Chapter Ninety-Three: It's not impossible to do what you can
She ran to the backyard along the voice, and saw a red dress in the lotus pond, struggling hard, which eldest lady passed through the academy, stumbled and fell into the deep pond, surrounded by a circle of students wearing Dongpo scarves, all shouting to save people, but no one dared to go down to the pond to save people.
are hesitating, after all, this pond is too evil, it is impossible to save people, and give her own life, only the little girl by the pond has cried dry tears, begging for thousands of begging, begging these readers who are full of poetry and books, full of benevolence and morality, to save her young lady.
Finally, I was moved by compassion, and I would be a clever student, found a long bamboo pole, put it next to the struggling lady in the pool, and let her climb along the bamboo pole to the pond bank.
But the silt at the bottom of the pond was too deep and thick, and the young lady with her little feet could not walk an inch, and the pool water was cold, almost freezing her limbs, let alone climbing along the bamboo pole, she couldn't even hold the bamboo pole.
Seeing that the young lady even struggled much slower, the burning red eyes also sank to the bottom of the pool.
The scholar who was reading the test papers in the inner room, because he felt the wind and cold, and he fell asleep in a daze, but he was awakened by the increasingly noisy voice, vaguely mixed with the woman's mournful screams.
At a glance, he almost did not hesitate to jump into the cold lotus pond amid the exclamations of all the students, swam with difficulty, and finally grabbed the skirt of the young lady, and took the young lady's hand along the skirt, and pulled her to swim to the shore of the pool.
But the drowning lady, as soon as she touched his hand, she swam up like a snake, like a life-saving straw, tightly imprisoned.
In just an instant, the scholar was inconvenienced by her legs and feet, and the mud at the bottom of the pool also stuck to his feet, increasing his burden, and his steps were difficult, and the cold pool water had frozen his whole body numb.
"Save the teacher!" Suddenly, a firm roar came out from the crowd of students who were watching silently, and as soon as the speaker's words fell, he took off his Dongpo towel and rushed into the cold lotus pond.
And after all, he is weak and weak, and he is a scholar who can't lift his hands, just swimming to the scholar and the young lady, he is already exhausted, and he can only cry and shout, "Why do you want to save the teacher, you nerds, why don't you even dare to save the teacher?!" β
Like a thunderclap on the ground, the students who were originally hesitant on the bank of the pond and hesitated, looked at the pond and saw that it was difficult to move an inch in the pond, and it was difficult to protect themselves, but they still held the hand of the young lady tightly, and the scholar who did not give up gritted his teeth and went down to the pond together.
It was a completely undiscussed, but neatly drawn feat, and a group of thirty or so students were bent on saving their teacher, and almost the entire lotus pond was filled.
As the saying goes, if you work together, you will lose money, so everyone went ashore safely, except for the scholar and the young lady who had been in the cold pool for a long time, who suffered frostbite and had to rest in bed for a while.
It's just that when she was rescued from the shore, the unconscious lady's hand was still tightly grasping the scholar's hand, if it wasn't for the little maid's strength to pull out, these hands didn't know how long to lead.
The extremely talented scholar and the beautiful lady should have been a good story, but Bai Zhi looked at the hosta on the young lady's temples, but she felt very dazzling.
Later, the scholar recovered, the academy was dissolved, on the day of the dissolution, he looked at the students who wept bitterly and were reluctant to him, and smiled warmly, "After three months, it is the day when I go to Beijing to take the exam, but I can no longer teach you, and I have already taught everything that should be taught, I don't ask you how much you have achieved, nor do I ask you to repay the teacher's kindness, I just hope that in the future, you will be worthy of your heart and grow into a husband who stands on top of the sky." β
"Teacher," or the first student who jumped into the lotus pond to save the teacher, opened his mouth first, and his tone was a little desperate, "Are you angry that we didn't want us to save us when we saw death at that time?" β
As soon as his words came out, all the students lowered their heads in shame, remorse and hatred, they had never hated themselves so much.
The scholar raised his hand and touched his head, "How come?" You are all the teacher's favorite students. β
As he spoke, his eyes as soft as the spring breeze and drizzle swept over all the students present one by one, "That is the last lesson I taught you, do what you can, of course, it is a gentleman's doing, but sometimes, you don't want to work hard, but asking for a clear conscience is not a kind of bravery." β
Yes, sometimes, doing what you can is just an excuse for your cowardly self, there are so many situations in life, you don't even dare to fight if you don't measure yourself, you don't dare to fight, how can you have a clear conscience.
Just because you can't save him, you won't save him, just because you don't deserve him, you won't love, just because you can't get him, you don't want to think about it, how boring that life is.
Bai Zhi sat at the scholar's feet, and although she knew that he couldn't see herself, she still agreed with her.
The students bowed deeply to the scholar and left the academy thoughtfully.
The academy was empty in a blink of an eye, and only the scholars were left sitting on the benches, looking at the deep twilight, cold and miserable pond water in the backyard, pulling the corners of their mouths, showing a trace of weakness for the first time.
His finely carved handsome face, as pale and transparent as snow in the middle of winter, like fragile fine porcelain, and no one knows better than Bai Zhi, who accompanied him all the way, bleeding patients many times, and being soaked in deep cold pool water after the wind and cold, he has already injured his foundation, and can no longer bear the slightest devastation.
But she knew better that the Mu family would not let him go, and even greater destruction was still waiting for him.
But she couldn't do anything, she couldn't even tell him, she could only watch him jump into the fire pit, desperate.
It turns out that in this life, you are like this, Yu Nian. She was red-eyed, to touch his pale face, her fingers through his skin, but she couldn't touch it, she should have recognized you, but she made you wait so long, so I deserved it, I couldn't even hug you and kiss you.
"Mu Gongzi," an uncle dressed as a craftsman entered the academy, he wiped the sweat that flowed all the way, in front of Yan Ruyu's son, his face was at a loss, but he tried his best to maintain decency, "I heard that you want to renovate the academy and provide homeless beggars to live in for free, but I don't know how to repair it?" β
"Look at Xiu," said the scholar, but the scholar blinked, and made a rare joke, "As long as the winter is warmer and the summer is cooler." β
"No, no problem." The honest craftsman took it seriously, and he has always been very confident in his craft, but he had long heard that Mu Gongzi was a well-known person with good medical skills, and he also had a superb appearance, but he didn't expect it to be so good.
"It's just this lotus pond," he hesitated, "whether to keep it or ...... it?"
"Fill it in." The scholar stood up, took out a silver ingot from his long sleeve and handed it into his hand, "It's hard for you then, this is the salary, this will be paid to you in a lump sum, but you have to collect it." β
"I can't accept this, this is your money, Master Mu, how can I accept it? I originally gave you this job for free, and besides, I didn't pay a penny for my son's education with you, how can I still charge you so much......"
The scholar wrapped the silver ingots he pushed out into his palm, and patted him on the shoulder very sincerely, "Midwinter has arrived, but your son still wears cloth shoes in early autumn when he goes to school, buy him a pair of cotton shoes." β
As he spoke, he looked down at the thinner straw sandals on his uncle's feet, and paused, "I want to buy a pair for yourself." β
After finishing speaking, he left the academy that he had built and run with all his heart.
And if you go away, you will never see you again.
The scholar who returned to the Mu family, within a few days, was entangled by the young lady he had saved before, and sent him to Qiubo with the clichΓ© "life-saving grace, should be repaid with a personal promise", almost stalking.
is bent on preparing for the scientific examination in three months, and the scholar has no affection for the young lady at all, and he is almost annoyed.
But the bad thing is that the young lady is not the pearl of other big families in the town, but the only eldest lady of the Mu family.
So even if he refused in every possible way, almost rudely and bluntly said that he was not suitable for her, and begged her to find someone else, he couldn't stand her posture of visiting his backyard.
Originally, he came to the Mu family to live temporarily, and the real owner of the attic was the young lady.
Therefore, when reading, some people hang out of the window, when they write, some people play the piano outside the courtyard, and when they warm their books, some people flutter butterflies in the garden...... He didn't even have the right to drive it away, because it was someone's home.
Until that day, seeing that the day of the scientific examination was getting closer and closer, the scholars who felt that this place was not a place to prepare for the exam, packed their luggage and were about to leave the Mu Mansion.
When he arrived at the plum garden, he was stopped by the young lady who came in a hurry.
She asked him with red eyes, "Am I so annoying?" You'd rather leave the Mu Mansion than look at me more. β
The scholar was helpless and powerless, "It's not that you hate it, it's that I'm not good, and I don't deserve you." β
"Anything that doesn't deserve is an excuse." The young lady's temper came up, "Obviously, others begged you to heal, and you followed, and others begged you to teach, and you agreed, I just begged you to like me, why is it so difficult?" β
"This, this ......," the scholar had more and more headaches, "it is not something that can be compared at all." β
"Forget it, you just hate it, you just don't look down on me." The young lady wiped away her tears and stubbornly raised her head, "But no matter what, I want you to remember me for the rest of your life." β
Speaking, she took a delicate folding fan from the little maid behind her, the fan surface is good, with ingenious female red, embroidered with dancΓ΄me dyed needle and thread, but it seems to be painted with a picture of Hanmei Aoxue, mentioning the name of the girl who has not been out of the pavilion, full of love for the fan, "If you don't want to like me, you will accept the folding fan I made with my own hands, and wear it all my life." β
How could the scholar accept it, so he had to refuse politely, but his words were very firm, "Such a valuable thing should be admired by Miss's future husband, how can I accept it as an irrelevant person!" β
"Irrelevant?" The young lady's eyes were completely cold, and she raised her hand and threw the folding fan that had taken countless pains to throw on the cold ground, "One day, you will completely regret saying this!" β
After finishing speaking, as if her heart was dead, her back resolutely left the plum garden, and the little maid who followed her frequently turned back to apologize to the scholar, but after all, she ignored the broken folding fan on the ground, hurriedly caught up with the young lady, and gradually went away.
The scholar frowned, looking at the originally exquisite folding fan on the ground, which was thrown to the ground and abandoned, after all, he couldn't bear it, and silently picked up the folding fan with a broken fan surface and broken bones, and put it into his own baggage.
And Bai Zhi, who saw all this in her eyes, had long felt that Miss was a little familiar, and this would see her inexplicable temper, and finally remembered why she was so familiar.
Because she is domineering, her eyebrows and eyes are very similar to the old witch of Ning Frost, or rather, she is the same person at all.