Under the supervision of Sanniang, Luo Shi drank most of the bowl of ten-grain porridge with a full stomach.

"We are country girls, what do you do in the officialdom of the court, what can you provoke with your little shoulders, fortunately, Huo Gouguan is dead, and there will be fewer people to trouble you in the future, and Liang Gongzi has also returned to Beijing......"

Sanniang saw Luo's eyes darkened, and couldn't help but sigh: "Let's live our own little life, you have to cheer up, the shop can't go on forever, and a bunch of workshop guys are waiting for you to open up with their heads up." ”

This is said to Luo Shi's heart, yes, things will not end with the fire of the prefect's yamen, but will be more and more complicated.

She vaguely remembered what Huo Liang said when he grabbed her neck—he said that he would cross her and sacrifice her to the princess.

Princess? And who? Is it the hunter who hunts the traverser?

Although she is just a traverser who has purchased a farming package, this series of things tells her that the days of farming and doing some small business to make money have passed, and she will always become a fish and meat, and she will always be a passive situation of being slaughtered by others.

Moreover, Uncle Ye is not there, and there is no one to protect her, if she doesn't become strong herself, she can't even protect the people around her......

Political power, the right to speak in the court, this is what she desperately needs!

It's just that she is still meditating.

In the past, she used Wufu Squirrel to "calculate" General He with kindness, but now that he is dead, and the He family is firmly controlled by the Jiang family, this only bit of background is gone.

Take a deep breath, that's it, it's not something that can be done overnight, let's take it one step at a time.

Putting down the bowl and spoon, Luo Shi said to Sanniang:

"The old general is also considered to be old, before the funeral, you and I will go to condolence, send some couplets over, but I can't write, and I have to ask you to go to the book stall to make a contribution."

"You have forgotten Jiang Xiucai in the teahouse, I have already entrusted him, and he himself admires the life of General He Gaoyi, so I don't need to speak, I have already made a longevity couplet"

Luo Shi nodded, yes, these days I have been dizzy by the black smoke and miasma, and I forgot all the things about the teahouse, Jiangzhou is very considerate, he has never asked edamame to disturb her, and he has also handled trivial matters such as storytelling and lunch boxes.

"It's almost autumn, right?"

Luo Shi counts the days, this year is the autumn test of the township, and Jiangzhou will go to take the exam.

Sanniang nodded and said: "Yes, the people in Tongzhou City are waiting for Jiang Xiucai to take Xie Yuan, when he was taking the Xiucai exam, he was the first mile of the case, these days you are not there, Douzi often boasts to me, saying that Jiangzhou is very knowledgeable, and he has more insights than the Jinshi who were born in the two lists in the private school in the past."

Luo Shi sneered softly: "He's a little kid, he knows what it means to be knowledgeable."

Sanniang followed Wen Xiao and put away the bowl: "In your eyes, the pocket will always be a little doll, and people are now a young man, what they say makes more sense than me, okay, you can rest."

After that, Sanniang covered the door and went out.

The room was quiet, Luo Shi looked at the half-hanging Xiangfei bamboo curtain on the window, and the shallow fragrance of begonia flowers in the room, and her nose was sour.

She craned her neck, poured back her tears, and murmured:

"It's good, it's good for everyone......"

*

On the side, a cool breeze rose and blew away the impetuous heat.

Luo Shi put on a dress and pushed open the door of the house, and the moss on the stone in the courtyard was floating, and the begonia petals fell all over the stone steps.

She looked at the closed door of the north room, and said to herself: he didn't even have time to pack up a piece of clothing, so he left.

What do you do with that pile of things, so that she can see things and think about people, or set up a well-dressed mound, so that she will have a grave in her heart, and bury the surviving?

"Bang-"

At this time, a crisp sound came from the study room of the North House! Someone's in there?

Uncle Liang?!

Shocked by her own thoughts, Luo Xi walked down the stone steps quickly, and stumbled by the moss, shaking her loose hair, green silk splashed ink, she pushed open the door of the hall, and there was surprise in her eyes: he didn't leave?

"Uncle Liang!"

She shook her flustered but not uneasy voice, and slammed her head inside—but when she saw people, she was disappointed and poured a basin of cold water, and her heart was cold.

Jiangzhou accidentally knocked over the pen holder and hit the inkstone, so there was this sound. He saw that Luo Shi's smile was fixed at the corner of his mouth, his eyes were obscure, and he explained warmly:

"I'm sorry, I need paper and pen temporarily, and when I saw that the door of the study here was not locked, I came in and borrowed pen and ink, and I was abrupt"

Luo Shi was stunned for a long time before she came back to her senses, she opened her eyes, and said lightly:

"It's okay, only, I didn't expect it to be you, how is the teahouse doing? The chapter of the storytelling must have been finished, right? Let me have a few more days, and I will think about you and the lunch box......"

"Luo Shi girl" Jiang Zhou interrupted her with a smile: "The teahouse is just my father's obsession, I was born as a son of man to fulfill his last wish, it is enough, I came here today for another matter"

Luo Shi raised her inquiring gaze, not for the teahouse, but for what?

Jiang Zhou smiled, took the paperweight on the table, lifted the rice paper and blew it, and handed it to her.

Luo Shi took a look, it was a house, larger than the small Sihe, and even had a second-floor terrace attic, which was more like the layout of an inn hall.

"What is this?"

"This is an abandoned old ancestral hall in Xicheng, I plan to convert it into a Qiuyu guild hall for friends or poor students to live temporarily, I know that the girl has always had an idea, please give me some advice"

Jiangzhou smiled lightly, and could not find a trace of error, people were like a breeze and pine, making people very comfortable to get along with.

Luo Shi scratched her head: "I'm a woman, and I'm not a craftsman who builds houses and sheds, and I don't have a good idea with you, if you say what kind of dishes to cook for the hall every day, and set up a canteen for students, I still have some ideas."

"That's enough"

"Huh?" Luo Shi didn't understand what medicine Jiangzhou gourd was sold.

Fold the drawing paper of the layout of the hall and put it into the straight cuffs, Jiang Zhou said:

"I know about the girl's difficulties and troubles, so I have some persuasion that the silk flower clinging to the big tree is a way to support a new talent in the forest, and how clever is it?"

Luo Shi is a smart person, she understands what Jiangzhou means.

Rather than looking for a party in the court to rely on, it is better to cultivate the power yourself, and every imperial examination student may be the mainstay of the court in the future, and the minister of the auxiliary court.

Strive for the autumn candidates in Tongzhou, and there will be a Beijing will try Yingju in the coming year, this kind of force infiltrates the day, but it is like a reeling silk cocoon, which is a fine and solid net.

"Okay, I'll do it with you!"

Luo Xi stretched out his palm, wanting to high-five him as an alliance - Jiang Zhou smiled and printed his palm, seeing that her small palm was attached to it, there was an unusually firm warmth, he resisted the urge to wrap his hand, and only lightly clicked:

"A word is a certainty"

After Jiangzhou left, Luo Shi felt full of energy again, like a person trapped in confusion, who was given the direction and motivation to move forward.

She hurried back to her room, changed into a blue collared skirt and a azure gown, and hurried out.

When she arrived at the old mansion in Xicheng, the craftsmen invited by Jiangzhou had already carried stones and bricks on their backs and went to work inside.

Luo Xi roughly looked at the structure of the house, about half an acre of area, a row of south houses facing the street, five large rooms, from the gatehouse into a piece of wall, the bricks and mud on it peeled off, it looked very dilapidated.

Folded to the west, it is the outer courtyard, the south house is in the middle, two stories high, three rooms to the west, two bright and one dark. A moon gate in the east, enter another small courtyard, very spacious, to the north is a long row of pavilions, although the corridor is dilapidated, but the brick grinding water wall is quite firm, about a repair, you can live in it.

The courtyard was quiet, Jiang Zhou rolled up his wide sleeves, led a bucket of paste to her, and said with a smile: "The money is limited, I'm afraid you and I will have to do some work myself."

Luo Shi took the big brush, and knew that it was to paste the house, so she said:

"I'm an idler, it just so happens that the shop is also closed, it doesn't matter, don't delay your study, everyone is still counting on you to solve the yuan in high school"

"If you want to rely on these few days of hard study, temporarily clinging to Buddha's feet, where is there still Xie Yuan Kezhong, don't you believe me?"

Between his eyebrows, which are sparse and light, he seems to be the most flamboyant and confident.

Luo Shi smiled: "In that case, Xie Yuanlang, lead the way!" ”

Most of these large quadruple buildings do not have fixed ceilings, and they generally have to be pasted with paper to paste the "Yangchen" is the ceiling, and the walls do not need to be painted, but also pasted with paper, even the partition is also made of paper.

It is not rice paper in the general sense, but on the outside of the shelf made of sorghum oranges and reed oranges, and then wrapped in old account paper.

This was originally the old ancestral hall, the room was dirty, dilapidated, after pasting, it was like a snow cave, clean and pleasant.

"It's to provide boarding for poor students, but I'm afraid the room will not be enough"

Luo Shi pounded her sore waist, looking at the wall of Sibai to the end, and she still felt a sense of accomplishment.

"I divided the rooms as much as I could, but it was also a grievance to make it look like a pigeon cage, and it was better to stay in an inn and spend a little more money a day."

Nodding, Luo Shi also said: "Also, there are many compartments, and the sound insulation is not good, if someone reads at night, it will also affect the rest of others."

Jiangzhou covered the last wall with table paper, ironed it firmly, and then patted the plaster on his hands, while examining, and said:

"In a few days, the students who rush to take the exam will enter the city one after another, and when the time comes, you will have to borrow your errand team to go to a few inns to post notices, those who think that the salary of the Zhuzhu is expensive, and the students who are shy in their pockets can stay overnight with the results of the county examination and make up a small amount of meal expenses."

Luo Shi nodded and wrote it down, adding a few more words:

"There are also rules to be set for the museum, first, it is not allowed to live with female dependents, second, it is not allowed to invite friends to live with it, and third, it is not allowed to rebuild the house and sublet it second-hand"

"This is what you thought, so I added these three"

Jiang Zhou continued: "It will take about five or six days to repair here, you can think about the method of the canteen, because only a small amount of food expenses are subsidized, in addition to the profits from the teahouse, you have to find a way to enter."

Luo Shi pursed her lips and smiled:

"This is what I am good at, so leave it to me...... By the way, I don't know about the autumn festival, you tell me, what do you have to bring to the Tribute Academy, what can't you bring, what are the usual practices, and what are the unsatisfactory? ”

"Okay, I'll tell you one by one"

It was getting late, and Luo Shi didn't go back to cook on the stove, so he and Jiangzhou asked for two bowls of somen noodles at the roadside stall.