Chapter 209: The Special Diners of Liu Ji Noodle Restaurant
Zhang Shaobai returned to the mansion, still furious.
Today, my face has been completely disgraced.
Even if he tried other tricks and tried his best to save face, he was ridiculed and reprimanded by Li Changan in front of all his classmates. This was something Zhang Shaobai had never done in the past twenty years.
It was really burning and painful.
Zhang Shaobai sank into the Taishi chair and suddenly slapped the tea and cakes brought by the maid to pieces and smashed them all over the floor.
The maid next to her was so frightened that she quickly shrank her neck and lowered her head, not daring to make any sound.
The boy outside the door hurriedly ran in and hunched over to clean up the debris on the ground.
"Go away..." Zhang Shaobai became angrier as he thought about it, and waved the maid and the boy away.
Soon, only the angry Zhang Shaobai was left in the room.
After a long time, familiar footsteps came from the corridor outside the door.
Zhang Shaobai had to tidy up his appearance, then stood up and saluted, "Father."
"Bai'er, why are you so irritable today?"
"Father has a clear lesson." Zhang Shaobai told what happened today from beginning to end, and then said angrily,
"Then Li Changan took advantage of the fact that he was appointed as a teacher by the academy and used murderous intent to suppress us. Not to mention, the professor's skills are also very different from those in the Suan Jing."
"The homework assigned yesterday, the child has clearly completed with great care, but this person criticized it as useless..."
Zhang Shaobai wished he could make people and gods angry with what Li Changan said.
It turned out that instead of showing any anger, my father showed interest.
"Father……?"
Father Zhang pondered for a moment and said, "Tell me the arithmetic problems you made up and I will listen to them. Also tell me the arithmetic problems of the boy from the Gu family."
Zhang Shaobai was slightly startled, and then said in a clear voice,
"My child is making up that there is a cloth seller today. He sells three pieces of cloth, and each piece of cloth costs ten taels of silver. I want to ask, how many taels of silver can I get from selling the cloth?"
"What Gu Qiuyan made up is that today there is a wine-making woman who can make three hundred kilograms of wine in one day. How many kilograms of wine can be made in ten days?"
After hearing this, Father Zhang couldn't help but shake his head, "What kind of cloth does the cloth seller sell?"
Zhang Shaobai's throat seemed to be stuck. He couldn't believe that what his father asked was exactly the same as Li Changan's.
Seeing Zhang Shaobai looking like a ghost, Zhang's father asked again, "That Li Chang'an also asked you this question?"
Zhang Shaobai nodded in despair.
"I don't blame him for asking you that." Zhang's father stood up and patted Zhang Shaobai on the shoulder, "Although my Zhang family is not a wealthy family, we have had enough food and clothing for generations."
"In this Dongyue County, I don't get involved in government affairs, I just hold an idle official position, and I am content."
"But it's precisely days like this that make you inattentive to your limbs and grains, so you don't even know such simple things."
Zhang Shaobai was left speechless.
"And that boy from the Gu family, who has the same moral character as you and good intentions, is even studying in the academy, but the book he is reading is not right."
"I only know literature and martial arts and the classics of saints all day long. If I throw you out on the street to fend for yourself, I'm afraid you won't survive even three days."
Father Zhang glanced at the debris on the ground and said, "I think this Li Changan is a bit interesting."
"In the June Dragon Gate competition, he took the first place in two categories, saving a little bit of White Deer's face."
"What he is teaching you now is exactly what you can't see in books, but what you should learn most."
Zhang Shaobai heard this and said hurriedly, "But father, he..."
"How much of your opposition to him is because you think he can't teach you?" Zhang's father turned his head and looked into Zhang Shaobai's eyes.
Under his father's gaze, Zhang Shaobai was instantly defeated, lowered his head, and murmured speechless.
…
The third day of July,
At nine o'clock, the sun quietly climbed into the eastern sky.
Li Changan stood up, glanced at Zhiyin and Linglong who were still sleeping in the west room, and walked out of the north room gently.
Wash the rice, cook porridge, and cut vegetables for cold dressing.
After breakfast was ready, Li Changan walked into the study and continued to revise "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword".
Although it seems that only the ending has been modified, Zhang Wuji's entire change in mentality needs to be adjusted.
Key events must be reset to trigger a change in Zhang Wuji's mentality.
This is a delicate job, and if you don't pay attention, the story will become jerky.
Most people may just feel that something is wrong, but when faced with those words that are true to their original meaning, such unfamiliarity may very well lead to their own failure.
So there is no room for carelessness.
At the second quarter of Mao hour,
Liu Zhiyin and Liu Linglong had already washed up and were waiting for Li Changan to have breakfast together.
Squeezing Liu Zhiyin's delicate hand, Li Changan smiled warmly and said, "I won't have breakfast at home today. I have to eat it with the thirty students."
Liu Linglong sat aside, holding the bowl and blowing gently, "Brother, can I follow you?"
"Want to have breakfast outside?" Li Changan reached out and combed Liu Linglong's hair behind her ears.
"It's because my brother stayed out for so long last month and became an academy lecturer this month. Linglong has less time to see her brother."
Liu Linglong sighed like a little adult,
"And my brother won't let me sleep next to him at night. Linglong just wants to stay with him for a while longer."
Hearing this, Li Changan's eyes became more gentle, "Brother, please pay attention in the future and make sure to spend more time with Linglong."
With a gentle kiss on the foreheads of Liu Zhiyin and Liu Linglong, Li Changan walked out of the house.
Arriving at the entrance of Liu Ji Noodle House, several students had already arrived. After seeing Li Changan, they all hesitated.
Finally, he stepped forward and saluted with fists in his hands.
It's just that he didn't call "Li Jiaoyu".
Without Zhang Shaobai and Gu Qiuyan, the two thorns here, their determination to resist was a little shaken.
If Li Changan tried to temper his murderous intent in public and showed his embarrassment, he would be very embarrassed.
Li Changan nodded in return, then walked into the noodle shop and greeted with a smile, "Good morning, Boss Liu."
"Good morning Li Jiaoyu." Boss Liu said with a smile, "Why did you want to come to the shop to eat noodles today?"
"I miss Boss Liu's craftsmanship. Give me a bowl of beef noodles with a little spiciness." After Li Changan finished speaking, he shouted to the students standing outside the door,
"Come in and eat noodles, make your own choice."
The students outside the door were stunned for a moment, looking at each other, and couldn't help but look up and down at the noodle shop, hesitating.
Boss Liu smiled and said, "Li Jiaoyu, it's better not to force them. College students are all noble people, and my small noodle shop will not be in the eyes of noble people."
Li Changan shook his head, "All the professors from my academy are here to eat, what can't they eat?"
Then he shouted again, "Come in and eat noodles, don't let me shout a third time!"
Before he finished speaking, the students standing outside the door, pushing me and pushing you, stumbled into the noodle shop.
"Look at the sign and order what you want. I'll treat you to breakfast today." Li Changan nodded to Boss Liu and walked inside.
Boss Liu burst out laughing. This Mr. Li, Li Jiaoyu, acted unexpectedly.
"Um, I'd like a...beef noodles."
"Me too."
"I'll add another...egg..."
The students ordered their noodles one by one, and then crowded together across a table from Li Changan.
It's like a mouse meets a cat.
Who would have thought that the high-ranking academy students in the past would now be crowded on a table in a roadside noodle shop?
Boss Liu felt that today was an eye-opener.
"Chen Lun, just keep an eye outside. If anyone comes, let them come in and order by themselves. If they are late, just stand outside and eat."
When the student named Chen Lun heard this, his body trembled violently, and then he quickly got up and walked outside.
From time to time, some academy students would come over suspiciously, then poke their heads into the noodle shop. After seeing Li Changan's back, they immediately ran in.
Soon, the small Liu Ji Noodle Shop was filled with people, and Zhang Shaobai and Gu Qiuyan were sitting at the table next to Li Changan.
But Li Changan's table was still empty.
At this time, a man dressed in Tsing Yi walked near the noodle shop and was shocked by the scene in front of him.
Liu Ji Noodle House has never had so many people come at once, and there were even a dozen standing outside.
Looking at the clothes of these people, they were all student uniforms from White Deer Academy. Qing Yi even stopped unconsciously.
"Miss Yan, what are you going to eat today?" Boss Liu was so busy that he was sweating profusely. After seeing Yan Qingshi out of the corner of his eye, he asked with a smile.
"Bring her a bowl of chicken noodle soup." A voice came from the back of the noodle shop.
Suddenly, all thirty academy students were shocked and looked at Li Changan involuntarily.
After hearing the familiar voice, Yan Qingshi breathed a sigh of relief, with a hint of surprise in her bright eyes. She stopped and walked briskly again towards the noodle shop.
The academy students along the way looked over one after another, watching Yan Qingshi walk to sit opposite Li Changan.
Li Changan was holding a piece of noodles with chopsticks and put it into his mouth, chewing two mouthfuls quickly, "There are too many people in the noodle shop, it's very hot."
"Chen Lun, use your popular grammar to cool down the noodle shop."
Chen Lun's face froze while he was eating noodles. What a shame.
Is this how I use the grammar I have worked so hard to practice?
Moreover, since everyone is well-educated, the heat of summer will not be that severe.
There are only two ordinary people in the noodle shop.
One is Boss Liu, and the other is the newly arrived...Miss Yan.
You didn't talk about cooling down the noodle shop just now, but now that Miss Yan is here, you have to cool it down.
It’s clear what the intention is!
The most important thing is that it's obviously you who is seeking the phoenix, but in the end you want me to do it.
Not a human being! Not a human being!
Although Chen Lun was extremely reluctant, he still implemented Zhan Wenfa honestly.
Suddenly, a cool breeze flowed through the noodle shop, and people couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Yan Qingshi looked at Li Changan who was engrossed in eating noodles and did not dare to look at her. His smiling eyes turned into crescent moons, "Master, what are you doing?"
"Invite people to eat noodles."
"Invite your own students to eat noodles. The master's instructions are truly amazing." Yan Qingshi smiled softly, her voice gently brushing against her ears.
…
After finishing the noodles, it was already the second quarter of the year.
Li Changan bid farewell to Boss Liu and left with thirty people, heading to Dongshi.
"I just had noodles. Does anyone remember how many bowls of beef noodles you ordered in total?"
"Thirteen bowls!" Chen Lun's voice sounded from behind.
Li Changan laughed in surprise, "Yes, thirteen bowls of beef noodles, one bowl of beef noodles costs thirteen cents. How much does it cost in total for so many beef noodles?"
"Zhang Shaobai? Have you figured it out?"
Zhang Shaobai was suddenly called and was stunned for a moment, "Thirteen times thirteen...one hundred and sixty-nine articles!"
"Not bad, the calculation is very fast!" Li Changan praised, "Everyone should be able to see that in life, there are magic numbers in everything from food, clothing, housing, transportation, fuel, rice, oil and salt."
"A bowl of noodles for breakfast only costs thirteen cents, but it can fill your stomach."
"But don't think that everyone can spend several taels or even dozens of taels of silver on a meal."
Li Changan did not forget to say to the students behind him.
"Where are we going?" Zhang Shaobai hesitated for a moment and asked.
"East Market, there is an alley there full of shops selling cloth, and there are also some small stalls." Li Changan walked in front, and his voice reached the ears of all the students,
"Today's arithmetic lesson is to take everyone to the streets and alleys to see what our arithmetic is used for."
Zhang Shaobai's heart moved slightly. Looking at Li Changan's back, he couldn't help but recall what his father said to him yesterday, and his heart suddenly became filled with mixed emotions.