Li Xibao winked at Li Dashan and stretched out two little fingers.

Li Dashan understood, "I think it's 200 two-years, if it's 200 two-years, I'll rent it!"

"What are you talking about? 200 taels, 200 taels can rent a shop as good as my mother's!" The fat woman said with her neck stuck up, as if she was very excited.

"If you don't want to, forget it, at worst, we'll find another house." Li Xibao said calmly, grabbed Li Dashan's arm and turned to go outside.

''Xi Bao? Li Dashan glanced at Li Xibao from the corner of his eye, with a lot of uncertainty in his eyes.

Li Xibao smiled and walked briskly.

"three."

"two."

"one!"

When Li Xibao only had one index finger left in his hand, the sound of the fat woman pushing the door and chasing after him sounded from behind.

"Hey, wait a minute!"

Li Dashan stopped, "What are you doing?"

"Come back and come back, 200 taels is 200 taels. I'm in a hurry to do other things. Hurry up and rent it out. I'm busy with more important things."

Li Xibao and Li Dashan looked at each other and smiled, and returned to the shop.

"Hey." The fat woman gave the same attitude, "I, my mother-in-law is not in Gaohu now, she is not in good health, so she just waits for me to go back and take care of her. How about this, since you intend to lease, 200 two years, Let me tell you that the lease is at least two years, and if you cancel the lease midway, you will not be refunded."

"Okay, no problem." Li Xibao readily agreed.

"However, I didn't bring enough money when I came out this time." Li Dashan said.

"It's okay, just pay a deposit of ten taels first, I will reserve this shop for you for two days, after two days you come to give the silver your fingerprint."

"Okay." Li Dashan counted out ten taels from the purse and handed it to the fat woman.

The fat woman called his husband-in-law and wrote a note.

Li Dashan couldn't read, so he showed it to Li Xibao, "Xibao, there's nothing wrong with it."

"It's okay, we can come back in two days."

"okay."

Coming out of the shop, the sun was already pointing due south.

Li Dashan said anxiously: "By the way, Xi Bao, Xiao Chong has probably finished the exam by now, let's pick him up quickly."

"That's right, my brother Chong!"

Li Xibao ran so fast on the street that he fell behind Li Dashan at such a fast speed.

When she ran to the gate of the academy, it happened that the gate of the academy was opening, and the scholars inside came out in twos and threes.

One by one, these scholars showed embarrassment.

"Oh, why is this year's topic so difficult?"

"Isn't it? It's even more difficult than last year and the year before last."

"Can we, a scholar, pass the exam?"

"Oh, it's fate."

No matter what these people said, Li Xibao searched the crowd with big black eyes.

Soon she saw the upright Xiao Chong and Wu Ziming walking out together, his expression calm and at ease.

"Brother Chong!" Li Xibao jumped and waved.

"Hey, your sister is there." Wu Ziming also waved over.

Li Xibao ran in front of them.

"Brother Chong, Brother Ziming, how did you do in the exam?"

"Oh, let's do it." Wu Ziming spread his hands, "Everyone said that this year's questions are very difficult. If you don't pass the exam, you can come back next year. Anyway, you are still young."

"And you, Brother Chong."

"I think it's okay." Xiao Chong nodded.

"Brother Chong thinks it's okay, then it must be fine!" Li Xibao clenched his fists and said, "Brother Chong is the best!"

Xiao Chong smiled, stroked Li Xibao's hair, "Are you hungry, did you go out to eat?"

"Of course I did. I ate a lot of snacks and packed them for you." Li Xibao took out a paper bag from his pocket and opened it.

Pick it up and put it in Xiao Chong's mouth.

"Brother Ziming, you eat too."

"Haha, thanks to Xiao Chong, I also had some snacks." Wu Ziming looked at Xiao Chong with envy, "Your little sister is really nice."

"Yes." Xiao Chong pursed his lips and chuckled, "Xi Bao is very nice."

Li Dashan was very happy, "Xiao Chong, then there is nothing to do after the exam, let's find a place to eat now, and then go back to town after noon."

"Well, listen to Uncle Li's arrangement."

"Ziming, what about you? Come and have dinner with us." Li Dashan invited.

"I won't." Wu Ziming waved his hands again and again, "I walked here by myself, I have to walk back quickly, or I won't be able to return home before dark."

"It's okay, we'll see you off." Li Xibao was very enthusiastic, "Anyway, we're going to pass by Hutou Town on our way back to Niutou Town, right? We'll drop by."

"This way, isn't it too troublesome..." Wu Ziming was embarrassed.

"What are you afraid of? Let's go together. They say they are my brother Chong's friend." Li Xibao grabbed Wu Ziming and refused to let him go.

"Yes, together."

"Okay, I'd rather be respectful than obedient."

In this way, Li Dashan took them to find a restaurant and had lunch.

Then he retired from the room in the inn, and drove the carriage out of the city gate all the way back to the town.

Along the way, Li Xibao and Wu Ziming liked talking the most.

From what I saw and heard in Gaohu County, to the rumors of a big fight in Hutou Town and Niutou Town ten years ago.

From the difficulty of studying for a poor student to marrying a sixteen-room concubine outside the compound in Gaohu County.

Although Wu Ziming was born in the countryside, he knew quite a lot.

At the same time, Li Xibao also learned that Wu Ziming's family was very poor.

His family originally sold tofu.

And his father was born with weak bones, and his mother was a child bride who was sold since childhood.After his father and his mother got married, her mother gave birth to three more sons.In addition to the elderly in the family, it can be said that his mother has to support a large family by making tofu alone, which shows that it is very hard.

But even with such hard work, a woman's family insisted on letting her three sons go to school.

Wu Ziming is the eldest child in the family. He knows his mother's hard work, so he works very hard on studying.

Sometimes when I am busy at home, I can only grind with my body while holding Shunian.Tired to the point where he would collapse on the bed.

Li Xibao couldn't bear to hear it, and frowned.

Wu Ziming had a simple smile on his face, "Hehe, little girl, you don't have to feel sorry for big brother, I'm used to it, my shoulders are full of calluses, it doesn't hurt at all!"

"But, you will be so tired." Li Xibao thought of the dim sum he bought, and took out another pack, "This pack is plum blossom red bean paste cake, you can take it home and eat it, and give it to your mother and younger brother too."

"No, no." Wu Ziming refused again and again, "You took me to a restaurant for dinner, and then let me come back in a carriage. I don't know how to thank you anymore. This is unacceptable."

"Why can't you ask for it? You are already friends with Brother Chong, so you can ask for it. This is a gift between friends!" Li Xibao was determined not to take it back, "If you don't accept it, it means you don't like me as a friend. "

"It's really not..."

"Then you accept it!"

"I..." Wu Ziming was almost speechless by Li Xibao's force.

Xiao Chong said with a smile: "Ziming, it's okay, you just keep it. I'll take Xibao to your house to play when I'm free, and you make tofu for us!"

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