Li Xiaonan raised her voice and confessed to Sister Mei, stepped out of the threshold, Wan Qing approached Li Xiaonan, gritted her teeth and said: "You can't be more successful!"
"How can I no longer be successful?" Li Xiaonan was puzzled.
"Our Crown Prince said that he invited you to dinner. There is another sentence before it. If you say you haven't eaten and refuse to come out, just say that he invited you to dinner. Look at you, just for the word "eat"!" Wan Qing pointed at Li Xiaonan with her finger.
On the shoulders.
"What do you mean, should I go or not? It seems~" Li Xiaonan paused, "I go to eat, and if I don't go, it's also to eat."
Wan Qing stared at Li Xiaonan, blinked several times, and sighed, "Why are you so greedy!"
"Because I'm greedy, and I've never been able to satisfy my craving." Li Xiaonan also sighed.
Wan Qing tilted her side for a moment, then pushed her forward, "Then you can satisfy your craving today. You can eat as much as you want."
"How can one meal be enough? Let me tell you, if you want to satisfy your craving, you have to eat whatever you want, as much as you want. If you eat like this, you will have to eat it for at least half a year before you can stop eating.
I’m so full of gluttons that I’m not greedy anymore.”
Li Xiaonan was pushed by Wan Qing, sighing as she walked.
Wan Qing paused, took half a step forward, hugged Li Xiaonan from behind, and said in a low voice: "I can't get out, otherwise, I will come here every day to treat you to dinner and feed your greedy heart." "It's much better now. Sister Mei is baking leek zizi. The leek zizi that Sister Mei bakes is the best in the world. I can't bear to do it, and it's not all because of greed." Li Xiaonan reached out to hold Wan Qing's arm.
"Stop fussing, we're at the entrance of the alley." Wan Qing patted Li Xiaonan's hand back, coughed, held her breath, lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes.
Li Xiaonan entered the teahouse, but did not see Gu Yan. Shi Gun stood at the top of the stairs with a smile on his face, leaning down to signal Li Xiaonan to go upstairs.
The upstairs is not a cubicle, but a hall similar to the one downstairs, with square tea tables.
A boy stood at the entrance of the corridor leading to the backyard, bowing to signal Li Xiaonan.
Li Xiaonan walked through the long corridor, turned a corner, and found another spacious hall.
Gu Yan stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. When he heard footsteps, he turned to look at Li Xiaonan and waved her over.
Li Xiaonan stood next to Gu Yan and looked out the window.
A large number of houses are nestled among green trees, with the lake sparkling in the distance.
"This is Pingjiang Prefecture School." Gu Yan introduced.
"It's so beautiful." Li Xiaonan praised sincerely.
"When our ancestors were building a separate business, they also renovated Pingjiang Fuxue. The gentleman who organized the business and the school was named Zhou. This small building was where Mr. Zhou cultivated himself in his later years.
"Mr. Zhou was a scholar who could not study but loved reading very much. He died here and was buried in Yangzhou.
"After that, this small building was returned to another property. After buying the tea house in front of it, I had a covered bridge built."
"The school is really beautiful, and your library is also very beautiful." Li Xiaonan praised.
"I just went there once, why didn't I go later? Because of Miss Shi?" Gu Yan sat down at the table.
"It's not because she is busy doing business and has no time." Li Xiaonan sat down and sighed.
"How is your business? Are you having any trouble?" Gu Yan poured a cup of tea and pushed it to Li Xiaonan.
"It's going very smoothly. We already have seven villages and thirty-nine looms." Li Xiaonan said in a cheerful tone.
"Oh! The business is so big!" Gu Yan exclaimed exaggeratedly, and then laughed out loud.
Li Xiaonan rolled her eyes at him and picked up the cup to drink tea.
"I'm happy for you, really." Gu Yan explained while smiling.
"Where is your Customs and Excise Department? How is it going?" Li Xiaonan asked.
"I found a place to buy it." Gu Yan replied with a smile.
"No wonder you are so happy."
"I'm very happy, especially when I heard that your business has become so big. To be honest, you have thirty-nine looms and a medium-sized weaving workshop."
Seeing the disbelief on Li Xiaonan's face, Gu Yan hurriedly changed the topic.
"I steamed a white water fish, stir-fried shrimps, and a crab bun with hibiscus. What else do you want to eat?"
"That's enough."
While talking, the waiter brought three dishes: steamed white water fish, braised shrimps, hibiscus and crab fight, as well as drunken chicken, clear soup and hot recipe, and two kinds of seasonal vegetables. He also brought a bowl of thin noodles and two small bowls of rice. Li Xiaonan hesitated and took a bowl of rice. First she took a piece of white water fish.
Gu Yan didn't bring the rice, so Shi Gun came forward, took a small bowl and picked out some thin noodles, poured a ladle of clear soup and Huofang soup, and brought it to Gu Yan.
Gu Yan slowly ate the noodles and looked at Li Xiaonan who was concentrating on eating.
This little girl is so focused on whatever she is eating.
We ate in silence, and Shi Gun made tea and served it.
"How is your brother preparing for Qiu Wei at the end of October?" Gu Yan asked.
Li Xiaonan was startled, and then she said "Oh". Without answering Gu Yan's words, she asked: "Why do you ask this?"
"Your brother was outstanding again in the first half of the year. There are two outstanding ones in a row. If he achieves something this fall, it would be reasonable." Gu Yan said meaningfully.
"What do you want to do?" Li Xiaonan put her hands on the table, moved her upper body forward, and asked in a low voice.
"Take care of me and let your brother pass the examination." Gu Yan replied simply and directly.
Li Xiaonan let out a long and slow oh, leaned back in her chair, looked at Gu Yan, was silent for a moment, moved her chair forward, put her arms on the table, looked at Gu Yan and said, "Thank you, but.
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Li Xiaonan paused in her words, lowered her eyes, and for a moment, she looked up at Gu Yan and asked, "Have you read my brother's article? What do you think? Is it good enough to pass Qiu Wei's exam?"
Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan and didn't answer.
"Those articles still took three to five to seven or eight days to write and rewrite. I had to help him read them two or three times and revise them two or three times."
Li Xiaonan lowered her eyes and looked at her fingers.
"My brother's academic articles, even now, it is not easy to be admitted as a scholar."
Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan and raised his eyebrows slightly.
"You heard how the third uncle bullied us back then on the day Huang County Zunzong tried." Li Xiaonan glanced at Gu Yan.
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Gu Yan nodded.
"That was a big deal. Usually there are more small things. The third uncle's family and the people in the village seem to have nothing else to do. They are thinking about how to bully us every day.
"Drain the water in our fields. Instead of walking through the field stalks, we have to wade through our fields and throw water snakes and locusts into our fields. The eldest sister and the second sister have to go to the field almost every day to watch.
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"Whenever San Auntie was unhappy, she would come to our house, block the courtyard door and scold us. Within half a year, San Auntie smashed our vat three times, and several of the Third Uncle's grandsons threw it into our yard.
Stone, pee."
Li Xiaonan's throat was choked and she lowered her head. After a while, she continued: "The eldest sister is worried about my brother. I have been worried about the eldest sister and the second sister. I am afraid that they will be so tired that they will fall down and be unable to get up. p>
"There was really no other way, so I took the exam in my brother's name. I didn't dare to think about being a scholar at first, so I just thought that if I could get through one or two exams, I asked Mr. Gao to help me get my brother to go to the county school.
Xue, our family sold their land and moved to the county.
"The eldest sister said that as long as we can survive, we can survive.
"The replacement was for the five lives of our siblings. Now, we should not do such a thing again."
"A scholar is really too low. Besides, there are people who get lucky if they don't have enough knowledge and articles." Gu Yan thought for a while and advised.
"For our family, being a scholar is enough. If heaven and earth take care of it and we are lucky enough to get it, it will be fortune and blessing, but it is not such a fluke now, is it?" Li Xiaonan looked at Gu Yan.
"Don't be too rigid about this." Gu Yan advised again, "Your brother is not too bad. Love in the world is inevitable."
Li Xiaonan shook her head, "The eldest sister has long said that taking the exam is a last resort. In order to survive, you have already lived your life. If you are still living so well, you shouldn't covet any more.
"How is the world and how others are doing, should we do the same?
"When I was in Xiaoli Village, my eldest sister often said: We can't be like them.
"The third cousin was forced by the clan to destroy his family. The eldest sister was very angry. She said that bullying the third uncle in this way was the same as when the third cousin bullied us. This is the reason why the eldest sister wanted to stand in the ancestral hall and speak.
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"The eldest sister said that we need to work hard and be a good person. I think the eldest sister is right."
"Your eldest sister is admirable." Gu Yan lifted the pot and gave Li Xiaonan some tea.
"However, now the entire Liangzhe Road, and even the entire Jiangnan, probably know that I am friends with you, or there are other opinions that your brother will take the exam without me saying anything or doing anything."
"I'll go back and discuss with my eldest sister and brother that we won't take the exam." Li Xiaonan was silent for a moment, looking at Gu Yan and said.
"Why stop eating because of choking?" Gu Yan was a little dumbfounded.
"When my brother's academic articles are enough to qualify as a candidate, then he can take the exam. To be a good person, you must first have peace of mind. Otherwise, you will lose sight of the delicious food, turn a blind eye to the beautiful scenery, and be in no mood, right?" Li Xiaonan said with a smile.
"No wonder everything you eat tastes so delicious. You've learned a lesson." Gu Yan cupped his hands and said with a smile.
