Chapter 43: The College Prays for Rain

The Shen family has an uncle, and the Hua family has an aunt.

The two families cleaned the mansion together, and when they met each other and asked, they knew who was coming and who was coming from the next door.

Of course Master Shen knew about the person Hua Phoenix, but the whereabouts of that aunt and grandmother were uncertain, so he hadn't seen it a few times. When his son asked about her, Master Shen thought for a moment and said, "Heroic and beautiful." ”

Mrs. Shen paused slightly, raised her eyes to look at him, and Master Shen immediately pinched out two words, "Heroic!" ”

Shen Laibao couldn't help but smile, "Oh." ”

Mrs. Shen retracted her gaze at this time, and as soon as she walked on her front foot, Father Shen said unsatisfactorily, "That phoenix girl's temper is a little weird, but she also has her own place of pride." Beauty, even if she has a strange temper, she makes people feel quite individual. ”

Shen Laibaohu said suspiciously, "Girl? Isn't that aunt married yet? ”

"Not really." Father Shen understood what his son was wondering about, and said, "Although she is Lingling's aunt, she is three years younger than Master Hua." ”

Shen Laibao suddenly realized and understood that even if he was three years younger, he was really not young now. No wonder the descendants of the Hua family replied so reluctantly, as if they didn't want to mention more.

But in this way, it is not easy for a girl to withstand such worldly pressure. However, their Shen family also has a ...... As soon as he remembered his uncle, who had repeatedly signaled him to throw him gold last night, he heard his voice, and for a moment thought he was hallucinating.

"O mountain of gold! You're really here with your son. Ge Mingxiu came in with a smile, his voice was always full of vitality, "The weather is good today, let's go listen to a little song." ”

Father Shen immediately agreed, left his son behind and went out with Ge Mingxiu. When I arrived in the lobby, I was seen by Mrs. Shen, and stared at the two of them for a while before saying, "Come back for dinner, don't get drunk in the arms of any girl again." ”

Ge Mingxiu said, "Sister, I'm your brother anyway, will I take your husband to drink flower wine?" Rest assured. ”

Mrs. Shen couldn't help but pout, looking incredulous, this was not the first time.

Master Shen had just reunited with her, where did he dare to go to that kind of place, he was more willing to see her now than a cold lady.

Mrs. Shen also figured it out after that night's Qixi Festival, and called the tailor to come and make a few new sets of clothes, and the jewelry was also free of gold hairpins and hairpins, and there were many more jade jewelry. It is both dignified and elegant, and it is much more refreshing to look at people. Standing in the morning light, it was even more shining, and even Master Shen was stunned for a while. If it weren't for Ge Mingxiu pulling him away, he would have to take a few more looks.

Today is the fourteenth, and tomorrow is the seventh and a half months, commonly known as Halloween. Early in the morning, Mrs. Shen led them to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and Mrs. Shen sent her husband and brother away, so she took the incense candle to the corner of the courtyard and inserted it. Seeing that his son was still sitting there, he asked, "Noble, why don't you go to the academy yet?" ”

Shen Laibao replied, "I heard that there is a drought in Yongzhou, and the cave master will take us to pray for blessings and rain, and then go back to Shenshi, just go for an hour." ”

Mrs. Shen frowned, "Yongzhou? It's thousands of miles away from Mingzhou, why do you have to pray for them all the way? ”

Shen Laibao smiled helplessly, "Because the cave master's hometown is there." ”

Mrs. Shen nodded, "It's excusable, it's just that your cave master is too nonsense." ”

Shen Laibao also thinks so, but if he hadn't always come here, he wouldn't have been jointly invited by someone to take his place. Probably he also received the news, but he has not received the official notice, and he has been passive and slacking off. In July alone, they were given three days off. Now, under the power of the cave master, all the students are gathered together to summon the dragon to rain.

Presumably, he would leave sooner than expected, after all, it was too ridiculous for the imperial court and the chamber of commerce to fully support Moxiang Academy to tolerate it.

There was still half an hour before he arrived at Shenshi, and Shen Laibao went next door to find Xiaohua to go with him. Although it is different to take the carriage, the carriage is one after the other, and the flower family is also at ease.

When Shen Laibao arrived at Hua's house, Hua Ling was holding the flower cat and teasing. The flower cat has now grown into a big cat, and has been well cared for, round and smooth, and has a smooth and smooth coat of hair.

"Xiaohua, Xiaohua, you only need two months to grow so big, why haven't my teeth grown well in two months?" Hua Ling muttered and talked to it, but the most gratifying thing was that she found that her little classmates were all missing teeth, so none of them could laugh at anyone, but because they were all fallen people at the end of the world, they could laugh more heartily.

"Little Flower." Shen Laibao squatted down and touched the cat, and asked, "What are you thinking, smiling so happily?" ”

As soon as the cat saw him, she jumped on him, and Hua Ling said, "It's fun to think of the twenty-four people in our class, all of whom are missing teeth." ”

Shen Laibao thought about the scene where Mr. looked down, and everyone grinned, and they all ...... He also laughed, and Hua Ling's eyes crooked with a smile, "Look, yes, it's funny." ”

"Take your own pastime, you are also the first person. By the way, are the candles ready? ”

"Ready." Hua Ling asked, "Is the night in the academy scary?" ”

Shen Laibao has not been there, but there will always be some strange talk in school. Hua Ling had just entered the academy, so she probably hadn't heard of this, otherwise she wouldn't have asked, "Isn't it scary, didn't you say that you all went to the big courtyard?" If the gentleman doesn't stop me, I'll go find you. ”

Hua Ling nodded again and again, "Okay, okay." ”

With Shen Laibao here, Hualing will be at ease. However, Liao Shi was not at ease, so he still prepared a super large candle for her, as big as a dragon and phoenix candle. She went out with a candle, and when she saw Shen Laibao's palm-sized candle, she was solemn, "Brother Laibao, I'll share half of you!" ”

“…… No, you can keep the flowers. Shen Laibao watched her swaying into the carriage with a candle, and couldn't help laughing, the Hua family is all wonderful people, but when it is time to stay, a quarter of it will not be burned. The Hua family is so attentive to their daughter, but they are free-range to their son.

After he got in the car, he was thinking that Daddy Hua would take his wife to Qixi Festival, and his attitude towards his children was ...... He always felt that he could find a suitable way to test whether Master Hua was from another world like himself.

But if it turns out that he really is, doesn't that also mean one thing - there will be no way back?

He held a small candle in his hand, and then he realized, hey, it seems that he really has to share half with Xiaohua to survive two hours.

Hua Ling has always been in a hurry but not late, and it is still early to arrive at the academy. The two went to the big courtyard to pray for blessings together, and saw that the people who went first were sitting in shifts, so Shen Laibao had to send the flower bell to the small class first, and then return to the middle class by himself.

It was not yet dark at the time of Shen, and when everyone arrived, the courtyard was still bright all around.

The cave master chattered a lot as always, and worried about the country and the people for a long time, so that the students sitting on the ground were about to fall asleep, and it took an hour before they knew it. The crowd who was about to be dragged away by Zhou Gong suddenly heard him shout "light the lamp", and everyone got out of their sleepiness, and the gentlemen standing in the eight directions of the courtyard lit the fire that had been prepared long ago. In an instant, the dark courtyard was as bright as day, as if the sun was shining from all directions.

Hundreds of students cheered, lined up to go to the gentleman's place to light the lamp, sat back on the grass, and began to recite the obscure scriptures with the gentleman, and the rain prayer ceremony began.

After about two moments, after reading the scriptures, he began to recite the scriptures silently and ask for rain.

Of course, everyone was not meditating, but the cave master was pious, closed his eyes and begged for rain, and everyone was free.

Shen Laibao suddenly gathered three or four people around him, hugged him and squinted and smiled, "Noble, do you want to listen to the story?" ”

The story that "......" told when the night was dark and the wind was high and the sky was wide, he knew what it was when he thought about it with the roots of his hair. He crossed his legs and said calmly, "Okay." ”

The eyes of the four of them narrowed more like a slit, "Once upon a time there was a mountain, there was a temple in the mountain, and there was an old monk in the temple. One night it was pouring rain, and a scholar who was in Beijing to take the exam knocked on the door to spend the night. The old monk let him in and found a vacant room for the scholar. The scholar always heard a sound under the bed when he slept at night, and at first he thought it was a cat, so he didn't care. Who would have thought that the sound was getting louder and louder, finally! ”

The other people who came to listen to the story were slammed by him, and they all held their breath.

"He finally couldn't help himself, propped his hands on the bed, bent down and looked under the bed...... Saw! ”

Everyone gasped again, and the storyteller paused when he saw that Shen Laibao didn't move. Shen Laibao saw everyone looking at him, and he also gasped.

Then the man continued, "I saw nothing under the bed!" ”

“……”

When the man saw that the crowd was disappointed, he did not care, and said, "So he lay down." He slept and slept for half an hour, and he always felt that someone was staring at him, and he opened his eyes suddenly, and saw a female ghost in white facing him face to face on the mosquito net, staring at him with blood-red eyes! ”

The story is not terrifying, but when you think about it, it is really terrifying, and everyone shuddered, and shouted in unison that it was terrible.

Seeing Shen Laibao's stunned face again, the speaker slapped him on the head, "Little Bean, you're stupid." ”

"......" This kind of toilet reading material he has read in the first grade of elementary school, is it good! Shen Laibao laughed dryly, "It's terrible! ”

I don't know if the night is the best time to tell ghost stories, and with the dim moonlight, and in two hours, the ghost door will be opened, and the people who can tell ghost stories will gather in groups of three or five, like sparrows.

Some of his classmates were kind-hearted and drove Shen Laibao away, not letting him listen, for fear of scaring him. Shen Laibao felt that praying for blessings and praying for rain had become a cool meeting of Moxiang Academy. He wanted to find a place to lie and there was no vacancy, and he was afraid that someone would drip wax oil, which was terrible.

Ghost stories are told everywhere...... He paused slightly, got up and looked in the direction of the small class, it was too far away, there were many people, and the clothes of the students in the academy were the same, and he couldn't find anyone for a while.

It should be fine, who will tell ghost stories in the small class, no one will be so lacking in morality.

He sat down cross-legged, but for a moment, after all, he was not at ease, and got up to find Hua Ling.

The students on the lawn were already four or five people together, so the road was not crowded. He guarded the candle in his hand and passed through the crowd, and soon reached little Benna. The little beans over there also gathered together, and there were many more people in groups than in the middle class.

He looked around, but he didn't see the flower bell, and he was immediately anxious. Suddenly, he heard the voice of a child exclaiming on the left, and when he looked that way, he realized that it was not Hua Ling who was not there, but someone blocked it. The boy had his back to this side, but he could tell that he was a ten-year-old, not a member of the Nursery class.

He approached quickly, and vaguely heard him giggling, and realized that he was telling a ghost story. The little boy was next to him, looking at him with frightened eyes, but he was still talking incessantly, sometimes making strange noises, which frightened the children into screaming in fear.

There are really people in the world who lack such immorality.

Shen Laibao stepped forward, stood in front of the man and said, "It's not suitable to tell ghost stories here, you ...... it again" Fang Cai felt that this person's voice was familiar, and when he saw his face, he remembered, Chai Qi!

The naughty boy who bullied him in the kindergarten and slandered him for stealing meat.

When Chai Qi saw him, he was also startled, and hurriedly stepped back, and said, "Shen Laibao, what are you doing here as a middle classman, I'll go and tell Mr. Sù that you don't pray for rain." ”

Shen Laibao suddenly felt ridiculous, "Before stepping on someone else's tail, see if you have stepped on your own tail." ”

Chai Qi thought for a while before he understood the meaning of his words, afraid that he would also sue himself at Mr., and he didn't dare to scold him, so he said, "Fool! ”

Shen Laibao didn't mind him scolding himself at all, the more he scolded, the more he couldn't do anything about himself. So what's the point?

- I just like the way you can't kill me and you can't do anything about me.

Chai Qi scolded and left, and Shen Laibao turned around and said, "It's okay, if someone comes to tell you this, go and call Mr." ”

Everyone looked at each other, but Hua Ling stood up happily, "Brother Treasure." ”

The voice was crisp and immature, and there was the word Noble again, Chai Qi frowned and turned his head, looked over there, and immediately remembered the girl's appearance. He snorted, I heard that Shen Laibao has seven younger sisters, so it must be one of them, let's see.

Shen Laibao squatted down and said, "Xiaohua, it's good to listen to a lot of things, but in fact, it's not true, don't think about it." ”

Hua Ling was still a little apprehensive, "But I'm still afraid." You don't know how scary he was just now, and it's only fifteen in a minute, and the ghost door is about to open. In previous years, my mother would take me to burn paper money for my ancestors, if the ancestors were not real, then why burn paper money, so there must be. ”

"Paying tribute to our ancestors." Shen Laibao knew that it was impossible to convince a child that he was not afraid of ghosts, even if he walked on the road of the mass grave at night, he was afraid that he would think too much and have palpitations. He looked around, Mr. shouldn't have come, even if he came, he would just go back himself. He sat cross-legged beside her, "I'll accompany you." ”

Hua Ling also sat down, and Shen Laibao asked, "Where are your candles?" ”

"It's too heavy, and the wax oil on it will be poured straight down. And the gentleman wouldn't let me stick it on the ground, so I left it there. ”

Shen Laibao wanted to put his candle in her hand, but as soon as he caught her hand, he saw her shrink sharply. He paused, leaned over and grabbed her wrist, only to find that the back of her hand was burned red, and there was a large red mark, "Burned by wax?" ”

Hua Ling wanted to retract her hand, but she couldn't, "I'm fine, it doesn't hurt anymore, Mr. has helped me with medicine." ”

Shen Laibao lowered his head and sniffed, only smelling a little bit of herbs, and there was no smell of ointment usually used for burns. He grabbed her to her feet and took her outside.

Hua Ling was shocked, "The cave master is still begging for rain, we can't go." ”

"The dragon god is here, and the wound on your hand is about to turn into a dragon seal." Shen Laibao took her to ask her husband for leave, and when the gentleman saw that he was serious, he thought about it and let him go.

Shen Laibao took her out, passing by Xiaoban on the way, and when Chai Qi saw it, he pulled three or five people to block the road and sat down. He swallowed, "Get out of the way." ”

Chai Qi was surprised, "Did you drive this road or did your family drive it?" Shen Laibao, you have such a big breath. ”

Shen Laibao looked at him condescendingly, it was impossible for him to give way. He blinked slowly, "Hey, whose hand is that on your shoulder?" ”

Chai Qi's body stiffened suddenly, look left, look right, there was nothing at all!

"Oops! The hand is going to touch your face. ”

Chai Qi jumped up with a scream, and gave himself two slaps to knock the ghost claws away, and the others also scattered in a hurry, hiding far away. Shen Laibao pulled the flower bell and walked through the gap, didn't take two steps, and Chai Qi, who realized that he had been deceived, couldn't hold back any longer, "Shen Laibao, you deceive people too much!" ”

Shen Laibao still wants to say that he deceives people too much, and it's true, why doesn't he have a long memory, do you still want him to beat him up again? He turned to meet the enemy, and Chai Qi rushed at him like crazy, almost throwing him to the ground and punching him in the corner of the mouth.

Hua Ling was stunned for a moment, grabbed his arm and pushed back. But the force is quite small, like hitting a stone with an egg. She was suddenly anxious, opened her mouth and bit his shoulder, causing him to scream in pain.

Shen Laibao has not practiced in vain in the school field in the past few months, he was attacked by a sneak punch, and when he came to his senses, he hooked him in the chin and pushed him away. got up and fought back, suppressing him so much that he couldn't move.

The speed of the counterattack was so fast that the people who were originally going to help Chai Qi were also stunned, and they all stood still and did not dare to move.

I don't know if there was too much movement here, or if someone went to call Mr., but soon two or three gentlemen came over and separated the people who were fighting, and shouted, "Is the academy a place that makes you naughty?" The three of you, stand in the corner of the wall, stretch out your hands, and each of you will strike twenty rulers! ”

Shen Laibao said, "Don't ......" Before he finished speaking, he saw Hua Ling shake his body, then rolled his eyes and collapsed to the ground. Barely thinking for a moment, he reached out and hugged Hua Ling, shocked, "Little flower? Florets? ”

Seeing that a girl had fainted, the gentlemen also panicked, and hurriedly sent her to the dormitory of the college to rest, without mentioning the punishment.

The doctor soon came over and said, "There are no external injuries, maybe I fainted because I was frightened, just rest well." ”

Only then did the gentleman put his mind at ease, it was terrible that something happened to the students in the academy. He sent the doctor out, closed the door, and told the people inside to take good care of her.

Shen Laibao sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Hua Ling, but it was okay to be frightened and unconscious, but he was afraid that he would not be able to see where he was injured. He had just asked the doctor for a plaster, and he had applied a thick layer of ointment to her hand, which looked as if it was swollen a lot.

The lady who was also looking after her said, "I'll go and ask the cook to boil some hot water." She got up and went out, and when she went out of the room, she thought of a man and a woman in the house, although they were still children, but it was inconvenient in the end. She looked around and saw a girl standing at the pillar, and seeing that she was also a student of the academy, she said, "Come here, go to the house for a while, and don't wander around until I come back." ”

Shen Laibao, who was guarding the flower bell, heard the door open again, and thought that Mr. had turned back again, but when he looked back, he was surprised, "Qin Qin." ”

Qin Qin nodded lightly, walked over and said, "I heard that Lingling fainted, so come and have a look...... Actually, I knew you were fighting just now, but I went to call Mr. and didn't go to help you. ”

Hua Ling's first reaction was to save him, but she thought about going to her husband first, no matter how she thought about it, she felt that she really couldn't compare to Hua Ling.

Shen Laibao didn't think much about it, "If you don't go to Mr., I'm afraid Xiaohua and I have already been beaten up by Chai Qi's little followers, and you called Mr. to come, which is a great help." ”

"But Lingling still fainted, if I stepped forward to help first, Lingling would ......"

"I'm not faint." Hua Ling sat up suddenly, "Sister Qin, don't feel guilty, I'm not fainting." ”

Shen Laibao was stunned for a moment, "Little flower? ”

Hua Ling said seriously, "Daddy said that if Mr. wants to beat me on the prototype, let me pretend to be dizzy." ”

"......" Shen Laibao simply lost to her, if it was in the new world, she would definitely have a dozen little golden figures in her hands! He smiled bitterly, relieved and indescribable, "Then you will wake up slowly when Mr. Hui comes back." ”

Hua Ling was solemn, "Brother Noble I know, my father taught me to do a full set of plays." ”

"...... "What kind of mess is Daddy Hua teaching at home!"

Qin Qin saw that she woke up and was completely fine, so she said, "It's okay." ”

Shen Laibao's heart also settled down, hugged her and said, "Even if you don't pretend to be dizzy, I won't let Mr. beat you." Next time, don't faint, look scared. ”

"Brother Noble are you afraid of something?"

"I'm afraid you're really dizzy."

"But aren't you afraid of beating the handboard?"

"It's easier to beat the board than to watch you faint." Shen Laibao heard someone coming outside, and before Hua Ling could lie down, she "fell" back in the blink of an eye, closing her eyes tightly. He pursed his lips and almost couldn't hold back his laughter, and later called her Oscar Suzu.

The female gentleman came in with a pot of hot water and wanted to wipe Hualing's body, so she drove the two out.

Shen Laibao and Qin Qin were standing outside, presumably begging for the rain to be over, so there was a commotion in the front yard, like the tide dispersing out.

"We'll take you home later, it's too late, it's not safe."

Qin Qin nodded, his gaze wandered, and fell on the pendant on his waist, "Where are your walnuts?" ”

Shen Laibao looked down, "Are you talking about the walnut boat?" Put it in the sachet. ”

Qin Qin let out an "oh" and didn't ask again. After a long time, she said, "Shen Laibao, I want to ask you to do me a favor." ”

"You say."

"I won't go to the academy tomorrow, I want to go to my uncle's house." Qin Qin was silent for a while before saying, "I have to go and ask him for some money and hand it over to the academy, it's been seven and a half months, and if I don't pay it over, I'll be kicked out of the academy." It's just that my father and mother won't let me go, and if you come to me, and you are so well dressed, my father and mother won't stop me. ”

Only then did Shen Laibao know that it was Qin Qin's uncle who provided her with education, and he had wondered before that how the Qin family's father and mother would give her money to study, "Okay, when is tomorrow?" ”

"It's more than halfway through the hour, and the road is a little far."

Shen Laibao didn't think much about it, and he didn't need to think much about helping his friends, "Hmm." ”