DaGreen Lotus Peas@nt Girl

Chapter 190 - 202

Chapter 190

Wang Er and Xu Shiyou had only met and clashed once, but already viewed one another as arch-rivals.

Xu Shiyou was the top scholar in Yizhou Prefecture, but after being crushed by Wang Er at a poetry gathering, their superficial smiles now concealed provocative undertones when they met again.

"Brother Wang Er, I thought you wouldn't arrive for several more days."

"No affairs at home, so I came early."

"Did you get your admission ticket?"

"What admission ticket?"

"So Brother Wang Er doesn't know," said Xu Shiyou. "This year, the Prince of Yizhou issued new rules for the county exam. All candidates must first obtain admission tickets from Yizhou Academy. I also heard the exam format itself will change. Oh right, does Brother Wang Er know the Prince of Yizhou?"

Wang Er thought to himself, I was calling that Prince of Yizhou brother just two days ago.

"I know of him."

"Heh heh, I thought with Baichuan County being so remote, Brother Wang Er wouldn't know yet." Xu Shiyou said, "But anyway, no matter how it changes, the basics remain the same. I'm confident Brother Wang Er and I will both earn high marks this year."

"I appreciate your blessing."

Just then the shopkeeper finished calculating.

"The total is four hundred and twenty-five taels," he cheerfully said. "May I ask which noble house's young master you might be? So I can have someone deliver the goods."

"Heh heh, Shopkeeper Hong, this is Brother Wang Er from Baichuan County."

"Ah?"

The shopkeeper was stunned. Seeing Wang Er spend money so freely, buying four hundred taels' worth no less, he assumed this was some wealthy Yizhou noble's son!

Turns out he's just some country bumpkin?

"Then should I have someone send this to your inn?"

"No need. Leave it here for today," said Wang Er. "We're buying an estate tomorrow. I'll collect it then."

"Oh, very well."

"I'll pay you now."

Du Xiao Hui spoke while taking some banknotes from her purse.

Shopkeeper Hong examined them. Real money! He was even more shocked. This young lass didn't seem like nobility, yet carried so much cash?

Could she be from the Li family in Baichuan County?

"Excuse me, you wouldn't happen to be Master Li's second son?"

"That's right."

"Oh heavens, forgive these blind eyes for failing to recognize you!" The shopkeeper's face lit up with smiles as he loudly proclaimed, "Master Wang Er, you're quite famous here in Yizhou Prefecture!"

Wang Er wondered, I've never even been to Yizhou before, how could I be famous?

"You flatter me, shopkeeper."

"No no, it's true!" he insisted. "Every scholar in Yizhou knows how you bested our prefecture's top scholar at Baichuan County's Tanabata poetry gathering!"

As the victim in that incident, Xu Shiyou seethed with humiliation and desperately wanted to stuff several smelly socks down that loudmouth shopkeeper's throat.