When Li Changan returned to the Changqing Palace, it was already dark, Concubine Wu Hui was sitting under the candle reading a book, and Mingyue retreated to leave the space for the two.

Concubine Wu Hui smiled and beckoned Li Changan to her side, and reached out to touch Li Changan's cold cheek.

"It's busy with you to open a shop, and you run out twice in three days, and this little face is the same as the ice cream."

Li Changan obediently put his chin on Concubine Wu Hui's knee and showed a bright smile: "I think it's fun to do business...... Does Auntie think the sorbet I sent yesterday is delicious? ”

"It's delicious, you're ingenious, the red bean cake is really softer when frozen in ice for a while." Concubine Wu Hui rubbed Li Changan's face.

"I'm going to sell sorbet in the shop next month, and I'm going to have a new one every month." Li Changan's eyes lit up, "I have made a lot of money, and I can buy New Year's gifts for my mother and mother." ”

Concubine Wu Hui smiled dumbly.

She knew that Li Changan's small shop had a good business, but it was also a small shop selling pastries, and the profit in a month was at most a dozen yuan, and every month the officials who asked her to honor her were more than a thousand gold, and more than a dozen yuan could not even buy this unique book in her hand.

But Concubine Wu Hui enjoys Li Changan's thoughts, isn't it just for this intimacy to raise her daughter.

"A-Niang, it's going to be cold in the future, and I always have to trouble Mingyue to follow me when I leave the palace, I don't want to run out of the palace all the time, can I let my orchids wait for me at the teaching department next to my courtyard?" Li Changan hugged Concubine Wu Hui's arm and coquettishly.

This workshop is already on the outermost layer of Daming Palace, and there are many musicians who come and go on weekdays, Li Changan feels that Concubine Wu Hui will not refuse her.

What's more, the Tang Dynasty court was not very strictly guarded, and there were more officials who came and went to find Concubine Wu Hui on weekdays. If it weren't for the fact that she was too young, she would actually be able to bring people in and out by herself.

Concubine Wu Hui did not refuse Li Changan, "I'll ask someone to go and tell the Department of Education." ”

The stone in Li Changan's heart fell half again.

It was late when she returned to the courtyard where she lived, but Cao Ye Nahime still hadn't slept.

"Look at this dagger." Cao Ye Naji was polishing the dagger under the lamp with her outer robe, and when she heard the sound of the door being pushed open, she knew who it was, and she raised her hand to beckon Li Changan to come over.

Looks like she's in a good mood.

Cao Ye Naji has a good skill in polishing weapons, she followed the caravan before, and the weapons in the caravan were damaged by her, but this good skill has no place in Daming Palace.

It wasn't until Li Changan was a little older that Cao Ye Naji picked up this craft newly, and she had a lot of free time, and in these idle hours, she sharpened the dagger, sharpened the kitchen knife and boning knife with the stone she got from the rockery, little by little, until the shape of the dagger slowly appeared, and then the sharp blade gradually appeared.

"It's not well done." Nahime Caono sighed softly as she looked at the dagger she had polished under the candlelight.

Lacking tools, it's good to be able to polish like this.

"It's already good." Li Changan grabbed Cao Ye's waist from behind, but only touched a handful of bones, ribs.

"It's not easy to bring a dagger into the palace, if it weren't for my mother, I wouldn't have a dagger in the palace."

Cao Ye Nahime heard this, and there was a smile on his face.

"I'll polish a few more daggers and stay in the palace for future defense."

In Cao Ye's heart, a person is inseparable from a dagger, she has carried a dagger since she was three years old, there are wolves and bandits along the way of the business, the dagger can kill people and cut the throat of wolves, hungry can cut meat and cold can chop wood, daggers are the most useful things.

Li Changan only looked at the freshly scarred wound on Cao Ye's finger.

Cao Ye Naji has always had a cocoon on her hands, but she has been raising them in the palace for the past few years, and she doesn't need to dance with a knife and a gun anymore, and the cocoons on her hands are thinner, and recently, she found that this thin layer of cocoons has been worn out.

Li Changan looked at the dim candle flame Cao Ye Naji's face seriously polishing the dagger, and somehow suddenly remembered Meng Jiaolai.

The line in the mother's hand, the wanderer's shirt. Before leaving, I am afraid that I will return late.

Li Changan pursed her lips, she was going to hurry up.

Two days later, Li Changan took Mingyue out of the palace and came to her house.

Yuan Niang, a housekeeper in the house, invited Mingyue to go to the Rouge store to see the latest Rouge.

Yuan Niang is Li Changan's newly bought housekeeper lady, who was originally the housekeeper's lady in the prisoner's family, but was sold because the main family was convicted, Li Changan happened to meet it, so he bought it.

Mingyue and the two orchids have nothing to say, but they have a lot of common language with Yuan Niang.

"Mingyue, you go with Yuan Niang, I'm not interested in those things." Li Changan waved his hand, rolled on the soft couch again, and stretched, "I can sleep, and you don't have to call me when you come back." ”

Mingyue hesitated, her responsibility to protect Li Changan as a slave and her love for rouge gouache in her heart made her a little undecided.

"I'll just sleep in the house and don't go out, and A-Niang won't blame you for not watching me sleep." Li Changan's words dispelled Mingyue's worries.

After Mingyue rushed out of the door with Yuan Niang's arm, Li Changan quickly got up from the soft couch, she looked at the red silk standing on the edge of the couch and asked, "What about Shen Chu?" ”

Red Aya pointed in the direction of the backyard: "Waiting in the backyard." ”

Li Changan walked straight through the main house to the backyard, where there was a person, dressed in a white robe, sitting at a stone table under the locust tree.

The practice of the Tang Dynasty is that scholars who have not passed the first rank wear white robes, and the so-called white-clothed prime minister also comes from this, referring to the scholars who have not been admitted to the imperial examination.

Shen Chu also saw Li Changan, he immediately stood up, couldn't help but walk two steps quickly in front of Li Changan, looking at the little girl in front of him, his chest rose and fell slightly.

He had two dark circles on his handsome face, but he hadn't slept well in the past few days.

Shen Chu was restless after separating from Li Changan that day, and found this mansion with the written words in the afternoon of the same day, but unfortunately the old man was not there, and there were only a few maids in the house.

However, it was not for nothing, Shen Chu learned the master's name from the maid named Hongyan.

Li Chang'an, a name that made Shen Chu lose sleep for three days.

Shen Chu didn't know whether he should be happy or sad the moment he first heard this name.

He no longer has to worry about his reputation in the modern world of education.

…… Now it's time to worry about his future in Datang.

"Mentor, I want to kill you!"

Li Changan didn't have any worries, she was in tears, hugged Shen Chu's waist as soon as she cried, and cried so much that the sky was shaking.

"You don't know how I've spent all these years, let me tell you, I'm very unlucky, I cast a baby with a father and no father, and my mother is living a miserable life......"

Shen Chu sighed, his heart softened suddenly, and he even took the initiative to reach out and rub the back of Li Changan's head.

"In the first life, could it be that the heart has also become a child's heart, and people in their twenties still cry like a yellow-mouthed child."

That being said, Shen Chu did not push Li Changan away.

Li Changan was his only student, and he had no intention of taking the student, but it was an old friend of his who recommended Li Changan to him, boasting that he would definitely like this student......

At first, Shen Chu only thought that the old guy was in big trouble for him, Li Changan, a rebel, was only able to get in because she was good at taking the exam, but she didn't know anything about anything that was not covered in the syllabus, and studying in graduate school was completely a mixed education. Every time he corrected the paper for this guy who didn't learn or knew how to do it, Shen Chu felt that he was ten years older.

But in addition to the mess of the paper, Li Changan couldn't find any fault in other places, he was unwell and served him tea and water, he went to other places for meetings to give him everything from accommodation to transportation arrangements, cheekily rubbed to his home to make dumplings for him during the New Year, and brazenly said that he cared for the lonely and widowed elderly.

Later, even he had to admit that his old friend's assurances were still somewhat credible.

Unexpectedly, before the papers were published, the teachers and students met again in Chang'an, Datang.

"How did the teacher come over all these years?" Li Changan asked Shen Chu.

Shen Chu frowned at the corners of his clothes stained with tears, and glared at the bold rebel opposite, but he didn't say anything, just sat on the stone bench with a melancholy look in his eyes.

"I came to Datang five years ago."

"Me too, but when I wake up, I'm in my mother's womb." Li Changan pricked up his ears to listen to Shen Chu's words.

Shen Chu thought for a moment: "I took over the body of the original owner of this corpse after his death. Five years ago, my mother died of illness, and he committed suicide by jumping into the water. ”

"Then I buried my original mother, kept filial piety for three years, studied for two years, participated in the imperial examination at this age, and fell first." What Shen Chu said was very brief.

Li Changan muttered: "I heard that you also scattered your wealth to help the poor." ”

"The two sons of the family surnamed Sun in the east of the street died on the battlefield of Tibet; The Chen family, who sells vegetables, has a son who has returned, but he is missing an arm and can't do heavy work; In the Wang family, the man died on the battlefield, and the orphan and widow lived with three children...... Shen Chu counted carefully.

"I'm not helping the poor, I'm helping the good who can't get by." Shen Chu corrected Li Changan, "I will never care about those poor and poor scoundrels." ”

Li Changan pointed to the corners of his yellow clothes that Shen Chu couldn't clean, "So the teacher is so poor that he can't even afford to buy new clothes." ”

"Money is something outside of the body, didn't I have a million savings before and haven't been able to bring it to the present? Since life does not bring death and cannot be taken away, wouldn't it be better to use it to save people. Shen Chu waved his hand and didn't care.

Li Changan reminded: "Teacher, the remaining one million in your card was all used to set up a bursary, and it has long been gone." ”

Shen Chu smiled happily and showed relief: "Okay, now all the money will be used!" ”

I'm not good!

Li Changan pulled his face with resentment, thinking to himself that you are a poor bastard, but I still have tens of millions of assets and seven houses in first-tier cities that I haven't been able to bring after a thousand years.

Shen Chu knew too well what kind of guy his student was, and when he saw Li Changan's face, he knew what this student who was chasing fame and fortune was thinking.

"Draw on fame and fortune." Shen Chu flicked his finger on Li Changan's head.

Li Changan pursed his lips: "What's wrong with fame and fortune?" Teachers scattered their wealth may not be able to help a few poor people, like you said, the reason for poverty, the reason for poverty is mostly because the post-war pension is not in place, if you want to completely solve this problem, it is useless to rely on you to help, and the need for the imperial court to formulate a more perfect post-war pension policy is the fundamental reason. And if you want to implement this policy, you must at least be qualified to put forward this policy. ”

Shen Chu sighed: "Yes, so I went to participate in the imperial examination." ”

"Then the teacher must have failed the test." Li Changan raised his eyebrows and smiled.

As for why she confirmed that Shen Chu would definitely not be able to pass the exam? Half a month before the imperial examination this year, most of the people who could be selected this time were already lying on Concubine Wu Hui's desk, and she had seen it with her own eyes.

The imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty were not very fair to speak of. The imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty was not vague, and the names of candidates could be seen by every examiner...... Which one do you choose, an acquaintance, a child, or a candidate you don't know?

Secondly, at this time, the scholars not only look at the test results, but also have to be recommended by famous people, to the Ministry of Rites is called the public volume, to the dignitaries and nobles called the line, Bai Juyi's "Endowed with the Grass on the Plain" is the line paper he voted to the famous people.

In short, it is a "public paper list", and if no one recommends it, you can't pass the exam.

And her mentor ...... Looking at the washed and yellowed clothes on his body, you can know that he must not have attached to the powerful, and it is inevitable that he will fall into the first place.

But now she can reluctantly let the teacher climb her nepotism, Li Changan fantasizes about the future of turning over into a serf and singing, his waist is getting straighter and straighter, and the corners of his mouth can't help but grin bigger and bigger.