Bandit Reborn

Li Huaixi and Liu Quan arrived in Yuchuan in the Lin family's carriage. There were still a few days before leaving school. Lin Yichen was afraid that he would be tired from the carriage like last time, so he sent them here ahead of time.

Yuchuan is several times larger than Jin County, and its geographical location is much more important. The city wall here is towering, and there are patrolling soldiers on it. Li Huaixi was very excited when he saw it for the first time, and he finally felt a little thrilling. I mean, I really hope that I can encounter some big things like other traversers.

It's a pity that the world is in the calm before the storm. He didn't even encounter time-travel plots such as a courtesan fighting for beauty until the beginning of school. When the time came, he honestly brought his Liu Quan and moved into Yuchuan Academy.

Yuchuan Academy is located on Diecui Mountain [-] miles away from Yuchuan City. Diecui Mountain is called Diecui, and naturally there are lush trees. It is not like Dacang Mountain in Jin County where there are wolves, tigers and leopards. There are many pavilions on Diecui Mountain. There are towers and pavilions, precious flowers and plants, and the big families in the city have their own courtyards here, and just across the wall from the academy is the courtyard of Mr. Fuyin. This is public property, and it is one of the benefits for officials who are promoted to Fuyin.

Li Huaixi and Liu Quan got a nice apartment. He shared a small yard with two other students. Facing north and south were three main rooms, each with a separate door, without interfering with each other. There were two wing rooms in the east and west. , one is a bathroom, and the other is a small kitchen. The green brick floor in the courtyard is clean, and there are a few flowers and trees. Now it's just past the first month, and these flowers and trees haven't sprouted yet.

Li Huaixi was the first one to arrive, and there was no nameplate on the door, so he occupied the room in the middle, which was not blocked by the east and west wings, and the sunlight was very good.

Liu Quan hurried in and out to clean up the house. He was already 12 years old, fat as a ball, and also wearing satin clothes. Compared with Li Huaixi, who looked like thin noodles at first glance, he looked more like a young master.

Li Huaixi was sitting on a stone bench in the yard basking in the sun with his fat cat in his arms. He was wearing a white Confucian uniform issued by the academy, with his sleeves rolled up several times. The supervisor of the academy allowed him to wear himself before the suit was ready. clothes, but not today, Mr. Fu Yin is coming today.

After a while, a boy of seventeen or eighteen came in. He was from a poor family, except for a Ning Caichen brand bamboo bookcase on his back and a set of luggage just issued by the academy in his hand, Nothing else on him.

The young man walked around the yard with the bookcase on his back, turned his head and asked Li Huaixi who was holding the cat and looking at him, "Little brother, does your brother live in the room in the middle?"

Li Huaixi guessed that this was the case, so he put down his fat cat and let it run casually in the yard, got up and gave the young man a small salute with a smile, "My Li Huaixi is also a student for this test. I came early today and took the It’s cheap, and the other two rooms are empty, so you can choose your room.”

The young man was taken aback, and hurriedly returned a salute in embarrassment, "So you are the head of the trial! I thought you were wearing your brother's clothes, so I offended you so much, please forgive me, next Duan Zhengchun , the No. 20 seven in the hospital examination, students in Xixian County."

"Xiao County? Then it's quite a long way to Yuchuan." Li Huaixi exchanged such pleasantries, but in his heart he felt that it was much closer than Dali.

"Yeah, I've been here for ten days and my feet are blistered. Where are you from? I remember Jin County, right?" Duan Zhengchun put down his bookcase and sat down on the big rock beside Li Huaixi.

"Yes, I'm a freshman from Jin County." Li Huaixi also sat down, his gaze resting on Duan Zhengchun's feet for a second.

The shoes on Duan Zhengchun's feet were tattered, the strap on one side was gone, and it was fixed with a straw rope, and a hole was exposed on the other side. Feeling Li Huaixi's gaze, Duan Zhengchun turned his toes back a little embarrassedly. Shrinking, Li Huaixi smiled, and chatted about the weather in early spring as if nothing had happened.

'Prince Duan' sat and chatted for a while, got up and picked a room on the east side, he put his books and luggage in it and came out, the room was clean, he had nothing to put back.

'Prince Duan' didn't have a bookboy, so he washed himself with water and changed into the clothes and shoes issued by the college. He was average-looking, and he looked better in white Confucian clothes, but it was limited.

Liu Quan came out of the house with a box in his arms, "Young Master, where is this box? We have too many things and there is no place to put them." Li Huaixi told him before leaving home that he would call him 'Master' when he went out, otherwise As far as substitutions are concerned, Liu Quan has done a good job at this point.

"Put it under the bed or under the table. Just now, the servants of the Lin family want to stay and help you, but you don't want to, and you don't choose a time if you can." Li Huaixi deliberately didn't go in to help him, he wanted to let Liu Quan know when It is not so easy to be a servant.

"They are the servants of the Lin family, and I am the housekeeper of the Li family. I don't need them." Liu Quan didn't ask him for help, and went back to the house with the box in his arms. He was still angry that the servants of the Lin family were going to steal it his job.

"Your housekeeper is old enough." Duan Zhengchun sat beside Li Huaixi with a smile, watching him break dry flower branches to tease the cat.

"You are young." Li Huaixi smiled, a little absent-minded.

At this time, there was a commotion outside the courtyard gate, a group of servants carrying boxes filed in, followed by a richly dressed old man and a woman with a nose and eyes all the way in, and finally a frowning seventeen-year-old woman appeared. Eight-year-old boy.

Li Huaixi and Duan Zhengchun got up together and gave a shallow salute to the visitor. The old man returned the half salute with a smile, "From now on, you will be classmates and live together, so you don't have to be polite. This is my son He Chongwen, my wife and I People come to see him off, and he will leave in a while, so you don't need to be too polite."

He Chongwen saluted at the side, glanced at Li Huaixi and Duan Zhengchun, and then smiled at Li Huaixi's long sleeves.

When the servants were tidying up the room, the wife of He Fu took her son and told him thousands of times, a bit like Li Huaixi's grandma, which made Li Huaixi feel a little jealous, his mother didn't tell him like this when he came out, she really I can't wait for him to go.

He Chongwen's home is in Yuchuan City. Before leaving, Mr. He smiled and invited Li Huaixi and Duan Zhengchun to play at home during the holidays, but Mrs. He cried as if she was parting from her son, and was finally pulled away by Mr. He frowning. up.

He Chongwen was happy after his parents left, and he was not angry when he was scratched by the fat cat. He smiled and talked to Li Huaixi, "It turns out that you are Li Huaixi, and Mr. Fu Yin praised you so much that there is nothing in the world. I thought You're a little nerd, it doesn't look like it now, you brought the cat, didn't the supervisor say you?"

"No, my cat doesn't provoke anyone," Li Huaixi lowered his voice, and smiled, "I saw that he seemed to be worried that I would bring my nanny, but I only brought a cat, and he seemed relieved .”

"Haha, you can see this, don't tell me, they were really worried before, my father and the people in the academy are very familiar, since the list of the academy examination was posted, they have mentioned it a lot Son." He Chongwen laughed, his character was a bit like Lin Yichen, but a little more childish.

Although the three people have different personalities and family backgrounds, they still get along well. Li Huaixi left his parents and brothers, but his adult soul has returned a little bit, and he behaved very well in front of the two classmates.

At noon, the academy rang the bell, and the three of them went to the cafeteria to eat together. Liu Quan followed He Chongwen's book boy to another cafeteria to eat. The school didn't provide the food for the servants, and the students with the book boy had to pay for it themselves. , but the students who can bring the book boys are all rich in their families, so the food for the servants is also good.

The meals provided by the academy for the students are three dishes and one soup, one meat and two vegetables. The staple food is rice and steamed buns. Li Huaixi is very used to eating. She smiled and asked him, "Do you know how many people here like you want to eat and dare not eat?"

Duan Zhengchun was stunned for a moment, then relieved, he stood up and went to the front to make another copy.

He Chongwen didn't eat less, and said while eating, "My mother was so worried, she said that the food in the academy is not good, what's so bad about it? It's delicious, much better than ours. Our cook is very good. Strange, a good eggplant has to be added with a bunch of chicken soup, duck soup, and medicinal materials to make something that is not eggplant-flavored. I made a name for myself, and I think I am quite skilled! I feel better than him when eating raw eggplants. It's delicious!"

"Then you should come to my house to have a few meals to satisfy you. Our eggplants don't put any oil in them. They are steamed in a pan and eaten with a little salt. If you can't afford salt, you don't put any salt. Haha... hiccup!" Duan Zhengchun hiccupped from eating.

The three of them laughed and left the cafeteria, Liu Quan rolled over like a ball, "Master, where is Fat Cat's food?"

"I don't have any leftover food, go and buy some for it yourself, don't embarrass me, the cat's food also takes advantage." Li Huaixi scolded him in a low voice, and Liu Quan ran back to buy fish for the fat cat No, the academy doesn't provide food for fat cats either.

Mr. Fu Yin came to the academy in the afternoon. The students were all gathered in a square. Each of them took a futon and sat on the square. The square was paved with large square bricks, and each student in uniform took up a piece. Where there are square bricks, it looks very neat even without the entire team lineup.

Li Huaixi sat cross-legged on the futon to listen to the lecture, and thought it was very good, much more comfortable than standing on the playground and listening to the principal's lecture for more than an hour when he was in high school in his previous life.

But after an hour, he didn't think so anymore. The prefect, the dean, and various professors took turns on the stage. He sat cross-legged like this, his legs were not tired, but his legs were numb, and his back hurt. After secretly changing a few positions, He Chongwen was beside him Remind him in a low voice, "Don't move, the supervisor is watching you."

Li Huaixi looked up at the proctor with a bitter face, and the proctor frowned at him, Li Huaixi understood and went to the latrine.

When he came back from the hut, there was only one professor left who was impassioned. He Chongwen whispered to him, "You have been here for a long time, you have to give us a hand in a while, our legs won't move anymore , I just wanted to follow you to go to the latrine."

"They planted lotus flowers behind the hut. Let's not eat the lotus root in the cafeteria from now on." After Li Huaixi sat down, he started to make mistakes. There was lotus root in today's menu, and He Dashao ate a lot of it.

"Don't disgust me! I knew you ran away. The lotus in our academy is famous. Don't you know what it means to leave the mud without staining it? The lotus that blooms in the cesspit blooms more than other places in summer. Well, there will be a lotus poetry appreciation party every year, so don’t write the hut in there, the dean will beat you up.”

A senior brother in front heard the conversation between the two, and secretly turned around and reprimanded them, "The pit in the hut is not connected to the lotus pond, you two don't talk nonsense."

"Then I won't eat lotus root anymore." Li Huaixi said categorically, in fact, he didn't really like to eat lotus root.

The proctor finally came to the stage to declare the rules of the academy, and his tone was not hurried or slow, but Li Huaixi listened carefully.The teaching method of the academy is somewhat similar to that of a modern university, but it is more open. Students are not required to attend the lectures of the professors, but the records of the lectures will be counted in the annual assessment results, and the librarians of the academy can borrow freely , but it cannot be damaged as a comment. When returning the book, it will be inspected. Not only will it be compensated for damage, but points will also be deducted from the moral evaluation. The academy will have an exam at the end of each year, and then it will post a list outside the door, and the results will be ranked at the bottom. Those below will be sent back to the county school, and then the outstanding students in the county school will take over his place. The students can only study in the academy for five years at most, and after five years, they must make room for the new students. As for those who want to drop out early, the academy There is no requirement, because I have not encountered a few fools so far.

The academy taught all day long, self-study at night, and had one day off every week. Some new students whispered about going to Yuchuan City at the foot of the mountain. He was in a rush for time, but he didn't have much free time for him to move around freely, so the husband calculated the time accurately without leaving home.

At the end of the 'Opening Ceremony', Li Huaixi pulled up He Chongwen and Duan Zhengchun from left to right, and it took a long time for the two of them to move. The formula, after all, is only three characters, and a few moves!

When it was time to light the lamp, Li Huaixi, who had greeted people for a long time, returned to his room. Liu Quan finally cleaned up the room. Although there were still many things piled up together, the sleeping place was tidied up anyway.

Li Huaixi slept on the canopy bed in the inner room. Liu Quan hung up the curtains and spread out the quilts for him. He put down the curtains and didn't look at the pile of boxes on the ground. Liu Quan is quite a competent book boy.

Li Huaixi spent very little time reading at night, and soon he was ready to take a bath and go to bed. Lin Yichen also studied in Yuchuan Academy back then. He knew that the walls of the wing room were thin and the bathroom was cold, so he prepared a large bathtub for him. After Li Huaixi washed, Liu Quan added some hot water and jumped in again. Li Huaixi told him to clean the bucket afterward. Liu Quan muttered while taking a bath, "I don't even think of you...".

Li Huaixi couldn't explain his reason to him, and sat on the bed reciting sutras in a thin fur coat. The abbot said that this would make his soul more stable, and also have the effect of calming the mind.

After reciting the "Bodhi Sutra", Li Huaixi went on to recite the "Diamond Sutra". The monsters and ghosts in "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" are afraid of this sutra. Be careful, if it wasn't for fear of people laughing at him, he even wanted to copy the scriptures on the window paper and 'seal' the doors and windows. His gold-rimmed toilet is placed under the bed. Ten-year-old Li Huaixi is still timid.

Liu Quan finished washing the bathtub and entered the room. Seeing Li Huaixi's appearance, he asked righteously, "Master, do you want me to sleep with you? I am strong."

Li Huaixi continued to recite the "Diamond Sutra" with his eyes closed, and extended a middle finger to the nosy Liu Quan.

40. Huaixi

The next day, Li Huaixi went to class in his own clothes. He was thin and small, carved in pink and jade, wearing a red robe and a gold crown. No matter how he looked, he looked like a rich boy who came to play. It seems that Liu Quan is holding books behind him, and he is also several years younger than other book boys. The master and servant walk on the road with their heads held high, attracting everyone's attention. Everyone in the academy knows this newcomer The head of the small courtyard.

The ancients in Li Huaixi's previous life paid attention to the six arts of gentlemen, rites, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics. The academies here are slightly different. Ritual is a separate subject, music is a single subject, archery and imperialism are called arts. Combined into one subject, the book is called Ce, and one subject is opened separately, and the number is called Gong, and one subject is opened separately.Among them, etiquette, music, and art are all sub-subjects, which start every afternoon, and policy and engineering are the main courses, which start every morning.

Li Huaixi has learned all the subjects well, except for riding and archery. The horse here is not his little pony, but the kind of tall horse under Lin Yichen's crotch. The bow is also a big bow. He can't even talk about pulling it. Need to move, his arms are not long enough.

After listening to the professor's report, the dean exempted him from this item, and did not take the exam at the end of the year, which made Li Huaixi heave a sigh of relief.

For the subject of music, the first few lessons are mainly about appreciation. The professor hired a musician to play in front of the stage. After the performance, he explained the name of the instrument, the evaluation standard and the suitable place one by one. Li Huaixi likes an instrument similar to the flute the most. , I think the sound is pleasant and easy to carry. As for the guqin that the professor highly recommends, Li Huaixi looked at the thick calluses on the musician's hands and determined to be a Zhong Ziqi, because the price of becoming Yu Boya was too high.

Among these subjects, Li Huaixi's favorite is policy and work.Policies are collectively referred to, but there are more than a dozen textbooks, including a subset of classics and history. The professor who teaches the class is a middle-aged man in his forties. He is funny and talkative. The one is a little old man, lean and thin, wearing a pair of dioramas, who knows astronomy and geography, and is proficient in Arabic arithmetic, so that he can play with some things that others call "skillful tricks". To Li Huaixi's appetite, he also likes to play with those things.

The professors also like this diligent and beautiful child very much. Li Huaixi has never missed a class, and he always sits upright at the front every time. He has a quick mind and always answers questions fluently.

The professor of engineering has never met such a smart and knowledgeable student, who can even grasp the calculus problem he is studying. The old man opened his "laboratory" to Li Huaixi, and the teachers and students often spend lunch together in the "laboratory" ', tinkering with those bottles and cans, and the gear compass together, Li Huaixi finally did something that he was proud of and that everyone else could do. He made a quill for the old man to draw pictures. (Not a pencil yet!)

Li Huaixi is also very popular among his classmates, especially with Prince Duan and Young Master He. Prince Duan comes from a poor family, but has an optimistic and cheerful personality. Young Master He is pampered but not arrogant. He is in a rebellious period and is willing to take vacations He stayed in the academy, and He Dashao also likes calligraphy, and he likes Li Huaixi's calligraphy very much.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, his father and mother took Li Si to visit him, and his grandmother went back to his uncle's house. Li Long usually went home once a month, but just returned home a while ago, and Li Hu went to other places with the accountant , his father and mother felt that it was boring to spend the holidays at home, so they rushed to see their youngest son.

"Son, no one bullies you here, right? Are you eating well?" Li Chengkui touched his younger son's face and felt a little thin.

"Father, no one bullies me. The food here is delicious. Haven't you noticed that I've grown?" Li Huaixi stood up on tiptoe.

"It's grown, it's grown a lot. It's almost summer. Dad brought over your bamboo mat and mosquito net, as well as the ointment. I'm afraid you'll swell up after biting your bun outside. After taking a bath Put on some mosquito repellent, don't just put on those that smell good, you have to eat well when the weather is hot, but you can't eat this or that at home." Li Chengkui thought of his son at home It's so bad that I can't stop talking when I see it.

Li Huaixi was most afraid of his father's nagging, so he quickly responded, "I already know, Dad, I'm already this old. Mom, what are you doing there?" talk.

"What are you doing? I'll clean it up for you! Liu Quan, this thing can't be placed like this, it will hit both of you when it falls down." His mother moved the stacked boxes down, opened them one by one, and then stacked them back together. Can't find a place to put it.

"Oh, I never fell down." Liu Quan was busy behind the mistress, secretly rearranging the things that Li Huaixi was used to secretly. He felt that he was a good book boy. Although the two people's room was messy, but He knows exactly where everything is.

Li Si was also fumbling around in the room. The fat cat followed her and stretched out its paws, as if trying to trip Li Si. His mother found a rag from somewhere, which was not wet and used as a feather duster. Dust eastward and westward, the room is full of dust, and there is a feeling of flying around for no reason.

Li Chengkui lowered his voice and asked his youngest son, "Son, is your academy on holiday for a few days? Let's go out. It's rare for your mother to come out. Father wants to take you for a stroll in Yuchuan City. Your mother doesn't have any valuable jewelry. Daddy wants to get her some fresh styles here."

Li Huaixi thought for a while and replied, "Three days off, today counts as one day, and tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Dad, you can buy my mother a gold bracelet. Last time my aunt came, I saw my mother's eyes always wandering there. "

"Okay, she will definitely be reluctant to part with it for a while, so you can choose for her." Li Chengkui didn't buy anything himself, but he was very generous in spending money on his wife and children.

The father and father discussed it. Li Huaixi picked up the fat cat and took Liu Quan with him. Li Chengkui picked up Li Si, who was made to cry by the fat cat, and took his wife who was about to beat the cat. The family left a house full of floating soil and went down the mountain.

The holidays in Yuchuan City are very lively, people come and go, cars come and go, the family first finds a good restaurant to eat, and the food has not been served yet, a group of performers came to the street, Li Sisi yelled to go and see , Li Chengkui went downstairs with his daughter on his back, and Liu Quan also jumped and followed.

His mother is a woman, so it's not easy to show her face and go downstairs to watch some entertainers. In fact, she didn't have that kind of thought. As soon as the masters left, his mother grabbed her son's sleeve and took a look. Li Huaixi was wearing an academy single The small white Confucian clothes made for him, the inside is still his own clothes, "Why are there so many flowers embroidered on the clothes here? You need to add lining, it's not too troublesome! This is new? He still keeps it for you Sending things? I think your room will soon be full!"

"It's only been a few months. It's only been three months. If you want to wait for him to change his mind, it will take half a year or a year. You're asking too early." Li Huaixi knew who his mother was talking about. The girls have no secrets.

"You don't write to him, he writes to you twice, you just reply one, don't tick him off!"

"Mother, you make your son look like a girl who is having an affair with someone. I have only received two letters from him in the past three months. He is the magistrate of the county. You think he has a lot of time to flirt." Li Huaixi looked at his mother helplessly, who regarded him as a young girl in love.

Mrs. Cheng thought about it and thought it was right, "That's true. He hasn't been idle for a while in the spring of this year. He is building roads, laying bridges and catching robbers. People in the county say he is good. If he doesn't keep pestering you, I will He also said that he is not bad, if I have a daughter of seventeen or eighteen, I would give it to him."

"Come on, you have a daughter of seventeen or eighteen, and you don't want it. Why does your fourth son grow up and follow my father? Those big eyes are pretty, but that face is even bigger!" Li Huaixi hadn't seen her sister for several months. The change is really big, but unfortunately the direction is wrong.

His mother didn't want to, and gave him a look, "Go, do you say that about your own sister? Let me tell you, whether your sister can marry a good family depends on you. If you become a high-ranking official, I won't give up Worry, or I will have to save up a cartload of dowry, and you will have to pay for this meal yourself!"

"Mom, don't scare me, can you? I'm cowardly and you don't know." Li Huaixi looked at his sister downstairs, and felt that the task was extremely difficult, and it might not be so strenuous for him to marry himself.

In fact, Li Huaixi has always been a little gloating at his sister's appearance, and his soul with a full beard and tail may not be very broad-minded, so he still attributes the reason for leaving the soul to his sister.Li Huaixi thought that he should have a younger brother like Li Hu, but when this guy was in his mother's womb, he might have heard the couple's unreliable wishes, so he turned himself into a girl to fight for favor. Today's situation, so in his opinion, this is called stealing chickens without losing money, not necessarily being favored more, but getting married is difficult.

After a while, Li Chengkui came up again with his daughter on his back. Liu Quan followed behind with two strings of fried stinky tofu. "Young master, I'll give you a string."

Li Huaixi took it over, and gave Liu Quan a blank look, "I can buy stinky tofu for my master, but I also need a bunch of slaves. There is no one else in the world except you."

"Whether you want it or not, I'll eat it all. You haven't given me a monthly payment yet." Liu Quan swallowed his stinky tofu in two mouthfuls, picked up chopsticks and put a piece of meat in front of Li Huaixi into his own bowl inside.

"Give me back those two little golden bean curds during the Chinese New Year!" Li Huaixi patted Liu Quan, and quickly finished his stinky tofu. Before going to bed, the master and servant had to have an extra meal in the small kitchen in the yard, otherwise they would wake up hungry in the middle of the night.

Li Chengkui bought gold bracelets, gold earrings and gold hairpins for his daughter-in-law, and also bought a diorama mirror under the reminder of Li Huaixi. Cheng felt happy and distressed, "How can this money be spent so much? My sons will need it in the future. Why buy this, I don’t go out.”

"Aren't you just outside the door now?" Li Huaixi came out of the gold shop, and handed a box to his mother, "This is the gold bracelet and gold hairpin I bought for grandma, and you can give them to me when you go back."

Li Chengkui slapped himself on the forehead, "Oh, look at me, my mother has helped our family take care of our children for three years, and we still don't have a decent filial piety here! We are not as big as our son! Son, you How much did it cost? Daddy will make it up for you, can this count as what Daddy bought?"

"No! It's not your calculation. What I buy is what I buy. You can think of other filial piety." Li Huaixi's gold jewelry was exchanged for his own little gold locket. He didn't know how much it was, anyway, he The replacements for his grandma are all filled in.

Li Chengkui had no choice but to buy two more high-quality silks and satins from the nearby silk and satin shop to honor his mother-in-law. He also bought two silks and satins to honor his mother-in-law before, but the old lady made all the shrouds for the bottom of the box. This time, he bought two more. The couple thought that the old lady would not be able to make shrouds this time, and they had never heard that they had to be changed and washed.

The whole family went to the theater after dark to watch plays. Li Huaixi's mother likes literary plays, and Miss Scholar is crying and sad. Li Si, like the others, likes martial arts. He dances guns and clubs, and listens to both literary and martial arts. It was getting late that day, Li Chengkui found an inn and asked for two rooms, one for Li Huaixi and Liu Quan, and one for the couple with their daughter.

In fact, Lin Yichen told the servants of the Lin family that Li Huaixi used the Lin family's house casually, but Li Huaixi had never been there in the past few months. On the first day of school, Liu Quan accidentally said a word into his heart. Lin Yichen is 20 years old this year. He was 17 years old when he was in love, and his youthful mind was no better than his adult soul, and it might have changed if he didn't see each other often in the past few years, so from that day on, he still accepted the things that Lin Yichen sent over on his own initiative, but he didn't even pick up the Lin's house once. He has been there before, and he has never used the servants of the Lin family. He has added a shell to his heart.

Li Chengkui and his wife took their children to play in Yuchuan for another two days. When Li Huaixi returned to the academy, the couple went back to Jinxian County. A few days after arriving home, they asked someone to write a letter to report their safety. His mother mentioned a sentence at the end , Cheng An is getting engaged.

Li Huaixi put down the letter, thinking of 20-year-old Lin Yichen, shook his head with a smile, and asked Liu Quan to put away the box of summer items he had just received.

In midsummer, the lotus behind the latrine really bloomed very brightly. The Lotus Appreciation Club invited well-known literati from Yuchuan to participate. Since ancient times, literati love romance, so literati invited many famous prostitutes. Li Huaixi shuttled among them, which was very eye-opening. , When writing back to Lin Yichen, he described the grand occasion of the day, and was laughed at once as a bumpkin.

Lin Yichen said that Jin County was hit by heavy rain, and he was poured every day like a drowned chicken. He was either inspecting the dykes on the east side or the reservoir on the west side. , his own little life is going well.

On Li Huaixi's birthday on the third day of August, his mother embroidered a new lucky bag for him, and Li Hu just came to Yuchuan with the accountant, so she brought it to him.Li Hu felt sorry for his younger brother celebrating his birthday alone, so he bought a lot of food in Yuchuan and brought it to him. Li Huaixi picked out his favorite food and kept it, and returned the rest to Li Hu. This second brother is always running outside. Turned into a skinny boy.

Lin Yichen's gift was brought up after Li Hu left. It was a Tianhuang seal. Lin Yichen carved it himself. The knife skills were not very good. Li Huaixi wrote a letter saying that it was a waste of materials.

On August [-]th, Li Huaixi and Prince Duan went to He Chongwen's house to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. He Chongwen's father, Master He, was a Beijing official who stayed at home with Ding You, but he had been Ding You for four years, and he still stayed at home. Like Lin Yichen's grandfather, he smelled the change of the sky and came home to avoid disaster.

He Mansion is a family of officials who have been officials for generations. In Li Huaixi's view, it is a replica of Jia's Mansion in Dream of Red Mansions. The eggplant that He Chongwen dislikes at the banquet is the evidence.Li Huaixi really likes to eat the eggplant that has no eggplant flavor. Mrs. He arranged a maid beside him. Whatever dish he wants to eat, just a glance is enough.

He Chongwen said that he had seven sisters, born by five aunts, and his mother only gave birth to him, so he was very reluctant when school started.Li Huaixi and Prince Duan hadn't seen how beautiful the ladies of the He Mansion were, and wondered if they had their own merits like the girls in the Grand View Garden. The servants are divided into several classes, and a dish has to pass through the hands of four servants before it can be brought to the table.

August [-]th was also a three-day holiday, but Li Huaixi didn't go out again after he came back from He Mansion. He ate too much river crab and had a stomachache. He honestly read books in the academy for two days.In the letter to Lin Yichen, he complained a lot, but when Lin Yichen sent someone to bring him the tonic, he was already alive and kicking.

After entering October, all the scholars in the academy got busy. The exam was about to take place at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. Li Long wrote him a prudent letter, asking him to study hard and try to get a good grade in the exam. Li Huaixi took up the pen Lai wrote back a letter to my eldest brother, just reminding him to remember to bring a handkerchief during the exam.

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Huaixi finished his last subject and returned to his apartment. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he was hugged by someone. Lin Yichen, who was already somewhat young, was smiling at him in casual clothes. Li Huaixi also smiled. He didn't know that Lin Yichen would Come.

41. Trivia

Lin Yichen didn't come here to pick up Li Huaixi on purpose. County magistrates from all over the country would come to report to the higher-level officials at the end of the year. He came to Yuchuan on business.But even though he was here on business, County Magistrate Lin first took care of his private affairs. He didn't even enter Yuchuan's city gate, and turned directly to Yuchuan Academy.

Lin Yichen was in the dust, and Li Huaixi touched his fluffy beard that had just grown out, a little dissatisfied, "Shave it off in a while! It's not as good as the 'no hair on the mouth' before, it's so ugly!"

"Did you miss me? Why didn't you wear the new cloak I had someone make for you? Your face was freezing cold." Lin Yichen kept holding him, watching Liu Quan go out to fetch charcoal, and quickly kissed Li Huaixi's little face.

"Liu Quan, go out and find the fat cat. We should pack up and go now." Li Huaixi turned around and drove Liu Quan out again, who came in with a charcoal basin, and then held Lin Yichen's face and asked, "I am you!" Is there a child?"

"No." Magistrate Lin replied honestly. He didn't even look at their children. He didn't understand why Li Huaixi asked him like this, and he didn't look angry.

"It's not why you kiss me like this?" Li Huaixi smiled.

Lin Yichen looked at Li Huaixi's expression, and suspected that he had seen something he shouldn't have seen again, but he was not allowed to think about it, so Li Huaixi posted it. The little mouth was sweet and soft, and the little tongue was still poking in to follow along. To make trouble, county magistrate Lin has always been "preserving his body like a jade", and has never had this kind of experience, so he was overwhelmed by Li Huaixi on the bed in a daze.

A few minutes later, Li Huaixi rode on him, looking a little annoyed. Lin Yichen knew the reason, and his stomach ached from joy, "Those books are useless if you read them too early, you're going to kill me from laughing, ha ha, ha ha... cough cough, you want Killing me!"

Li Huaixi got up and kicked him, "Get up and put on your clothes! Let Liu Quan see in a while, where do you put the face of your magistrate?!"

"I didn't take it off, didn't you take it off? I still feel cold. Little fox, why don't you try to change back into your original body? If you can become a big fox, I will be willing at night Let you suppress!" Lin Yichen smiled and touched Li Huaixi's little balls through his clothes.

"Get lost!" Li Huaixi slapped his hands off, jumped out of bed and searched for the clothes he needed to bring home.

Lin Yichen sat on the bed, and smiled while arranging his clothes, "Your mother is worried that I will spoil you all day long!"