Chapter 16 - Hand in hand
"Next is an arithmetic problem. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info A merchant bought a chicken cub for seven cents, sold it for eight cents, bought it back for nine cents, and finally sold it for ten cents. May I ask how much he lost or earned in the end?"
Xue Hao's question can be said to have dropped a bomb between the guests.
"It seems that I didn't make any money and didn't lose anything, I earned two yuan twice, but I used nine yuan to buy a chicken worth seven yuan, and I lost two yuan, so I didn't make any money and didn't lose anything. ”
"Are you stupid? You obviously made a penny, the first time you made a penny, the second time you bought it back and lost a penny, and then you sold it and earned another penny, a total of a penny!"
"No, it's ......"
Xue Hao regretted that he asked this question, but he didn't expect everyone's arithmetic to be so bad, it was originally a brain teaser with only thirty seconds of time to answer the question, and everyone argued for a quarter of an hour without any result.
In the end, it was Su Ruoxuan who answered the question correctly.
Xue Hao continued to ask. Today, everyone saw all kinds of strange questions in Xue Hao's mind, and they admired Xue Hao even more.
"Alright, that's it for today, everyone, please go slowly. ”
Everyone got up one after another, and before leaving, they all left some money on the table. Although I didn't hear the story today, this brain teaser was more fun than listening to Xue Hao's story. Everyone has some questions in their heads, and they are ready to stump others later.
Su Ruoxuan: "My name is Su Ruoxuan, dare to ask Mr. 's name?"
"Don't dare, Miss Su, just call me Xue Hao. ”
"Mr. Xue is really a talented person, my brother is right. Xiao Cui. Su Ruoxuan gave the maid a look.
Xiao Cui put down ten taels of silver on the table.
This is the largest reward Xue Hao has ever received, and he is already happy in his heart, but he is calm on the surface: "Thank you, Miss Su." ”
Su Ruoxuan left with Xiaocui, and on the way home, Su Ruoxuan suddenly remembered the pair of earrings she had newly bought: "Xiaocui, where did the earrings I just bought today go?"
Xiao Cui: "Miss, it's not with me, I thought you had it." ”
"Could it be that you forgot it in the teahouse?"
Xiaocui: "No, when I left, I saw nothing on the table. ”
"Where did you lose it? Forget it, anyway, it's only more than 20 taels of silver, it's not expensive, I'll buy a pair next time." Su Ruoxuan is now in a hurry to go back and use a few brain teasers she has written down to test her brother Su Xiangnan.
On the other side, Xue Hao, who returned home, took out a small wooden box, and in this small wooden box was a pair of exquisite earrings.
This pair of earrings was exactly what Su Ruoxuan lost. In fact, it wasn't lost, it was stolen by Xue Hao. At that time, he saw Su Ruoxuan put it on the table, and he slipped it into his pocket.
Xue Hao regretted it very much, he didn't know why he suddenly had this bad problem of taking the sheep and stealing petty. Especially Su Ruoxuan later rewarded him with ten taels of silver, which made him feel even more ashamed.
Anyway, Miss Su looks quite rich and doesn't care about this pair of earrings.
Thinking of this, Xue Hao's heart was much more relaxed: "Sister, I'll give you something." ”
In fact, when he was in the teahouse, Xue Hao noticed that Xue Linger's gaze swept over the jewelry on Su Ruoxuan's body from time to time.
What girl doesn't like beautiful jewelry? Xue Linger is even more obsessed with those jewelry.
"Wow, where did such beautiful earrings come from? ”
Xue Hao replied unnaturally: "I just bought it for you today, it's not expensive, three taels of silver." ”
"Don't waste money so much in the future, save for emergencies. After Xue Ling'er finished speaking, she happily put on her earrings, took out a small bronze mirror and looked left and right, but did not find anything unusual about Xue Hao.
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At noon the next day, Su Ruoxuan came to the teahouse again. Yesterday was the happiest time she had ever had in a while, so she couldn't wait to come to the teahouse early today.
Seeing Su Ruoxuan coming, Xue Hao didn't dare to look at her, his eyes were dodgy, and he was a thief.
"Mr. Su, are you still playing that sharp turn today?"
Xue Hao had already used up the few brain teasers in his mind yesterday, but after thinking about it, he thought of a story. Mythological stories like "Journey to the West" are too low attractive to women, and what women like is love stories.
"Don't guess the question today, I'll talk about the book. ”
"Yes, yes, sir, let's get started. ”
Xue Hao thought for a moment, sorted out the story in his mind, and began to tell: "A long time ago, there was a landlord surnamed Zhu, known as Zhu Yuanwai. He has a daughter named Zhu Yingtai, who is not only beautiful and generous, but also very smart and studious......"
The story told by Xue Hao is called "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai". This story is not as long as "Journey to the West", and one afternoon is enough time for Xue Hao to finish it.
As Xue Hao began to tell stories, there were more and more people in the teahouse, and many of them were teenage girls. Xue Hao said that Zhu Yingtai cried at this time, and all the girls wiped their tears.
Suddenly, Su Ruoxuan's hand flashed, and a guzheng appeared on the tea table in front of her out of thin air. The slender jade fingers plucked the strings of the zither, and the poignant music matched Xue Haolai.
With Xue Hao's narration, the sound of the piano made people cry. Until Xue Hao talked about Liang Zhuhua's butterfly, the sound of the piano turned, beautiful and smart, and everyone seemed to see two butterflies dancing in front of them.
As Xue Hao finished speaking, the end of Su Ruoxuan's piano sound slowly dissipated in the air.
"Miss Su's guzheng plays so well, it makes people feel like they are in a fantasy world. Xue Hao praised first, and the rest of the crowd also applauded.
"It's so good to play!" "It's the first time I've seen such a nice tune." "That's a good story, I wonder if it's true......?"
Su Ruoxuan was praised like this, and her cheeks immediately flushed: "Mr.'s story is also well told." Xiao Cui. ”
Xiao Cui immediately took out ten taels of silver and put it on the table. When the rest of the people saw it, they all reacted and rewarded Xue Hao one after another. Especially those young girls, when they heard such a touching love story, they gave a lot of rewards under the fluctuation of mood.
It turns out that a woman's money is so easy to cheat, it's wrong, it's so easy to earn, I want to tell a few more love stories in the future. Xue Hao has already discovered that women's rewards are generally much more than men's, and today's income in one day is comparable to the usual three days, not counting the ten taels given by Su Ruoxuan.
When Su Ruoxuan was about to leave, she accidentally saw the pair of earrings that Xue Ling'er was wearing, and was stunned: Isn't that mine?
She was about to ask Xue Hao: "Mr. Xue, when did you buy that new pair of earrings for Sister Ling'er?"
Xue Hao secretly said badly: "That, I bought it for my sister." ”
"Oh, so coincidentally, I also bought a pair of earrings yesterday. How much did you buy this?"
These earrings don't look cheap, at least three or two. Xue Hao was afraid that he would underestimate the value of the earrings, and said, "I bought them for five taels of silver." ”
Su Ruoxuan smiled: "It's such a coincidence, my earrings were also bought for five taels of silver." Then I'll take my leave. ”
Xue Hao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and he guessed it. He didn't expect that in fact, the pair of earrings was worth more than twenty taels. Su Ruoxuan already knew that he had stolen the earrings.
Su Ruoxuan walked on the way home.
Xiaocui: "Miss, it's clear that he stole it, why don't you expose him?"
"Although Mr. Xue is a gentleman, he is only a ten-year-old child, and he is just a ghost for a while. Only you know about this, and you are not allowed to talk about it. ”
"Got it, miss. ”
Haha, I didn't expect you to have shortcomings too. discovered Xue Hao's secret, Su Ruoxuan was very happy: such a strange person actually has such a bad problem. Ten-year-old Xue Hao can tell stories, make her brother full of praise, stump a large group of adults with strange topics, and make a bunch of young girls cry.
I thought that such a person was a perfect genius, but this secret pulled this enigmatic teenager to the ground and turned him into a normal person, but it was more real.
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"Sister, let's go buy something. After the teahouse closed, Xue Hao said.
"What to buy? We haven't lacked anything lately. ”
Xue Hao: "I'm going to buy you a few new clothes." ”
"No, I'm fine with my clothes right now. ”
"Let's go. Xue Hao didn't say a word and pulled Xue Ling'er to buy clothes, and Xiaobai opened his calves and followed behind.
Xue Linger is good at everything, but she loves beauty too much and has low self-esteem. Xue Hao found that since Su Ruoxuan came to the teahouse, Xue Ling'er had never been close to her. It seems that Su Ruoxuan's rich lady's aura is too strong, or it may be that Su Ruoxuan is dressed too gorgeously, and Xue Linger doesn't want to get close to show her poverty.
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Xu Zhi has created hundreds of membership cards, and these membership cards alone cost him thousands of taels of silver. Because these membership cards are made with real money!
The lowest level is the copper card, and the consumption in the drunken fairy building with the card will be discounted. The higher level is a silver card, with a 20% discount. The highest level is the gold card, which is discounted by seven percent, and just one gold card will cost one or two gold.
These membership cards can only be obtained by spending a certain amount of money in Zuixian Building. However, the first batch of membership cards will be issued free of charge by Xu Zhi himself.
A batch of copper cards were issued to some wealthy merchants in Tianqin City, and the silver cards were given to the official eunuch family, and there was only one gold card, and Xu Zhituo's relationship was dedicated to the prince.
Except for the prince, everyone else was personally distributed by Xu Zhi, and the stakes were so high that he didn't dare to hand it over to others.
Looking at the Prime Minister's Mansion in front of him, Xu Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, this is the last one today.
Just as he was about to go inside, Xu Zhi ran into Su Ruoxuan, who was going home.
"Isn't this Miss Su?" Xu Zhi greeted with a smile.
Su Ruoxuan thought about it before remembering who Xu Zhi was. Xu Zhi has only recently become famous with the Drunken Immortal Building, and Su Ruoxuan has seen it once.
"You're you, Boss Xu, what's the matter with you coming to my house?"
Xu Zhi took out the silver card, and Su Ruoxuan, as the eldest lady of the Su family, handed it to her: "This is our membership card for Zuixianlou, and in the future, with this card, we can eat in Zuixianlou with a 20% discount." I gave this card to your house. ”
Su Ruoxuan took the membership card and looked at it, the delicate silver card was quite beautiful: "Membership card?
These new terms were all proposed by Xue Hao. After Xu Zhi explained, Su Ruoxuan understood.
"Okay, I'll tell my father. ”
Such a membership card is not given by every house. For example, the Shi family in the General's Mansion does not have it, this is an official family on a par with the Su family.
Many wealthy businessmen and official eunuch families do not have such membership cards, which is also Xue Hao's idea. Each one does not reflect the superiority of the membership card, only in this way, with comparison, can reflect the preciousness of the membership card.