Chapter 668: Not Making Steamed Buns for a Good Face
"If we are not a family, do you think I am really so generous as to care about such a small thing? Don't keep talking about family all the time and stop using this to bully me. Don't you feel guilty when you say that?"
Xiaomi was filled with anger, hatred, and ashamed. She snorted coldly and walked away without looking back.
Nanny Hua quickly took out the silver and asked the housekeeper to place the bet.
Unexpectedly, the butler came back to report that the odds had been lowered from 1:5 to 1:3.
It is said that the amount bet was quite large, so the casino adjusted the ratio.
The madam is so sorry!
Little did they know that the gambling house was also helpless.
Although the number of people who bet on Shao Yunduan to win the title of Jieyuan is small, the amount of money bet is huge.
At the beginning, the instigator offered five thousand taels, then someone came with three thousand taels, and then another person came with three thousand taels. Now they were a little unconfident.
The total amount alone is 11,000. If you lose, you will have to pay out 55,000. This is not a small amount!
Besides, what if someone follows up later?
After some hesitation, the dealer decisively lowered the ratio.
Sure enough, just one day after the price was lowered, another person came with 5,000 silver coins.
That's not all. When other people who were watching the fun saw this, they actually thought that Shao Yunduan might actually be quite capable. There were more and more people betting on him!
At the end of the day, he collected more than 500 taels.
The dealer was stunned
So, did they all make a mistake? Who was the young man who came first? I really want to find her and ask her carefully, does she have any gossip?
Otherwise, how could you be so willing to do it?
They all knew that the young man had bet a total of 20,000 taels in four gambling houses!
Unfortunately, they were destined to never find the young master because after that day, Qiao Xuan never appeared as a man again.
The government understood very well how the scholars were waiting for their results, and the prefect and others also wanted to know the results as soon as possible, so they marked the test papers very quickly.
Five days later, it was time to post the notice.
Early in the morning, Shao Yunduan took Songshi out to check the list, and Le Zhengxiao also came to accompany them. As for Xie Jingrong, he was not convenient to show up with Shao Yunduan, so he did not come.
When placing bets in the gambling house, he did not dare to reveal his identity and asked Xie Dong to find someone outside the mansion to place the bets for him.
Qiao Xuan, Lixia and Liqiu were waiting anxiously at home.
No matter how calm you are, at this moment you can't help but start to have wild thoughts and become nervous, and your mind subconsciously thinks uncontrollably about "what if".
After all, no one can say for sure that there is no chance of it happening.
After two hours of agony and chaos, the carriage finally returned. Qiao Xuan's eyes lit up and her heart almost jumped out of her throat.
The carriage stopped, and Qu Shan and Song Shi jumped down from the edge of the carriage with smiles on their faces, congratulating them. Qiao Xuan's heart finally settled down, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
She walked forward happily, and Shao Yunduan and Le Zhengxiao were just getting out of the carriage.
"My husband passed the imperial examination? Congratulations!"
Shao Yunduan shook her hand and said with a smile, "You can get your money back with interest. Congratulations!"
"Really!" Qiao Xuan screamed. She was overwhelmed by the great joy and felt like she was a little dizzy!
"My husband, you are the top scholar? Haha, you really are the top scholar!"
In fact, she really wasn't sure that Shao Yunduan would pass the exam. She just thought that he should have what others had. If not for the bread, then for the face. So she was placing a bet.
(End of this chapter)
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