(I was traveling abroad last week, so the updates are really messy. It will be stable next time. There will be another chapter tonight.)
Although the sky was dark, it was actually not too late. In addition, the Qiulu Inn's courtyard was exquisitely and elegantly decorated. Li Huaicai touched here and there and felt no sleepiness at all. While Chen Ping'an was carving the hosta, the child simply moved out.
Put the wooden box presented by the Land Master of Qidun Mountain across the table, put the painted puppets, and the five clay figurines presented by Wei Jin, the swordsman of Fengxue Temple, into it, and then put the book purchased from Hongzhu Town
"Broken Water Cliff" is also thrown in.
After the "move", this long box made of delicate yellow and dark wood still had room to spare. The wooden box turned red. Wei Bo of Qidunshan said that it was because it had been buried in the soil for countless years, and the color gradually turned from yellow to red.
Not only did the wood not rot, but it gave off a peculiar fragrance. At this time, Li Huai put his head on the wooden box and smelled it carefully. The fragrance was still the same and had not faded. It was no worse than when he took it out at the Pillow Station and smelled it.
Li Huai started to crack his fingers, left his hometown and small town, traveled far away to study, and slept in the open air all the way. He Li Huai relied on hard work and still gained a little. In addition to the most precious small green bamboo bookcase in the corner, there was also this charming little bookcase.
The yellow wooden box, puppets, and clay figurines actually housed a few valuable silverfish in the book "Broken Water Cliff", as well as the green fish that was slapped into the book by A Liang, but Li Huai
I don't like reading, so I rarely read this book, which cost Chen Pingan nearly ten taels of silver.
At this moment, looking at Chen Pingan, who was concentrating on carving words on the hairpin, Li Huai thought that he had spent so much money, but he didn't read the book very much. When he bought the book, he vowed to tell Chen Pingan that he would definitely read the book, which made the child a little agitated.
Feeling guilty, Li Huai took out the seemingly brand-new book "Broken Water Cliff" from the wooden box, opened a page at random, and began to read the words silently. Li Huai planned to make his conscience feel better.
Li Huai patted his head, remembered something, quickly reached into his collar, touched a pocket sewn by his sister Li Liu, twisted out an oil paper bag, shook it towards Chen Pingan, and grinned: "Chen Pingan,
Do you know what this is?"
Chen Pingan carefully put down the hairpin and carving knife, rubbed his eyes, and asked: "What is it?"
With a proud face, Li Huai took out a neatly folded piece of paper from the oil paper bag and explained: "At that time, people kept leaving the school, and in the end only me, Li Baoping, Lin Shouyi, Shi Chunjia and Dong Shuijing were left.
Five. In the last class, the teacher gave each of us a copybook with the word "Qi" written on it. We were asked to copy it carefully, saying it was homework. Later, the teacher did not take back the original copybook. During this study tour, my mother
I think the word "sir", even though it is neatly written, is not as good as the big characters on the couplets next door, which are heavier and more powerful. But at least I have a master-disciple relationship with Mr. Qi, and I will stay here just as a thought.
I asked my sister to secretly sew a pocket inside the clothes and put them into oil paper bags. Later I asked Li Baoping and Lin Shouyi. Li Baoping said he didn’t know where he had thrown them, and Lin Shouyi said he had put them at home.
I’m afraid it might be lost or damaged if I take it out.”
Li Huai opened the folded paper and gently smoothed the wrinkles, only to see the small copybook, which was square and about the size of a palm.
Li Huai stared at the word for a moment, raised his head and said seriously: "Chen Ping'an, I'll give this word Qi to you. It's useless for me to keep it. Besides, I often forget about things."
Chen Pingan shook his head and said with a smile: "If you are afraid of losing it, I can help you keep it temporarily before arriving at Sui Academy. But since this is the homework given to you by Mr. Qi, then as Mr. Qi's student and disciple, you can keep it for you temporarily.
It should be treasured well, even if Mr. Qi is gone, there is no need to copy it, but just like your mother said, keep the copybook to yourself, at least it is a memory."
Li Huai nodded, casually put the copybook between the pages of the book, then closed "Duoshui Cliff" and threw it into the wooden box.
Little did he know that in the pages of the book, the three silverfish and the green fish hidden in different pages left the text somewhere in the original book, swam quickly through the gaps between the lines, and finally quickly entered the straight-character poster.
He truly felt like a fish in water and was extremely happy.
Compared with Li Huai's bumper harvest, Lin Shouyi is actually not bad. He has a large pile of ancient talismans with high and low grades and good and bad materials. A "Langlang Book on the Cloud", a
The "Searching Mountain Picture" with more than a hundred kinds of mountain spirits and ghosts was a gift from the blind old Taoist because Chen Pingan gave the lame boy an excellent snake gallstone as a gift, so the old Taoist took it out.
This painting claimed to be an ancestral treasure of the master's family, and was donated to Lin Shouyi by Chen Ping'an.
As for Li Baoping, there are more famous sword auspicious symbols and silver sword-raising gourds. There are not many things, just two pieces, but they are all important weapons of the immortal family that are coveted by monks in the world.
Only Chen Ping'an, who contributed the most, seemed to end up with only that slightly withered and shriveled pale golden lotus seed. Now he doesn't know what use it is, and now he is in debt with the boy in white.
Li Huai lay on the table and repeated his old tune: "Lin Shou's family is very rich, but the identity of the illegitimate son is very embarrassing, so this guy may be more sensitive. Chen Ping'an, don't be like him."
Chen Ping'an nodded, "I'll go back to him and tell him, and then everything will be fine."
Li Huai said out of nowhere, "Good people and honest people suffer. My father is like this, and so are you, Chen Pingan. Otherwise, you should stop being a good person in the future, and think more about yourself in the future. There is no need to put up with others in everything."
.Otherwise, if you don’t do anything, Li Baoping, who recognizes you as his junior uncle, will be furious to death.”
Mentioning Li Baoping, Chen Pingan couldn't help laughing and asked: "Baoping always bullies you, why do you never fight back?"
Li Huai blurted out in a matter-of-fact manner: "I don't dare, I can't beat her!"
Chen Ping'an laughed loudly, and the fatigue of working hard to carve the words was instantly gone.
Li Huai looked at Chen Pingan, who was laughing happily, and the child also laughed happily, because in his impression, Chen Pingan did not smile like that. Normally, Chen Pingan, no matter what he did or said, was always very restrained and reserved, for fear of saying something wrong.
Did something wrong.
Li Huai then thought of his father, who seemed to have the same virtue. He pursed his lips, even if he was happy, and drooped his eyebrows, but he was not very happy.
Li Huai hesitated for a moment, but still planned to tell Chen Pingan what was deep in his heart. The child, whose head was resting on the table, stretched his neck, lowered his voice, and asked mysteriously: "Do you know why I always let Li
Aquarius?"
Chen Pingan joked: "Do you like her?"
Li Huai rolled his eyes, "How is it possible? I'm only so young! Besides, I'm not Lin Shouyi and Dong Shuijing, two perverts. Every time my sister comes to school to help me bring things, those two guys
My eyes were so wide open that they dropped to the floor. Especially Dong Shuijing. Every time he found an excuse to go to my house to play, when my sister was not around, he became very sick. As soon as my sister came home, Dong Shuijing felt as if he had been injected with chicken blood.
Yes, I can't wait to fill two large water tanks for my family. My mother likes Dong Shuijing more and thinks he is honest, just like my father. My sister probably prefers Lin Shouyi, who is gentle and elegant.
Like a scholar."
After saying bad things about Lin Shouyi and Dong Shuijing, Li Huai turned back to the topic with a gloomy expression: "Everyone in the school laughed at my father, saying that he was the most useless man in the town. He was a wife-in-law and had no future.
The son of a mouse can dig holes, so his son, that is, me, is the most useless in studying. Every time my husband takes exams, I am always at the bottom.
.”
Li Huai grinned and narrowed his eyes, "Li Baoping's family background is the best in the school, but she doesn't play with anyone, including Lin Shouyi. She just flies around like a gust of wind every day, forever.
She was the last one to come to class and the first one to disappear after class. Although she would find me noisy and would beat me up whenever something happened. But she never laughed at my father. Once my father came to the school to see me, everyone disliked me.
Only Li Baoping was willing to lead the way for my father and even called him Uncle Li, which made my father happy for many days. Every time someone deliberately made a joke about my father in front of me, Li Baoping would always stop them and not allow them to do so.
They said bad things about my father."
Chen Pingan sighed with emotion: "So that's it. By the way, Li Huai, do you have the person you hate the most?"
Li Huai was stunned, "No, every time I get home, I eat a delicious and fat chicken drumstick, and listen to my mother scolding my father and my sister over trivial matters, all my unhappiness disappears."
Chen Pingan directly twisted the wick with his fingers to make the light brighter, and said with a smile: "You are awesome."
Li Huai asked doubtfully: "What's so great about me? I also think you're not afraid of severe burns. You don't need to wear straw sandals when going up mountains and rivers. You can cut firewood and fish. That's how great you are. A wild girl like Li Baoping is very good."
When I was a child, I liked to climb trees, and then shout "Fly, fly, fly, fly!" and then fall to the ground with a plop. I never cried and stood up by myself. Finally, I limped home. In order to avoid walking wrong and being noticed by the elders in the family,
She will deliberately delay going home until very late, and even a person like her who is not afraid of anything will think you are the most amazing person in the world."
Chen Pingan picked up the carving knife again, "When you grow up, you will know why you are so powerful."
Li Huai didn't understand what he heard. He looked at the hairpins with growing envy, "When will you give us the hairpins?"
Chen Ping'an stopped carving and said, "We've arrived at Sui Academy."
Li Huai asked: "Why did you give that "Soushan Picture" to Lin Shouyi? I can see that you like it very much."
Chen Ping'an held up a jade hairpin and looked carefully at the fine lines on the hairpin by the light. "I'm afraid that I can't hold the good things. You are not outsiders. I give it to you. I don't feel bad."
Li Huai didn't open any pot and asked tentatively: "You spend two thousand taels of silver in one night, don't you feel bad?"
Chen Pingan put down the hosta and carving knife, put them back into the box, and said with a straight face: "I have to go for a walk. If I take a few more steps to see the scenery, I will earn back a few taels of silver."
Li Huai turned to look at Chen Ping'an's back, and the child was secretly happy.
Li Huai waited until Chen Pingan closed the door and silently told himself that he must give Chen Pingan something of the best in the future.
Because this guy has walked through so many mountains and rivers along the way. He just accompanied his timid self to pee and poop in a distant place, and then stood not far away to talk to him. He didn’t know how many times.
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Chen Ping'an didn't dare to wander around. He walked towards the pavilion and saw Lin Shouyi sitting there as expected. He didn't dare to disturb the mountain god who stood out first among the team. He watched from a distance for a while and was about to turn around and leave.
When I went, I saw Lin Shou stood up and waved to him.
Chen Ping'an walked into the pavilion. Compared with the handsome young man before walking into Qiulu Inn, Lin Shouyi seemed to be more elegant now.
Lin Shou chose a topic that was not embarrassing, "That Cui Dongshan borrowed a talisman from me, broke the rules of the inn, walked out of the pavilion, jumped into the old well, and disappeared."
Chen Pingan said softly: "Whether Cui Dongshan is dead or alive, I can't care about it, and I won't care about it."
Lin Shouyi held it in for a long time, then turned to look at the well, "I know you have good intentions about staying at Qiulu Inn, but you should have said hello to me in advance."
Chen Pingan nodded and said: "I will do it in the future."
Lin Shou turned his head and carefully looked at the straw-shoe boy's face and eyes, "That's it?"
To be continued...