Chapter 267 Li Zhiyuan regains confidence
Ye Caiping's expression froze: "Specific time."
"If nothing unexpected happens, I will go out on a bullock cart at 7:00 tomorrow morning to buy cloth from the cloth shop and make a new robe for Li Zhiyuan."
Ye Caiping understood. Today is July 12, and there is only more than a month before the Autumn Examination. Li Zhiyuan is going to make a new battle uniform!
Ye Caiping: "Tell them to keep watching and report back anytime. Be ready tomorrow and we'll set off at 7:00 pm."
"Also, I will go to the city dental clinic later and ask them to find a shop for me. I will go and check it out tomorrow afternoon. This is a request."
As she spoke, Ye Caiping took out a piece of paper from the drawer and handed it to him:
"When you come back, find my eldest brother and the village chief and tell them to go to the city tomorrow afternoon to look at the storefront. Whoever wants to go can go together."
"Yes." Shanzi took the paper and left.
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The next day, county town.
Li Jiaojiao and Zhang Shuiniang got off the ox cart and went to the cloth shop.
Walking on the road, Zhang Shui Niang complained:
"Your father sells annotations and only makes four or five taels of silver a month. He has to pay tuition fees, buy writing materials, and go out with his classmates from time to time. The family is already very tight."
"Why are you talking about making new clothes for the autumn exam? Isn't this just making things worse?"
Li Jiaojiao said with a bitter face: "I just want to make him happy, do you think mother wants to see his ugly face?"
Zhang Shuiniang was nervous and of course she didn't want to.
Li Jiaojiao looked at her pale face and couldn't help but snorted.
Half a month ago, Li Zhiyuan came home from the county school and was acting crazy all day long.
Later, Li Zimo quietly told them that a great scholar came to give lectures that day and he was the top scholar in the imperial examination. But he is one year younger than Li Zhiyuan, but has been a teacher for more than ten years.
Li Jiaojiao and her daughter then realized that Li Zhiyuan, who had always been so arrogant, had suffered a blow and was becoming jealous and crazy.
From then on, Li Zhiyuan never recovered and stopped going to the county school. He drank himself into a puddle of mud every day.
When he was sober, he would throw bowls and kick stools, and was as furious as a man-eating beast. No one dared to approach him.
Ten days ago, when the county school saw that he did not come to class, two teachers came to persuade him, saying that the autumn examination was approaching and he should not give up at this time.
Then a few of his good classmates came and tried to persuade him with a common hatred for the enemy.
What they say: "We are called late bloomers, hidden talents! We succeed late, but our achievements are even greater."
What he said: "It's useless for you to feel bad now. Everyone feels bad! Why, you are so depressed after this blow. Are you planning to give up?"
"Okay, go ahead! You'll be a joke your whole life if you do this! If you don't want to be a joke, let go of your obsession, live for yourself, walk your own path, and continue your dream of scientific research!"
"Jiang Taigong didn't achieve great things until he was eighty. Brother Zhiyuan, why do you think so little of yourself?"
"You are talented! It's just that you haven't shown it yet. You will definitely pass the imperial examination this time. When God wants to give a man a great responsibility, he must first make his heart and mind suffer and his muscles and bones work hard. This is God's test for you."
With the sincere guidance of his good friends, Li Zhiyuan regained his confidence.
Yes, no matter how powerful that pretty boy was, it would be even more hilarious if he fell down like this.
If he can get through and achieve something great, that would be called success.
No matter how powerful the pretty boy is, to put it bluntly, he is still a teacher.
If he can be granted a title of nobility and become a prime minister in the future, he will be able to surpass that pretty boy!
As the saying goes, good food is never too late!
When God wants to confer a great responsibility on a man, he must first make his heart and mind suffer and his muscles and bones work hard.
Think about the humiliation and suffering he has endured in the past year or so, it is more than in the previous thirty years combined.
Why are these sufferings so concentrated?
God must have felt that his time had come and gave him a test!
Some things are just like this. Before a person succeeds, he will definitely suffer some hardships.
Now, the tribulation has come!
He has endured it and is just waiting for success!
He is going to pass the imperial examination! Pass the exam! Must win! With his talent and ability, he will definitely succeed!
In this way, Li Zhiyuan works harder and harder than before! I even read while eating.
But his personality has become more cunning and he gets angry over the slightest thing.
Thinking about the situation at home, Li Jiaojiao sighed slightly.
But she offered to make new clothes for Li Zhiyuan not to please him, but out of her feelings.
I don’t know why, but I’ve been feeling restless lately and want to run outside every day.
Especially yesterday, she was a little dazed and felt that she must go out today.
That's why I suggested to give Li Zhiyuan some cloth to make clothes.
The mother and daughter went into a cloth shop and bought five feet of gray-white silk cloth.
After folding the cloth and putting it in the basket, Zhang Shuiniang carried it out, her heart bleeding.
After making this set of clothes, my family won’t be able to eat meat for most of half a month.
"Let's go home!" said Zhang Shuiniang.
"Mom... since we are here, why don't we go shopping..."
Li Jiaojiao didn't want to leave. It was as if something was pulling her back, asking her to stay.
"What's there to see? I don't have money to buy anything."
Li Jiaojiao thought for a moment and said, "Mother, have you forgotten that the oxcart will not be back until noon? It is still more than an hour away from noon."
Zhang Shuiniang rolled her eyes at her. "How can it be the same? What's the point of walking around without buying anything? It'll make you tired! Why don't you go back to where you parked and wait?"
"Then mom, go back and wait. I'll go shopping by myself."
"Okay, let's go shopping together. But just for a while. When you get tired, go back and wait."
The mother and daughter were strolling along the busy streets.
Suddenly, a dirty beggar rushed out from the crowd and fell in front of Li Jiaojiao with a plop.
"Oh!" Zhang Shuiniang took a step back in fright.
Seeing this, the crowd was frightened and retreated into a circle.
Zhang Shuiniang was about to pull Li Jiaojiao away.
Unexpectedly, the old beggar actually hugged Li Jiaojiao's legs:
"Little girl...save me...I haven't eaten for a few days. A beautiful and kind-hearted little girl..."
The old beggar raised his old and dirty face and looked at Li Jiaojiao pitifully.
He has always been unruly, and even though he is now seriously injured and being hunted, he still will not bow his head or ask for help.
But for some reason, when he saw the little girl, he wanted to pounce on her and act like a fool, asking her to help him.
"What do you want to do, you dirty beggar?" Zhang Shuiniang was so disgusted that she quickly pulled Li Jiaojiao away and said, "Let's go."
"Wait!" Li Jiaojiao stared at the old beggar in a daze, "I feel like we've known each other since we met. He's so pitiful, mother, why don't we take him home?"
Zhang Shuiniang felt dizzy in front of her eyes. What was going on? My family is so poor that we can barely afford to eat, and I still want to pick up a beggar?
Zhang Shui Niang wanted to speak, but Li Jiaojiao said anxiously, "Mom, please believe me. I feel like I must take him back!"
Zhang Shuiniang was stunned. She hadn't seen Jiaojiao like this for a long time.
Ever since Gu Han was captured, she and her daughter were no longer favored. Jiaojiao seemed to be deflated and was in a bad state all day long.
This made Zhang Shuiniang lose her sense of direction.
Now, she seemed to see the confident Jiaojiao again.
It was Jiaojiao who led them to fight their way out of the Sun family's hell in desperation.
Zhang Shuiniang was about to nod when a laugh was heard.
Ye Caiping came out from the crowd, like a villain, and said jokingly with a smile:
"Miss Li is going to pick up beggars again?"
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