Chapter 17
The young man looked Ye Qinghuai up and down again, bowed his body, and said: "Young master, please wait a moment, I will invite the shopkeeper."

After speaking, he pushed open a small door at the back of the hall, disappeared from the small door in a flash, and the small door was tightly closed again.

The moment he pushed open the door, Ye Qinghuai heard a burst of noisy voices, like the voices of people in a lively market, but it sounded muffled, as if there was a thick door behind.As the small door closed, the sound disappeared.

It seems that there is something hidden in this small shop.

After about a stick of incense, the small door was pushed open again.Accompanied by faint voices, a middle-aged man walked in with a servant.

Ye Qinghuai glanced inside intentionally, and saw a courtyard behind the door. The main room in the north was brightly lit, and there were many figures indistinctly, and the noise came from that room.

The shopkeeper is not tall, looks like he is in his 30s, with a thick black beard on his lips, and looks very honest and reliable.

He walked up to Ye Qinghuai with a smile on his face, but there was some prudence in his eyes, he gave a half salute and said: "I'm really busy today, I kept you waiting for a long time."

Ye Qinghuai stood up and returned the salute, and said: "The shopkeeper is polite, don't get in the way."

"My lord just looked at me, the little old man has a question that should not be asked."

Ye Qinghuai's heart skipped a beat, but she answered calmly, "Excuse me from the shopkeeper."

"The shop is located in a remote area, where did you find out about the shop?" asked the amiable shopkeeper.

"The shopkeeper is humble, and the smell of wine is not afraid of deep alleys. To be honest, I only got a tip from a friend before I knew about your store's No. [-] Scholar Red."

"Little old man, I would like to ask, where is this friend, young master?"

Ye Qinghuai thought about his words, and said, "My friend is surnamed Du. His family does some silk business, and he likes to carry a folding fan with him."

The shopkeeper listened to the front, his eyes were still vigilant, and when he heard the word "folding fan", he straightened his brows and said: "It turns out that he is a friend of Mr. Du, and the little old man offended me. Don't blame me, Mr. It's really not peaceful recently. Don't ask a few more questions."

"Don't blame, don't blame, be careful sailing for ten thousand years."

The shopkeeper smiled politely at Ye Qinghuai, then lowered his voice and said a few words to the servant beside him.The boy nodded immediately, and ran to the backyard. After a while, he came back with a small wine jar. The word-Zhuangyuanhong.

Under Ye Qinghuai's slightly surprised eyes, the servant carefully placed the wine jar on the table in front of her.

Is it really wine?
Ye Qinghuai looked up at the shopkeeper with some doubts, only to see the shopkeeper looked at the wine jar, and smiled meaningfully at Ye Qinghuai.

Ye Qinghuai reached out to support the wine jar, and went to unseal the jar.

With this tentacle, she found that the wine jar seemed to be empty.

She lifted the seal and looked down from the top, only to see that there was no drop of wine inside. Instead, a thin roll of booklet was rolled up and stuffed inside.

Ye Qinghuai was about to reach out to pick it up, but was held down by the shopkeeper.

He looked up and saw the shopkeeper's smiling face, and suddenly said, "I'm just impatient and forgot the rules."

Ye Qinghuai took out the bag of heavy silver ingots from her pocket, put it on the Eight Immortals table, and unsealed the bag.

The shopkeeper glanced into the money bag, smiled and said, "Young master is a straightforward person. It's just that the little old man wants to remind you, please look after you leave the shop."

Without taking Ye Qinghuai to ask, the shopkeeper said again: "We are in this business, we will definitely not break the rules. If you don't trust the small shop, you can find another place."

This is simply an overlord's treaty, but Ye Qinghuai had no choice but to obey.She covered the wine jar with a displeased expression, and was about to get up when the small door to the backyard suddenly opened.

A boy poked his head out, anxiously, and hurriedly called out to the shopkeeper's lowered voice: "Shopkeeper, I really can't hold back..."

Seeing that the shopkeeper was receiving guests, he also showed an apologetic smile to Ye Qinghuai, and bowed from a distance.

The shopkeeper's face suddenly turned cloudy, he frowned and sighed deeply, then hurriedly stood up and hugged Ye Qing, saying: "It's really not good hospitality, please forgive me, young master."

Ye Qinghuai was about to be polite when he heard a man's angry roar from the backyard: "He is the one who cheated, beat me to death."

This time it doesn't look like it's through the door wall, it's very clear, it seems that the trouble has come to the yard.

Hearing the sound, the shopkeeper didn't want to stay any longer, and pushed the money bag on the table towards the boy next to him, saying: "After counting, it will be sent to the treasury."

After speaking, he trotted to the backyard.

As soon as the small door was closed, the sound in the backyard was immediately cut off, and no wind could be heard.

Ye Qinghuai didn't dare to stay longer, she picked up the "Zhuangyuanhong" in front of her, got up and left.

When she closed the door of the hall, she looked up and saw that the servant who stayed in the lobby was carrying her silver and walking towards the counter.Ten ingots of silver are enough for a person to live in abundance for a lifetime, but the young man holding so much silver has a flat expression, as if he has long been accustomed to such a large amount of silver.

Ye Qinghuai looked at the street outside the door, it was already dark, there was no one on the street, and most of the shops were closed, only three or two shops still had some lights shining through.

Ye Qinghuai looked up and saw a lantern hanging from the corner flag, she moved it to the side, and made sure that people in the hall could no longer see her through the crack of the door, so she put down the wine jar and put the inside The booklet was taken out.

She unfolded the booklet and flipped through it under the dim light of the lantern.

She couldn't wait for a moment.She was desperate to know the answer, and wanted to know it now.

There are three subjects in the Dajing Imperial Examination, which are divided into three days. They are to examine the clear law of the law, to examine the Ming Shu of literature and history, and to examine the clear calculation of mathematics.

Ye Qinghuai was deeply impressed by the questions in the previous life test, because she had done this set of questions once.At that time, Song Zhe had just become her teacher, so in order to find out for Ye Qinghuai, he took the exam questions to test her.Especially the last topic of Mingshu, on "the nature of heaven and earth, people are precious", Ye Qinghuai also discussed with Song Zhe on this topic.

She went straight to the last question on the first page of the instruction manual.

There are seven words written on it——

The nature of heaven and earth is precious to man.

Ye Qinghuai could only feel the cold wind entering her body from the lapel at the back of her neck, freezing her blood and suffocating her.

Looking at those seven short words, she seemed to be 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 count it? Can't you see such a big stamp? This is official money from the palace, which cannot be spent! What about the kid?" The shopkeeper's angry voice came from the shop.

Ye Qinghuai was startled.

Although she didn't know what stamping was, her intuition told her that what they said was that there was something wrong with her money.

Ye Qinghuai quickly stuffed the booklet into her arms, and ran against the wind.

In the wind, she heard the creak of a wooden door behind her, and then a man shouted in the empty alley: "There!"

Many chaotic footsteps sounded behind her.

(End of this chapter)

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