"Um, hello." Faced with the greetings from two upright-looking girls dressed as maids, Zhou Xiaoxian responded blankly before realizing something was wrong, taking a few steps back and exiting the threshold.
Looking around, she was a little puzzled. She was right. This was the teacher's home.
"Miss, are you back?" At this time, another man in his thirties came over enthusiastically and said with a smile: "What flower do you like? Peony, peony, azalea, or jasmine?"
"Flower?" Zhou Xiaoxian was even more puzzled and called out: "Teacher, teacher, are you there?"
"Here." Xia Yi walked out and said with a smile: "Girl, let me introduce to you. They are the new maids who are responsible for cleaning the house. This one is taller, called Lan'er, 17 years old, and this one is shorter.
My name is Ling'er, she's 16 years old."
The two maids bowed and bowed.
"And him, he is a gardener, his name is Wu Jing. In addition to the three of them, there is also a cook and a buyer who went out to buy pots and pans. You can see them later."
"Maids, gardeners, cooks, and procurement?" Zhou Xiaoxian was surprised. His first reaction was to feel distressed. How much would it cost? Then he quickly put aside such thoughts, "Teacher, do you need so many people here?"
"
"Originally, there was no need for it, but the nanny was too enthusiastic and insisted on giving it to me. I had to refuse, so I turned away two guards and left five. It was good to add some popularity to the house. Anyway, their
All food and accommodation expenses are covered by Yapo.”
What did you do to Ya Po... It was difficult for Zhou Xiaoxian to hold back these words, knowing that there must have been some stories that she didn't know about.
But she knew that Xia Yi was not the kind of person to bully the weak, and that Ya Po must have done something wrong first, so she did not ask further questions and just greeted the three of them again: "Hello."
"Hello, miss."
"Miss, what kind of flowers do you like? I suggest you plant them on the east side of the yard..."
"Wait, wait." Zhou Xiaoxian looked at the yard and asked Xia Yi, "Teacher, do you want to plant flowers in the yard?"
"It's delaying your sword practice, isn't it? I also have this concern." Xia Yi thought for a while and said to Wu Jing: "Let's do it this way. You plant two rows of green onions by the rain corridor. Even if the girl accidentally cuts them, she won't be able to grow them."
You can pick it up and eat it.”
Plant, plant onions? Wu Jing was stunned, I am a gardener, old master, how can you even plant a tree?
But Xia Yi is the master after all, and he is the servant. After being frozen for two seconds, he could only bow slightly and go out with a grimace to buy onion seedlings.
"You two, go and do your own business." Xia Yi ordered the two maids, then turned around and said: "Girl, come into the house."
"I see that you are a little depressed. Are you feeling uncomfortable after not returning to the Holy Court for a long time? Or did you encounter something unhappy in the Holy Court?" He asked as he walked: "Perhaps you had a conflict with your second senior brother from time to time.
Now, it’s hard for you to be caught in the middle?”
"No, teacher..." Zhou Xiaoxian looked downcast and said, "Second senior brother didn't cause trouble again, I did it because of other things."
Xia Yi sat down in the main room and said, "What's the matter? Sit down and let the teacher listen."
"It's just that I used to have a sister who was very kind to me. I suddenly realized that her kindness to me might have ulterior motives... What should I do?"
Xia Yi said: "Tell me in detail."
…
Half a day ago, it was in the junior class of the Holy Academy.
The cute girl wearing a floral red dress and golden bell pendants in her ears ran behind Xiaoxian and covered her eyes: "Xiaoxian, guess who I am?"
"Sister, I heard the sound of your bell." Zhou Xiaoxian smiled.
"Hehe." In the sound of jingling, the bell girl pushed Xiaoxian away a little and sat on the same chair with her, "Xiaoxian, I miss you so much. I heard about you and your teacher a few days ago
It's a matter of fact, but I happen to be at the critical moment of condensing the Tianxuan Star, so I can't find you."
Zhou Xiaoxian made a sound, turned to look at the eyes of the girl next to him, caught a shadow of a star in it, and immediately smiled and said: "Congratulations, Senior Sister, for condensing Tianxuan Star and being promoted to the second star."
"What's there to congratulate? I'm a few days later than you. Maybe I will lose to you in the next competition between the four talented girls. Fortunately, I will apply to be promoted to the intermediate class soon, otherwise I will soon call you senior sister.
"The girl teased and pinched Xiaoxian's face with her hands, "You were actually accepted as a disciple by a six-star Kaiyang senior. We in Da Zheng only have dozens of six-stars in total. You are so lucky."
The two girls laughed and laughed for a while, and then the bell girl turned around and asked: "By the way, Xiaoxian, I heard that your teacher seems to have a lot of money and often takes you to Wangjiang Tower for dinner. Do you still need me to help you contact those Mengtong children?
Teach them how to make money?"
"Of course, the teacher belongs to the teacher, I can't always spend his money." Zhou Xiaoxian said immediately.
"I still have to trouble you, Senior Sister."
"It's no trouble at all. It's just a piece of cake. Oh yes, you are now a two-star Tianxuan, Xiaoxian. As a two-star monk, you can definitely charge a lot more money as a Mengtong teacher!"
"Really?" Zhou Xiaoxian was a little surprised, but also worried: "Forget it, senior sister, the children you want me to teach should still be from those families. It's not good to charge more money, forget it."
"Hey, Xiaoxian, this is not like you. Don't worry, those companies are not short of money. Even if you triple the price, it will be no problem."
Three times? Zhou Xiaoxian's eyes lit up again, but the light quickly dimmed, "But... no more, Senior Sister." Seeing that the girl wanted to say more, Zhou Xiaoxian lowered his voice and said: "Senior Sister, do you know... the Holy Spirit of the Bad Rat?
?”
"Hey -" the girl exclaimed, half of the chair was not stable, and she almost fell to the ground. After a while, she sat back down and said unnaturally: "The Holy Spirit of the Evil Rat? What is the Holy Soul of the Evil Rat?"
…
"At first I didn't pay much attention." Zhou Xiaoxian said to Xia Yi: "The more I thought about it later, the more I felt that the reaction of the senior sister was very strange. Moreover, she is the daughter of Lord Sun Sheng, the governor of Zhizhou, so she most likely knows about the Holy Spirit of the Bad Rat.
...Teacher, do you think Senior Sister did this on purpose?"
Xia Yi shook his head and said: "Then you have to recall for yourself when did you start to care more and more about money."
Zhou Xiaoxian was stunned for a moment and blushed a little.
"It's been like this... since I was little."
Xia Yi was stunned and couldn't help but laugh: "It's true that I made a mistake in my judgment. Then, if you think back, did your senior sister's behavior feel deliberate in the past year after entering the Holy Academy? Where can you guide me?"
Zhou Xiaoxian fell silent for a while and then said sadly: "Teacher, am I stupid?"
Xia Yi laughed: "That's true. You didn't handle Zhou Lizhu's matter well, and you were indecisive and ignorant. You didn't handle Feng Mo's matter well, or you were very ignorant. If I hadn't mentioned it to you, if you had been interrupted,
It's not Shi Lai's fault. You are trying to excuse Feng Mo like that, which is really bad! Plus, you, the senior sister, are fooling you around..."
"To be honest, he is really stupid."
"teacher……"
"If you were 30 years old, I would say you are stupid and hopeless. If you were 20 years old, I would say you are clumsy and push me harder. But you are only 15."
Xia Yi shook his head and continued: "And you have lived in a place like Zhoujiacun for 14 years, and you have only been in Lieyang City for a year!"
"So I didn't say anything. You have to suffer some losses so that you can see the world clearly."
"This is called growth!" Xia Yi rubbed the head of Zhou Xiaoxian who was about to cry.
"Every time you suffer, you gain wisdom. When you are like me, when you look back, I hope you can say: Thank you!"
In the last sentence, Xia Yi imitated Fan Wei with a weird accent, which made Zhou Xiaoxian choke and burst into tears...