My life skills in Daming Liver

However, fame had no effect on Su Ze for the time being. He continued to attend lectures at the county school the next day, and Hai Rui took half a day in the afternoon to ask the four of them to ask questions they had when they were self-studying, and to explain them one by one.

I earned 20 points of imperial examination experience from listening to lectures at two hours in the morning, and gained 20 points of experience from answering questions at two hours in the afternoon. Now Su Ze's imperial examination skills have reached Lv3, 105/300, which is much faster than studying at home. up!

According to this speed, Su Ze will soon reach LV5, which is the level of a scholar.

After the afternoon's Q\u0026A, Chen Chaoyuan, Xiong Yue, and Lin Qingcai took Su Ze to take a stroll in the county town.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the four of them walked out of the Xingxing Gate, they saw a simple pergola set up at the gate of the county school, and a young man in brocade clothes was sitting on a horse tie, drinking tea boredly.

Behind this man, there are two Ming soldiers standing as servants.

Seeing Su Ze, the man in brocade clothes immediately grinned and walked forward quickly.

Chen Chaoyuan, Xiong Yue and Lin Qingcai stepped aside quickly, only to see the man in brocade clothes say directly to Su Ze:

"Mr. is so clever! Can you ask Mr. Yu to do another divination!"

The person who blocked the door was Yu Zongyuan, the second son of the commander of the Yanping Guard.

The last time Yu Zongyuan set up a card outside Nanping City to force donations, Su Ze made a fortune for him, and when he returned home, he was caught by his father Yanpingwei Commander Yu Jian, and then severely beaten.

If I hadn't followed Su Ze's instructions, begged for forgiveness promptly and pleaded guilty sincerely, I'm afraid I would have been beaten to death by my father.

After Yu Zongyuan was beaten, he felt that Su Ze had a clever plan and was a really capable person!

Originally, Yu Zongyuan came to the county to study yesterday, but even though he was the son of a third-rank commander, he didn't dare to go to the county school. After all, Hai Rui was well-known as a fierce man who dared to challenge even the magistrate.

Later, Baizhi County came to inspect the county school, and Yu Zongyuan immediately went back home. Today, he stayed in front of the county school for another afternoon, and finally waited until Su Ze came out.

Seeing that the young commander made it difficult to walk, he knew that he must have been beaten.

The last time Su Ze deliberately left the news that he was going to the county school to attend classes, it was to catch Yu Zongyuan. Seeing that he really took the bait, Su Ze said deliberately:

"Small Commander, this hexagram can't be calculated randomly. Every hexagram of my plum blossom technique is a leak of heavenly secrets. If the cause and effect are too deep, it will shorten your life."

Su Ze refused to tell fortunes, but Yu Zongyuan felt that he was a master of Taoism, and he was even more enthusiastic about him.

Although Chen Chaoyuan, Xiong Yue, and Lin Qingcai didn't know Yu Zongyuan, they knew that he must be a big shot in Nanping City when they saw that he was full of style and gorgeous clothes.

And such a character respects Su Ze so much, which makes the three feel that Su Ze is extraordinary.

Yu Zongyuan rolled his eyes and said, "If it weren't for the master's clever plan last time, I'm afraid I would be beaten to death by my father. Mr. Su, I'm preparing a banquet at the Yueyue Building. How many gentlemen will go with me?"

Yaoyue Tower is a well-known restaurant in Nanping County. Chen Chaoyuan, Xiong Yue, and Lin Qingcai have only heard of it, but they have never heard of it. This man in brocade clothes was so generous when he came up, and he just wanted to ask Su Ze for divination?

Su Ze did not refuse, but agreed decisively.

After inviting Su Ze, Yu Zongyuan was in a good mood. He slapped his head, and took out four white-signed greeting cards from his sleeve, and handed them to the four of them.

Greeting post is a business card in the Ming Dynasty, on which one's identity and name are written, and the greeting post will be issued first when meeting for the first time in daily communication.

Sending greeting cards is a trend among scholars. Yu Zongyuan is not actually in the circle of scholars, but his father is a third-rank commander, and Yu's family is also considered a prominent family in Nanping City, so Yu Zongyuan also carried the greeting cards in an arty manner. .

On the contrary, Su Ze and the other four had no fame and poor family background, so they had no money to buy greeting cards.

Yu Zongyuan, who didn't know a few big characters, used invitation cards, but Su Ze and his four serious scholars didn't invite invitation cards. It was very reasonable, this was Daming.

The three of them saw that Yu Zongyuan looked down on the young master of Yanpingwei Commander's family, and they all kept their distance from Zongyuan, full of fear in their hearts.

You must know that Yanpingwei's reputation in Nanping City is basically similar to that of bandits and robbers.

And the reputation of the Second Young Master, in Nanping City, is not only to stop children from crying, but also to be hated by people.

The three of them accepted the invitation and already wanted to escape back to the county school. They didn't know how Su Ze knew someone like Yu Zongyuan.

Su Ze held the white sign and said it was a white sign, but with the papermaking technology of this era, it was actually a bit yellowish.

However, the paper used by Yu Zongyuan is the highest grade and whitest signing paper, and the price is quite high.

Paper in the Ming Dynasty was always not cheap. Changningwei has no money to buy pens, inks, paper and inkstones. Su Ze used sand trays to practice calligraphy in Changningwei. In the past few days, he only used this paper in the county school, and only then did he improve his calligraphy skills to Lv2 , 150/200.

Su Ze heard about the price of paper from Hai Rui. One hundred sheets of paper cost nearly one tael of silver. It is so difficult for poor families to study.

You must know that Jiangxi Qianshan and Fujian Liancheng are both famous paper producing areas in the country, and the price of paper is already much lower than that in the north.

Su Ze was even reluctant to buy paper to practice calligraphy, let alone use a lot of paper to make invitations as extravagantly as Yu Zongyuan.

Greeting posts have become a huge burden for literati communication. At that time, people attended different occasions and had to prepare greeting posts in various forms and contents.

It is said that in Zhili, the north and south, where worship posts are most popular, you have to prepare more than 20 kinds of greeting posts before going out.

Moreover, not only white paper must be used for greeting cards, but also red paper, even gilded red paper, which is simply unaffordable for ordinary scholars.

Yu Zongyuan brought Su Ze and four people to Yaoyue Tower. The young master of Yanping Guard Commander's family directly booked the top floor of Yaoyue Tower. The generous offer made the three of them even more cautious. This is located under the second son. All the money, just to make Su Ze count?

Is Su Ze so good at fortune-telling?

Su Ze talked with Yu Zongyuan neither humble nor overbearing. He neither put on airs and discriminated against Yu Zongyuan like other scholars, nor did he shrink back like the three of them. Instead, he communicated with the second son on an equal footing, which made Yu Zongyuan very happy.

The three of them admired Su Ze's demeanor even more, but it was not surprising that Su Ze could talk to Baizhi County with eloquence, and it was not surprising that he could talk to Yu Zongyuan, the son of a general.

Yu Zongyuan asked someone to bring good wine again. At this time, banquet guests usually use yellow rice wine. Chen Chaoyuan, Xiong Yue and Lin Qingcai quickly poured down on the table from too much alcohol.

Back then when Su Ze was running funds with his mentor, he drank half a catty of white wine, and this low-alcohol rice wine couldn't drink Su Ze at all.

Yu Zongyuan even felt that Su Ze was arrogant, and wished he could become brothers with Su Ze on the spot by burning yellow paper.

When it was almost time to eat and drink, Yu Zongyuan said:

"Brother Su, can you tell me another fortune?"

What Su Ze was waiting for was Yu Zongyuan's words. He sighed and said, "Cannibals have soft mouths but short hands. Brother Yu should just say a number."

"eight!"

Su Ze pretended to make calculations again, then opened his eyes wide and said, "Brother Yu, I'm afraid there will be disasters in your house!"