Richest Man: Divine-Grade Reconstruct System Chapter 1302 - 1163: Learning Characters (2)

Of course, this just happened to play right into the Shopkeeper’s hands, and it was all part of Lin Yi’s plan. When these people asked such a question, the Shopkeeper immediately replied:

"Don’t blame me for not giving you opportunities. Isn’t this just the game rules? As long as someone can recognize this character, then there’s a chance to enter the lottery, haha. Don’t think about helping each other, once discovered, both will be disqualified. Also,

since you all say this is unfair to you, since you’re illiterate, there’s another way. You can come here every day to learn a character. By the second day, if you can write it out and pronounce it correctly, you’ll have the same chance to enter the lottery."

The Shopkeeper made it very clear that as long as a character is given to you today, and you can recognize it and write it out the next day, then you can come here to participate in the lottery, which means you have the opportunity to earn that extra ten taels of silver.

And those ten taels of silver are something many people are willing to offer, though it’s not the Shopkeeper’s money, but the stewards are undoubtedly willing to do so.

Of course, there were also some clever people who quickly realized that things were not so simple here, and they frowned as they wondered what the purpose was. Even though they saw there seemed to be something intriguing, they couldn’t understand it quickly, especially those stewards of the Minister’s, who even more so.

Looking at the Shopkeeper’s actions and hearing his words, they felt something was amiss. They thought about reporting this to their master when they returned so that he could decide,

after all, their understanding was limited, and there were many things they couldn’t figure out at once within the city.

However, they believed that once they returned and informed their master, he would certainly make a decision and figure out what was tricky about this matter.

Upon hearing these words, the surrounding people froze, and then began to discuss amongst themselves in threes and twos:

"Hey, such a requirement seems reasonable, doesn’t it? Old Third, do you think this demand is reasonable? Can we memorize that character and write it out?"

"Er Gouzi, what do you mean by that? What do you call it? Can we write it out? Is ten taels of silver more important or is writing a character more important? Anyway, I’m going back to seriously study how this character is written. Regardless of anything else, tomorrow, I have to learn it and draw this lottery."

"Right, right, after I go back, I’ll practice diligently too. I don’t believe it; can such a simple character be something I can’t learn? Recognizing it is much easier than working in the fields, haha, there was no opportunity before, now there is, how could I possibly miss it?"

"Exactly, isn’t it just a character? Although it looks somewhat like a heavenly book, I am sure if I put my mind to remembering and learning it, I will surely remember it."

"You kid, stop boasting, who doesn’t know you can’t recognize a character, who doesn’t know you don’t even know how to hold a pen, let alone write, haha. I think you shouldn’t even think about drawing the lottery in this lifetime.

Unlike me, my third uncle’s fourth aunt’s second uncle’s third cousin’s fourth grandpa’s third grandson is actually a Scholar.

That is to say, ours is a family with a fine tradition. Given this kind of excellent genetic background, I believe recognizing characters will be exceptionally easy for me, haha, you guys just wait for my good news,

Tomorrow, if I really draw the liquor, if I draw two, I’ll sell one, and we’ll taste one ourselves. If I only draw one, haha, then we’ll wait until next time I draw liquor, and then taste it properly."

Upon hearing this guy’s words, everyone around sneered, casting contemptuous glances, each of them feeling unnerved. He didn’t think there was anything wrong with what he said, with such a fine tradition, with this kind of excellent genetics, wouldn’t recognizing a few characters be easy?

After all, there has been a Scholar in the family, imagining these people, counting back several generations, who were poor farmers, ordinary commoners, illiterate themselves; it should be exceedingly difficult for them to learn.

But things weren’t as simple as they imagined. When they seized upon this mindset and approached the Shopkeeper with those in charge of registration, they were stunned to discover that it wasn’t that the Shopkeeper would directly present a character for everyone to learn, but they had to be registered, and the character for each person was different.

Or rather, most people’s characters were different.

This dispelled the idea of researching together and eliminated the idea of cheating.

They also thought, if in tomorrow’s test, as long as they pass some information around, everyone would know how to read this character, wouldn’t that solve the problem?

Wouldn’t it help everyone recognize what character it was?

This way they could at the very least muddle through.

Yet never did they expect reality to be so harsh, leaving them momentarily unable to react.

But regardless of whether they reacted or not, this had to be done in this manner; it wouldn’t change based on their individual thoughts or wishes.

Yet, I must say, these guys really were quite crafty. Each of them constantly complained, grumbled, and with this attitude wanted to leave, but those protesting the loudest were the ones who stayed rooted to the spot.

Regarding this point, everyone understood, including the Shopkeeper. He could clearly see that this guy just didn’t want more people involved, wanting everyone to give up the idea because this way, wouldn’t the opportunity become even better? His chances would be higher, wouldn’t they?

And, it must be said, the dozen remaining jugs of liquor were quickly drawn. As these jugs were all drawn, each of these people unanimously received ten taels of silver, causing them to become so excited they couldn’t contain themselves, even jumping for joy. This bright white silver was right before them, and the feeling was so satisfying.

Since they could only collect the liquor tomorrow, today, none of them planned to leave. Even those who had already won stayed on site and waited.

For safety’s sake, to avoid unnecessary trouble, they decided to camp there for the night. First thing tomorrow morning, they could exchange the bamboo token for the liquor and hand it to those responsible for the handover, thereby completing a transaction. Holding that silver ingot, wouldn’t they feel more at ease?

Among them, the Centurion was the most excited. He directly found a clearing, leisurely leaning there, observing everyone’s varied expressions. His changing expression showed that this fellow was indeed pleased, not an exaggeration to say he instantly became a hundred-tael rich man.

This unexpected windfall would greatly improve his life.

It would allow him an unprecedented leap in his living standards.

Or more accurately put, with this money, his life would be much better than before.

[To be continued...]