There is a home in the depths of silence
Chapter 2 The Academy
Chapter 2 The Academy
Yuan Feifei firmly believed that his master, Zhang Ping, was a good man—for half a month.
Why did she change her mind half a month later?
Because Zhang Ping asked her to do something she least wanted to do.
In the few days before the bad news came, Yuan Feifei fully adapted to the life in Qishui City, and also adapted to this master who never had much work for her.She ran out to play every day after eating, and she played all day long.
In the evening of that day, Yuan Feifei went home for dinner. After the meal, Zhang Ping unexpectedly did not go to blacksmithing as usual, but cleaned up the table and pulled Yuan Feifei to sit in front of the table.
Yuan Feifei looked at him strangely, "What's wrong? What are you going to do?"
Zhang Ping settled her down, got up by himself, took a stack of things from the wooden shelf by the wall, and put them on the table.
Looking at the stack of papers, Yuan Feifei suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
Sure enough, after Zhang Ping put the paper away, he fetched the charcoal.
Yuan Feifei shouted: "You don't want me to learn to write, do you?"
Zhang Ping looked up at her and nodded.
Yuan Feifei shook his head quickly, and said in horror: "No, no, no! I don't want to learn!"
Zhang Ping ignored it and put the paper in front of Yuan Feifei.
Yuan Feifei tugged on Zhang Ping's sleeve, begging bitterly: "Master, if you don't learn Chinese characters, I won't learn Chinese characters."
At the beginning, Ma Banxian also planned to teach her calligraphy. He once told Yuan Feifei that although girls don't learn many Chinese characters, and it's not very useful, but for fortune-tellers like them, it's better to learn more. thing.He also told Yuan Feifei that if she didn't learn calligraphy, then he would not be able to pass on many of his skills to her.
Yuan Feifei was coaxed and deceived by him for a few days, but in the end, because she was too lazy, Ren Ma Banxian's mouth was worn out and she stopped using a pen.
"Master, let me go to work."
Yuan Feifei jumped off the stool and wanted to run out.As a result, Zhang Ping stretched out his long arms, fished for the moon in the water, and lifted Yuan Feifei to the stool again.
He handed her a small piece of hard coal.Yuan Feifei took it and held it in his hand without raising his hand.Zhang Ping tapped the rough paper in front of her.Yuan Feifei's back was also bent, his shoulders were slumped, and his eyes were lifeless.
Zhang Ping wrote two words on the paper and showed it to Yuan Feifei.
Yuan Feifei raised his eyelids and took a look, then said weakly: "I don't know."
Zhang Ping clicked some words, then pointed at himself.
Yuan Feifei finally became interested, "Is this Zhang Ping?"
Zhang Ping nodded.
Yuan Feifei took a few glances with his probe, then retracted again.
Zhang Ping raised his hand again and wrote a few words.
Yuan Feifei looked at it and said, "Yuan Feifei?"
Zhang Ping nodded slowly.
Yuan Feifei said: "Okay, okay, I recognize these two." She put the charcoal in her hand on the table, smiled at Zhang Pingdui, "Master, I know these two names enough, I will give them to you." You make tea." After finishing speaking, she wanted to run again.
Zhang Ping pulled her back again. This time, he frowned slightly and looked at Yuan Feifei seriously.
Yuan Feifei was a little frightened by him, and then straightened his back to support himself.
If you don't learn, you don't want to learn. Back then, Ma Banxian, who was so sneaky, couldn't do anything about it. Now Zhang Ping, who looks so honest, can do nothing to her.After a few days, he will not let himself learn.
Yuan Feifei stared at Zhang Ping.
After a while, Zhang Ping let go of his hand.Yuan Feifei breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was so.
"My lord, I'll make you some tea." When she saw Zhang Ping let go, she immediately jumped off the stool.This time Zhang Ping didn't stop her again.
Yuan Feifei happily ran to the kitchen to boil water, thinking that it was always worth it to persevere, Zhang Ping would not really do anything to her.
At that time, she really thought so...
In the next three days, Zhang Ping let her experience the difficulty of "persistence".
As soon as he put down his chopsticks every day, Zhang Ping would get up and fetch paper and charcoal. Whether Yuan Feifei wanted it or not, he would write a few words for her to read.
Only then did Yuan Feifei realize that this seemingly honest Zhang Ping was not so easy to talk to.
Yuan Feifei complained for a long time in her heart, thinking that Zhang Ping knew that she didn't want to practice calligraphy, but still forced her like this all day long.
After a few more days, Yuan Feifei couldn't take it anymore and finally did something wrong.She rarely admits her mistakes, or even realizes her mistakes, but this time, she really feels that she has done something wrong.
That night, Zhang Ping still took out the paper after dinner and wrote for her.
Yuan Feifei was very annoyed. Looking at Zhang Ping who was writing seriously, for some reason, the child's temper came up.
She slammed the lump of coal on the table.
Zhang Ping stopped short.
Yuan Feifei jumped off the stool and shouted at Zhang Ping: "I don't want to learn! Don't write for me anymore!"
Hearing her sudden yell, Zhang Ping was taken aback for a moment, then waved to Yuan Feifei, showing no sign of anger on his face.
Yuan Feifei twitched one corner of his mouth, sneered, and said, "You really have to teach me, don't you?"
Zhang Ping patted her shoulder lightly, and Yuan Feifei opened his palm with one hand.
"Okay, I'll learn from you." Yuan Feifei nodded, walked to the table in two steps, tore off the paper on the table, pointed to a word on it, and said to Zhang Ping, "Tell me, what does this word read?"
Zhang Ping closed his lips tightly and looked at her blankly.
Yuan Feifei said coldly: "Tell me! I don't know each other, how can I know if you don't tell me!"
Zhang Ping frowned slightly, clenched his hands into fists on his knees, and then loosened them again, repeating this many times.
Yuan Feifei threw the paper on him and ran out of the yard.
Zhang Pingku sat for a while before suddenly realizing that Yuan Feifei had disappeared when he went out to look for it again.
After Yuan Feifei rushed out of the yard, he ran a long, long way.She dared not look back.
Running all the way from South Street to the crossing, Yuan Feifei stopped panting.
It was already dark, but some storefronts were still lit with lanterns.
Yuan Feifei was in a hurry when he came out, so he didn't care, and only wore a single shirt.Standing on the street now, Yuan Feifei's whole body hurts from the cold wind.
She stood in the middle of the road, staring blankly at a wild tree beside the road. After a while, she walked slowly to the tree and squatted down along the tree roots.
She hugged her knees, with a self-defeating coldness on her face.
She thought to herself, if she didn't go back, would she be considered a fugitive slave?
If a fugitive slave was caught, it would be a death penalty.
"Tch." After thinking about it, Yuan Feifei snorted coldly, "I'm freezing to death, so I don't care if I run away or not."
"I won't do my best to raise you." Ma Banxian once said to Yuan Feifei, "You're a wolf cub. If you set your wildfire on fire, you won't be recognized by your relatives. Why should I raise you?"
At this moment, Yuan Feifei recalled Ma Banxian's words, and still felt very agreeable.
She can treat Zhang Ping so kindly to her so viciously, what animal thing can she not do?
"Frozen to death, I will freeze to death..." Yuan Feifei thought, "It's better to go find the donkey stick sooner."
After squatting for a long time, Yuan Feifei gradually could no longer feel the cold, her body became numb, and her consciousness gradually dimmed.Although she thought that death was fine, but when she was about to step into the gate of hell, she was a little scared.
It's just... Her eyelids slowly drooped, and her arms drooped.
The moment his fingertips were about to hit the ground, Yuan Feifei suddenly rose from the ground.She lost her mind and passed out.
Zhang Ping hugged Yuan Feifei who was a little stiff from the cold, wrapped her in a jacket, and walked home quickly.
Yuan Feifei knew he was not dead.
It was late at night when she opened her eyes.The nose was blocked, Yuan Feifei pinched it vigorously.
This is Zhang Ping's bed, Yuan Feifei knew it without looking.He got himself back.
Yuan Feifei felt that Zhang Ping was beside him, and he fell asleep.
Suddenly, she didn't want the dawn.
But God will not take her seriously.
Early the next morning, Yuan Feifei covered his face in the quilt and pretended not to wake up.
She clearly heard the crisp iron sounds of Westinghouse.Zhang Ping came in a few times, and every time he saw Yuan Feifei covering his head with a quilt, he went out again.
Yuan Feifei was so hungry that when Zhang Ping went out, she secretly got up and grabbed some breakfast on the table. She didn't dare to eat too much, for fear that Zhang Ping would find out and grab a few sticks every time.
In this way, she dawdled until noon.
Yuan Feifei heard the knock on the courtyard door, stuck his head out of the quilt, and pricked up his ears to listen to the movement outside.
"Brother Zhang Ping, it's rare for you to find your brother. What happened?"
Hong En people!Yuan Feifei quickly covered the quilt, tightly covered her ears, and dared not continue listening.
Zhang Ping is going to give himself back! ?
Yuan Feifei closed her eyes tightly, her heart beating violently.But she has moved the two taels of silver, and he wants her to return it, what should she do! ?
Yuan Feifei's heart was in a mess, and he was so annoyed that he kicked the quilt back and forth.
With a creak, the door opened.
Yuan Feifei immediately stopped moving.She heard someone coming in, and closed the door behind her.She dared not move.
"Little girl."
Yuan Feifei froze, it was Hong Ying.
Hong Ying came to the bed, patted the quilt, and said, "Stop pretending, you're trying to deceive us, you're looking down on us too much."
Yuan Feifei only acted as if he was dead, and did not move.
Hong Ying didn't force it, he withdrew his hand, sat on the edge of the bed, and said slowly: "Zhang Ping just told me."
Yuan Feifei thought to himself, sure enough!
Hong Yingdao: "Last night he went to my house to look for me and told me to come here today. I thought something serious happened, but it turned out to be your little girl."
Yuan Feifei couldn't hear his tone, but his heart was still flustered.
"He asked me to apologize to you, so don't blame him."
Yuan Feifei thought he heard it wrong.Apologize?Zhang Ping apologized to her?
Seeing that Yuan Feifei didn't respond, Hong Ying couldn't help being a little annoyed, "You girl, why are you so angry? No matter what he does, he is your master after all. It's not easy for a master to apologize to a maid, what else do you want?"
Yuan Feifei raised one side of the quilt, revealing a pair of puzzled eyes, "Why does he want to apologize to me?"
Hong Ying looked into her small eyes and said, "He said you don't want to learn calligraphy, but he keeps forcing you."
Yuan Feifei blinked.Indeed... but... "That's all he said?"
Hong Ying: "Ah."
Yuan Feifei was a little dazed.
Taking advantage of her daze, Hong Ying lifted the quilt with one hand, dragged her to the ground, bent over and said seriously: "Girl, do you know that I have never seen a master who eats and lives with his slaves, he treats you Not thin."
Yuan Feifei lowered his head and said "hmm".
"So..." Hong Ying said slowly, "You should repay him by learning calligraphy for him."
Yuan Feifei raised his eyes, "Learned for him?"
Hong Ying nodded, as if he didn't want Zhang Ping outside to hear it, so he lowered his voice and said, "Although he didn't say it, I can see it."
"what?"
"He wanted to talk to you, so he asked you to practice calligraphy."
Yuan Feifei's eyes widened.
Hong Ying said in a low voice: "This courtyard has been around for so many years, and there is no human voice at all. He treats you so well, so what if you just talk to him?"
Yuan Feifei was dumbfounded.
After a while, she thought of something and said to Hong Ying, "I can learn that."
"Which one?"
Yuan Feifei didn't know what to say, so he raised his hand and gesticulated in the air, "It's the one you and he used, I'll learn from that!"
Hong Ying understood what she meant, smiled, and said: "You will understand this in due time. Do you know how many years I have known Zhang Ping before I can understand what he means."
Yuan Feifei lowered his head.
Hong Ying patted Yuan Feifei's shoulder and said, "Girl..."
Before he finished speaking, Yuan Feifei interrupted him and said, "Got it, I just learn."
After hearing this, Hong Ying didn't say anything, but patted her on the shoulder vigorously again.
Hong Ying was really happy to have handled Zhang Ping's affairs so beautifully. He opened the door and pulled Yuan Feifei out.
Yuan Feifei followed Hong Ying stupidly, and when the door opened, she saw Zhang Ping standing by the edge of the yard.
He leaned quietly against the wall.
"Brother Zhang Ping, come here." Hong Ying greeted Zhang Ping with a smile, and Zhang Ping looked up.
Seeing his plain dark eyes, Yuan Feifei suddenly broke free from Hong Ying's hand and rushed towards Zhang Ping.
Unable to grasp the strength well, Yuan Feifei crashed into Zhang Ping's arms all at once.
Zhang Ping still carried the air-conditioning of winter, and also had some cold and hard taste unique to ironware.
Zhang Ping stood still and didn't shake much after being bumped by Yuan Feifei. He supported Yuan Feifei's shoulder.
Yuan Feifei buried himself in his clothes, and said sullenly, "Master, I'm learning to write!"
After she finished speaking, she secretly looked up at Zhang Ping, who happened to be looking straight at Zhang Ping with downcast eyes.
"master……"
Zhang Ping's face was still very flat, there was no trace of being angry with her, but after listening to Yuan Feifei's words, he felt a little joy.
Yuan Feifei hugged Zhang Ping's leg, thinking: Zhang Ping is really a good person!
On the night when Yuan Feifei made up his mind, he obediently sat at the table after eating and waited for his "torture".
Zhang Ping didn't bring the paper over like he did a few days ago.
Yuan Feifei looked at Zhang Ping and said, "Why don't you learn it?"
Zhang Ping waved his hand at her, gestured twice, pointed at her, and pointed at himself.Yuan Feifei didn't understand the meaning at all.
"What do you mean? You don't want to teach me anymore? Yuan Feifei thought that Zhang Ping was angry about what happened before, and jumped off the stool to Zhang Ping's feet, "I kowtow to you to admit my mistake!" "
After all, she bent her knees and was about to kneel down. Zhang Ping quickly grabbed her and shook his head at her.
"Are you mad at me?"
Zhang Ping nodded.
"Then why don't you teach me?"
Zhang Ping clasped his fingers, but also suffered from being unable to express his thoughts to Yuan Feifei. In the end, the two stared at each other all night without understanding the reason.
But it didn't take long for Yuan Feifei to understand.
Early that morning, Zhang Ping made an exception and woke up Yuan Feifei who was still sound asleep.Yuan Feifei wanted to rely on it, so Zhang Ping took the quilt away.
"Master..." Yuan Feifei had to get up from the bed, "Do you have work for me?"
Zhang Ping shook his head, pointed to the hot water basin beside him, Yuan Feifei pursed his lips, and went down to wash.
Just after eating, there was a knock on the door.
Yuan Feifei got up and went to open the door, "Is Hong Enren here?"
Zhang Ping grabbed her by the neck, pulled her back, straightened her clothes on the spot, and then led her to the courtyard together.
Yuan Feifei vaguely felt that something was unusual.
Zhang Ping opened the door, and there was a middle-aged man in a Confucian robe standing outside. The man had a kind face, a smile on his lips, and a calm appearance.
However, this is not the point.
Yuan Feifei stretched out his hand, pointed at the man, and shouted, "It's you!"
When the man saw Yuan Feifei when the door opened, he was also slightly taken aback, and then heard Yuan Feifei's words, he smiled lightly and said, "Hey, it's me."
Zhang Ping looked at Yuan Feifei, and Yuan Feifei said to him: "Master, I know him! He helped me bury the donkey stick!"
Zhang Ping was puzzled, and looked at the middle-aged man again. The man said in one sentence, "We met once."
Zhang Ping nodded and invited the man into the hospital.
Yuan Feifei went to make tea, and Zhang Ping led the man into the house.When Yuan Feifei boiled the water and made tea and brought it in, Zhang Ping was talking to the man with a pen and paper.
Seeing Yuan Feifei coming in, the man smiled and waved at her, "Girl, come here."
Yuan Feifei walked over, put tea in front of him, thought for a while, and said, "Drink tea."
The man smiled and said, "Girl, do you know who I am?"
Yuan Feifei shook his head, thinking, I don't care who you are.
The man said: "The elder, Qu Linyuan, is the teacher of Xiuwu Academy in Naizaki Water City."
Yuan Feifei let out an "oh".
Qu Linyuan said: "Now that you know my identity, you should also understand why I came here."
Yuan Feifei took a sneak peek at Zhang Ping, and then said "Oh".
Qu Linyuan folded his arms and looked at Yuan Feifei for a long time before saying: "You girl is also interesting."
After that, Zhang Ping and Qu Linyuan talked for a while, and not only Zhang Ping, but even Qu Linyuan stopped talking, and just took a piece of paper to write to each other.Yuan Feifei sat dryly at the side, and couldn't tell what they were talking about.
She seemed bored, so she drank tea from a teacup.After a while, the pot of tea was gone.
Yuan Feifei hiccupped, held the kettle and said, "I'll boil the water." She squatted in front of the stove, yawning.
"If you fall asleep, don't fall forward, the fire will burn you."
Yuan Feifei was shocked and turned his head away.
Qu Linyuan stood upright at the door of the kitchen, looking at her with a smile.
Yuan Feifei replied: "It's okay, I can't sleep."
Qu Linyuan went straight to the point: "You don't want me to teach you?"
Yuan Feifei: "It's not..."
Qu Linyuan chuckled and said, "Then why don't you have a happy expression?"
Yuan Feifei squinted at him, "Why should I be happy?"
Qu Linyuan said: "Many big families in Qishui City want to invite me to teach at home, but I have never accepted."
Yuan Feifei: "Then what are you doing here?" She stared at Qu Linyuan vigilantly, then stood up suddenly and said, "Did you see that the master is dumb and came to cheat him of money!"
Thanks to Qu Linyuan's good temper, he can still laugh at this time, "Although the girl is a little irritable, it's not bad to protect the Lord like this."
Yuan Feifei stared at Qu Linyuan viciously. Qu Linyuan's scalp was numb from her stare. He stretched out his hand to shield her from her sight, and said, "Don't think too much about it. Your master and I are old acquaintances, so I agreed to him."
Yuan Feifei squatted back.
"However, I came to you to ask you a question."
Yuan Feifei: "Ask what?"
Qu Linyuan said: "Would you like to pretend to be a boy and enter the academy to learn calligraphy?"
Yuan Feifei finally turned all his attention to Qu Linyuan, "What did you say?"
"Although I have promised Zhang Ping to teach you how to learn calligraphy, but I don't have much free time on weekdays. The most important thing is to learn characters persistently. Intermittently will get twice the result with half the effort. But this dynasty does not allow women to enter the academy, so let me ask, are you willing?" Pretend to be a boy and study in the academy?"
Yuan Feifei finally became interested, "A woman disguised as a man? Sounds interesting."
Qu Linyuan smiled and said, "Your master didn't ask you to play."
Yuan Feifei hehe said: "That's it."
That night, Qu Linyuan stayed at Zhang Ping's home for dinner.
After eating, Yuan Feifei cleaned up the table, and Zhang Ping sent Qu Linyuan away.
He sent Qu Linyuan all the way to the entrance of the alley. Under the moonlight, the black stone road in the alley occasionally shone brightly.
"Just send it here."
Zhang Ping stopped and bowed slightly to Qu Linyuan.
Qu Linyuan said: "You don't need to thank me, after all..." He paused, and then said, "After all, the Qu family—"
Qu Linyuan finished speaking halfway, Zhang Ping stretched out his hand and stopped the rest of his words.
"That's right, that's right," Qu Linyuan said again, "Who is that girl, I don't remember that you have any relatives."
Zhang Ping shook his head, and Qu Linyuan didn't investigate further.
"I have made an agreement with her, you can bring her to the academy tomorrow."
Zhang Ping nodded, and cupped his hands towards Qu Linyuan.
Back home, Yuan Feifei sat upright on the stool, staring at Zhang Ping without blinking.
Zhang Ping looked at her, thought it was a little funny, and patted her on the shoulder.
Yuan Feifei said decisively: "Master! You punish me!"
Zhang Ping was taken aback, and looked at her strangely.
Yuan Feifei said loudly: "You are still angry with me!"
Zhang Ping paused, then he remembered something, smiled and shook his head.
Yuan Feifei didn't believe it, "Then why did you find someone to teach me how to read?"
Zhang Ping pulled Yuan Feifei and took her to sit down.He stretched out a finger, pointed to his throat, waved his hand, made a writing gesture, and waved his hand again.
Yuan Feifei understood what he meant.
I can't speak, it's really inconvenient to teach you how to read.
Yuan Feifei was a little confused, "Okay, you don't teach if you say you don't want to teach, I'll learn from that person."
Zhang Ping patted her.
The next day, Yuan Feifei woke up very early, Zhang Ping took cloth strips to wrap her head, but failed several times, Yuan Feifei almost fell asleep again while sitting.
"Okay, okay, I'll do it myself." Yuan Feifei took a strip of cloth from Zhang Ping's hand, and tied it up with two swipes.
Zhang Ping looked slightly embarrassed.
Yuan Feifei put on her clothes and straightened her back in front of Zhang Ping.
She was wearing a light blue blouse, and her hair was tied up high.Before she was hungry and full, she was sallow and thin, but now Zhang Pingyi has adjusted her to make her fatter, her face is bright red, her eyes are shining brightly, she looks very clever.
An eight-year-old baby is exactly the age when male and female are indistinguishable, and Yuan Feifei is a thief at first, so it is really hard to tell the difference when pretending to be a boy.
Zhang Ping nodded and led her out.Ever since Yuan Feifei came here, Zhang Ping had never taken her out during the day, so even though this trip was only to the academy, Yuan Feifei was still in high spirits.
After walking for too long, they came to a secluded house with a few old trees planted at the door. Even in winter, they were still slightly green, making them very eye-catching.
There is a long plaque on the facade with four characters written on it.
Although Yuan Feifei couldn't read, he guessed that it said Xiuwu Academy.
Zhang Ping came to the entrance of the yard, and Yuan Feifei followed behind.
She heard the sound of children reading in the yard.
Before entering the academy, Yuan Feifei was already getting annoyed by hearing the long reading.But Zhang Ping was by her side, she resisted the urge to roll her eyes, and lowered her head obediently.
There was no door in the courtyard, so Zhang Ping led Yuan Feifei in.
This academy is much larger than Zhang Ping's small workshop, and the layout is very particular, with pavilions, corridors, rockery and small steps, very elegant.
Zhang Ping and Yuan Feifei met Qu Linyuan in the main hall of the academy.
There are seven or eight small tables in the hall, and there is a little boy sitting in front of each small table, holding a booklet, shaking his head and reading.On the main seat in the main hall, Qu Linyuan sat relaxedly on the master's chair, with a tea set in hand, which was still steaming in the winter.
Seeing Zhang Ping and Yuan Feifei, Qu Linyuan got up to meet them.With a slight smile on his face, he only said to Zhang Ping: "Leave it to me."
Zhang Ping nodded, and gave Yuan Feifei a slight push behind his back.
Yuan Feifei's attention was not here, she had been looking at the people in the hall.
Because Qu Linyuan was out of the house, many children were distracted. Although they were still reading, their eyes secretly glanced at Yuan Feifei.
However, there was one child who did not.Yuan Feifei looked at the figure sitting upright in the front row. He was the one who sat the most upright among all the people, holding a booklet in his hand, and reading as if he had entered the realm of no one.
She didn't react until Zhang Ping pushed her back.
Qu Linyuan led Yuan Feifei to an empty table, and said in a low voice, "Come on, sit here first, and I'll get you some paper, pen and ink."
Yuan Feifei sat down, Qu Linyuan went into the inner room to get things, Yuan Feifei turned his head and found that Zhang Ping was no longer there.
whispering sound……
"Hi, are you new here?"
Yuan Feifei squinted at the little boy who was secretly talking to her.
"Yes, what's the matter?"
The boy said: "Which family are you from?"
Yuan Feifei didn't bother to talk to him.
The boy said to himself: "My name is Jiang Zhenyue, why have I never seen you in the city?"
Yuan Feifei tilted his mouth at him, and said with a smile, "I haven't seen you either."
The boy wanted to say something more, but when Qu Linyuan came back, he hurriedly turned his head away.Qu Linyuan put the things he took in front of Yuan Feifei, and said, "Use these first."
Yuan Feifei let out an "oh".
Then Qu Linyuan clapped his hands, the voice of reading in the room slowly stopped, and everyone looked at him.
Qu Linyuan smiled and said: "Everyone rest for a while, I brought you a junior brother for the teacher."
In a word, all eyes were on Yuan Feifei.
Yuan Feifei looked like a dead fish, piled together.
"This is the young master of the Zhang Family Iron Shop, Yuan Fei."
The children in the school all stared at Yuan Feifei curiously.
Yuan Feifei glanced casually, and suddenly saw a person.
The boy who sat in the front row just now with his back straight was staring at her in horror, as if he had seen a ghost.
And when Yuan Feifei saw that white little man, a smile appeared on his originally weak face.
On that day, when the hall was closed, Qu Linyuan left, and all the children from the academy came over, asking questions around Yuan Feifei.
"We have been studying for a long time, why did you come to the academy at this time?"
"Mr. Qu will get you the pen and ink himself."
"Where is your home in the city? I've never heard of an iron shop!"
"..."
Yuan Feifei raised his eyelids, glanced at the boy standing closest, and said, "What's your name?"
The boy was asked inexplicably by her, and subconsciously said: "Zhang Yu."
"Hey," Yuan Feifei was delighted to hear that, patted Zhang Yu, and said, "It's the same surname as my master."
Zhang Yu was taken aback for a moment, and then said "Oh".
The child's heat came and went quickly, and after a while everyone ran to the yard to play.Yuan Feifei turned his head and looked at the last person left.
"Hello." Yuan Feifei grinned and called out.
Yuan Feifei's refreshing voice floated back and forth in the empty hall, and finally fell into Pei Yun's ears.Pei Yun's back was stiff, and she sat upright in front of the wooden table without moving.
Yuan Feifei didn't even get up, and spoke to his back from behind, "Do you still remember me?"
Where Yuan Feifei couldn't see, Pei Yun tightly pinched the letter with her fingers, her knuckles turned white.
"Forget it so soon? It's not long since we met." Yuan Feifei sat on the mat with his palms on the ground, "Huh? Weeping buns."
"Shut up!" Pei Yun was poked in the sore spot, and turned her head to stare at Yuan Feifei.
Yuan Feifei was not frightened at all, looked at Pei Yun whose face was flushed with anger, and said with a smile, "Tsk, your face is flushed like this, is it possible that you are going to cry again?"
Pei Yun was so angry that the hand holding the book trembled.
Yuan Feifei raised his feet and said, "What, you are not allowed to say anything?"
Pei Yun gritted her teeth and stared at Yuan Feifei.
Yuan Feifei put his foot down, and just when he was about to say something, Zhang Yu came in.After he entered the house, he walked towards Yuan Feifei.
Yuan Feifei glanced at him, and Zhang Yu said, "Do you want to hit stones with us?"
Yuan Feifei glanced at Pei Yun, who had already turned his head away.
Zhang Yu took Yuan Feifei's arm, "Come here."
Yuan Feifei said "Okay" and walked out of the house with Zhang Yu.When she was about to leave, she turned her head and glanced at Pei Yun again. He had his back to her, holding a letter in his hand, as if he was absorbed in reading.
"Zhang Yu." Yuan Feifei followed Zhang Yu out, and said casually, "There is one left, why don't we call together?"
Zhang Yu frowned.
"Don't deal with that man."
With obvious disgust in his tone, Yuan Feifei heard it strangely and asked, "Who is that man?"
Zhang Yu seemed extremely reluctant to mention Pei Yun, and said, "It's not from a decent family after all."
Yuan Feifei became even more curious, "Hey, it's just being honest, it looks very expensive!"
Zhang Yu snorted coldly, and muttered in a low voice: "The people who came out of that dirty place, no matter how expensive they are? They're not all smelly."
Yuan Feifei wondered, "Is his family selling fish?"
Zhang Yu was originally full of resentment, but when he heard Yuan Feifei's words, he burst into laughter, "Ha, selling fish, you can figure it out."
Yuan Feifei laughed and said, "What's the matter, isn't it?"
Zhang Yu restrained his expression and said in a low voice: "He is the third son of Jinlou."
Yuan Feifei's eyes lit up, "Gold Building?"
Zhang Yu turned his head, "You don't even know Jinlou, do you?"
Of course Yuan Feifei knew that when she and Ma Banxian came to Qishui City, the first place they went was the Golden Tower.
Every time Ma Banxian went to a new place, he would play around the local Firework Lane before settling down, which is called exploring the secluded road.The price of the Golden Tower is surprisingly expensive, Ma Banxian went there once, and when he came back, he almost beat his chest.
Yuan Feifei cut to the chase, "Does his family run a brothel?"
Zhang Yu let out a "hmm".
Yuan Feifei thought back on the magnificent pavilion, and said to himself, how much money is this crying bag worth.After a sigh, she was a little indignant again.It's so good to be rich, thinking that if she, Yuan Feifei, had so much money, her nostrils would have to go towards the sky.
In a few words, they had come to the backyard, where several schoolchildren were throwing stones at a wall.
Yuan Feifei glanced at it. There was a piece of cloth hanging on the wall with some strange patterns drawn on it. She asked Zhang Yu, "What is this?"
Zhang Yu explained to her: "Have you ever played with rocks?" He pointed to the cloth on the wall and said, "Look, the objects painted on the wall."
Yuan Feifei looked over, but the pattern had been smeared with lime, and she couldn't see anything at all. She shook her head and said, "I don't recognize it, tell me how to play it."
Zhang Yudao: "The four corners of the painting hold the capital, and if you hit it, it belongs to you."
Yuan Feifei was confused, "Be more careful."
It turns out that "hitting stones" is a trick used by the students of Xiuwu Academy to pass the time. Every day, one person takes turns to be the host, and draws the objects they have pressed on the four corners of a two-foot-square cloth, and the others stand in the distance. Throw stones at a distance of three feet, and win what you hit.
After Zhang Yu finished explaining, he patted himself on the chest and said, "It's my turn to be the host today, and I pressed two squares of ink from Yuande Mozhuang, as well as folding fans from Liren Bookstore and vinegar sugar cake from Tian Sufang.
Yuan Feifei's eyes widened, "Vinegar cake?"
Zhang Yu looked at her strangely, and said: "Everyone wants the ink sticks from Yuande Mozhuang, why do you like the cakes that make up the number?"
Yuan Feifei shook his head, and said calmly: "No, who likes it."
Zhang Yudao: "Do you want to give it a try?"
Yuan Feifei cleared his throat pretentiously, and when he was about to agree, one of the schoolboys noticed something, pointed behind Yuan Feifei and Zhang Yu and said, "Hey, isn't this Mr. Pei?"
Yuan Feifei turned his head, just in time to see Pei Yun standing behind him, his face was solemn, when everyone turned to look at him, he obviously took a step back, wanting to leave.
The schoolboy who called him didn't let go, "Young Master Pei has always looked down on our tricks, why did you come here by yourself today?"
Another student standing beside him echoed: "Could it be that you are willing to show your face and play with us?"
Pei Yun's face was a little ugly, and she said, "I don't play."
"That's right, that's right." The schoolboy said, "Young Master Pei is a rich man, so naturally he can't play with people like us."
Pei Yun frowned and said, "I didn't say that."
Another person said: "How is that? Hey, could it be that Mr. Pei also contracted a woman's disease, his body is delicate and weak, and he can't even throw a stone?"
After he finished speaking, although the people around him didn't laugh, they all lowered their heads and smiled sullenly.
Pei Yun's face was livid, she gritted her teeth and said, "Who can't throw stones anymore!"
The schoolboy weighed the stone in his hand a few times and said, "Then come."
In the past, Pei Yun would not be so easy to fall for the tricks of provocative generals, and today she doesn't know what happened. After being ridiculed and ridiculed for a few words, she really rolled up her sleeves and walked over.
When the schoolchildren saw him coming, they were stunned for a moment.The schoolboy with the most venomous words was the first to react and threw a stone at Pei Yun.
Pei Yun didn't catch it, and the stone fell to the ground. He bent down to pick it up, while a group of people were watching.
Yuan Feifei stood at the back, silently looking at Pei Yun's figure.
Pei Yun held the stone and threw it out forcefully.
Everyone's eyes circled around the stone, and finally landed on the wall.
"Haha, this is too far away. I said, Mr. Pei, look carefully." Everyone leaned forward happily.
In fact, following the position where the stone flew out, it was not difficult to see that Pei Yun wanted to smash the ink stick in the upper left corner, but it was his first time playing this, and his body was really weak, and he lacked strength, so he couldn't throw it far.
Pei Yun blushed again amidst the laughter.He silently picked up another piece from the ground and threw it out viciously.
The stone is off again.
Pei Yun gritted her teeth and wanted to pick up stones, but a schoolboy standing beside him stopped him and said, "Farewell Mr. Pei, our rule here is that each person can only throw it once, and it is an exception for you to throw it twice."
Pei Yun's face was stiff, and she whispered, "I'll throw it again."
The schoolboy frowned and said, "Look at the way you threw it just now, so what if you throw it a few more times?"
Pei Yun also had self-knowledge, but he couldn't swallow his breath, after all, he was the one who came here first, "I—"
"Snapped!"
When Pei Yun couldn't get off the tiger, a crisp sound came, and everyone looked in the direction of the sound subconsciously. The small stone was falling to the ground, and the square cloth was still trembling above it.In the upper left corner of the square cloth, a fresh imprint is clearly smashed in the very center of the pattern.
"Hey, it's farther than I thought."
Everyone turned their heads and looked at Yuan Feifei who was rubbing his wrist at the end.
Zhang Yu beside her opened her eyes even wider.
"You... you can throw everything from here!?"
Yuan Feifei squinted at him, "Didn't you see it?"
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but in the end they all left Pei Yun and came towards Yuan Feifei.
"Wow, it's really far away here." A schoolboy stood beside Yuan Feifei and made a gesture towards the wall.
"It must have been a stroke of luck, how did it happen to be hit?"
The schoolchildren said one after another: "You throw it again, throw it again."
Yuan Feifei lazily said: "Didn't it mean that each person can only throw it once?"
The schoolboy who spoke just now waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about those, just throw one away."
Yuan Feifei picked up a stone, and said to Zhang Yu, "Then if I miss it this time, can I return the thing?"
Zhang Yu straightened his back and said, "The hit is yours!"
Before Zhang Yu finished speaking, Yuan Feifei's stone had already been shot.
"Crack!" There was another crisp sound, and the lower right corner of Fang Bu was hit.
"..."
"Wow!" The schoolchildren were very surprised to see Yuan Feifei missed again.
"Yuan Fei, you are amazing!"
"Bravo."
"..."
Yuan Feifei pretended to smile meaninglessly, and said, "It's nothing, good luck, good luck."
You don't believe this.
"Tell me what's the secret!"
"Yes, tell us about it!"
Of course Yuan Feifei would not tell them that this move was practiced when Ma Banxian took her to smash the bird's nest.With an idea, she said, "My master taught me this."
"Your master?"
"Well, Zhang Ping."
"Why is he your master? Isn't he your father? Mr. Qu said you are the young master of the Zhang family."
"Ah..." Yuan Feifei smiled lightly and said, "It's my father, but I like to call him Master since I was a child."
The schoolchildren didn't bother to care so much, and immediately said, "Then how did he teach you?"
Yuan Feifei said casually: "It's all accumulated on weekdays, and I have forgotten it."
The schoolchildren looked at her disappointedly.
Yuan Feifei rushed to Zhang Yu and said, "Come on, give me the things first."
Zhang Yu was also unambiguous, and directly fetched ink sticks and vinegar sugar cake, "Here, here you are."
Yuan Feifei took it, and said in a low voice: "Oh, I threw it crookedly, I wanted two pieces of ink."
Zhang Yu happened to hear it, and said haha: "How can I make you proud."
Yuan Feifei got the vinegar cake and couldn't wait to eat it, so he said to Zhang Yu: "My master still has something to do, so I'll go back first."
Zhang Yu nodded, "That's good."
Yuan Feifei happily walked back with the vinegar cake in his hands.
After leaving the academy, her pace suddenly slowed down.
"Come here, come over here." She watched Pei Yun follow out without any surprise, and called Pei Yun aside.
Pei Yun's face recovered a bit, although it was still tense, it was different from before.
"you--"
"many--"
The two spoke at the same time and stopped at the same time.
Pei Yun glanced at Yuan Feifei and said in a low voice, "You go ahead."
Yuan Feifei walked up to Pei Yun in two steps, narrowing his eyes into a sharp line, "I said crying buns, I came here because Qu Linyuan and the master agreed. If you dare to expose me and cause trouble for my master, I will kill you." tear your face apart."
Pei Yun raised her head abruptly, her eyes filled with disbelief.
Yuan Feifei thought he was frightened, and said again: "Don't think I'm talking nonsense, I can really do it."
"You, that's all you want to say?" Pei Yun's face felt uncomfortable again, and her eyes were flushed.
Yuan Feifei crossed his arms, thought for a while, and handed the ink stick in his hand to Pei Yun, "I'm not unreasonable, this is for you, don't you want it? After you take it, you can't tell others about me. thing."
Finally Pei Yun couldn't bear it any longer, and didn't answer the ink, she just said angrily to Yuan Feifei: "Who will talk about you!"
After speaking, he turned his head and left.
Looking at his angry back, Yuan Feifei thought to himself, it's really inexplicable.
Yuan Fei flew home, she wanted to leave the vinegar cake and eat it with Zhang Ping.But along the way, the smell of vinegar and sugar cake wafted under his nose, Yuan Feifei endured and endured, and finally couldn't hold back.
"I'll just take a bite, just a bite..."
Yuan Feifei licked his tongue, put the vinegar sugar cake to his mouth and took a bite.Then took a second bite...
No matter how small her mouth was, even a piece of pastry couldn't help her nibbling on it over and over again, and within a few bites, she ate the vinegar sugar cake until there were only crumbs left.
Yuan Feifei: "..." Forget it, I'll hit a few more next time.
Yuan Feifei returned to the alleyway in front of the house, and heard the sound of hammering iron from a long distance away.
A few days ago Zhang Ping had been polishing the iron, but he hadn't really hit the iron, and Yuan Feifei had never heard such a loud sound.
She stood at the door and knocked on the courtyard door.
The sound of iron hammering in the courtyard stopped.
After a while, the door opened.
Zhang Ping stood in the courtyard, Yuan Feifei looked at him, his eyes widened in novelty.Zhang Ping wore very little clothes, but he didn't feel cold at all. He even radiated heat from his body and was dripping with sweat.
Zhang Ping welcomed Yuan Feifei in, and raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his face.
Yuan Feifei looked at his bare arms, twisted into a solid and powerful bend during the movement.Yuan Feifei looked carefully, and he could clearly see the veins on his forearm throbbing because of the violent forging action.
"Old... lord..."
Zhang Ping once asked Hong Ying to tell Yuan Feifei not to call him master, but Yuan Feifei still called him smoothly, and he followed her.
He patted Yuan Feifei on the shoulder, pointed to the room, and made a gesture of grilling rice. Yuan Feifei said, "You want me to eat?"
Zhang Ping nodded, then turned and went into the blacksmith room.
Although Yuan Feifei was not hungry at all, he went back to the house and ate something.
While she was eating, there was the sound of hammering iron outside again, Yuan Feifei was a little curious, put down the bowl and chopsticks, sneaked into the courtyard, and looked inside through the crack of the door of the blacksmith room.
This time she learned the lesson from last time, she lowered her voice and suppressed her breath.
A foot away from the blacksmith room, Yuan Feifei felt a strong heat, mixed with a strong smell of iron, which made Yuan Feifei almost unable to open his eyes.
She endured it for a while, then looked inside again.
With his back to her, Zhang Ping stood in front of the iron stove, swinging a sledgehammer, pounding the hot iron one after another.
His arms swung round and round, and the lumps of flesh on his back moved accordingly.Sweat slid down one by one along the winding gullies.
Yuan Feifei was a little dumbfounded.
Every time Zhang Ping swung the hammer up and smashed it down again, it seemed to take the same amount of time, and there was not much deviation in the movements. This made the originally hard and piercing sound of smashing the iron inexplicably form an invisible rhythm, which made those who had been watching for a long time People slowly sink.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Ping's hammer slowly stopped.
Yuan Feifei came back to his senses, afraid that Zhang Ping would find him again, so he ran back to the house scrambling.
She sat at the table for a long time, and heard movement in the yard, but Zhang Ping never came in.She jumped off the stool, opened the door and looked out.
Zhang Ping stood by the water tank, took a wooden basin, scooped up half of the basin of water, and rinsed the body wipes on his shoulders in the water.
Yuan Feifei ran over, "Master!"
Without stopping, Zhang Ping turned his head and glanced at Yuan Feifei.
"Master, I'm going to boil a basin of hot water for you."
Zhang Ping grabbed Yuan Feifei who was about to run, and shook his head.He wrung out the cloth, wiped his face, and then wiped his body again.
Yuan Feifei watched his teeth tremble, "Master, it's so cold."
Zhang Ping turned his head, pressed Yuan Feifei's head once, and led her back to the house.
After he entered the room, he sat down at the table and ate up Yuan Feifei's leftover food in two bites.
Yuan Feifei thought of something, took out an ink stick from his clothes, and handed it to Zhang Ping, "Master, here it is!"
Zhang Ping took it, looked at it in his hand, and then looked at Yuan Feifei with some doubts.
Yuan Feifei said: "I won this!"
Zhang Ping still looked at her, and Yuan Feifei said: "The tricks in the academy, everyone plays together, hit a piece of cloth with a stone, with something painted on it, and it belongs to you if you hit it." Yuan Feifei said proudly, "I just threw two I hit it once, twice." After she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered the vinegar sugar cake she had eaten up, and pursed her lips again, and said with a guilty conscience, "But they were stingy, so they gave me a piece of ink."
After hearing this, Zhang Ping smiled lightly and patted Yuan Feifei on the back.
Yuan Feifei thought of something again, stretched out a finger, licked it in his mouth, and wrote something on the table, "Master, look!"
Zhang Ping looked down and saw the word "Zhang Ping" written crookedly on the wooden table.
He raised his head to look at Yuan Feifei, Yuan Feifei could see a little joy from that plain face.She proudly said: "This is the first thing I learned!"
Zhang Ping nodded, with a faint smile on his face.
Yuan Feifei said again: "I will learn more characters in the future! Then you will be able to talk to me!"
Zhang Ping was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Yuan Feifei fixedly. Yuan Feifei felt a little uncertain when he looked at him like this.
"old--"
As soon as she said a word, Zhang Ping leaned over.His big hands were inserted under Yuan Feifei's arms, and she was lifted high.
"Yeah!" Yuan Feifei laughed out loud.
"Ha!" Yuan Feifei looked at Zhang Ping from above. Zhang Ping lifted her so high with ease. She looked into Zhang Ping's eyes and said, "Master, you are happy." Are you trying to say Be happy in your heart.
After hearing what Yuan Feifei said, Zhang Ping didn't say anything, just nodded slightly.
Yuan Feifei suddenly felt that reading a book is not bad.
(End of this chapter)
Yuan Feifei firmly believed that his master, Zhang Ping, was a good man—for half a month.
Why did she change her mind half a month later?
Because Zhang Ping asked her to do something she least wanted to do.
In the few days before the bad news came, Yuan Feifei fully adapted to the life in Qishui City, and also adapted to this master who never had much work for her.She ran out to play every day after eating, and she played all day long.
In the evening of that day, Yuan Feifei went home for dinner. After the meal, Zhang Ping unexpectedly did not go to blacksmithing as usual, but cleaned up the table and pulled Yuan Feifei to sit in front of the table.
Yuan Feifei looked at him strangely, "What's wrong? What are you going to do?"
Zhang Ping settled her down, got up by himself, took a stack of things from the wooden shelf by the wall, and put them on the table.
Looking at the stack of papers, Yuan Feifei suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
Sure enough, after Zhang Ping put the paper away, he fetched the charcoal.
Yuan Feifei shouted: "You don't want me to learn to write, do you?"
Zhang Ping looked up at her and nodded.
Yuan Feifei shook his head quickly, and said in horror: "No, no, no! I don't want to learn!"
Zhang Ping ignored it and put the paper in front of Yuan Feifei.
Yuan Feifei tugged on Zhang Ping's sleeve, begging bitterly: "Master, if you don't learn Chinese characters, I won't learn Chinese characters."
At the beginning, Ma Banxian also planned to teach her calligraphy. He once told Yuan Feifei that although girls don't learn many Chinese characters, and it's not very useful, but for fortune-tellers like them, it's better to learn more. thing.He also told Yuan Feifei that if she didn't learn calligraphy, then he would not be able to pass on many of his skills to her.
Yuan Feifei was coaxed and deceived by him for a few days, but in the end, because she was too lazy, Ren Ma Banxian's mouth was worn out and she stopped using a pen.
"Master, let me go to work."
Yuan Feifei jumped off the stool and wanted to run out.As a result, Zhang Ping stretched out his long arms, fished for the moon in the water, and lifted Yuan Feifei to the stool again.
He handed her a small piece of hard coal.Yuan Feifei took it and held it in his hand without raising his hand.Zhang Ping tapped the rough paper in front of her.Yuan Feifei's back was also bent, his shoulders were slumped, and his eyes were lifeless.
Zhang Ping wrote two words on the paper and showed it to Yuan Feifei.
Yuan Feifei raised his eyelids and took a look, then said weakly: "I don't know."
Zhang Ping clicked some words, then pointed at himself.
Yuan Feifei finally became interested, "Is this Zhang Ping?"
Zhang Ping nodded.
Yuan Feifei took a few glances with his probe, then retracted again.
Zhang Ping raised his hand again and wrote a few words.
Yuan Feifei looked at it and said, "Yuan Feifei?"
Zhang Ping nodded slowly.
Yuan Feifei said: "Okay, okay, I recognize these two." She put the charcoal in her hand on the table, smiled at Zhang Pingdui, "Master, I know these two names enough, I will give them to you." You make tea." After finishing speaking, she wanted to run again.
Zhang Ping pulled her back again. This time, he frowned slightly and looked at Yuan Feifei seriously.
Yuan Feifei was a little frightened by him, and then straightened his back to support himself.
If you don't learn, you don't want to learn. Back then, Ma Banxian, who was so sneaky, couldn't do anything about it. Now Zhang Ping, who looks so honest, can do nothing to her.After a few days, he will not let himself learn.
Yuan Feifei stared at Zhang Ping.
After a while, Zhang Ping let go of his hand.Yuan Feifei breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was so.
"My lord, I'll make you some tea." When she saw Zhang Ping let go, she immediately jumped off the stool.This time Zhang Ping didn't stop her again.
Yuan Feifei happily ran to the kitchen to boil water, thinking that it was always worth it to persevere, Zhang Ping would not really do anything to her.
At that time, she really thought so...
In the next three days, Zhang Ping let her experience the difficulty of "persistence".
As soon as he put down his chopsticks every day, Zhang Ping would get up and fetch paper and charcoal. Whether Yuan Feifei wanted it or not, he would write a few words for her to read.
Only then did Yuan Feifei realize that this seemingly honest Zhang Ping was not so easy to talk to.
Yuan Feifei complained for a long time in her heart, thinking that Zhang Ping knew that she didn't want to practice calligraphy, but still forced her like this all day long.
After a few more days, Yuan Feifei couldn't take it anymore and finally did something wrong.She rarely admits her mistakes, or even realizes her mistakes, but this time, she really feels that she has done something wrong.
That night, Zhang Ping still took out the paper after dinner and wrote for her.
Yuan Feifei was very annoyed. Looking at Zhang Ping who was writing seriously, for some reason, the child's temper came up.
She slammed the lump of coal on the table.
Zhang Ping stopped short.
Yuan Feifei jumped off the stool and shouted at Zhang Ping: "I don't want to learn! Don't write for me anymore!"
Hearing her sudden yell, Zhang Ping was taken aback for a moment, then waved to Yuan Feifei, showing no sign of anger on his face.
Yuan Feifei twitched one corner of his mouth, sneered, and said, "You really have to teach me, don't you?"
Zhang Ping patted her shoulder lightly, and Yuan Feifei opened his palm with one hand.
"Okay, I'll learn from you." Yuan Feifei nodded, walked to the table in two steps, tore off the paper on the table, pointed to a word on it, and said to Zhang Ping, "Tell me, what does this word read?"
Zhang Ping closed his lips tightly and looked at her blankly.
Yuan Feifei said coldly: "Tell me! I don't know each other, how can I know if you don't tell me!"
Zhang Ping frowned slightly, clenched his hands into fists on his knees, and then loosened them again, repeating this many times.
Yuan Feifei threw the paper on him and ran out of the yard.
Zhang Pingku sat for a while before suddenly realizing that Yuan Feifei had disappeared when he went out to look for it again.
After Yuan Feifei rushed out of the yard, he ran a long, long way.She dared not look back.
Running all the way from South Street to the crossing, Yuan Feifei stopped panting.
It was already dark, but some storefronts were still lit with lanterns.
Yuan Feifei was in a hurry when he came out, so he didn't care, and only wore a single shirt.Standing on the street now, Yuan Feifei's whole body hurts from the cold wind.
She stood in the middle of the road, staring blankly at a wild tree beside the road. After a while, she walked slowly to the tree and squatted down along the tree roots.
She hugged her knees, with a self-defeating coldness on her face.
She thought to herself, if she didn't go back, would she be considered a fugitive slave?
If a fugitive slave was caught, it would be a death penalty.
"Tch." After thinking about it, Yuan Feifei snorted coldly, "I'm freezing to death, so I don't care if I run away or not."
"I won't do my best to raise you." Ma Banxian once said to Yuan Feifei, "You're a wolf cub. If you set your wildfire on fire, you won't be recognized by your relatives. Why should I raise you?"
At this moment, Yuan Feifei recalled Ma Banxian's words, and still felt very agreeable.
She can treat Zhang Ping so kindly to her so viciously, what animal thing can she not do?
"Frozen to death, I will freeze to death..." Yuan Feifei thought, "It's better to go find the donkey stick sooner."
After squatting for a long time, Yuan Feifei gradually could no longer feel the cold, her body became numb, and her consciousness gradually dimmed.Although she thought that death was fine, but when she was about to step into the gate of hell, she was a little scared.
It's just... Her eyelids slowly drooped, and her arms drooped.
The moment his fingertips were about to hit the ground, Yuan Feifei suddenly rose from the ground.She lost her mind and passed out.
Zhang Ping hugged Yuan Feifei who was a little stiff from the cold, wrapped her in a jacket, and walked home quickly.
Yuan Feifei knew he was not dead.
It was late at night when she opened her eyes.The nose was blocked, Yuan Feifei pinched it vigorously.
This is Zhang Ping's bed, Yuan Feifei knew it without looking.He got himself back.
Yuan Feifei felt that Zhang Ping was beside him, and he fell asleep.
Suddenly, she didn't want the dawn.
But God will not take her seriously.
Early the next morning, Yuan Feifei covered his face in the quilt and pretended not to wake up.
She clearly heard the crisp iron sounds of Westinghouse.Zhang Ping came in a few times, and every time he saw Yuan Feifei covering his head with a quilt, he went out again.
Yuan Feifei was so hungry that when Zhang Ping went out, she secretly got up and grabbed some breakfast on the table. She didn't dare to eat too much, for fear that Zhang Ping would find out and grab a few sticks every time.
In this way, she dawdled until noon.
Yuan Feifei heard the knock on the courtyard door, stuck his head out of the quilt, and pricked up his ears to listen to the movement outside.
"Brother Zhang Ping, it's rare for you to find your brother. What happened?"
Hong En people!Yuan Feifei quickly covered the quilt, tightly covered her ears, and dared not continue listening.
Zhang Ping is going to give himself back! ?
Yuan Feifei closed her eyes tightly, her heart beating violently.But she has moved the two taels of silver, and he wants her to return it, what should she do! ?
Yuan Feifei's heart was in a mess, and he was so annoyed that he kicked the quilt back and forth.
With a creak, the door opened.
Yuan Feifei immediately stopped moving.She heard someone coming in, and closed the door behind her.She dared not move.
"Little girl."
Yuan Feifei froze, it was Hong Ying.
Hong Ying came to the bed, patted the quilt, and said, "Stop pretending, you're trying to deceive us, you're looking down on us too much."
Yuan Feifei only acted as if he was dead, and did not move.
Hong Ying didn't force it, he withdrew his hand, sat on the edge of the bed, and said slowly: "Zhang Ping just told me."
Yuan Feifei thought to himself, sure enough!
Hong Yingdao: "Last night he went to my house to look for me and told me to come here today. I thought something serious happened, but it turned out to be your little girl."
Yuan Feifei couldn't hear his tone, but his heart was still flustered.
"He asked me to apologize to you, so don't blame him."
Yuan Feifei thought he heard it wrong.Apologize?Zhang Ping apologized to her?
Seeing that Yuan Feifei didn't respond, Hong Ying couldn't help being a little annoyed, "You girl, why are you so angry? No matter what he does, he is your master after all. It's not easy for a master to apologize to a maid, what else do you want?"
Yuan Feifei raised one side of the quilt, revealing a pair of puzzled eyes, "Why does he want to apologize to me?"
Hong Ying looked into her small eyes and said, "He said you don't want to learn calligraphy, but he keeps forcing you."
Yuan Feifei blinked.Indeed... but... "That's all he said?"
Hong Ying: "Ah."
Yuan Feifei was a little dazed.
Taking advantage of her daze, Hong Ying lifted the quilt with one hand, dragged her to the ground, bent over and said seriously: "Girl, do you know that I have never seen a master who eats and lives with his slaves, he treats you Not thin."
Yuan Feifei lowered his head and said "hmm".
"So..." Hong Ying said slowly, "You should repay him by learning calligraphy for him."
Yuan Feifei raised his eyes, "Learned for him?"
Hong Ying nodded, as if he didn't want Zhang Ping outside to hear it, so he lowered his voice and said, "Although he didn't say it, I can see it."
"what?"
"He wanted to talk to you, so he asked you to practice calligraphy."
Yuan Feifei's eyes widened.
Hong Ying said in a low voice: "This courtyard has been around for so many years, and there is no human voice at all. He treats you so well, so what if you just talk to him?"
Yuan Feifei was dumbfounded.
After a while, she thought of something and said to Hong Ying, "I can learn that."
"Which one?"
Yuan Feifei didn't know what to say, so he raised his hand and gesticulated in the air, "It's the one you and he used, I'll learn from that!"
Hong Ying understood what she meant, smiled, and said: "You will understand this in due time. Do you know how many years I have known Zhang Ping before I can understand what he means."
Yuan Feifei lowered his head.
Hong Ying patted Yuan Feifei's shoulder and said, "Girl..."
Before he finished speaking, Yuan Feifei interrupted him and said, "Got it, I just learn."
After hearing this, Hong Ying didn't say anything, but patted her on the shoulder vigorously again.
Hong Ying was really happy to have handled Zhang Ping's affairs so beautifully. He opened the door and pulled Yuan Feifei out.
Yuan Feifei followed Hong Ying stupidly, and when the door opened, she saw Zhang Ping standing by the edge of the yard.
He leaned quietly against the wall.
"Brother Zhang Ping, come here." Hong Ying greeted Zhang Ping with a smile, and Zhang Ping looked up.
Seeing his plain dark eyes, Yuan Feifei suddenly broke free from Hong Ying's hand and rushed towards Zhang Ping.
Unable to grasp the strength well, Yuan Feifei crashed into Zhang Ping's arms all at once.
Zhang Ping still carried the air-conditioning of winter, and also had some cold and hard taste unique to ironware.
Zhang Ping stood still and didn't shake much after being bumped by Yuan Feifei. He supported Yuan Feifei's shoulder.
Yuan Feifei buried himself in his clothes, and said sullenly, "Master, I'm learning to write!"
After she finished speaking, she secretly looked up at Zhang Ping, who happened to be looking straight at Zhang Ping with downcast eyes.
"master……"
Zhang Ping's face was still very flat, there was no trace of being angry with her, but after listening to Yuan Feifei's words, he felt a little joy.
Yuan Feifei hugged Zhang Ping's leg, thinking: Zhang Ping is really a good person!
On the night when Yuan Feifei made up his mind, he obediently sat at the table after eating and waited for his "torture".
Zhang Ping didn't bring the paper over like he did a few days ago.
Yuan Feifei looked at Zhang Ping and said, "Why don't you learn it?"
Zhang Ping waved his hand at her, gestured twice, pointed at her, and pointed at himself.Yuan Feifei didn't understand the meaning at all.
"What do you mean? You don't want to teach me anymore? Yuan Feifei thought that Zhang Ping was angry about what happened before, and jumped off the stool to Zhang Ping's feet, "I kowtow to you to admit my mistake!" "
After all, she bent her knees and was about to kneel down. Zhang Ping quickly grabbed her and shook his head at her.
"Are you mad at me?"
Zhang Ping nodded.
"Then why don't you teach me?"
Zhang Ping clasped his fingers, but also suffered from being unable to express his thoughts to Yuan Feifei. In the end, the two stared at each other all night without understanding the reason.
But it didn't take long for Yuan Feifei to understand.
Early that morning, Zhang Ping made an exception and woke up Yuan Feifei who was still sound asleep.Yuan Feifei wanted to rely on it, so Zhang Ping took the quilt away.
"Master..." Yuan Feifei had to get up from the bed, "Do you have work for me?"
Zhang Ping shook his head, pointed to the hot water basin beside him, Yuan Feifei pursed his lips, and went down to wash.
Just after eating, there was a knock on the door.
Yuan Feifei got up and went to open the door, "Is Hong Enren here?"
Zhang Ping grabbed her by the neck, pulled her back, straightened her clothes on the spot, and then led her to the courtyard together.
Yuan Feifei vaguely felt that something was unusual.
Zhang Ping opened the door, and there was a middle-aged man in a Confucian robe standing outside. The man had a kind face, a smile on his lips, and a calm appearance.
However, this is not the point.
Yuan Feifei stretched out his hand, pointed at the man, and shouted, "It's you!"
When the man saw Yuan Feifei when the door opened, he was also slightly taken aback, and then heard Yuan Feifei's words, he smiled lightly and said, "Hey, it's me."
Zhang Ping looked at Yuan Feifei, and Yuan Feifei said to him: "Master, I know him! He helped me bury the donkey stick!"
Zhang Ping was puzzled, and looked at the middle-aged man again. The man said in one sentence, "We met once."
Zhang Ping nodded and invited the man into the hospital.
Yuan Feifei went to make tea, and Zhang Ping led the man into the house.When Yuan Feifei boiled the water and made tea and brought it in, Zhang Ping was talking to the man with a pen and paper.
Seeing Yuan Feifei coming in, the man smiled and waved at her, "Girl, come here."
Yuan Feifei walked over, put tea in front of him, thought for a while, and said, "Drink tea."
The man smiled and said, "Girl, do you know who I am?"
Yuan Feifei shook his head, thinking, I don't care who you are.
The man said: "The elder, Qu Linyuan, is the teacher of Xiuwu Academy in Naizaki Water City."
Yuan Feifei let out an "oh".
Qu Linyuan said: "Now that you know my identity, you should also understand why I came here."
Yuan Feifei took a sneak peek at Zhang Ping, and then said "Oh".
Qu Linyuan folded his arms and looked at Yuan Feifei for a long time before saying: "You girl is also interesting."
After that, Zhang Ping and Qu Linyuan talked for a while, and not only Zhang Ping, but even Qu Linyuan stopped talking, and just took a piece of paper to write to each other.Yuan Feifei sat dryly at the side, and couldn't tell what they were talking about.
She seemed bored, so she drank tea from a teacup.After a while, the pot of tea was gone.
Yuan Feifei hiccupped, held the kettle and said, "I'll boil the water." She squatted in front of the stove, yawning.
"If you fall asleep, don't fall forward, the fire will burn you."
Yuan Feifei was shocked and turned his head away.
Qu Linyuan stood upright at the door of the kitchen, looking at her with a smile.
Yuan Feifei replied: "It's okay, I can't sleep."
Qu Linyuan went straight to the point: "You don't want me to teach you?"
Yuan Feifei: "It's not..."
Qu Linyuan chuckled and said, "Then why don't you have a happy expression?"
Yuan Feifei squinted at him, "Why should I be happy?"
Qu Linyuan said: "Many big families in Qishui City want to invite me to teach at home, but I have never accepted."
Yuan Feifei: "Then what are you doing here?" She stared at Qu Linyuan vigilantly, then stood up suddenly and said, "Did you see that the master is dumb and came to cheat him of money!"
Thanks to Qu Linyuan's good temper, he can still laugh at this time, "Although the girl is a little irritable, it's not bad to protect the Lord like this."
Yuan Feifei stared at Qu Linyuan viciously. Qu Linyuan's scalp was numb from her stare. He stretched out his hand to shield her from her sight, and said, "Don't think too much about it. Your master and I are old acquaintances, so I agreed to him."
Yuan Feifei squatted back.
"However, I came to you to ask you a question."
Yuan Feifei: "Ask what?"
Qu Linyuan said: "Would you like to pretend to be a boy and enter the academy to learn calligraphy?"
Yuan Feifei finally turned all his attention to Qu Linyuan, "What did you say?"
"Although I have promised Zhang Ping to teach you how to learn calligraphy, but I don't have much free time on weekdays. The most important thing is to learn characters persistently. Intermittently will get twice the result with half the effort. But this dynasty does not allow women to enter the academy, so let me ask, are you willing?" Pretend to be a boy and study in the academy?"
Yuan Feifei finally became interested, "A woman disguised as a man? Sounds interesting."
Qu Linyuan smiled and said, "Your master didn't ask you to play."
Yuan Feifei hehe said: "That's it."
That night, Qu Linyuan stayed at Zhang Ping's home for dinner.
After eating, Yuan Feifei cleaned up the table, and Zhang Ping sent Qu Linyuan away.
He sent Qu Linyuan all the way to the entrance of the alley. Under the moonlight, the black stone road in the alley occasionally shone brightly.
"Just send it here."
Zhang Ping stopped and bowed slightly to Qu Linyuan.
Qu Linyuan said: "You don't need to thank me, after all..." He paused, and then said, "After all, the Qu family—"
Qu Linyuan finished speaking halfway, Zhang Ping stretched out his hand and stopped the rest of his words.
"That's right, that's right," Qu Linyuan said again, "Who is that girl, I don't remember that you have any relatives."
Zhang Ping shook his head, and Qu Linyuan didn't investigate further.
"I have made an agreement with her, you can bring her to the academy tomorrow."
Zhang Ping nodded, and cupped his hands towards Qu Linyuan.
Back home, Yuan Feifei sat upright on the stool, staring at Zhang Ping without blinking.
Zhang Ping looked at her, thought it was a little funny, and patted her on the shoulder.
Yuan Feifei said decisively: "Master! You punish me!"
Zhang Ping was taken aback, and looked at her strangely.
Yuan Feifei said loudly: "You are still angry with me!"
Zhang Ping paused, then he remembered something, smiled and shook his head.
Yuan Feifei didn't believe it, "Then why did you find someone to teach me how to read?"
Zhang Ping pulled Yuan Feifei and took her to sit down.He stretched out a finger, pointed to his throat, waved his hand, made a writing gesture, and waved his hand again.
Yuan Feifei understood what he meant.
I can't speak, it's really inconvenient to teach you how to read.
Yuan Feifei was a little confused, "Okay, you don't teach if you say you don't want to teach, I'll learn from that person."
Zhang Ping patted her.
The next day, Yuan Feifei woke up very early, Zhang Ping took cloth strips to wrap her head, but failed several times, Yuan Feifei almost fell asleep again while sitting.
"Okay, okay, I'll do it myself." Yuan Feifei took a strip of cloth from Zhang Ping's hand, and tied it up with two swipes.
Zhang Ping looked slightly embarrassed.
Yuan Feifei put on her clothes and straightened her back in front of Zhang Ping.
She was wearing a light blue blouse, and her hair was tied up high.Before she was hungry and full, she was sallow and thin, but now Zhang Pingyi has adjusted her to make her fatter, her face is bright red, her eyes are shining brightly, she looks very clever.
An eight-year-old baby is exactly the age when male and female are indistinguishable, and Yuan Feifei is a thief at first, so it is really hard to tell the difference when pretending to be a boy.
Zhang Ping nodded and led her out.Ever since Yuan Feifei came here, Zhang Ping had never taken her out during the day, so even though this trip was only to the academy, Yuan Feifei was still in high spirits.
After walking for too long, they came to a secluded house with a few old trees planted at the door. Even in winter, they were still slightly green, making them very eye-catching.
There is a long plaque on the facade with four characters written on it.
Although Yuan Feifei couldn't read, he guessed that it said Xiuwu Academy.
Zhang Ping came to the entrance of the yard, and Yuan Feifei followed behind.
She heard the sound of children reading in the yard.
Before entering the academy, Yuan Feifei was already getting annoyed by hearing the long reading.But Zhang Ping was by her side, she resisted the urge to roll her eyes, and lowered her head obediently.
There was no door in the courtyard, so Zhang Ping led Yuan Feifei in.
This academy is much larger than Zhang Ping's small workshop, and the layout is very particular, with pavilions, corridors, rockery and small steps, very elegant.
Zhang Ping and Yuan Feifei met Qu Linyuan in the main hall of the academy.
There are seven or eight small tables in the hall, and there is a little boy sitting in front of each small table, holding a booklet, shaking his head and reading.On the main seat in the main hall, Qu Linyuan sat relaxedly on the master's chair, with a tea set in hand, which was still steaming in the winter.
Seeing Zhang Ping and Yuan Feifei, Qu Linyuan got up to meet them.With a slight smile on his face, he only said to Zhang Ping: "Leave it to me."
Zhang Ping nodded, and gave Yuan Feifei a slight push behind his back.
Yuan Feifei's attention was not here, she had been looking at the people in the hall.
Because Qu Linyuan was out of the house, many children were distracted. Although they were still reading, their eyes secretly glanced at Yuan Feifei.
However, there was one child who did not.Yuan Feifei looked at the figure sitting upright in the front row. He was the one who sat the most upright among all the people, holding a booklet in his hand, and reading as if he had entered the realm of no one.
She didn't react until Zhang Ping pushed her back.
Qu Linyuan led Yuan Feifei to an empty table, and said in a low voice, "Come on, sit here first, and I'll get you some paper, pen and ink."
Yuan Feifei sat down, Qu Linyuan went into the inner room to get things, Yuan Feifei turned his head and found that Zhang Ping was no longer there.
whispering sound……
"Hi, are you new here?"
Yuan Feifei squinted at the little boy who was secretly talking to her.
"Yes, what's the matter?"
The boy said: "Which family are you from?"
Yuan Feifei didn't bother to talk to him.
The boy said to himself: "My name is Jiang Zhenyue, why have I never seen you in the city?"
Yuan Feifei tilted his mouth at him, and said with a smile, "I haven't seen you either."
The boy wanted to say something more, but when Qu Linyuan came back, he hurriedly turned his head away.Qu Linyuan put the things he took in front of Yuan Feifei, and said, "Use these first."
Yuan Feifei let out an "oh".
Then Qu Linyuan clapped his hands, the voice of reading in the room slowly stopped, and everyone looked at him.
Qu Linyuan smiled and said: "Everyone rest for a while, I brought you a junior brother for the teacher."
In a word, all eyes were on Yuan Feifei.
Yuan Feifei looked like a dead fish, piled together.
"This is the young master of the Zhang Family Iron Shop, Yuan Fei."
The children in the school all stared at Yuan Feifei curiously.
Yuan Feifei glanced casually, and suddenly saw a person.
The boy who sat in the front row just now with his back straight was staring at her in horror, as if he had seen a ghost.
And when Yuan Feifei saw that white little man, a smile appeared on his originally weak face.
On that day, when the hall was closed, Qu Linyuan left, and all the children from the academy came over, asking questions around Yuan Feifei.
"We have been studying for a long time, why did you come to the academy at this time?"
"Mr. Qu will get you the pen and ink himself."
"Where is your home in the city? I've never heard of an iron shop!"
"..."
Yuan Feifei raised his eyelids, glanced at the boy standing closest, and said, "What's your name?"
The boy was asked inexplicably by her, and subconsciously said: "Zhang Yu."
"Hey," Yuan Feifei was delighted to hear that, patted Zhang Yu, and said, "It's the same surname as my master."
Zhang Yu was taken aback for a moment, and then said "Oh".
The child's heat came and went quickly, and after a while everyone ran to the yard to play.Yuan Feifei turned his head and looked at the last person left.
"Hello." Yuan Feifei grinned and called out.
Yuan Feifei's refreshing voice floated back and forth in the empty hall, and finally fell into Pei Yun's ears.Pei Yun's back was stiff, and she sat upright in front of the wooden table without moving.
Yuan Feifei didn't even get up, and spoke to his back from behind, "Do you still remember me?"
Where Yuan Feifei couldn't see, Pei Yun tightly pinched the letter with her fingers, her knuckles turned white.
"Forget it so soon? It's not long since we met." Yuan Feifei sat on the mat with his palms on the ground, "Huh? Weeping buns."
"Shut up!" Pei Yun was poked in the sore spot, and turned her head to stare at Yuan Feifei.
Yuan Feifei was not frightened at all, looked at Pei Yun whose face was flushed with anger, and said with a smile, "Tsk, your face is flushed like this, is it possible that you are going to cry again?"
Pei Yun was so angry that the hand holding the book trembled.
Yuan Feifei raised his feet and said, "What, you are not allowed to say anything?"
Pei Yun gritted her teeth and stared at Yuan Feifei.
Yuan Feifei put his foot down, and just when he was about to say something, Zhang Yu came in.After he entered the house, he walked towards Yuan Feifei.
Yuan Feifei glanced at him, and Zhang Yu said, "Do you want to hit stones with us?"
Yuan Feifei glanced at Pei Yun, who had already turned his head away.
Zhang Yu took Yuan Feifei's arm, "Come here."
Yuan Feifei said "Okay" and walked out of the house with Zhang Yu.When she was about to leave, she turned her head and glanced at Pei Yun again. He had his back to her, holding a letter in his hand, as if he was absorbed in reading.
"Zhang Yu." Yuan Feifei followed Zhang Yu out, and said casually, "There is one left, why don't we call together?"
Zhang Yu frowned.
"Don't deal with that man."
With obvious disgust in his tone, Yuan Feifei heard it strangely and asked, "Who is that man?"
Zhang Yu seemed extremely reluctant to mention Pei Yun, and said, "It's not from a decent family after all."
Yuan Feifei became even more curious, "Hey, it's just being honest, it looks very expensive!"
Zhang Yu snorted coldly, and muttered in a low voice: "The people who came out of that dirty place, no matter how expensive they are? They're not all smelly."
Yuan Feifei wondered, "Is his family selling fish?"
Zhang Yu was originally full of resentment, but when he heard Yuan Feifei's words, he burst into laughter, "Ha, selling fish, you can figure it out."
Yuan Feifei laughed and said, "What's the matter, isn't it?"
Zhang Yu restrained his expression and said in a low voice: "He is the third son of Jinlou."
Yuan Feifei's eyes lit up, "Gold Building?"
Zhang Yu turned his head, "You don't even know Jinlou, do you?"
Of course Yuan Feifei knew that when she and Ma Banxian came to Qishui City, the first place they went was the Golden Tower.
Every time Ma Banxian went to a new place, he would play around the local Firework Lane before settling down, which is called exploring the secluded road.The price of the Golden Tower is surprisingly expensive, Ma Banxian went there once, and when he came back, he almost beat his chest.
Yuan Feifei cut to the chase, "Does his family run a brothel?"
Zhang Yu let out a "hmm".
Yuan Feifei thought back on the magnificent pavilion, and said to himself, how much money is this crying bag worth.After a sigh, she was a little indignant again.It's so good to be rich, thinking that if she, Yuan Feifei, had so much money, her nostrils would have to go towards the sky.
In a few words, they had come to the backyard, where several schoolchildren were throwing stones at a wall.
Yuan Feifei glanced at it. There was a piece of cloth hanging on the wall with some strange patterns drawn on it. She asked Zhang Yu, "What is this?"
Zhang Yu explained to her: "Have you ever played with rocks?" He pointed to the cloth on the wall and said, "Look, the objects painted on the wall."
Yuan Feifei looked over, but the pattern had been smeared with lime, and she couldn't see anything at all. She shook her head and said, "I don't recognize it, tell me how to play it."
Zhang Yudao: "The four corners of the painting hold the capital, and if you hit it, it belongs to you."
Yuan Feifei was confused, "Be more careful."
It turns out that "hitting stones" is a trick used by the students of Xiuwu Academy to pass the time. Every day, one person takes turns to be the host, and draws the objects they have pressed on the four corners of a two-foot-square cloth, and the others stand in the distance. Throw stones at a distance of three feet, and win what you hit.
After Zhang Yu finished explaining, he patted himself on the chest and said, "It's my turn to be the host today, and I pressed two squares of ink from Yuande Mozhuang, as well as folding fans from Liren Bookstore and vinegar sugar cake from Tian Sufang.
Yuan Feifei's eyes widened, "Vinegar cake?"
Zhang Yu looked at her strangely, and said: "Everyone wants the ink sticks from Yuande Mozhuang, why do you like the cakes that make up the number?"
Yuan Feifei shook his head, and said calmly: "No, who likes it."
Zhang Yudao: "Do you want to give it a try?"
Yuan Feifei cleared his throat pretentiously, and when he was about to agree, one of the schoolboys noticed something, pointed behind Yuan Feifei and Zhang Yu and said, "Hey, isn't this Mr. Pei?"
Yuan Feifei turned his head, just in time to see Pei Yun standing behind him, his face was solemn, when everyone turned to look at him, he obviously took a step back, wanting to leave.
The schoolboy who called him didn't let go, "Young Master Pei has always looked down on our tricks, why did you come here by yourself today?"
Another student standing beside him echoed: "Could it be that you are willing to show your face and play with us?"
Pei Yun's face was a little ugly, and she said, "I don't play."
"That's right, that's right." The schoolboy said, "Young Master Pei is a rich man, so naturally he can't play with people like us."
Pei Yun frowned and said, "I didn't say that."
Another person said: "How is that? Hey, could it be that Mr. Pei also contracted a woman's disease, his body is delicate and weak, and he can't even throw a stone?"
After he finished speaking, although the people around him didn't laugh, they all lowered their heads and smiled sullenly.
Pei Yun's face was livid, she gritted her teeth and said, "Who can't throw stones anymore!"
The schoolboy weighed the stone in his hand a few times and said, "Then come."
In the past, Pei Yun would not be so easy to fall for the tricks of provocative generals, and today she doesn't know what happened. After being ridiculed and ridiculed for a few words, she really rolled up her sleeves and walked over.
When the schoolchildren saw him coming, they were stunned for a moment.The schoolboy with the most venomous words was the first to react and threw a stone at Pei Yun.
Pei Yun didn't catch it, and the stone fell to the ground. He bent down to pick it up, while a group of people were watching.
Yuan Feifei stood at the back, silently looking at Pei Yun's figure.
Pei Yun held the stone and threw it out forcefully.
Everyone's eyes circled around the stone, and finally landed on the wall.
"Haha, this is too far away. I said, Mr. Pei, look carefully." Everyone leaned forward happily.
In fact, following the position where the stone flew out, it was not difficult to see that Pei Yun wanted to smash the ink stick in the upper left corner, but it was his first time playing this, and his body was really weak, and he lacked strength, so he couldn't throw it far.
Pei Yun blushed again amidst the laughter.He silently picked up another piece from the ground and threw it out viciously.
The stone is off again.
Pei Yun gritted her teeth and wanted to pick up stones, but a schoolboy standing beside him stopped him and said, "Farewell Mr. Pei, our rule here is that each person can only throw it once, and it is an exception for you to throw it twice."
Pei Yun's face was stiff, and she whispered, "I'll throw it again."
The schoolboy frowned and said, "Look at the way you threw it just now, so what if you throw it a few more times?"
Pei Yun also had self-knowledge, but he couldn't swallow his breath, after all, he was the one who came here first, "I—"
"Snapped!"
When Pei Yun couldn't get off the tiger, a crisp sound came, and everyone looked in the direction of the sound subconsciously. The small stone was falling to the ground, and the square cloth was still trembling above it.In the upper left corner of the square cloth, a fresh imprint is clearly smashed in the very center of the pattern.
"Hey, it's farther than I thought."
Everyone turned their heads and looked at Yuan Feifei who was rubbing his wrist at the end.
Zhang Yu beside her opened her eyes even wider.
"You... you can throw everything from here!?"
Yuan Feifei squinted at him, "Didn't you see it?"
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but in the end they all left Pei Yun and came towards Yuan Feifei.
"Wow, it's really far away here." A schoolboy stood beside Yuan Feifei and made a gesture towards the wall.
"It must have been a stroke of luck, how did it happen to be hit?"
The schoolchildren said one after another: "You throw it again, throw it again."
Yuan Feifei lazily said: "Didn't it mean that each person can only throw it once?"
The schoolboy who spoke just now waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about those, just throw one away."
Yuan Feifei picked up a stone, and said to Zhang Yu, "Then if I miss it this time, can I return the thing?"
Zhang Yu straightened his back and said, "The hit is yours!"
Before Zhang Yu finished speaking, Yuan Feifei's stone had already been shot.
"Crack!" There was another crisp sound, and the lower right corner of Fang Bu was hit.
"..."
"Wow!" The schoolchildren were very surprised to see Yuan Feifei missed again.
"Yuan Fei, you are amazing!"
"Bravo."
"..."
Yuan Feifei pretended to smile meaninglessly, and said, "It's nothing, good luck, good luck."
You don't believe this.
"Tell me what's the secret!"
"Yes, tell us about it!"
Of course Yuan Feifei would not tell them that this move was practiced when Ma Banxian took her to smash the bird's nest.With an idea, she said, "My master taught me this."
"Your master?"
"Well, Zhang Ping."
"Why is he your master? Isn't he your father? Mr. Qu said you are the young master of the Zhang family."
"Ah..." Yuan Feifei smiled lightly and said, "It's my father, but I like to call him Master since I was a child."
The schoolchildren didn't bother to care so much, and immediately said, "Then how did he teach you?"
Yuan Feifei said casually: "It's all accumulated on weekdays, and I have forgotten it."
The schoolchildren looked at her disappointedly.
Yuan Feifei rushed to Zhang Yu and said, "Come on, give me the things first."
Zhang Yu was also unambiguous, and directly fetched ink sticks and vinegar sugar cake, "Here, here you are."
Yuan Feifei took it, and said in a low voice: "Oh, I threw it crookedly, I wanted two pieces of ink."
Zhang Yu happened to hear it, and said haha: "How can I make you proud."
Yuan Feifei got the vinegar cake and couldn't wait to eat it, so he said to Zhang Yu: "My master still has something to do, so I'll go back first."
Zhang Yu nodded, "That's good."
Yuan Feifei happily walked back with the vinegar cake in his hands.
After leaving the academy, her pace suddenly slowed down.
"Come here, come over here." She watched Pei Yun follow out without any surprise, and called Pei Yun aside.
Pei Yun's face recovered a bit, although it was still tense, it was different from before.
"you--"
"many--"
The two spoke at the same time and stopped at the same time.
Pei Yun glanced at Yuan Feifei and said in a low voice, "You go ahead."
Yuan Feifei walked up to Pei Yun in two steps, narrowing his eyes into a sharp line, "I said crying buns, I came here because Qu Linyuan and the master agreed. If you dare to expose me and cause trouble for my master, I will kill you." tear your face apart."
Pei Yun raised her head abruptly, her eyes filled with disbelief.
Yuan Feifei thought he was frightened, and said again: "Don't think I'm talking nonsense, I can really do it."
"You, that's all you want to say?" Pei Yun's face felt uncomfortable again, and her eyes were flushed.
Yuan Feifei crossed his arms, thought for a while, and handed the ink stick in his hand to Pei Yun, "I'm not unreasonable, this is for you, don't you want it? After you take it, you can't tell others about me. thing."
Finally Pei Yun couldn't bear it any longer, and didn't answer the ink, she just said angrily to Yuan Feifei: "Who will talk about you!"
After speaking, he turned his head and left.
Looking at his angry back, Yuan Feifei thought to himself, it's really inexplicable.
Yuan Fei flew home, she wanted to leave the vinegar cake and eat it with Zhang Ping.But along the way, the smell of vinegar and sugar cake wafted under his nose, Yuan Feifei endured and endured, and finally couldn't hold back.
"I'll just take a bite, just a bite..."
Yuan Feifei licked his tongue, put the vinegar sugar cake to his mouth and took a bite.Then took a second bite...
No matter how small her mouth was, even a piece of pastry couldn't help her nibbling on it over and over again, and within a few bites, she ate the vinegar sugar cake until there were only crumbs left.
Yuan Feifei: "..." Forget it, I'll hit a few more next time.
Yuan Feifei returned to the alleyway in front of the house, and heard the sound of hammering iron from a long distance away.
A few days ago Zhang Ping had been polishing the iron, but he hadn't really hit the iron, and Yuan Feifei had never heard such a loud sound.
She stood at the door and knocked on the courtyard door.
The sound of iron hammering in the courtyard stopped.
After a while, the door opened.
Zhang Ping stood in the courtyard, Yuan Feifei looked at him, his eyes widened in novelty.Zhang Ping wore very little clothes, but he didn't feel cold at all. He even radiated heat from his body and was dripping with sweat.
Zhang Ping welcomed Yuan Feifei in, and raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his face.
Yuan Feifei looked at his bare arms, twisted into a solid and powerful bend during the movement.Yuan Feifei looked carefully, and he could clearly see the veins on his forearm throbbing because of the violent forging action.
"Old... lord..."
Zhang Ping once asked Hong Ying to tell Yuan Feifei not to call him master, but Yuan Feifei still called him smoothly, and he followed her.
He patted Yuan Feifei on the shoulder, pointed to the room, and made a gesture of grilling rice. Yuan Feifei said, "You want me to eat?"
Zhang Ping nodded, then turned and went into the blacksmith room.
Although Yuan Feifei was not hungry at all, he went back to the house and ate something.
While she was eating, there was the sound of hammering iron outside again, Yuan Feifei was a little curious, put down the bowl and chopsticks, sneaked into the courtyard, and looked inside through the crack of the door of the blacksmith room.
This time she learned the lesson from last time, she lowered her voice and suppressed her breath.
A foot away from the blacksmith room, Yuan Feifei felt a strong heat, mixed with a strong smell of iron, which made Yuan Feifei almost unable to open his eyes.
She endured it for a while, then looked inside again.
With his back to her, Zhang Ping stood in front of the iron stove, swinging a sledgehammer, pounding the hot iron one after another.
His arms swung round and round, and the lumps of flesh on his back moved accordingly.Sweat slid down one by one along the winding gullies.
Yuan Feifei was a little dumbfounded.
Every time Zhang Ping swung the hammer up and smashed it down again, it seemed to take the same amount of time, and there was not much deviation in the movements. This made the originally hard and piercing sound of smashing the iron inexplicably form an invisible rhythm, which made those who had been watching for a long time People slowly sink.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Ping's hammer slowly stopped.
Yuan Feifei came back to his senses, afraid that Zhang Ping would find him again, so he ran back to the house scrambling.
She sat at the table for a long time, and heard movement in the yard, but Zhang Ping never came in.She jumped off the stool, opened the door and looked out.
Zhang Ping stood by the water tank, took a wooden basin, scooped up half of the basin of water, and rinsed the body wipes on his shoulders in the water.
Yuan Feifei ran over, "Master!"
Without stopping, Zhang Ping turned his head and glanced at Yuan Feifei.
"Master, I'm going to boil a basin of hot water for you."
Zhang Ping grabbed Yuan Feifei who was about to run, and shook his head.He wrung out the cloth, wiped his face, and then wiped his body again.
Yuan Feifei watched his teeth tremble, "Master, it's so cold."
Zhang Ping turned his head, pressed Yuan Feifei's head once, and led her back to the house.
After he entered the room, he sat down at the table and ate up Yuan Feifei's leftover food in two bites.
Yuan Feifei thought of something, took out an ink stick from his clothes, and handed it to Zhang Ping, "Master, here it is!"
Zhang Ping took it, looked at it in his hand, and then looked at Yuan Feifei with some doubts.
Yuan Feifei said: "I won this!"
Zhang Ping still looked at her, and Yuan Feifei said: "The tricks in the academy, everyone plays together, hit a piece of cloth with a stone, with something painted on it, and it belongs to you if you hit it." Yuan Feifei said proudly, "I just threw two I hit it once, twice." After she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered the vinegar sugar cake she had eaten up, and pursed her lips again, and said with a guilty conscience, "But they were stingy, so they gave me a piece of ink."
After hearing this, Zhang Ping smiled lightly and patted Yuan Feifei on the back.
Yuan Feifei thought of something again, stretched out a finger, licked it in his mouth, and wrote something on the table, "Master, look!"
Zhang Ping looked down and saw the word "Zhang Ping" written crookedly on the wooden table.
He raised his head to look at Yuan Feifei, Yuan Feifei could see a little joy from that plain face.She proudly said: "This is the first thing I learned!"
Zhang Ping nodded, with a faint smile on his face.
Yuan Feifei said again: "I will learn more characters in the future! Then you will be able to talk to me!"
Zhang Ping was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Yuan Feifei fixedly. Yuan Feifei felt a little uncertain when he looked at him like this.
"old--"
As soon as she said a word, Zhang Ping leaned over.His big hands were inserted under Yuan Feifei's arms, and she was lifted high.
"Yeah!" Yuan Feifei laughed out loud.
"Ha!" Yuan Feifei looked at Zhang Ping from above. Zhang Ping lifted her so high with ease. She looked into Zhang Ping's eyes and said, "Master, you are happy." Are you trying to say Be happy in your heart.
After hearing what Yuan Feifei said, Zhang Ping didn't say anything, just nodded slightly.
Yuan Feifei suddenly felt that reading a book is not bad.
(End of this chapter)
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