(Happy Eleven~)

The old Confucian priest returned the customs clearance document to the young man named Chen Ping'an.

This scholar had a very good impression of this person.

The old master glanced at Chen Ping'an again, carrying a long sword and a bookcase, which was very pleasing to the eye.

Carrying the sword and traveling thousands of miles to study is the best thing that we scholars can do and do.

Chen Ping'an asked: "Does Mr. know a little girl named Li Baohua, she likes to wear red cotton jackets and red skirts?" ”

The old master laughed and said: "Who in our academy doesn't know this girl, don't say that it's up and down the academy, it is estimated that even the capital of Dasui has been visited by the little girl, and she is full of vigor every day, and she is envious of us old guys who are about to lose their way. ”

Chen Ping'an asked, "She left the academy alone?"

The old master nodded and said, "Every time." ”

Seeing Chen Ping'an's worried expression, the old master smiled: "Don't worry, the little girl has gone out so many times, and she has never made a mistake, after all, she is a disciple of the academy, not to mention that our capital of the Great Sui has always been stable, the folk customs are simple, and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites is the mountain master of the academy, and he often comes to this small Dongshan to drink tea with several deputy mountain masters, and it will be fine." ”

Chen Ping'an was slightly relieved.

The old master asked: "What, this visit to the Mountain Cliff Academy, are you here to find the little treasure bottle? Seeing that the household registration on your customs clearance document is also a native of Dali Longquan County, not only the little girl's fellow villagers, but also relatives?"

Chen Ping'an smiled: "It's just a fellow villager, not a relative." A few years ago, I came to the capital of the Great Sui with the little treasure bottle, but that time I didn't climb the mountain to enter the academy. ”

The old master felt a little strange in his heart, when this group of children from Longquan County entered the Xinshan Cliff Academy to study, he first sent elite cavalry to the border to pick him up, and then His Majesty the Emperor came to the academy in person, which was very grand, and he also gave things to all the children who traveled to study, this young man named Chen Ping'an, it stands to reason that even if he did not enter the academy, he should have seen it once or twice.

The old master asked, "Are you going to wait here for Li Baohua to return to the academy?"

Chen Ping'an nodded.

Of course, he hoped that the first person he saw in the Mountain Cliff Academy was a small treasure vase.

Li Huai, Lin Shouyi, Yu Lu thank you, of course Chen Ping'an also has to take a look, especially the youngest Li Huai.

It's just that they can't compare to the little girls in the red cotton jackets in autumn, winter and spring, and only in the red skirts in the summer. Chen Ping'an never denied his selfishness, he was the closest to the little treasure bottle, on the way to study in the Great Sui, and later went to the inverted hanging mountain alone, and also only sent a letter to Li Baohua, and then asked the little girl of the recipient to help him, the little uncle, and piggyback the rest of the letters to them. The scroll painted by the Fan painter on the top of Osmanthus Island was only given to Li Baohua, and Li Huai did not have it.

This kind of intimacy is different, Lin Shouyi and Yu Lu thank you must be very clear, but they may not care about it, Lin Shouyi is a beautiful jade of cultivation, and Yu Lu and Xie are important figures in the Lu Dynasty.

As for Li Huai, who is a good hand in the nest, he probably still thinks that Chen Ping'an or Ah Liang are the closest to him.

The old master waved his hand and said with a smile: "I advise you to put your things away in the guest house of the advanced academy, every time Li Baohua sneaks out, even if he leaves early in the morning, he will still have to come back at dusk at the earliest, there is no exception, if you wait for her at this door, you will have to wait for at least three hours, there is no need." ”

Chen Ping'an thought about it, turned his head and looked at Pei Qian and the others, if it was only him, he wouldn't mind waiting here.

He turned his head to look at the end of the street.

Zhu Yong has been looking at the academy building behind the mountain gate, built against the mountain, although it is newly built by the Ministry of Industry of the Great Sui, but it is extremely attentive, creating a simple and elegant and clumsy atmosphere.

This mountain cliff academy relocated from Dali to the capital of Dasui is one of the seventy-two Confucian academies in the past.

This was the first Confucian academy that Zhu Yong saw after leaving the lotus blessed land.

The sage's lecture office is famous all over the world.

At the beginning of the construction of the Mountain Cliff Academy, the first mountain lord put forward an enlightened preface to learning, advocating that the four aspects of learning and speculation should fall on one word.

When Zhu Yong raised his eyes to look at the academy, Shi Rou never dared to breathe.

Although Shi Rou lived in a pair of immortal relics, she was actually able to resist the invisible Haoran righteousness, but the instinct of the ghostly yin still terrified her heart.

Pei Qian never said a word, as if he was more nervous than Shi Rou.

When she got off the boat in Lao Longcheng, she still threatened to meet Pei Qian of Li Baohua for a while, but when she arrived at the gate of the Great Sui Capital, she began to feel weak.

When I arrived at the gate of the Mountain Cliff Academy, I was even more stunned.

Chen Ping'an smiled and asked, "Dare to ask sir, if we want to visit the master of Maoshan after entering the academy and staying in the guest house, do we need to let someone report in advance and wait for a reply?"

The old gentleman smiled: "In fact, the report is of little significance, mainly because our Maoshan Lord does not like to entertain guests, and has almost refused all visits and entertainment in recent years, that is, when the Shangshu Lord arrives at the academy, he may not be able to see the Maoshan Lord, but Chen Gongzi came from afar, and he is a native of Longquan County, it is estimated that just say hello, although our Maoshan Lord is rigorous in his studies, he is actually a good talker, but the Great Sui Celebrity has always been a heavy talker, so he can't talk with the Maoshan Lord." ”

Chen Ping'an still didn't immediately enter the academy and asked, "If I'm not mistaken, the one in charge of the security and order in the capital of the Great Sui is the commander of the infantry army, the yamen?"

The old gentleman knew in his heart, and it seemed that he was still worried about Li Baohua, and said with a smile: "That's right, and the young son of the chief official of the yamen is now studying in the academy." ”

Chen Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief again.

Chen Ping'an asked some trivial things about Li Baohua again before saying goodbye to the old gentleman and entering the academy.

Pei Qian walked with heavy steps, especially after crossing the door, a mountain road with a gentle slope, walking like wading in the river and trekking in the snow.

The academy has a guest house dedicated to entertaining students, relatives and elders, and Li Er, his wife and daughter Li Liu, lived in the guest house back then.

The academy only symbolically charged some copper coins, each guest house only ten cents a day, after learning that the guest house is not much now, Chen Ping'an asked for four adjacent guest houses in one go.

They each let go, and Pei Qian came to Chen Ping'an's house to copy the book.

Chen Ping'an took off the bamboo box, and even took off the sword gourd on his waist and the half-immortal soldier "Sword Immortal" together.

Zhu Yong came to ask if he wanted to visit the academy together, Chen Ping'an said that he would not go for the time being, Pei Qian was copying books, and he would not pay attention to Zhu Yong.

Zhu Yong went to knock on Shi Rou's door, Shi Rou, who was uncomfortable, was in a bad mood, and Zhu Yong was talking strange things with a meat flavor in the crepe outside, and Shi Rou rewarded Zhu Yong with a rolling word.

Zhu Yong had to go to the academy alone.

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Li Baohua may already know more about this capital than the people who were born and raised in this capital.

She had been to the Tianchangmen in the south, which was nicknamed the Grain Gate by the common people, and the grain coming through the canal was stored in the granary after being inspected by the household officials, which was the place where grain and rice from all directions converged. She once squatted at the ferry over there for a long time, watching the busy officials and officials, as well as the sweaty porters. I also know that there is a fox fairy temple with flourishing incense, which is neither an orthodox ancestral temple recognized by the imperial court and the Ministry of Rites, but it is also not an obscene temple, with a strange origin, enshrined a fox tail with a smooth color as new, there are crazy old women who sell talisman water in Shinto, and I heard that it is a bone touching master from the western part of the Great Sui, and the old man and the old woman often quarrel.

She has been to the Changfu temple fair, crowded with people, she is very greedy for a kind of tube snake made of horns, there are many rich people here, even those who are more arrogant than the children of the powerful, the long-term servants like to wear black Sichuan rat skin clothes, mixed with mink fur coats.

Li Baohua also went to the edge of the imperial city, and squatted there for many afternoons, only to know that there would be many husbands and embroiderers, these people who are not people in the palace, can also enter and exit the imperial city, but they need to carry a waist card, among which there is a Wenhua Museum that compiles the history of the past dynasties and compiles history books, and hires a lot of calligraphers and papermakers.

Then go around to the back gate of the imperial city in the north, which is called Dijiumen, Li Baohua goes more often, because it is more lively over there, once in a miscellaneous silver shop, and also saw a noisy turmoil, it is a soldier to catch the thief, the momentum is violent. Later, she asked the shopkeeper of the nearby shop, only to know that the shop that did not do clean business, but could make money every day, was a den of stolen goods, and the things sold were mostly the royal objects stolen from the Great Sui Palace, some purse sachets that were secretly hidden, and even the tin pieces of a palace to repair the ditch were stolen. The box is framed in these places, and it is easy to take it out of the palace and turn it into real money.

Li Baohua didn't understand very well at that time, under the nose of His Majesty the Emperor, how could anyone dare to steal the things of the Emperor's house. The old shopkeeper, who was familiar with her, said with a smile that there are people who do this business called killing heads, but no one does the business of losing money.

Li Baohua also went to the Xiuyi Bridge not far from Dijiumen, where there was a big lake, but it was blocked by the courtyard walls of the palaces and high-ranking officials' mansions. The Yamen, the commander of the infantry army, was located in a place called Mink Hat Hutong over there, and Li Baohua walked back and forth a few times eating pastries, because there was a classmate she didn't like very much, and he always liked to brag that his father was the biggest official hat in the yamen, even if he rode on the stone lion over there to pee, no one dared to care.

Li Baohua also went to Zhongguan Lane in the south of the city, which is the place where many eunuchs and white-headed palace maids left the palace to retire for many years, there are many temples and Taoist temples, but they are not big, and those eunuchs and palace maids are mostly sparing no effort to provide for people, and they are extremely pious.

Therefore, Li Baohua can often see the hunchbacked old man, supported by the servants, or walking alone on crutches, to burn incense.

After wandering around a lot, Li Baohua knew that the original palace maid with the most seniority was known as the grandmother of the inner court, and was the eldest female official who served the emperor and empress, among which the old palace people who combed the emperor's hair every morning had the most honorable status, and some would be given the title of "lady".

In the east of the capital, there is the largest market in the Great Sui, with many shops, cars and horses, and the flow of people is the flow of money. Among them, there are Li Baohua's favorite bookstores to hang out, and some bold bookstore shopkeepers will secretly sell some books that cannot be released from the customs according to the laws of the imperial court. The envoys of various vassal states often sent servants to buy privately, but if they were unlucky, once they met the fangding inspection, they would be taken to the yamen to eat and hang.

In the past three years.

Whether it is a cotton jacket or a dress, there is always a touch of red color of the little girl, who has helped many toddler old people who go to burn incense, and helped the crying children standing under the tree, and go up the tree to take down the paper kite.

Pushing the cart with charcoal stuck in the mud and snow, pushing the cart with the old man in ragged clothes, watching the old man playing chess at the corner of the street, tiptoeing from antique shop to antique shop, asking the shopkeeper the price of the copywriter's clearance, sitting on the steps under the overpass, listening to the stories of the storytellers, passing by the hawkers carrying the burden and shouting in the streets and alleys countless times, and persuading the children who were twisted on the ground to pull away......

The little girl has heard the melodious pigeon whistle over the capital, the little girl has seen the swaying beautiful paper kite, the little girl has eaten the best wonton in the world, the little girl has avoided the rain under the eaves, the sun under the tree, and the wind and snow to warm up......

Today Li Baohua went to visit the bookstore again, on the way to go, lunch was to eat a cheap and high-quality restaurant, on the way back, changed to an ancestral craft alley noodle restaurant, the old shopkeeper and the proprietress are very familiar with her, often say to be cheaper, or simply not to collect money, but Li Baohua did not agree, said that it may be cheaper next time, but again and again next time, the two restaurants do not have such a chance, over time, just as the little girl is saying kind words, unwilling to let their small business make less money, but they actually want to laugh, meet such a cute and sensible guest, even if they make money again, and don't count that money.

In the twilight.

Li Baohua's rushing figure appeared on the street outside the gate of the Mountain Cliff Academy.

The little girl felt that the book said that the years were like a shuttle and the white horse passed by, which didn't seem quite right, how could she come here and walk slowly and die in a hurry?

A little girl in a red skirt who seemed to have only a distance in her eyes said hello to the old master who was guarding the door and rushed over.

The old gentleman, who was napping, remembered something and shouted to the back, "Little vase, come back!"

Li Baohua did not stop, waved his hands, stood still, turned his head to look at the old master who was waving at him, and then ran backwards, but he didn't run slowly......

Li Baohua ran back to the door, stood still, and asked, "Mr. Liang, is there something wrong?"

The old gentleman surnamed Liang asked curiously, "You didn't meet any acquaintances on the road?"

Li Baohua's eyes widened, and he shook his head and said, "No." ”

The old gentleman smiled and asked, "Then didn't you turn in from Baimao Street today?"

Li Baohua nodded and said, "Yes, what's wrong?"

The old gentleman smiled and asked, "O treasure bottle, before answering your question, you first answer my question, do you think I have a lot of knowledge?"

Li Baohua thought for a while, "It's smaller than the Lord of Maoshan Mountain." ”

The old gentleman immediately choked on this honest little girl, and she couldn't speak.

But if you think about it from another angle, how can the little girl compare herself with a Confucian sage in a good word, right?

So the old gentleman was in a good mood, so he told Li Baohua that a young man had come to the academy to look for her, first stood at the door for a long time, and then went to the guest house to put down his luggage, and came here twice, the last trip was half an hour ago, and he didn't leave.

The old gentleman smiled: "I persuaded him not to worry, our little vase is familiar with the capital as if he was wandering around his own house, and he must not be able to lose it, but the man is still walking back and forth on this street, and then I am anxious for him, so I told him that you generally turn from the side of Baimao Street, and it is estimated that he is waiting for you on the side of Baimao Street, and when he saw that you were not, he walked forward a little further, thinking that he would see your figure earlier, so the two of you missed it." Don't worry, just wait here, he'll be back soon. ”

Li Baohua turned around suddenly, and was about to rush away.

The old gentleman said anxiously: "Little Treasure Bottle, are you going to look for him on Baimao Street? Be careful that he is already far away from Baimao Street in order to find you, and if he doesn't return the same way, won't you miss it again? Why, are you going to play hide and seek?"

Li Baohua was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, turning in place.

This is a situation that the masters of the academy have never seen before.

Li Baohua was about to cry, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Little uncle!"

The old master was shocked, narrowed his eyes, and looked at the end of the street.

There was a white dress, and the figure was like a white rainbow from the side of Baimao Street into view, and then swept at a faster speed, in an instant.

When the young man stood still, his two snow-white sleeves were still fluttering, like a merry fairy.

He stood in front of the little girl in red, smiled brightly, and said softly, "Uncle Xiao is here." ”