Chapter 4 Academy
Three years later, Lanzhou Peach Blossom Xiaowu. It was spring and the flowers were blooming, and the fragrance was overflowing.
In the academy, rows of cute little boys were kneeling upright and listening to the teacher's lectures attentively.
"Three hundred years ago, members of the Phoenix clan of the Supreme Family preached here for several days to enlighten the people's wisdom.
Lan Jun, who was born in a musical family and was favored by the palace, begged Queen Feng to get the opportunity to let the Lan family build a school here to spread the Lan family's music philosophy.
By the way, this Lan Jun is a legend in our Lan family.
At that time, he was just an illegitimate child, and he was bullied by others in his family when he was a child.
He was often punished to kneel in the ancestral hall and often went hungry.
One time he was so hungry that he couldn't stand it anymore. He saw the orchid blooming beautifully in front of the window, so he picked it and put it in his mouth to relieve his hunger.
From then on, he lived on the flowers in the garden every day: peach blossoms in spring, lotus flowers in summer, chrysanthemums in autumn, and plum blossoms in winter.
At the same time, he practiced his piano skills diligently, and finally won the first place in the family competition, and received the family's key training.
But he still couldn't forget the taste of the first orchid when he was the hungriest, so he insisted on eating orchids, making scented tea, and taking flower baths every day.
At the age of fourteen, he participated in the palace draft.
When she performed at the Wanhua Palace, she displayed superb piano skills, an orchid-like temperament, and a moving look in her eyes when she raised her head.
This made the emperor's heart beat so much that he was named Lord Lan and loved him very much.
At that time, Queen Feng heard that Lan Jun had been eating flower petals since he was a child, so she gave him a secret technique of locking incense.
The mastery of fragrance locking technique can help men form a fragrant body and keep their appearance youthful forever.
The only drawback is that the fragrance of flowers enters the body, and after practicing this method, one cannot read or write.
But Lan Jun had no one to teach him how to read since he was a child, so he didn't care about this shortcoming. After he got the secret skill, he practiced it diligently.
A few years later, Lan Jun, who had cultivated the Tianxiang flower body, became even more favored. He was like a fish in water in the palace and gave birth to a little prince for the emperor. The Lan family also became a family of royal musicians.
Of course, Lan Jun was also very grateful to Queen Feng and served the emperor wholeheartedly.
Lan Jun commissioned the family to build this academy in the hope that you can practice Tianxianghua body, learn etiquette and music well, and find a good wife in the future to flourish the family."
A man in his thirties, dressed as a married man, sat on the podium and talked about this period of history.
"Okay, today is your first day of enlightenment. I will test your basic qualifications and decide whether you will stay or go."
Seeing the little ones around her walking up to the teacher one by one, and then coming back and kneeling in their original positions, Lan Xin found it very strange.
She had accepted the reality that she had traveled through time and was reborn in the land of Nu Zun. She had also transformed from an adult woman into a baby, still a boy.
There is a father who has never met his mother, so his surname is Lan, Lan Xin, which is his name in this life.
My father was corporally punished for giving birth out of wedlock. Since then, his health has been poor and he often gets sick.
Dad is a gentleman in the academy, and his salary is meager, and almost all of it is spent on medicine, barely making ends meet.
As long as he stays in the academy and lives in the dormitory of the academy, his father can train with peace of mind, and he will not be a burden to his father all the time.
Before coming, his father had already told him some things about the academy.
Dad said that he participated in the advanced incense locking ceremony when he was a child, so he didn't have to worry about the entrance test of the academy.
Sure enough, it was his turn. The teacher took a closer look at his facial features.
When the teacher saw the cherry blossom pattern on his chest, he said with satisfaction: "Passed!"
Lan Xin also said politely: "Thank you, teacher."
This caused the teacher to take another look at this polite little boy.
In Mr. Xuegong’s dormitory, a bouncing little boy came back happily: “Daddy, I passed!”
Lan Chenger put down the embroidery in her hands and said with a smile: "Xin'er is so good, she will definitely pass the entrance test."
"Dad, don't worry and go to training. The teacher asked me to move to the student dormitory tomorrow."
Lan Xin hugged her father's arm, shook it, and smiled happily.
"Okay, you go to the academy and study hard. When dad is selected, he will perform in the imperial capital and take you to see the world."
The light rain outside the window kept falling, and Lan Xin also went to the academy that day.
I just brought the music score given by my father when I went to the newspaper, and I didn’t need to fill in anything when I entered school.
Just press your fingerprint on a piece of paper, it's quick and convenient.
The characters on the paper should be the characters of this country. They are square and square, with many strokes and look dignified.
It's a pity that my father practices the secret art of Tianxiang and is illiterate.
I have been practicing incense since I was a child, and I probably won’t have the chance to learn to read again. I feel a little disappointed when I think of this.
In my previous life, I had attended university and was considered an intellectual.
After being reborn through time travel, why am I still illiterate?
I'll complain, but the most important thing right now is that I'm hungry.
Maybe he has the soul of an adult living in his body, so he gets hungry more easily than other little boys.
The food was just a small steamed bun with a few flower petals sandwiched in it. The taste was very light.
Because she was so hungry, Lan Xin finished the meal in just a few bites.
There are sixteen people in the Datongbu, but fortunately they are all little boys. Although the room is small, it is spacious.
In the same dormitory, there were wandering little boys from outside, orphans without fathers and mothers, some who were sent in because their families were too poor to raise them, and there were also descendants of the Lan family like Lan Xin.
I was lying in a daze when a little boy with a sallow complexion suddenly came over next to me.
The little black head startled Lan Xin.
"what are you thinking?"
The little boy asked, his voice a little hoarse.
"I'm hungry." Lan Xin said honestly.
"In order to maintain the most slender figure as a man in the future, we don't provide enough food here." The little boy looks a little older than Lan Xin and knows more.
"Ah, how do you know?" Lan Xin asked curiously.
"My father told me. By the way, my name is Wei Ling. You can call me Brother Wei."
Wei Ling stretched out his little hand and touched Lan Xin's head.
"If you don't have enough to eat, why did your father send you here?"
Lan Xin slapped his hand down with her little hand.
Wei Ling paused and said sadly: "There was a plague in the city, and my parents both died of the disease. I was homeless, so I came here!"
"Brother, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned your sadness."
Lan Xin saw the little boy's sad look and apologized repeatedly.
"It's okay, I've looked away a long time ago. My parents are gone, and I am the continuation of their bloodline. I want to live well!"
Wei Ling suddenly smiled, like the summer sunshine, and the smile pierced Lan's heart.
"Then we will know each other from now on. My name is Lan Xin, the Lan Xin of Hui Zhi Lan Xin. We will be good friends from now on."
Lan Xin shook Wei Ling's hand.
"Okay, little one, I will be your brother Wei from now on, and I will protect you from now on."
As spring passes and autumn comes, the country is in turmoil.
King Ning secretly supported the independence of Moss Island in the south, and a large-scale plague also broke out in Lanzhou.
The Imperial Master who was practicing in seclusion in Ice Phoenix Valley, Prince Zhennan Prince Jun Feng Qingchen, also came out of seclusion.
In the palace, he angrily accused the emperor of killing his fiancée, violating the etiquette system and conferring the title of King of Jiang, and exposing himself to the public for a series of crimes.
Immediately afterwards, Prince Zhennan and the three-year-old Prince Jiang were locked in a secret room in the palace, and when they were found, they were almost suffocated to death.
But the three-year-old child has since become a medicine pot and cannot practice martial arts.
This was really a disaster for the Zhennan Palace, which had a military career.
It is said that the secret room is a forbidden area in the palace, and only the kings of Zhennan or the emperor's special envoys have the key to enter.
Some people speculated that this was the emperor's revenge?
Feng Qingchen, the Prince of Zhennan, is also the king of the Bingfeng clan, the biological brother of Xian Feng and Hou, and the biological uncle of the current emperor.
Finally feeling disheartened, he announced his resignation from the post of Imperial Master and lived in the Zhennan Palace in Yueyang ever since.
This year may be a disaster year.
King Ning had been independent for a long time, and the state treasury, which had been fighting for a long time to suppress the rebellion, was unable to make ends meet. Taizhou sought independence, and the Lanzhou plague spread to several states.
Chapter completed!