She held Huan Ci's arm and kept shaking it, looking at Huan Ci eagerly. Huan Ci couldn't bear to refuse her, so he handed her the chopsticks and said, "You can only take one bite."
"I knew my sister was good to me." Qiao Jing smiled and picked up a duck leg.
Huan Ci burst out laughing and touched her head: "Why are you so greedy?"
Qiao Jing chewed the meat and looked at her with crooked eyes, chewing the meat in her mouth carefully.
Huan Ci shook his head and gave her a bowl of soup: "Eat slowly, don't choke."
Looking at the woman's weird look, she suddenly remembered herself when she was young. She was also so naughty at that time, and she didn't know how much trouble she had caused her father.
Now that I am older and my mind has matured a lot, I am no longer as carefree as before.
Huan Ci stretched out his hand to straighten her broken hair and asked, "What do you do to pass the time when you are free? I have nothing to do these days and I really can't stay any longer."
"Didn't you only stay at home for three days?" Qiao Jing was surprised.
Huan Ci lowered his head and chuckled: "You don't know, I can't sit still at all, I always want to have fun. But it's just not as good as it was when I was sixteen or seventeen."
"What did sister do at that time?" Qiao Jing asked with a wink.
"I do everything. I play horse riding, archery, go to school, row a boat, fly a kite, or I just catch those gangsters who bully weak girls on the street. I also played Cuju, but it's a pity that I didn't play well."
"This is much more interesting than what I played." Qiao Jing pouted.
Huan Ci looked puzzled: "You look like you are playful, so I don't believe you don't play."
"When I was in Bingzhou, I couldn't go out at all, and now my husband is in charge of me here. Except for those elegant things in the boudoir where everyone has fun together, I haven't done anything special."
Huan Ci smiled clearly. When she was in Bingzhou, she had no friends in her boudoir, and rarely visited other people's homes. She really didn't have much fun like the ordinary daughters in the boudoir, mainly because no one was with her.
To play, secondly, she is not an elegant person.
"You don't have fun together every day, right? What do you do on weekdays?" she asked.
Qiao Jing thought for a moment and said calmly: "I learn some needlework from my mother, or I help her with the housekeeping, or I read and write with my sisters. Didn't you just say that you go to school? But why do you treat school as a play?
Woolen cloth?"
These words made Huan Ci think of those things in the past. She lowered her head and smiled shyly, and said: "I didn't invite you to study at home. I wonder if you have heard of Dingyuan Academy? I went to school there before.
Annual school."
"Dingyuan Academy? Are you talking about the one in Bingzhou?" Qiao Jing covered her mouth in surprise after realizing her reaction, and stuttered, "You, aren't you a woman? How could that be?"
Huan Ci smiled and said: "I was too naughty at the time. But it is precisely because of this that I can marry my husband now."
"Do you mean you two knew each other before you got married?" Qiao Jing looked at her curiously.
Huan Ci nodded, his thoughts drifting back to that spring six years ago.
*
Just after the Lantern Festival, Bingzhou College resumed classes as usual.
At the gate of the school, Huan Ci clasped his hands behind his back and got out of the carriage in high spirits. She glanced at the handsome book boy and curled her lips: "Let's go in."
The book boy gave her a resentful look and followed Huan Ci with his book bag on his back.
Today he was coerced by this person to come here. He was originally the book boy of King Dingyuan, but he was snatched away by Huan Ci a few days ago.
She is obviously a woman, but she insists on pretending to be a man, and her voice is deliberately lowered, so that she looks exactly like a man.
Following the route in his memory, Huan Ci found Qingyuantang with ease. There were many schools in Bingzhou Academy, and Qingyuantang was where Fu Shen studied in the morning.
Yesterday, she had already asked people in the school to arrange her seat next to Fu Shen.
Qingyuantang is a three-bay house with a large courtyard in the middle and small courtyards on both sides. There are verandas in the front and back. The environment is very quiet and very suitable for reading.
When Huan Ci arrived, almost all the students in the school had already arrived. There was an assistant teacher sitting in front of him. Huan Ci had seen him at his uncle's house and looked at him before going to his seat.
When everyone saw the new students arriving, they looked around curiously. Huan Ci ignored everyone's gaze and pretended not to care and sat next to Fu Shen.
The man had already arrived and was reading the article in his hand in a low voice. Huan Ci raised his ears and listened carefully, only to feel that his voice was very low. That day, she watched her from a distance in Fu Mansion for half a day, but unfortunately she could not
Talk to him.
She now went to school just because of him, and she was scolded by her father for this.
The man read carefully and didn't even look at her. Huan Ci took the book bag from the boy's hand, took out a copy of "Laozi" and read it out.
However, she was also absent-minded. In fact, she was eavesdropping on Fu Shen's voice.
After a while, the teaching assistant knocked on the table and said, "Dr. Li will be here in a quarter of an hour. You guys should get ready."
Dr. Li is a doctor of the Five Classics and can be said to be the most knowledgeable teacher at Bingzhou College. What he is going to talk about today is "The Biography of the Zuo Family in the Spring and Autumn Period". Huan Ci hurriedly took out the book from her bag. She glanced at Fu Shen's desk
The book on the page looks very clean, but there are a lot of things written on it that are not there originally, which shows that he studied seriously.
After the assistant teacher left, Huan Ci looked at Fu Shen, smiled and said, "I wonder who your surname is?"
Fu Shen glanced at her lightly and did not answer her words.
Huan Ci raised his eyebrows slightly. This man was cooler than she thought, but it was not a surprise.
That day in Fu Mansion, she never took her eyes away from him. She observed carefully at that time, and found that this man never smiled or talked to others. Even when the bride and groom came over to toast, he still looked calm.
expression.
Even if he didn't say it, Huan Ci had already found out his name. She wrote the two words "Song Xin" on a piece of paper and handed it to Fu Shen, and whispered: "This is my name."
Fu Shen glanced at her, then looked at the paper, and then wrote the word "Fu Shen" on the paper.
"Brother, what a good name. I really like the word "Shen"." Huan Ci curled his lips and smiled softly.
Fu Shen ignored him and told the book boy next to him to grind quickly.
Despite this, Huan Ci did not lose heart. He walked closer to him and said, "Brother, I just came to Bingzhou and I don't know anything about things here. Since we are sitting together, it means that we are destined to be friends."
, please take good care of me in the future.”
After hearing this, Fu Shen turned his head and looked her up and down, with a trace of surprise in his eyes.
Huan Ci naturally knew why he was surprised. Even though she was pretending to be a man, she was born with a pair of beautiful eyes. In her father's words, she was born with affectionate eyes. Even if she was dressed like this, she could not conceal her beauty, standing in a crowd.
It is also first-class eye-catching.
She stretched out her hand to signal the book boy, who quickly took out a box from his book bag. Huan Ci put the box on Fu Shen's table: "This is our first meeting, and I give this to you." Seeing that Fu Shen was about to return the box,
She hurriedly pressed the man's hand: "It's just a wolf hair. You can use it for reading and writing. My father asked me to give it to me. She said it would help me make good friends, so just accept it."
Fu Shen's eyes were a little suspicious, but he still accepted the brush and said solemnly: "Thank you."
"I wonder where you are from? Do you usually live in the academy or at home? I came all the way from Yunzhou, and I usually live in the guest house in the academy." Huan Ci lied.
Of course, she was not completely lying. She had already sent someone to arrange a guest house, which was right next to Fu Shen's room. After all, as the saying goes, those who are near the water and the towers get the moon first, so naturally everything must be arranged.
Fu Shen glanced at her lightly, frowned and said, "Dr. Li is coming soon, please be quiet."
Huan Ci pouted in dissatisfaction and ordered his book boy to move more quickly.
After spreading the paper and grinding it, all the book boys went outside. Huan Ci looked left and right, feeling very curious about everything around him.
This school was founded by her father. It is said that it has been running for ten years. Huan Ci often came here to play when she was a child. However, the school became strictly controlled and no one was allowed to come in and out at will. Since then, she has never been to this place again.
Compared with the past, Bingzhou School has changed a lot. No matter what else, only the desks in the school are much better than before. Even if the snow outside has not yet melted, it is very warm inside the room.
Just as she was looking around, a familiar man suddenly walked in from the door. Huan Ci took a closer look and saw that it was her uncle Yin Xuan.
My uncle is a teacher in the academy and is also a Ph.D., but he is not that powerful. Among the great classics, he usually only teaches one, which is the "Chuan Qiu Zuo Shi Zhuan".
Everyone was surprised that the person who came was not Dr. Li. Yin Xuan narrowed her eyes at Huan Ci, walked quickly to the front, and said, "Dr. Li has taken leave of absence today, so I will teach you on his behalf."
"Okay." Huan Ci responded with a smile.
Everyone looked at her for a moment. After all, Dr. Li is a doctor of the Five Classics and has studied the "Spring and Autumn Annals of the Zuo Family" very thoroughly, and Yin Xuan is only about thirty-five years old. Moreover, in their opinion, this person relies entirely on his brother-in-law to advance.
This academy.
Huan Ci could naturally guess what they were thinking. Although her uncle had never mentioned it, she had heard her guests mention it to her father. She believed in her uncle's ability. He had been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child, but for some reason he had been reluctant to participate.
Imperial examination.
Yin Xuan only said that what he was going to talk about today was the Scriptures and Biography of Duke Xi in his fifth year. Huan Ci followed Fu Shen and opened the book, looking at his uncle eagerly.
Her books were all newly bought, and they were clean and brand new at first glance.
Catching a glimpse of her book from the corner of his eye, a trace of suspicion flashed in Fu Shen's eyes, and disappeared in an instant.
Yin Xuan stood in front and had a clear view. He recognized Huan Ci just as he walked in, and she was puzzled. This girl had never refused to study, so why did she come to school now?
Thinking of this, he walked around the room holding the book, casually read a few words from the book, and soon walked to Huan Ci.
Looking down at the entranced woman, he chuckled and said, "I wonder what you think of this monarch, Duke Lu Xi?"
Huan Ci was stunned and cast a resentful look at her uncle. Now that everyone was looking at her, she had no choice but to pretend not to hear, so she had to stand up slowly and hesitated: "The students think that this Duke of Lu Xi
——”
She didn't even know who Duke Lu Xi was, and she had no idea about his life. How could she evaluate him? She finally understood that her uncle had deliberately harmed her.
Quickly scanning the contents of the book, Huan Ci complained in his heart. At a glance, it belonged to Qin and Jin, and there was no trace of Lu at all.
After stammering for a long time, even Fu Shen turned to look at her. She was heartbroken and said in a low voice: "Students know that their knowledge is shallow, but it is really unreasonable to want to know the political facts now. How can they be worthy of discussing the monarchs of ancient times?"
She heard the man next to her snort coldly, with obvious ridicule.
Yin Xuan looked at her playfully and said coldly: "It's good that you know. Sit down."
Huan Ci sat down angrily, holding his head with his hands, thinking about how to settle accounts with him later.
