The first volume of pearl curtains rolls up the western mountain rain at dusk Chapter 20 Success and Reflection
The next day, Li Diudiu went to the classroom to open the door and clean the room as usual, and fetched water to make tea for Yan Qingzhi. Every day seemed to be a repetition.
Go to the cafeteria to eat as usual, and go back to the dormitory to take a nap as usual.
Mr. Yan’s homework was not actually heavy or difficult. He thought that Li Diudiu was the one with the worst foundation, so he was extremely strict with him. But later he found out that the three children from famous families were much worse than Li Diudiu in terms of knowledge.
The large classes had only been in session for less than three months, and basically the courses taught had not made much progress. The reason why the Four Pages Academy was famous all over the world was because the people who studied there had a very high chance of passing the exam, and the reason for the high chance of passing the exam was because of guessing the questions.
The dean could guess many of the questions set by the imperial court in every examination. Of course, this kind of thing could not be told to anyone, as it might lead to a serious crime if it were spread around.
In fact, there is nothing special about it. In the early years when the dean was still in the capital, he participated in the preparation and establishment of the question bank, and many of the questions were set by him.
This involves the ways of the world. When the dean was in the capital, he had a wide circle of friends. His friends, his students, and his old acquaintances are now all important figures in the court.
Therefore, every time there is a major exam, those who set the questions will of course consider the Sixe Academy.
Every afternoon, classes would end when it was still light. After cleaning the house, Li Diudiu would go directly to the cafeteria. It was not yet time for lunch at this time, so he went there not to eat, but to see Aunt Wu.
He asked Aunt Wu to get some black cloth from home. If black cloth was not available, dark gray cloth would be fine. He told Aunt Wu that he wanted to buy some, but he had no money at the moment, and he would give it to Aunt Wu after he earned some money.
Why would Aunt Wu care about some old cloth? She worked in the academy, where the salary was not low and she did not have to buy groceries for the family. The leftovers she brought back every day were enough for her family to eat, so she lived a good life.
Li Diudiu took the old cloths back to his room and started to sew a nightgown. He was an excellent sewing man. During the years when the master and disciple had been traveling around the world, he was the one who mended their torn clothes.
It only took Li Diudiu one day to make the nightgown. He used the remaining black cloth to make a hood and cut two holes for the eyes. After thinking it over, he used white paint to draw two rows of teeth at the mouth. However, he finally gave up on the hood and used a piece of black cloth as a face towel instead.
If you wear this outfit outside at night, if you are a little far away you might see two rows of teeth floating in the air, which is too conspicuous.
For the next two days, Li Diudiu kept an eye on Sun Biehe, and finally saw him lead a group of people out of the academy gate and not go to the restaurant.
Li Diudiu went to the cafeteria to eat first. No matter how big the matter was, he couldn't delay his meal . However, today he only ate half the amount he usually ate.
After dark, Li Diudiu changed into night clothes and jumped out of the academy wall. Jizhou City was under a curfew, which of course was only for the common people. Not to mention others, even if Li Diudiu was seen by people checking the curfew while wearing his academy uniform, no one would care.
The brothels in Jizhou City are mainly concentrated in the east and west. Those in the east are concentrated in a place called Liuyefang. There are about 20 to 30 brothels of various sizes here, as well as many restaurants, teahouses and inns.
In addition to keeping an eye on Sun Biehe, Li Diudiu also went out for a walk at night these days to get a detailed understanding of Liuyefang. He knew exactly where to take action and where to withdraw.
Xiufang Tower is located in Liuyefang, not far from the gate. A horse-drawn carriage drove into the gate. Anyone who could drive at night must be rich or noble. The patrolling police officers who were checking the curfew had sharp eyes and could recognize which family's carriage belonged at a glance.
The carriage stopped in front of a brothel called Qingluanlou. The waiter at the door came over immediately to open the door. Under the carriage, Li Diudiu was holding on to the bottom of the carriage and waiting. When the carriage turned, he rolled out and rushed to the shadow between the buildings in one step.
Going around the back of the building, he climbed up to the back of Xiufang Building like a civet cat, and looked through every back window. In one of the private rooms, he saw Sun Biehe and others, who were hugging girls and indulging themselves in sex.
Li Diudiu listened at the back window for a while and heard one of the women say, "Young masters, please order the dishes quickly. Tell the kitchen staff that Tingyuxuan has distinguished guests. If the chefs are late, they will be in trouble."
Li Diudiu slid down from the back and found his way to the back kitchen. The kitchen was busy with people coming in and out. Li Diudiu hid at the back window and watched. Soon someone came into the kitchen and shouted, "The menu for the distinguished guests at Tingyuxuan is here. Be quick."
The people in the kitchen responded in unison: "Okay!"
The chef turned around and ordered, "Kids, take the menu and prepare the dishes!"
There were quite a few helpers and apprentices in the kitchen. Two of them came over with the menu and watched as the dishes were prepared, one by one.
As soon as the chef finished with other dishes, he came over to start cooking. Li Diudiu was not impatient at all and kept waiting. After the chef came over to cook, the assistant chef and the apprentice stood not far away and watched. When Li Diudiu was about to take the dish out of the pot, he threw a brick towards the door.
With a bang, the water tank at the door was smashed and water flowed out all at once. Everyone's attention was instantly drawn to the water tank. Li Diudiu took out a paper bag and quickly threw a pill in the bag into the wok.
He had thought about all the steps many times. In order to prevent the chef from noticing that there was something extra in the pot, he had ground the pill he borrowed from Xiahou Zhuo. If you didn't look closely, it looked like a star anise.
After Li Diudiu finished throwing the brick, he immediately climbed to a high place. The whole kitchen was in an uproar. The chef roared angrily, asking people to see which bastard threw the brick.
A group of people rushed to the back to search. Li Diudiu lay on the roof and watched, saying sorry in his heart.
Those people found nothing and returned to the kitchen cursing. Anyone who could open a restaurant in Jizhou City must be rich but not necessarily powerful, but anyone who opened a brothel in Jizhou City must be both rich and powerful.
Which of these men in the brothel is not fierce?
Li Diudiu waited for a while, and after making sure that everyone had left, he slid down along the wall again. There was no toilet in the wooden building. Li Diudiu had observed that the toilets in all the buildings were in the open space behind the building. No matter how noble your butt was, you had to go to the toilet outside to relieve yourself.
However, when you come to a place like a brothel for entertainment, if you want to urinate, there will be someone to serve you, and if you urinate in a chamber pot, someone will take it out and pour it out, but you can't do that for defecation.
After Li Diudiu came down, he found a place to hide not far from the toilet. The pill was from Xiahou Zhuo. He said that the effect of one pill could make an elephant unable to defecate, let alone a human?
Li Diudiu waited and waited, and first saw one of Sun Biehe's men running towards him, holding his stomach and looking quite pitiful.
After a while, the man came out of the toilet with a slightly painful expression. Li Diudiu hit him from behind with a stick. The man groaned and fell to the ground. Li Diudiu pulled the man to the back of the toilet, where there were sacks he had hidden in advance.
After tying up the man, gagged him and stuffed him into a sack, Li Diudiu returned to the bushes and continued waiting.
This time, two of them came together. They were walking while firing jets, making quite a loud noise. They kept fighting each other, and Li Diudiu, in the spirit of humanitarianism, let them use their convenience before taking action. The two men came out of the toilet while talking, and Li Diudiu knocked them to the ground one by one with a stick. Like before, he tied their hands and feet, gagged them, and then stuffed them into a sack.
Sun Biehe finally arrived. When Li Diudiu saw him running towards the toilet, he couldn't help but smile slightly.
Sun Biehe ran to the toilet while still thinking, "Where did those bastards go? It took them so long to go to the toilet!"
As soon as he entered the toilet, Li Diudiu followed him in. He had no intention of showing any humanitarian spirit towards Sun Biehe.
He hit him with a stick directly, and Sun Biehe screamed in pain. Just as he was about to turn around, Li Diudiu hit him with the stick again. This time, Sun Biehe grunted and fell to the ground.
After beating the man, Li Diudiu tied him up and put him into a sack, then went around to the backyard of Xiufang Building. The backyard was a parking space, and the drivers who were waiting there for the big shots to finish their entertainment gathered in groups of three or four to chat.
God knows when the big shot they are waiting for will show up, so everyone can chat for a while and kill time.
Li Diudiu came over quietly. There was no one in the carriage closest to the door. The coachman had gone somewhere to chat. Anyway, they didn't have to worry about anything. If the person they were waiting for came out, a servant would come over and call for him in advance.
Places like brothels are the most knowledgeable about the ways of the world, and they know very well how beneficial it is to have good relations with the coachmen and entourage of important figures.
Li Diudiu untied the reins from the pillar and pulled the carriage out of the backyard, and no one suspected anything.
He drove the carriage to the toilet and loaded people into the carriage one by one with a grunt. He got on the carriage and shook the reins, and the horse immediately moved forward.
Li Diudiu lit up the wind-killing lamps on both sides of the carriage. There were signs on the lampshades. The people patrolling the city saw the signs and didn't even ask any questions.
When they arrived at the entrance of the academy, Li Diudiu threw everyone on the street and patted the horse's butt: "Go home."
The horse seemed to understand and started walking away slowly.
Li Diudiu laid the people out neatly on the ground and felt that he had finally let out the anger in his heart. But when he turned around and was about to leave, he felt that something was missing, so he went back and kicked another person.
Li Diudiu was not nervous at all when doing these things. He thought of almost every detail and played out everything over and over again in his mind. The only dangerous moment was when pulling out the carriage. Fortunately, he was lucky.
He climbed over the wall and returned to his residence, changed his clothes, dug up two bricks on the ground and put the clothes in. He wanted to throw them away, but then he thought that they might be of use in the future.
So before that, he dug up the blue bricks on the ground, dug a hole inside, and sprinkled the soil under the flowers and plants behind the window. He put the clothes in, then put a layer of wooden boards on top and laid the blue bricks.
After everything was done, Li Diudiu was still calm, even the excitement had passed.
He sat on the bed and thought carefully whether what he was doing was contrary to what his master taught him.
The answer is of course yes. His master, Taoist Changmei, doesn't allow him to meddle in other people's business. He would avoid offending others if possible. If he gets angry, he would endure it if he can make the matter go away.
Then why do I do all this?
Li Diudiu fell into deep thought again, and after a moment he laughed.
Because that's who he is.
If it wasn’t because he was influenced by Xiahou Zhuo, if he was not such a person, could Xiahou Zhuo have had a greater influence than his master?
“They should be punished.”
Li Diudiu muttered to himself.
He lay down on the bed and suddenly began to regret, thinking that his way of revenge was too calculating and too sinister.
Not bright.
He let out a long breath and told himself in his heart that next time someone bullied him, he would fight back openly.
Rather than letting those bastards run rampant in this academy, it would be better for me, Li Diudiu, to run rampant.
Yes, it is like that.
