"There are locust trees in the south, and the kudzu and weeds are tired of them. It is a pleasure for a gentleman, and the blessings of the kudzu are in them. There is a locust tree in the south, and the kudzu and weeds are deserted. It is only a gentleman who is happy, and the kudzu and weeds are there to take care of them. There are locust trees in the south, and the kudzu and weeds are lingering on them. It is a pleasure. Only a gentleman will be blessed with success." A small school was filled with a group of young students about seven years old. Although the weather was cold and the charcoal fire in the school was not warm, the students were still Under the leadership of the Master, they recited the chapter "樛木" in the Book of Songs in unison.
Although they are young, most of them are still very hard-working and serious. Even though there is only one window across the window at this moment, heavy snow has covered the roads in Kyoto. The roads in Kyoto are white with snow, and the snowflakes in the sky are falling like white flowers in full bloom. The picture, but still did not distract the students...
Suddenly, at this moment, the closed door of the house suddenly opened, and the cold winter wind immediately penetrated into the house, making everyone unable to help but wrap up their cotton-padded jackets tightly. The next moment, everyone hurriedly Look towards the door.
Just look at Qi Lan, wearing a very simple winter clothes, standing at the door of the school, breathing heavily. Then, when everyone looked at him, he could not continue to relieve the fatigue of running just now, and immediately Turn around and close the door,
"Sir, I'm sorry, I'm late." Under the gaze of everyone, Qi Lan hurriedly walked to the master and said without explanation, just admitting his mistake.
"Well, you are always the first one to come. Why did you come so late today? You even missed your morning reading."
The master who teaches this group of young students today is a scholar in his forties, named Wu. He has always paid the most attention to rules and propriety.
But all the masters saw Qi Lan's excellent performance and academic achievements since he went to school. Therefore, even if Qi Lan was late today and broke the rules and propriety, the stern Master Wu still asked Qi Lan. road.
When Qi Lan heard that his master was willing to listen to his explanation, he was naturally grateful and did not dare to hide anything. He immediately bowed and saluted, and then said:
"Replying to Master, the student didn't mean to be late. It's just that when I went out today, the carriage and horses at home broke down, and the other carriages and horses at home were not ready for the time being. The driver who knew how to drive was also called away for some reason. , but the student did not dare to ask for leave from the Master because of this, so..."
"So what?" Master Wu looked at Qi Lan's hesitation and continued to ask.
"So, in desperation, the student had no choice but to walk here with the bookboy..."
"I don't dare to delay a step on my student journey...but I didn't expect...it still comes so slowly..."
"The student is not saying this to defend himself... he just doesn't want the master to think that the student did it on purpose..."
"Master! If the student realizes his mistake, the student will accept whatever punishment the master will impose."
Qi Lan's next few words were very sincere. All the words were said in one go, without the slightest hesitation, and they didn't seem to be lying at all.
After listening to Qi Lan's words, Master Wu and others were quite surprised. They really didn't expect that a young man from a noble family would come to school on foot. Then, everyone's eyes focused on Qi Lan again, and then , moved down a few points, and landed on Qi Lan's feet...
It seems that what Qi Lan said is true. Qi Lan's shoes are different from the clean shoes of all the children of aristocratic families who come in carriages or sedans. Qi Lan's shoes are now covered with thick snow, and there is even some snow. Mixed with mud, it looked like he had been walking in a hurry, fell into the snow, and then brought up the mud under the snow...
Master Wu took the lead to look away, and then looked at Qi Lan, who looked sincere but very embarrassed and seemed to let him do whatever he wanted. After thinking for a moment, he said:
"Although you didn't mean to do it, you are still late. Therefore, today, I will punish you to copy all the articles you missed today ten times and hand them over to my desk three days later."
"Okay, go back and sit down. Don't do this again in the future."
Qi Lan was grateful to Master Wu for lifting it up and putting it down gently. He quickly thanked Master Wu and then returned to his position.
And just when Qi Lan took out the books used in class and Master Wu was about to continue taking the students to study, an inappropriate voice suddenly came from the crowd:
"Tch! Master is so partial! We are all late! Why is the punishment so light?"
"If I had known earlier! I should have let him steal all the shoes!"
"Who's talking?"
Master Wu suddenly put down the book in his hand and began to glance around the students. Then, his eyes finally fell on Qi Lin, who had an angry look on his face.
"Qilin, were you talking just now?"
Seeing that his name was called by the master, Qi Lin stopped covering up and sat down directly in his seat and said:
"Master, it was indeed me who was speaking just now."
"I just think it's unfair. He's obviously late, why are you so tolerant to him? Master, I was late a few days ago, and you fined me ten strokes!"
When Master Wu heard this, he couldn't help frowning, and then said:
"The situation between you and your brother is different. Your brother made the mistake unintentionally, but you were late three days ago because you overslept. You didn't finish the homework I wanted to check that day. You also failed the test, so I fined you ten prototypes."
When Qi Lin heard this, he was still dissatisfied and said:
"Huh, Master just favors him because he studies well. I just can't compare with him in my studies. Why is Master so partial!"
"Tch, do you think this is your home, and the whole world revolves around you? It's up to the Master to decide who he likes, and he has to ask you if he wants to!" Master Wu's frown deepened at this moment. , was about to open his mouth and then break down the truth and explain it to Qi Lin, but at this moment, Liang Liuqi, who was sitting at the first table and was peeking at the little book, suddenly spoke.
Liang Liuqi looked at Qi Ling who was so angry that he was itching his teeth, and then continued to add fuel to the fire and said:
"Why are you looking at me like this? You want to hit me... I don't even know if you have the ability. You have been coming to the school for several years and you can't even say a word to reply to Master. If I were Master, I wouldn't like it either." You, like your second brother, I don’t say how your second brother is doing in studies, but he is more polite than you."
"Liang Liuqi! How long have you been in our school? What do you know! Do you have a role to speak here? I ask Master, why are you interrupting!" Qi Lin didn't even take Liang Liuqi, who was just the son of a baron, seriously. , continued to speak angrily.
Liang Liuqi was also a true talker at home. He was very upset when his family cruelly sent him to this remote school to study. Unexpectedly, there were people in this school who dared to threaten him and said directly:
"Hey! I'm giving you face, right? Who are you talking to? You, even though I have been here for a short time, I can still recognize that the carriage you are riding in today is not your own at all. That carriage belongs to your second brother!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Qi Lin was suddenly exposed and said angrily.
"I'm talking nonsense. Everyone knows whether I'm talking nonsense or not! Your carriage was originally a red carriage, your second brother's carriage was gray-blue, and your carriage today is gray-blue. Said, the character "Qi" hanging on the corner of the carriage has the character "LAN" behind it! You think I don't know how to read!"
"So what? My carriage is broken. What's wrong with replacing it with another one? It's not your carriage! It's not you who is late. What are you talking about here!"
"You've disturbed me, don't you know? I was just wondering how someone could be so cruel and shameless like you!"
"In order to make your brother suffer the same punishment as you, you actually robbed your brother's carriage and then let your brother come over!"
Qi Lin originally deliberately damaged his carriage today, and then robbed Qi Lan's carriage, hoping that Qi Lan, a good student, would be punished like him.
Unexpectedly, the punishment Qi Lan received today did not satisfy him, and his thoughts were directly exposed. He was so angry that he wanted to step forward and compete with Liang Liuqi!
After hearing these words, Master Wu finally understood the real reason why Qi Lan was late today. He was even more dissatisfied with Qi Lin, who was ignorant and incompetent and relied on his family background to misbehave in the school.
But Master Wu could not speak out directly about this dissatisfaction. After all, the carriage matter was a family matter in Prince Shouguang's house and was not within his jurisdiction. Therefore, Master Wu could only be very serious as he watched the matter get worse. said:
"Okay, this is school! You two are doing something!"
"Sit back to your seats. How dare you two disrupt class discipline? Copy the first chapter of the Book of Rites three times and hand it over to me in three days!"
When Liang Liuqi and Qi Lin heard this, they finally looked at each other and snorted. Then, under the pressure of Master Wu, they sat back in their seats and continued reading absentmindedly...
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An hour was said to be fast or slow. The students in the classroom spent this hour with their own thoughts. Then after the master's voice of "get out of class is over" fell, they seemed to have finally got rid of the shackles. Like little birds, they spread out in all directions.
Some were not afraid of the cold and braved the snowy weather, ran outside and had a snowball fight, while some were so sleepy that they lay down on their desks and fell asleep, and still others Taking the snacks carefully prepared by his family for him, he happily shared them with everyone~
Of course, there are naturally people like Liang Liuqi who have mixed feelings of joy and sorrow.
Liang Liuqi was naturally sad because he had just been punished by his master three times in the first chapter of "Book of Rites" in class, but he was happy that his good brothers Xie Hao'an and Chen Xi came to play with him on this snowy day~
"Why are you two here without telling us in advance?"
"Hehehe, of course it's a surprise~ A-Zhen and I have discussed it a long time ago. We're here to see you today. We're afraid you won't be able to adapt to the new school~" Xie Hao'an was wearing a festive red winter coat and pulled it on with a smile. Chen Xi, who was wearing a white winter coat, sat next to Liang Liuqi and said.
"Hey... don't talk about it. I just brought a firecracker to set off firecrackers when I was in my family's clan school... and then... accidentally prepared the master for us to use. I just burned all the test papers... I didn't expect that the master was so unwilling to rely on me and sued my father... He asked my father to send me to this place..."
"The master here is really too strict. Just now I called him a shameless person, and he punished me to copy the first chapter of "The Book of Rites" three times in three days... I'm really angry..."
"If I copy these things... I won't have much time to go out and play..." Liang Liuqi lay on Xie Hao'an's shoulder and said angrily.
Xie Haoan patted Liang Liuqi on the shoulder comfortingly and said:
"It's okay, just three times~ It's very simple, if you work hard and copy them all today, you can happily continue playing in the next two days~ I have experience in this matter, and I can finish it~ I believe you~ "
"Well, you can indeed believe him. He was punished by his father to copy the first chapter of "The Classic of Filial Piety" five times two days ago, but in order to go out to play today, he stayed up all night and copied them all. You see The dark circles under his eyes now... are still very dark..." Chen Yu said at the right time from the side.
Xie Haoan pouted and glanced at Chen Xi, feeling very dissatisfied. Then, he asked Liang Liuqi as if to change the subject:
"By the way, little Qi Qi~ tell me quickly, what happened today that made you unable to stop talking~ I remember that I gave you several little books for you to study in class. Look~"
"What kind of thing makes you not even like reading your favorite little book~"
When Liang Liuqi heard this, he immediately gritted his teeth with excitement and told Xie Haoan and Chen Xiang everything he had seen and heard today word for word. After he finished speaking, he quietly pointed Point out the location of Qi Lin, the initiator of this incident, to Xie Haoan and Chen Xi.
Xie Hao'an and Chen Hao looked at Qi Lin in the direction Liang Liuqi pointed. They saw a little boy sitting in that seat, who was fair and tender but with unruly and unhappy expressions between his features.
At this moment, the little boy also noticed the two people who suddenly appeared in class and looked at him. He glared at Xie Hao'an and Chen Xi unceremoniously, and then ran to Qi Lan's side with a white paper and a brush.
At this moment, Qi Lan was using the light to lower his head and carefully copy the article that Master Wu asked him to copy today. But suddenly, the light was blocked. Qi Lan raised his head in confusion and saw Qi Lin standing in front of him very angry. , holding a pile of white paper and a writing brush in his hands.
The next moment, Qi Lin threw all the white paper and the brush into Qi Lan's arms, then put his hands on his hips and said:
"Hey, second brother, it's all because of you today that I was punished by Master to copy the first chapter of "Book of Rites" three times. You have to take responsibility!"
"But we are all brothers, so I don't want you to compensate me for anything good...after all...you don't have any...but! You have to be responsible for helping me copy all these articles! Otherwise!" I’ll tell my mother! You’re bullying me!”
Qi Lan paused and did not directly agree to Qi Lin's unreasonable request. He just asked:
"Today...why did you, third brother, take away my carriage..."
Qi Lin frowned impatiently, and then said nonchalantly:
"Didn't I tell you that my carriage broke down? I fell in love with your carriage, so I used it first... Why, you are my brother and we are brothers. Isn't it just because of a carriage that you Just blame me!"
"No, I don't want to blame you, I just want to ask you, why don't you wait for me to go together... That is my carriage. Even if your carriage breaks down, we can obviously share a carriage and come to school. …”
Qi Lin said nonchalantly:
"But I don't want to come to school with you. I just like riding in a carriage by myself!"
"Besides, we are brothers. Three days ago, since I was late and was punished by my master, as my brother, you can also experience this feeling together, can't you! As agreed, brothers should not share joys and sorrows together. Well!"
"Okay, I've told you what you want to ask. Now, you can help me copy the first chapter of "The Book of Rites"... It's so annoying for my mother-in-law... She also said he was my brother... Yes I'm not well at all..."
Qi Lan sat in his seat, looked at Qi Lin, and finally pursed his lips and said:
"Third brother, please take it back. I won't help you copy these things... Since Master asked you to copy them yourself... you should copy them yourself..."
"What! Qi Lan! Do you still act like a brother?" After Qi Lin didn't get a satisfactory answer, he was so angry that he yelled without caring about anyone else resting!
"Hey, Qilin, can you please keep your voice down?" A student who was resting but was woken up looked at Qilin dissatisfied and said.
Qi Lin turned around, glanced at the man and said:
"I won't whisper. What's wrong? If you can, just keep sleeping. If you can't sleep, ask your father to complain to my father!"
"However, I don't know if your father is qualified to see my father! My father is the eldest son of Prince Shouguang's palace. Your father... ha... is just a fifth-rank official..."
The student was very unwilling at the moment, but after hearing these words, he had to suppress his anger...
After all, as Qi Lin said, based on how much Qi Lin's family dotes on Qi Lin... his father, a fifth-rank official, would never let Prince Shouguang's Mansion teach Qi Lin a lesson...
"Third brother, that's enough. Master said, be quiet after class... It's wrong for you to yell like this. Please apologize to Meng Tong..." Qi Lan said with a frown.
Qi Lin turned around dissatisfied, glanced at Qi Lan, and then said sarcastically:
"Master, Master, if you open your mouth and keep silent, you are Master!"
"Are you stupid for studying? I am your biological brother! You don't even help me!"
"Believe it or not, I will tell my mother right now! Tell my mother that you bullied me! Let my mother punish you!"
"I didn't mean to bully you. This matter and the carriage matter were originally your fault... You should tell me..."
Qi Lin couldn't bear to interrupt Qi Lan, and then said:
"So what? If you can, just tell mother! I want to see! In mother's eyes, who is more important, me or you?"
When Qi Lan heard this, he suddenly lowered his head and remained silent...
Seeing Qi Lan's reaction, Qi Lin raised her head proudly and then said:
"How about it~ I have nothing to say~ Why don't you obediently help me copy the book~ Otherwise~ I will ask my mother to teach you, second brother, a lesson!"
"Also, second brother, let me tell you, you made me very unhappy today! I will tell my mother when I get home and ask her to collect your carriage and make you walk to school every day! I don't believe it! Master, they can accept you. Late every day!”
Qi Lan raised his head in surprise. He really didn't expect that his biological brother would be prepared to treat him like this...
Qi Lan was about to say something, but before he could speak, he heard a voice from behind:
"Hey! You're like this! You're too much of a bully! Is there any brother like you?"
Qi Lan and Qi Lin turned around and looked behind them, only to see that Xie Hao'an was dressed in red. At this moment, he was walking towards them with Chen Xi and Liang Liuqi full of momentum...
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