Ban Shu looked at her: "Of course, as long as she is a Luo Shennu, she can lead us to the Tomb of Beifu. If my sister can return to normal, then there is no need for us to let Hua Yuxiu Luo Shen again. However, my sister She is very stubborn. I have mentioned this more than once, but she is not willing to believe it at all. I am afraid that you will not be able to persuade her at all."
It has been thirty years since Sun Tianqi left. During this period, although Ban Shu was not sure that Sun Tianqi had deceived his sister, he no longer had any hope in his heart. He also gave his sister hints about the truth. Now Ban Nu has reached this stage. Tian Di, probably because his persuasion was completely useless, he was always a little worried about Song Siyuan's ability to awaken Ban Nu's spiritual intelligence.
"Don't worry, you can always find a way. As long as your sister is still smart, there will be no problem."
Song Siyuan couldn't guarantee that she would be able to persuade Ban Nu at this moment, but it was better to delay things first than to let Hua Yuxiu lose her mind. She would always find a way.
"Okay, you can give it a try before the clan elder comes back."
In his heart, Ban Shu still wanted his sister to return to normal, so he thought for a moment and agreed to them.
"Okay, since you promised me, you have to provide convenience for us."
Seeing that he relaxed, Song Siyuan said again.
"What do you mean?"
Ban Shu was a little puzzled.
Song Siyuan explained: "To untie the bell, you have to tie the bell. Since Ban Nu and Sun Tianqi have true feelings for each other, there must be tokens or letters or something. You have to prepare these things so that we can start from the source of her feelings."
Ban Shu nodded towards her: "That's no problem. Sun Tianqi used to be a teacher in Wushan County. There are still a lot of his handwriting preserved there, as well as the letters he wrote to my sister. I will take you there now."
After that, Ban Shu returned to the main hall and took a look at Ban Nu. Seeing that she had regained her composure, he asked the craftsman to continue to guard the stone building, hitched a carriage and took Yue Guanchao and the others to the county school office.
Wushan County is located on a gentle riverbank south of Wushan. Once you leave the riverbank, you can see hilly green snails spreading to the foot of Wushan Mountain. Among these peaks, you can see that the Ninghe River twists and turns to connect to the waterway and is involved in the peaks of Wushan Mountain.
The location of the county school is just near Liangzi Mountain in Hejia, facing the Daning River and facing away from Liangzi Mountain, and is located on the bank of the Ning River.
When Yue Guanchao got on the carriage, he inevitably had to ask more carefully: "Leader of the class, since you are already thirty-five years old, your sister is now... eighty or ninety?"
He did not ask any more questions. Ban Nu was already forty or fifty years old when he met Sun Tianqi. Now thirty years have passed. Even if he is not over a hundred years old, he must be at least eighty or ninety years old. Looking at it this way, he and Ban Nu are about the same age. The gap is too big.
Even for ordinary people, when the eldest daughter is in her forties or fifties, most of her parents are already sixty or seventy years old. How can she still have children at such an old age? If she can still have children in her sixties or seventies, that is a real pearl. It's all anecdotal.
Ban Shu nodded and looked at everyone in the carriage: "Sister A and I are not biological siblings, we are her adopted children!"
"Adopted? Then shouldn't she be your adoptive mother?"
Song Siyuan asked curiously, she had never heard of adopted children becoming siblings.
Ban Shu explained: "The Goddess Luo cannot have feelings, let alone get married. In the final analysis, this is to maintain the purity of the goddess' identity. In this case, he must not have family or children. Adopting me is already a taboo, and then using mother and child In terms of relationship, I'm afraid she will be criticized even more, so she simply considers me her younger brother and uses the relationship between sister and brother to avoid criticism."
"Actually, although Sister A is my sister in name, she is actually fulfilling her responsibilities as a mother."
After Yue Guanchao heard this, he suddenly realized that Bannu was already in his forties or fifties when he adopted Banshu. They said that the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, and the eldest sister is also like a mother. After taking care of him for such a long time, he was willing to use human blood to feed him for so many years. , which can be regarded as fulfilling the brother-sister relationship.
While talking, the carriage crossed the Daning River and came to the vicinity of Hejialiang. From a distance, you can see the white-walled and gray-tiled Jiangnan courtyard house. It is located on the north-facing river beach, with a village in front and a pier in the back. The environment is quiet and away from the hustle and bustle. It can be said to be amidst the bustle. Find a quiet place.
After getting off the bus, Ban Shu led them up the hillside to the mountain gate. The four words "Wushan Academy" were written on the plaque. The academy door was ajar, and there was the sound of reading loudly and humming from far to near, and even, There were sounds of children playing in the yard.
Open the door and step inside.
The layout of this school comes into view. This county school type school is similar to Mr. Private School’s private school. They are all residential layouts. The front yard, middle hall, and backyard are neatly distributed. Among them, the front yard is divided into various types of schools. The central hall is used for reading and writing for children, and the backyard is where the teacher lives.
Everyone walked along the corridor under the eaves. Ban Shu looked at the academy and said: "This county school was the Tongwen Official School of the previous dynasty. After the Reform, many translation schools were opened in various places. This county school was also built during the Restoration. It is used to recruit children from wealthy gentry households and poor people to study, among which poor children are exempted from 60% of their tuition fees to show that the government's new policy encourages farming and education."
"Later, after the previous dynasty abdicated, many civil service schools were cancelled. Children from wealthy gentry families could still go to private schools, but children from poor families had to go back to farming and hunting pigweed. The clan elders of Chaoyun Villa bought the academy. Come down and continue recruiting school children.”
Yue Guanchao looked at Wushan Academy. Although the various schools were dilapidated, they were very clean and the cobblestone floors were completely free of weeds. It was true that someone was taking good care of it. Otherwise, such a courtyard would have been abandoned long ago.
"Is this why Sun Tianqi came here to teach in the first place?" Song Siyuan asked.
Ban Shu nodded: "Yes, at that time, after the official school was abolished, even monthly payments could not be paid out at all. Many teachers had stopped teaching for several months because they could not find the money to pay them. Chaoyun Villa was regarded as a local in Wushan. The rich family bought the official school and built it into Wushan Academy."
"Back then, because we only admitted children from poor people, we couldn't charge much money at all. We didn't have much money to give to teachers. Private academies were no richer than the government. Many teachers were reluctant to come, even if they came to teach. I only teach you for half a day, and you definitely won’t put in a lot of effort.”
"At this time, Sun Tianqi happened to arrive in Wushan County. Seeing that he was a good talker, the clan elders discussed with him to provide him with room and board, and only gave him a small amount of money to hire him as a teacher. He would not be a top scholar, but let his children read and write a little. Yes, this way, the academy will also reduce the pressure, and he can also make a living in Wushan."
When Ban Shu was introduced, he had already walked into the backyard. After passing the nave, he had already arrived at the teaching teacher's living yard: "According to my sister's instructions, Sun Tianqi's yard has been sealed up, and everything he used is in the yard. Here, before she lost her mind, she often went to this courtyard. Until she lost her mind, she never came here again. More than twenty years later, it has been abandoned. "
After that, Banshu took out the news he brought from the concierge and opened the brass door lock. It was stained with rust and could fall off if he moved it.
There was a crash, the door lock fell, and the courtyard door was pushed open by him.
In the courtyard, the main hall is in the middle, with study rooms and kitchens on both sides. The rest are rattan wooden shelves covering half of the courtyard. There is a round stone table in the middle, surrounded by four or five stools.
Walking into the main hall, the room is divided into three parts by a screen. One side is the tea room, and the other side is the resting place. It has not been cleaned all year round, and everything is covered with a layer of dust.
Yue Guanchao and Song Siyuan observed the room carefully. All the calligraphy and painting books were still there, and they were all used by Sun Tianqi. He must have been in a hurry when he left, so these things were scattered and piled up.
"Didn't Sun Tianqi pack all these away when he left?"
Song Siyuan lowered her head and looked at the dusty books. Most of them were classical Chinese texts with explanations of characters, and some ancient books with explanations of characters.
Ban Shu nodded: "No, Sun Tianqi thought he would come back soon, so he didn't put all these things away. He just didn't expect that he hadn't come back for thirty years."
"Let's go, I'll take you to the study. Their letters are all in the study."
Ban Shu led them out of the main hall and into the study room in the side hall. The furnishings were very simple. There were bookshelves on three sides surrounding a desk. There was also a painting vat and easel next to it. The table was full of all kinds of letters.
Yue Guanchao looked at the many envelopes on the table and his eyes became curious: "Don't your sister and Sun Tianqi see each other every day? How can they communicate through letters?"
Ban Shu explained: "My sister doesn't stay in Wushan County all the time. She is the goddess of Luo Shen. She goes to various places to see things. Probably, she wrote this when she was not in Wushan County. She has accumulated experience over the past few years. There are a lot of things, you can take a look at them, they are all daily greetings, nothing important."
After Song Siyuan said this, she gestured to Yue Guanchao with her eyes, and took out the letter Sun Tianqi left in Jiangyong County. She took out a letter at random, opened the envelope and compared the words carefully. The momentum of the writing was almost the same, and even the style of the strokes was completely different. It's the same, but compared with the writing thirty years ago, it seems a bit high-spirited, and the person who wrote it has the air of being arrogant and talented.
Looking at the handwriting written thirty years later, the momentum has become more restrained and dissipated, and it is more composed and determined. Instead of free and easy strokes, the writing looks much more rounded.
It is said that the words are like the person. The appearance of Sun Tianqi's writing has not changed, but the momentum has changed. This at least proves that his character has not changed much. In other words, his personality and temperament should still be the same as the scholar of the past, but he may be better at disguising himself and putting on his own character. This scholarly spirit is hidden, showing his cunning and cunning side to outsiders.
Song Siyuan looked at the letter and analyzed: "Judging from the handwriting, the Sun Tianqi we saw is what you call Sun Tianqi. However, I have to overturn my previous thoughts. Maybe Sun Tianqi has not changed at all, but the world has changed, making him unable to Don’t hide your temperament and pretend to be a shrewd and cunning person.”
"If that's the case, he can completely change into two people. There must be some reasons for him to change, or is he avoiding some people?"
"Avoiding certain people? You can tell this from the letters?"
