"Do you need to read these books in the exam?" Bai Yitang flipped through the books on Li Baolu's bookcase, and said with some headache, "When will I be able to finish reading so many books? Can I make it in a month?"

"I've read all these books, but it's just a review so that I won't forget them, and I can learn new things." Li Baolu put away the books, looked at him and asked, "Master, don't you want to see the five Baoding brothers? Come to my study room?"

"Oh, my teacher has already seen them." Bai Yitang still took her book and flipped through it, and said indifferently: "You are right, although they are robbers, they are not bad people, and the people they rob are not bad people. They deserve what they deserve, and they have the same effect as our master and apprentice. After they lived in Baoding, they didn't want to do this business anymore, and now they live on a few acres of land."

  Bai Yitang dropped the book in his hand, wrote down the title, and then flipped through the other books, "I went to read it for the teacher, they had a good time..."

  Bai Yitang shook his head, tsk tut, "It's too hard to describe."

After helping Li Baolu raid the house and get a house and some money, the five brothers bought some fields and a shop in Baoding. They planned to live in peace. After the five brothers married their wives and lived together, they could take care of each other. Even if there is no foundation in Baoding, the five brothers will not dare to bully them together.

  Who knows that they have neither the ability to farm, nor the experience of the shop, and the days have gotten worse over the years.

  Although there are fields, lands, shops and houses, in addition to being more secure, the food and clothing are not as good as when they had no permanent property.

   But the five brothers are unwilling to do such a thing again, and they managed to get out of it, where would they be willing to do that kind of work of holding their heads up and going to prison at any time?

Bai Yitang went to see it and couldn't help shaking his head in his heart. His life was much worse than he was. He thought that in Qiongzhou, he had nothing and no longer steals, but he lived happily just by hunting. , I didn't think there was anything before, but now, seeing how these five brothers lived their lives like that, Bai Yitang couldn't help but admire himself.

   I feel that I am really a person who can live a good life. Well, if Qin Wenyin is willing to marry him, life should not be hard.

Bai Yitang thought happily, wrote down the titles of the books on Baolu's table, and said, "We have already discussed with them for the teacher, we will pay them monthly wages, and they will go south to buy cotton and linen fabrics for us, and then recruit them. Just some guys. They travel from south to north, they are particularly familiar with mountain roads, they have been robbers themselves, they are very familiar with this industry, and they even have favors on some hills in the south. The most important thing is that their monthly money is not high, which is comparable to hiring escorts. Much cheaper."

   "Now we don't have the capital, so we can only grieve them temporarily," Li Baolu said, "We should give them some bonuses to make up for our business. Of course, if we can't do it, let's go."

   "Crowzui, how could the business you do for your teacher lose money?"

"Yeah, yeah, you won't lose if you have a wise and wise master. But Master, I only know that you are interested in doing business recently. Why are you also interested in books now?" Li Baolu watched as the table was turned over asked the book again.

  Bai Yitang coughed lightly, lowered his voice and asked, "How about the gentleman who asked your mother-in-law to take the academy exam too?"

  Li Baolu's eyes widened slightly.

Bai Yitang sighed and said, "I see her at home reading books and playing the piano every day in addition to playing with Niuniu. Her former friends even refused to ask her out, and she always had a smile on her face, but I don't think she really How happy you are. Didn't you say that she was once a talented woman in Qingxi Academy, and she was once crowned the capital? I think she might be happier if she could return to the academy. "

   "That's right!" Li Baolu slapped the table fiercely, "I didn't expect this, my mother's talent is admired even by my aunt. She is much better now, and she can go to the academy to teach."

"When Brother Jingyun comes back in the evening, I will tell him that he is a gentleman from the academy, and it will be clearer whether my mother can take the test." Li Baolu's eyes were shining brightly, "If my mother-in-law also went to teach at the academy, I would be able to pass the test too. , then our family of three will be all gentlemen."

  Li Baolu tilted her head to look at Bai Yitang, and said thoughtfully, "Master, do you want to try it too?"

   Bai Yitang rolled his eyes and said, "Shall I teach them how to steal?"

   "No, your kung fu is so good, you can teach them martial arts."

Bai Yitang shook his head, "The martial arts of the academy are all about bowing, horse riding, and shooting, mainly to adapt to the war. The one-on-one kung fu in the rivers and lakes is naturally much better than theirs, but it is not suitable for the army, so no matter how good my kung fu is, I If you don’t understand the way of the military, the academy will not admit it. Besides, I don’t like to teach students.”

  Bai Yitang looked at his apprentice and sighed: "I'll spend all my energy to teach you one, and then teach a group of soft, delicate and delicate officials and young ladies, I'm afraid I will die prematurely."

  Li Baolu also remembered her painful teaching experience when she was a child, and pouted: "Master, obviously you don't know how to teach people. I think Brother Jingyun is more like a person who taught me martial arts than you."

  Li Baolu practiced martial arts when she was a child, but Bai Yitang didn't have that much patience. As soon as she couldn't learn it, he became irritable.

   No matter how he explained the martial arts, she half understood and half understood, and even if she understood, she would not be able to practice, she was simply worried to death for him.

   In the end, it was Gu Jingyun who understood first and then taught her slowly. It took half a year to develop a little bit of energy. After a thousand miles, the latecomers came out on top, revealing extraordinary martial arts talent.

But in fact, Bai Yitang still doesn't understand what happened to his apprentice. Although it is difficult to get started in martial arts, she can develop qi in three months with ordinary talent. It is obvious that she has a strong understanding ability and is diligent. , He also has martial arts talent, but he just can't get enough energy to practice life and death.

   Once he practiced it, his inner strength would converge into a river like a trickle, and his speed was more than twice as fast as he was back then.

   At that time, he was frightened, for fear that she would enter the country too quickly and go crazy, so he often guarded her when she practiced, and even reduced the number and time of going out.

  Because of getting along day and night, his affection for these two children gradually deepened, and he almost regarded them as his own children.

Li Baolu didn't know that Master was distracted, she was happily walking between the bookshelves, and said happily: "Master, my mother-in-law is not like me, she is an all-rounder, poetry, poetry, chess, calligraphy and painting, classics and history, she can do everything, she can report. There are only a lot of subjects, I will prepare all the books you need, and you will carry them to the Qin Mansion in a while, and let her choose the two subjects she is most interested in and liked the most to apply."

Li Baolu came out with the books on first base and piled them on the table, Bai Yitang couldn't help laughing at her cheerful appearance, "I just thought about it, I haven't asked her what she meant, how can I bring so many books to my door? , and you also said that she has read all these books, she may not need to read them again. Also, these books should be available in the Qin Mansion, where can I bring them from here?"

   He wrote down the title of the book because he wanted to find some to read for himself. When he went to Qin Wenyin, he had a topic to chat with her, and by the way, he helped her choose two more books.

Li Baolu took the books in her arms and put them in his arms, "Master, it doesn't matter if my mother-in-law wants to read these books, if you send them over, it shows that you always take her to heart, whether she needs it or not, you can coax her anyway. Just be happy."

Bai Yitang thought for a while, then nodded and said, "That's right, then you can prepare more for me. Since there is still music, why don't you prepare a piano for me as well, I remember that there was a piano hanging in Jingyun's study. , it's good to hear him play the tone before."

   Li Baolu looked at him speechlessly, "Master, that qin was given to Brother Jingyun by the prince."

   "Seeing the teacher, you say, do you choose me or him?"

   Li Baolu said with an embarrassed expression: "Since Master insists on me choosing one, even if my heart aches, then I can only choose Brother Jingyun."

   Bai Yitang swept over one leg, Li Baolu jumped away, couldn't help laughing and said: "Master, I am teasing you, I must choose you, wait, I will go hold the piano for you."

   "Holding what?" A faint voice with a smile came, Gu Jingyun clasped his hands, leaning against the door in a wide-sleeved cloud robe and looking at the master and apprentice with a smile.

  Li Baolu jumped up beside him and said, "Master has taken a fancy to the guqin in your study, and is urging me to help him steal it."

   "Dare to frame me in front of my face. Believe it or not, the teacher will expel you from the teacher's door?" Bai Yitang put the book in his arms on the table, and when he rolled up his sleeves, he was about to beat her.

  Li Baolu hid behind Gu Jingyun and said with a smile: "I'm the head of the family now, who dares to chase me?"

  Gu Jingyun looked at their master and apprentice making a fuss with amusement, stopped in front of Li Baolu and asked with a smile, "Master didn't only like Xiaodi all the time, but recently you want to learn Guqin?"

  Li Baolu stuck his head out from behind him and said, "Master wants to borrow flowers to offer Buddha."

"It turned out to be a gift to my mother," Gu Jingyun pulled her out from behind, took her hand into the room and said, "Mother really likes the melody, especially the Aiqin. Master's flowers are a good gift. But what does Master plan to do? What's the reason for sending it?"

   "Master wants to persuade my mother to go to the academy with me for the exam," Li Baolu looked at him with bright eyes and said, "Is that okay?"

   Gu Jingyun smiled slightly, and said after a long thought: "It's not impossible. The academy considers talent first and then morality. Needless to say, the mother's talent is not flawed, and it is not difficult to understand."

   "Actually? What about in reality?"

Gu Jingyun sighed, "There are so many slanderous words in the world, even if the mother is right, because she is a woman, and because she returned to Beijing, Gu Huaijin was forced to change her divorce book to a divorce book, and some people felt that she was unkind and too hostile. , the academy's gentleman puts morality first, and it's a bit difficult to be a mother."

  Bai Yitang frowned and said with a slight anger, "Are those people blind and blind? Your mother was treated like that by the Zhongyong Houfu. Could it be that she has to be grateful to them to be considered generous?"

Gu Jingyun smiled and said: "Master don't need to be angry, we don't need to pay attention to such people, don't you care if you don't see my mother? But we don't care, but the academy will. After all, they are teaching and educating people, and women's schools reopen This is already a bit of a hindrance, and if we recruit more criticized gentlemen, it will be even more difficult for this women’s school to continue.”

"But it's not impossible," Gu Jingyun said while rubbing Li Baolu's hand: "The most important thing in the Qin family is connections. If you want public opinion to be overturned, it is easy to prevent the academy from being affected by rumors outside. That's all. But I still have to ask my mother about it first. If she really wants to do this, I, as a son, will naturally take action to clear the way for her. "

   Bai Yitang immediately said, "I'll go ask her."

  Gu Jingyun nodded.

   "What about me, what about me?" Li Baolu looked at him with bright eyes and said, "I quarreled with Mr. Huang to the point that everyone knows it, will it affect my character?"

"Hahaha..." Gu Jingyun slapped her nose and laughed loudly: "Remembering this now? I thought you were not afraid of the sky and earth, don't worry, you are still young, so it's a matter of your husband arguing with your peers. What's the big deal?"

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