In the past three months, he ate ginseng and bird’s nest every day, and applied facial cream every morning and evening. Finally, his face has a bit of his previous life’s contours. Although there is still a 70% gap from his previous life’s appearance, it has finally changed from being so ugly that it is unbearable to look at to being a little good-looking.

Otherwise, he would not go to school with such a plain face.

However, this Qinglian Academy does not mean that you can immediately enroll with two letters of recommendation. You also need to pass the entrance examination of the academy.

After all, the country now vigorously promotes the imperial examination. There are many people who want to study, but Qinglian Academy does not accept everyone. You need to have at least the most basic knowledge reserves.

Therefore, the threshold of this entrance examination is not high, probably similar to the difficulty of the Tongsheng examination. If you can’t even pass the most basic Tongsheng examination, there is no need to waste time in the academy.

Xu Huaiqian has been studying at home for two months. He wants to test his learning progress and this entrance examination is just what he wants. 

Qinglian Academy is located in the southeast corner of Mishan County. It only takes two hours to get there by oxcart from Xinghua Village.

Now that the imperial examination is approaching, he really had the same idea as Xu Huaiqian. He went to the academy to study and save the trouble of finding mutual agreements and pledges.

When Xu Huaiqian arrived at the foot of the academy, a carriage had already been parked there. A man in green clothes was standing next to the carriage, looking into the academy. It was obvious that it was another student’s family who came to the academy to take the entrance examination.

Chen Liejiu parked the oxcart on the side of the road, carried the apprenticeship gift prepared for the academy teacher, and took Xu Huaiqian to the academy. When he saw him, he asked curiously: “Are you waiting for your husband? Why don’t you go in and wait?”

The ger was stunned by Chen Liejiu’s question, shook his head, and said nothing.

After all, it was someone else’s business. Chen Liejiu initially thought that his husband was also here to take the exam, and that he and Xu Huaiqian would probably be brothers from the same school. It would be fine if they were just nodding acquaintances. Since he didn’t want to talk to him then forget it.

“Let’s go.” Xu Huaiqian stepped forward and held Chen Liejiu’s hand. This ger looked lively, but he dodged their eyes when he saw them. It was obvious that he was the kind of person who was told by his family not to talk to strangers. He was not the same kind of person as them.

“Mm, okay.” Being held by Xu Huaiqian in such a place, Chen Liejiu was so happy that he raised the corners of his lips. He hurriedly put aside everything else and climbed up step by step with Xu Huaiqian.

Scholars don’t like to marry gers, thinking it’s embarrassing, so they don’t like to bring their husbands with them when they go out to socialize, and they won’t allow their husbands to step into places like academies with them.

 But his husband would not. His husband did not marry into his family at all, thinking it was a very embarrassing thing.

——Well, the time when he jumped into the river out of anger does not count, because he was forced by his uncle!

Qinglian Academy is built on the hillside of Qinglian Mountain. To enter the academy, you need to climb 99 steps, in order to tell students to study diligently and to walk up step by step like these stairs.

However, Xu Huaiqian’s body is too useless. After walking more than ten stairs, he has to stop and rest.

In the eyes of the young man in green at the foot of the mountain, he is a considerate husband who has to stop and wait for his husband every time he walks. Although his husband does not seem to need him to wait, this does not prevent him from imagining and envy: “They have a really good relationship.” Then he thought of his own family and lowered his eyes in disappointment.

 Xu Huaiqian, who was very close to Chen Liejiu, climbed for two incense sticks before he reached the gate of the academy with sweat on his forehead.

He handed the letter from the teacher and the county magistrate to the doorman at the door. The doorman took the letter and went in. After a while, he came out and led Xu Huaiqian inside: “The husband, please follow me.”

Chen Liejiu wanted to go in with him, but was stopped by the doorman: “This husband, please stay.”

Well, if he is not allowed to go in, he will not go in.

 Xu Huaiqian told him: “I will come out to find you after the exam.”

Chen Liejiu nodded. He was afraid that Xu Huaiqian could not find him, so he did not walk around: “Okay, I will wait for you outside.”

It was late May now, and it was about to enter June so it was getting hot. Xu Huaiqian looked at the sun outside and asked the doorman at the door: “Do you have a place to entertain guests? Let my husband go in and rest.”

The doorman looked at him strangely. It would be fine if he took his husband to the academy hand in hand, but he also asked them to find a place for his husband to rest. He was really the first unusual husband they had ever seen.

But this husband had two handwritten letters, one of which was from the county magistrate. The doorman was afraid that he had a great background. Although he was puzzled, he still nodded and agreed.

After arranging Chen Liejiu, Xu Huaiqian followed the doorman into the examination hall and went to pay a visit to the headmaster of the academy.

 The headmaster was a dignified old man in his fifties who was serious and never smiled.

Because he was delayed for a while climbing the mountain, when he entered the examination hall, the person who arrived earlier than him was already sitting on the desk writing furiously.

After greeting the headmaster, Xu Huaiqian explained his physical condition: “I was not feeling well and was delayed for a while in front of the mountain gate.”

–Well, it’s not that the steps in front of your mountain gate are too difficult to climb, it’s my own physical condition.

He was thin to begin with, and he was a little more humble. Sure enough, the headmaster with a stern face did not scold him, but handed him a stack of paper: “The body needs diligent exercise just like studying. Go and do the questions.”

There were several desks in the examination hall. Xu Huaiqian responded respectfully, took the test questions and found a desk at random. He took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the small bag prepared for him by Chen Liejiu, and laid them out. He grinded the ink, read the questions and started answering. 

 Xu Huaiqian, whose face looks a third of his previous life, has a great demeanor and appearance. His smooth movements are pleasing to the eyes.

The headmaster, who was originally dissatisfied with Xu Huaiqian’s thin and frail figure, nodded with satisfaction when he saw his gentlemanly demeanor.

You can take care of your poor health, but it is difficult to cultivate a gentlemanly demeanor. Seeing his free and easy demeanor, he must have cultivated it since childhood. People with such perseverance should not be too poor in knowledge.

The headmaster stroked his beard and couldn’t wait to see Xu Huaiqian’s answer sheet. He felt that Xu Huaiqian would definitely give him a surprise.

After all, he was a rare talent that County Magistrate Wu praised in his recommendation letter.

 The man who was answering questions when Xu Huaiqian came in had already looked up at him when Xu Huaiqian said he was not feeling well. Seeing that he was indeed thin, he lowered his head to continue answering questions. When he looked up again, he found that Xu Huaiqian sat at the desk opposite him. His eyebrows slightly frowned, but he soon continued to immerse himself in the sea of ​​questions.

The questions on the paper were different from the questions Xu Huaiqian reviewed at home. Many of them were quite tricky. Therefore, Xu Huaiqian first scanned the questions. After finding that he didn’t know many of them, he directly did those he knew, and then slowly made up for the ones he didn’t know. He just left the ones he really didn’t know blank.

He thought that he, a self-taught person at home, couldn’t answer such questions from a professional class, and the dean shouldn’t blame him too much. There were so many subjects, as long as he could get into the academy.

Therefore, Xu Huaiqian almost handed in the paper at the same time with the man opposite him.

 An exam lasted nearly two hours. Xu Huaiqian coughed countless times with his handkerchief, while the man opposite him kept writing, which made Xu Huaiqian admire him.

They are both students, but look at him, how hardworking and serious he is. He has done every question. He must be a top student!

When he handed in the paper, Xu Huaiqian saw his face clearly. It was a serious face, exactly the same as the headmaster. They were exactly the same. If they didn’t look different, Xu Huaiqian would have suspected that he was the headmaster’s son.

He was so hardworking, so diligent, and so eager to learn, and he had a similar temperament as the headmaster. Xu Huaiqian thought that the headmaster must like him very much, so when he handed in the paper, he deliberately lagged behind him.

Unexpectedly, the headmaster took his test paper without even looking at it, and put it directly on the table beside him. He waited for Xu Huaiqian to come forward, and then picked up Xu Huaiqian’s paper and started to read it.

When Xu Huaiqian saw this scene, he was shocked and had a lot of questions in his heart. Could it be that the headmaster liked him more?

When he came to his senses and looked at the man, the man’s face was indeed dark, but he pursed his lips and said nothing.

Xu Huaiqian was so embarrassed that he was about to get embarrassed. If he was also a top student, he would definitely be very happy at this moment, but he was a poor student. In front of the real top student, he was considered a top student by the teacher. When he thought that he, the fake top student, would be ruthlessly exposed by the teacher and then mocked by the real top student, Xu Huaiqian felt bad.

 Zuo Zhengjian, the headmaster of Qinglian Academy, took Xu Huaiqian’s paper and saw that his handwriting was smooth and flowing, and he had a unique charm. He couldn’t help but brighten his eyes. He looked at Xu Huaiqian unexpectedly and praised him, “Good handwriting. You will become known in the future.”

Xu Huaiqian smiled awkwardly. The higher the expectations now, the more disappointed he will be later.

Zuo Zhengjian admired this handwriting for a long time. He was very pleased in his heart that he had not misjudged Xu Huaiqian. Then he slowly appreciated Xu Huaiqian’s article. He thought that he had to read it carefully. This was a good seedling for the future imperial examination. He couldn’t comment on it casually and hurt others.

Then he took a look.

–Hmm?

He must be dazzled. Let him take another look.

He blinked and read Xu Huaiqian’s article again from beginning to end with great effort.

Then his expression suddenly felt uncomfortable as if he had eaten a fly.

 How, how, how come this good-looking, well-mannered, well-written student’s essay is so crude. The words and sentences are simple and clear, not graceful and elegant enough, why is the essay so willful and audacious? Does he think he can answer the questions as he wants? And there are many blanks, obviously not even pretending.

Zuo Zhengjian was struck by lightning and destroyed all the filters for Xu Huaiqian. It was all flowery and useless.

But he had just shown his favor for Xu Huaiqian. If he scolded Xu Huaiqian again, wouldn’t it be like hitting himself, and his dignity would be lost.

So he put down Xu Huaiqian’s paper with a gloomy face and picked up the paper of Duan Youyan, who he didn’t think much of.

 As soon as he picked it up, he saw the dog-crawling handwriting on it. Zuo Zhengjian, who had just been baptized by Xu Huaiqian’s good handwriting, felt that it was an eyesore. But fortunately, the paper was filled with answers, unlike Xu Huaiqian’s blank, which gave him a little comfort.

He glanced at Duan Youyan and nodded with satisfaction. Although he was not as humble and polite as Xu Huaiqian, he was upright and abiding by the rules. Maybe he was quite knowledgeable except for his bad handwriting.

He shook the paper, endured the dog-crawling handwriting, and read it carefully.

Hmm-

This first sentence is okay, the idea of ​​solving the problem is correct.

This second sentence is plain, but it is also okay.

This third sentence-

Wait, he will take a look.

Zuo Zhengjian moved the test paper closer and tried to read it again. It was simply: I don’t know what it means! I don’t know what it means! I don’t know why!

 The scary thing is that almost every question on this student’s paper is like this. You say he is wrong, but his first sentence can always hit the nail on the head. But if you say he solves the problem well, what he writes afterwards is completely random, fabricated, and nonsense!

Zuo Zhengjian quietly gritted his teeth. He was even more hateful than Xu Huaiqian!

But looking at his mature and steady face, he had a thousand words stuck in his throat and couldn’t spit them out.

He always felt that scolding him is like scolding himself.

Seeing that the headmaster’s face turned as dark as an old inkstone after reading their papers, Xu Huaiqian couldn’t tell whether he was angry with himself or the man next to him. He paused and mustered up the courage to ask: “Headmaster, which class was student selected to?”

The same class?

 Zuo Zhengjian was so angry that he was fuming. When he heard Xu Huaiqian’s words, he blurted out: “Where else do you want to go except Class D!”

Before coming, Xu Huaiqian had already inquired.

There are four classes in Qinglian Academy, namely A, B, C, and D. Class A is the best class for Juren, which is full of filial and honest people who passed the Juren exam but failed the Spring Examination. Class B corresponds to the Xiucai class, which is full of Xiucai. Class C and Class D are both Tongsheng classes, but the difference is that Class C is a top class for Tongsheng who are about to take the Xiucai exam, while Class D is the kind of class that can just muddle through. It doesn’t matter if you can take the exam or not, as long as you can muddle through.

Xu Huaiqian was not discouraged when he was assigned to Class D. It is better to start over and study again than to go to the top class and force the progress.

 He was quite happy that he passed the entrance exam, and asked for the guy next to him: “Which class did this student enter?” If he was a top student, it would be convenient to get tutoring from him later if he had a good relationship with him.

Zuo Zhengjian was speechless about Xu Huaiqian’s flattering attitude: “It’s the same as you!”

“Huh?” Xu Huaiqian was really surprised this time. He thought he was a top student, but he didn’t expect him to be a poor student like him. Why did he answer the questions so seriously?

 Xu Huaiqian was puzzled, but he remembered that Chen Liejiu was still waiting for his good news outside, so he bowed to Zuo Zhengjian without delay: “I will go get the apprenticeship gift and come in to pay my respects.”

When he heard that Xu Huaiqian was assigned to Class D, Duan Youyan was also surprised like Xu Huaiqian, but Xu Huaiqian spoke for him. He looked at him gratefully, and then bowed like Xu Huaiqian: “I will go too.”

The two of them left the examination hall and walked out of the academy. When they walked out of the door, Xu Huaiqian happened to see Chen Liejiu sitting by the small gate of the academy, drinking tea and peeling peanuts. He was also dancing and talking to the two doormen. He smiled and walked over immediately: “What are you talking about? You are so excited?”

“Telling them some interesting things I’ve seen while escorting.” Chen Liejiu answered, and then asked him: “Are you done? Did you pass?”

Xu Huaiqian nodded: “I passed, but I was unlucky. I only got a Class D.”

“It’s okay,” Chen Liejiu was very generous, and handed him a bowl of peanuts that he had peeled for Xu Huaiqian. “It’s a good thing to be able to go to school. Try these. These are the sweetest peanuts I picked out.”

The soil around Mishan County is tight, and the peanuts grown are small, but they have enough water, and they are sweet even when dried. But this is only limited to those peanuts that are slightly better. Before peeling the shells, no one knows whether the peanuts inside are good or shriveled.

Chen Liejiu peeled them one by one and tasted them. If he thought they were good, he would leave another one for Xu Huaiqian. If he was lucky enough to come across the kind of sweet peanuts with three grains, he could leave two for Xu Huaiqian.

Anyway, these are all sponsored by the gatekeeper of the academy. He didn’t have to spend money and ate them as he liked.

 Xu Huaiqian grabbed a handful and tasted a few: “It tastes good, but I have to go become a disciple, so I won’t taste more.” He put the peanuts peeled by Chen Liejiu into a purse hanging on his waist, “Take it back and let Baozhu and Wanwan taste it too.”

“Okay.” Chen Liejiu quickly tied the purse tightly and handed the gift of becoming a disciple to Xu Huaiqian, staring at the two doormen who were enthusiastic about donating peanuts.

No, how can you eat and take it at the same time?

There is no way. The Chen family has little land, Wang Wanwan is a girl who can’t swing a hoe, and the soil of Xinghua Village is tight, so she can’t dig peanuts at all. Chen Liejiu is away all day and has no time to serve in the fields, so the Chen family doesn’t grow peanuts. There is no food like peanuts at home, so Chen Liejiu certainly wants to take some back.

 Xu Huaiqian simply peeled it because Chen Liejiu didn’t want to eat it and didn’t want to give it away cheaply, so he just let Chen Liejiu take it home. He should charge some money for listening to the story, otherwise it would be a waste of two hours.

Xu Huaiqian got the apprenticeship gift easily, but Duan Youyan was miserable. He thought that his classmates in the private school didn’t like his husband, and the students in the academy were probably the same, so he didn’t let his husband go to school with him. But now that he passed the entrance examination, he had to go down the mountain and climb up again.

 The scary thing is that because he took too long to take the exam, his husband took the carriage to a cool place to sleep. When he found him, he was snoring in the carriage. Seeing him coming back, he got up from the carriage half awake and half confused. He asked him in a vague baby voice: “Have you finished the exam? Did you pass?”

“Passed.” He took the apprenticeship gift out of the carriage and said a few words briefly. At the end, seeing his husband’s dazed and confused appearance, his tone softened a bit: “Go back to sleep, I probably won’t leave the academy.”

The school rules of Qinglian Academy are that students must live on campus and only have ten-day breaks, which are two days each ten-day break.

 His husband was reluctant to leave: “Then I can’t see you until ten days later.”

“Mm.” He responded and touched his husband’s head: “You take care of the house.”

“Why don’t you let me go up with you,” his husband thought for a while, “I can help you make the bed or something.”

“No,” he refused, “It’s not good for others to see it.”

His husband was unconvinced and raised his neck. He was not justified but also strong: “Then why can others bring their husbands in, but I can’t.”

Duan Youyan lowered his eyes: “Others are different from me.”

His husband was immediately weak and speechless.

When Xu Huaiqian was going back to pay respect to his master with the apprenticeship gift, he thought about it and waited for Duan Youyan outside the examination hall. After all, they came together, and paying respect to a master is not like taking an exam. It’s not good to interrupt or come one by one.

 Just when he was getting impatient, Duan Youyan finally showed up, but he was sweating profusely, and when he approached Xu Huaiqian, he was furious.

Xu Huaiqian looked at the beads of sweat on his face and the sky outside the eaves. They took the test for two hours, which was equivalent to four hours. It was the hottest time of the day, one or two o’clock in the afternoon, and they had to climb up and down the mountain.

What is this called?

This is called being too proud to suffer.

Wouldn’t it be better to call his husband up earlier!

 Duan Youyan ran to Xu Huaiqian and saw that Xu Huaiqian was still waiting for him with the apprenticeship gift. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and clasped his fists: “Sorry, I kept you waiting for a long time.”

“It’s okay.” Xu Huaiqian shook his head, “Let’s go in quickly, don’t keep the teacher waiting for a long time.”

“Okay.”

The two of them entered the main hall together. Zuo Zhengjian, who took their test papers and looked through them again, was so angry that he wanted to tell them not to become apprentices at all, because he couldn’t teach students like them. But seeing that they both came in with the apprenticeship gift, he straightened his clothes and sat upright.

What’s said is spilled. Forget it, after all, they were recommended by the county magistrates of the two counties, so he didn’t care about the monk’s face, and just accepted two dandies who only paid tuition fees. Their future fortunes depended on themselves.

Xu Huaiqian and Duan Youyan performed the apprenticeship ceremony.

 Zuo Zhengjian gave them a lecture, straightened his clothes, and after the ceremony, he asked them to go to the gatekeeper to get their green robes, bags, and bedding. After they were settled, they could find the school’s book boy or a senior student they knew to take them to get familiar with the school. They didn’t have to go to class today.

But he said again: “The master leads you to the door, but it’s up to you to practice. It’s difficult for you two to be admitted to the school in this year’s imperial examination. If you want to pass the examination this year, you need to be diligent. But if you two are just going to get familiar with the examination room this year, you should stop for a while and think about your shortcomings. Make up for them and then slowly catch up with the progress of learning.”

“Thank you, teacher.” The two bowed respectfully, left the examination room, got their things from the gatekeeper, and then walked to the school in the backyard.

 It was only then that Xu Huaiqian realized that these things all cost money. However, Chen Liejiu had paid for him in advance when he went to the academy. If he had not followed Duan Youyan and seen Duan Youyan pay, he would not have noticed.

Just a few sets of clothes, some beddings and a year’s dormitory fees, and they asked for two taels of silver!

Two taels of silver can build a room, this college is really profitable.

This is not counting the cost of meals and other miscellaneous fees, etc. This is not a college, this is clearly an aristocratic school.

After coming out, he took medicine and bird’s nests for another three months, built a house and hatched chicks at home, and bought him a few new clothes and some pens, ink, paper and inkstone. Now he has paid tuition and miscellaneous fees. Xu Huaiqian, whose savings have shrunk rapidly, can’t help but worry about money again.

This money is hard to spend.

Now he is studying in the academy, making money is even more of a problem. Will he still be able to buy medicine in a few months?

“Senior brother, senior brother, senior brother Xu!”

When Xu Huaiqian was holding the bedding and calculating, a little guy with a round face rushed towards him excitedly.

 Xu Huaiqian put the quilt in his hand higher, looked down at the little guy in front of him, and judged from his appearance that looked three points like Master Zhang that he was the grandson Master Zhang mentioned who studied in Qinglian Academy – Zhang Bingwen.

He greeted: “It’s Xiaowen!”

“Brother, you recognized me!” Zhang Bingwen saw Xu Huaiqian recognized him, and happily stretched out his hand to help Xu Huaiqian get things, “Brother, you are weak, let me help you get it.”

Xu Huaiqian looked at his height of 1.4 meters? Or less than 1.4 meters short, and was a little doubtful. If he really asked him to help, would it be considered as exploiting child labor?

 “Senior brother will do it himself. You can still carry this little thing.” Xu Huaiqian thought about it and refused. He was afraid that he would make him look shorter. “After three years of separation, you look more and more like Master Zhang.”

Zhang Bingwen saw that Xu Huaiqian was unwilling to give him the things, and scratched his head awkwardly: “Grandfather Sun Xiao, it’s normal.” It’s just that his father doesn’t look like his grandfather. If his father hadn’t given birth to him and he looked like his grandfather, his grandfather would have doubted whether his father was his biological son.

Xu Huaiqian knew about this. Zhang Bingwen’s father didn’t like studying and liked to do business, but Master Zhang didn’t agree. On the way to take the exam, he took the exam fee and went to do business.

When Master Zhang found him, he was setting up a small stall on the roadside to sell groceries, smiling happily with the customers, which made Master very angry.

 However, after this incident, Master Zhang did not stop Father Zhang from doing business. Father Zhang was very motivated. It is said that he can earn several hundred taels of silver a year by running river transportation, allowing Zhang Bingwen to study without any worries.

But it was because of Zhang Bingwen that Master Zhang was not so stubborn about Father Zhang doing business.

The big one is useless so he will change to the small one.

“By the way, how did you know I would come to the academy today?” Xu Huaiqian asked curiously when he went to the school with the quilt.

 “Grandfather said so.” Zhang Bingwen did not hide it. “I went home a few days ago. Grandfather said he wrote you a letter of recommendation to the academy and asked me to pay attention. He said you might come to the academy for the entrance exam in the next few days.”

“Today, when I saw the teacher wearing the teacher’s uniform, I knew that senior brother must be here to enroll. I waited here after school.”

In such a hot sun, he could wait for him in the backyard for so long. Xu Huaiqian was still very moved: “How can you be so sure that I will definitely be enrolled? What if I fail the entrance exam?”

“How is it possible!” Zhang Bingwen shook his head like a wave drum. “My senior brother’s knowledge is better than mine in the academy. It doesn’t make sense that senior brother is worse than me in the academy.”

That was three years ago. If he remembered correctly, three years ago, the boy was only ten years old. At that time, the original owner was fourteen years old, four years older than him. If he was four years older and his knowledge was not as good as his, he might as well not read this book.

 Xu Huaiqian couldn’t help but ask him, “Which class are you in now?”

“Class C!” Zhang Bingwen answered without hesitation, “The teacher said I can try this year, so I was moved to Class C at the beginning of this year. What about you, brother? Are you also in Class C?”

Xu Huaiqian: “…” Why did he ask this for no reason?

Fortunately, they arrived at the dormitory not long after walking. Xu Huaiqian found the room and position with the dormitory sign and put down his things.

This is a four-person room. Since he and Duan Youyan were admitted on the same day, they were in the same dormitory, with their positions next to each other, separated by a desk in the middle. All the beds were facing the window, with two beds on each side. The position looked quite spacious.

He was making the bed, but Zhang Bingwen, this kid, was talking about something else.

 He first looked at the location of the dormitory outside, then looked at the dormitory number, and hurriedly exclaimed: “It turns out that senior brother was assigned to Class D! I was thinking that if senior brother and I were in the same class, I could take senior brother to the class to recognize people…”

Xu Huaiqian: “…” He really wanted to cover his mouth!

“It’s okay, senior brother,” Fortunately, Zhang Bingwen, the kid, chattered for a long time and then looked at it himself, “Class D is also very good. I was also in Class D when I first entered the academy, but you have to pay attention to your Class D. There is a particularly annoying person…”

“Hey, shorty, why are you standing in front of Class D’s dormitory? Were you driven back by the teacher?”

Speak of the devil, Pei Wangshu, dressed in a gorgeous clothes, stood in front of the dormitory and looked at Zhang Bingwen with disdain.

 Zhang Bingwen looked over and saw Pei Wangshu, who was still as arrogant as usual and hated him. His face immediately fell: “I told you I’m not called shorty! I can be wherever I want. I’m in a good mood today. Can’t I hang out in Dingshe? This is not your room…” 

Before he finished speaking, Pei Wangshu made a light “squeak” sound, stepped into the room with his long legs, walked to his bed and sat down. He picked up the colorful clothes on the bed: “You are blind, can’t you see that this is my bed, young master.” At first glance, it was really his colorful clothes. Zhang Bingwen’s face became even uglier, but he still said stubbornly: “It’s your dormitory, so what? It’s not your dormitory alone. Can’t I come to see my senior brother?”

Pei Wangshu then saw that there were two more people in the dormitory. He looked at Xu Huaiqian and Duan Youyan who were making the bed, and looked at the two of them. Was it the thin Xu Huaiqian or the tall Duan Youyan who was his senior brother? Then he felt something was wrong: “Why is your senior brother not from Class C or Class B, but from my Class D? Did the academy change the rules and allow students from Class C to call students from Class D senior brothers?”

The academy has its own rules.

Sort by class level. Their class D is the lowest class. Logically speaking, when meeting people from classes A, B, and C, they have to address them as senior brothers or seniors.

 It’s easy to guess that Zhang Bingwen called Xu Huaiqian or Duan Youyan senior brother for other reasons, but he was just mean: “Come on, shorty, call me senior brother too.”

Zhang Bingwen was so angry that he couldn’t speak: “You!”

“What about me?” Pei Wangshu was even more excited by Zhang Bingwen’s words, “What about me, you tell me.”

Duan Youyan pointed out him bluntly: “You are shameless, you don’t want face, and you bully the weak.”

The most taboo thing for the two sides to quarrel is the appearance of a third party, especially when one party is about to win the quarrel, and suddenly a third party appears to reverse the situation. Pei Wangshu looked over unhappily: “Are you his senior brother?”

“No,” Duan Youyan shook his head, “I just can’t stand you bullying others.”

“You are not his senior brother, then why are you here to help?” Pei Wangshu immediately made Duan Youyan angry. He was about to win. He finally let this shorty eat a little bit, but he was disturbed by him, “You are meddling in other people’s business.”

“You still know how to do things like dogs catching rats,” someone helped to turn the tide, and Zhang Bingwen’s arrogance instantly became arrogant, “I thought your dog brain was filled with pig brains, and you don’t know anything, you can only hum and haw.”

“Who are you calling a dog?” Pei Wangshu stood up from the bed, and felt that something was wrong, and retorted, “No, who are you calling a pig?”

After saying that, he still felt that something was wrong, and his neck turned red with anger: “Who are you calling worse than pigs and dogs?”

Zhang Bingwen rolled his eyes: “Whoever said it, is it!”

“Fuck!” Pei Wangshu was completely angry, picked up something on the table and was about to hit Zhang Bingwen.

 “Cough cough cough cough cough cough cough–“

At this time, Xu Huaiqian, who had just made the bed, started to cough violently, inappropriately but particularly appropriately.

The sound of his cough was particularly unbearable. He coughed so hard that his waist was bent. He could only lean his hands on the table, and the veins on his neck bulged, which scared the three people present. After Xu Huaiqian finished coughing, he spread out the handkerchief covering his mouth and saw that the handkerchief was covered with blood, and they were completely shocked.

Zhang Bingwen: It’s over, senior brother, your illness won’t relapse right.

Duan Youyan: This can’t be a terminal illness, and he won’t live long right.

Pei Wangshu: No way, no way, it can’t be me who made you sick.

“Senior brother, are you okay!” Zhang Bingwen was the first to react. He rushed to Xu Huaiqian’s side, helped him sit on the bed, and asked with concern.

 “It’s okay, it’s okay,” Xu Huaiqian finally calmed down. Except for the blood on the corner of his lips, his face turned pale again, and it was scary to see no blood on his face. “Stop arguing. You didn’t listen to me when you were arguing just now.”

God knows that when he watched them quarrel, it was like watching people fighting on a rainy day, and he had to shout “stop fighting, stop fighting”, but no one listened to him.

Duan Youyan: “Listen to what you said?”

Xu Huaiqian blinked: “I told you to stop quarreling.”

Duan Youyan: How can people listen to you when they are quarreling? But seeing that Xu Huaiqian was so sick, he didn’t hurt him.

 Pei Wangshu glanced at the shocking red on the handkerchief and asked, “Are you sick yourself, or are you angry with me?”

“Of course it’s you that made him angry!” Zhang Bingwen immediately said angrily, “Senior brother was just talking and laughing with me, but he started coughing up blood as soon as you came back!”

“You put all the blame on me!” Pei Wangshu kicked the bed and said, “You are not wrong, aren’t you angry with your senior brother? You only blame me!”

“I…I…I…” Zhang Bingwen said several “I”s in a row, but couldn’t say a word.

 “Hey, is it serious?” Pei Wangshu thought for a while and took out a silver note from the pillow, and said to Xu Huaiqian, “Do you want to go down the mountain to find a clinic?”

“Cough cough cough cough cough–” He just coughed a little hard, and his throat was a little itchy. Xu Huaiqian coughed a few more times, “It’s okay, it’s an old illness.”

Pei Wangshu paused to take the money: “Your old illness is a bit serious.” Whose old illness makes him spit blood all the time.

Zhang Bingwen pursed his lips: “My senior brother is born weak.”

“Why don’t you let me take a look,” Duan Youyan thought for a while and said, “I have learned some medical skills and can help him feel his pulse.”

When they heard that he also knew medical skills, Pei Wangshu and Zhang Bingwen looked at him: “Have you studied medicine?”

Only Xu Huaiqian looked up at his serious face and felt that he was right, and he had the aura of a doctor.

 He extended his hand without hesitation. After all, the inside of this body was just an empty shell, and he would know it after one examination.

 As expected, after Duan Youyan took his pulse, his face became a little embarrassed: “All five pulses are weak, five kinds of fatigue and seven kinds of injuries. In this life, you can’t be too happy, too sad, too shocked, too injured, no desire, no demand, and nourish yourself every day, only then can you save your life.”

The people present were all scholars, and they understood what Duan Youyan said as soon as they heard it, especially Pei Wangshu who scratched his hair: “This is too difficult, people are not stones, how can they not have joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. He will die if he moves a little, what should he do in this life.”

Zhang Bingwen glanced at Xu Huaiqian nervously: “Senior brother?”

“Don’t worry,” Xu Huaiqian smiled indifferently, “People’s lives are originally fixed. Some healthy people will die on the road. I’m just sick, not going to die soon. I can live one day at a time.”

“You are completely a glass man,” Pei Wangshu frowned, “Don’t touch, don’t touch, don’t provoke.” The key is that he lives in the same room with him, it’s deadly!

 Being interrupted by Xu Huaiqian, the three were forced to stop fighting and decided not to quarrel.

In the afternoon, Zhang Bingwen took Xu Huaiqian and Duan Youyan, two freshmen, to walk around the college for a day. In the evening, they had dinner in the academy dining hall. To be honest, the taste was really ordinary, and Xu Huaiqian could hardly swallow it.

Fortunately, Pei Wangshu got a jar of chicken soup from somewhere: “Hey, don’t say I didn’t take care of you. You coughed up so much blood, drink some chicken soup to replenish yourself.”

“Thank you, Xiao Pei.” Xu Huaiqian took the chicken soup and thanked him. In the afternoon, he learned from Xiaowen that Pei Wangshu was only sixteen years old this year, one year younger than him, so he could call him that. As for why he didn’t call him Xiao Shu, it was because he didn’t want to have another uncle.

Pei Wangshu couldn’t believe what he heard from Xu Huaiqian. He was about to loudly refute who told you to call him Xiao Pei, but when he thought that this was a glass person, he swallowed his words silently. Damn it, he can’t lose his temper.

Xu Huaiqian happily drank the chicken soup and admired his frustrated look, little guy.

But after washing up at night, and lying on the bed, he couldn’t laugh.

He said that he always felt that something was missing when he came to the academy to study?

Where’s my wife?

Where’s my big wife?

He thought about how he used to sleep in the arms of his sweet and soft wife every night, but now he could only sleep in an empty bed by himself. Without his wife’s warm embrace or gentle back caress at night, he had to bear everything by himself. He bit the quilt in grievance.

What should he do? He missed his wife so much after just one day of school.