school days in ancient times

It was dusk, and the candles were burning brightly in Yaohuixuan's study room. Ye Mianfu carefully looked at the books he had begged from his elder brother on the desk, all of them were footnotes written by Ye Jing himself when he was studying, concise and direct. The article is concise, and Ye Mian will get twice the result with half the effort after reading it like this.

After a few heavy rains, the weather suddenly became very cold. The late autumn and winter in the capital are the most difficult time. The room is very cold at night, but it is not the month to set up braziers. At this time last year, Ye Mian was already Weeping and yelling at his parents that it was time to burn charcoal, because of this he was often scolded by Ye Shilang.

Now that he can be the owner of Yaohuixuan by himself, he is not in a hurry to order his servants to burn a brazier for him. It's not that he is not afraid of the cold anymore, but that once the room is warm, he will feel very sleepy. It's not easy to read.

Ye Mian rubbed his sore eyes, and was about to call the servant girl to bring him some tea when he heard movement outside the door. The little girl guarding outside the study lifted the begonia-colored embroidered windproof curtain from both ends, but it was Qiu's bandit. Two nuns came in.

Ye Mian's eyes lit up, and he called out joyfully, "Mother!"

As soon as Qiu Shi saw him, there was a gentle smile on his face, "My son, come to mother quickly," Qiu Shi beckoned him to the tea table by the window.

"Mother heard that you are still working hard, so she asked the small kitchen to make some snacks for you. It's cold at night. You should warm your stomach before you go to sleep."

The old lady who followed Qiu brought out the food from the food box with a smile on her face and put them on the tea table one by one, a bowl of milk curd egg custard, two small pieces of flour cakes wrapped in persimmon juice, There is also a cup of peach gum that has been boiled overnight.Although Ye Mian wasn't hungry, seeing these steaming dishes made him quite appetizing.

Seeing him gulping down the sweetness, Qiu was both relieved and distressed, and said: "Eat slowly, the custard is very hot, don't burn the tip of your tongue."

Ye Mian nodded in response.

While he was eating, Qiu took a closer look at the clothes he was wearing, and saw that he was wearing a half-worn homely warm honey-colored woven gold tapestry jacket, but there was a circle of white fluffy rabbit fur around the collar. He thought that the servants around him were afraid that he would be cold, so at night they found an early winter jacket for him to wear, but it made his youngest son's brighter face look cute.

Qiu Shi nodded in satisfaction to Yi Nong who was standing behind Ye Mian, and said to Ye Mian: "They are all easy to restrain, you will run out of them in a while, just go to sleep, you don't have to wait. "

Ye Mian swallowed a mouthful of noodle cake, shook her head and said, "I still have a few articles to read, but I can't sleep."

Qiu uttered a "tsk" and said angrily, "You can't do that. I heard from my servant that you've been here for half a month, how can your body handle it?"

Ye Mian shook his head and said indifferently, "I know what's in my heart, mother can rest assured."

"Don't worry!" Qiu frowned dissatisfied: "Your father must have forced you to do this. I'll tell him to go. The eldest son wants to support the family. Why bother my younger son!"

Ye Mian coaxed with a smile, "I also want to be successful, to earn my mother's face outside."

"Mother doesn't want this," Qiu sighed softly, and then whispered to him: "I heard your father told me two days ago that his Shangfeng Qin Shangshu will leave the household department, and then go up, so Your father is also going to move, but he is in his early years, and your brother is outside, and our family does not need you to work hard to save face, so you have to stay by your mother's side to enjoy the blessings, and your mother will find you a place in the past two years Miss from a good family, this is the best."

Hearing what his mother said, Ye Mian felt very guilty, coughed lightly and said, "What kind of lady are you looking for, how old am I..."

Qiu thought he was ashamed, covered her handkerchief with a smile and said, "It's not that mother is in a hurry, it's just that there are more people asking about it recently, even your grandmother has a lot of people asking, if you don't know about it, treat it as my babysitter." Baijia came to ask for a good daughter."

"I'm still studying, don't bother me..." Ye Mian murmured.

"You read your book, and I'll go outside to see and compare, how can I hinder you?" Qiu gave him a look, then thought about it and said, "Your sister-in-law is a good one. You have to go to the family of the Hou family to find it."

Ye Mian rolled his eyes, "You are the eldest lady in the Hou's mansion, they are all radishes and cabbages waiting for you to pick, my brother is the Duanhua son bestowed by the sage, but I am not," Ye Mian muttered in a low voice.

"What's the matter?" Qiu said proudly, "it's pretty good that my mother is walking outside now, so you don't have to worry about it. The later Princess Rong Yi hosted a thank-you banquet, and she also invited her to go, and she took it that day. Kejing is the daughter of the Prince's House."

Ye Mian bit the silver spoon in a daze for a long time, then slowly asked, "Which eldest princess?"

"Your child is too stupid to study, we have only one eldest princess in Dawen," Qiu said with a smile, "I had a birthday banquet at Qin Shangshu's mansion a few days ago, and the eldest princess went too. I only talked to her a few words before meeting her, and now I can say a few words to her."

Ye Mian stopped eating completely, looked at Qiu's face full of joy, didn't know what to say, and said after a long time: "...Are you going to her house to pick a wife for me?"

Qiu Shi smiled, "Why not, the eldest princess is different from the outside rumors, she has a warm personality, knowing that my mother is concerned about your affairs, she even helped me take a look, but her eyes are very high Well, she can pick out the faults in the ones that mother likes, and now she has the opportunity to invite me to the Ye Xie Banquet, and I also thought to see more."

"Naturally, I'm afraid she thinks that her son is the only one in the world who is fine," Ye Mian sighed softly.

After hearing this, Qiu Shi covered her mouth with a handkerchief and said with a smile, "It's true, I haven't seen her a few times, but she keeps praising her little princess with me." The king of Nanjun is indeed excellent, but in my opinion, it is not good to show off to others like this, as if someone does not have a good son..."

After Qiu finished speaking, she snorted lightly from her nose, but she looked very dissatisfied.

Ye Mian and his mother chatted on different channels for a while, feeling even more guilty. They studied hard until the fourth watch at night, and the maids came to persuade them for a while before resting on the bed.

On the second day of school, Ye Mian went to class with his eyelids open, but his head was bit by bit. He had already fallen asleep with his eyes open. Li Zhao drew a turtle on the paper with a suppressed smile and stuck it on his forehead. , Several people around were watching the excitement, wanting to laugh so hard, but they didn't dare to attract the old man Xue who was shaking his head before the lecture, so they only covered their faces with books and blushed.

When Dr. Xue found out that something was wrong, his beard was so angry that his beard was raised. Just as they were about to have an attack, they saw two training officers rushing in from the yard. One ran to the next room, and the other ran here, and whispered to Dr. Xue. I said a few words.

Seeing that Dr. Xue's eyes widened suddenly, the students of Xiurui College changed their expressions a few times, and then they looked flustered and joyful.

Wei Angyuan hurriedly turned around and took off the note on Ye Mian's forehead, and hurriedly pushed him awake again.

Before Ye Mian fully opened his eyes, he sat upright as a conditioned reflex, holding the book in his hands neatly, and there was only a trace of sparkle at the corner of his mouth.

Wei Angyuan bit his lips to hold back a smile, covered his lips with his fingers and said in a breathy voice: "Shh, I didn't say that I will punish you, old man Xue probably has something to tell us, so wake up and listen carefully."

Ye Mian breathed a sigh of relief, and wiped the corners of his lips with the back of his hand. In such a cold day, he didn't want to stand outside on the porch.

Dr. Xue knocked on the lecture table with a ruler, coughed and said: "His Royal Highness is coming to our school to listen to the lectures. Now that the guard of honor has left the palace gate, he may arrive from time to time. Your Highness is benevolent and caring. I couldn't bear to disturb Guozixue's students' studies, so I didn't inform the school in advance, and I just sent a palace official to tell them that teachers and students can just give lectures and study as usual, and there is no need to kneel down to worship. If His Highness visits here The courtyard, we can go to the courtyard to pay homage.”

After Dr. Xue finished speaking, there was a lot of discussion in the school room of Xiurui Academy, and Ye Mian also looked at Wei Angyuan who turned around to look at him.

Both Ye Mian and Wei Angyuan went to the palace to talk before the imperial court, so they were not as excited as others, but he was disturbed by this incident and lost his sleepiness, so he just got up and listened to the old man Xue's lecture seriously. Dr. Xue didn't look promising, fidgeting in front of him, stretching his neck frequently and looking out of the yard expectantly.

Li Zhao on the other side was very happy to see it, and wrote a note and passed it on to Ye Mian, "Look at old man Xue, does he look like a big girl waiting for her lover?"

Just as Ye Mian turned his head to snigger, he looked forward to his "lover" into the yard. Ye Mian almost choked himself to death with a mouthful of saliva, and coughed non-stop, patting his chest.

The Shurui Courtyard looked out, and saw a few young men in fine clothes who had been taught by Guo Zi, a few officials, and a large group of palace servants and eunuchs surrounded them into the courtyard, the middle man in his early twenties , wearing a bright yellow uniform embroidered with five dragons, and wearing a nine-pronged crown on his head, he is not angry and majestic.

Ye Mian sighed, walked to the front of Dr. Xue, who was holding his calf, and left the school room, kneeling respectfully with the students from Xiunan College who also rushed out from the next room.

After getting up, Ye Mian looked up guiltily at Prince Rongnan who was wearing brocade robes and bright clothes beside the prince. Sure enough, Zhuang Jue was staring at him with a cannibalistic expression.