Chapter 119 Lion Roars and Tiger Howls
Chapter 119 Lion Roars and Tiger Howls
"Why are you looking at me? Is there something on my face?"
"Your face is not covered with flowers, but eyes." Every time Ren Haobo saw Li Tong's face, he couldn't help but want to laugh. After coughing a few times, he barely suppressed his smile and saw Yan Mingzhi from the corner of his eye.
When I saw him, I thought about why Li Tong painted eyes on his face!
It’s really unbearable!
Ren Haobo simply swung his sleeves and said hurriedly as he walked, "Today's monthly competition will be suspended. Let's make a decision after consulting the Master and the Headmaster. Fellow disciples, follow me back."
Li Tong also sighed and agreed with what Ren Haobo said.
It’s just a pity that I rarely come to the academy to see the excitement, but I actually encounter such a thing.
Each session is worse than the last!
However, it also indirectly shows that the current situation in various parts of Chu State is not optimistic, and even the quality of students is not as good as before.
Thinking of this, Li Tong no longer had any desire to go and watch the fun.
"Junior Brother Ren, Junior Brother Yan, I feel a little dizzy, so I won't go with you. When I see Master, he will apologize on my behalf and I will go back in a few days to serve him tea and water."
"Junior brother Li, are you going back to the back mountain? Can I take you there?" Yan Mingzhi asked hurriedly with concern upon hearing this.
"Take care of yourself. I don't want to send you back later." Li Tong's back looked particularly chic as he ran, but it also seemed a bit like he was fleeing.
Ren Haobo couldn't help but chuckle twice, but he still came over and helped Yan Mingzhi walk together.
After all, it was he who brought the sick person here, so it was only right that he should take him away.
"Senior Brother Yan, if you exercise more, maybe your health will get better." Ren Haobo still gave him some advice.
Upon hearing this, Yan Mingzhi shook his head like a rattle, "I have no plans to take the imperial examination, nor do I plan to get married and have children. It doesn't matter if I am a little weak, it won't affect my appreciation of this beautiful land. Why force me to do it? Why do you want me to train like you every day and get all sweaty and smelly? I am a gentleman!"
Ren Haobo had known his character for a long time. Today, he had been running with him all the way. Seeing him panting, he couldn't help but say something more. Naturally, he couldn't quarrel with him over such a small matter. He just smiled and didn't say anything more.
I still need to think about how to talk to my teachers about today's monthly competition.
Before they could figure out what was going on, they heard a roar that echoed through the mountains and forests, scaring all the students.
"Big bug! There is a big bug in the forest!"
The students were either on high alert, or standing back to back in groups of three or five, or protecting others, or cowering in fear.
Ren Haobo quickly comforted her, "Don't worry, it's a group of tigers that the academy keeps at Qingyun Peak. They're far away from here and can't come over."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, "Brother, does the academy still keep such a ferocious beast?"
"Learning the habits and weaknesses of wild animals is also a course in the academy. Everyone should study it carefully to prevent being caught off guard and suffering losses when encountering them in the wild in the future."
Ren Haobo explained.
These are what the headmaster said.
Although he also felt that the chances of scholars like them encountering wild beasts in the wild were too small, what if? The headmaster was so thoughtful, he must be right.
Everyone then breathed a sigh of relief, and following the roar, they carefully returned to the academy.
At about the same time, the roar of the beast stopped.
A yellow tiger with black stripes embroidered all over its body, and a giant black-mouthed lion with its mane tied into small braids, looked at the people in front of them with bared teeth to express their grievances.
Didn't he just go to inspect his territory? When he came back, he found that his house had been robbed and his sister was missing? He went out to play all day without them!
"Alright, alright! Don't be angry anymore, dear! Sister is back!"
The man gently stroked the heads of the two beasts a few times, rejected their attempts to lick him, and walked into the house while taking off his lake blue suit.
By removing the height-increasing insoles, widened shoulder pads, chest binding, and the slight bulge at the throat, the fifteen or sixteen-year-old Li Tong was transformed into the thirteen-year-old Yunli.
It had been three years since the first severe drought.
Great disasters always accompany tyrants. Yunli did not say this casually. The previous king of Chu was a tyrant and a weak ruler.
I don't know what he was thinking, but after his death, rumors spread that he wanted to kill all the victims. As a result, the Empress Dowager, now the Grand Empress Dowager, killed her own son personally, and the throne was naturally inherited by the Crown Prince, and the country was named Kangding.
Who knows what it is like?
In the past three years, Yunli has not been lying down and enjoying life as she claims, but has been busy with various things.
By chance, Yunli met Yu Guangji again. After repeated questioning, Yunli told him some half-truths. Yu Guangji gave Yunli the identity of his nephew without hesitation, and gave her the alias Yu Li. He also registered her household registration information and took her with him as his last disciple.
Yunli is truly grateful to Yu Guangji, but he is also truly troubled.
The old man always said that she had such and such a good appearance, but her bad handwriting was not worthy of her, so he forced her to practice calligraphy.
Over the past three years, Yunli's calligraphy has improved from being able to make out the characters but with varying thicknesses of strokes to the current authentic regular script, which can be said to be a result of his hard work.
Of the six arts, namely rites, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy and mathematics, she had learned five of them very well, except music.
Others learn the six kinds of music, but Yunli learns music to turn herself into a person who enjoys music. According to Yu Guangji, Yunli's songs and dances are like "a woodcutter sharpening a knife, a rooster pecking at rice." Fortunately, she is not completely useless. She plays the guzheng well, which is pleasing to Yu Guangji's ears.
Recently, I have started to pursue her to write an article.
This little old man's behavior is really puzzling.
Since she is a woman and cannot take the imperial examination, what kind of writing can she do?
The old man, however, put his hands behind his back, shook his head and said something like, "The imperial examination is about behavior, and writing is about the heart."
She regretted not firmly rejecting Yu Guangji's household registration sugar-coated bullets. If she hadn't gone to Wenshan Academy, although it was indeed difficult to find a place to raise Jin Suan and Yin Zun as Yu Guangji said, she wouldn't have to learn so many things!
Now, not only does she have to go down the mountain every few days to take care of her own affairs, but when she comes back she is also caught by her master to go to school.
Oh my god, she has been graduated from college for several years.
"Are you secretly cursing me in your heart?"
Yunli was just closing his eyes to rest when he heard the voice of his master.
When he looked up, it was indeed his own cheap master. He was wearing a dark blue robe as deep as the deep sea, and his sleeves fluttered in the wind, like a rough sea, giving people an endless sense of mystery, and highlighting his extraordinary temperament.
Yunli first glanced at the golden jade and silver vase that were looking at Yu Guangji happily, and then gave the two traitors a slap on the head each - when they saw someone coming, they didn't even yell a few times to remind her!
Then he quickly ran to his master to greet him, "Master, why are you here? How is my injured junior brother?"
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