In the Ye Family Grange, Zhang Jingzhi was wearing Ye Jin's clothes, sitting under a big banyan tree, patiently answering Ye Zhiyou's various strange questions.

"Reading, do you want to learn from Mr. Wuliu without seeking understanding, or should you learn from Zhu Wengong to read and think well?" Ye Zhiyou was holding the book, one of his two eyes was written with admiration, and the other was written with curiosity, which was amazingly bright.

Zhang Jingzhi shook a big pu fan in his hand that he got out of nowhere, and while shaking, he crossed Erlang's legs and said: "Of course, it is still the golden mean of respecting the Confucian sage, you can read extensively to know a rough idea when you first read the book, and then grasp some key arguments to familiarize yourself with it, as for how to grasp the degree between extensive reading and intensive reading, it still depends on you." ”

Zhang Jingzhi's posture was leisurely, as if he was not talking about the truth of reading, but talking about today's dishes, but Ye Zhiyou, a listener, was like a treasure, and he wrote it down on the paper while listening.

Ye Qiong held the food box, looking at it from a distance, it was only funny, Zhang Jingzhi's afterglow had already found Ye Qiong and Ye Jin who was following her, and hurriedly sat up straight and shouted: "Senior sister, Ye Jin, you brought me food?" ”

Ye Qiong walked over with a smile, put down the food box, and personally took out a few plates of simple side dishes from the food box, and said while spreading the dishes: "The grange is simple, you will eat it, if it is not enough, I will call Aunt Tang to make some more." ”

Zhang Jingzhi hurriedly waved his hand and said no, picked up the chopsticks and snorted and eaten, as if he had been hungry for several days.

Ye Qiong poured tea for Zhang Jingzhi again, Zhang Jingzhi gradually slowed down, and only after drinking the tea did he take a long breath and said: "Master is really ruthless, let me come to experience and don't let me bring more people, if I don't meet you, senior sister, I still have to suffer!" ”

Ye Qiong chuckled.

Zhang Jingzhi's character means that the master can cure him. Although in the end, I often don't know whether it was the master who rectified Zhang Jingzhi, or whether Zhang Jingzhi annoyed the master again.

Zhang Jingzhi was born noble, but he was also talented and intelligent, in the impression of Ye Qiong's previous life, even Mr. Zou failed to completely smooth out Zhang Jingzhi's arrogant and dustless character.

In this life, perhaps because of the discovery of Ye Qiong, a "senior sister" who is smarter than himself but younger than himself, Zhang Jingzhi's arrogant personality has also converged a lot.

If it was in his previous life, Ye Qiong would not have imagined that Zhang Jingzhi would be able to lecture with a student who was a farmer at home so calmly.

Zhang Jingzhi finished eating the tea, and saw that Ye Zhiyou was still holding a book to ask for advice, and finally nodded to Ye Qiong impatiently, and said, "My senior sister is your Ye family, and her knowledge is stronger than mine, why don't you ask her?" ”

Ye Zhiyou opened his mouth, his face full of surprise.

Ye Qiong worshiped under Mr. Zou before Zhang Jingzhi, and unlike Zhang Jingzhi, a nominal disciple, Ye Zhiyou certainly knew about the fact that he was a closed disciple who had really performed the apprenticeship ceremony.

But even if he knew, Ye Zhiyou, like other people in the Ye family's side branches, didn't think that Ye Qiong's knowledge could really be compared to Zhang Jingzhi.

Ye Zhiyou touched his nose embarrassedly.

Ye Qiong is a girl in the third room of the Yan Branch, and there is naturally a gap between him and him, and there is a difference between men and women, he is embarrassed to ask Ye Qiong for learning, so he can only accept the book and leave.

Ye Qiong smiled bitterly in her heart, Zhang Jingzhi saw that Ye Zhiyou was finally gone, and came over as if he wanted to talk to Ye Qiong, but two more uninvited guests came at the gate of the courtyard.

Ye Mei and Ye Qin stood timidly at the gate of the courtyard, and when they saw Zhang Jingzhi looking over, Ye Mei hurriedly made a standard curtsy and said, "Ye Mei, the eldest daughter of the second room of the Ye family, has seen the prince of Korea. ”

Ye Qin followed Ye Mei and saluted, bowing her head and reporting her name.

Different from Ye Mei's dignified and elegant, Ye Qin's movements were jerky, she seemed to be a little afraid of Zhang Jingzhi, and her body trembled a little when she saluted.

Ye Qiong turned her back to Ye Mei and Ye Qin, sitting on the stone bench under the big banyan tree and drinking tea slowly, Ye Jin didn't pay attention to Ye Mei and Ye Qin when she saw this, just as if she hadn't heard anything.

Zhang Jingzhi raised his eyebrows, and didn't pay attention to Ye Mei and Ye Qin, but raised the sleeves that were rolled up because they were too long with a smile, and said to Ye Qiong flatteringly: "Senior sister, the cuffs of your brother's clothes are too long, you can help me cut them shorter." ”

The intimacy between the tones made Ye Qiong slightly surprised.

When did they get so good?

Ye Jin on the side also widened his eyes, seeing Zhang Jingzhi's slightly red cheeks, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.

This Zhang Jingzhi, does he really treat his little sister as a senior sister?

Ye Jin's heart suddenly became alarmed, and he looked at Zhang Jingzhi's gaze and became vigilant, and secretly determined in his heart that he must remind Lu Shaodan after he went back.

Ye Qiong had already accepted her surprised look, cooperated with Zhang Jingzhi, and said with a smile: "I'm not a good female worker, let me come, I may cut this dress into half an arm, I'll let my maid help you cut it short." ”

Zhang Jingzhi chuckled lightly, looking incredulous.

Ye Qiong saw that it was almost over, so she reminded Zhang Jingzhi: "My two cousins are still waiting, and the junior brother will answer anyway." ”

The sentence "junior brother" made the smile on Zhang Jingzhi's face even brighter, but when he turned his face to face Ye Mei and Ye Qin, his face instantly cooled: "I came here as a nominal disciple of Mr. Zou." Korean prince or something, don't mention it again. ”

Ye Mei and Ye Qin's faces changed instantly, and finally turned the color of pig liver, they stood near the courtyard gate, neither entering nor retreating, extremely embarrassed.

In the end, it was Ye Mei who led Ye Qin to salute Zhang Jingzhi hastily, said "excuse me", and the two left in a hurry.

Zhang Jingzhi sneered and said: "I originally thought that only people like my family would make trouble, but I didn't expect your Ye family to be the same, it is really a difficult scripture to read." How's your family's ethnography going? You hurried home that day, and the old man was worried about you. ”

Ye Qiong was stunned for a moment, and Zhang Jingzhi explained: "The old man doesn't say it, but he still remembers you very much in his heart." The route I came here was chosen by the old man, although it was indeed for the purpose of training me, but it also had the reason for me to see if you needed help. ”

Ye Qiong's heart warmed.

Zhang Jingzhi came here, it turned out that the master was worried about himself, so he asked him to come over and have a look.

Master, you really care about yourself.

Seeing that Ye Qiong's expression softened, Zhang Jingzhi felt a lot more relieved, and began to shout again: "Senior sister, Master let me stay here for three days before returning to the capital, and you have to take me in during this time." That old man even set the number of coils for me, without you, I would have to cover the sky and the earth! ”

Ye Qiong and Ye Jin snorted and laughed together, Ye Qiong softened her eyebrows, and said, "These days, please trouble you to live with my brother." ”

Ye Jin scratched his head embarrassedly, and Zhang Jingzhi also nodded, but he just lived with people, and he didn't want to sleep on the back of a mule anymore.

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Zhang Jingzhi's first night in Yejia Grange.

It was a sunny day, but at dusk the clouds gathered, obscuring the moon and the stars, and the five fingers could not be seen in the grange.

But at this time, a small shadow flexibly scurried into the courtyard where Ye Qiong was, threw something into the courtyard, and then burrowed into the shadows.

The sparkling fires lit up and began to encroach on the quiet darkness.

In the crackling and burning sound, Zhang Jingzhi opened his eyes.

He had always slept lightly, and he was even more sensitive to such small sounds.

Zhang Jingzhi immediately reacted that something was wrong, sat up and looked out the window, and sure enough, he saw the light of the fire, and hurriedly woke up Ye Jin, who was sleeping on another bed: "Get up quickly, go to the water!" ”

Ye Jin was still asleep in a daze, but when he heard a sound of "walking water", he woke up suddenly, pushed open the window and saw that the fire was not too big, and then patted his head and said, "That direction is the inner courtyard, I have to call my sister!" ”

Zhang Jingzhi frowned when he heard this, and hurriedly wrapped his clothes with Ye Jin, so he shouted all the way to the water, ran all the way into the inner courtyard, and when he was about to smash the door and call someone, Ye Jin stopped Zhang Jingzhi and said: "There is a difference between men and women, and it is late at night, just let me knock on the door, you go and call someone to put out the fire!" ”

Zhang Jingzhi's footsteps paused, and he reluctantly said "um", he looked up at the sky again, and saw that there was also a fire in the other direction, so he said: "My senior sister handed it over to you, I'll go over there to have a look, in my opinion, this matter is not simple, it's better to prepare early." ”

Ye Jin bowed, Zhang Jingzhi raised his feet and left, Ye Jin continued to slam the door, shouting loudly, "It's water".

The warbler on night duty woke up the first, and was startled when she saw the fire outside the window, so she hurriedly shook Ye Qiong awake and shouted, "Girl, it seems that there is water outside!" ”

Ye Qiong, who was still in a dream, suddenly woke up, quickly jumped out of bed and hastily put on her clothes.

Fortunately, the fire was not too big, and there was a small amount of smoke in the room, and Ye Qiong felt that her throat was already uncomfortable.

Liuying was already panicking, and asked while coughing: "Ahem, girl, this, what should I do?" ”

Ye Qiong also coughed a few times, but her expression was still calm.

Fortunately, I woke up early, the fire was not big, and there was still a chance to escape.

Ye Qiong picked up the teapot on the table, soaked his handkerchief and covered his mouth and nose, and said, "This smoke is poisonous, you do it with me, and we will rush out together!" ”

The warbler was busy doing so, Ye Qiong looked around the whole room again, and saw that there was a one-person-high water osmanthus in the corner of the room, and a large fish tank, so he commanded the warbler to pour all the water inside on the quilt, and put the wet quilt on his body with the warbler.

Fortunately, the door of the room was made of a wooden bolt, and the fire was discovered early, and the bolt was not hot, so Ye Qiong and Liuying easily opened the door and rushed into the courtyard.

The porch in the courtyard had already lit a fire, Ye Qiong gritted her teeth, endured the fear of the tongue of fire, and then walked through the porch with the wandering warbler to the gate connecting the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard.

The two hurriedly left the quilt that was already on fire and stepped on the fire, but they were dumbfounded at the copper lock on the door.

Liuying was so anxious that she stomped her feet: "The mother-in-law on this door must have gone to drink again, and the key is still on her!" ”

Outside the door, Ye Jin was still slamming the door, and Ye Qiong shouted loudly: "Brother, Liuying and I are fine, but we are locked by this door, how are you over there?" ”

Ye Jin hurriedly said: "I'm fine, this door can't be opened, can you, don't worry, I will definitely open it!" ”

Ye Jin said, raising his foot and kicking towards the door, but the door did not move.

Ye Jin was dumbfounded, and hit it with his body again, but the door was still intact.

On the other side of the door, the fire was getting bigger and bigger, although it hadn't burned to the place where Ye Qiong and Liuying were, but the smoke had already made Ye Qiong feel like a knife blade cutting through her throat.

There was another voice outside the door, it was Ye Er, who was originally guarding the outer courtyard, and he shouted loudly: "Girl, I'm here to help you too!" ”

Ye Er and Ye Jin shouted one, two, three, and slammed into the door, the door trembled, but the copper lock still didn't move.

Ye Qiong's heart finally began to panic, she coughed and said, "Brother, go and call someone!" ”

The voice fell, and in the sound of the fire, the voices of people outside the door became noisy.

Someone shouted loudly to the door, "Get out of the way", Ye Qiong and Liuying subconsciously let go, and a cold and shiny axe was suddenly inserted into the wooden door brushed with tung oil.

Ye Qiong was taken aback, and then there was a surprise.

Since you can't open the lock, you might as well split the door directly!

The axe slashed a few more times, and the entire door fell in half, and when he was able to barely pass through a person, Ye Qiong finally saw the person holding the axe outside the door, it was Zhang Jingzhi.

When Ye Qiong was surprised, Zhang Jingzhi pointed another axe at the door, and with a "snap", the entire door panel fell to the ground.

Zhang Jingzhi copied the axe and shouted to Ye Qiong, who was still stunned: "Ye Qiong! Why are you still stunned, come here! ”

Ye Qiong was woken up by his words, pulled the warbler out of the courtyard door with the broken door panel, and left the place where the fire started.

Ye Jin hurriedly helped Ye Qiong, Zhang Jingzhi also put down the axe, and the two asked together, "Are you okay?" ”

Ye Qiong coughed a few times before replying, "It's okay." His voice was a lot hoarse.

Ye Jin and Zhang Jingzhi exhaled at the same time, Zhang Jingzhi saw that Ye Qiong was wearing thinly, and took off his coat, and when he wanted to put it on Ye Qiong, he realized that it was inappropriate, so he said to Pang Zi, who was commanding: "Aunt Lao takes two cloaks." ”

Pang Zi, who was called his aunt, was stunned, and hurriedly asked people to take out two wide cloaks from his cage and put them on Ye Qiong and Liuying first.

Ye Qiong tilted her head and looked at Zhang Jingzhi, always feeling that the Zhang Jingzhi in front of her was too different from the memory of her previous life.

How could Zhang Jingzhi be so kind?

He was so proud that he always felt like he was out of the world.

In his previous life, Zhang Jingzhi's contempt and contempt for Ye Qiong had never been hidden, and Ye Qiong also felt that Zhang Jingzhi was such a high-ranking person, and secular people had no chance to have a deep friendship with him.

But tonight, Zhang Jingzhi will use an axe to slash the courtyard gate in order to save her, and he will take into account her thin clothes, and even pay attention to the male and female defense.

Ye Qiong felt that she couldn't understand Zhang Jingzhi in this world.

On the other side, the firefighters still picked up buckets and sprinkled water into the fire, but it was always a drop in the bucket.

Ye Qiong's eyes were locked on Ye Mei and Ye Qin, who were standing behind the crowd, with the same panicked faces as her and Liuying, and were being comforted by the clansmen, sneering in their hearts.

If you want to pretend, you should also pretend to be decent.

The fire suddenly broke out in the middle of the night, but Ye Mei and Ye Qin were still dressed neatly, and even the hairpin ring was not removed.

If this matter has nothing to do with them, Ye Qiong herself doesn't believe it.

The person who set the fire probably really wanted to kill himself in the fire. Even if you get away with it, you will face such an antagonistic situation.

It's really a vicious plan, and I'm not afraid that the fire will really burn a few lives, and really burn up the rations of the Ye family's side for the whole winter!

Ye Qiong was furious.