ebookland Chapter 228 Bet
Chapter 228 Bet
Yan Qin thought for a moment before saying, "I don't know! If he hadn't saved me, we wouldn't have known each other. If we don't even know each other, how can we know if he's a good person?"
"Your father wanted you to marry into a good family, so he wanted to arrange your marriage with Cao Shuqing early. Do you think Cao Shuqing is from a good family?"
Yan Qin nodded and shook her head: "He's fine, but his mother is not!" She suddenly giggled again and pinched Meng Yu's nose: "Xiaoyu, you are so funny like a little adult. If others knew that we two children were talking about this, they would definitely laugh at us!"
"..."
It was originally a normal discussion, okay? This little girl really knows how to look beyond the matter and see the essence.
"Just chatting casually, there's no one else here!" Meng Yu simply said: "Putting aside the life-saving grace, what do you think of Cao Shuqing?"
"He is very smart and good at studying, but his family is poor and he almost couldn't go to school. Daddy once said that being kind to others and doing more good deeds will eventually be rewarded! When you have the ability, it's okay to help others more."
Meng Yu nodded: "Your father is a good man!"
Yan Qin was happy to hear this, she nodded: "Yes, my father is a very good person!"
"Then if you can't marry Cao Shuqing in the future and never see him again, will you be sad?"
Yan Qin thought blankly for a while, tears welling up in her eyes and her expression becoming even more conflicted.
Meng Yu understood and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
If it weren't for the fact that the Yan couple were indeed good people, often giving out money to give out porridge, doing good deeds, and helping others, and that Yan Qin was also a kind-hearted child, Meng Yu wouldn't have cared whether he would be deceived by Cao Shuqing, the reborn dog.
Yan Qin has a good impression of Cao Shuqing now. I guess Cao Shuqing must have disguised himself very well when he met Yan Qin before. After all, the cash cow of the Yan family can provide a lot of help to Cao Shuqing, and he definitely doesn't want to let it go easily.
As for Meng Yu, although she had not experienced the suffering of the original owner and could not empathize with what the original owner had endured, she used the original owner's body to vent her anger, which was also her duty.
This is what Meng Yu wanted to do, to cut off the possibility of him using the Yan family as a blood bag and prevent him from using the Yan family's money to pave the way for his future.
Li was so confident about this time's entrance examination. I wonder if she still has the confidence to continue to make conditions to Madam Yan after knowing the result!
Jiazhou.
It has been four days since the college entrance examination results were announced.
During these four days, Cao Shuqing stayed in the inn and never went out.
He was very angry and furious, and he gnashed his teeth in hatred.
Someone was banging on the door outside, cursing as he banged: "You little brat, aren't you crazy? Why are you hiding like a turtle and not coming out?"
In the room, Cao Shuqing's face was ashen and tense.
He was still young, and his tense face naturally lacked the majesty of a minister in his previous life. Instead, it looked a little ridiculous.
The servant Yan Hua was in the corner, and he didn't say a word.
Before, he was very eloquent and said compliments without paying any money. By trying to please her, he won Cao Shuqing's favor.
But now, he was at a loss for words and didn't know what to say.
Who would have thought that Master Cao, who had won the first place in the county examination and the first place in the prefectural examination and was full of confidence, would...
The banging on the door continued outside. The person who was banging on the door was the scholar who said that day that he was still a king, named Wang Jiayou. He was a local student in Jiazhou.
Later, he met Cao Shuqing several times again, and happened to hear Yan Hua flattering him. However, Cao Shuqing did not think that it was an exaggeration at all, which led to Wang Jiayou's sarcasm and tit-for-tat.
At first, Cao Shuqing was disdainful of talking to an unknown person who might never enter the officialdom in the future.
But Wang Jiayou's ridicule was really hurtful, and he finally couldn't bear it anymore. The two of them talked back and forth and made a bet.
If Cao Shuqing really won the first place in the case, Wang Jiayou would apologize and voluntarily offer three hundred taels of silver!
If Wang Jiayou ranks higher than Cao Shuqing, Cao Shuqing will have to pay three hundred taels of silver!
If Cao Shuqing did not get the first place, but as long as his ranking was higher than Wang Jiayou, Wang Jiayou would have to offer 100 taels of silver.
It seems that Cao Shuqing has nothing to lose in this bet.
Three hundred taels is not a small amount.
Besides, there were more than just the two of them living in that inn.
Such a big commotion, of course, attracted many students to watch.
A bet cannot be made simply by verbal agreement, it must be written down in black and white to be made into a contract.
It was Cao Shuqing who requested that this be written down in black and white. He was afraid that Wang Jiayou would go back on his word. Three other students also signed their names as witnesses.
Cao Shuqing was surprised to find that he knew one of the three. In his previous life, he was a fifth-rank prefect who was sent to the capital to become an official. He got in touch with Cao Shuqing and gave him 100,000 taels of silver.
He transferred the person to the capital as promised, and after that, the man named Pang Changquan became his most useful lackey and his favorite money bag.
Of course Pang Changquan didn't know him yet, nor was he the fawning and servile person.
Cao Shuqing looked at him, and his sense of superiority increased a little bit.
In this life, he just happened to conquer Pang Changquan in advance.
This was a man who was very good at making money. Later, he was arranged to work as a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue. He was also very sensible and a lot of silver and money were sent to his house every year.
He now has the Yan family as his money bag, but that is not enough, he will need money in many places in the future. It is not an easy thing to get through the officialdom. If Pang Changquan is subdued now, wouldn't he have a money bag much earlier?
The bet was made, and everyone was very happy, and the people watching were also in high spirits.
Cao Shuqing is determined to win.
He didn't care whether he could win the three hundred taels, nor did he care about the apology of a small person.
Being able to achieve the goal ahead of time, the invisible value in between is worth countless thousands of taels!
However, he never expected that his luck would be that bad.
While considering it, he was assigned the bad number.
Not only is there a toilet next to it, but the cubicle is also very small.
The college entrance examination will be held on the second, third and fourth days of August.
But on the first day of August, the candidates moved into the cubicles.
It was fine when he first moved in, but he was frequently awakened in the middle of the night by candidates who went to the toilet at midnight, cleaning up their supplies next to him, separated by a board. Every creak of the board seemed to hit him directly in the heart, making it difficult for him to ignore it.
Two of them had diarrhea, and the noise was deafening, and the stench was overwhelming. The smell, a mixture of the sour odor of fermented food residue and the natural smell of human excrement, penetrated through the cracks in the thin wooden boards and quietly invaded Cao Shuqing's breathing space, almost suffocating him.