The first volume of pearl curtains rolls up the western mountain rain at dusk Chapter 18 I'll get it done
Li Diudiu stayed with his master until it was almost dark. He had to leave and return to the academy before dark. Yan Qingzhi set more rules for him than for others, and he was worried that he would be punished if he went back early tomorrow morning.
Now that the master has settled down temporarily, Li Diudiu feels much more at ease. He is content. The contentment of a young man is always so simple.
The master sent him out of the inn. After Li Diudiu walked onto the street, he looked back every three steps. The master stood there and waved to him continuously. The two of them said goodbye temporarily while waving to each other.
Li Diudiu was walking on the street, feeling quite high-spirited. He felt that he had done a great thing, but now there was an even bigger thing waiting for him to do. He wanted to save money to buy a house for his master in Jizhou City. It didn't matter if it was small and shabby, because it was home.
I can go home once every ten days, which makes me happy just thinking about it.
After walking for about half an hour, they were not far from the academy. It was getting dark. The main entrance of the academy was just across the street. Just as he started to run over, a sack suddenly appeared behind him.
He put the hood down over Li Diudiu's head and quickly put it in. Then he pulled it hard, and Li Diudiu lost his balance and fell heavily to the ground. The man quickly ran back to the alley on the street, pulling the sack.
Three or four people came over and blocked the entrance to the alley, standing there pretending to chat, but they blocked out what was happening in the alley.
A young man of about sixteen or seventeen tied the mouth of the sack with a rope and reached out for a wooden stick.
"I heard that you are the most arrogant among the kids in the academy."
With a bang!
The young man hit Li Diudiu with the stick, and no one knew where he hit him, but it was obvious that Li Diudiu's body stiffened for a moment.
"I'm giving you a warning. A poor guy like you should behave yourself and not be too ostentatious. I won't beat you to death, but I will make you remember what to do in the future."
The man was beating Li Diudiu as he spoke. Li Diudiu seemed to be curled up in the sack. The stick fell down hard again and again, and finally broke with a click.
The man seemed tired from beating her, he straightened up and panted, "From now on, behave yourself and bow to everyone you meet, remember? I will watch you, if you don't remember, I will beat you harder next time. Remember, you can't offend anyone in this academy, or you will end up in trouble."
He waved his hand, and two people came over with sacks and threw them to the side of the road, and those people dispersed.
After a long time, Li Diudiu in the sack didn't move at all.
Just at this moment, the gatekeeper who was changing shifts saw the sack on the roadside and came over to take a look out of curiosity. Just at this moment, Li Diudiu moved, and the gatekeeper of the academy was startled.
"Is there anyone outside? I am a student of the Four Pages Academy. I was beaten. Please let me out."
Li Diudiu's voice came from the sack. When the gatekeeper of the academy heard the person inside say that he was a disciple of the academy, he immediately loosened the sack.
When Li Diudiu crawled out, his face was pale and there was blood at the corners of his mouth.
"What's wrong with you!"
The gatekeeper of the academy turned pale with fright.
"I'm fine."
Li Diudiu struggled to stand up and bowed to the gatekeeper: "Thank you."
He dragged his legs forward without saying anything more, but his walking posture looked awkward. The gatekeeper followed him and wanted to lend a hand to support him, but Li Diudiu shook his head to indicate that he could walk.
After walking all the way back to his residence, Li Diudiu suddenly fell on the bed and gasped for breath.
The person who beat him must be from the academy. This was Li Diudiu's first judgment.
The man said that he should keep a low profile and that he would keep watching Li Diudiu. If he saw Li Diudiu act more arrogantly, he would beat him harder, so this person must be from the academy.
But there are too many disciples in the academy, ranging from teenagers to forties. The young ones are like Li Diudiu, and the oldest disciple is in his forties. It is rumored that he comes from a wealthy family but has failed in the exams many times and has been studying in the academy for many years.
No more than twenty years old.
This is Li Diudiu’s second judgment.
This person is afraid of Xiahou Zhuo.
This is Li Diudiu’s third judgment.
Under normal circumstances, disciples who were seventeen or eighteen years old would have completed their studies. And as long as they were normal people, with the teaching ability of the academy, most of them would at least pass the provincial examination, and after passing the provincial examination, they would become scholars.
In the countryside, a scholar is rare, but in a place like Jizhou City, there are too many people with the status of scholars.
Most of the students over 20 years old in the academy were people who had failed in the examinations many times and were indeed not very talented. However, they refused to give up and came from wealthy families, so as long as they could afford the tuition, they would continue their studies in the academy.
What Li Diudiu knew was that there were not many people over the age of 20 in the academy, less than a hundred in total, and these people had basically no interest in anything other than studying. They just wanted to pass the exam, so they would not get involved in right and wrong.
As for why this person must be afraid of Xiahou Zhuo, it was because Li Diudiu was sure that Xiahou Zhuo had followed him before he and his master entered the inn, and Xiahou Zhuo left only after he and his master entered the inn. The person who wanted to beat him must have been observing him secretly.
call……
Li Diudiu let out a long breath.
His injuries were mostly on his back.
At the moment when the hood was put on his head, Li Diudiu seemed to be pulled down, but he bent down, hugged his head with both hands, contracted his knees to protect his lower abdomen and chest, and curled up.
This incident made Li Diudiu realize that he must never let down his guard at any time in the future. At an age when he shouldn't remember these things, he engraved them deeply in his heart.
When the man hit him with the stick, he arched his body and tried his best to support it with his back and shoulders. The stick broke because the force was applied because Li Diudiu's arched back was used.
But that man rolled down without any order and was obviously not a martial artist. However, he must have fought often. He hit Li Diudiu's leg with one of his sticks, so Li Diudiu walked a little awkwardly.
I'm going to turn you out.
Li Diudiu bit his lip.
This person either has a grudge against himself or against Xiahou Zhuo. If he has a grudge against him, then it would be easy to find him, and it would involve Zhang Xiaolin and Sun Rugong.
At the same time, in a restaurant outside the academy, seven or eight young people ordered a table of food and wine. They were not very old and looked very arrogant. They opened three jars of old wine directly.
Sun Rugong was busy pouring wine for these people, looking very humble.
The person sitting in the main seat is the one who beat Li Diudiu, named Sun Biehe, and he is Sun Rugong’s cousin.
" You all need to remember this in the future. This is my cousin. Please take good care of him in the academy."
Sun Biehe said this in a careless manner, and the others quickly agreed.
"Brother Sun, don't worry. Your brother is our brother. No one can bully him."
"That's right. From now on, you can walk around the academy as you please. If anyone provokes you, just tell us. You can come to us no matter if your cousin is around or not."
Sun Biehe smiled and waved Sun Rugong over: "Did you remember it?"
Sun Rugong quickly said, "Remember them all. These are my brothers."
Sun Biehe smiled and said, "That's right, they and I are brothers in life and death."
He pointed to the seat next to him and said, "Sit here."
Sun Rugong quickly sat down and said, "Thank you, cousin, for helping me vent my anger."
"It's fake to say I'm venting my anger for you. You just want people to misunderstand that Zhang Xiaolin hired someone to do this."
Sun Biehe said: "As far as I know, Li Chi and you have no conflicts."
"Brother, you guessed it right."
Sun Rugong whispered in his cousin's ear, "In fact, I wanted to use Zhang Xiaolin. He 's an idiot. I encouraged him to provoke Li Chi many times and make Li Chi clash with him. This time, the four of us are tutoring under Mr. Yan. If Zhang Xiaolin and Li Chi are expelled for violating the school rules, then only Liu Shengying and I will be left."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Sun Biehe laughed: "You have a good brain."
Sun Rugong said: "Although Li Chi is a poor boy, I think he is well-educated. If he gets first place in the exam, our family will lose face. As for Liu Shengying, I don't take him seriously at all."
Sun Biehe asked, "Where is Zhang Xiaolin?"
"That's an idiot who made me play around."
Sun Rugong said: "It's just his bad luck."
Sun Biehe nodded: "I think that kid will definitely suspect Zhang Xiaolin. You are not very old, but you are very good at using a borrowed knife to kill someone. I always treated you as a kid before, but now it seems that I underestimated you."
Sun Rugong chuckled and said, "If he thinks Zhang Xiaolin wants someone to beat him up, then he's right. Li Chi has a rough temper, and he will definitely go find Zhang Xiaolin. If the two of them fight again, the rules of the academy will not allow them to stay."
“Okay, okay!”
Sun Biehe smiled and said, "You have a good plan, kid. Come, have a drink with me."
Sun Rugong said with some embarrassment: "But, I haven't drunk alcohol yet, I'm afraid that my father will scold me when I go back."
Sun Biehe snorted and said, "Just say that I was the one who dragged you to drink. Do you think your father dares to scold you? My father is the eldest son of the Sun family and the one who will inherit the position of the head of the family in the future. Your father will not be confused."
"Yes Yes Yes……"
A hint of viciousness flashed across Sun Rugong's eyes, but soon disappeared.
Academy.
Li Diudiu was lying on the bed, thinking carefully. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. He supported himself with his arms and stood up to open the door. Then he saw Xiahou Zhuo standing at the door.
"Huh? It doesn't look that bad."
Xiahou Zhuo looked Li Diudiu up and down, smiled as if gloating, and said, "I am familiar with Wu Si, the gatekeeper of the academy. He was on duty when I sent you out of the academy last time. You still remember him, right?"
Li Diudiu nodded: "Remember."
Xiahou Zhuo smiled and said, "He just sent someone to tell me that you were beaten up while covered in a sack. It looked like you were badly injured, but now it seems that nothing serious has happened."
Li Diudiu said: "It's nothing serious."
Xiahou Zhuo leaned against the door frame and asked, "Do you need help?"
Li Diudiu shook his head: "No need."
Xiahou Zhuo asked again: "You endured it?"
Li Diudiu shook his head again: "I can't bear it."
Xiahou Zhuo hummed: "If you need my help, just come to me. You know, if I want to check someone in the academy, it's not difficult."
“Really.”
Li Diudiu said seriously: "Studying in the academy is a very boring thing. I have to do something interesting."
"So you don't like reading either."
Xiahou Zhuo said: "I thought you were a student, unlike me."
Li Diudiu asked: "Why don't you like reading?"
Xiahou Zhuo shrugged his shoulders and said, "I can't concentrate on reading. I always feel it's meaningless. I'm not born to be a student. I will leave the academy in another year and go to the northern border."
He looked up at the night sky: "Joining the army is what a man should do."
He asked Li Diudiu: "Why don't you like reading?"
Li Diudiu imitated him and shrugged his shoulders: "What you read now is too childish. I learned it when I was four years old ."
Xiahou Zhuo squinted his eyes and looked at him, then sighed and said, "Did you feel that I was scheming silently just now?"
Li Diudiu shook his head and asked, "Which sentence?"
Xiahou Zhuo said: "You didn't notice it because I was pretending too inconspicuously, but I think you were obviously pretending..."
He turned around and walked back, waving his hands as he walked, saying, "If you get beaten, of course you have to fight back. Remember to come to me when you can't handle it."
Li Diudiu smiled and said, "I'll get it done."
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