The first volume of pearl curtains rolls up the western mountain rain at dusk Chapter 39: Meals
Li Diudiu felt that Gao Xining was nice to him because Gao Xining wanted to help him find a wife. When Gao Xining saw Li Diudiu tearing off her hospital uniform to bandage her wound, he thought that this guy really wanted a wife.
Two extraordinary geniuses.
Or maybe it's just that people of this age are naturally negative, denying themselves and others.
And this denial will last for a long time, or it can be said that this reserve will last for a long time, from the age of youth to the prime of life, and after reaching the age of thirty, one will look back on the past and shed tears.
Zhang Xiaolin, who is the same age as Li Diudiu, still thinks it is shameful to play with girls, so relatively speaking, Li Diudiu is not that stupid.
Li Diudiu bandaged Gao Xining's finger with his hospital uniform, took a look and thought it was okay.
"Don't make it up. I'll do it."
Li Diudiu took the half-woven katydid cage by Gao Xining, clamped it between his legs, and inserted the bamboo strips with his left hand.
Accidentally, his fingers were cut by the bamboo sticks.
He looked at his hands and then at Gao Xining.
Gao Xining was startled and subconsciously moved his butt a little further away from Li Diudiu.
She said, "I'm not going to suck my finger for you!"
Li Diudiu said: "I use you?!"
He rubbed his injured fingers casually on his clothes and continued to weave.
Gao Xining said: "You should wrap it up."
Li Diudiu looked at his torn sleeves and shook his head firmly: "No, it's okay."
Gao Xining said: "I...I won't tear my own clothes to bandage you."
Li Diudiu: "I use you?!"
Both of them felt a little awkward, and their buttocks moved in opposite directions. Li Diudiu had a hard time weaving the willow branches with his left hand. He scratched and pricked them, and the fingers of his left hand were almost unsightly.
Gao Xining said: "You are already like this, why do you need to continue."
Li Diudiu said: "You don't understand men's affairs."
Gao Xining: “Bah!”
Li Diudiu: "I don't want to bother with you."
Gao Xining said: "I'm too lazy to pay attention to you."
Li Diudiu lifted up the woven katydid cage and looked at it. Although it was stained with blood, it was still pretty. He rubbed the blood off the bamboo strips with his sleeve, not wanting Liu Shengying to know.
After finishing, Li Diudiu stood up and said, "You should go to the doctor to apply some medicine powder, otherwise it might swell up."
Gao Xining looked at Li Diudiu's hand and said, "I only have one swollen hand, and you only have five swollen hands."
Li Diudiu said indifferently: "I'm a man, it doesn't matter. If all five fingers are swollen, they will look thick and big and powerful, and they will be easy to use."
If Gao Xining was ten years older, he might have slapped him in the face; if he was twenty years older, he might have laughed out loud.
Of course, Li Diudiu did not mean to be a hooligan. At their age, they are not yet at the age where their minds are filled with obscene thoughts when they see the word "bold". Being young has its advantages. Li Diudiu does not know yet that once these thoughts are put into a man's mind, how can you expect to return to innocence?
Pooh.
Li Diudiu returned to the classroom with the cricket cage he had made. Zhang Xiaolin had already gone home and was waiting to come back later to see how he did in the exam. However, Liu Shengying did not leave. He was actually cleaning the classroom for Li Diudiu.
“No, no, no…”
After seeing this, Li Diudiu ran over and handed the katydid cage to Liu Shengying, and took the broom from Liu Shengying: "I'll do it myself."
Liu Shengying said, "We are all friends now, it's okay for me to help you. Even if the teacher sees you, he won't say anything. Didn't the teacher always teach us that we should help each other?"
Li Diudiu shook his head and said, "I can't let myself develop this habit... My master said that you have to do your own things yourself. Once you think you can ask others for help in everything, you are basically half useless. After a long time, your friends will leave one after another."
Liu Shengying had a look of confusion on his face. He didn't quite understand what Li Diudiu meant. Li Diudiu was much more mature in thinking than his peers, which was related to his experience.
"How about it."
Li Diudiu pointed at the katydid cage and said, "It's OK."
Liu Shengying picked up the katydid cage and looked at it in front of her eyes, her eyes full of happy little stars.
"Yes! Thank you, Li Chi."
"You're welcome."
Li Diudiu said, "Go home quickly. Your driver will get anxious if he sees you go out late."
"Well, I'll be leaving first then."
Liu Shengying turned and ran out, waving as she ran: "See you tomorrow."
Li Diudiu smiled and continued to clean the classroom with a broom. Yan Qingzhi came in from outside, looked at Li Diudiu and said, "Don't clean today. I have something to tell you."
Li Diudiu nodded: "Then I'll listen to what the master says. I'll continue cleaning after the master finishes speaking."
Yan Qingzhi closed the classroom door, walked up to Li Diudiu and said seriously: "I told you yesterday not to get so close to Gao Xining, why didn't you listen?"
"I told you to stay away from Xiahou Zhuo before. It's fine if you didn't listen, but you must stay away from Gao Xining. If Dean Gao has any ideas, no one can keep you in the academy."
Li Diudiu nodded: "Disciple will remember it."
"you sure?"
"Disciple is sure."
Yan Qingzhi let out a long breath, and then continued in a more relaxed tone: "It's not that I think you are unworthy of being her friend, but the environment is like this... Even if Dean Gao appreciates you, he will never let you influence Gao Xining, and he will not allow any rumors to appear in the academy. Once it appears, he will immediately drive you away."
Li Diudiu nodded again and said, "Disciple understands."
Yan Qingzhi hummed, and then asked, "Did you deliberately leave a question unanswered? Is it because of Liu Shengying?"
Li Diudiu asked: "How did you know that, sir?"
"He won't help you clean the classroom for no reason."
Yan Qing said: "Remember what I said, don't meddle in other people's business before you have enough strength. If you want to take care of others when you can't even take care of yourself, you will end up losing miserably."
Li Diudiu thought about it and felt that Mr. Yan’s words seemed very gloomy, but also made sense.
"I have already handed the test paper to Dean Gao."
Yan Qingzhi said: "You may not be able to enter Jiazitang Academy because you don't answer this question."
Li Diudiu said: "Disciple knows, I have thought about it."
Yan Qingzhi felt that this child was really... hard to describe. He had seen too many people from poor families who schemed for their own benefit, and he had also seen too many people who were timid and submissive. This was the first time he had encountered a personality like Li Diudiu.
"Go back and have a good rest."
Yan Qing said: "After the monthly exam, the course will be changed. It happens that the field holiday will start in May. You have a month to recover from your injuries. Try not to go out. You know what I mean."
"Know."
Li Diudiu asked curiously, "Aren't there no farm children in our Four Pages Academy? Why do we have Tian Jia as well?"
Yan Qing said: "The annual farm leave and clothing leave are state regulations. Farmers' children are also given farm leave, and they are also given clothing leave if they need to go home to get clothes. It's just like the ten-day leave you take every ten days every month. It's all state regulations."
Li Diudiu asked: "So what are you going to do this month, sir?"
Yan Qingzhi glanced at him, turned around and walked out: "I am a teacher, so of course I read, write and prepare for lessons."
"One month..."
Li Diudiu suddenly chuckled, as if something very happy happened.
The next morning, Li Diudiu went to Yan Qingzhi's courtyard. Because it was a field holiday, the academy was almost empty, with only a few people left, so Yan Qingzhi's clothes looked a little casual.
He was wearing a double-breasted sweatshirt and a pair of bell-bottom trousers, and was turning the soil with a hoe . He seemed to have an inexplicable love for growing vegetables.
Li Diudiu thought to himself, is this what reading, writing and preparing for lessons are all about?
"Sir, can I ask you a favor?"
Li Diudiu took out the banknotes from his pocket and said a little embarrassedly: "I found these from the killers a few days ago. Although I didn't get them in a very glorious way, but..."
Before he finished speaking, Yan Qingzhi asked, "Do you want me to help you deliver the banknotes to your master?"
Li Diudiu hummed and said, "If he sees me injured now, he will definitely nag me for a long time. Just thinking about it makes me annoyed..."
Yan Qingzhi knew that he was not annoying his master, but was afraid that his master would worry, so he nodded and said, "I just happened to be going out to buy some things this afternoon, so you can put down the banknote."
Li Diudiu thanked him immediately. Yan Qingzhi asked him, "You said this is several hundred taels of silver? Why are you willing to believe me? If I embezzled your several hundred taels of silver, you would have no choice."
Li Diudiu said: "Because I just believe in you, sir."
Yan Qingzhi smiled and said, "I know...get out of here, you're stepping on my seedlings."
Li Diudiu then noticed that he had stepped on something, and quickly stepped back a few steps. He bowed and said, "Then I will take my leave first."
Yan Qingzhi said: "Don't be too anxious. Even if I bring the banknotes to your master, he may not be able to buy a suitable house as soon as possible. Houses in Jizhou City are not easy to buy."
Li Diudiu said, "It's okay, it's okay. As long as we give the silver to Master, he will go and look for it slowly. We don't have to worry about not having enough money to stay at the inn."
Yan Qingzhi hummed: "Go back and recuperate."
Li Diudiu thanked him again and turned to leave. He walked towards the cafeteria as usual, but when he reached the door he realized that the cafeteria was closed because of the field holiday.
Li Diudiu wondered how he was going to get through this month.
He couldn't go to see his master, so he put a note among the silver bills, telling his master to change to another inn. He didn't give any details, only saying that someone might cause trouble for him.
If he went to live with his master for a month, both of them might die. The look Sun Rugong gave when he left the academy was as poisonous as a snake or scorpion.
Thinking of this, he returned to the gate of Yan Qingzhi's courtyard. Yan Qingzhi saw him coming back and asked, "Is there anything else?"
Li Diudiu was silent for a moment, then mustered up the courage to say, "Sir, can you provide me with food for a month?"
Yan Qingzhi suddenly came to his senses, but still shook his head: "No."
Li Diudiu leaned forward and asked, "Can the disciple bring back a silver note?"
Yan Qingzhi still shook his head: "No."
Li Diudiu was stunned.
Yan Qingzhi said: "You stay here and work for me in exchange for food. See that bucket? Use the gourd ladle in the bucket to water the seedlings I just planted. Half a ladle of water for each seedling. Once you've watered all of them, you'll have food for today."
Li Diudiu laughed : "Okay!"
Yan Qingzhi washed his hands and went out, saying as he walked, "Don't be lazy, I'm going out for a while."
Li Diudiu hummed: "Don't worry, sir."
About two moments later, Yan Qingzhi came back, carrying a package, as well as some pens, ink, books and other things. He looked a little tired. Li Diudiu hurried over to help, only to find that the things in Mr. Yan's hands were all his things.
Yan Qingzhi said with a straight face: "Let me make a deal first. You sleep on the floor and I sleep on the bed. You are not allowed to snore, grind your teeth, or smack your lips. Otherwise, I will kick you out immediately."
Li Diudiu smiled, feeling warm inside.
