school days in ancient times

A few people had lunch in Cuihua Building, and Ye Mian suggested to go for a walk by the lake to digest food. He had eaten clear soup and waterless meals for half a month, and suddenly came with such a meal of fish, which made him a little full.

Those few were a little sleepy and wanted to take a nap before the afternoon class bell, but Wei Angyuan said that he had eaten too much and wanted to go for a walk with him.

The wind was still very tight, but the afternoon sun was very strong. The two of them didn't feel so cold after eating enough and wearing fur cloaks against wind and snow.

Ye Mian, who had just been released, was in high spirits, and he and Wei Angyuan walked around the frozen Wei Lake and made a fuss, going a long way until they saw a courtyard gate.

"Have we all walked to Kunrui Courtyard?"

"What look in your eyes, didn't you see that it said Qinan Courtyard on the sign?" Wei Angyuan snorted.

"Yo, the plaques are changing very quickly," Ye Mian waved and smiled, "Go! Go in and have a look."

Wei Angyuan followed.

After entering the courtyard, they walked around a bluestone screen wall engraved with school regulations, and walked through a flower garden path before seeing their school house by the lake.

Ye Mian sighed with Wei Angyuan while walking, "It's strange that everyone loves this yard. In winter, only green pines and snow are left in our yard. There are so many dwarf plum bushes here, and the colors are more lively than ours."

Wei Angyuan smiled, "We will move here in another three years, and in winter, we will ask the servant boy to collect plums and snow every day to make tea for us."

"You make me want to grab the yard with them this year."

Wei Angyuan frowned, thought for a long time before saying: "I'm afraid it's inappropriate, it's unreasonable and the timing is not good, but if you really want to come..."

Ye Mian was stunned for a moment and said with a light smile: "Why are you taking it seriously? I just said it casually." After finishing speaking, he took Wei Angyuan's neck and went up to Quqiao, "Let's go to their school room to have a look."

"Well, if you want to get angry later, just tell me secretly, and I will stand up for you, so Ye Shilang won't be able to catch your fault."

"Who am I attacking?" Ye Mian asked strangely.

"Didn't you come to trouble Qinanyuan?"

Ye Mian almost staggered: "I'll just take a look. Besides, what do I trouble them for? It doesn't matter to them that I was beaten by my father."

Wei Angyuan glanced at him up and down, then looked at the school house on the other side of Quqiao and said, "I don't really believe this. Qi Ye just came here to make a fuss a few days ago and hurt people."

"Qi Ye is a lunatic," Ye Mian said disdainfully, "I am different from him. I am a modest gentleman, naturally gentle and refined."

Wei Angyuan was so disgusted by him that he almost vomited out the lunch he just had.

As soon as the two of them arrived at the corridor of the school house, before they entered, they saw two students from Qinan College with their hair tied in silver crowns came out to welcome them.

Those two politely saluted Wei Angyuan and Ye Mian as classmates, and said, "I don't know why Young Master Wei and Young Master Ye came to the Qinan Institute?"

Those two people couldn't hide their eyes full of wariness, Ye Mian was amused in his heart, he cursed Qi Ye secretly for a while before coughing and said: "It's nothing, just walk around."

Wei Angyuan didn't speak.

The two from Qinan Courtyard looked at each other, and smiled helplessly: "Then why don't you come and sit in the school room, or..." Just get out?

Ye Mian smiled: "Then let's go in and have a cup of tea to keep warm," and walked in without paying attention to the frustrated faces of the two.

The furnishings in the school room are the same as those in Qirui Courtyard, only a few fresh red plums are placed in the floor-to-ceiling Qinghe porcelain vase in the west corner, which adds a bit of elegance, and there are enough braziers in the room. They came from the south and were not used to the winter in the capital.

In the school room, more than a dozen students from Qinan College all sullenly looked at him with unfriendly expressions.

Ye Mian stood at the door with arms folded and Yiyi looked back.

Needless to say, one side supports the other side. Although people like Jinling look thinner than them, they are all fair and good-looking. There is a boy in red who looks the youngest and looks the best, but he seems to have a bad temper. , the eyes seemed to be on fire, very bright, maybe they thought they were coming to find fault and provoke, and they flicked their sleeves and were about to charge forward, but were stopped by the people next to them.

"Brother Zheng, come back!"

Wei Angyuan looked at it, his already cold face turned darker, and he was about to step forward to teach him a lesson, but was interrupted by Ye Mian in time: "You Qinan Courtyard doesn't even have tea for guests?"

"Yes!" Duan Lv, one of the students who had just come out, seemed to have realized it, and quickly ordered the startled waiter: "Hurry up and make some fresh green tail tea."

The atmosphere is not very harmonious, but it is no longer as tense as before.

Ye Mian has always been familiar with himself, and he is harmless to humans and animals when he laughs, so he let a few students from Qinanyuan have an awkward chat over a cup of tea.

Seeing that the class bell was about to ring, Ye Mian got up to leave, Qi Nan Court heaved a sigh of relief, but Ye Mian turned around to return the invitation before leaving.

"I've never seen you go to other courtyards. The classmates are strangers. Why don't you come to our Qirui courtyard for tea in two days?"

"Uh..." Duan Lv hesitated.

Wei Angyuan snorted coldly: "I'm afraid people will think that we can't serve such good tea as Green Tail. It's not rare."

Duan Lu had no choice but to smile bitterly, "How dare you, I will visit you in two days."

Ye Mian smiled happily, and raised her chin at the young man in red who had been staring at him, "Brother Zheng is coming too."

Lu Lizheng flicked his sleeves with a "hum" and turned his head away.

Ye Mian laughed and dragged Wei Angyuan, whose head was emitting black smoke, out of the school room of Qinan College without hesitation.

"Look at those ignorant ones, you invited them with such kindness, they still treat them as grand banquets, they don't know how to flatter them!" Young Master Wei scolded before leaving the courtyard.

Ye Mian comforted Wei Angyuan's back and smoothed his hair, then moved his mouth towards the gate of the courtyard, only to see that at some point there were four discipline officers standing together, looking at the two of them.

"Guess it was scared by that kid Qi Ye a few days ago."

Wei Angyuan curled his lips in disdain: "You actually secretly called Si Zheng over, you bastard!"

"You see, you still have a stinky face when you are a guest in someone's territory, and it's normal for people to be on guard."

"Don't rely on me!" Wei Angyuan refused to accept, "They want to guard against you."

"My face froze from laughing, what are you doing against me?"

Wei Angyuan sneered again and again: "Have you forgotten how you hit me back then?"

Ye Mian was choked by Wei Angyuan and was speechless.

From time to time, Wei Angyuan would get angry when he thought of that beating, and he said in a strange way: "Young Master Ye Si, who is named Qizi Sheng Xiaobawang in Xingsi Pavilion, Wei will not dare to snatch it."

"Look at you..." Ye Mian smiled apologetically, "Why did you bring it up again? Didn't we turn our acquaintance into friendship?"

Wei Angyuan didn't bother to say anything about him again, he only changed his mind in one glance, and asked him again: "What did you invite them to Qirui Courtyard again, isn't it really a Hongmen banquet?"

"No," Ye Mian said as he pulled him along, "I really want to make friends with them."

"Why?" Wei Angyuan was very puzzled.

"Because they have money."

"what???"

Ye Mian smiled, "Jiangnan has always been the most affluent place in the whole country. If you want to buy some money in the future, it is natural to trade there the fastest. Why don't you make friends with such ready-made connections?"

Wei Angyuan took a while to speak: "Ye Si, are you poor and crazy? Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen are the last ones. Although people like us have a lot of money in private, any decent young man has already figured this out. It's all those The concubine is just taking care of it."

Ye Mian lowered her eyes: "I don't care about these things. Besides, I am different from you. The money in the mansion does not count. I have to have it in my own hands to be at ease."

Wei Angyuan sighed: "Ye Shilang doesn't want to see you anymore, you are also the serious second son of the Household Minister's mansion, who would dare to take your share and what you deserve in the future?"

"That's not true, but..." Ye Mian smiled bitterly, "You should know that my father is partial to my elder brother, so I'm not close to him, and you also know that you and I are big brothers. , looking at the rich and precious clothes and food every day, but it's not relying on the monthly money from the father-in-law, it must be subsidized by parents."

Ye Mian paused and continued: "My elder brother's yard is full of plants and trees, and all the pens, inks, papers and inkstones in the study are all selected by my father himself, and all the ones given are the best. In my yard, most of them are my mother's I bought it for you. I’m still young, so I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it, but can I still spend my mother’s dowry when I become an adult in a few years? Besides, we have a large amount of money for socializing after we go to school. It’s another one who can’t bear hardships, so it’s better to plan as soon as possible.”

Wei Angyuan's lips moved, but in the end he didn't say anything, he sighed lightly and went back to Qirui Courtyard with Ye Mian.

In fact, Ye Mian came up with this idea because of his conflict with Ye Shilang this time. What he was afraid of was that if he couldn't hold back his violent temper in the future, he would really get into trouble with the old man. Can you really go to the street to beg for food?

Don't be ridiculous, with this cannibalistic world, he might not be able to bear it for three days and would have to kill himself with a knife.

In the school room of Qinan College.

Lu Lizheng was losing his temper with Duanlu, "Why did you allow that Yee to go to their yard? You have to go by yourself!"

Duanlu shook his head helplessly: "Brother Zheng, you have to be more sensible, you are not in Jinling now."

"It's not that I'm young and ignorant, but that they must have bad intentions!"

Duan Lv: "I don't think so."

"A few days ago they brought people to our yard to make a fuss, Brother Wang still can't write with his hands," Lu Lizheng snorted coldly: "I don't believe that this guy named Ye is more kind than that mad dog Qi Ye!"

A student next to him also frowned and nodded, "I heard people say that this Qirui Academy is worse than Qide Academy, but that Ye Mian is so cruel that even the prime minister dared to do it."

"That's right, that kid Qi Ye is still making trouble in our yard. If it goes to someone else's side, what if it's really a grand feast deliberately arranged by Qirui Academy..."

Duan Lu's expression became serious, and he thought for a while before saying, "I don't think this Young Master Ye is that bad, and the corner of his mouth was always smiling when he spoke just now..."

"It's all about hiding a knife in a smile, this kind of person is even more hateful!" Lu Lizheng interrupted Duanlu angrily.

Duanlu smiled wryly: "It's useless to say anything now, even if it's really a Hongmen banquet, we have to go, just prepare some good medicine for sores, don't forget why the Holy Majesty asked us to come to the capital. He never likes to talk to us, so it makes sense for us to hide in the Qinan courtyard and not move around, now that people invite us, if we don't go, we will spread ugly words."

Lu Lizheng pouted: "It would be great if Brother Zhuang Jue was here, they definitely wouldn't dare to be so presumptuous!"

Duanlu smiled: "We'll be there in three or four days, so let's go to the appointment in these two days. We can't let Zhuang Jue use the Hongmen Banquet as a welcome banquet as soon as he arrives."

Lu Lizheng let out a "puchi" laugh, thought for a while and said, "Then it's up to you this time! Anyway, I'm not afraid of them, if they dare to mess with me, I'll go back and tell my uncle to smash them to death with money!"