"Director, this is a freshly baked puff pastry pie with red beans added."
On the third floor of Shiroko Library, Cha Shiyin, who was sitting in the office, watched the blindfolded girl come in, holding a lunch box in her hand, and the scent of meringue that could not be concealed by the lid overflowed out.
"The only advantage I have of letting this brat like Shi Wen work part-time here is that from time to time I can eat snacks that I would never be able to order in the dining hall." Cha Shiyin said with a smile: "Hey, Nuo is a big imperial palace, so that's it.
You are the only one who will honor me. Those students know how to please the teacher for a few credits, but they ignore me, a great knowledge manager. It is simply short-sighted. The students of this Imperial Academy are really not good..."
Laiya has long been accustomed to Cha Shiyin's way of speaking, which suddenly goes off topic and complains. She has dealt with Cha Shiyin several times before, and although she also wants to give gifts to please her, she also regards Cha Shiyin as a friend. Maybe.
Because of her poor eyesight, Laiya can be keenly aware of other people's attitudes towards her. Although some of the kitchen workers, aunts, students, and teachers she encounters are malicious, most of them are kind.
and sympathy.
Sympathy is not bad. Laiya is very grateful to those who help her out of sympathy. She is not as awkward as Shi Wen. But she has never felt sympathy from Cha Shiyin. Of course, there is no malice. The curator will talk normally.
He made fun of her disability and laughed at Shi Wen's stupid daily routine, but the tone of his words was just right, neither making people feel uncomfortable nor touching, but only making those who heard the joke laugh uncontrollably.
If I had to describe it, Lai Ya felt that Cha Shiyin seemed to treat him as a normal person. He did not have the 'superiority' hidden in his sympathy, nor the 'discrimination' wrapped in his disgust, but regarded himself as someone who had not yet been
As grown-up children, it is natural to help and ridicule.
Although there are many virtuous people in the Imperial Court, Cha Shiyin is the only one who will not 'sting' them. Even a casual person like Shi Wen can work and study in Baixiang for so long. It is not
There is no reason.
Laiya carefully walked with a wooden stick and put down the lunch box: "Because it's not safe, I didn't bring your favorite honey five-flower tea..."
"It doesn't matter, I can do it myself." Cha Shiyin smiled and said, "Come over a little bit."
Laiya obediently approached her. Cha Shiyin put his hand on her head, and the palm of his hand glowed with green light. The bruise on Laiya's forehead healed quickly. Not only that, the green light washed away along her head.
body, treating all the bruises on her body.
"Okay, the pain has gone away." The curator took back his hand and said: "Go and tell Shi Wen that I will stay here for these two hours and I don't care what happens outside - but don't go too far.
Yes, remember to put all the books back to their original places after five o'clock."
"Thank you, curator." Laiya nodded, turned around and left, leaning on the wooden stick.
"Don't mention me to your teacher, otherwise he will definitely cause trouble for me." Cha Shiyin said with a smile while mixing the honey: "You are his 'test subjects'. Director, I am just a weakling."
He is a powerful knowledge manager and only knows a few internal tactics of health preservation, but he cannot resist Qin Leyin's bad luck."
Laiya was a little uneasy: "Then shouldn't I come to the curator in the future?"
"When you feel that your whole body is heavy, your legs are like lead, and your mood is so bad that you want to hit Shi Wen on the head, you can come to me." Cha Shiyin said, "Because you are either about to be unable to bear it anymore.
, or you are sick, I can give you a little help. Or you can just hit Shi Wen in the head, it should have a miraculous effect."
"Thank you, curator." Laiya bowed and said.
"The direction is wrong, I'm sitting on your right."
"Ah!" Laiya turned around quickly, but as soon as she lowered her head, she hit the back of a book on the bookshelf next to her. She grunted and covered her slightly aching forehead.
Cha Shiyin laughed loudly: "If you want to thank me, I will try to make the dim sum I mentioned before. My elder brother always mentioned that dim sum to me in the past, but I have never eaten it until now, and I don't know about my elder brother."
Where to eat... Go out quickly, that boy Shi Wen can't wait any longer."
"Yeah!" Laiya wasn't angry either, and left the office holding a wooden stick.
Cha Shiyin opened the lunch box, took a bite of the puff pastry, drank a cup of warm honey five-flower tea, and exhaled a breath of lazy and sweet air.
"If everything goes as planned, how can everything in the world be as desired? But how can everything in the world be unsatisfactory? Nine times out of ten, life is not as desired, and there is always one or two... But Qin Leyin has never practiced it himself, so he cannot be blamed, and
He doesn’t have much education experience, so it’s normal for him to only teach strictly, but he’s a bit too inhumane..."
After finishing one pie, Director Shirobako picked up the second one and took a bite, his expression suddenly changed.
He chewed it twice slowly, then retched and vomited it into the trash can next to him. He looked at the pie carefully and soon discovered the clue - this pie was different from the others, and it didn't seem to be produced by the same company.
By.
He blinked and spoke:
"However, I also agree with allowing Shi Wen to eat all the food he made, whether using the upper mouth or the lower mouth."
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When Shi Wen saw Lai Ya coming out of the office, he immediately went over and asked, "What did Cha Shiyin say?"
"He won't care about us for the next two hours."
"Just wait for what he says!" Shi Wen clenched his fist and said, "Qin Leyin's people are almost here now. You go to the second floor and wait while I go down to pick them up!"
"Come here instead," Laiya said suddenly, "I'll go down to pick up the teacher, and you go to the second floor to prepare."
"Why?" Shi Wen asked subconsciously, and reacted instantly: "Do you think I will suddenly raise the price now, or drive them away with bad words, and take advantage of the agreed loophole to make Qin Leyin's people fail to take revenge on him?
"
Lai Ya didn't say anything, which was obviously his acquiescence.
"Don't underestimate me, Lai Ya." Shi Wen said, "Yes, although I wish I could grab his throat in my dreams, I also know the severity. Now we can't practice at home, and we don't have enough strength yet.
Until I can resist him, I will not offend him by playing such a petty trick."
He raised his trembling left hand, and the bright black steel arm armor bit his left arm tightly like a crocodile's mouth: "I can even endure this heartbreaking pain, how could I not endure this moment and a half?"
carve?"
But Laiya still didn't respond. Even though her eyes were covered, Shi Wen still felt that she was staring at her with distrustful eyes.
Shi Wen wanted to say something else, but at this moment many students suddenly poured in at the door of the library. He turned around and jumped directly from the third floor: "There is no time, I will pick them up!"
Laiya sighed and hurriedly took the stairs down.
When Shi Wen landed on the first floor, he saw Qin Yueshi and Li Ying coming in. They had already met before the exam. Shi Wen waved directly and took them to a utility room on the second floor.
There is a large table inside with a simple map.
Pulling over the two test papers they copied, Shi Wen picked up a pen and quickly browsed the questions and then checked the answers: "A, A, B, D, D, B... The fifth row of row 21 in the third area on the first floor, "Glory Confusion"
"Grand Prize", go quickly!"
"Ah?" Qin Yueshi and Li Ying were confused.
Shi Wen impatiently clicked on the location on the map: "Go here quickly to find this book! The answer to this question is in it!"
"Oh oh oh!" Qin Yueshi went to look for her.
"D, B, A, B..." Shi Wen frowned slightly: "'My son is the offspring of his wife and the palace medical officer, and his grandson is the offspring of the general and his daughter-in-law'... Do you remember which emperor this is about?
Unofficial history? I remember seeing it, but I forgot."
"Isn't the answer to this question 'Ding'? Isn't the only ancient person among the four answers who is not an emperor?" Li Ying, who was still here, was shocked: "This is actually a scandal from the royal family?"
"It is precisely because I come from the royal family that there is such a scandal." Shi Wen explained: "How can ordinary people find out whether their son is their son or whether their grandson is their grandson... But the royal family with the shining holy sword
You can check whether the bloodline belongs to you. You don’t know? The first row of the fifth row in the fifth area on the second floor is "Kingdom Storm III: Tide of the Black Moon"."
"Okay, I'll go right away!" Li Ying rushed over excitedly.
As a book was transported to the utility room, the questions on the test paper were solved one by one. When Shi Wen stopped writing, Laiya asked: "How many questions are there?"
"There are three more questions." Shi Wen exhaled: "One question is from "The Energetic Maid", but this book is a very popular only copy. If they can't find it, it must have been borrowed by other students; the other question is
It comes from "Dragon Poetry War". This book is relatively unpopular, maybe it has been hidden by others. There is also a question asking "What are the four endings besides death after the human life span is exhausted?" I don't know this question either.
Which book is it from? Maybe Cha Huan made it up on the spot, so any answer you choose is correct."
"It's already amazing!" Li Ying couldn't help but say: "You actually solved all the other questions, and you even know which book it comes from... You really can't tell a person by his appearance!"
Lai Ya's face changed slightly, but Shi Wen had already reacted instantly: "Of course, unlike you, who has good eyebrows, good looks, and no skills, if I don't even have this ability, how can I have it?"
Are you qualified to serve you?”
Li Ying was stunned for a moment, but Qin Yueshi quickly smoothed things over: "Li Ying, she didn't mean anything else, she just wanted to praise your erudition..."
"Thank you, Miss Qin, for your explanation. I am very touched, even grateful. After all, you are a student of the Royal Academy, teacher Qin Leyin's sister. You are a 'privileged person' who can enter the Imperial Academy without taking an exam. You will definitely become Huiyao after graduation."
The mainstay. You who are so respected are actually willing to comfort me, who is as humble as dust. I am so moved that I am willing to go through fire and water for your surname Qin."
Qin Yueshi's expression also changed - forget about Shi Wen's other eccentricities, but she enrolled in school without taking the exam, which was indeed a stain that she couldn't defend.
"Hey, we didn't offend you, did we?" Li Ying couldn't tell that Shi Wen was losing his temper, and said, "I don't know how much grudge you have with Teacher Qin, but Teacher Qin is Teacher Qin, we are us, you don't
No reason to blame us!"
"Approving anger? You are wrong. I am not passing on Qin Leyin's anger to you, but I am simply angry at you." Shi Wen sneered and said, "Am I wrong? I remember your name is Li
Ying, right? Last semester, the overall score of the Guards Department was the tenth from the bottom. This is because the top ten will not be ranked, their scores will not be displayed, and their names will be marked in gray... In other words, you may be the bottom of the list."
"In addition, you have been warned for missing school many times and not doing your homework. A few days ago, you were late for class and was caught by Qin Leyin... I said that since you don't want to come to study, why don't you just find someone to marry?
Are you going to wait to die? Come to the Imperial Academy to do charity? Come to the bottom in person to improve the rankings of other students?"
Shi Wen looked at Qin Yueshi: "As for you, Qin Leyin's sister, the daughter of a wealthy family... I said you rich people are not satisfied with your money, so you insist on coming to the Imperial Court to get gold? You don't need to take the exam to enter, this year's
There is no shortage of privileged people like you, but you are more powerful than those palace masters. You have an upright and partial brother who is just giving you credits."
"In all the years since the Imperial Academy was established, you are probably the first student to have a teacher to protect you."
"Do you think I want him to favor me!? Do you think I want to come to Yanjing to study in the Imperial Academy?" Qin Yueshi slammed the table hard, her eyes turning red with anger: "You don't know anything-"
"What does that have to do with me?" The attendant raised his head and said coldly: "I only know that you two are the scum that tarnish the reputation of the imperial court. Maybe this is because birds of a feather flock together..."
"You are not a student of the Imperial Academy, why are you so angry?" Li Ying found a counterattack point and retorted sharply: "You keep saying that we are not worthy of being called students of the Imperial Academy, but you are not even a student of the Imperial Academy!"
"Oh? You are right, I am indeed not."
As if he saw his prey stepping into his carefully laid trap, the attendant showed a cruel and joyful smile and shook the paper in his hand: "Then, two respected students of the Imperial Academy, this assignment is for me, a student of the Imperial Academy.
Do you still want the answers to the Omniscient Eye test paper that are not made from underground mud? If you two are better than me, do you dare to be adamant and refuse my answers and make another one yourself? I will find the information for you.
alright."
Li Ying and Qin Yueshi suddenly looked embarrassed - they had forgotten that it was precisely because they were unable to complete the Omniscient Eye exam that Qin Leyin asked Shi Wen to help them.
"want."
Li Ying snatched the answer from his hand, "No fool would want it!"
"Then you are admitting—"
"That's right, I'm just an unlearned and unskilled student who comes to the Imperial Courtyard to waste teaching resources. I'm a scum that can't even compare to you. The Imperial Courtyard is ashamed of me, okay?" Li Ying suddenly walked over and picked up Shi Wen's hand.
Collar: "But Sister Shi is not who you say she is! You apologize to her!"
"Then what I said is wrong, tell me!" Shi Wen pushed her hand away and growled in a low voice: "Of course, I can also apologize. After all, I am just a muddy man who is not even a student of the Imperial Academy. How dare you
Refuse the request of you superiors——"
"Don't think that you are the only one in the world who is the most pitiful!" Li Ying rushed over, grabbed Shi Wen's collar and pressed him against the wall: "My father is dead and my whole family is dead, so I have to be cruel and show off everywhere.
Do you have a bad face? Do you have to drag everyone together to lose your temper when you are in a bad mood? I admit what I said was wrong just now, Sister Shi didn’t say anything, why did you say that to her!? "
"she--"
"Everyone has shortcomings and stains! Do you dare to eat a radish that is as clean as crystal? You only saw her enrolling without taking the exam, but didn't you see her leaving her hometown?" Li Ying glared at Shi Wen. She was shorter than Shi Wen, but she was
Now it was as if she was looking down at Shi Wen: "Just because you are not miserable enough, do you have the right to harm other people?"
"Li Ying!"
"Waiter!"
Qin Yueshi and Laiya spoke at the same time. The difference was that Qin Yueshi's voice had a hint of pleading, while Laiya's voice was filled with anger.
Li Ying let go of Shi Wen's hand. Shi Wen was silent for a moment, touched the fish bone wristband on his left arm, and took a long breath: "I'm sorry."
Qin Yueshi didn't say anything, took the answer and left with Li Ying, saying goodbye before going out: "Thank you for your help."
There was silence in the utility room. Lai Ya didn't speak. Shi Wen sat down and said, "I didn't break my promise - I quarreled with them after I finished the work."
Although she felt it was meaningless, Laiya still asked: "Why?"
"Because I have been struggling in the mud all my life, I look down on those who lie on the lawn and enjoy the sun, sit under the trees to enjoy the shade, and fly in the blue sky to breathe the fresh air. Isn't this normal?"
Shi Wen raised his trembling left arm: "If I admit that they deserve their happiness, how can I endure this pain? Do I deserve the suffering I have been enduring?"
Laiya sighed, she could not persuade Shi Wen.
She almost wanted to go find the curator.
Perhaps blowing up the head of the waiter's dog is also a way...
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"I'm going to the bathroom."
A female student suddenly raised her hand and asked to go to the toilet. Zhao Yebai happened to pass by the examination room and waved: "I will take you there. What is your name?"
"Mingyue Banquet." said the girl who seemed to have dark circles under her eyes due to lack of sleep.
Zhao Yebai's face changed slightly, and he took her all the way to the bathroom, watched her enter the cubicle, and stood guard outside the door.
Although Xianchan Chenchen did not intend to help Qin Yueyin, their Yan Tong always cooperated with Qin Yue, and Qin Yueyin had already made it known - his sword master was Ming Shuiyun.
Then Mingyue Yan is naturally his enemy.
It would be fine if we didn't meet him, but since Zhao Yebai met him, he would not give Mingyue Yan a chance to cheat. He would knock on the door every five seconds: "Are you ready?"
Thirty seconds later, the compartment opened and the 'Mingyue Banquet' came out: "Okay."
Zhao Yebai looked at the cubicle and found nothing, not even a smell, as if it had not been used. He took Mingyue Yan back to the testing room, wondering if she really just went to the toilet?
At this time, Mingyue Yan jumped out of the bathroom window, crossed the grass lightly, and ran quickly towards the woods.
At this moment, a ferocious jackal suddenly blocked her path. Mingyue Yan was startled, and turned around to see two ocelots attacking from behind.
She made a prompt decision and climbed directly to the tree next to her and sat on the trunk. She breathed a sigh of relief as she watched the three beasts wandering below, seemingly unable to climb up.
Suddenly someone tapped her left shoulder, and she subconsciously looked to the left, but there was nothing there.
When she turned back, she saw a red-haired man hanging upside down in front of her.
"Good afternoon, Yueyan Palace."
Mingyue Yan's body froze immediately, her eyes turned white, and she fainted from fright.
