"How is this possible? We didn't do anything!" Old Madam Tu said in great alarm.
"How is it impossible? Then tell me, what's the deal with the portrait?" Tu Gu said angrily.
Madam Tu's expression was not good. After hesitating for a long time, she said...
"It's because I'm angry. My husband, you don't know, we only arrived in Lingnan Prefecture when we learned that Haoyu had been injured by a village girl."
"His entire back was covered in whip marks, and Haoyu had to stay in bed for over ten days. If I don't find this vicious person, I'll be unworthy of being a mother."
Tu Gu almost laughed in anger.
"What, your son was beaten up, and you, as a mother, feel sorry for him? You're not worthy of being a mother, so what?"
You had an artist paint that girl's portrait, then went around asking people all over the streets, falsely accusing her of being your family's runaway slave and stealing your money?
Madam Tu shifted her body awkwardly and said sheepishly,
“Otherwise, I cannot let my son’s revenge go unavenged. This is the only way that will be most effective.”
Tu Gu tugged at one corner of his lip.
"You always have a point. Since your method works, have you found the girl?"
Madam Tu became angry again, "It's infuriating to think about. We've been searching for so many days, but we still haven't found anyone."
"If we hadn't been robbed and in such a hurry to get back to the capital, we would surely have found that wicked village girl."
Tu Gu snorted coldly.
"So you've been busy all day and haven't found even a trace of that girl, right?"
Then all three of you, grandfather, grandmother, and grandson, were robbed, or were they completely robbed?
Use your brains, will you? Such a skilled thief could easily take your lives if he harbored even the slightest ill will towards you.
Don't you ever consider whether this is someone else's revenge?
I heard about what happened to you in Lingnan Prefecture, even in the capital. How big of a commotion do you think you made?
Could a girl who dares to crack a whip at the son of a Beijing official have some kind of powerful background?
Huifang, your mother is getting senile and hasn't received much education, I don't blame her, but what about you? You are the eldest daughter of the Marquis's family, proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and prose since childhood.
Why can't you be more careful? You should always leave room for maneuver, but you always have to go to extremes, even to the point of being ruthless.
Don't you know there are always people more capable than you, and the world is always a stage in the grand scheme of things? This time you've really messed things up. Think about your head, didn't you almost lose it?
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked extremely pale and simultaneously touched their necks.
After scolding and threatening the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Tu Gu left.
I have to fill the hole dug by my wife and mother, otherwise would I really resign immediately?
A major event recently occurred at the county school in Qingyang County: the headmaster is going to accept a disciple as his last apprentice, and this person happens to be none other than little Zhao Dabao.
It's unclear whether the headmaster valued the little guy's intelligence or his pleasing appearance, but he certainly caught the headmaster's eye.
This has made so many people incredibly envious.
So many people wanted to become the headmaster's disciples but were turned away. Yet, this little kid, not even as tall as an adult man's thigh, became the headmaster's disciple.
This is really infuriating, and everyone is expressing a desire to know the secret to winning people over.
In recent days, classmates have been knocking on the door of the Zhao family's courtyard, all wanting to see their junior brother's face.
And so, this little bundle of joy, who can still be held in his father's arms at any time, seems to have nothing special about him except for his chubby, baby-faced appearance.
Does that mean I need to gain weight to win the headmaster's favor?
As a result, many people acted out of their minds.
Bai Zhicheng was a scholar in the previous year's imperial examination. He looked like the kind of person who was so afraid that a gust of wind could blow him away.
He had achieved good results in the previous imperial examination, but he failed the provincial examination this year and had no choice but to return to the county school to continue his studies.
Perhaps because he had been flattered for too long, he failed the provincial examination this year. Instead of looking for the reasons within himself, such as insufficient exam experience or an unstable mindset, he failed to reflect on his own shortcomings.
He simply believed that he lacked a good mentor.
In fact, the worst teachers who could teach in the county school were all graduates of the imperial examinations, and they had been studying the imperial examinations for many years, making great achievements in predicting and solving exam questions.
But this guy didn't take it seriously, insisting that if the headmaster personally selected the candidate, he would naturally be able to choose the best one.
I tried all sorts of methods, but I couldn't win the favor of the headmaster. It's really infuriating that such a little guy in my arms caught his eye.
Back in the dormitory, he poured a basin of water, carefully observed his reflection in the water, and touched his thin cheeks with his fingers.
"Is it because I'm too thin that the headmaster didn't take a liking to me? It's so unfair that you have to consider looks when applying for a degree."
But how can I grow up to be as chubby and cute as that little rascal?
Does Brother Li suggest we eat more, especially meat?
This guy is acting like he's gone mad. Not only does he demand extra food in the cafeteria, but he also asks for large pieces of fatty meat, even though the cafeteria cooks aren't exactly known for their skills.
It's good enough if it's cooked through. They can't properly render all the fat from the meat while cooking it, and there are no extra spices to enhance the flavor. Anyway, the meat that comes out of the pot is just big, white slices of meat.
This kind of thing might be okay to eat while it's hot, but it's absolutely unpalatable when it's cold.
Bai Zhicheng did the opposite, having listened to some quack strategist who said that eating during the day was useless and only eating at night was good.
As expected, after eating cold, uncooked fatty meat in the middle of the night, he started having to go to the toilet repeatedly in the latter half of the night.
In the end, when people were practically welded to the chamber pot and couldn't get up, they would pull up their pants, take a couple of steps, and then go back to squatting there.
As dawn broke, Bai Zhicheng's roommate needed to use the restroom and discovered his miserable state. Forgetting that he still had urine to urinate, he ran to fetch a doctor for him.
When the doctor arrived, after inquiring about the cause, he first used a lot of acupuncture needles, almost turning Bai Zhicheng into a hedgehog, and then prescribed herbal medicine.
Bai Zhicheng's diarrhea didn't stop until the afternoon.
He looked terribly haggard.
Not only did he have dark circles under his eyes, but the main problem was that he had been sitting on the chamber pot for so long that he couldn't get up, and he looked completely marinated.
Too tired to wash up and change, the students who came back from evening classes thought they had mistakenly entered the outhouse when they got into the dormitory.
There was no other way; to save their own noses from suffering, their two roommates actually became servants and washed the guy from head to toe.
He spent another ten copper coins to have a servant in the county school pick up the chamber pot and clean it before he dared to put it in its usual place.
Bai Zhicheng, who was already thin, became even thinner after this ordeal.
That's not all. Because he squatted on the toilet for too long, he got diarrhea and developed a hidden ailment that was difficult to explain later on.
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