Abandoned daughter takes charge of the family, so rich that even the best people can't envy

Song Chunsheng’s Songjiacun Supermarket officially opened.

The supermarket has a special section selling pencils, charcoal pencils, and erasers. Thoughtful bookstore owners also buy their wares here, naturally at wholesale prices.

Although pencils were cheap, their production cost was also low. They were convenient to use and sold in high volumes. Net profit reached 100 taels a day, or 3,000 taels a month.

No wonder his sister asked him to cry about being poor every day and 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, and they're placing bets on winning or losing."

"Ah? I'll take a gamble too, but who's going to win?"

"Nonsense, of course she's the granddaughter of the Imperial College's chief academic officer, the disciple of the Xuantian Sect's headmaster, Miss Cui?"

"But I heard that Dr. Song is very knowledgeable and erudite. He might not lose, right?"

"Are you stupid? Miss Cui's expertise in Kantian is inherited from her ancestors. Even if Dr. Song is knowledgeable, can he still master the art of Kantian?"

"Right, right, right. Then I'll bet on Miss Cui to win."

For a time, all the major gambling houses in the capital were in a frenzy.

Every autumn rain brings a chill, and the night rain withers all the flowers.

It rained at night. Song Chunsheng was wearing the high-heeled rain boots specially made by his sister 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" may be the dialect of Lunshan County.

"I heard that Princess Kangle and Cui Zixuan will have a competition the day after tomorrow. Are you here to place a bet on your sister?"

Song Chunsheng smiled and said, "Our village rules and regulations stipulate that villagers cannot 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's one, there's another. The village rules were set by Jinxiu, and I can't be the first to break them. I won't go, but I can ask Master Zhu to help me place a bet."

As he spoke, he took out a two hundred taels silver note and handed it over, "Please help me, Master Zhu, and bet on my sister to win."

Zhu Beichen took the banknote and jokingly said, "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'm short of money and can't give more."

Zhu Beichen glanced at him with a half-smile: "I heard that your supermarket has been doing very brisk business since it opened."

Song Chunsheng quickly said, "Your Excellency, you don't know that half of the supermarket's business is pencils, erasers, and charcoal pencils. However, most of these pencils, erasers, and charcoal pencils are bought by students. Jinxiu sets a low price to facilitate students' calculations, and the profit is too low."

Song Chunsheng covered the three thousand taels of silver in his arms and 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 order said, "His Majesty said these are for you to use as charcoal pencils."

After receiving the news from his master, the leader of Xuantian Sect arranged the affairs of the sect and immediately went to Beijing.

The master said that his uncle had accepted a last disciple, who was a genius in mathematics and proficient in the Nine Causes of the Great Dao.

As the head of the sect, he knows best what the significance of his uncle accepting a disciple is.

Master the Nine Causes of the Great Dao?

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.

Now that the Heavenly Book has recognized its master, his reign as the sect leader will be over.

As soon as I arrived in the capital, I heard that Cui Zixuan and Song Jinxiu were going to compete in the art of Kantian.

Cui Zixuan has been by his side for ten years. She is obedient and studies hard.

The reason why he was accepted in was because his grandfather took out 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 placed the Heavenly Book in front of her, she almost burned it as firewood.

Almost every disciple of Xuantian Sect has 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 has a long history of learning. The Cui family of the Imperial Astronomical Observatory has high hopes for this granddaughter and has spared no expense to let her enter the Xuantian Sect for training.

Even if his disciple is dull, he will not lose if he knows the simple knowledge of the world.

Wait, Dr. Song, a female doctor?

Xuantian Sect's head, Hu Yue, stopped a student-looking man and asked, "How many female doctors are there in the capital?"

"Of course there's only one, Dr. Song, the chief doctor of mathematics. I heard he's only thirteen this year. Wow, he's quite knowledgeable. How could you not 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 for math. Just a roll of his eyes is more effective than abacus beads. Just a blink of an eye, and hey! The answer comes out!"

A passerby said this while blinking and rolling his eyes, which was quite funny.

Hu Yue, the head of Xuantian Sect, thought it was ridiculous, but seeing everyone nodding seriously, he became suspicious again. Could this be true?

Using eyeballs as abacus beads, this is unheard of.

"Hey, you don't believe me? Look, did you see the imperial edict? It has the question posed by the disciple of the Xuantian Sect leader posted there. She herself posed the question and hasn't figured out the answer yet.

Instead, Dr. Song rolled his eyes and solved the problem. If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself. I couldn't understand it, but my parents said he did.

Is this really true?

Hu Yue, the head of Xuantian Sect, hurried to the front of the imperial edict. At this time, there were crowds of people in front of the imperial edict. Some people were writing and drawing on the ground with branches, while others were holding pencils and paper, lying on the side and copying.

Hu Yue looked at the question. It was the Xuantian Sect's annual assessment, and no one in the sect had figured it out at the time. Cui Zixuan only figured it out after he gave her some pointers.

Since she figured it out, why do others still say she is not as good as a thirteen-year-old girl?

Oh, it turns out she changed the number.

What an idiot! Don't you know there are always people better than you? Being so arrogant is truly disgraceful.

Looking at the steps of the problem-solving process, the idea is clear at a glance. However, this algorithm really seems to be the Nine Causes of the Great Dao!

Could this little girl be the disciple of my uncle? The future leader of the Xuantian Sect?

If this is true, then he would like to see whether the future leader can surpass his embarrassing 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 more lively than ever before.

Because most of the disciples of Xuantian Sect who came down the mountain for training have arrived today.

Everyone plans to rest here for a day and go to pay a visit to the master the day after tomorrow.

"Brother, what is the sect mission that our ancestors sent us to the capital for? I was driven here by our master and came here without knowing anything. Are they asking us to exorcise demons and monsters?"

"What are you talking about? You know how to exorcise demons? With your mediocre skills, if there really were any demons or monsters, they would eat you first."

"I guess there's an epidemic there again. I remember the last time I went out with my master, it was when the epidemic broke out in the northwest."

"Look at how bustling and prosperous the capital is. Does it look like there's an epidemic?"

"Alright, there's no point in saying more. Won't we know once we see our master?"