At the same time, in the west of Xiayang City, Ye Baiyi took a child's hand, passed by Shangchuan School Palace, came to a reed, and saw a simple wooden house next to the stream, and the house was lit with stars and lights. Ye Baiyi looked around, and saw that there were reeds all around him, and his vision was blocked, and he could only vaguely see the hazy mountain shadows in the distance. This place is some distance away from the official road, and the reeds are luxuriant, and there are few idlers coming and going. In this way, the lonely wooden houses by the stream reflect the silhouette of the green mountains in the distance, and it looks more and more bleak and desolate.

"Right there. The child pointed to the wooden house in the distance. This child is the child named Li Yishi who stole Luo Yuling grass in Shangchuan School Palace during the day, and when he came back from Baiyi at night, he happened to see the child squatting in front of the door of the people's medical hall in a single coat, so he stepped forward to inquire, and then came here with the child.

The house looked like a wooden house from a distance, but when I got closer, I found that the walls were mostly made of mud and hay, and the wood used was only a fence that was now exposed to make a skeleton, and the roof was paved with only a few handfuls of thatch wrapped in reeds.

"Brother Sima is also here?"

The child nodded vigorously.

Ye Baiyi stretched out his hand to help the child open the reeds blocking the road, and soon came to the door of the wooden house. The wooden door of the hut was closed, and there was an oil lamp in the house, and the dim light peeked through the thatched grass that covered the window.

The child pushed the door in, and the old wooden door creaked.

In the dark night, it was difficult for Bai Yi to see the furnishings here, and he could only vaguely see a high platform in the main hall, a short wooden table, and several wooden stools that had been kicked by himself unintentionally.

The two of them entered the side room in the dark. On the way, at night, Baiyi heard from the children that there were two side rooms in this house, and now they entered the one with oil lamps.

The furnishings in the side room were also extremely simple, a stone bed, a wooden bed, and next to the wooden bed was a wooden table that was so simple that it looked misshapen, and on the table was the crumbling oil lamp. On the bed was a little girl who looked no older than Li Yishi, who had fallen asleep. Sitting next to the bed was a scholar wearing a bachelor's uniform of the Sichuan Academy, the scholar was holding a yellowed ancient book in his hand, and the whole person was lying on the wooden table, with his eyes closed in a strange posture, as if he was awake.

This scholar was the Sima Hui that Ye Baiyi had seen in the daytime, and his face was reflected in the dim light at the moment, and he looked more and more haggard.

Li Yishi stepped forward and shook Sima Hui awake, turned his head and pointed at the white clothes of the night. Sima Hui rubbed his sleepy eyes, looked at the night white clothes in a daze, and hurriedly got up after seeing the figure clearly and recognizing the person, but he thought of the child on the bed, for fear of disturbing his rest, so he lowered his voice and saluted: "I have seen Engong below." ”

Ye Baiyi waved his hand and said, "You don't have to call me Engong, my surname is Li, you might as well call me Mr. Li." ”

Sima Hui nodded and made a gesture of invitation, "Sir, please take a seat." ”

Ye Baiyi sat on the stone bed opposite Sima Hui. The stone bed was covered with old cotton wool and bedding.

A few people sat around an oil lamp, but it was a little crowded in this small room.

Sima Hui put away the ancient books in his hand, refilled the lamp oil, and the whole room became a little brighter.

Sima Hui first beckoned Li Yishi to another room to rest, and then said: "I wanted Shi to go out to find Wei Langzhong, but I didn't expect to find Mr. I bothered Mr. late at night, and I was really ashamed. ”

Ye Baiyi waved his hand and said, "It's not to blame the stone, the city medicine hall has long been closed, and I found him." How is this child doing?"

Sima Hui sighed and said, "I would suddenly vomit after falling asleep in the first half of the night, and I fell asleep a few times, and now I am finally more stable, but I still can't be optimistic." In case they were infected, I told them all to go to sleep in another room. ”

Ye Baiyi inquired about the various deeds of this Sima Hui after he was admitted to the school palace during the day, and he was quite a person.

Sima Hui is from Suzhou, entered the palace five years ago, worshiped under Yu Zhengting, and was accepted as a disciple of Master Yu's inner door a year later. This matter is quite criticized in the school palace, the reason is that Sima Hui's annual palace examination results are unsightly, especially in the dialectics, because of Sima Hui's stuttering, he is nicknamed "can't talk about the Tao", and the same name is also another female disciple of the school palace, Shangguan Shuo's "hand talk can't be". Such waste materials can be recognized by a generation of casting master Yu Zhengting. It is rumored that if it weren't for Master Yu's old eyes being dizzy, it would be Sima Hui's illustrious family background, and even a scholar like Yu Zhengting would be afraid of three points. And such an act of going through the back door has always been disgraced by the teachers and students in the palace, and Sima Hui is becoming more and more disregarded in the palace, and the reputation of Master Yu's life has also been corrupted, and there is a momentum of losing his life.

As for Sima Hui's deeds of raising such children in Shuiyundu, there are very few people in the entire school palace who know about it, and I am afraid that there is only one master.

As a result, Ye Baiyi also attached a little more importance to the origin of Sima Hui. Not to mention whether the rumor that Master Yu accepted him because of his family background is true, you must know that in this world, it is not easy to provide for the daily life of these more than ten children.

"How many children does Brother Sima have with him now?"

"No more, no less, exactly ten. ”

Sima Hui looked at the girl lying on the bed and continued to talk about her condition: "This child's name is Camellia, he is nine years old this year, he fled from Nanzhao, and he is not in good health. I don't know how to use medicine, and in the past, when children were sick, it was always better to boil some grass. Today's event I was supposed to ask the stone to go to the pharmacy to see, I was in the school palace at the time, and I didn't expect this kid to be so nonsense, which made Mr. laugh. Camellia was still healthy a few months ago, and I thought that the child's physical condition had improved, but somehow he had this serious illness in the winter. The child's life is not a decision that she can make by herself, and she can only do her best to do her best. If Mr. Li can help his children through this hurdle, he will be grateful. ”

Saying that, Sima Hui was about to get up and salute, but Ye Baiyi held him up and said: "As Brother Sima said, Li can only do his best, but he must go all out, Brother Sima doesn't have to be like this." ”