Chapter Seventy-Four: The Pit
"Is there something wrong with the master?"
Hongchen let Shi Feng into the living room in a regular manner.
Kittens and raccoons also serve tea in a proper manner.
The tea is ordinary for guests, and it is very fragrant, but the rusty feeling still makes people feel like they are on pins and needles.
It seems that the kitten and the fox are going to pick up a broom and blast him out of the gate in the next moment.
Shi Feng felt that he was quite wronged, he had done his best these days, all for the Xia family, and he had also poured out his heart and lungs for this young lady.
Although I don't know what the old patriarch of the family thinks, he won't let her go back, but in Shi Feng's heart, this is Miss, as for Xia Cicada, that is the stupid dove that occupies the magpie's nest, maybe it's not appropriate, but he doesn't read much, so make do with it.
However, he has a heart, Xia Shijie's kid flies his eyes, picks his nose and picks his eyes, looking for trouble all day long, okay, anyway, he doesn't bother to pay attention to that kid now, he can do whatever he likes, but when he meets Miss Hongchen here, he still has no face, at least he always feels that he doesn't dare to raise his head in front of Miss Hongchen.
I was very aggrieved in my heart, but Shi Feng still sat steadily, and was gentle: "I'm just here to see Miss, the matter here in Qixian County is over, I and the eldest son should go back, if I don't come to see Miss before leaving, I am not sure." ”
"Then I wish the master a smooth journey."
Hongchen smiled and poured him tea with his own hands, in fact, speaking of which, although she had a lot of dissatisfaction in the Xia family back then, but the children of the Xia family have their own benefits, and the teacher is bold and generous to protect his shortcomings, but what is the matter with the brothers and sisters. are willing to help.
I remember that Wang Yue took a concubine for the first time that year, Shi Feng beat him and almost broke one of his legs, if it wasn't for Xia Shijie to stop him, Jiang Chan also followed the side drum, and also used the means to let him go to the frontier to garrison for three years, maybe Wang Yue would have lost most of his life that time.
It turned out that the senior brother with a fiery temper also has such a gentle and amiable atmosphere now, and his whole body exudes a warm and bright light.
Shi Feng drank tea with a smile, and his mood was much better. There was silence for a while. He frowned and said, "I've found out something recently. ”
He groaned, as if he didn't know what to say, but after thinking about it, he said carefully: "There is a young lady from a noble family in Yong'an, and it seems that she once looked for someone to deal with you. It just didn't work out. You know that, too. Their kind of daughter, who does not eat the suffering of the world, has always been very stubborn, and no one knows that they have failed once or twice. Will she come three or four times, but the other party is very careful and can't grasp the handle at all. ”
Even if he grabbed the handle, it wasn't his fault for meddle.
The Xia family has strict rules, and if Shi Feng harasses Xia Cicada at will without conclusive evidence, it will definitely not be beneficial, not to mention that there is a crazy Xia Shijie who takes Xia Cicada seriously.
"Miss Hongchen has been studying at Yanshan Academy recently, so don't go out casually if there's nothing to do!"
Shi Feng drooped his head, he also knew that he was confused when he said this without a beginning or an end, but if he didn't remind him, he couldn't get over it in his heart.
Hongchen was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "I know." ”
This time, she rarely sent Shifeng out in person, and when she went out, she picked up Ping'an and the little tiger.
The little tiger nested on her shoulder, with his head on one side and his tail hanging on the other, very well-behaved, motionless, at first glance he thought that he was wearing a tiger skin scarf, but as for Ping'an, he was even lazier, and he formed a ball for her to hold in his arms, and yawned lazily with his tongue out, not at all with the power that dominated the streets.
Sure enough, he was born in danger and died in peace, it's too comfortable.
Leaving the teahouse, Shi Feng turned his head and stopped talking, his lips moved, and seeing that the little girl in front of him was innocent, he finally swallowed the words back.
Now the patriarch of the family, Lord Xia Anxia, is sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, no one knows what is going on in his head, to say that this is a big matter, it must be investigated clearly, and it can only be determined without the slightest mistake, but now the matter is also investigated clearly.
The princess had to inform the clan a few days ago and explain the matter, so that Miss Hongchen could recognize her ancestors and return to her ancestors, but she didn't know what the patriarch said to her in private, and the princess cried all night, so she sent a letter over, asking him to find an opportunity to explain the matter to Miss Hongchen first, and at the latest before the Chinese New Year this year, she would take Miss home and let her study in Yanshan Academy first.
Shi Feng was confused in his mind, but he really shouldn't say this, he is a disciple of the Xia family, but his surname is Shi, not Xia.
Xia Shijie is here, that is Miss Hongchen's half-brother and half-mother, with him, where is his turn to interject?
Shi Feng hesitated for a long time, and when he got into the car, he didn't know whether he should point it out by himself, Hongchen was not happy to understand it at all, so he waved his sleeves directly, and said with a smile: "Be careful on the road!" "Let's hurry up, the most important thing is to get Xia Shijie's idiot away.
Hongchen has always pretended not to know the son of the Xia family, but he pretends not to know, and he is tired of thinking about it occasionally.
Just greetings, there was a sound of crazy running in front, squirming in the grass, Shi Feng's instinctive first reaction, jumped outward, fell in front of Hongchen, threw away his wide sleeves, and made a vigilant and protective action.
Grunt, grunt, a ball fell headlong, and even the ghost crawled down from the halfway up the mountain, rolled all the way to Shi Feng, snapped, fell to the ground, Shi Feng was startled, Hongchen lowered his head and looked, he actually knew it.
This person is the loser grandson of that Liu Wu.
If it weren't for Hongchen's deep impression of him, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to recognize him, he wouldn't be in a good state when he met that time, he was groggy and overly drunk, and when he saw him in nine days, his cheeks were thin, his expression was haggard, his eyes bulged out, and he looked extremely frightened.
Hongchen: "......"
Shi Feng swept away the dust splashed on his body, frowned, and said, "What kind of person is this!" ”
"Forget it, Master Gongzi get in the car quickly, and the sun will go down later, I'm afraid the road will be difficult to walk." Hongchen said with a smile.
After sending Shi Feng away, Hongchen returned to the teahouse, it was just time for dinner, Qu Sanniang cooked a very hearty meal tonight, probably because she didn't know if her young lady would stay for dinner. Cooked a lot of very formal hospitality dishes.
Shi Feng didn't enjoy it, Xue Baiqiao, this kid happily came over to rub a meal, ate and drank enough, and went back with a shy stomach, Hongchen originally wanted to ask two tea merchants who came to taste tea to give him a ride, but later Lao Shan Ginseng said that there were seven or eight first-class players hidden around the little marquis, all to protect him, and that's it.
Thinking about it, Xue Baiqiao doesn't go out with a group of dogs like in the capital now. Just a single one. also likes to run around, plus there was an accident last time, if there is no guard around, then his identity as a little marquis will inevitably seem too worthless.
The defense of the teahouse should also be strengthened. Fortunately, Fu Ziwen and the four of them have not finished paying off their debts. to be her escort honestly. Hongchen also told Baihu not to run around recently, and also arranged some complex traps in the backyard to rest assured.
Shi Feng's words of reminder today. Still can't help but care. Although I don't know what Jiang Chan will do, how ruthless her temperament is, she has seen it in her previous life, and she will never take it lightly in this life.
But the days are still normal, go to the academy on time every day, come back at night with Xiao Mo, give lectures to Luo Niang, everyone has a sense of urgency, and strive to squeeze all the time to absorb knowledge, even Xiao Mo said, if their group of girls are men, they have this momentum, even if they are average, it will take three or five years to take the exam, and it will be easy to take the exam.
Hongchen believes that in addition to talent, reading also depends on resources, and it is difficult for other readers to find a book, which is similar to them, they can read any book they want, and they also come with absolutely detailed and interesting explanation notes.
On this day, Hongchen went to Yanshan Academy early in the morning as usual, and got up a little late, so he simply packed a spring roll, in the past, he didn't have to be in such a hurry, but today it was Guo Shanchang's turn to give a lecture, and it was not good to be late.
He is an old man and lacks energy, and he doesn't really come to teach students much, so it is rare to have a chance, and many seniors who have not come to the academy much have arrived.
As soon as Hongchen entered the door, he asked Guo Shanchang to sit in the middle of the first row in front of him, uh, I don't know if I take special care of her, and it is a bit possible to sarcastically take care of her height.
There are many children in the classroom, all of whom are sixteen or seventeen years old, and even in their twenties, Hongchen is young, his nutrition was not good in his early years, and his stature is really not high, if he sits in the back, it is estimated that he will not even be able to see people.
Sitting in the first row, a group of people stared at the back of her head, calm as red dust, and they were all a little uncomfortable.
Guo Lao is empty-handed, and there are no books in front of the students' desks, his old man's bad problems, the class is imaginative, the same class, what he taught to this wave of students today may not be the same as what he told to another wave of students, so that some students hate the exam when Guo Laoshan has long questions, as soon as he comes out of the question, a good test suddenly becomes a matter of luck, and the grades are completely unpredictable.
"Guo Lao doesn't know what kind of demon he wants to be?"
Several students muttered in private, and their spirits were very uplifted.
The things that this master has always said have been particularly interesting.
Guo Lao coughed, put the two mean on the bookcase, and the whispers below disappeared suddenly.
"Recently, there have been endless border disputes, and small frictions between the four countries have increased sharply, and major frictions are on average once every three years...... The so-called knowing history can avoid the mistakes we will make now and in the future, today, I will tell you about the history of the war between my Great Zhou and Beiyan, Xidi, and Dayong in the past hundred years, as well as the various heroes who have emerged. ”
This is good, no matter how much students like to learn, they also prefer to listen to stories, even if it is just a historical story.
As soon as Guo Lao said this, he was excited, full of energy, sitting in front and spitting, and the students below were stunned when they heard it.
As he spoke, Guo Lao stretched out his hand, carried Hongchen to the front, threw her a brush, and pointed to the whiteboard on the shelf next to him: "Draw the boundary between Da Zhou and Beiyan for me." ”
Hongchen: "......"
A senior brother below slapped his head suddenly: "It's bad, our little junior sister is going to make a fool of herself this time." "They are four or five years with Guo Lao's senior brothers, every time Guo Lao lectures, when he talks about his fascination, he likes to call the students under him, of course, they generally call those who have been tested for a long time.
His thoughts are fast, and he often doesn't know where to run after a few words, and there are really few students who can keep up with his ideas, so every time there are poor babies who are unlucky.
The most unlucky one in the past was Guo Lao's third son, that is, their eldest brother Guo Jing. Later, Guo Jing left the Yanshan Academy, abandoned literature and martial arts, and went to the forbidden army, since then it is not easy to go home once during the New Year's holidays, Guo Lao can't catch him, and the rest of the brothers and sisters are unlucky.
This time, Hongchen sat in the first row, and Guo Lao valued it the most, so he naturally caught the strong man.
"Amitabha, I hope the little sister can endure it."
"Little junior sister, don't be afraid. The eldest brother doesn't have to laugh at the second brother. You're not the only one who is ugly. ”
Hongchen only heard the whispers below, but she didn't know the sympathy of the senior brothers and sisters below, she also thought that all the students under Guo Lao had the ability to draw maps casually, and she couldn't help but secretly say that this Yanshan Academy was indeed bullish. Map of the borderlands. Border lines or something. That's a secret of the imperial court, ordinary people ponder this, and they are not afraid of being labeled as collaborators and traitors?
Since Guo Lao is not afraid at all. She didn't need to worry.
She didn't memorize the map well, and she couldn't draw the boundary line, but who let the family have a plug-in!
Say hello in the Yujue space, and a bunch of people who see the excitement will come out and give away various maps in friendship.
"Ouch, I found it, this map was drawn by a very boring snoop on your plane last year, look at how detailed it is, even the distribution map of the Beiyan Barracks is available."
Hongchen didn't care about pondering carefully, Guo Lao's lecture was very fast, and she only cared about scribbling on the whiteboard with a brush.
When Guo Lao talked about a certain battle, she had to immediately draw the location of the battle, the marching routes of various countries, and then mark the spheres of influence of each country.
A group of students: "......"
Sitting in front, the students who Guo Lao paid more attention to were dumbfounded, crowded outside, and the freshmen who hadn't listened to Guo Lao's lectures couldn't help but shake their hearts: "Our academy is definitely not worse than Guozijian, I don't want to enter Beijing in the future, look, isn't that a freshman who has only been enrolled for a long time this year?" She has studied for such a short time, she can do this, let's study for three or five years, and after going out, she still doesn't dare to fight with the disciples of Guigu? ”
Halfway through speaking, Guo Lao looked at the time, stopped abruptly, and jumped out of the classroom door in a vertical stride: "I made an appointment, it's too late, Hongchen, teach for me." ”
Hongchen: "......"
Again?
I've never had such a serious fuss before!
The group of junior brothers who had made Hongchen's little junior sister dizzy were suddenly suffocated, their second mistake with the mountain chief was committed, in fact, it was about the same, making trouble for their favorite disciples all day long, the more they liked whom, the greater the trouble!
Hongchen glanced at the bookcase, she didn't even have this handout, and she didn't have a front and back eyes, let alone a foresight, how could she know what her mountain chief was going to talk about later.
But there are so many students here now, and there are even those who heard that Guo Shanchang gave a lecture and came all the way to listen to it, not to mention anything else, the two tall men in the middle row have exactly the same Confucian robes, obviously they are also from which academy, only Hongchen has no research on this aspect, and I don't know where they come from.
If they were to be embarrassed in front of these outsiders today, the reputation of their academy would probably be in jeopardy.
Hongchen's mind was blank, but his face was extremely calm, as if this matter had been arranged a long time ago, he sat down slowly, opened his mouth and began to talk, talking about the old things from a hundred years ago, the secrets of the royal family, and the secret news revealed in the affair of the lord of the Chen Kingdom, not to mention, it was very true.
The senior brothers and sisters sitting below first breathed a sigh of relief, and then muttered in their hearts, could it be that Guo Shanchang gave this little junior sister a small stove? didn't know that Hongchen himself was also sweating profusely while talking, feeling that he had opened the door to a new world.
It turns out that the lord of Chen likes his sister-in-law, and it turns out that the prince of Beiyan and the princess of Xidi have staged all kinds of love-hate dramas......
The content she said is all the content of historical legends in the second-hand section of Yujue space, and these things are also true and false, and there is no guarantee that they are true.
When Hongchen was talking about it, she also said a bunch of 'supposedly', anyway, it was very similar to the truth, but just this one image made her completely irresponsible.
When she first started to take the place of Guo Lao, the students were very disdainful, and a group of them slipped away, but after she went to school for half an hour, the entire classroom door was densely blocked, the walls were full of people, and several black heads were exposed on the windows.
There was only Hongchen's voice in the entire classroom, and the students rushed back to the toilet even once.
"Ouch!"
Xia Shijie was knocked and staggered, his face changed suddenly, and the young man who hit him disappeared as soon as he slipped away. He refused to even say thank you.
"This Yanshan Academy is also too ......"
"Ahem." Shi Feng coughed, glared at Xia Shijie, and asked him to swallow all the words back into his stomach.
"Today, I am catching up with Guo Shanchang's lecture, and the opportunity is rare, let's go and listen to it." Shi Feng smiled and patted Xia Shijie's shoulder, "I inquired just now, the mountain chief is talking about the disputes of various countries, don't you also like to read this period of history the most on weekdays?" ”
As the boys of the Xia family, they are naturally sensitive to war, and they will eventually go to the battlefield. Xia Shijie likes to study these. That's normal.
Some of the Xia family are Confucian who is willing to come to the door to give lectures, and even the courses taught by the Guozi Supervisor are not listened to on weekdays.
After slandering, Xia Shijie still nodded.
Guo Shanchang's name is absolutely effective. Again. It is impossible for people to enter and exit at will. Since Shi Feng and the others have found the mountain chief to come in to listen to the class, if they don't even show their faces, they will leave halfway. It's not very polite and easy to offend people.
Shi Feng originally wanted to ask for directions, but he didn't need to ask at all, and he walked towards the northeast, where the flow of people is the most dense, and there was absolutely no mistake.
The two of them arrived outside the classroom unhurriedly, and at first glance, Xia Shijie shrank his shoulders.
"Why are there so many people?" He couldn't help frowning, and said in his heart, the scholars in such a small place are too unknowledgeable, so why not just one class? Even if Guo Lao said it, why not rush to pat the sycophants.
I don't know how many of these people really want to listen to a class.
As soon as Shi Feng saw Xia Shijie's face, he knew what he was thinking, and gently touched his arm: "Let's go." "It's better to be cautious on other people's turf.
Xia Shijie frowned, hesitated slightly, and didn't want to go in: "We don't need to squeeze with them, otherwise wait outside, and when Guo Lao finishes speaking, it doesn't hurt to meet again." ”
Shi Feng was hesitating, Xia Shijie's body suddenly stiffened, he raised his head suddenly, his eyebrows frowned tighter, and Shi Feng was also stunned.
There were two scholars in front of him who lowered their voices and said, "It's really so good, doesn't it mean that now it's Guo Lao's student, and Miss Hongchen is substitute teaching?" She's only just started school. ”
"Shh
As soon as he spoke, a row of people in front of him looked back and stared, and the two scholars were suddenly silent, holding their breath and listening.
The sound inside is really loud, the classroom is not big, it can only accommodate more than 30 people, and if you are careful outside, you can also hear the sound of lectures intermittently.
It is estimated that even if there is a particularly famous storyteller to tell the story that everyone loves to hear, it is impossible to cause such a result as it is now, after all, the storyteller can't tell the secret history of the Shikoku court that is really decent, and he doesn't dare to say it.
Listening to the words of the scholar in front of him, Shi Feng raised his eyebrows and was quite curious, Xia Shijie's face changed suddenly, he was silent for a moment, and snorted coldly: "Don't leave yet, do you really want to listen to a yellow-haired girl's lecture?" ”
"I can't leave if I want to."
After a while, another layer was blocked, and these were four rows of people inside and out, not counting the few capable people who directly lifted the tiles on the roof.
The gaze behind him was like a knife, Shi Feng raised his index finger, and shrugged his shoulders at Xia Shijie with a smile, Xia Shijie couldn't breathe in his chest, and almost fainted, he never wanted to hear it, and he didn't want to listen, but the surroundings were too quiet, and he even felt that the sound of his breathing was annoying.
Quiet for a while, the sound of the red dust inside was very weak, but it continued to drill into his ears, Xia Shijie sneered: What is this? Full of nonsense, who does she think she is? I really dare to give a lecture on behalf of Guo Lao, and I am not ashamed!
Looking at the students around him listening with relish, he was even more disdainful in his heart, a bunch of superficial guys, you go to the academy to study, in order to gain knowledge, to take the imperial examination, what is the benefit of listening to a little woman's nonsense?
The more Hongchen talked about it, the more he went deeper, and he began to boldly analyze the reason why Emperor Taizu of the Great Zhou Dynasty was able to sit on behalf of Chen a hundred years ago.
At this time, the students in front found that Guo Shanchang was holding a cup of tea in one hand and also standing at the door, as if he was listening to it with relish, and he didn't plan to go in at all, but he just pointed out twice, and then he took care of it again, Xia Shijie was stunned, his face was even more ugly, and he couldn't help but think that fortunately he didn't fall to Yanshan Academy, Shanchang was so unreliable, and there were still students from the academy who could be admitted to the academy in the previous imperial examinations, which was incredible!
It was still Hongchen who turned his head and found Guo Shanchang, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly stood up from his seat.
"Hey!" (To be continued......)