly, felt the pain, and then came back to his senses, laughed hehe, threw the good cards in his hand, grabbed a handful of broken silver on the table and stuffed it into the hands of the soldiers, "Haha, happy and happy, the poor master has worked hard, the little tea money, the poor master will take it." He hurriedly swept the table, turned out the cup and poured tea, and shouted again and again: "Please sit down and drink a cup of tea and rest!" ”

The soldier thanked him again and again, took the silver and postponed: "Thank you, Master Xu, there are still four or five small families going to report the good news, so there will be no delay!" After speaking, he nodded and hurriedly retreated.

Inside the house, Xu Jiang, Yang Lin, and Tietou were also busy coming forward to congratulate him, Yang Lin put on a flattering smile, and said: "Before leaving Ji'an Mansion, the old man dreamed that the third young master was lifted, and sure enough, this dream is really accurate." ”

Tietou rubbed his hands, congratulated him for a while, and said with a smile: "Young master is in the middle of the move this time, can you not pay back the money you lost in the previous horse hanging?" ”

Xu Liang suddenly widened his eyes and shouted, "How is it possible? Lao Tzu sues you, gambling debts are also debts, and nothing is missing! ”

Xu Jiang also stepped forward and congratulated with a smile: "Congratulations to the third brother for high school today, it can be regarded as the glory of the ancestors!" As he spoke, his eyes couldn't help but dim.

Xu Liang knew what he was thinking, and said curtly: "The eldest brother's literary talent is far better than mine, and it is not my turn to report the good news of the eldest brother." ”

Xu Jiang replied with a smile, and then the four of them had no intention of continuing to fight the horse, and sat in the house quietly waiting for the informant outside. However, after hearing two more groups of people, no soldiers came into the inn. Xu Jiang's heart sank.

Before long, the innkeeper brought two shopkeepers to personally deliver a table of wine and food, congratulating Xu Liang High School on his promotion.

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