After the school's yamen re-released the list, Xu Li had already gone to see the new list, and among the three people funded by the squire, he was the only one on the list.

There will be a township test in August this year, and if there is no accident, the two children will be able to be admitted to Xiucai one step ahead of him.

If this is the case, the squire will stop sponsoring him, and he will no longer be able to continue his studies, and his future will become more and more uncertain.

"Do you still want to study?" Shi Jinxiu heard the loss in Xu Li's words, so she looked at him and asked.

"Everything is inferior, only reading is high!" Xu Li sighed, "I want to read it." ”

Shi Jinxiu smiled at him: "Since you want to read it, then read it down!" I'll pay for your reading! ”

may have seen the loss of heather in a dream, and Shi Jinxiu couldn't see the appearance of these readers who couldn't read.

Xu Li looked at Shi Jinxiu with some shock.

In the days when the Shi family lived in it, Xu Li also saw that although the Shi family lived together, they had several heads of the house to take care of.

It is not easy for them to provide a heather in this room, and if they add themselves, Xu Li feels that this is unlikely.

"Don't forget, I can make incense." As if seeing Xu Li's concern, Shi Jinxiu smiled with him, "It's no problem to raise you two scholars!" ”

As soon as she talked about this, Xu Li remembered that some time ago, Shi Jinxiu kept going back and forth between the spice shop, the incense shop and the Xinxiang Pavilion, all because she couldn't find a reliable person to help.

"Sister, why don't I help you." Xu Li said with Shi Jinxiu.

Let him help himself?

These days, Shi Nan and Xu Li often help themselves do a lot of things, in her opinion, Xu Li is indeed a good hand at doing things, many times he is thorough, and his reaction is much faster than Shi Nan.

If he could help, it would be twice as effective for her.

But for Xu Li, it is not necessarily a good thing.

"No! You've got to read! What can distract you? Shi Jinxiu refused without much thought, "Could it be that you want to be a child for the rest of your life?" ”

Xu Li listened and didn't answer.

"Just read your book! The matter of finding a helper is in a hurry. "Shi Jinxiu told the truth.

"Sister, I won't delay my studies!" Xu Li seemed to have made a lot of determination, "If you don't agree, then I don't want your money." ”

"You kid, why are you still stubborn?" Shi Jinxiu hated the iron and poked Xu Li's head.

Xu Li tilted his head: "Sister, I can't get your benefits for nothing!" I won't feel at ease that way. ”

"And I'm not going to delay my studies." He said it with sincerity.

Shi Jinxiu saw that he was resolute, and it was difficult to find persistence.

"Then let's talk about it in advance!" Thinking that he couldn't delay him, "If you delay your studies because you help me, I will stop at any time!" ”

"Okay!" Xu Li nodded heavily.

"By the way, do you remember the deed I told you to bet on at the gambling house before?" After the two chatted for a while, Shi Jinxiu suddenly remembered the matter, "Now that the list has been reopened, we should also go to the gambling house to cash out the gambling contract, right?" ”

Placing a bet is such a thing, if you buy the right person, you will invest more and make more money, but if you buy the wrong person, you will lose all your money.

So Shi Jinxiu, who only wanted to cheer for Brother Nan, only took out a hundred taels of silver to bet, and now he went to cash in the gambling deed, just to let Xu Li, who was a little depressed, go to the street and relax.

As soon as the two of them arrived outside the gambling house, they found that there were people everywhere, and everyone squeezed the door of the gambling house.

"Hey, are you here to exchange money too? Hurry up tomorrow! As soon as Shi Jinxiu stood at the door, someone shouted at her.

Shi Jinxiu followed the sound and saw a person who looked like a small man, squatting on the half-human-high stone steps, holding a dog's tail grass in his mouth, but his eyes kept staring at the gambling house opposite, and he never moved away for a moment.

"Why?" Shi Jinxiu asked curiously.

"Why? Do you have eyes that don't know how to see? In the past two days, the people who have come to exchange money are almost crowding the doors of the gambling house. The man scoffed disdainfully.

"How can there be so many people?" Xu Li was very puzzled.

In previous years, there were gambling games in the gambling house, and there were only a few people who could win money in the end, and it was really rare to crowd the door of the gambling house like this.

"Heh, isn't this an eagle who was pecked in the eye by an eagle!" There were people gloating on the side, "Half of the top ten lists announced by the Yamen of the university for the second time this year are the previous favorites to win the list, and many people have bought them. ”

"It's all a small amount of money!" Another person answered, "This year's top of the list has exploded a big upset, if someone buys this top spot, it is said that it will have to be multiplied five hundred times!" ”

"How much? Five hundred times? Isn't this a windfall? Some of those who were listening to the excitement began to sigh, "This is a deal that can earn five hundred taels for only one tael of silver!" ”

"That's it, not everyone can do this kind of business! If it weren't for the real leader of the list who sued the fake leader and corrected his name, where would there be these things today? ”

The crowd nodded their heads in agreement.

Before, Shi Jinxiu was still watching the excitement, but after hearing that the odds at the top of the list were 500 times, she became uneasy.

She threw in a hundred taels of silver...... 500 ...... That's 50,000 taels!

She has never seen so much money, and she is a little confused.

If she and Xu Li went to the door to exchange money like this, it would be like a childish person holding gold in the downtown area, so how many people would have to stare at her?

A tendon in Shi Jinxiu's brain began to burst out.

It seems that this matter has to be considered in the long run!

Those who can open gambling houses in this capital are not ordinary people.

Behind them are backers who the government does not dare to interfere with at will.

As someone just said, these people can redeem money here safely because their amount is small, and the gambling house cannot ruin its "reputation" in the market for their sake.

But if you go to redeem the money single-handedly, the amount is so large, whether you can redeem it smoothly is a matter of two questions.

And now, in the entire capital, the only one who can help her may be Yu Wenyan.

It's just that she has troubled him many times, and she has become a little embarrassed to come to the door empty-handed like this.

Smelling the fragrance of zongzi leaves all over the street, she had an idea, bought some zongzi leaves and glutinous rice and went home.

Shi Jinxiu took the cuckoo to wrap a basket of zongzi overnight, and went out as soon as the sky was bright.

"Girl, is it necessary for us to come out so early?" Looking at the street market where there were few people, the cuckoo asked in puzzlement.

"The early bird gets the worm!" Shi Jinxiu, who didn't want to explain too much, perfunctory to the cuckoo, dragged her straight to the outside of the Zhenfu Division.