Chapter 22: Daily Life Before School Starts
After Liu Bei went out, a smile appeared on his cheeks, the smooth progress of things was really beyond his expectations, not only was the plan to become famous by "Hundred Family Names" just around the corner, but also "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" was also borrowed.
The most enviable success in the world is "getting something for nothing", although there are corresponding costs and risks behind it, but ordinary people don't care about you, they will only see that the original brother and sister suddenly took a shit luck, inexplicably higher than themselves.
Liu Bei borrowed "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" in order to minimize the quantity and quality of this kind of gossip, after all, people are terrible, and Liu Bei's number - 0123456789, which will be out of the world in a year or two, and the Xuande symbol +-ΓΓ· = ...... It's not a dispensable little fight like "Hundred Family Names".
Its appearance will have an incalculable impact on the mathematics of this era, and at this time there will be doubtful and jealous people who will inquire into the past experience of the person who invented it, then, at that time, the deeds of his painstaking study of the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" for several years will become the best evidence for himself.
Liu Bei was thinking about it when a cautious voice came from behind him:
"Youβyou're ......"
Liu Bei turned his head and saw that it was none other than the little Lori Lu Yuan.
"Yo, it's you, why are you here?" Liu Bei looked at the little Lori and asked with a smile, he was in a good mood at this time, and he couldn't help but have some thoughts of teasing this little girl.
"Humph! This is my home. Lu Yuan didn't give Liu Bei face very much, and snorted coldly.
Liu Bei was a little embarrassed, and comforted himself in his heart, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, it's just a little girl, and she can't be as careless as her, so doesn't it seem that she is narrow-minded?" β
Seeing that Liu Bei didn't answer, Little Lori Lu Yuan thought she was reasonable, and she was busy: "And what are you doing at my house?" β
Liu Bei pretended to groan deeply, at this time, he must not continue to follow the other party's train of thought, or what he said fell into the pit, so Liu Bei asked rhetorically: "Guess? β
"I guess? I don't think you're here to do anything good. Lu Yuan's gaze at this time was like looking at the prisoner.
"Well, don't talk nonsense?" Liu Bei hurriedly shouted for himself: "Why do I look like a person who does bad things." β
"Because you're not a good person!" Lu Yuan presented his own evidence, and his face was firm.
Liu Bei was depressed, he hadn't offended this girl, why wasn't he a good person? Sure enough, women's unreasonableness does not distinguish between nationality, race, age, time and space.
"Squeak." The door of the study was pushed open from the inside out, and Lu Zhi walked out.
Liu Bei saluted Lu Zhi in a sneering manner: "The disciple has seen the teacher. β
And the little Lori Lu Yuan, who was standing next to Liu Bei, did not come over to salute her father as obediently as before, but turned her head angrily with a stalk on her little neck.
Then something happened to Liu Bei's surprise, Lu Zhi, who was usually the most polite, didn't seem to see his daughter's rude behavior, but turned his head to himself and said, "Xuande." β
"The disciple is here."
"Since you haven't left yet, let's take your junior sister to the guest room to play for a while."
"Returning to the teacher, the disciple is still ......"
"Don't worry." Lu Zhi decisively interrupted Liu Bei's words, "Wait a minute, I will send Fu Bo to explain this matter to your father." β
Liu Bei's heart was about to collapse, what was going on, he actually wanted to bring a bear child by himself, and it was obviously a bear child who was not in a good mood.
However, since Lu Zhi had already said so, Liu Bei had no choice but to say, "The disciple obeys the order." β
"Then let's go." Lu Zhi said lightly.
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Liu Bei dragged Lu Yuan all the way to the wing, and when he arrived at the destination, Liu Bei let go of his hand with relief.
"Hey, girl, what are you awkward on the road? It took me so much effort. β
"Hmph, who told you to pull me!" Lu Yuan said angrily, with an expression that was wrong with you.
"You think I'm trying to pull you?" Liu Bei said angrily. β
"By the way, what's the matter with you and the teacher? What's going on? β
Lu Yuan heard Liu Bei's question, but she cried suddenly: "Woo~Wow~"
Liu Bei helplessly held his forehead, and regretted it again - you said you, couldn't you just go out at that time? Why do you have to tease little Lori? Look, woe to you now.
But he couldn't ignore it, thought about it Liu Bei and said: "Hey, girl, don't cry, okay, or be careful to wait and bring the teacher over, but you look good." β
"Woo ~ wow ~ woo ~ wow ~ " Lu Yuan cried more and more vigorously without threat, and the crying was originally a sad BGM.
"Don't cry, okay, I'm begging you."
"Hmph, bad guy, I can cry if I want to, you can't control it."
Liu Bei listened to this, his heart was overjoyed, what the bear child was most afraid of was that he would ignore you completely by himself, and let you waste your saliva, since there is communication, even if it is bad communication, it can be regarded as a breakthrough point.
So Liu Bei pretended to be unhappy and said: "You cry when you cry, how can you talk nonsense?" What did I do badly, you say I'm a bad person? β
Lu Yuan really stopped crying and retorted angrily: "You are a bad person, you think for yourself." β
Liu Bei also immediately said: "I'm not a bad person, we've only met a few times?" What did I do and I became a bad person? You don't talk nonsense. β
Lu Yuan was about to explode, and her voice was much sharper: "You said that you would finish telling me that story when we see you next time, but I have been looking for you several times, and you are gone." β
Liu Bei was suddenly embarrassed, after Lu Yuan said this, he seemed to have such a thing when he thought about it, he really forgot.
And Liu Bei also recalled that in the next few days when the teacher Lu Zhi moved his family to the county school, he would always meet Xiao Lu Yuan who looked at him with a blank face every day after school, but at that time, his mind was all on Zhang Fei, and he didn't take it as a matter for a while.
"Alright, alright, I was wrong." Liu Bei admitted his mistake, a mistake is a mistake, there is nothing to deny, even if it is just in the face of an unfulfilled promise to a child.
After admitting his mistake, Liu Bei began to tell the unfinished story last time, well, what is it called, it seems to be "The Princesses of Great Chu and the Seven Yodelers" - how could he think of such a name at that time, it was really ashamed.
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Since then, the princess of Dachu and the prince of Daqin have lived happily together. β
After a long time, after the story was told, Liu Bei regained his anger and secretly glanced at Lu Yuan beside him, only to see that she was listening carefully with wide eyes, and the tears on her cheeks had dried.
"That's it." Little Lori Lu Yuan looked a little lost.
Liu Bei nodded, "The story will always come to an end, if you are not satisfied, I will tell you a longer one next time." β
"Oh." Lu Yuan said softly.
"Stop crying?" Liu Bei laughed.
"Hmph." Lu Yuan turned her head away from Liu Bei's hateful face.
Liu Bei smiled, in the end, he is still a child, troubles and sorrows come and go quickly, if six or seven years pass, this little girl will not be so easy to coax.
Just thinking about it, there was a "squeak", the door of the wing room was pushed open, and Lu Zhi walked in with a calm face: "It's time to eat", and left with a calm face after speaking, leaving Liu Bei alone in a daze, teacher, why are you so elusive.
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After this meal, it is not too late, the spring equinox has passed, and in the following days, the day in the northern Youzhou will encroach on the extra night day by day.
Liu Bei wanted to take advantage of the afterglow of the sunset to go home, but Lu Zhi stopped him and took him to the study again.
After entering the study, before Liu Bei had time to ask questions tactfully, Lu Zhi opened his mouth first:
"Xuande, Yuan'er is sorry for this, but this time I thank you."
Liu Bei immediately said in fear: "I don't dare to be a teacher's gift, Zi said, 'If there is something, the disciple will obey it', this is what the disciple should do." β
Lu Zhi smiled and said nothing, and watched Liu Bei finish his expression before continuing: "Xuande, do you know why Yuan'er is so rude today and plays petty with me. β
Liu Bei was stunned, how can I know this, teacher, just say it, don't sell it, this is a bad habit!
Lu Zhi naturally knew that Liu Bei didn't know about this, so he didn't wait for the disciple to answer, so he continued: "Just because she pulled me to play with her this morning, I didn't hold back the anger in my heart and accidentally sprinkled it on her. β
"Xuande, have you ever seen your master?"
Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, where is this, there is no connection between the upper and lower sentences at all, okay, he was complaining, a bright light flashed in his mind, Liu Bei suddenly remembered the story of Zhang Fei's family, is it not a teacher......
"Because she's in Luoyang."
Liu Bei felt disillusioned with disappointment in his heart, but he immediately collected his emotions and continued to listen.
"It was the second year of Jianning, the general was killed, the government was chaotic, and the division returned to Zhuoxian from Ruoyang in order to avoid disaster, but at that time your mother was pregnant and about to give birth, so I had to entrust her to a friend to stay in Luoyang to give birth, but a few days ago, the teacher received a letter from Luoyang, and got the news that it was a 'son died early'."
Liu Bei was silent, this is really bad news, especially for Lu Zhi, who is over thirty years old and still has no children, after thinking about it, Liu Bei comforted: "The teacher doesn't have to be sad, the future will be long, and there will definitely be a son who inherits the teacher's knowledge." β
Lu Zhi smiled and said, "It doesn't have to be like this, by the way, Xuande, how did you comfort Yuan'er, she was very stubborn." β
Liu Bei naturally knew that this was changing the topic, and hurriedly cooperated: "Back to the teacher, the disciple told a story to the little junior sister. β
"The story? But the one you didn't finish talking about here. β
"Exactly."
"But what's that calledβ" Lu Zhi frowned and pondered, "Yodelers." β
Liu Bei sweated, the teacher's memory is really not so good.
"By the way, where are the yodelers? I'm not impressed. β
"This--a book that the disciple had read before, which recorded many ghost legends about the Chu State, among which there was a kind of dwarf, but there was no book without a name, and "yodel" was what the disciple said that day. Liu Bei explained.
"I see," Lu Zhi nodded, and then admonished, "In the future, I should read less of these strange books." β
Liu Bei also hurriedly nodded in agreement, and then the two talked again, and Liu Bei got up and retired.
Walking on the road, Liu Bei was still thinking about what Lu Zhi told him, why did the teacher tell him? It's a family affair after all.