Chapter 4: Fighting the Master (I)

Time flies by like a white horse. In the blink of an eye, two months had passed since Lin Junxuan entered the Purple Yi Hou Mansion. In the past two months, the weather has been so cold, Lin Junxuan seems to have been forgotten, alone in the wing. No one bothered Lin Junxuan, it couldn't be better, maybe the weather was too cold, and the son and young lady of the Purple Marquis, he didn't take a look at them, it is estimated that their mothers didn't let them come out, so as not to get cold.

Every time, Lin Junxuan spends time in exercise and 'visualization'. It doesn't take much time to form the first drop of 'blood essence', what really takes time is the process of consolidating and cultivating blood essence. When the 'blood essence' is still very thin, it is easy to 'break the gong' by practicing the practice of 'receiving qi'!

With those few taels of silver and ginseng to pave the way, Lin Junxuan didn't have to worry about the problem of 'food supplements' at all. Every time you consume your vitality, you can draw enough energy from each day of feeding.

The lady of the Purple Marquis Mansion also seemed to have forgotten Lin Junxuan, but on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, someone sent a bag of New Year's money, which contained about three or four taels of silver. Lin Junxuansuo gave the kitchen food to the dining room and asked them to help buy some medicinal herbs to replenish qi and blood and stew them into chicken soup.

Two silver pieces of silver are more than enough to buy medicinal herbs, and with the so-called old housekeeper behind his back, Lin Junxuan is not afraid of the master in the dining room. Moreover, Lin Junxuan spent all this money, that is, let them be responsible for a month or two of meals, in comparison, they still have a profit.

"Heh!-" The window of a wing room on the east side of the Purple Marquis Mansion suddenly opened, and a delicate child poked his head out of the window and sighed softly.

"It's another year!" Lin Junxuan leaned on the window, looking ahead. In the mansion of the Marquis of Purple Yi, the buildings are lined up one after another, covered with thin snow, and this winter is finally coming to an end. Not far from the window, a cold plum branch stretched out its branches, and the plum blossom was still flourishing, but it showed a hint of wilting.

"The edge of the sword comes from the sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold!" Smelling the faint fragrance, Lin Junxuan couldn't help blurting out a poem. The cold winter has achieved the Qingyan of plum blossoms, but winter goes to spring, and thousands of flowers are like flowers, but this plum blossom is about to wither.

"Good poem, really good poem, 'The blade of the sword is sharpened, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold', I can't imagine that Lin Gongzi has made a good poem!" She opened a pair of eyes and looked at Lin Junxuan lying at the window with curiosity and envy.

In this situation, if the child at the window becomes a personable good boy leaning on the window, and sings such a poem in response to the situation, and is heard by the girl who is secretly born in love, it will inevitably be a good story in the world. It's just a pity that Lin Junxuan at the window is only a few years old, and he doesn't have much idea about the pretty girl at the door.

With a wry smile in his heart, Lin Junxuan didn't expect the little cicada to appear at the door of the wing room at this time, and he didn't want to entangle with her in this poem, he was not interested in winning the heart of a sixteen or seventeen girl.

"Sister Cicada got up so early, she came to me so early, but is there anything wrong?" Lin Junxuan turned around and said.

"Hmph, can't I come to you if it's okay?" The girl's mouth pursed, and when she approached Lin Junxuan, she suddenly turned into a smile, grabbed Lin Junxuan's shoulders with a pair of small hands, leaned over, and said with a smile: "Lin Gongzi, this poem is so meaningful! I didn't expect ......"

Lin Junxuan didn't wait for her to finish, and then interrupted her: "It's so intentional, but I didn't do it!" Lin Junxuan didn't have much interest in stealing someone else's copyright in a strange world to please a young girl.

With a shake of his shoulders, Lin Junxuan easily got rid of Xiao Cicada's hands, Shi Shiran walked to the mahogany round table and sat down on the round stool, Lin Junxuan turned around and raised his head: "My sister hasn't told me yet, what is the matter with coming to me today?"

As soon as he said this, Xiao Cicada immediately forgot to ask about the origin of this poem, grinned, walked to Lin Junxuan, stretched out his finger and gently flicked Lin Junxuan's brows: "You, you are a big ghost, very young, and you are quite elf." I really guessed it right, but it's not Madame who wants to look for you, but Mr. Xixi, the young lady in the house, who wants to find you. ”

"Oh?" Lin Junxuan was a little puzzled.

Xiao Cicada smiled and said, "Mr. Xixi, who was invited by Madame, came over this morning, and he heard that Madame invited a companion for the two young ladies and Childe, and said that she would personally test you to determine whether you are qualified to accompany Miss and Childe to study." ”

"Oh," Lin Junxuan was a little surprised: "Isn't this matter decided by Madame?"

"Although your affairs are set by Madame, but the Master's teaching is quite strict, even the young lady does not dare to break the rules when he is in class, Madame and Master Hou respect him very much, and he can speak of this matter. I heard that the master once told his wife that he didn't want him to ask questions when he was in class, which would affect his teaching progress, so he wanted to test you. When Xiao Cicada said this, he smiled: "I was still worried about you, but when I first came in, I should have read a lot of books when I heard you chant poetry." Sister, I'm worried in vain!"

Lin Junxuan frowned slightly, he had read a lot of books, in the teacher Gan Ruye, he had read 'scriptures, history, children, and collections', but after all, it was Gan Ruye's collection, and Lin Junxuan was not familiar with what this prince Xixi taught.

After thinking about it for a while, Lin Junxuan already had a countermeasure in his heart: "Well, I'm not worried about this. Since Madame asked you to invite me, you must be waiting, let's go over early, we can't let Madame wait for a long time. ”

"Well, follow me. ”

Lin Junxuan followed Xiao Cicada behind, but this time he didn't go to the lobby. Half an hour later, Lin Junxuan was led to a study by Xiao Cicada.

The door of the study was open, and a figure in a white gown and a cyan Confucian crown was sitting on a Taishi chair with his back to him. The room was quiet, and there was no slave or maid in sight, and there was no lady in the Hou Mansion, it seemed that there was only that person.

"You are Lin Junxuan, come in!" An old-fashioned and stern voice came from the study, but the man still didn't turn around.

Lin Junxuan crossed the threshold, stepped into the study, and bowed: "Lin Junxuan has seen the master!"

The man's long sleeves shook, and he finally stood up and turned around, and Lin Junxuan saw the face of this Mr. Xixi of the Hou Mansion clearly. The Master, with three black beards, about forty to fifty years of age, with an old-fashioned countenance, like a carved stone carving, and his lips tightly closed, and the curvature of his lips looked cold and stern, it seems unlikely that the word laugh could have been found in such a person. Although he did not appear angry, the Master's expression seemed to have been made even more terrible by his anger.

"No wonder even such a lively Miss Hou Fu was afraid when she saw him, after all, they were still four or five years old, and it was inevitable to be afraid of seeing such an old-fashioned, cold, and unsmiling Mr. Xixi. Lin Junxuan raised his head and looked at his master's fierce eyes, without a trace of fear in his eyes. Although Lin Junxuan's body is a four-year-old child, where would he be afraid of a stern and rigid Mr. Xixi.

"This little doll, as Mrs. said, has something extraordinary," when Lin Junxuan looked at him, this master was not secretly observing him, from the moment Lin Junxuan appeared at the door of the study, the master was secretly paying attention to him. The ordinary little doll, who was frightened and cried when he saw this cane, could look at his own sharp eyes so fearlessly, the master saw it for the first time, although he didn't say anything, but his heart was full of appreciation, and he had a good initial impression of this companion student.

"Doll, are you Lin Junxuan?" said the master condescendingly.

"Please call my name, Lin Junxuan!" Lin Junxuan said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Hmph!" The master stood with his hands in his hands and glanced at Lin Junxuan with a disdainful look: "Doll, let me ask you, how can you be virtuous, you dare to accompany Gongzi and Miss, if you miss the two of your studies, you can afford it!"

Hearing this master so polite, Lin Junxuan was also a little annoyed, his principle of doing things has always been that people respect me, I respect people, this master is so domineering, I have to fight him.

"Hmph, the student doesn't know what the master can do, and he dares to teach the prince and the young lady in the house, and he is not afraid of misleading people's children?" Lin Junxuan attacked his shield with his spear, and he also raised his hands and looked at the master with disdain.

"You!" was despised by a boy of a few years old, and said that he was mistaken by other people's children, the master was so angry that he blew his nose and glared, and the three strands of black whiskers under his chin trembled, and when he flicked his sleeves, the master said coldly: "My master's surname is Che, his name is Wanyu, his name is Shuangting, and his name is Hetian, and he studied under the late Great Confucian Crane Zhizhai......! , proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Doll, you actually say that I am a mistaken child!"

"Hmph, so what? I'm also familiar with the 'scriptures, histories, children, and collections', and I'm not even qualified to be a companion to others, and you still want to teach people's children, aren't you mistaken people!"

The master was stunned for a moment: "Are you familiar with the 'scriptures, history, children, and collections'?" Most of the children of this age are still reading the "Thousand Character Text" and "Ancient Teachings", even if they are the children of the royal family, they need to teach a little more, but they are limited to age, and their literacy is limited. Reading through the 'classics, histories, children, and collections' is something that only ordinary Confucian scholars do, and as for familiar reading, it is not enough to be able to recognize the characters in such a thick book.

"Doll, are you serious? Don't lie. The anger in the Master's chest at this time was long gone, and it was more of curiosity and disbelief. It is really hard for a four- or five-year-old doll to say that he is familiar with such a thick 'scripture, history, sub, and collection'.

"Succeeded," Seeing the master's expression, Lin Junxuan knew that everything was under his control. After all, he didn't know anything about this place, and if he picked something that was very basic and simple in this world, but he had never heard of it at all, it would be bad at that time.

After coming to Lin'an City, Lin Junxuan had the most contact and read the most, that is, the 'scriptures, history, children, and collections' in the Gan Ruye bookcase, his memory was originally good, but after the crossing, his body became smaller, and his memory was enhanced, plus he was exposed to it every day, so it was very familiar. As long as the Master asks about these things, he is confident that he will be able to answer without leaking.

"Of course it's true. Lin Junxuan said indifferently.

"If what this son said is true, he has this kind of bearing at a young age, and his intelligence, he will become a great weapon in the future," the master said in his heart, but his face was still old-fashioned and stern: "Doll, since what you say is true, I will test you, if you can answer it, I will not make it difficult for you, and I will immediately inform Madame that you will be allowed to accompany the study." ”

"You ask. Lin Junxuan met the master's eyes and said calmly.