The first volume of pearl curtains rolls up the western mountain rain at dusk Chapter 8 Breakfast
Taoist Changmei watched the other party close the door and stretched out his hand to stop him, but his hand stopped mid-air because he suddenly realized at that moment that some pity cannot be begged for.
What you ask for will be pitiful and humble.
"Nothing, nothing."
Taoist Changmei muttered to himself softly and turned around to walk back. He naturally felt a little sad and annoyed, but when he thought that Xiao Li Diudiu had already entered the Sixe Academy, he felt happy again. It was just that he had no place to live temporarily, and it wouldn't always be like this.
Not long after he left, Zhou Huaili took a carriage to the outside of Wuwei Temple. He could roughly guess what would happen to Taoist Changmei, but when he arrived, he saw nothing.
Zhou Huaili asked the coachman to go and ask. The middle-aged Taoist who drove away Changmei heard that it was Lord Zhou from the yamen who sent someone to ask, so he put on a smile and replied... No one had been there before and had never seen a sloppy old Taoist at all. He said that if the man came back later, he would definitely receive him well.
After Zhou Huaili's carriage left, the middle-aged Taoist spat, "Bah! What is there to be proud of, a junior official who has already resigned?"
With a bang, the door closed again.
Taoist Changmei had no money left and was hungry. As the sky gradually darkened, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He should have known not to urinate in the firewood pile where he slept at night. Now he had to find a new nest.
There was a curfew in Jizhou City. People were not allowed to walk around the streets after dark. If they were discovered by patrolling government officials, they would be thrown into jail and treated as thieves. Otherwise, Changmei would not have gone to sleep in the firewood pile with Li Diudiu.
Taoist Changmei was thinking as he walked, although he had no money for food or hotel, fortunately he had plenty of firewood.
He found a corner to hide in, and waited until the street was deserted. Then he picked a pile of firewood and crawled in, pulling dry firewood and straw to cover himself, completely covered. He was used to it anyway.
Little Diudiu must have fallen asleep soundly in the clean house, with a thick and warm quilt and a comfortable pillow. How nice.
very nice.
Thinking about this, Taoist Changmei fell asleep.
It was another early morning, and the Taoist with long eyebrows had to get up early, in case someone saw him while going out to collect firewood and sent him to the government. After getting up, he stretched and stood on the street, facing the air, muttering something while gesturing in the air with his hands.
Like a madman.
He was just tidying up Li Diudiu's clothes and picking the hay off her hair.
"Are you stupid?"
Taoist Changmei laughed at himself, but he always felt that Xiao Diudiu was standing in front of him, looking up and saying to him...Master, I'm hungry.
His stomach rumbling, Changmei strolled on the street for a while, then found a spacious spot on the street to sit down, stuck his divination banner on the ground, and tried not to move as the more he moved, the hungrier he would be.
What is Xiao Diudiu eating?
At the Siye Academy, Li Diu was stunned at the sumptuous breakfast on the long table in front of him. He had followed his master for so many years and had never known that breakfast could be eaten in this way. To this day, his ultimate fantasy about food is to eat braised pork again.
There was a row of iron pots in the cafeteria, containing various kinds of porridge, including white rice porridge, millet porridge, pumpkin porridge, eight-treasure porridge, and various soups, no less than five or six kinds. Li Diudiu had never seen so many kinds of staple foods and side dishes, all kinds of which were dazzling.
Standing there watching all this like a fool, Li Diudiu wondered, what does Master eat?
Although he knew that his master's food in Wuwei Temple should not be bad, he still took two eggs and put them in his arms when no one was paying attention. Thinking carefully, he and his master had not eaten eggs for several years.
Jizhou has become increasingly chaotic in recent years, and the people are living a miserable life. Life outside Jizhou city is completely different from life inside the city. It seems that no one has seen a chicken in several years.
The students in the academy lived a life of luxury, while the people outside the city turned into bandits because they had no food to eat.
The chubby aunt in the cafeteria saw little Li Diudiu for the first time. The child was not tall and had a delicate appearance. The aunt had never seen the dazed look in front of the food before.
Who among the students of the Four Pages Academy would come to eat so early, and who would look at the food full of shiny things?
"This young master."
Aunt Wu asked cautiously, "But are you dissatisfied with the food?"
She didn't believe that there would be students in the academy who would be so interested in such a breakfast. It's not that she didn't believe it, but she didn't even dare to think about it.
"no no."
Li Diudiu quickly leaned forward and said, "It's just that I've never eaten so much before... No, it's that I've never seen so many things to eat before."
Aunt Wu was a little apprehensive: "Sir, if you are dissatisfied with anything, just tell me."
Li Diudiu shook his head: "Aunt, I am not a young master. My family has no money, no power, and I have no father or mother. My master said that my parents are farmers, so I dare not call myself a young master. I am just a poor student."
He thought for a moment and added, "Maybe you have never seen a poor student."
Aunt Wu said with a somewhat panicked look on her face: "Sir, please stop joking..."
Li Diudiu was too lazy to explain. He pointed at something he had never seen before and asked, "What is this?"
“This is eight-treasure rice.”
Aunt Wu quickly asked, "Is it because the appearance is too bad?"
Li Diudiu asked: "Well, can I take one away?"
Aunt Wu said, "This eight-treasure rice is a sticky food. It tastes good when it's hot. If you take it away, it will become dry and hard and not tasty when it cools down."
Li Diudiu thought about his first day of class and that he would have to wait ten days before he could go to Wuwei Temple to find his master, so he nodded and said, "Then I'll have one portion."
Aunt Wu said, "Young Master, you should drink some porridge and eat some food first, otherwise your stomach will feel uncomfortable if you eat this eight-treasure rice directly."
“There are so many details?”
Li Diudiu felt that he was somewhat out of place in this cafeteria.
"Um...Auntie, I just took two eggs."
"ah?"
Aunt Wu was stunned and said quickly, "You are too polite, sir. Everything here is prepared . Please feel free to eat and take."
Li Diudiu looked back and saw that there were less than five or six people eating in the cafeteria. The food prepared was enough for hundreds of people. He couldn't help but feel a little annoyed: "There are so many things. Isn't it a waste if we can't finish them?"
"What's the matter?"
Aunt Wu smiled and said, "This is the Four-Page Academy. How can the food in the academy be bad? If it is bad, it would not be worthy of our academy."
Li Diudiu nodded and said to himself, "Is it for appearance?"
Aunt Wu was startled, thinking she had said something wrong again.
Li Diudiu followed Aunt Wu's instructions and took a bowl of porridge, some snacks, some side dishes, and a portion of eight-treasure rice. Just as he sat down and prepared to eat, Zhang Xiaolin and Sun Rugong came in side by side. Seeing Li Diudiu sitting there, Zhang Xiaolin couldn't help laughing.
"I said, that poor boy must be here."
He walked over to Li Diudiu, sat down, and tapped the table with his fingers.
"Poor boy, have you never seen so much food?"
Li Diudiu glanced at him and nodded: "Yes."
Zhang Xiaolin smiled and said, "It's not your fault. You are just a poor boy. If you want to blame someone, blame your parents for not giving you a good background."
After saying this, he looked at the hospital uniform on Li Diudiu and smiled again.
"Have you ever worn clothes made of this kind of fabric? You haven't worn it before, right? I see you cherish it so much that you even put a piece of cloth under it. Are you afraid that you will get your hospital uniform dirty when you eat? You haven't worn this kind of clothes either, it's really pitiful."
Li Diudiu ignored him and lowered his head to eat.
Zhang Xiaolin originally wanted to humiliate Li Diudiu, but Li Diudiu remained silent and ate seriously, ignoring him. This made him feel that he was humiliated by Li Diudiu, so he became angry.
"I'm here to challenge you."
Zhang Xiaolin said, "You attacked me by surprise in the competition in front of the teacher the other day and I won by luck. I am not convinced. After the class this afternoon, let's go to the woods behind the academy to fight again. If I lose again, I will avoid you in the future. If you lose, kneel down and kowtow to me and admit your mistake."
Li Diudiu raised his head and looked at Zhang Xiaolin's face, just a faint glance. He didn't know what happened, but Zhang Xiaolin felt as if he was slapped in the face again and it was burning.
Li Diudiu just thought it was so boring. Kneeling down and kowtow to admit one’s mistakes was so childish.
"Don't be afraid to come."
Zhang Xiaolin slammed his hands heavily on the table.
This scared the other students who were eating. Some of them turned around to look at him with angry faces. Zhang Xiaolin quickly apologized with a smile. All the students in this academy were from famous families... Well, Li Diudiu was not one of them, so he only dared to bully Li Diudiu.
"good."
Li Diudiu nodded and replied with one word.
Zhang Xiaolin snorted and pulled Sun Rugong away. Sun Rugong didn't say a word from beginning to end, but Li Diudiu always felt that this guy was too gloomy like a child.
He and his master traveled all over the seven counties and had seen all kinds of people. His master said that to judge a person, one should look at his eyes, because their eyes reveal his thoughts and character.
Zhang Xiaolin was just a noisy person. Sun Rugong followed him without saying a word. The contempt in his eyes for Li Diudiu was only a fleeting one, but this flash made Li Diudiu take Sun Rugong seriously.
Aunt Wu stood there watching the three children talking. She was confused again and thought to herself, could this young man really be a poor boy?
Li Diudiu finished a bowl of porridge, ate noodles and side dishes, and then asked for the Eight Treasure Rice Pudding. The sour and sweet Eight Treasure Rice Pudding with some candied fruits in it made Li Diudiu's eyes light up. He had never eaten such delicious rice before.
After he finished eating, he put all the tableware back and smiled brightly at Aunt Wu again: "Thank you, it's really delicious."
Aunt Wu quickly returned the greeting: "Sir, you don't have to be so polite. I dare not, I dare not."
After Li Diudiu left, Aunt Wu looked at the tableware used by Li Diudiu. There was only a little soup left in the plate, and not a single grain of rice was left. It was so clean that she thought she was dazzled.
How could there be such a young man in the academy?
She subconsciously raised her head and looked elsewhere. The leftovers were piled up on the empty seats where people had left after their meals. Some of the things were only taken a bite and thrown aside because they didn't taste good, while some of the things had not been touched at all. The contrast couldn't be more obvious.
However, Aunt Wu really didn’t think there was anything good about Li Diudiu.
She prefers students who can only eat a few bites and leave a lot of food, so that she can take the leftovers home, the children will love to eat them, and her old man can use them as a snack with wine.
The moment Li Diudiu walked out of the cafeteria, he looked back and saw Aunt Wu putting eggs into her pocket. When Aunt Wu looked up, she also saw him and became embarrassed.
Li Diudiu smiled and walked towards the school.
The master said, don’t embarrass yourself.
What a hassle...
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