When Bai Ling heard what Yue Zifeng said, he felt that the scholar had good character and was an upright person: "Are you sure you want to stay?"
"As a gentleman, a horse cannot be chased, so please go ahead and arrange some errands for me, Miss Bai."
Yue Zifeng answered very seriously.
Seeing his firm attitude, Bai Ling felt happy in his heart. For no other reason, he just thought it would be good to have a man full of poems and books in the village to teach Tieniu how to read and digit.
So Bai Ling officially gave him the task of teaching Tieniu how to read and write, and also asked Old Man Luo to arrange a place for him to live.
However, after Tieniu heard that he had gained a teacher for nothing, he suddenly felt bad: "Master, why do you want that scholar to teach me how to read? I don't like him."
"Mr. Yue is very knowledgeable. With his help, you will make progress faster. What's wrong with that?"
"But, he is an outsider and his origin is unknown. He may have other motives if he insists on staying!" Tieniu said, clenching his little fists tightly.
"If that's the case, Tieniu should study hard with him. You get along with him day and night. If you find something wrong, you can tell the master in time, don't you think?"
Bai Ling took Tieniu's little hand and spoke eloquently.
This conversation between master and apprentice ended with Tieniu's solemn promise to complete the tasks assigned by his master.
Yue Zifeng settled in the village as he wished, and Bai Ling thought about waiting for Shangguan Yu to come back and hold a meeting with everyone to see if they could set up half a private school in the village so that everyone in the village who wanted to learn could go to school.
Bai Ling was thinking about it and couldn't help but feel a little tired, so he lay down on the soft couch and prepared to take a nap.
Unexpectedly, she just closed her eyes and before she fell asleep, Tieniu ran back again.
"Master, master, go and see, that Yue Zifeng has burned our house down!"
Tieniu's voice brought Bai Ling back to reality. She stood up and quickly followed me and him out. Standing in the courtyard, Bai Ling could see with the naked eye the small courtyard that had just been allocated to Yue Zifeng. There was thick smoke billowing, and there was still a vague smell.
You can see some rising flames.
"Tieniu, stay here and don't move, don't get close, you know?" Seeing that the situation was not good, Bai Ling held Tieniu's shoulders and gave a brief explanation before running over.
When people in the village discovered the fire, they spontaneously started to fetch water to put it out. However, the fire was a bit big, and the weather was dry now. The flames soon spread to the firewood pile in the yard. The growing fire made Bai Ling nervous.
"Don't panic, everyone, go get a few people to move the hay around to prevent the fire from spreading again!"
"Sanqi, go take out the pipe made of leather and bring water from the creek next to it to put out the fire!"
"Okay, I'll go right away, you guys come with me!" Sanqi touched her little face that was blackened by smoke, called to the people in the village around her, and ran towards the warehouse.
Bai Ling helped everyone carry water to extinguish the fire, and also secretly led some spiritual spring water out during the chaos. In conjunction with the stream water Sanqi brought out with a leather pipe, nothing unusual was seen.
The fire was quickly extinguished. Bai Linglei's forehead was sweating. He looked around and found that everyone in the village was there except Yue Zifeng.
"Where is Yue Zifeng?" Bai Ling looked around and found that he was nowhere to be seen.
"I didn't see it. Could it be in this house?"
"With such a big fire, if it had been inside the house, it wouldn't have been burned to charcoal!"
"He was the one who set the fire. If he burns himself to death, he asked for it!"
"The scholar looks very elegant, so why would he deliberately light a fire? It must not be intentional..."
The people in the village talked a lot, but those who took action were helping to find Yue Zifeng's whereabouts.
"it's here!"
I don't know who shouted, and everyone found Yue Zifeng lying on the ground in the corner of the back door of the collapsed room. He was buried under a pile of wood blocks. When he was pulled out, everyone ate it.
Startled.
"Tieniu, this is Tieniu!" Granny Wu first noticed Tieniu being protected by Yue Zifeng, and nervously hurried up to him.
"Everyone, please help carry them to an open area!" Bai Ling was also very surprised as to why Tieniu would appear here, but the top priority was to save people first.
Bai Ling checked the pulses of both of them. He probably fainted because he inhaled smoke and was hit by falling wood. Tieniu was protected and his condition was better, while Yue Zifeng's condition was slightly more serious.
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The people in the village hurriedly moved the two people to a ventilated place and settled them down. Bai Ling asked the villagers surrounding them to go back and rest.
After everyone went back, Bai Ling fed Yue Zifeng and Tieniu some spiritual spring water respectively, and then prescribed a prescription for clearing the lungs, and asked Granny Wu to prepare the decoction for them.
Tieniu didn't inhale much smoke, so he woke up quickly after drinking the spiritual spring water.
"Master!"
Tieniu was very excited when he saw Bai Ling, so he came over and hugged her.
"It's okay, Tieniu, tell me, what happened?" Bai Ling pulled Tieniu and asked.
Tieniu let go of Bai Ling and looked at Yue Zifeng, who was lying next to him. His eyes evaded and he hesitated to speak. Bai Ling looked at him for a while before Tieniu finally spoke: "Master, he was the one who saved me."
Got me!"
Although he didn't want to admit it, he was already grateful to Yue Zifeng in his heart.
Tieniu originally wanted to help, but unexpectedly he ran to the back door and found that Yue Zifeng was trapped inside and wanted to get out. However, the back door that had not been used for a long time was wrapped by some vines growing on the ground and could not be opened at all. Tieniu could not open it at all.
Niu subconsciously wanted to help, but then he pushed all the vines away, and things began to fall throughout the house.
The straw and wood on the roof were all burned. As the back door was suddenly opened, it was precisely because the back door was opened so hard that all the wood on the roof fell down in an instant.
Yue Zifeng noticed that the wooden block was falling, and he rushed forward without hesitation, protecting Tieniu under him.
Tieniu was frightened at the time and fainted due to the smoke.
At this moment, looking at Yue Zifeng who had not yet woken up, Tieniu felt that he had wrongly blamed him before. Yue Zifeng was an outsider, but he seemed not to be a bad person!
"Master, he should be fine, right?"
"Why, Tieniu is now concerned about him, a "bad guy"?"
"I, I just think he doesn't seem to have a bad heart."
"Then if he can wake up, when he recovers, Tieniu will be willing to let him teach you how to read, read, write, and write poems and etiquette?"
"I...I am willing. Master, you told me that we should learn from people with good character and respect them. Mr. Yue has good character and I am willing to let him be my husband."