Song Chunsheng's Songjiacun Supermarket officially opened.
There is a special section in the supermarket selling pencils, charcoal pencils and erasers. Bookstore owners who are smart and thoughtful also come here to purchase goods, naturally at wholesale prices.
Although pencils are cheap, their cost is also low. They are convenient to use and have high sales. The net profit was one tael a day. That’s three thousand taels a month.
No wonder his sister told him to cry about being poor every day and to make money in a low-key manner.
"Have you heard? Dr. Song and Miss Cui are going to have a martial arts competition."
"What? It's about going up to the altar and knowing the clouds and rain."
"Isn't that just a fight? Hurry up, all the major gambling houses have set up gambling tables, place bets on winning or losing."
"Ah? You want to gamble too? Who will win this bet?"
"Nonsense, of course she is the granddaughter of the Imperial College's chief priest, the disciple of the Xuantian Sect's head, Miss Cui?"
"But I heard that Dr. Song is very knowledgeable, so he won't necessarily lose, right?"
"Are you stupid? Miss Cui's family inherited the art of Kantian from her ancestors, and it's her specialty. Even if Dr. Song is knowledgeable, does he know the art of Kantian?"
"Yes, yes, yes, then we bet on Miss Cui to win."
For a time, all the major gambling houses in the capital were in a state of excitement.
Every autumn rain brings a chill; the night rain drizzles and the flowers wither.
It rained at night. Song Chunsheng was wearing the high-heeled rain boots that his sister had specially made for his family. When he was walking past the door of the gambling house, he was stopped by an acquaintance.
He quickly stepped forward to greet him: "Master Zhu, are you... at work?"
Zhu Beichen's mouth twitched. The brother and sister spoke in the Lunshan County style.
This “go to work” is probably the dialect of Lunshan County.
"I heard that Princess Kangle and Cui Zixuan will compete the day after tomorrow. Are you here to place a bet for your sister?"
Song Chunsheng smiled and said, "There are regulations in our village rules and regulations that villagers are not allowed to gamble."
Zhu Beichen was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's just an occasional bet, it doesn't count as gambling."
Song Chunsheng shook his head. "If there is a first time, there will be a second time. The village rules were set by Jinxiu, and I won't take the lead in breaking the rules. But I won't go, but I can ask Master Zhu to help me place a bet."
As he spoke, he took out two taels of silver and handed it over, "Please help me, Lord Zhu, and bet on my sister to win."
Zhu Beichen took the banknote and said jokingly, "That's all? You don't have confidence in Princess Kangle?"
Song Chunsheng smiled bitterly and said, "Of course I believe my sister, but I am short of money and can't take more."
Zhu Beichen looked at him with a half-smile: "But I heard that your supermarket has been doing very hot business since it opened."
Song Chunsheng said quickly: "Your Excellency, you don't know that more than half of our business is pencil erasers and charcoal pencils. But most of these pencil erasers and charcoal pencils are bought by students. In order to facilitate students' calculations and math, Jinxiu set the price low, and the profit is too low."
Song Chunsheng, holding the three thousand taels of silver in his arms, cried bitterly about his poverty in front of the emperor's close minister.
In the afternoon, the emperor sent Song Jinxiu two carts of silver charcoal. The eunuch who came to deliver the message said, "Your Majesty said this is for you to use as charcoal pencils."
After the leader of Xuantian Sect heard the rumors about his master and arranged the affairs of the sect, he went to Beijing without stopping.
The teacher said that his uncle had accepted a last-ditch disciple who was a genius in mathematics. Proficient in the Nine Causes of the Great Way.
As the head of the sect, he knows best what the significance of Uncle Master accepting a disciple is.
Proficient in the Nine Causes of the Great Way?
Could it be that the sect’s divine book is about to be published?
The leader of Xuantian Sect was in a very complicated mood.
As a descendant of the sect leader, every successor must be recognized by the Heavenly Book. Unfortunately, the sect leader has not opened the Heavenly Book for several generations.
If the Heavenly Book recognizes its master, then he, the sect leader, will become the leader.
As soon as I arrived in the capital, I heard that Cui Zixuan and Song Jinxiu were going to compete in the art of heavenly magic.
Cui Zixuan has been by his side for ten years. She is well-behaved and obedient, and studies very hard.
The reason why he was accepted was because his grandfather had obtained the "Five Star Divination" from the Imperial Astronomical Observatory.
He knew that the Cui family of the Imperial Observatory also coveted the Heavenly Book of the Xuantian Sect, but his female disciple was not destined to be with them. When he secretly put the Heavenly Book in front of her, she almost burned it as firewood.
Almost every disciple of Xuantian Sect had faced the Heavenly Book without knowing it.
It can be seen how difficult it is for this heavenly book to recognize its master.
Cui Zixuan's family was well-educated, and the Cui family of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau had high hopes for this granddaughter, and they spared no expense to let her enter the Xuantian Sect to practice.
Even if his disciple is stupid, he will never lose if he knows the simple skills of Kantianshifengyun.
Wait, Dr. Song, a female doctor?
The head of Xuantian Sect, Hu Yue, stopped a student-looking person and asked, "How many female doctors are there in the capital?"
"Of course there is only one, Dr. Song, the chief doctor of mathematics. I heard that he is only thirteen this year. Oh, he is very knowledgeable. How come you don't know him?"
"Hahaha, I can tell you're from out of town. Let me tell you, our Dr. Song doesn't even need an abacus to do math. Just a move of his eyeballs is more effective than an abacus bead. Just a blink of an eye and hey! The answer comes out."
A passerby said this while blinking and turning his eyes, which was quite funny.
Hu Yue, the head of Xuantian Sect, found it ridiculous, but when he saw everyone nodding seriously, he began to doubt himself. Could this be true?
Using eyeballs as abacus beads, is that unheard of?
"Hey, you don't believe it? Look, have you seen the imperial edict? There is the question of the disciple of the Xuantian Sect's leader posted there, and she hasn't figured out the answer to her own question yet.
Instead, Dr. Song rolled his eyes and started to do the question. If you don't believe me, go and see. Anyway, he couldn't understand it, but his parents said he understood it. ”
Is this really true?
Hu Yue, the head of Xuantian Sect, hurried to the front of the imperial edict. At this time, there were many people in front of the imperial edict. Some people were writing and drawing on the ground with branches, while others were lying on the side with pencils and paper, copying.
Hu Yue looked at the question. This was the Xuantian Sect's annual assessment question. At that time, no one in the sect could figure it out. Cui Zixuan was only accepted after I suggested it.
Now that she was considered a virgin, why did others still say that she was not as good as a thirteen-year-old girl?
Oh, it turns out she changed the number.
What an idiot! Don’t you know that there are always people better than you? It's really shameful to be so arrogant.
Looking at the steps to solve the problem, the idea is clear at a glance. It is this calculation method, it seems to be the Nine Causes of the Great Way!
Could this girl be the disciple of my uncle-master? The future leader of Xuantian Sect?
If this is true, then he would like to see whether the future sect leader is better than his disgraceful female disciple Cui Zixuan in the art of Kantian.
There is a branch of Xuantian Sect in the suburbs of Beijing, and today the branch is busier than ever before.
Because most of the disciples of Xuantian Sect who came down the mountain for training have arrived today.
We plan to rest here for a day and go to pay a visit to the master the day after tomorrow.
"Brother, our ancestors asked us to come to the capital. What is the sect mission? We are driven here by our master without knowing anything. Are they asking us to exorcise demons?"
"What are you talking about? You know how to exorcise demons? With your mediocre skills, if there really are demons and monsters, they will eat you first."
"I guess there's an epidemic there again. I remember the last time I went to the mountains with my teacher, it was when the epidemic broke out in the northwest."
"Look at how busy and prosperous the capital is. Does it look like there's an epidemic breaking out?"
"Well, there's no point in talking any more. We'll know when we meet our Grandmaster, right?"
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