After transmigrating into a stepmother, I transformed my whole family to work on farming

Chapter 165: Curled to the point of going crazy

The two of them returned a full month later than the rest of the army.

It was already the twelfth lunar month.

As the New Year is approaching, there are vendors inside and outside the city, making it very lively.

Listening to the familiar dialect and feeling the familiar smoke, Liu Qi wiped tears of excitement on her face, and her suspended heart finally fell to the ground.

He thought that his third uncle should be like him, so he looked sideways, only to find that his eyes showed complicated sadness that he couldn't understand.

"You go back first." Liu Ji pushed Liu Qi aside and entered the city alone.

Liu Qi hurriedly shouted: "Uncle Third, aren't you going home?"

Liu Ji kept walking, turned around and said sadly: "I still have some things to do, so you should leave first."

"Then, let me bring a message to Third Aunt for you and tell her that you are back. She will definitely be very happy." Liu Qi wanted to do something for him to express her gratitude.

If he hadn't been led by his third uncle along the way, he might not have been able to come back.

Liu Ji's mouth twitched slightly, thinking that if that woman knew that he was coming back, she would definitely come over and kill him with a big knife!

Thinking of this, Liu Ji felt that his heart was colder than the moat in the twelfth lunar month.

No, he had to do something. After finally coming back alive, how could he accept his fate so easily?

Isn't it just to let him study? He will go to the head office to die!

When Liu Ji thought of reading, he thought he would be as disgusted as before, but strangely, he was still eager to read.

Studying is good. If you study and gain fame, you will no longer have to do corvee service.

Whoever wants to go to the border can go there, no matter what, he will not go again if he is beaten to death!

The only way to not do corvee is to become a scholar, even if you are a scholar.

Liu Ji handed two cents to the gatekeepers and strode towards the academy in the city.

He left in a hurry at that time, and many things were still left in the college dormitory, including quilts, heaters, pens, inks, paper and inkstones. Although it was not as good as at home, he had slept on the grassland at the border. Now even a shabby mat would I feel great.

Liu Ji felt as if he had gained enlightenment. A stream of fresh air poured into Tianling Gai from the soles of his feet. He wanted to live a serious life!
"Brother Liu?"

Suddenly someone behind him tentatively called him.

Liu Ji suddenly woke up from the wonderful feeling of enlightenment and shivered from the cold.

I lowered my head and saw that there was a big hole in the shoe at some point, and the cold air penetrated into it, directly reaching Tianling Gai.

"It's really you, Liu Ji, you actually came back alive!"

Several scholars dressed in college uniforms gathered around him in surprise and looked at Liu Ji in disbelief.

"I'm a poor Taoist. No, it's me." Now that he no longer had to pretend to be a Taoist priest, Liu Ji quickly changed back to his original identity, smiled lightly and nodded with several classmates.

Several scholars looked at him curiously, feeling that something was different about him, but they couldn't tell what the difference was.

But coming back is always a happy event. Everyone said: "Congratulations, it's good to be back. We all thought you were gone."

Realizing that this was not a good thing, he lowered his voice and smiled awkwardly at Liu Ji.

Liu Ji waved his hand, "No problem, are some of my classmates going back to school?"

A few people nodded, and Liu Ji invited them to go together.

Someone asked him what happened along the way, and Liu Ji said lightly: "This is an opportunity, it's wonderful."

After finishing speaking, he realized that he had fallen into the Taoist identity again. He coughed twice and said again: "It's a bit unexpected. Fortunately, God has blessed me and turned the danger into safety."

"Brother Liu, why don't you go home?" the big guy asked.Liu Ji replied: "I have wasted a lot of study during this trip. I just want to make up for it as soon as possible. It will not be too late to return home when I have a rest. Studying is important."

When all the classmates heard this, their scalps went numb, and they all took two steps back and looked up and down at Liu Ji in front of them.

They knew what was different about him, and a shabby coat and shoes couldn't hide his high aspirations.

Studying so hard, he did not go home immediately after serving the corvee but went to the academy to attend classes. Is this still the same Liu Ji who followed Fan Xiucai and others to live a debauched life?
Some people rubbed their eyes to see if they were dazzled, but they actually felt that Liu Ji was more handsome today than before.

As a result, the man in front of him was still shining so brightly that it was impossible to look at him.

The academy has arrived, Liu Jitong and the others bowed their hands and took the first step.

When we arrived at the dormitory, we exchanged some pleasantries and explanations. By the time we finished sending away the roommates, it was already getting dark.

Liu Ji heated up the water, wiped his body, washed his head, put on clean thin clothes, washed the dirty clothes, and sat by the stove with his hair loose. While drying his clothes and hair, he picked up the "Analects of Confucius" from the four books. ", facing the dim firelight, forcing myself to learn to death.

It is best to memorize the entire Analects of Confucius before the Chinese New Year.

In this way, when the evil woman comes to kill you, you can have a chance of survival.

Liu Ji felt that his mind had never been so clear before. Having played the role of a Taoist priest, he seemed to have truly transformed himself into a fortune-teller who strategized and could understand people's hearts.

Qin Yao is a person who puts interests first. She will tolerate assistance to anyone who benefits from her.

Ignore anything that does not benefit her.

But if he brings harm to her, he will be killed in his infancy.

After suffering so much at the border, Liu Ji certainly knew that Qin Yao had murderous intentions towards him.

But this trip also made him understand why Qin Yao was so eager to force him to study.

Thinking about it, she had already had the foresight to see through the sufferings of all classes of scholars, peasants, industrialists, and merchants, and that's why she wanted to take a step up.

And isn't this what he has been trying to achieve for half his life?

It's just that he used to take shortcuts, but he forgot one essential problem - he, a peasant, was of no use to those in power.

His trick of flattering others can actually be replaced by everyone, which is why he keeps trying and failing.

But if there is a person who can write, draw, have intelligence, good looks, and can flatter others, then he will become irreplaceable!

The cotton-padded clothes were dried. Liu Ji held the book in one hand and dressed in the other, without taking his eyes off the book.

After reading the two articles "Xue Er" and "For Politics", he put down the book for a moment, spread the hairband on his knees, picked up a pen and ink, and wrote the five characters "Wenquxing protects me" on the hairband. This headband is tied around the head.

It seems that this way he can really get Wenquxing's protection and make him never forget it.

From the day he came back, Liu Ji studied in the morning and at night, day and night, and didn't seem to need to sleep.

His roommates were so frightened that they also moved their books out for fear of being left behind.

Less than three days after Liu Ji came back, the scholars in Kaiyang County Academy were forced to pick up their books and join the hard-working team.

It's not that they wanted to do this, but because Liu Ji was such a weirdo, the Academy Master ordered everyone to learn from him and deliberately moved the year-end quiz ahead of time.

In order to pass the examination, the students had no choice but to join.

Fan Xiucai was so involved that he went crazy. He rushed to Liu Ji and asked him angrily: "Is it necessary to study so desperately?"

Liu Ji didn't even raise his head, and said quietly: "If there is a knife hanging above the head, and it will be cut off as soon as it stops, will Mr. Fan learn from it or not?"

Fan Xiucai rubbed his arm fiercely, it was scary.

(End of this chapter)