"My lord?" Guo Jia stopped playing the flute, he blinked, and looked at Shen Xian expectantly: "Are you here to bring me dinner?" ”

Shen Xian: "......"

It's like I've forgotten something!

So Guo Jia watched Shen Xian squat down with her head in her hands: "...... Forget about it, don't hit me......"

Guo Jia couldn't cry or laugh: "Lord, can I beat you?" ”

Shen Xian still squatted on the ground and couldn't get up, her hands changed from holding her head to folding her shoulders, resting her chin on her arms, trying to form herself into a ball and looking at Guo Jia pitifully.

Guo Jia feels that it is not good for Shen Xian to squat all the time, and there seems to be something wrong with today's lord?

Guo Jia stood up and walked out while thinking, he decided to comfort Shen Xian: If you don't bring it, you won't starve to death if you don't eat it...... It's really sad, it's obvious that I haven't eaten, why do I want to comfort you.

However, as soon as he stepped down from the gazebo, Guo Jia smelled a familiar sweet fragrance slowly floating, and the smell tickled his heart. Guo Jia looked at Shen Xian, who was looking up at him, and took a deep breath......

"Lord, how much have you drunk?" Guo Jia stared at Shen Xian's confused face condescendingly, and asked in a deep tone.

Shen Xian shook her head violently, she blinked her eyes and tried to put on a pure appearance: "I'm not drunk." ”

Guo Jia: "...... I didn't say you were drunk. As he spoke, he picked up his clothes and put them in front of Shen Xian, squatted down to look at her, and asked in a coaxing tone of a child, "Lord, what are you doing here?" ”

Shen Xian replied obediently: "I can't sleep, I'm hungry, and I want to eat meat." ”

"Didn't you just eat?" Guo Jia calculated the time, it should not be long before the end of the banquet, how could he be hungry so quickly.

"I've been fighting with Lao Dian, drinking eight jars, and finally Lao Dian was drunk by me hahaha." Shen Xian smiled expressionlessly, seeing that Guo Jia was furious: "I'm not targeting anyone, I mean that everyone here is a salted fish." ”

Guo Jia decided to change the topic, and he humbly asked, "Lord, what is salted fish?" ”

"Salted fish is salted fish." Shen Xian looked at Guo Jia blankly for a while, and suddenly reached out and clasped Guo Jia's shoulder, and then stood up by pressing his shoulder, because of the excessive force, he was dizzy for a while and almost fell down, Guo Jia helplessly held Shen Xian's arm to help her maintain balance: "Lord, what are you doing when you suddenly get up?" ”

"I'm going to eat fish." Shen Xian announced, "Let's catch the fish!" ”

Then Shen Xian ran up the gazebo with a cheer without waiting for Guo Jia's consent, ran to the edge of the railing, and rubbed her hands as if she was about to dive, so frightened that Guo Jia hurriedly went over and grabbed her collar to stop her from thinking about it.

"What are you doing with me?" Shen Xian twisted around dissatisfiedly: "Loosen up, let go!" ”

"Lord...... You're drunk, admit it. Guo Jia let out a long sigh and dragged Shen Xian back: "Send you back to sleep, what about those who protect you?" ”

"I want to eat fish, I won't go!" Shen Xian hugged the railing and didn't let go, Guo Jia was dragged by her, he let go of his hand and hugged his arm to look at Shen Xian: "You are not a cat, what kind of fish do you eat!" ”

Shen Xian looked at Guo Jia for a while, and she suddenly tilted her head: "...... Meow? ”

Guo Jia almost fell into the lotus pond, he held on to the railing with one hand and covered his pounding heart with the other, and said weakly: "Lord, you won." ”

Shen Xian looked at him with a smug expression.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of wings fanning the wind, Guo Jia felt as if his cheeks had been slapped lightly by someone, he looked intently and found that a black eagle was gathering its wings and landing on Shen Xian's shoulder with its head held high, and it proudly stretched out a claw towards Shen Xian.

This is the eagle raised by Sun Ce, Guo Jia still remembers the scene when it first appeared, compared to the miserable state of the messy fur and water stains all over the body, this eagle can be described as handsome and handsome now. The eagle stood on one leg and stretched out its claws for a long time, but found that Shen Xian ignored it at all, but stared at him blankly.

The eagle flapped its wings urgically, and the tips of its feathers gently brushed Shen Xian's cheeks.

Shen Xian suddenly made a move and pinched the eagle's wings.

The eagle fluttered violently, and it was furious, completely incomprehensible to why it had suffered such an unwarranted disaster of having its wings pinched even if it had worked so hard to deliver a letter, and if it was not rewarded.

"What do you want to do, my lord?" Guo Jia saw Shen Xian staring at the eagle's eyes, and a bad premonition floated in his heart.

Sure enough, Shen Xian smiled, and she gently touched the two eagle feathers: "There are no fish...... It's also good to eat birds. ”

The eagle stopped struggling, and it stared at Shen Xian with a bewildered expression.

"You can't eat this." Guo Jia tried to stop Shen Xian: "This is the eagle raised by your eldest brother, you beware of him settling accounts with you." ”

"I'm hungry." Shen Xian touched her stomach aggrievedly: "No matter, eat." ”

"It's troublesome." Guo Jia said to Shen Xian: "You have to kill it first, then pluck out its hair, put it in boiling water and scald it, and then ......."

Guo Jia successfully stunned Shen Xian, Shen Xian stared at him with starry eyes, so Guo Jia took the opportunity to rescue the eagle from Shen Xian's hands. After taking down the letter sent by Sun Ce, the eagle immediately flapped its wings and flew away, and before leaving, he also cared for Guo Jia and Shen Xian with the eyes of the mentally ill.

Two humans with a problem!

Shen Xian didn't have an inferiority complex at all that was despised by an eagle, she only felt that the meat in her mouth was not eaten and flew away, and she was very unhappy. Shen Xian silently squatted on the railing and looked at the bright moon rippling with the blue waves in the pool, and muttered: "When the lord can't even eat a fish, it's not right!" ”

Guo Jia stood behind Shen Xian crying and laughing at her drunken madness, and said that it was difficult to serve her when she went crazy occasionally, but now it is even more difficult to coax...... Guo Jia was so sleepy that he yawned, he wanted to go back to sleep, but he couldn't leave Shen Xian here alone to watch the moon, so he said resignedly: "Why don't we go to the kitchen and see if there are any fish?" ”

Shen Xian's eyes became shiny with a brush, and as soon as she grabbed Guo Jia's hand, she dragged him to the kitchen. Fortunately, Guo Jia just looked weak, he usually exercised well, and running with Shen Xian for a while not only could he keep up with the speed, but he didn't have any chest tightness and panting and couldn't breathe.

It's really gratifying.

It was late at night, and the kitchen had already been locked and closed, Guo Jia said tactfully: "It seems that we can't enter through the door." His original intention was to let Shen Xian pry the window open and everyone open the window, anyway, it is so suitable for turning the window in the dead of night! However, Shen Xian did not understand the profundity of Chinese language and culture at all, she seriously studied the big padlock for a long time, and suddenly held the lock body with one hand, twisted it with force, and heard a crisp sound of "click", and the padlock was broken by Shen Xian.

Guo Jia: "...... lord, I finally understand why Dian Wei said that he respects you as a man."

"Let's go!" Shen Xian cheered and rushed into the kitchen, but she was destined to be disappointed, because under Cai Yan's tutelage, the whole state pastoral mansion had developed a good habit of not wasting food, and everyone ate as much as they wanted, and there was no extra food left.

Looking at the spotless stove that had been wiped by the maids, Shen Xian cried sadly.

Guo Jia's head was big, and for a moment he especially wanted to hit the wall, but in the end he endured it, put on a kind face and asked Shen Xian: "Lord, why are you crying?" ”

"My heart is bitter." Shen Xian held an empty bowl and pumped it.

"Did something happen?"

Guo Jia finally understood why Xun You said the sentence "I can't guess what a woman is thinking at all", because I really can't understand it! Why do you cry at every turn!

"Because my dad won't let me go home...... He didn't really like me at all, but I didn't care. Shen Xian said incoherently while holding the empty bowl and walking outside the kitchen: "But it's so tiring to fight Chang'an, they still stab them in the back, and after the stab, they have to say that I stabbed them...... The basic trust between people is gone. ”

Guo Jia stopped talking, he looked at Shen Xian silently.

"Well, I don't care, I don't care." Shen Xian nodded heavily: "I just don't like him to use me as a shield for his son...... Daughters are worthless...... Oh, if I have a daughter in the future, I will give her the best in the world. ”

After saying this, Shen Xian squatted down directly and shrank under the cloister by the garden, Guo Jia thought that she was going to cry again, and she had no choice but to stand and wait for a while, and after waiting for a while, he found that Shen Xian was motionless, and when she looked closely, she was asleep.

Guo Jia took off his cloak and put it on Shen Xian, and said with a faint expression: "After watching the play for a long time, do you plan to continue squatting?" ”

The Xiliang man jumped down from the tree with an embarrassed expression, and a pale water thief with his hair floated on the edge of the waterhole.

"Uh, Mr. Guo." Xiliang explained: "We can only protect the safety of the lord, and the rest ...... Why don't I go to the girl in the red sleeves to help? ”

The tall Xiliang men have no problem carrying Dian Wei, but they carry Shen Xian...... It's a life-saving practice!

"No, it's getting dark, so don't bother others." Guo Jia leaned down and put one hand around Shen Xian's shoulder, and the other hand passed through the crook of her leg, and hugged the person very easily: "I'll send her back." ”

"Mr. Guo is good, Mr. Guo goodbye!" The Xiliang man reacted quickly, and before he finished speaking, the person swooped and disappeared, and as for the water thief like a water ghost, he didn't know when he left, and he might have sunk into the pool again.

Guo Jia carried Shen Xian back to her room, which was very simple, only a bed and a low table, and there were no extra decorations, so pitiful that it didn't look like a state pastor's bedroom at all. Putting Shen Xian on the bed, Guo Jia pulled the quilt and covered her, and then he hesitated for a moment, but still took out the letter sent by Sun Ce and pressed it next to the pillow.

After making this qiē, Guo Jia glanced at Shen Xian's frowning sleeping face and gently blew out the candle.

Tsk, I didn't eat when I arrived, tossing around, what's the picture? Guo Jia thought silently, he felt that he needed some compensation for being so unlucky, so he ...... Guo Jiashun walked away from the jar of unopened apricot blossom stuff that Shen Xian put on the table.

When Shen Xian woke up the next day, she felt that she was as sore as she had run a marathon last night. She lay upright on the bed for a long time, only to realize that she had slept with her clothes on.

Did you drink high last night and sleep without changing your clothes? Shen Xian, who was full of doubts, changed the crumpled clothes that she had worn all night and threw them aside, she stepped out of bed with soft steps, and when she passed by the door, she found that the wine she had put on the table was gone.

Shen Xian was a little frightened, didn't she, did she let her drink it all yesterday? Didn't drink at the banquet, and came back to open a second one?

Oh my God, you can't drink too much...... What a mistake! Shen Xian held her head and lay on the edge of the table and thought about it for a while, but she still didn't think of what had happened since she drank Dian Wei down, and her brain was now in chaos, as if Guo Jia had made bamboo slips all over the table......

Wait, why do you think of Guo Jia? There was always a figure in a cyan robe flashing in her mind, Shen Xian narrowed her eyes, she seemed to have a little impression, but what she remembered was just a still fragment like a photo, and it was completely impossible to string together the story......

Whether she met Guo Jia or not is not the point, the point is whether the banquet went smoothly or not, Shen Xian, who was worried in her heart, was afraid that she would mess up the real purpose of this banquet, so she silently rubbed out of the room after washing up, and touched towards the courtyard where Cai Yan lived.

The Xun family didn't know what means they spent, but they bought three houses next to each other in the high-end residential area of Chengdu City, where every inch of land was expensive, and Xun You and Xun Yu both moved in to facilitate the supervision of the ongoing renovation, such as opening up the three houses into a huge mansion, even so, Shen Xian felt that the Xun family was still a little crowded to live in.

Because she has not yet married, Cai Yan did not go with Xun You, she still stayed in the state pastor's mansion. Shen Xian didn't dare to find others, feeling embarrassed, and only Cai Yan, who was the same gender as herself, was a good person to talk to.

Walking into the courtyard, Shen Xian found that Cai Yan and Gan Qian were sitting on the edge of the corridor discussing something, she crept over, and suddenly came out and made a grimace at the two: "Surprise! ”

Gan Qian was startled, she subconsciously covered her chest and looked at Shen Xian blankly, Cai Yan's expression was much calmer, she raised her hand and touched Shen Xian's forehead: "This is not a fever......"

"Just kidding." Shen Xian said regretfully: "Sister Zhaoji, you didn't react at all, it's really boring." ”

"I thought you weren't sober." Cai Yan moved to the side to make room for Shen Xian.

Shen Xian sat down with a smile: "What are you doing?" ”

"I'm teaching Qian'er to read the ledger." Cai Yan handed the account spread out on his lap to Gan Qian.

Shen Xian leaned over to look at the densely written words on the account book, and felt a little dizzy at a glance: "Do you want Sister Qian to be the housekeeper?" ”

Gan Qian's expression was a little apprehensive, and Cai Yan nodded calmly: "Yes, didn't you say that I should find you a lady, don't you want to be pretty?" ”

Shen Xian held Gan Qian's hand, and said with a burning gaze: "Sister Qian, the inner house of the Pastoral Mansion of Nazhou will be entrusted to you." ”

"But I've never done any of these things......" Gan Qian was a little embarrassed: "Is this okay?" ”

"What are you afraid of?" Shen Xian waved her hand indifferently: "Learn it if you haven't done it, it's not very difficult anyway, right?" ”

Cai Yan smiled and nodded.

"You'll just live here now." Shen Xian pondered for a moment and said, "Just think of it as a companion for the two of us...... I ask you to help me with my housekeeper, and then I will give you a monthly payment according to the standard of a chief steward. ”

"It's already good that you took me in, how can I still ask for money?" Gan Qian put away the account book, stood up and bowed respectfully to Shen Xian: "I should have done this yesterday...... Lord Liu, you and Sister Zhaoji saved me twice, and from now on Gan Qian's life will be yours, I-"

Before Gan Qian finished speaking, Shen Xian held her arm and helped her up, Cai Yan smiled on the side: "Qian'er, you have sold her as a daughter-in-law, and if you don't charge some monthly money, you will lose money." ”

"The maid in my house still has monthly money, not to mention Sister Qian, you were only invited by me to help, and you didn't sell it to my house." Shen Xian said seriously: "I saved you twice to show that we have fate, you can live in peace, if you really don't want to go, then help me take care of this state pastoral mansion?" Sister Zhaoji and I basically don't have much time to spend in the inner house, and Red Sleeves has to take care of me and take care of internal affairs, so I can't be busy at all, so I'm tired of you. ”

Gan Qian held the account book and nodded lightly: "Okay." ”

After solving Gan Qian's problem, Cai Yan said lazily: "Tell me, lord, what is the matter with me?" ”

"Hehe, I can't hide it from you, Sister Zhaoji, you are so wise." Shen Xian praised Cai Yan a few words and then cautiously tested: "Ahem, that's the case, I ...... last night"

"You and Hong Fei drank a total of eight jars of wine last night, which is really a good amount of wine." Cai Yan sighed: "Didn't you see the admiring eyes of those people under Weiyou when they looked at you. ”

"yes, hahaha." Shen Xian scratched her head in embarrassment: "Then did I say anything after I finished drinking?" ”

Cai Yan looked at Shen Xian with a smile: "What do you want to ask?" Did you make a joke, or did you mess up the party? ”

Shen Xian clasped her hands together and looked at Cai Yan with earnest eyes.

"Don't worry, no." Cai Yan patted Shen Xian on the shoulder: "You just made those Yizhou heroes angry, first choked on you for a few words, and then was scared by Xingba, and finally was calculated miserably by Wen Ruo, those heroes are really pitiful." ”

Although Cai Yan said that she was pitiful, her smile clearly expressed her opinion: she deserved it.

Shen Xian breathed a sigh of relief: "That means that after I got drunk, I went back to the house to sleep?" It's good that you didn't get into trouble......"

"But why is the apricot blossom stuff I put on the table missing?" Shen Xian muttered softly, and-why did you dream of fishing with Guo Jia!

Shaking off the goosebumps all over her body, Shen Xian expelled the messy dream fragments from her mind, she held her cheeks and watched Cai Yan seriously teach Gan Qian to reconcile the accounts little by little, and suddenly remembered something: "Speaking of which, when are you going to take the teacher from Jiangzhou?" ”

Jiangzhou is now the Chongqing area, known as the mountain city, although the scenery is very beautiful, but the terrain is complex, the perennial cloudy days do not see the sun, not suitable for Cai Yong and Lu Zhi, the two old people in the north to live for a long time.

"I'm already on my way." Cai Yan said: "I will be there in two days." I'm looking for a house in the city......"

"You knock on the chapter yourself, and the money will take away from my private account, and it will be regarded as a gift from me to the teacher." Shen Xian scratched her head: "I haven't fulfilled my responsibilities as a student for so many years, and I am so bad that the teacher still recognizes me." ”

Cai Yan winked at Shen Xian mischievously: "Then you're welcome." ”

Shen Xian smiled: "Hmm...... Actually, I have something I want to ask the teacher, I don't know if he has time. ”

Cai Yan looked at Shen Xian helplessly: "Isn't it okay to have me?" My dad is a few years old and wants to give him some work. ”

"Actually, I want to open a academy in Chengdu and invite teachers to give lectures."

Cai Yan was a little interested: "Academy? As far as I know, there are also several reputable academies in Chengdu. ”

"I'm different, I'm 'official'." Shen Xian thought for a while and explained to Cai Yan: "Now Chengdu will do an experiment, if this method is feasible, I will promote it to Quanyizhou." My idea is to build a academy with public funds, and then let all school-age children in Chengdu come here to listen to the teacher's lectures and read. ”

Cai Yan's face changed slightly, and she whispered, "...... you do this?"

The family controls the best resources in the world, and then cultivates their own children through these resources, so that they can study, become talents, become officials, enter all levels and positions in the bureaucratic system, and finally slowly control the entire imperial court. In this case, the children of poor families will never have the opportunity to study, they will not even know the words, and naturally they will never have a bright future.

This is the means by which the family controls the imperial power and controls the world. Now Shen Xian wants to break this method, that is, the rhythm of openly declaring war on the family, even the Xun family and the Zhang family will not be on her side, and then she will be alone, and she will be swarmed by all kinds of tigers, leopards and jackals to eat the bones and dregs.

"It's just an experiment." Shen Xian said casually: "And those children don't come to the academy to stay forever, my plan is to study for a total of nine years, divide each year into two semesters, each semester will be assessed, the content of the assessment is determined by the teachers, almost the knowledge learned in this semester, and some other things that can reflect the comprehensive essence, such as etiquette, music, royalty, art and other six arts." Those who fail to pass the examination will have a chance to take a make-up examination, and if they fail to take the supplementary examination, they will be disqualified from studying, and they will not be allowed to enter other colleges of the same type for three years.

"After nine years of study, I will hold an assessment, and those with excellent grades can enter the officialdom of Yizhou, of course, starting from the bottom and slowly exercising.

"It's not just the academy, I'm going to open a martial arts hall." The more Shen Xian spoke, the more her brain opened: "Since Wen wants to be cultivated, Wu can't be left behind." The training method of the martial arts hall is the same as that of the academy, that is, the content will be adjusted, and the specific will be discussed when the time comes.

"What do you think?"

Cai Yan thought carefully for a long time, and finally she sighed: "How did you come up with this brain......

Shen Xianxin said that this is the template of my modern education, which is basically how it came about, and I have been tossed for 12 years, of course, I have a deep understanding.

"But you know, I'm not joking." Cai Yan's expression suddenly became extremely strict: "It's no problem to let my father help teach, but the question is whether you can run this academy...... As soon as this idea is proposed, I'm afraid that even Gongda and Wenruo will not agree. ”

"You have to come step by step, the academy must first mainly recruit the children of the family, and you can mix a small number of ordinary people." Cai Yan said: "At least don't make your purpose so obvious, so that they will be alert and resist. ”

Shen Xian's enthusiasm was poured down by Cai Yan with a basin of cold water, but she had to admit that Cai Yan was right. When more and more students from poor families emerged, and Tongguò entered the imperial court in this way, gradually occupying important positions in various fields, how could the scholars watch the interests that originally belonged to them be divided among the people at the bottom?

It would be a seismic shift.

So I can't be in a hurry, so I have to find the right way to take my time.

Biting her lip and being silent for a long time, Shen Xian said slowly: "Okay, I know." ”