I become a sage by eating books

Chapter 42
After many days of getting along, Xie Yu could see that Xiao Li really wanted to make Ning An a friend, and if Ning An was in trouble, Xiao Li would definitely not sit idly by.

Xiao Li took back the brocade from Xie Yu's hand, then lit it with a candle, and as the brocade burned, there was a creaking sound in the room.

"In the final analysis, Ah Xiu is just a scholar now, even if he invented the heated kang, it was only accidental, and it will not have any impact on those people. Don't worry, Ah Yu, nothing will happen."

Xiao Li watched the brocade slowly burn out before his eyes, a cold light flashed in his eyes, followed by a hint of sarcasm.

That man is too self-righteous, let Ah Xiu join the Xiao family, okay, very good, I hope he will never regret today's decision.

"What are you doing?"

When Ning An came back from washing, he found a strange smell in the room. Seeing that Xiao Li and Xie Yu looked strange, he asked.

"An An, you are back! Why have you been away for so long?" Xie Yu tried to change the subject.

"Well, I met Gu Siyuan on the way back just now, he said that he invited me to dinner at Ruyi Building tomorrow, but I refused." Ning An spoke while cooling his handkerchief.

"He invited you to dinner, why? An'an, I think it's better for you not to go, if you don't have anything to do, it's either rape or robbery!"

Xie Yu showed disapproval. Gu Siyuan had always been on good terms with Xiao Renhuai, so why would he invite An An to dinner suddenly? There must be something wrong with it.

Xiao Li pondered and didn't speak, but he already knew in his heart that Gu Siyuan went to Axiu for the kang.

"Didn't I refuse!"

Ning An was making the bed, and she roughly guessed why Gu Siyuan was looking for her alone, probably because the news about the heated kang had reached the ears of the county magistrate.

In Pingyao County, Gu Shouyi, the county magistrate, sat on a chair with an angry expression on his face, and his teacup shattered on the floor.

"Master, what's the matter, why are you so angry?" At this moment, a woman who was dressed up very enchantingly walked in like a water snake with her waist twisted.

"How did you come?"

Although the county magistrate still looked displeased, his tone softened significantly.The woman took the opportunity to grab the arm of the magistrate Gu and leaned her whole body towards him, while the servant boy at the side slowly backed away upon seeing this.

"Why, is there any place in this county magistrate's mansion that the slave family can't go to?"

The woman whispered, resting her head on Gu County Magistrate's chest, drawing circles on his chest with one hand.

"Don't mess around, Madam will be here soon." The magistrate Gu held the woman's hand to signal her not to mess around.

"Afraid of what she will do, you are afraid of her, but I am not afraid of her."

The woman is the fifth aunt of the county magistrate's mansion, named He Lian, who is the daughter of He Daoyuan's concubine who knows the prefecture, and is quite favored by the ancient county magistrate.

Just when Aunt He was about to say something, the door was opened, and the magistrate's wife, Zhou Yulan, walked in with two pale faces.

When Zhou Yulan saw Aunt He, her complexion couldn't help but sink, but her good self-cultivation kept her calm.

"Sister, why did you come in without knocking on the door, which frightened the servants."

Aunt He leaned her whole body on Gu County Magistrate, and looked at Zhou Yulan provocatively.

"You asked me to come, wouldn't you just let me see this?"

Mrs. Zhou glanced at Aunt He from the corner of her eye, and said indifferently, her eyes full of sarcasm.

The magistrate Gu pushed away Aunt He who was on her body, and then said awkwardly: "How could it be! Madame was joking."

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Zhou Yulan's face turned even colder.

"You go out first, I have something to say with my wife."

What the magistrate Gu said was to Aunt He who was beside her. Aunt He looked unhappy, and she reluctantly walked out after seeing the magistrate's face darkened a bit.

"Ma'am!" The magistrate Gu approached Zhou Yulan, and Zhou Yulan took a few steps back.

Zhou Yulan's actions made the magistrate Gu's face change a bit, "Madam, do you really want to do this?"

Zhou Yulan didn't speak, but her indifferent expression said everything.

"Madam insists on doing this, and I have nothing to do with it. I just hope that Madam will consider Yuan'er more. The county examination will be next year. I hope Madam will put the overall situation first." The county magistrate Gu said earnestly.

Zhou Yulan was taken aback for a moment, then said, "I see. Tell me, how much do you need this time?"

Zhou Yulan's expression was ironic, when did this man become so hypocritical.When she married him, he was just a poor scholar. She supported him to study, supported his imperial examination, and bore children for him. But how did he repay her?It's only been a few years since she was an official, and the concubines are coming in one by one, and the bastards are giving birth one by one. If she didn't need the support of her natal family's money, she should have become a concubine long ago.

"Hehe, not much, just 1 taels." The county magistrate Gu smiled obsequiously.

"Understood, someone will deliver it in a while." Zhou Yulan left without looking back, she was afraid that if she stayed a little longer, she would not be able to hold back the nausea.

Zhou Yulan opened the door but found that Gu Siyuan was at the door.

"Yuaner, why are you back?" Zhou Yulan was slightly flustered.Yuan'er, she won't hear their conversation.

"The boy just came back. Mom, what's wrong with you? You look very bad."

"Mother is fine, just a little tired, just go back and rest for a while." Seeing that Gu Siyuan was fine, Zhou Yulan felt relieved.

"It's good that I'm fine, the boy still has some things to discuss with his father, and he will go to see his mother later."

"Okay, that mother will go back first." Zhou Yulan left quickly, her steps were a little messy, Gu Siyuan looked at Zhou Yulan's leaving figure thoughtfully.

After Zhou Yulan left, Gu Siyuan walked in.

"father"

"Hmph, I'm back! How is things going? Did the student agree?" Asked the magistrate Gu.

"He said that there was something to do tomorrow and he refused. Can dad tell the baby what happened?" Gu Siyuan didn't understand why his dad had to see Ning An.

Gu County Magistrate pondered for a moment, his eyes full of calculations.

"It's okay to tell you, do you know the heated kang that has been raised recently?"

Gu Siyuan nodded.

"As far as I know, that heated kang was discovered by the student named Ning An. In short, you must ask him out. How do you know that the term of office of Zhou is coming, if I report the heated kang to you in Pingyao, what will happen?"

Gu Siyuan was dazed by the sudden news.

What, Ning An discovered the kang?Ning An's handsome face flashed in Gu Siyuan's mind, it was him, and it was him again.This person is not only talented but also has fantastic ideas. It's okay if it's a friend, but if it's an enemy?

"Now that I know about dad, my son will definitely ask him out."

For the next few days, Gu Siyuan kept trying to get close to Ning An, but Ning An was either at Master Zhou's place or at Master Chen's place, or with Xiao Li and Xie Yu, surrounded by so many students that he couldn't find him at all. A glimmer of chance.

Only then did Gu Siyuan realize that Ning An's popularity is really good, and even Xiao Renhuai, whom he tried so hard to win over, let go of his prejudice against him.Since when did everyone accept him?
"Brother Gu, what are you looking at?" Wang Lang asked curiously seeing Gu Siyuan staring at the front alone in a daze.

Gu Siyuan folded his arms and said thoughtfully, "How can there be such a perfect person in this world, who is good-looking, knowledgeable, and popular."

Wang Lang looked in the direction of Gu Siyuan, and it turned out that Ning An and a few students were sweeping the snow, and the snowflakes fell on Ning An's body, adding a bit of hazy beauty to the young man.

"It's really nice."

Gu Siyuan took a look at Wang Lang's absence and returned to the classroom.

However, when the ancient county magistrate was dreaming of knowing the state, what was waiting was the imperial court's decree to build a kang.The Gu county magistrate accepted the imperial edict in a daze, feeling very angry in his heart, who is it and who took the first step?
Is there someone behind that student?Looks like he'll have to check it out.

After the imperial decree, heated kangs were built one after another in various places. With the spread of heated kangs, Ning'an's name also spread to the ears of the people.

Although Ning'an's kang has affected the interests of some merchants, for the poor people, it has no intention of sending charcoal in a timely manner, so most people are full of gratitude to Ning'an, and Ning'an's prestige is increasing day by day, which makes 009 happy broken.

Seven days later, Ning An just woke up when he heard 009's voice, "Host, look, look, the prestige value has exceeded [-]."

Ning An: "So?"

Isn't it just 50, it's worth being so happy, the novice system is the novice system, what is [-], after the hot kang heats up, the prestige value of [-] should not be a problem.

009: "Host, there is a reward for every single digit of the prestige value above [-], why don't you check it out? And when the prestige value reaches [-], you can open the face trading function."

After turning on the face trading function, it can communicate with other systems, so that it is not a system struggling.

Face trading function!Ning An really forgot about it.I don't know what the side trading function is like, so let's turn it on.

Ning An resolutely spent [-] points to turn on the face trading function. Seeing that the [-] prestige points he had earned so hard were gone, Ning An still felt quite painful.

According to the system instructions, the face trading function can only be opened once a day, the face of the transaction is also random and the transaction value is determined by the host itself.

After getting a general understanding of the rules, Ning An went to check his backpack again. There was a bottle of detoxification pill and a Buddha Heart Fruit in the backpack.The detoxification pill is a reward for breaking through [-] prestige points, there are [-] pieces in total, which can cure hundreds of poisons, and the Buddha Heart Fruit is a reward for breaking through [-].

"Buddha Heart Fruit, host, you actually got Buddha Heart Fruit!" 009's voice sounded.

Isn't it just a fruit? There's nothing to be excited about.

"Host, you don't understand this. This Buddha Heart Fruit is very rare. After taking it, the host can obtain the Qiqiao Linglong Heart. The Qiqiao Linglong Heart can not only improve the host's EQ and IQ, but also improve the host's six senses Get sharper and get a chance to come back from the dead!"

The corners of Ning An's mouth twitched uncontrollably after hearing 009's words, isn't this the legendary cheat?

Ning An thought about it for a while and finally decided to eat the Buddha Heart Fruit. She is also very afraid of death, okay?
"An'an, An'an got up."

Xie Yu's voice rang in Ning An's ears, and Ning An had to stop communicating with the system and get up.

After Ning An got up, Xie Yu walked around her and said, "An An, why do you feel that you are different today?"

"What's different?" Ning An asked.

"It's hard to say, but it's different anyway."

Xie Yu didn't know what was going on, An An was still the same An An, her appearance hadn't changed, her voice hadn't changed, it was just that her impression had changed.

"Forget it, forget it, let's go." Xie Yu pulled Ning An and walked out.

"Where are you going?" Ning An looked puzzled, what happened to Xie Yu today, he was so active in class.

"Where are you going? Of course you are going to the street. Today is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Don't you want to go to the street to have a look?"

Xie Yu pulled Ning An and left, Xiao Li saw the figures of the two and followed.

It turns out that today's Laba is a day of repairing in the academy.

Legend has it that Sakyamuni enlightened himself on this day by drinking the chylus given by the shepherd girl, which is milk porridge. Later, in order to commemorate Sakyamuni and thank the shepherd girl, the monks went to Laba On this day, holding alms bowl in hand, they went to the street to beg for alms, cooked the rice, dates, etc. into porridge, and distributed them to the hungry people.Since then, there has been a habit of drinking Laba porridge every year in Laba, and people will also pray on this day for a good harvest in the coming year.

Although the snow is still falling, this does not affect the people's expectations for the coming year. The street is still very lively.

Both the old man and the child wrapped themselves up tightly, and the three of Ning An wore capes of the same color. The three of them walked on the street together and attracted the attention of some girls.

"An'an, what are we going to play later?" After finally coming out, of course we have to have a good time.

"I don't know either. I don't know if Brother Xie has a good suggestion?"

This is her first Laba Festival in this era and she doesn't know it very well.

At this moment, several people hurriedly passed by the three of them, and one of them said, "I heard that there is a book fair held in Fengmanlou. No.1 can get 500 taels of silver. Let's go and see it too." .”

"Really, go fast, you won't be able to stand in a good position if you go late."

"Based on the book fair, fox, when did Pingyao start this?" Xie Yun frowned.

The book review meeting is where students gather together to compete on poetry, song, Fu, strategy, etc., but the book review meeting is often held in Fucheng, and students from all over the world come to the scene to be very grand.

If any student performed outstandingly at the book fair, he could attract the attention of some dignitaries, so the book fair was another opportunity for students to stand out.

"You'll know if you go and have a look." Xiao Li said thoughtfully.

"Okay, then let's go and have a look."

Fengmanlou's business has plummeted since Ning'an's new dishes came out, but today Fengmanlou Street is full of people.Shopkeeper Xu, who had been watching Feng Mankou's movement, noticed the arrival of Ning An and the other three and invited them in.

"Little Boss, are you also here to participate in the Book Fair?" Shopkeeper Xu led the three of them to a private room on the third floor. This room is facing the high platform, and the high platform can be seen clearly.

"Uncle Xu misunderstood that we just came to see the excitement."

She just invented the kang, so it's better to keep a low profile now.As for Xie Yu and Xiao Li, their identities even disdain to participate in such a competition.

"Okay, then I won't bother you."

Shopkeeper Xu was about to leave but was stopped by Ning An. "Uncle Xu, let me go down with you."

Seeing shopkeeper Xu's doubts, Ning An said mysteriously: "Uncle Xu, don't you think today is a good opportunity? Wouldn't it be a waste of his good intentions if he worked so hard to gather so many people? .”


(End of this chapter)