school days in ancient times

In the early morning of the second day, the servants stood in front of the bed and woke up. Ye Mian slept too late last night, and lay down and suffered from insomnia for half the night. He just refused to get out of the quilt, and was heard by Ye Jing, who had already changed into his official uniform outside and was about to go out, walked in and slapped his butt twice, abruptly slapping him awake.

Only then did she stand up with her lips pouted and her tongue twitching, rubbing her buttocks, dressed and washed under the service of the maids biting their lips and holding back their smiles.

After absent-mindedly attending class for half a day at school, when the lunch break bell rang, he hesitated for a while, and finally ran to Rongnan Junwang's courtyard.

Now he is a frequent visitor in this courtyard, and the guards don't stop him at all, and he doesn't need to be informed by others, so Zhuang Jue, who was preparing to eat, was obviously taken aback when he saw him enter the room.

"I thought you wouldn't come today."

Ye Mian rubbed his nose and sat across from him. Xia Neijian added bowls and chopsticks to Ye Mian himself, and took all the servants down. Before he left, he couldn't hold back, and carefully instructed: "Speak well, don't make a scene. , the old slave is guarding outside."

Ye Mian saw that everyone had gone out, first smiled at Zhuang Jue, and then said: "What happened yesterday is my fault, isn't it? We were fighting before, and I complained to my brother if I was not convinced." Ye Mian was embarrassed Scratching his head, "He said you bullied me all day long, and said a lot of bad things about you. He saw me crying last night, so he thought it was you again..."

"What do you want to ask me?" Zhuang Jue interrupted him.

"Ah," Ye Mian replied.

"Ye Jing probably told you a lot about me last night. Just ask what you want. There's nothing I can't say."

Ye Mian: "..." Since you are such a bachelor brother, then I won't be polite.

Ye Mian raised his eyes to look at him and said, "My brother said that you are Nanfeng and you are interested in me, but is it true?"

Zhuang Jue slowly raised his eyes and stared at him for a while, then said slowly, "Don't be ashamed..."

Ye Mian: "..."

He was ashamed, but Zhuang Jue suddenly curled his lips and smiled, revealing the tip of two snow-white canine teeth, and there was a rare trace of childishness on his always arrogant face.

He was already very good-looking, no worse than Ye Jing, and his smile was even more radiant.

Seeing this, Ye Mian curled her fingers unconsciously, feeling a little embarrassed in her heart, secretly blaming his brother for saying something random that he was attracted to him last night.

Ye Mian was anxiously thinking about how to win the respect tactfully, but Zhuang Jue lowered his head slightly and smiled, and said, "However, your brother is right."

Zhuang Jue raised his head and looked straight into Ye Mian's eyes, with a serious expression, and said, "I intend to be with you."

Ye Mian: "???"

"Before, I was thinking of snatching you to be my younger brother, but I always felt that something was wrong, but the reprimand by Mr. Duanhua a few days ago woke me up like a revelation."

Zhuang Jue sized Ye Mian up and down with the tails of his long and narrow eyes, his expression a bit erratic, "It's not enough just to be a younger brother, that's the best..."

Which is better? ? ?

Ye Mian's heart trembled at his words, and the millet on the back of his neck was aroused.

Ye Mian stood up pretending to be calm with his expression unchanged, "I've used it up, let's go first."

Zhuang Jue could see his panic. Seeing him like this, he didn't stop him. He just put down the cup in his hand and said to him seriously: "You have asked clearly, and you understand it in your heart. Then when we meet again next time , I am not what I used to be."

Ye Mian stepped out of the house quickly, thinking in his heart, what is this and that, nothing more, I want to listen to my brother and stay away from you.

Back in Qirui Academy's school room, Ye Mian sat alone in front of the desk by the window and stared blankly for a while. In his two lifetimes, it was the first time he was confessed by the same sex. It felt very strange and exciting.

After a while, Wei Angyuan and Li Zhao and his party came back from the dining hall, they were taken aback when they saw him, and asked, "Why did you come back so early, didn't you practice calligraphy?"

Ye Mian collected his thoughts, and said with a smile: "Zhuang Jue is busy with things recently, but it will allow me to steal a few days of leisure."

Everyone didn't care, Wei Angyuan sat down happily, hugged his shoulders affectionately and chatted with him, these days Ye Mian went to Zhuang Jue's every noon, and he was left out in the cold, if it wasn't for Ruan Yunsheng If he kept pressing, he would have already made a fuss.

Ye Mian asked Ruan Yunsheng, "Why didn't you go to Zangshu Pavilion?"

Since Ruan Yunsheng said that he wanted to become an official through the imperial examination, he would go to Zangshuge to read for a while after every meal, so Ye Mian asked this strange question when he saw that he was also in the school room at this time.

Ruan Yunsheng leaned idly by the window, and said with a smile: "In a few days, it will be July [-]th. Books will be exposed in the library in the school. I am sweeping dust and counting books for the past two days. I think it is noisy there."

Ye Mian suddenly realized that he knew about this. A little custom of Dawen is that July [-]th is the sun-drinking day for the Dragon Lord. Take out the books in the study room to dry in the sun.

When it comes to July [-]th, several people are all in good spirits, inviting them to go to the street together at night to watch people build incense bridges and go to the lantern festival.

Ye Mian was also very curious. When he arrived at Dawen last year, he didn't catch up with the Qixi Festival. He only heard the maids in the mansion talk about how lively the Qixi Festival was outside. Cars and horses are difficult to travel, and the big girls and the young daughter-in-laws all come out this night. Even the noble girls who don't leave the gates of the houses on weekdays will wear thin veils, and the family members will take care of them. Come out and have fun.

Li Zhao clapped his fists and said regretfully, "I don't know when my mother will be able to get engaged to me. I also want to invite my unmarried daughter-in-law to release the river lantern. How can I be patient to be with you then?"

Wei Angyuan, who was disgusted by others, gave a "tss" and said, "Don't pretend that I don't know that you invited students from the female school next door to light the lamp, but someone..."

Before Wei Angyuan could finish speaking, Li Zhao rushed forward and covered his mouth.

Ye Mian, Ruan Yunsheng and Wen Xun all opened their mouths in amazement, and Qiqi pulled Li Zhao down after realizing it, and stretched out their arms to protect Wei Angyuan and asked, "Who is so and so? Which lady?"

Li Zhao was blocked by the three of them and couldn't move forward. He threatened with a pale face, "Wei Angyuan! If you dare to talk nonsense, I will beat you!"

Wei Angyuan ignored him, and said with a smile: "It's the cousin of my second sister-in-law's natal family, and now they are asking me around the corner, which family's lunatic is this?"

After hearing this, several people laughed up and down. Li Zhao was so ashamed and annoyed by their laughter, he said angrily: "What's the matter? She doesn't recognize me now. I will go to the street to find her on the night of Qixi Festival. Seeing me so heroic, you must like it!"

Ruan Yunsheng laughed so hard that he fell on the table, and said: "If this girl only loves appearances, then you really can't come with us. Be careful that the lady cousin didn't take a fancy to you, but she took a look at the most beautiful brother Mian Son, when the time comes, brothers will become enemies."

Several people laughed again when they heard this, Li Zhao jumped up angrily, and finally vented his anger with Ye Mian, his forearm strangled his neck and pressed down, until that day he would also wear a lady's hood The veil let him out.

After Ye Mian played with them for a while, he turned his head and forgot about the bad things that happened to King Rongnan.

After school, he returned to the mansion happily, and as soon as he jumped off the carriage, he was hurriedly dragged to Qiu's place by the woman who was waiting there.

"mother!"

Before the maids lifted the curtain, Ye Mian shouted outside. After hearing this, Mrs. Qiu, who had been restless all day, hurriedly put on her shoes and got off the low couch, and hugged Ye Mian who had just stepped into the room, I started wiping my tears.

Ye Mian was taken aback by Qiu's actions, and seeing her mother's crying eyes were more swollen than his yesterday's, and her blood turned cold for a moment.

"Mother, what happened in the mansion?" Ye Mian asked tremblingly.

Qiu Shi sat down and hugged Ye Mian and cried for a long time before she let out a "bah" and said, "Why did something happen in the mansion? It's not you, a little bastard, so I won't let your mother worry."

Ye Mian stared and thought about it for a while, but she couldn't think of what trouble she caused in school recently.

Ye Mian looked innocent, and the angry Qiu thumped him twice on the back, feeling distressed, took his hand and rubbed it, and wiped away his tears after a while and said: "Mother made our brother Mian suffer so much. What a grievance, why didn't you find your mother to make troubles, but cried outside by yourself, are you so estranged from your mother?"

When Qiu said this, she became even more sad, tears fell down again, and she cried, "Didn't you poke your mother's heart with a knife?"

Ye Mian froze, quickly took the handkerchief to wipe away tears for Qiu Shi, and muttered and explained: "It's not that I'm separated from my mother, I was just in a hurry yesterday and couldn't figure it out, it's my son's fault, which made my mother and elder brother worry. "

Qiu Shi hugged Ye Mian in his arms distressedly, and coaxed Ye Mian like a child: "There is nothing wrong with our brother Mian being so attractive, it's all because of your old father..." Qiu Shi paused , Swallowed the idiomatic words, and said bitterly: "It's all your father, what kind of brotherly affection, didn't explain it clearly to your uncle early, but let you hear the wind, wait until he comes back from the office today , I have a good face with him!"

"Mother, don't be angry, it's because my son is thinking about it," Ye Mian hugged Qiu Shi's waist and said, "I think dad thinks I'm naughty and doesn't want me anymore."

After hearing this, Qiu's heart was wrenched again, "Bah bah" twice, and said: "He dares! If your father dares to mention this to me once, mother will make up with him!" After Qiu finished speaking He touched Ye Mian's hair on the temples again, and said earnestly: "Your father treats you differently from your elder brother. Mother knows that, and also knows that you have been wronged in your heart, but no matter how partial he is, he still treats you as a He is a serious and serious blood relative, and he dare not neglect any more."

Qiu said in a low voice and said: "You see, your uncle and your father mentioned you once, and he hid out of the mansion again and again. Now your uncle doesn't mention it to him, but he goes to the yard every day to talk to you." The last time Fang Ti went back to Brother Qiao, even if you were more mischievous, it would be different in his heart."

Ye Mian was shocked, "The fifth younger brother and fourth aunt..."

Mrs. Qiu wiped her eyes and said "嗐", she pouted out of the yard and said, "Your Fourth Aunt and Sixth Aunt are fighting over this, and God made me shoes, socks, boiled soup, People like them are different from us, so you don't have to worry about it."

Ye Mian understood that the half-servant's concubine took over and became the eldest son of the eldest son in a sudden transformation. Such benefits, even if the mother and child were separated, would not stop the two aunts from fighting with each other with blood dripping from their hearts. up.

Mrs. Qiu kept Ye Mian for dinner in the main courtyard, but Ye Shilang got the news early on, and was so frightened that he didn't even dare to enter the main courtyard. The matter of adoption is settled.

Ye Mian has been honest in school these few days, and reads seriously every day. Even the old man Xue stroked his beard and praised him once, but he stopped going to Zhuang Jue's yard to practice calligraphy at noon, and only asked his brother to write a few words. Every day, the thin golden characters are carefully traced.

Zhuang Jue didn't look for him again, but on July [-]th, the palace directly issued an oral order to Guozixue, summoning Ye Mian to the palace to face the saint, saying that the saint wanted to come and have a look at Ye Mian's calligraphy by Rongnan County. How is Professor Wang doing?