Chapter 24: The Ladder
"Hmm......" Shi Qingqing turned over, and was awakened by a thunder that rumbled through the sky, accompanied by a flash of lightning as bright as day, with a bang, the torrential rain poured down, smashing on the glazed tiles of the division's mansion, clanging.
Shi Qingqing hugged the quilt and sat up, pushed open the window with all his strength, a cold wind blew in his face, and Shi Qingqing couldn't help but wrap the quilt hard.
After slowly getting used to the temperature, Shi Qingqing sat by the window with the quilt in his arms, looking at the extraordinarily peaceful Shifu at night, listening to the sound of the rain, there was a special quietness.
"Teiki?" Tonight is the night of Mama's duty, and I was awakened when I heard the noisy sound of rain and the sound of the wind outside.
Shi Qingqing didn't light the lamp, he wrapped himself in a quilt and did it there, and Mama was really bold......
"Mama, it's me!" Shi Qingqing leaned slightly sideways and responded.
"The emperor was awakened by this thunder?" Mama came forward with a lantern and asked with concern.
Shi Qingqing smiled lightly: "Yes, are you arguing with grandma?" ”
Mama smiled gently, shook her head, and then took out the lantern and lit the candle on the bedside post, Xu understood Shi Qingqing's mind that he didn't want to be too bright, so he didn't take out the night pearl.
Shi Qingqing smiled gratefully and looked at the endless darkness, but his originally dark eyes shone brightly in the dark night.
Mama's eyes lit up, "The emperor is worried about going to college tomorrow?" ”
Shi Qingqing stretched out his hand from the heavy quilt, dragged his cheeks, sighed, and said bluntly: "Actually." I don't know what I'm bothering about! ”
Many things are like a spring rushing in the mind, as if there is no way out, and as if suddenly an outlet has been found, pouring out.
In short, it's just one word, messy.
Mama Lu still has that smiling face, with a hint of concern, "Emperor Ji is always sighing at a young age, be careful to sigh that she is old." As he spoke, he grabbed Shi Qingqing's hand, put it back into the quilt, and wrapped the quilt around his neck vigorously. so as not to let the wind in.
"I don't know why it's bothering. Why don't you put these aside, everything pays attention to a fateful word, which is not understandable at this time, maybe it is just that the time has not come. Why don't you put away your worries. Be calm. When the time is ripe, a qiē, and it will be solved naturally? ”
Shi Qingqing heard this. muttered to himself, "Really, can it be solved?" ”
Mama smiled slightly and nodded heavily.
Shi Qingqing looked at Mama Lu's appearance, the face that was slightly wrinkled with a smile in the corners of her eyes, flickering with the candle flame in the faint light of the night, like the face of the Northern Xia Emperor when he was the emperor himself.
It's so convincing and heartwarming.
Shi Qingqing suddenly understood a little why the Northern Xia Emperor wanted to send Mama Lu to his side.
Since then, there has been no dream!
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Next
Early in the morning, Shi Qingqing was pulled up from the quilt by Xi'er, "Miss, Miss, wake up, wake up!" It's going to be late! ”
Shi Qingqing rubbed his eyes, it was chaos, the sky was brightening so soon?
I feel like I'm going to lie down!
"Ah, miss, why are your eyes so dark?" Xi'er pointed at Shi Qingqing's blue and black eyes, and shouted.
Shi Qingqing rubbed his ears helplessly, tried to open his eyelids with his hands, and said to Xi'er, who wanted to cry without tears: "Didn't you say that you were almost late?" Why don't you wash my face soon? ”
"Oh... Yes, yes, En'er, Xin'er, come up quickly! Xi'er walked to the door and shouted loudly, Shi Qingqing felt that the bed was shaken three times.
"Miss, it's too ...... for you to enter the Dumen Academy like this It's eye-catching, what do you have to use to cover up, but what to use? Xi'er looked at the empty dresser with a bitter face.
Why doesn't her young lady like to dress up so much......
"It's fine, it's just a skin!" Shi Qingqing put Xi'er's bedside clothes on himself that he had prepared last night, looked at Xi'er who was stunned in front of the bronze mirror, and couldn't help but say comfort.
"Miss, this is your first time in college! appeared in front of everyone's eyes like this, only afraid of the future...... Why do you ...... "and comfort yourself?"
While talking, En'er and Xin'er came in, and Xi'er had to temporarily contain her grievances and wait for Shi Qingqing to wash her cough.
"Emperor Ji, Manager Xia has come to say, the teacher will explain, let Emperor Ji come back from the academy to ask for peace again!"
Shi Qingqing nodded lightly when he heard this, "Got it!" ”
"Sister Qing?"
"Is Sister Qing okay?"
Shi Qingqing seemed to hear Shi Xiangrong's voice in a daze, and after listening carefully, he was really busy, "Okay, okay!" ”
So, I touched my face casually, grabbed the bookbag sewn by Xi'er and went out.
Leaving Xi'er to shout in Qingyuan: "Miss, you haven't had breakfast yet!" ”
Shi Qingqing didn't answer, raised his hand, and shook the hibiscus pastry in his hand......
Dumen Academy is the largest academy in the imperial capital, and the children of the family and the children of the common people are treated equally, and they are not allowed to bring attendants and maids into it.
For this, Shi Qingqing felt very satisfied.
She didn't want to, so she went to the academy and saw a group of young ladies who were more beautiful than each other surrounded by maids.
After such a few days, Shi Qingqing can be regarded as finding out a truth, the ladies of the Northern Xia Kingdom are all idle, and they will pinch when they meet.
Shi Qingqing was holding Shi Xiangrong and walking towards the gate, and saw Shi Shumei and Shi Shuying coming with their waists swaying.
Because of the regulations of Dumen Academy, all students of Dumen Academy must wear the uniform of Dumen Academy, without exception, simple and unpretentious, uniform blue robes.
In order to avoid being compared, these two girls wore a head full of jewelry, and they had to support each other when they walked at the moment, and Handan was a toddler.
"Greetings to Emperor Qingluo!" The two also saw Shi Qingqing and Shi Xiangrong who came together, and saluted pretendly.
Shi Qingqing lightly swept Shi Shumei and Shi Shuying's knees slightly bent, and smiled gently, "It seems that the Buddha didn't worship enough that day, I don't know what this ceremony is!" ”
"The Buddha doesn't care about these, punishes the evil and promotes the good, and eradicates the traitors and villains. It's too busy. Shi Shumei smiled coquettishly and stretched out an index finger and shook it in front of Shi Qingqing's eyes.
was slapped off by Shi Qingqing, "Today, why are you so conscious?" ”
Poof-
Shi Xiangrong, who was next to Shi Qingqing, couldn't help it and laughed out loud.
Seeing Shi Shumei and Shi Shuying staring at herself, thinking that more things are better than less, she said to Shi Qingqing: "It's not early today, and we haven't reported to the academy yet, let's go quickly!" ”
Shi Qingqing smiled lightly, of course agreed.
The teacher next to her saw this. I want to say something more. was pulled by Shi Shuying on the side, and said in a weird manner: "Let's go too, who is the villain and who knows in his heart, we are not like some people who like to do things behind our backs." I didn't say anything about getting someone's daughter to the temple. He also got someone's father to be an official in a place where birds don't even! ”
Shi Qingqing was about to get into the carriage for a moment. Very confused, "What do you mean?" ”
Seeing this, Shi Shumei sneered more and more. "You are still pretending to be crazy and stupid, if it weren't for you, Lord Ai would have been demoted from the capital? I didn't even believe the three-year-old child at the gate of the Imperial Capital City, so I was embarrassed to ask what it meant? Oh... I almost forgot, some people have pretended to be stupid for so many years, should they pretend to be and forget what they are, really think they are stupid, right? ”
"Okay, don't talk about it, lest some people get angry and use the emperor's shelf to press us, let's go." Shi Shuying covered her mouth and chuckled, squinted her eyes and glanced at Shi Qingqing lightly, pulled Shi Shumei into another carriage, and drove away in the dust.
Shi Qingqing, who was left with an inexplicable face, "Lord Ai? Which Ai-sama? ”
"Xiangrong, do you know who they are talking about?" Shi Qingqing had never heard of Master Ai, so he had to ask Shi Xiangrong on the side.
Shi Xiang Rong Wenyan, seeing that Shi Qingqing really didn't know, he told the truth, "It's Rong Jiao's maternal grandfather, Sister Qing'er, you really don't know?" ”
"You think it's me, too?" Shi Qingqing did not answer the rhetorical question.
Shi Xiangrong was stunned by Shi Qingqing's quick reaction, and only replied after a while, "Everyone in the imperial capital is ......" said Finally, his voice became lower and lower, until it disappeared, low to the dust, but not dusty.
Shi Qingqing, who originally thought he would be angry, suddenly lowered his head and smiled, and said, "Also, I am indeed one of the most powerful suspects, maybe it is indeed because of me, but I don't know, let's go, I want to be Rong, if I don't leave, I won't be able to catch up!" ”
"Sister Qing, you won't be angry, right?" Shi Xiangrong was worried that Shi Qingqing would be estranged from him from now on, and he looked cautious.
"Of course...... Not really! Shi Qingqing smiled mischievously, and his eyes were like the sunrise in the East China Sea.
Seeing this, Shi Xiangrong was really relieved, and took Shi Qingqing's hand and got into the carriage.
Dumen Academy, taken from the meaning of Pudu sentient beings, is intended to cultivate talents for the Northern Xia Kingdom and be a ferryman.
The college was built halfway up the mountain, with a straight ladder 108 feet long, and it is said that the dean of the college was to encourage the students who came to study to cheer up and complete their studies in one go.
All in all, it is very significant.
There have been students who came thousands of miles after their academic success, just to climb this staircase and miss their unremitting efforts.
Shi Qingqing raised his head and looked up at the ladder again, and couldn't help but be suspicious of Shi Xiangrong's introduction, "Are you sure someone really did that?" ”
Shi Xiangrong's face was determined, his face was full of divine reverence, "Naturally, that person is now teaching in the academy, and it has long been known to everyone!" ”
Shi Qingqing couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, "Okay, then...... Let's start climbing! ”
"Let's go!" Shi Xiangrong pulled Shi Qingqing with an excited face and began to climb the stairs endlessly.
After a while.
Shi Qingqing put his hands on his knees, bent over and panted, and intermittently said to Shi Xiangrong, who was still excited: "I, I can't do it, you go first!" "What bullshit cheered up and finished his studies in one go, and rolled away.
"I ...... I'm going down the hill...... "The stairs are so high, it's murder!"
Shi wanted to see that Shi Qingqing was about to go down the mountain, so he hurriedly stopped, "It's already half of the climb, don't you have to go down again, come, I'll pull you!" ”
After speaking, regardless of Shi Qingqing's refusal, he pulled and left.
Shi Qingqing felt that she must have been deceived by Shi Xiangrong's weak appearance, this is a Li Yuanba, and her foot is about to break her hand before she leaves.
"Huh...... Villain, why are you still here? ”
Shi Qingqing greeted Shi Shumei, who was also panting on the side, her original delicate makeup was already stained with sweat, and the flowers were like colorful pythons.
At this moment, the python spat out the snake letter, "You... You... You don't... Proud, who climbed to the top first...... Not necessarily! ”
After speaking, he pulled Shi Shuying, who was no longer speechless, and climbed to the front step of Shi Qingqing.
Shi Qingqing looked at the tail of the big python, and was about to go up to the sky, and couldn't help but stretch out his hand and beat it, "Die!" ”
Shi Shu was a fierce spirit, and her words were neat, "You...... You are so vulgar and hit me... Hit me in the gut? ”
Shi Xiangrong wanted to reach the top, and he was also dissatisfied with Shi Shumei's behavior, "Fifth sister, this is your fault, obviously you stopped in front first, blocking the way between Sister Qing and me, not to mention, now Sister Qing asked you to get out of the way, you are still blocking in front, okay... Even if Sister Qing hit the place where she shouldn't have been, but Sister Qing is a woman, not a man, Fifth Sister, you are making such a fuss, don't you, do you want to tell the world? I think, this is not too troublesome, this mountain around the water, the water around the mountain, layer upon layer, the clouds are also the mountain, the natural barrier echo is good, as long as the fifth sister you roar, not half a day, the news that the fifth lady of your master family was beaten by others can immediately spread all over the imperial capital! ”
Shi Qingqing was so shocked by Shi Xiangrong in front of him that the three souls lost two souls, and couldn't help but ask, "Want... Want to be Rong, is that you? ”
Shi Xiangrong didn't care, and looked down at himself, "What's wrong?" I'm fine? Let's go! After speaking, he forgot about the other ladies of the family behind him, "It's almost time to catch up, let's go!" ”
is worthy of being a famous talented woman in the imperial capital, so the tongue master Qingqing feels that she is really ashamed of herself when she compares with one of them before!
Shi Shumei was also speechless by Shi Xiangrong's sudden outburst, and couldn't help but ask Shi Shuying on the side, "What elixir have the two of them eaten recently, why have they changed so much one by one?" ”
Shi Shuying was already weak, and when she saw Shi Shumei asking, she was powerless, so she only pointed to Shi Qingqing, who was almost at the top of the mountain, and said silently: "Go quickly, go quickly!" ”
Shi Shumei looked at Shi Shuying's direction, couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly pulled Shi Shuying and ran up, with words in her mouth, "You must not let these two little cheap hooves take the lead, hurry up Fourth Sister!" ”
Shi Shuying was pulled by Shi Shumei's fierce pull and almost fainted, but Shi Qingqing's back was getting farther and farther away from the top, so he had to force himself to follow Shi Shumei's pace with two legs that did not obey. (To be continued......)