"If you can't stop your master, you'll get beaten for him! It's a buffalo fucked thing. It's amazing that he knows how to read and write! What a show off in front of the master! As a result, I was scolded by the master in the academy and nagged by my parents when I got home. Nao!"
"You are the one who writes homework for Qi Jinxing every day and gives him questions in class, right? You guys, have his hand broken by me. I want to see if you can still help that stinky fat guy after you break his hand!"
Ji Shu's eyelids twitched and he shouted: "Qing Tan! Help!"
A gust of wind blew, and the boy's cry of pain came from the alley.
"Ah! Who are you? You dare to hit me! Do you know who I am!"
"Damn it, just wait for me!!"
Ji Shu glanced at Xitao and said, "Go and buy some medicine nearby."
"I understand, ma'am."
Xitao jumped off the carriage and ran away. Not long after, Qingtan's voice sounded from outside the carriage: "Miss, the slaves have arrived."
Ji Shu rolled up the carriage curtain, and the young man under the carriage was as thin as a bamboo stick. It was still cold in April, but he was dressed in thin linen clothes. His exposed arms and neck were all covered with bruises. Looking at Very scary.
"Thank you madam for saving me."
The young man knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Ji Shu.
His voice sounded slightly familiar, Ji Shu said: "You're welcome, come up and sit for a while. I'll ask someone to buy medicine. I'll give you the medicine before you leave."
Lu Jiao hesitated for a moment and said yes in an angry voice.
He stood up, quietly raised his eyes to look at the carriage, and then was startled.
If the place where he was beaten was not still painful, he would have thought that he had been beaten to death, otherwise how could he see a fairy-like figure.
The lady in the carriage was gentle and kind, and stretched out her hand to him with a fairy spirit, "Come on, come up."
"no no……"
Lu Jiao took a few steps back and looked down at Gebu, feeling ashamed and said, "Lu Jiao will make Madam's carriage dirty."
"Lu Jiao?!"
Ji Shu lost her voice. The young man did not notice her gaffe, and nodded and said: "The stigma of ordinary people will not reach the ears of Madam."
Ji Shu looked at the young man in front of him carefully, and after a long while, he managed to see some familiarity in this face.
"Come up first, I'll ask someone to buy you a new dress."
Then with a look, Qingtan forced Lu Jiao into the carriage.
The curtain fell, and Lu Jiao stood restrained in the carriage. He always felt that wherever he touched, he would be stained with a layer of dust.
Just as Ji Shu turned around and poured a glass of water, she turned around and saw him huddled in the corner of the carriage, still sitting directly on the ground.
"What are you doing sitting there? Come here."
"I, I'm too dirty..."
Ji Shu was too lazy to talk nonsense and stepped forward to pull the man over and put the tea bowl into his hand.
"Drink some water to warm yourself up."
The boy's hands were covered with bruises, but his wrist bones were still very flexible and not as stiff as in his previous life.
Ji Shu looked at this young face and felt very complicated.
When she met Lu Jiao in her previous life, he was Qi Jinxing's long-term attendant and book boy. Qi Jinxing was already twelve or thirteen years old at that time. Ji Shu took him to study hard and finally passed the Tongsheng examination.
Qi Jinxing told her that Lu Jiao had a poor life without a father and mother, and he had an old disease in his right wrist and could not hold a pen, but he was smart and loyal, so Ji Shu left him alone.
Lu Jiao is two years older than Qi Jinxing. He is usually taciturn, but very well-behaved and sensible, and very filial to Ji Shu.
After he came to Qi Jinxing's side, Qi Jinxing seemed to have opened up the two channels of Ren and Governor. He could talk about the Classics and Yihui and write down current affairs policies. He soon entered Guozixue, passed the Jinshi examination and became Tanhualang.
But Lu Jiao fell seriously ill and died shortly after Qi Jinxing became famous...
Ji Shu felt a fire rising in her heart, and she asked in a low voice:
"Do you recognize Qi Jinxing? Are you also a student of Qingyun Academy?"
Lu Jiao buried his head even lower, and his voice was as loud as a mosquito:
"...I'm not a student, I'm just a servant who pours Ye Xiang. I recognize Qi Jinxing. He helped me fight off the students who bullied me. Madam, does she recognize him too?"
"I'm his mother."
Lu Jiao was stunned and almost couldn't hold the tea bowl in his hand.
Ji Shu caught the panic in his eyes and took advantage of the victory: "I just heard them say that you helped Qi Jinxing write all his homework? Is that true?"
"I……"
"A few days ago, I took a test on his annotations and arithmetic at home, and he couldn't do anything. But Master Zhu said that his talent allowed him to go to Guozixue? Isn't this a little strange?"
Lu Jiao was speechless. When he thought that the person he and Qi Jinxing were coaxing together was such a gentle lady, guilt suddenly surged into his heart.
"me……"
Ji Shu changed the subject and guided him in a gentle voice: "Did you help him?"
"Why do you want to help him? If it is true what Master Zhu said, you should be the one who can go to Guozi!"
Ji Shu's hands couldn't help but tremble.
In her previous life, she had always thought that she had worked hard to bring Qi Jinxing back to the right path, and that he had managed to get into the top three universities, but now Ji Shu realized that it might just be her imagination.
Qi Jinxing has been a puddle of mud from beginning to end and has never changed!
Lu Jiao couldn't help it anymore and knelt on the ground and confessed, "Madam, I, I, I'm sorry, Jinxing and I deceived you. I... Jinxing helped me at that time, and I had nothing to repay him. He was not good at his studies. I have been pouring night fragrance in the academy since I was a child, and I often eavesdropped on Master's classes, so I helped him with his homework..."
Lu Jiao didn't say that at first he wanted to teach Qi Jinxing, but Qi Jinxing was too lazy to listen, so in the end it turned into him writing for him.
"Why do you want to help him? Don't you want to go to Guozi school yourself?"
Ji Shu was puzzled.
He shook his head, "Lu Jiao came from a lowly background, so the Imperial Academy would never want me. I have no father or mother, and since I was sensible, only Jin Xing was willing to be my friend, so I..."
You regard him as a friend, but you know he will kill you after using you.
Ji Shu sighed softly and asked, "What else did you promise him?"
"...He asked me to hide under the table and feed him questions on the day of the National Academy of Sciences' entrance exam."
Lu Jiao's face turned red and he shook his head crazily, "Madam, don't worry, I, I won't do this again. I'm sorry, I'm really sorry!"
"Get up."
Ji Shu sat him down on the soft couch and asked, "You have no father or mother, so your household registration is in your own hands?"
"Yes."
"If you have the opportunity to study at Guozi and then serve your country by taking the imperial examination and becoming an official, would you be willing?"
"Of course I do."
Lu Jiao's throat was choked with sobs, but it was a pity that he had no chance.
"Then I want to recognize you as my adopted brother, are you willing?"
