Dressed as a wronged stepmother, I was pampered by three villains

This day was still so busy that Zhang Biluo went to Boss Mu's place in the back street first. Sure enough, Boss Mu's previous carvings were just for proofing, but after entering the assembly line production, the efficiency immediately improved a lot.

On Boss Mu's side, Zhang Biluo is already relieved. From now on, he doesn't have to do everything personally and can just leave the chess piece business to the company.

After leaving the back streets and going to Fengdeng Street, Tang Yan really invited an old gentleman to come.

The old gentleman's name is Tang Weinian, he is Tang Yan's uncle. He is not bad at learning but has a weird temper. After he came here, he was quite disgusted.

"Why does it take such a big place to copy books? A few desks are enough."

Zhang Biluo: "Yes, yes, it is indeed a bit wasteful."

"I've read your story before. It's more novel than it is literary."

Zhang Biluo: "Yes, yes, I need to polish it more in the future."

"The layout here is too simple. I need to hang some calligraphy and paintings."

Zhang Biluo: "Yeah, yeah, mainly because I was in a hurry and didn't have time to buy anything. Besides, I don't have much research on calligraphy and painting, and I don't have any attainments, so I'm not very good at choosing."

Tang Weinian looked horrified, "You...you are a bookstore owner, but you don't know how to calligraphy and painting?"

Zhang Biluo nodded shamefully, "That seems to be the case."

"Write a few words and see!"

Zhang Biluo thought to herself: There is no boss who is more frustrated than me. Is this my interview with the employees, or is the employee interviewing me?

She carefully wrote a line of words on the paper, "I want to go up to the sky and embrace the bright moon." Tang Weinian frowned when he saw it, "You are so ugly, how long have you been practicing for half a year?"

"Sister." Zhang Biluo was very honest.

Probably because her attitude was too good, Tang Weinian was speechless for a moment, but finally accepted the reality. "You still need to practice your handwriting. If you need to write in public in the future, you can't..."

Zhang Biluo nodded, "We can't embarrass the bookstore."

"I still have some calligraphy and paintings there. I'll pick out a few and hang them up tomorrow."

"Thank you Mr. Tang."

"No thanks, it's just for the comfort of my eyes."

While we were talking, scholars who had uncovered the notice came to our door one after another, most of them were cheating. The fee for copying ten pages of paper was about one cent. If you wrote well and quickly, you could earn more than a dozen cents in half a day.

Tang Weinian was picky about Zhang Biluo, and he was even more rude to these scholars who came to "apply":

"Did you write it using Guan Chengzi? It was done with chicken claws, right? Our boss has been practicing for several years and is better than you!"

"Can this be called neat? If you feel satisfied, there is no need to continue the imperial examination. Writing like this will stop here!"

"You're here to copy books, copy books! What's the purpose? It's to make people understand! The cursive writing is pretty good. Which kid can understand it?"

Zhang Biluo took a look and realized that with this person in charge, the quality of the copied books would definitely be guaranteed.

After a busy few days, on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the "Big Smart Chess Competition" finally kicked off.

On the first day of the competition, the atmosphere in the Victory Building was unprecedented. Many seats were added on the first floor but there was still no room for them. The pavilions on the second floor were also full of people, and even the guest rooms on the third floor were booked in advance.

There are four tables on the stage. Twenty people have signed up for each of the lion, elephant and tossing games, and they will play chess on the stage respectively. All battle situations are displayed on the chessboard, which can be seen from a distance.

This formation can be said to be quite formal.

Lao Guo slapped the Jingtang wood and came up with another closing poem: "The shadows in the snow are thousands of years old, the clouds are flying high and the water flows by itself, the jade belt of the Yangtze River is floating for thousands of miles, and the bright moon is rolling the golden ball. There is a beauty like jade in the chess game,

There is a golden house in chess, and the storm is surging in the winning building, pointing the way to the country and rebuking Fang Qiu!"

"Okay!" Wei Xiao and Zhao Yi applauded.

These dudes decided their positions early and paid great attention to the competition during this period. After all, crickets can be fought at any time, but the "big smart" must be obtained in the first wave. Not only did they come to the Desheng Building every day to study chess theory, but they also worked on the strategy several times.

In order for everyone to get a plaque, the participants were deliberately divided into different events on different days.

Lao Guo was also unambiguous. He repeated what the scholar and the young lady had said, and then announced the rules of the chess game:

For five consecutive days of chess competition, each person can only register once to participate in a chess competition.

Every day, there are twenty people participating in each chess game. They fight each other in pairs first, and ten people are eliminated. The remaining ten people fight again, and five people are eliminated.

The top five will play a round robin, and the one with the highest winning rate will receive twelve taels of silver, as well as the coveted "Great Smart" plaque.

The second place receives five taels of silver, the third place has three taels, and the fourth to tenth place each has one tael.

The whole house burst into applause and everyone was excited. This rule is better than the previous one. Before, only the final winner was rewarded, but now as long as you survive the first round, you can get the bonus!

This is great! If you haven’t bought chess yet, what are you waiting for? Why don’t you hurry up and start playing?

What? Only one tael for fourth to sixth place? What’s wrong with one tael? One tael can last the whole family for a long time. We bought the lowest-end chess, and two sets only cost one hundred cents. Isn’t it good to earn one tael?

While talking, twenty lion-elephant contestants came on stage, eight of them sat at the chess table, and there was a sound of gongs and drums, and the chess fight officially began!

The audience didn't know what happened. They didn't appear on the stage themselves, but they had no reason to be nervous for others. They were fanning themselves wildly with fans in the middle of winter, but they were still covered in sweat.

This heart is so straight.

The battle here was so intense that Deshenglou moved out all the newly made chess pieces at the entrance, and specially arranged a few smart waiters to sell chess pieces while playing. The atmosphere was so perfect, and there were plaques and money temptations, so no one could buy them after seeing them.

Two sets?

Li Yunniang bought it. She was recuperating in Desheng Building, eating and living in Sanniang's house every day, and felt embarrassed. She watched these people dance and play chess, and heard that there were generous rewards. How could she not be moved?

I just wanted to earn some money by playing chess to pay back the money.

Zhang Biluo left some silver taels for their mother and daughter. Li Yunniang gritted her teeth and bought two sets of the cheapest ones. When she had nothing to do, she practiced chess with Hui Niang. She planned to invest a hundred taels and get a full 10 taels.

It’s just that she doesn’t know yet that even this chess match was organized by Sanniang.

In this night's chess game, Wei Xiao got a "Great Smart" plaque as he wished. When he went on stage to receive the award, his face was all smiles.

The plaque was made in a decent way, the size was big enough, the golden characters were bold enough, and paired with his silver-red robe and huge dongzhu, the effect was amazing.

The dudes below applauded him loudly and expressed their congratulations. Lao Guo was all smiles, "Master Wei, how do you feel when you get your first smart plaque?"

Wei Xiao coughed loudly twice, and the whole Victory Tower became quiet. Wei Xiao said: "After this battle, I feel that I am so smart. Hahaha! The first smart person in the whole capital, I ask you whether you accept it or not?!"

Lao Guo saw that this was nonsense and quickly changed the subject: "Mr. Wei, if you can get the plaque, do you have any thoughts to share with everyone?"

"My experience? That must be something!" Wei Xiao said proudly: "My experience is, buy the most expensive chess pieces and eat the most expensive skewers! Come on, waiter, exchange these twelve taels of rewards into copper coins. I want to spread the money!

The whole world celebrates!”