Chapter XVII
The little guy glanced up and down at Ye Qianhuai again, owed a debt, and said, "Son, please wait, I'll ask the shopkeeper to come." β
With that, he pushed open a small door at the back of the hall, and in a flash disappeared from the small door, and the small door closed tightly.
The moment he pushed the door open, Ye Qianhuai heard a noisy voice, like a human voice in a lively market, but it sounded muffled, and it seemed to be separated by a thick door. As the small door closed, the sound faded away.
It seems that there is a hole in this small shop.
After about a stick of incense, the small door was pushed open again. With a faint human voice, a middle-aged man walked in with a small servant.
Ye Qian deliberately glanced inside, only to see that behind the door was a courtyard, the main house due north was brightly lit, and there were faintly many figures, and the noise came from that house.
The shopkeeper is not tall, he looks to be in his thirties, with a thick black beard on his lips, and his face is very honest and reliable.
He walked to Ye Tianhuai's side, with a smile on his face, but some caution in his eyes, he made a half-salute and said, "Today is really busy, so I have waited for a long time." β
Ye Tianhuai got up and returned the salute and said, "The politeness of the shopkeeper is not in the way." β
"Childe looked at the face, the little old man had a word that should not be asked."
Ye Tianhuai sighed in his heart, but he replied calmly on his face: "The shopkeeper, may I ask." β
"The small shop is in the middle of nowhere, I don't know where the son got the small shop?" The shopkeeper asked.
"The shopkeeper is humble, and the aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys. To tell you the truth, I also got a friend's suggestion that I knew that your store's champion was red. β
"Little Lao'er takes the liberty of asking, who is this friend of Childe?"
Ye Tianhuai pondered the wording and said, "This friend's surname is Du, and he does some silk business at home, and he usually likes to carry a folding fan with him. β
The shopkeeper listened to the front, there was still vigilance in his eyes, and when he heard the word folding fan, he stretched his eyebrows and said, "It turned out to be a friend of Du Gongzi, and the little old man was offended." Childe is not strange, it has not been very peaceful recently, so I have to ask a few more words. β
"Don't blame it, don't blame it, be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship."
The shopkeeper smiled politely at Ye Tianhuai, and then lowered his voice and said a few words to the little guy beside him. The little guy nodded at once, and ran to the backyard, and after a while, he came back with a small wine jar, on which was pasted a yellowed piece of paper, on which were written three ordinary wordsβchampion red.
In Ye Tianhuai's slightly surprised gaze, the little servant carefully placed the wine jar on the table in front of her.
Could it really be wine?
Ye Tianhuai raised his head and looked at the shopkeeper with some doubts, only to see the shopkeeper look at the wine jar and smile meaningfully at Ye Tianhuai.
Ye Tianhuai then stretched out his hand to hold the wine jar and uncover the seal of the jar.
With this tentacle, she found that the wine jar seemed to be empty.
She lifted the seal and looked down from above, only to see that there was not a drop of wine inside, but instead a thin booklet, rolled up and stuffed inside.
Ye Tianhuai was about to reach out to get it, but was held down by the shopkeeper.
He looked up and saw the smiling face of the shopkeeper, and suddenly said, "I was in a hurry and forgot the rules." β
Ye Tianhuai took out the heavy bag of silver ingots from his arms, put them on the table of the Eight Immortals, and unsealed the bag.
The shopkeeper glanced into the money bag, and said with a smile: "Childe is refreshing." It's just that the little old man wants to remind the son, please watch it after the son leaves the shop. β
Without Ye Qianhuai asking, the shopkeeper said: "We are in this business, and we will never break the rules." If the son can't trust the small shop, he can find another home. β
This is simply an overlord treaty, but Ye Tianhuai has to obey. She covered the jar with some displeasure, and was about to get up, when the small door in the backyard suddenly opened.
A little guy poked his head out, his face was full of anxiety, and he hurriedly called to the shopkeeper's low voice: "Shopkeeper, I really can't hold it down......"
Seeing that the shopkeeper was entertaining guests, he also showed an apologetic smile at Ye Tianhuai and bowed from afar.
The shopkeeper's face turned cloudy, he frowned and sighed deeply, then hurriedly got up and hugged Ye Tian with his fist, and said, "It's really inconsiderate, please forgive me." β
Ye Tianhuai was just about to be polite, but he heard a man's angry roar from the backyard: "It's him who is out of a thousand, and he will beat me to death." β
This time it doesn't look like it's through the door wall, it's very clear, and it seems to be in the yard.
When the shopkeeper heard the sound, he didn't stay any longer, pushed the money bag on the table to the little guy next to him, and said, "After counting, I received the library." β
After saying that, he trotted to the backyard.
As soon as the small door was closed, the sound in the backyard was immediately cut off, and the slightest wind could not be heard.
Ye Tianhuai didn't dare to linger longer, she picked up the "champion red" in front of her, got up and left.
When she closed the door of the temple, she looked up and saw the little servant who had remained in the lobby walking towards the counter with her silver in her arms. Ten ingots of silver are enough for a person to live a prosperous life for a lifetime, but the little guy has a plain expression with such a large amount of silver, and seems to have long been accustomed to such a large amount of silver.
Ye Tianhuai looked at the street outside the door, it was already dark, there was no one on the street, most of the shops were closed, and only three or two shops still had some lights coming through.
Ye Qianhuai looked up and saw a lantern hanging under the corner of the face, she moved to the side, making sure that the people in the hall couldn't see her from the crack in the door, so she put down the wine jar and took out the booklet inside.
She unfolded the booklet and flipped through it in the dim light of the lantern.
She couldn't wait any longer. She desperately wanted to know the answer, and she wanted to know now.
There are three subjects in the Dajing Imperial Examination, which are held in three days, which are to investigate the clear law of the law, the Ming book to investigate literature and history, and the Ming to investigate arithmetic.
Ye Qianhuai was quite impressed by the questions of the previous life exam, because she had done this set of questions once. At that time, Song Zhe had just become her husband, and in order to find out what Ye Qianhuai had, he used the questions of the exam to test her. Especially the last topic of the first subject of the Ming Book, on "the nature of heaven and earth, people are precious", Ye Tianhuai also theorized with Song Zhe because of this topic.
She flipped straight to the last question on the page of the book.
There are seven words written on it-
The nature of heaven and earth is precious.
Ye Qianhuai only felt that the cold wind penetrated into her body from the placket on the back of her neck, freezing her blood and suffocating her.
She looked at the short seven words, as if frozen in the cold wind of a winter night.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the shop door beside her.
"How did you do the count? Can't you see such a big stamp? This is the official silver flowing out of the palace, and it can't be spent! What about the kids? The shopkeeper's angry voice came from the shop.
Ye Tianhuai was shocked.
She didn't know what a stamp was, but her instincts told her that they were talking about something wrong with her silver.
Ye Qianhuai quickly stuffed the booklet into his arms, ran against the wind, and ran quickly.
In the wind, she heard the creak of a wooden door opening behind her, and then a man shouted in an empty alley, "There! β
Many stumbling footsteps rang out behind her.