When she woke up in the morning, she shrugged the tip of her nose and seemed to be able to smell the sweet smell of blood in the lotus-blue curtain. asked Leng Hui and Miaohui, and the two sniffed it carefully, but they both said they didn't smell it.

However, this taste was soon covered by the sweet fragrance of the Ling Fan Xiang Cake brought by Leng Hui, and Mingcan was busy eating breakfast, so he didn't have time to think about it anymore. By the time Lin Xian came to call her, the smell of blood had already dissipated.

Lin Xian didn't forget what he heard last night, and asked people to call the two siblings out early this morning to see their skills.

When Mingcan was having breakfast, he heard the sound of Xue Mingyu shooting arrows in the courtyard, Lin Xian was teaching on the side, and the voice came faintly, although she couldn't hear the words clearly, but it was low and mellow, which made her feel very relieved.

When she arrived in the yard, she saw a few arrow feathers scattered in front of the red heart target, and she guessed that her brother had not shot. At least Xue Mingyu's skills are worried, Lin Xian can be sure.

In fact, he was still a little nervous when he had breakfast, and Mingchan tried to recall the key points and tricks of archery, but unfortunately his brain was blank, and he couldn't figure it out at all, and he began to worry that something would be ugly for a while, and Brother Xian didn't believe it.

As a result, the moment she picked up the small bow and short arrows, the invisible hands appeared again, pulling her how to draw the bow and how to set up the arrows, flowing smoothly without hindrance.

I didn't think that yesterday's small arm exploded with too much strength, and after a night's rest, I still couldn't bear it, my arm was extremely sore, and although Xue Mingcan's short arrow shot straight, it was planted halfway.

Xue Mingyu was anxious first, and hurriedly explained to Lin Xian: "Big cousin, this time doesn't count, my sister should be ready to get up early." ”

Lin Xian frowned, but it was obvious that Mingcan had indeed made great progress, and the posture techniques were not what he had taught before.

He asked the maid to find a clay pot and place it where the short arrow had fallen.

"Cancan, you try to throw the pot."

The belly of the clay pot is large, but the neck is not thick, small and round, and it is not easy to shoot.

Xue Mingcan nodded, endured the soreness of his arm, picked up a short arrow again, aimed it directly, and went away with an arrow.

The arrow feather hit the mouth of the bottle, and the arrow pressed against the belly of the bottle, and continued to make a "buzzing" sound, which shook the bottle slightly twice.

"Cancan, tell me the truth, where did you learn it?" is as steady as Lin Xian, and he is also a little breathless at this time. He didn't know what to say for a while, he just asked her about it.

Mingcan, as always, only knew how to shake her head, she could only say that she could complete these actions with her eyes closed when she picked up the bow and arrow, but once the bow and arrow left her hand, her mind was blank, and she didn't know anything.

"No one really taught you this?"

Shake one’s head.

Lin Xian gradually calmed down, and secretly thought in his heart: Isn't it the divine power of heaven? There are no strange things in the world, not to mention, Cancan would not be an ordinary person.

But why didn't Mingyu have the ability to fall from the sky? Looking at the arrows lying alone on the ground in the courtyard, the joy in my heart diminished a little. In the end, Mingyu is a man, in order to become an official, in order to realize his plan, Cancan is a girl in the end, and at most she will earn back a noble identity for her in the future.

Thinking about this, Lin Xian couldn't help sighing, and then urged Xue Mingyu to go back to the house to study, although it was a break today, he still held it very tightly. And Mingcan, Lin Xian saw her strength in archery, and thought that the illness was almost better, so he asked her to resume female school.

Mingcan heard that he was going back to study, write, and embroider small flowers, as if he was facing a great enemy, and rejected resentment, but Lin Xian did not have the slightest intention of compromise, so he asked Leng Hui Miaohui to pack up her pen and ink and embroidered bandages, and hurried to the courtyard where Lin Tangmei was located while the girls' school had not started the morning class.

Mingcan wants to cry without tears. I regret that I used such a lot of strength just now. I should have known that I should have pretended to be sick and weak and lay in bed.

Because there are few girls in the Lin Mansion, the female school is located in an ear room in the backyard of the Bofu, and there are three small square tables with three curved legs lotus lotus root. In the morning, I learned poetry, and in the afternoon, I changed to the next hugging room, sat on the kang and waited for the embroidery girl to teach embroidery.

Mingcan just watched Leng Hui take out the dusty books, and he wanted to gag. After she recovered from her illness, she played with an open heart, fooling around with Lin Hongjin all day long, fishing shrimp by the river on the outskirts of the city, walking around the large temple corridor of Xiangguo Temple, and even sneaking a few fish in the garden lake of Bofu, and now she wants to return to the boudoir life, confined to a small corner day and night, it is even more uncomfortable than letting her quit supper.

Step by step, they moved to the ear room of the female school, and Mr. Liu, who taught them, had not yet arrived, but Lin Tangxiao had already sat down and was chatting quietly.

didn't expect Xue Mingcan to come back to school, everyone was a little surprised. Lin Tangxiao thought that she had read it wrong, and it wasn't until Xue Mingcan sat down on the chair in despair, and the book fell on the square table, raising a thin cloud of dust, and she was almost choked that she was sure that Xue Mingcan was indeed pressed back.

"Big brother forced you here, right?" The corners of Lin Tangxiao's mouth crooked and quipped.

In the past, Xue Mingcan was submissive, and he loved to talk to her about everything, and what he liked to say most behind his back was that he didn't want to go to female school, complained that Lin Xian forced her to read and write, and said that he would rather serve tea and pour water to be a maid than be a boudoir lady.

She thought to herself at the time, a natural maid is cheap! Afterwards, he told the eldest brother, and unexpectedly saw the eldest brother reprimand Xue Mingcan fiercely.

However, after reprimanding Xue Mingcan, she felt a little uncomfortable in her own heart. She is the eldest brother's own sister, and she has never seen the eldest brother so attentive and strictly controlled, but she cares for a cousin with a different surname. The eldest sister said that if you care, you will be chaotic, and if you hate iron, you will not be able to make steel, so you will have the same reaction as the eldest brother.

She really didn't understand. So far, he has been looking for more and more opportunities to bully Xue Mingcan.

Xue Mingcan looked at her with a smug look on her face, knowing that she wanted to say "yes" herself, but she didn't. Gently raising her chin, she smiled slightly and said, "No, I'm here myself." Mr. Liu has poetry and books, talented, patient and generous to us, and earnestly taught, I think about listening to Mr. Liu's class every day, but I was sick before, and I was afraid that I would pass the illness on everyone, so I avoided not coming to class. Why did Brother Xian force me to say it? ”

She smiled sincerely and sweetly, and her words stunned Lin Tangmei next to her. It just so happened that the female gentleman walked out of the window of the ear room, and it was quiet, and the soft and sweet voice went straight to the ear. It was such a bright spring morning, and anyone who listened to such flattery would be happy.

So when Mr. Liu came in and saw Xue Mingcan, he put aside the blame for not coming to class for a few months.

"You just pretend to be you!" Lin Tangxiao whispered to her.

"Cousin Tang Xiao, I really admire Mr. Liu's moral talent, and I wholeheartedly want to follow Mr. Liu to learn the principles of the sages, how can you slander me for pretending?" Unexpectedly, Xue Mingcan answered her loudly, her apricot eyes were a little moist, her little face was pointy, pitiful and innocent.

Lin Tangxiao's eyes widened in shock. It's really hell, how could such words come out of Xue Mingcan's mouth.

"Could it be that Cousin Tang Xiao has doubts about my words? Don't you think Mr. Liu's scholarly character is excellent? ”

The volume was raised a little more, and the maids sweeping the yard outside could hear it, not to mention Mr. Liu, who was standing in front.

Lin Tangxiao realized at this time that Xue Mingcan was digging a pit for himself to jump, and when he turned his head and saw Mr. Liu, who was slightly sad, he hurriedly defended: "Mr. Liu, hmm...... Mr. Liu's knowledge is naturally excellent, I just want to say that Xue Mingcan is pretending to be studious......"

Mr. Liu frowned, he was already impatient to listen to Lin Tangxiao's explanation, and his good mood was gone. She was born in poverty, her father was a teacher in the county school, and she didn't like the set of "women are virtuous if they are not talented", and they directly urged her to study with the requirements of the imperial examination since she was a child, so her academic ability is undoubted.

Later, she got married, but unfortunately her husband died of illness a few years later, and she and her only son, orphan and widow had nothing to follow, so she thought of going to the rich and noble family to teach these boudoir nobles.

As for Lin Tangxiao, a pampered and commanding rich daughter, when she bothered to give a lecture in front, these young ladies also asked the little maid to add tea to herself below. She was a little disliked, and the bad impression was preconceived, so Mr. Liu didn't want to say much at the moment, and directly asked the ladies to open the book and start lecturing.

Lin Tangxiao was bored by Mr., and she was sulking in her heart, but she didn't want to turn the pages too loudly, and she was given a cross eye by Mr. again.

"Mr. Liu, Mingcan has been behind in his homework for a few months, I don't know if he can keep up with us? And she has been recuperating for the past few months, and I'm afraid she has almost forgotten what she learned before. She suddenly had an idea, and asked in her heart, thinking that it would be better to "invite" Xue Mingcan out. She didn't want to be in the same room with her.

Mr. Liu was reminded of her reminder. Xue Mingcan praised her and praised her, but her homework was still the essence. She remembered that the little girl refused to learn hard before, and she still wanted to talk and laugh after class, and she kept making small movements, and it took a long time to correct the rules. She couldn't read all the words, and she couldn't read the poems well, which gave her a headache for a while.

"Miss Xue, did you review the knowledge you learned when you were recuperating?"

Xue Mingcan realized Lin Tangxiao's intentions, and really wanted to pick up the short arrows he shot in the morning, and put them on Lin Tangxiao's body.

But now that it's imminent, she has no intention of settling accounts with her.

"Yes." Xue Mingcan felt like his head was pressed against a boulder, forcing her to nod.

"Do you remember?" Mr. Liu was a little surprised, in her impression, Miss Xue was not so studious.

"And I'm going to ask a question?"

Xue Mingcan kept smiling, his body sat motionless, steady as a rock, in fact, his heart was turbulent, and he just couldn't think of a way to deal with it.

"Then test your ......" Mr. Liu flipped through the book, Xue Mingcan simply closed his eyes, and his mind was blank.

"Can you still memorize "Qi Ao" in the "Book of Songs"?" Mr. Liu remembered that Miss Xue memorized this poem for a whole month before she memorized it smoothly, and she should be more impressed.

The words "Qi Ao, Qi Ao ......" were repeatedly whispered between her lips, and Mr. Liu began to be a little disappointed when he saw that she only bit the title and did not put down the text.

Lin Tangxiao couldn't help laughing, looking at the painful appearance of her frowning with her eyes closed, when she just wanted to persuade her not to embarrass herself, her soft and gentle voice was as clear and agile as splashing water: "Zhan Bi Qiao, green bamboo." There are bandit gentlemen, such as cutting like a ......"