It was another day without lunch.

Zhu Youning stood up from behind the large black lacquer painting, first took a handkerchief and wiped his hands, and then sorted out the first half of the "Analects" and explanations written silently into a thick stack, holding them in both hands and bypassing the painting case, turning the screen, and walking straight to the side room next door.

Luo Xun had just finished eating, and was leaning on the drunkard's chair to eat tea, when he heard Zhu Youning's voice asking for peace, he squinted his eyes and looked over.

Zhu Youning smelled the aroma of rice and tea in the room, and his stomach gurgled.

She multiplied the dictation with both hands, lowered her head and counted silently: one, two, three, throw!

As a result, there was no more stack of paper on the ground.

Zhu Youning looked up in surprise and saw Luo Xun looking through her dictation.

From the beginning to the end, he said expressionlessly: "Others can finish things in a few days, but it took half a month to finish the first half of the work when they came to you, which shows that you are indeed talented." Let's move on to the second half. ”

Zhu Youning was embarrassed and annoyed by the sarcasm.

She couldn't memorize it, she could have been silent a long time ago, but the old man thought she was ugly and refused to look at it, so she asked her to do it again and again, which dragged on until now.

Zhu Youning was afraid of this old man, so he didn't dare to say more, and lowered his eyebrows and said smoothly: "Thank you for your guidance." ”

"Hmm. Go ahead. Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, your vacation in the afternoon. ”

Zhu Youning was pleasantly surprised, and saluted happily: "Thank you, teacher, I came to accompany you to eat at night!" ”

Luo Xun said disgustedly: "You still want to bother me?" When I saw you stupid old man, I was angry, go and go, hurry home! ”

Zhu Youning felt that Luo Lao was hard-mouthed, and was scolded by him for being stupid and stupid all day long, and his psychological tolerance became stronger, so he didn't get annoyed, so he smiled and saluted goodbye and retreated.

It wasn't until Zhu Youning went out for a long walk that Luo Xun picked up her stack of dictations and looked through them again, and nodded with a satisfied smile.

As soon as Zhu Youning walked out of the back hall of the mountain chief, he saw Zhu Yanfeng, Zhu Yanlan, Zhu Yanguang, Zhu Yanping, Zhu Yanpeng and other people coming out of the front hall, talking and laughing all the way.

Seeing Zhu Youning walking from the hand-copying verandah with two maidservants, everyone couldn't help but stop, and the sourness in their hearts spread.

"Hello cousins." Zhu Youning stood still in a zhang distance and curtsied.

Zhu Yanfeng and the others all smiled and returned the salute, "Hello Ninth Sister." You're out of school too? ”

"yes. The teacher said that there will be a holiday this afternoon. Do the brothers also have afternoon off? ”

"That's right." Zhu Yanping walked closer with a smile, looked Zhu Youning up and down, and said, "How can I see you grow taller." ”

Zhu Youning smiled: "It's a little taller, do you want to go back to the house?" Let's go all the way. ”

"It's fine."

Everyone gossiped and walked all the way out, at first everyone was quiet, but in the end they were all teenagers, and they were on vacation, and soon everyone discussed tonight's program.

"I heard that the riverside snack street is open again, and there will be a singing and dancing performance on the painting boat tonight."

"I went to see it a few days ago, and there was a flower market in the square by the river."

"So, the riverside will be very lively at night, why don't we go to enjoy the flowers and the moon together?"

"I think you're going for a cabaret show!"

……

The teenagers laughed and discussed, and Zhu Yanping walked to Zhu Youning's side in silence and said in a low voice: "Ninth sister, where is the mountain chief tired from studying?" ”

Zhu Youning nodded and replied in a low voice: "I'm almost tired." The mountain chief is very strict, I haven't eaten lunch for half a month, and my left hand has not been swollen. You see. As he spoke, he stretched out his fair-skinned left hand to Zhu Yanping.

Zhu Yanping looked at her red and swollen palms, and couldn't help but smack his tongue: "So ruthless!" ”

"yes, my palm prints are almost gone."

"But I think you're a little fatter?" Zhu Yanping remembered that his sister hated being called fat, but she couldn't take it back, so she had to scratch the back of her head and laugh, "You're not fat, but you're a little more fat than before." ”

Zhu Youning said sadly: "Don't explain, I'm really fat, and I don't have anything to eat at noon every day!" ”

"You're still fat if you don't eat lunch?"

"That's why I'm very hungry when I come home at night, and I eat a lot!"

When Zhu Yanping heard this, he couldn't help laughing loudly, and patted Zhu Youning's shoulder while laughing: "Oh, Ninth Sister, you are so funny, why didn't I find you so interesting before." It seems that it is not good to be accepted by the mountain chief as a disciple. ”

Zhu Yanping's voice was not small, and Zhu Yanfeng, who was walking not far in front, paused slightly when he heard this, and then pursed his lips and lowered his eyes to speed up his pace.

Zhu Yanping explained Zhu Youning again: "Don't be wronged, your sixth sister has been studying hard in my family recently, and she is more tired than you." ”

"What's wrong with her?" Zhu Youning asked curiously.

Zhu Yanping said: "My father and my mother discussed, invited a lot of gentlemen to her, taught her to sing music, dance, play the pipa, the moon qin, and found an old mother to teach her body etiquette, and invited a Xibin to ask her to chant poetry against me, I saw that she was more tired than we went to school, I heard my sister say that she had to tie a wooden board to her body every day when she slept, saying that she was afraid that the bones were not good-looking, and she had to put a porcelain bowl on the top of her head when she walked. ”

Zhu Yanping shook his head and sighed when he said this, "I didn't expect that my father and mother would teach your sister so hard. Even my sister hasn't studied that before. You see, although you use your brain, you are not as painful as her, be content! ”

Every time Zhu Youning heard a sentence, his heart was a little colder.

It is understandable to teach a concubine who has passed her so harshly, but what to sing, dance, and play the pipa and yueqin, how can this be more and more like a ......

Raise skinny horses!

Zhu Youning was sweating on his back, not only worried about Zhu Youan, but most importantly, he was afraid for the hearts of the people of this era.

Zhu Huajun clearly wants to train Zhu You'an, and in the future, he will give others away in exchange for benefits. Otherwise how could he not raise his own daughter?

Although Zhu You'an did too much, he wanted to kill her at the beginning. But people's hearts are made of meat, seeing that a girl is raised as a sister in the Chu Pavilion of Qinlou, she will be given away in the future, and it is possible that she will be given to another person by one person, and then to someone else.

As a woman, what a sad fate it would be.

Zhu Youning thinks that she is not a good person, Zhu Youan has made a mistake, she will punish with a knife and a gun, she should be beaten, and killed, but she can't see a woman ruined by this kind of indiscriminate means. If you want to die, give it a good time, what is this kind of dirty deed!

Zhu Youning returned home, asked the Bai family to say goodbye, and looked at Brother Xiaozhuang again, so he took Zhu Huating's hand with a smile: "Dad, there are a lot of things I don't understand in the book, you can teach me." ”

Zhu Huating did not doubt him, and followed Zhu Youning to the study in Bai's smiling urging.

As soon as he entered the door and saw Zhu Youning's upright expression for a moment, Zhu Huating couldn't help but ask nervously, "What's wrong?" ”