The footsteps in the distance walked back step by step, Qu Qingyan looked up with tears in his eyes, and saw Yu Youtai's figure appear in the hall again, his face still with the fierceness he used to leave.

"Let's take a look at the house outside the house."

Outside the hall, there should be a subordinate who hurriedly ran away, Yu Youtai reflexively sat back on the main seat and lowered his eyes and squinted, not seeing Qu Qingyan's embarrassment in the slightest.

Qu Qingyan stood there stupidly, with a hint of happiness in his complicated mood.

Before the tea time arrived, there was another sound of footsteps outside the hall, and a subordinate entered the door to reply.

"Back to the master, the clothes of the two little guys outside the mansion should be according to the palace of the envoy Zong."

It turned out to be according to the envoy of Zong Handong's mansion, Qu Qingyan really wanted to sigh his luck, he really could meet a tyrant wherever he went.

Today's greasy guy must be a young master in the Zong Han East Mansion, but I don't know how many lines he has and what his reputation is.

She quickly calculated in her heart, there was a person like Zhengsanpin standing behind her, and she couldn't be provoked alone in Jinan.

Her embarrassment today has been seen a lot by Yu Youtai, and she doesn't mind being looked at by the other party any more.

So, as soon as the hem of her clothes was lifted, she knelt down again with a puff: "I beg the adults to help the students again." ”

Yu Youtai's serious face twitched out of the corner of his eyes, and he suddenly showed a little helplessness, he would reflexively come back, and he was ready to be troubled again, but what he didn't want to fight was Qu Qingyan, but he didn't see it at all, and he knelt unambiguously, but he was a little uncomfortable.

"You get up and talk back first."

Qu Qingyan didn't get any help, so he just looked at Yu Youtai with a little expectation, and let Yu Youtai rub his eyebrows weakly.

"I can let you live in my house until the end, and after the autumn season, Lord Qu should send someone to take you back to Beijing."

Qu Qingyan was stunned at first and then ecstatic, she didn't expect Yu Youtai to help her to this point, she originally just wanted him to help her cover up, so that she could quietly return to her small courtyard.

But there is only one Qianshan who is not a good thing by her side, the coachman has returned to the capital some time ago, and the cook hired in the courtyard will go back after cooking dinner overnight, and a set of two courtyards with only their master and servant is indeed not safe.

She solemnly bowed to Yu Youtai: "Student thank you for your kindness today." ”

She didn't know what Qu Wenhai wrote in the letter, but with the contact over the past few days, this Lord Yu would not break the bottom line because of Qu Wenhai's little gesture and promise.

has been an official for many years, and her heart has not become as cold as iron, and she really made the right bet when she came to Jinan this time.

There are very few people in Yu Youtai's mansion, he is the only master, and the total number of housekeepers is only more than ten people.

Qu Qingyan didn't know much about him, and it was a little strange to walk all the way, this champion of Bingxu Enke should be twenty and eight years old, why is the backyard so dry, not to mention that the lady doesn't even have a maid and concubine room?

Some people took her to the idle yard in the front yard, because the matter was in a hurry, the room had not yet had time to be cleaned and arranged, only the two mothers-in-law put the main bedroom out, and the wings on both sides had to be arranged on the second day.

Qianshan didn't understand why Qu Qingyan wanted to live in Lord Yu's mansion in the next month, he was smart not to ask, but he only saw the somewhat bland dishes served by the next person, and he never forgot the roast chicken they had just bought in the afternoon in the courtyard.

The dinner was almost vegan, with green vegetables and tofu, and a clear soup with floating leaves, Qu Qingyan didn't ask much, just silently used some and asked Qianshan to collect all the dishes and chopsticks.

On the second day, Yu Youtai went on a business trip, and Qianshan took two guys back to the courtyard to move all their luggage, and Qu Qingyan completely stayed in Yufu temporarily.

The closer the big exam, the more busy Yu Youtai had to deal with, and the time to return home became later and later, and they rarely saw each other since the evening of that day.

If Qianshan hadn't always complained in her ear that she couldn't eat, was hungry, and was hungry, she would have subconsciously thought that she was still in the rented yard and had never changed her residence.

"Young master, the little one can't stand it, can you ask the lady in the back kitchen to bring a little bit of meat to the little one? The small ones don't pick their mouths, they really don't pick their mouths, as long as they let the small ones eat a few bites of meat, the small ones are really greedy. ”

Qianshan has been secretly reading in Qu Qingyan's ears since he drank gruel after breakfast, Qu Qingyan was a little annoyed by his chatter, and drove people out, but when it was lunch time, such a magic sound sounded in his ears again.

She had no choice but to stop the mother-in-law who came to deliver the food box.

"Mrs. Liu," she called people out of her voice, and called them into the room under the eyes of a thousand mountains: "These days I live temporarily in the house, and Lord Yu is not in the house during the day, but I have to bother a few ladies in the back kitchen to clean up lunch for our master and servant." ”

Mrs. Liu's hands rubbed on the apron in front of her, and she was a little embarrassed and smiled: "Gongzi Qu is tormenting the old woman, it is the honor of the old woman to serve you, where will you feel troublesome, if you think the food is not delicious enough, you must tell the old woman." ”

Eating vegetarian dishes for a few days once in a while is not a big deal for Qu Qingyan, she has been back to Qu's house for more than half a year, she eats fine every day, and although her body still looks a little slender, she is no longer as greedy as before.

It's just that this house is vegetarian every day, which is a little strange.

"Mrs. Liu, I'm just a little curious, why is Lord Yu's mansion all the same?"

"This ......" Mrs. Liu was obviously a little hesitant, it was not appropriate to pass on the master's affairs behind the back of her subordinates, especially if it was still like that.

Qu Qingyan didn't force Mrs. Liu's expression in his eyes, but said with a smile: "It's not that I want to inquire into the private affairs of Lord Yu's house, you also see that my little guy is always noisy every day and wants to eat some meat, I am always afraid that he will be detained ruthlessly, in case one day he is not careful and does not control him, and he sneaks out to buy some meat and hides it in the mansion, and then commits any taboo and provokes the adult's avoidance." ”

Although Mrs. Liu is honest, she is not the master of Mu Ne, and she no longer conceals it when she asks Qu Qingyan like this: "Actually, it's not that you can't say anything, it's just that the adults discussed a family affair before the champion in the early years, and the two agreed to welcome the young lady when the adults Jinbang High School came over."

"As a result, the young lady was not a blessed person, and on the second day after high school, the adult somehow fell into the pond, and the person was not saved. Our adults are affectionate and righteous, for the sake of the Gu family, we have not married another until now, and we have been the same until now, and the people in this mansion have been accustomed to following the adults for many years. ”

Qu Qingyan thought of countless reasons, but she didn't expect this reason to make her even find out why there was no hostess in Yu Youtai's house.

She stared at Mrs. Liu and digested it for a while, and then she found her voice back: "So that's the case, Lord Yu is really affectionate and righteous, but he has to restrain his little servants, if he really commits a crime, let him go to the street to fight tooth sacrifices." ”

Mrs. Liu nodded with a smile, the master and servant did not ask them to add some meat to their lunch, which really made them breathe a sigh of relief.

These two people are just staying temporarily, and when they are gone, Yu Youtai will ask for the guilt, where can they afford it.

Qu Qingyan vaguely mentioned Qianshan in the afternoon, and originally thought that he would go to the street to satisfy his hunger, but when he thought about it, he thought of the two little guys in the Zongfu who followed her that day.

In case the two of them were still staring at Yu Mansion if they didn't give up, Qianshan would easily cause trouble when she went out like this, and she used two taels of silver to force Qianshan to obediently eat vegetarian in the mansion.

Fortunately, Mrs. Liu's skills in the white case are very good, and the refreshments every afternoon are extremely delicious, so that the master and servant are not difficult.

If she can't go out, she can only nest in the study every day to read, she flipped through the collection of notes on the Four Books and Five Classics, and pulled out a few words while reading, and wrote a question for herself.

It's easy to solve the problem, but it's a little more difficult to find the idea to write an article, and when she is active, she only writes one or two articles a day, like writing three articles in one breath like the day she tried it, and then she has to slow down for a long time.

"Lord Yu."

Qu Qingyan was stumped by his own topic while holding the pen, and was thinking hard about how to make up his mind and solve the problem, when he heard Qianshan shouting a slightly weak voice outside the door.

She hurriedly put down her pen and went out to greet her.

"Lord Yu."

She looked at the person with a smile, and saw that the other party had already changed out of his official uniform, put on a straight body of azure Hangzhou silk, and looked very regular with a navy blue scarf on his head.

Yu Youtai bowed his head lightly to her and passed past her and entered the study, which was sunset, and the west wing was particularly hot in the middle of summer.

"Why not ice?"

Although his grade is not high, he is not from a poor family who lives with Yulu, just after June, the steward of the Fuzhong went out to pick ice every day, no matter how late he came back to the study and bedroom, it was cool.

Thinking flashed in his eyes, and he was about to call out the door when he was interrupted by Qu Qingyan.

"It's the students who are not used to it, although it is a little stuffy, but it is just right for the students."

Since Imperial Doctor Han said that she should pay attention to keeping warm when her body is cold, she is particularly concerned about this, and she can't always be pale and tremble slightly every few days of the month after going out, just like the woman in the back house.

Yu Youtai's eyes swept over her face, so he didn't dwell on these trivial matters, and when he stepped forward to the table, he saw that the articles she had written over the past few days were scattered around, he picked up one casually, looked at it a few times, put it down and changed it, and then looked up and commented.

"The state fluctuates greatly, if you end up in such an unstable situation, you will not be able to win even if you have a chance to play."

He had a page between his fingertips, which Qu Qingyan wrote casually while holding a plum cake in the afternoon, and she felt good about herself when she finished writing, but she didn't expect to be despised by Yu Youtai when she turned around.

She didn't argue much, only nodded obediently.

"Won't this question?"

Next to the inkstone, the ink of the title Qu Qingyan had just written had just been steamed, and Yu Youtai's slender fingers pointed at it, raising his eyes to look at her.

"Is it because you don't know where you came from, or because you can't find your idea?"

Qu Qingyan rubbed his nose, thought about it and replied honestly: "I can't think of the idea, especially the first two sentences of the problem, I always feel that no matter how you solve the topic, virtue and filial piety cannot be compatible." ”

She casually gave herself a question of 'virtue is a saint' from the seventeenth chapter of "The Mean", focusing on filial piety and virtue. The poem says, Jiale gentleman, constitutional and virtuous, suitable for the people. Blessed by heaven. Bless life, from heaven. Therefore the great virtuous will be ordained.

It's not that Qu Qingyan doesn't know how to solve this problem, but when she thinks of the thoughts in Qin's mind, it becomes extremely confused.

How can such a mother make her endure it, and how can she be willing to accept the order of the virtuous?

Yu Youtai didn't know the struggle and irritability in her heart, and her eyes fell out of the window with her hands behind her back, and she already had a plan in her mind to deal with it.

"Filial piety is the outline, virtue is the goal, the outline is clear, and it is easy to find the intention to solve the problem, you will do the article well today, and send someone to me early tomorrow morning."

Is this a casual homework?

Qu Qingyan was a little dumbfounded, maybe Enke's champion personally gave him guidance, this is another once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

She didn't care if this question made her unhappy, so she was busy and thanked the students again.

Yu Youtai rarely found time to go home early today just to test her homework, but it was too hot in her study, so he took someone to sit under the locust tree in the courtyard and began to ask questions.

"Zilu has heard it, where does the language come from?"

"From the Analects of Gongyechang: 'Zilu has heard of it, but it can't be done, but I am afraid of hearing it.'" ”

Qu Qingyan didn't answer quickly, and it took time for the tea to return to the source, and some of the next few questions she replied very quickly, while others had to be considered for a longer time.

Yu Youtai was not in a hurry or urging, he just lowered his eyes and drank tea and waited for her, as soon as she finished answering the question, he quickly asked the next question, without giving her a chance to breathe.

"Yes, although I am not quick enough, as long as I can think of the source in the big exam, I know the content of the question and I am half done."

As soon as he finished speaking, someone came into the courtyard with a food box and set up dinner on the stone table.

"Let's use it together." He raised his hand to signal to the other side of the table, Qu Qingyan didn't prevaricate much, and let the subordinates arrange the dishes and chopsticks for the two of them.

"But can you get used to it?" Yu Youtai asked very casually, as if he didn't care about Qu Qingyan's previous temptation of Mrs. Liu.

There was no embarrassment of being poked, Qu Qingyan followed the master to get off the chopstick, the two did not follow the etiquette of eating without saying anything, and Yu Youtai answered seriously when she asked.

"Fortunately, using a vegetarian diet once in a while is also good for the body."

"Well, but if you don't get used to it, you can ask the kitchen to add dishes for you at lunch."

"No, that's fine."

Cheeky to live in other people's houses and try in vain to make an exception, she doesn't want to fall on herself.

Yu Youtai didn't talk much, although his face was serious, but there was no oppressive and terrifying momentum around him, Qu Qingyan sat next to him and ate far more easily than being tested by him.

After dinner, Yu Youtai went back to his study to deal with official business, and Qu Qingyan was busy completing the homework deployed by the other party.

Virtue is a saint...... knew that this question would be bumped into by Yu Youtai and she would not write it down casually, she thought in pieces, held the pen and drew until late at night, and then reluctantly copied the pieced article.