Li Xiaonan made her first trip to Wangfu Bieye, and got on the car at the entrance of the alley. The car started running, and she ran even faster when she left the city. As expected, it only took about two quarters of an hour. The car stopped, and Wan Qing got off first.
, Li Xiaonan got out of the car and turned around to look around.
The parking area is a large rectangular courtyard with three snow-white walls more than one foot high. On one wall there is a round door opening, and two guards are closing the door. On the other side is an undulating parapet, and there is also a round door on both sides.
A guard in brocade robes stood on each side.
There is a ginkgo tree as thick as an arm in the south and north of the yard. The leaves have fallen and the branches are withered, and they stand silently.
"Don't look around." Wan Qing pushed Li Xiaonan, who couldn't stop looking around, into the moon cave door.
Inside the Moon Cave Gate is a camphor forest, deep and quiet.
After entering another round door, Wan Qing took Li Xiaonan around a corner, passed through two doors, and entered a courtyard with a wide verandah.
Wan Qing stopped in the foyer and told Li Xiaonan first, "I can get here. You can go in by yourself. Don't be afraid." Shi Gun said that Mr. Qian is the only one who can enter this yard now. Shi Gun also said that Mr. Qian is very brave.
Very small."
Wan Qing stretched out her head to take a look, approached Li Xiaonan, and lowered her voice to the lowest level, "I have never seen Mr. Qian. If you think so, don't go into the house, just teach him on the corridor or in the yard. I'm standing here,
See clearly."
Li Xiaonan nodded repeatedly.
Wan Qing patted Li Xiaonan on the shoulder and then raised her voice: "Mr. Qian, Mr. Li is here."
"This is what Shi Gun said. It's better to call you sir than girl!" Wan Qing finished shouting and then whispered a few words.
"Come on, come on!" He ran out from the front of the oxcart and looked across the yard at Li Xiaonan, who was wearing a thick home-woven cotton jacket and trousers, then at Wan Qing, then at Li Xiaonan, and said hesitantly: "Who is this?
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"It's me." Li Xiaonan did not go to the verandah, but went down the steps, crossed the yard, and went up the steps.
He stared at Li Xiaonan in front of the bullock cart until she got up the steps, then took two or three steps back in fright.
"I am Mr. Li. Didn't your eldest son tell you that I am a little girl?" Li Xiaonan looked up and down in front of the bullock cart.
This Mr. Qian looks to be in his forties or fifties, of medium height, slightly thin, with slightly drooped eyebrows and eyes, slightly slumped shoulders, and looks like a frightened hamster.
"No, I didn't tell you..." He raised his hand in front of the cart, but he didn't know whether to point inward or outward.
This is a little girl. If you enter the house, you will see a man and a woman alone in the same room...
"What kind of account do you want to settle?" Li Xiaonan stood with her feet outside the threshold, holding on to the door frame, lifting the curtain, craning her neck to look into the room, "Your prince only said what kind of goods and taxes were paid, but he didn't explain clearly. It's best to know that you
What kind of accounts should be settled can only be taught in a targeted way."
"This is the throughput of Beixing Terminal in recent years." Looking at Li Xiaonan's home-woven cotton-padded jacket in front of the oxcart, he felt less nervous.
"What should we look at in terms of throughput?" Li Xiaonan shrank back and asked.
"Your Majesty hasn't spoken yet."
"Then what are you thinking about now?" Li Xiaonan asked next.
"It's nothing, just watching."
"Then what do you want to learn?" Li Xiaonan scratched her head a little, it was a bit difficult to ask three questions without knowing.
"The Crown Prince asked me if I could tell whether the throughput figures at Beixing Terminal were true or false. I thought they were true. The Crown Prince asked me why, but I couldn't answer. The Crown Prince said, I need to find someone to teach me.
I, you really know why?"
The oxcart went to Li Xiaonan and glanced at Li Xiaonan’s face.
"Your prince said you are a scholar?" Li Xiaonan thought for a while and asked.
"Yes." Oxcart's answer was somewhat vague.
He, a scholar, has long been expelled.
"Then how are you studying, Ge Zhi? Are you the best at mathematics? Where did you learn it?" Li Xiaonan asked.
"Numerical skills are the best. My family is poor. The teachers in the county school at that time were not good at Gezhi and didn't learn anything. Numeracy is the best because I can calculate accounts." Niu Cheqian explained.
"Well, let's start with the most basic mathematics. In the house or outside?" Li Xiaonan lifted the curtain.
It's much warmer inside than outside. It's freezing outside.
"Mr. Li, there are differences between men and women. Where is the girl, or is she outside?" he said vaguely in front of the bullock cart.
"Then let's stay here. Are there any tables and stools that can be moved out of the house?" Li Xiaonan put her hand into the curtain.
"There are chairs, I'll move them." The ox cart moved two chairs into the house and brought out paper and pen.
Li Xiaonan simply sat on the threshold, spread the pen and paper on the chair, and smiled in front of the oxcart: "Can this curtain be hung up? Let the warm wind in the room blow us, so as not to freeze our hands. Your prince has
If you have a lot of money, you will definitely not care about this little charcoal."
The man in front of the bullock cart laughed out loud, "Can, can, how about hanging up the curtain, Mr. Li sits inside the threshold, and I am outside the threshold?"
"Let's all sit on the threshold. Your clothes are so thin, so you must be colder than me."
A curtain was hung in front of the oxcart, and Li Xiaonan dragged the chair into the threshold.
"Where are you from, Mr. Li? How about your family background?" He was no longer nervous at all in front of the bullock cart. He moved the chair into the threshold, put it down and sat down.
"In Xiaoli Village, Kunshan County, my family used to be poor. This fall, my brother got a lot better after he was admitted as a scholar. Now our family has opened a preserved egg shop, which makes money. The preserved eggs used by other businesses are given to us by our family.
"Yes." Li Xiaonan smiled.
"I also had a plate in the morning, it was very delicious." said the bullock cart with a smile.
"Where do you come from? When I hear you speak, you don't sound like a northerner. Their northerners speak hard and heavy." Li Xiaonan said while writing quickly on the paper.
"From Huzhou." After a pause, he added in front of the oxcart, "Changxing."
"I know that Changxing, like our Kunshan County, is a good place. So is your family here now, or in Changxing?"
"In Changxing, my son is nine years old this year and looks very much like me."
Speaking of his son, the man in front of the bullock cart had a smile on his face.
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"Your son is only nine years old? How many children do you have? Is the youngest your son?" Li Xiaonan asked casually.
"I only have one son. I haven't been home for many years." He sighed in front of the bullock cart.
"Hey! How old are you this year?" Li Xiaonan was surprised.
"Thirty-four." replied in front of the bullock cart.
"Uh!"
Li Xiaonan let out a loud uh. This uh was so surprising that Li Xiaonan simply told the truth, "You look like someone in their forties."
"The past few years have been too hard." Niu Cheqian's eyes turned red. Facing Li Xiaonan's confused gaze, Niu Cheqian said with a wry smile: "Mr. Li is not an outsider either. I was not sensible when I was young. When I returned to the provincial examination for the first time, I
Thinking that the article was full of flowers and had to be successful, the list was published and the name fell short. I was dissatisfied and was instigated by others, so I started a riot and smashed the Gongyuan."
The man in front of the bullock cart paused for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said: "The imperial envoy came to the capital, and together with the three departments, they found out that there was no fraud."
"It's really not there, or do you want to check it out and say it's not there?" Li Xiaonan asked.
"At the time, I thought it was a matter of officials guarding each other. After a few years, I came to my senses and carefully looked at the articles admitted that year. It should be true that there was no such thing." A look of pain appeared in front of the bullock cart.
Li Xiaonan groaned and then sighed.
"It was a serious crime to destroy the Gongyuan, so I escaped from Huzhou, alas." He sighed in front of the bullock cart.
"Does your eldest son know these things?" Li Xiaonan asked breathlessly.
"I know, I know." He nodded repeatedly in front of the bullock cart, "The prince is wise, powerful, wise, unparalleled in wisdom, civilized, Taoist and military. There is nothing that our prince doesn't know!"
"Your eldest son!" Li Xiaonan corrected him first, and then asked: "What you said just now about being so wise and powerful, was that irony?"
"How can it be irony! This is what I say from the bottom of my heart!" Niu Cheqian patted his chest hard.
"I always thought he was like a liar." Li Xiaonan raised a hand to cover her mouth and lowered her voice: "What can we say, I don't think he is powerful and wise."
In front of the bullock cart, he stared at Li Xiaonan for a long time, then suddenly burst out laughing.
It was the first time he met the prince, and when he thought about it that night, he always felt like he was dreaming, and he also wondered whether the prince was a fake.
