"Old man, you..."
Old Madam Liu looked at Tutor Liu and wanted to say something, but in the end she found that she didn't know what to say.
Taifu Liu suppressed the anger in his eyes.
After looking at his old wife, he stretched out his hand to the little girl leaning in her arms: "Xiaoxun'er, come to grandpa."
Xiao Tuantuan walked up to Master Liu with a look of admiration in her eyes.
Taifu Liu picked her up and placed her on his knees. He gently rubbed her little head with his hand, then he turned his head to look at his old wife and said, "Old woman, King Cheng will be back soon."
What?
Old Madam Liu was stunned.
Then she thought of Xiaoxun'er's disappearance last time, and her face suddenly darkened.
Taifu Liu continued, "The Shen family's affairs won't affect him much. As long as he still has that ambition, or as long as those others have that ambition, they will sooner or later set their sights on our Xiaoxun'er."
It's funny.
All of Grand Tutor Liu's children and grandchildren died or were gone, and now only his little granddaughter Xun'er is left.
So his weaknesses are clearly visible before our eyes.
No matter whether it is King Cheng or any other king, if you really want him to take sides, you just need to find his weak spot.
Old Madam Liu understood. Her face darkened and she unconsciously clenched her hands: "Our Xun'er is less than five years old. How dare these people..."
How could I not dare!
After all, they are princes. In order to ascend to that position, what means would they not dare to use?
Last time, it was because Yang family’s little Xun’er came back.
But what about next time?
Taifu Liu looked at his granddaughter in his arms, with a firmness and coldness flashing in his eyes, but he did not continue the previous topic. After all, walls have ears.
Then he said, "By the way, you can have someone go to the gambling house on West Street and exchange the silver back."
Tutor Liu took out a bill from under his sleeve and handed it to Old Madam Liu.
Mrs. Liu took it and looked at it with surprise.
"Old man, did you go gambling?"
"Don't you never gamble? Why are you still going to the casino to place a bet?"
Madam Liu had also heard about the gambling game that had caused such a stir a while ago. But she had never expected that her own old man would also participate in the gambling game.
Thinking of what happened that day, Taifu Liu couldn't help but stroke his beard and smiled: "That kid is my student after all, I have to support him."
The exam hadn’t been taken yet!
He actually said that he was his student.
Old Madam Liu rolled her eyes secretly, but did not tell him the truth. Instead, she lowered her eyes and glanced at the bill in her hand. The bill said that the amount was fifty taels.
Twelve to one.
Fifty taels, that’s six hundred taels.
That’s quite a lot!
…
Lu Mansion.
As soon as Mr. Lu returned home, he heard his wife happily talking about rewards.
"What's the reward?"
Mr. Lu came into the room and asked.
I saw a maid standing in front of Mrs. Lu. The maid hurriedly bowed to Mrs. Lu, then left with a smile.
"What's going on?"
After Mr. Lu sat down on the chair and the maid brought him tea, he couldn't help but ask his wife.
Madam Lu glanced at him and said with a rare smile, "I just sent someone to check the list. They said that Third Young Master Yang passed the exam."
Mr. Lu was stunned.
Then he realized, “So that’s what it is.”
While the Ministry of Personnel was partially responsible for supervising the Spring Examination, the chief examiner was dispatched by the Emperor. Elder Lu had been incredibly busy lately, uncovering corruption and bringing down officials one after another, eliminating numerous corrupt officials for His Majesty. Therefore, he hadn't paid much attention to the Spring Examination list.
Now, after hearing his wife's words, he casually asked, "What place did you take in the exam?"
Madam Lu smiled and said, "First place in the first class."
"What?"
Mr. Lu was startled, then he looked at his wife, not quite believing his ears: "How much did you just say? First place in the first class?"
How is this possible!
Yang Huaijin's result in the provincial examination was only achieved by luck as he squeezed out the previous cheating student, and he barely got the last place. With such a result, how could he get the first place in the spring examination?
“The lists are out.”
Madam Lu looked at Mr. Lu's incredulous expression and said unhappily, "What's that expression? Young Master Yang is a smart and good boy. He has achieved this because of his own ability."
Mr. Lu came to his senses.
He looked at his old wife and couldn't help asking, "Madam, tell me honestly, what benefits did the Yang family give you?"
What?
Madam Lu was stunned.
Then she rolled her eyes at him angrily: "Master, you've arrested too many corrupt officials, and now you've arrested me?"
Mr. Lu touched his nose.
"That's not the case. I'm just curious why you value the Yang family so much. Last time, you even specifically asked me to go to the casino and place a bet on Yang Huaijin getting top marks in the high school entrance exam."
First-class Jinshi.
Is it possible to pass the exam so easily?
There are only three people in the first class.
Three.
Among the more than one thousand candidates who took the imperial examinations in the entire dynasty, only those who could rank in the top three were the best among the best.
Otherwise, the bookmaker wouldn’t directly offer a 12 to 1 odds.
But even so, almost no one bet that Yang Huaijin could get the top score in high school, because based on Yang Huaijin's previous grades, it was simply a fantasy to think that he could get the top score.
But his wife specifically told him to place the bet.
When Mrs. Lu heard what Mr. Lu said, she was silent for a while before she said, "Have you forgotten what happened twenty years ago?"
"What twenty years ago?"
Mr. Lu was a little confused.
"What happened to those blue-eyed foreign envoys back then!"
Seeing that Mr. Lu hadn't remembered yet, Madam Lu couldn't help but say, "Didn't those blue-eyed envoys always like to roam the streets of the capital after they arrived? Taking advantage of the fact that we couldn't understand their language and the bullshit etiquette they talked about, they always liked to touch the women on the street."
"That day, I happened to be returning from my mother's home with Ru'er, and on the way, I happened to meet those foreign envoys..."
The story is very cliché.
It was just that the foreign envoys saw Lu Yueru's face in the carriage and were stopped. They relied on their status and the fact that others couldn't understand their language, so they asked the interpreter beside them to say a lot of nonsense, so that Madam Lu and Lu Yueru could get off the carriage. Then they tried to tease them with a kiss on the hand...
At that time, I happened to meet Qi Yue who was taking her child for a walk.
Debate with the envoys.
When the foreign envoys heard Qi Yue's amazingly fluent foreign language, they were shocked and angry. They mumbled a lot of nonsense and wanted to reach out to Qi Yue. The end result was that Yang Tiejiang, who arrived, slapped them in the face in public.
That bloody scene.
I still remember Old Madam Yang vividly.
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