Chapter 37 Chapter 37 Do top students understand? [Double update...
Nanny Lin took Tian Jiarou away, and Li Shuyao didn't know what they said in private.
All she knew was that when she woke up from bed the next day, Tian Jiarou was waiting for her at her door, holding a small package in her hand.
Seeing her open the door, Tian Jiarou smiled at her and then knelt down to salute. Her expression was not as heavy as yesterday, but finally showed some of the vitality and excitement that young people should have.
"Madame Lin said that from now on I will stay by your side and serve you, helping you with your work!"
ah?
……oh.
Wait a minute, help me.
Li Shuyao was half asleep, her consciousness still not fully restored. When she heard Tian Jiarou's words, she was a little surprised at first, then nodded, and then suddenly her eyes widened. "What? Stay by my side and serve me?"
Who is she in the Palace of Heavenly Purity?
Does she still need someone to serve her?
Li Shuyao grabbed Tian Jiarou's hand and brought her in. After closing the door, she asked her nervously, "Did Aunt Lin really say that? Did she ask you to serve me?"
"But, but I am also a palace maid. Do palace maids also need to be served?"
Tian Jiarou smiled again. Yesterday, Nanny Lin told her a lot about Li Shuyao.
Finally, they instructed her with a very serious expression that Li Shuyao didn't know this at the moment, so they didn't need to tell her.
Because based on her personality, if she knew that the emperor had taken a fancy to her, she would probably hold her heart and be scared to death the next moment.
Since the emperor was interested, the servants had no choice but to cooperate. They boiled Li Shuyao thoroughly with warm water little by little, giving her time to adapt slowly.
Therefore, Tian Jiarou had no intention of revealing the secret to Li Shuyao. She just curled her eyebrows and gave her an example, "Yes, look at Nanny Lin and Nanny Gong. Don't they also have three or four palace maids serving them?"
"As the maid in charge of the tea room, you naturally cannot handle everything yourself. So, Nanny Lin wants to assign you two maids first. If you need anything delivered or retrieved on a daily basis, you can just instruct them to do it."
As she spoke, she put the small package in her hand on the ground, walked over, held Li Shuyao's arm, and led her towards the copper basin in the corner.
Li Shuyao:?
She was not used to being supported like this, so she struggled a little and whispered, "I, I've already washed my face."
Tian Jiarou turned to look at her: "That girl just opened the door, is she going to the small kitchen to get some food?"
Li Shuyao blinked and said nothing.
It is obvious that Tian Jiarou is now the person sent by Nanny Lin to look after her, and Nanny Lin is the emperor's person.
So I can't let her know that I was trying to sneak away to find Qingyao just now.
Otherwise, the emperor would definitely use this as an excuse to bully her!
So she thought about it with her small brain and nodded solemnly, "Yes!"
"Then just sit down, young lady. I'll go look for her and be back soon." Tian Jiarou said as she was about to leave.
Li Shuyao grabbed her and said, "Or, let me go with you. You're new here and don't know where the kitchenette is. What if you get lost?"
Tian Jiarou said, "I came here early this morning. Nanny Lin showed me the way. I know where the small kitchen is."
"What would you do if someone bullied you?"
Tian Jiarou: "Just say that I belong to you, young lady. I don't think they would dare to bully you. Don't you agree?"
Nanny Lin said that Li Shuyao has the mind of a child. She loves to laugh and make noises on weekdays. She looks carefree and joyful, but what she cannot tolerate the most is seeing people around her being bullied by others.
Just like the first few days when she came to the tea room, she started arguing with the maid angrily just because she heard a palace maid say a few bad words about Lady Guo Luoluo.
After arguing for a while, he even started crying. Even after crying, he was still thinking about complaining.
After she finished her complaint and saw those palace maids being punished, she still knelt on the ground and sobbed for a long time before she reluctantly stopped crying.
The maids present at the time, including Eunuch Liang, were all at a loss whether to laugh or cry. In the end, they saw her crying so miserably, her pretty face became as pale as a piece of thin white paper. Even the most strict maid in the palace could not bear to punish her for disturbing the palace.
In the end, she was only allowed to face the wall and reflect on her mistakes for one night.
Listening to Nanny Lin's narration about the series of events that happened after Li Shuyao came to the Palace of Heavenly Purity, Tian Jiarou gradually understood why she said those words to support her yesterday.
…
When Li Shuyao heard Tian Jiarou's words, she puffed out her chest with super confidence, crossed her arms, and smiled brightly. She said in a high-spirited tone, "Yes, just say that, and I guarantee that no one will dare to bully you!"
After saying that, he seemed to remember something and anxiously tugged at Tian Jiarou's sleeve. He leaned closer and asked her in a low voice, "What about those people? The female doctors in the Imperial Hospital who bullied you before. What happened to them later? Did Nanny Lin punish them severely?"
Tian Jiarou shook her head and said nothing.
Her eyes looked a little dim, and Li Shuyao quickly understood what she meant.
She puffed up her cheeks quickly, looking even angrier than she was. "Why didn't Madam Lin punish them? What if they go and bully others again?"
Tian Jiarou could only whisper, "Things like this happen everywhere in the Forbidden City. Nanny Lin is alone and can't handle it all."
Li Shuyao: ...
I hate this place even more!
After Tian Jiarou said this, she saw that she had no intention of continuing to speak, so she just crossed her arms over her chest, looking very angry.
After thinking for a moment, I decided to go out and get some food.
Soon gone and back.
When Li Shuyao smelled the aroma of food, her stomach growled twice.
Tian Jiarou placed the food with her back to her and pretended not to know even when she heard it.
Li Shuyao finally stopped blushing with embarrassment. She coughed twice uncomfortably, then slowly walked to the table and sat down. She then took Tian Jiarou's hand as she was about to leave, and asked her with sparkling eyes, "Have you eaten yet?"
Tian Jiarou nodded, "I have already eaten."
Li Shuyao didn't believe it and asked her again, "Did you just eat two pieces of milk cakes without sugar and drink a few sips of cold water and think you had eaten?"
A moment of surprise flashed across Tian Jiarou's eyes, and she lowered her head without saying a word.
Li Shuyao guessed that this was the case. She had discovered in the first few days after she came here that the palace maids in the Qing Dynasty ate and drank very simply...
No, it’s not simple, it’s outrageous!
I heard that this was to ensure that there was no odor on the body when serving the master, so no sugar could be put in the steamed buns they ate, and the porridge they drank could only be plain porridge, without even a bite of pickles or pickles. There was more soup than rice, and when drinking it, it was almost impossible to tell whether it was water or porridge...
Otherwise, why would she not be able to hold on for a single meal and run to Qingyao for free food and drinks every time?
She's not someone who can't endure hardship, nor is she truly greedy...
Well, the latter sentence can only deceive herself.
After thinking about it, Li Shuyao kept holding Tian Jiarou's sleeve with one hand, and stretched out the other hand to the side, hooking another stool with her fingertips with difficulty.
Then he pulled Tian Jiarou and asked her to sit next to him. He took another pair of chopsticks and handed them to her: "You took too much. I can't finish it. Let's eat together."
Tian Jiarou looked silently at the dining table where there was only a bowl of vegetable porridge, two plates of pickled vegetables, a plate of scallion pancakes, a plate of hand-shredded chicken legs and a plate of braised beef.
She pursed her lips, feeling a little helpless.
Li Shuyao didn't give her any explanation and directly took an empty bowl and gave her half of the steaming hot vegetable porridge.
He said generously, "Eat it!"
At worst, she could sneak out later to ask Qingyao for food.
...If the sneak attempt fails, it's okay, she still has a lot of snacks stored in her cabinet.
Besides, hadn't the Emperor said he would send Qingyao to visit her? Since Qingyao and Lingluo knew she loved eating, they certainly wouldn't come empty-handed.
Li Shuyao is very confident.
After saying that, he buried his head in his food and ate with great relish.
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As it turns out, if you give away half of your breakfast, you really won’t feel full.
Li Shuyao only stayed in the house for more than an hour before her stomach started growling again.
It was around ten o'clock in the morning, and there were still four hours, or two hours, before dinner at around two o'clock in the afternoon.
Li Shuyao bent her fingers for a while and sat in the rocking chair with an extremely serious expression on her flower-like little face.
She quietly raised her eyes to glance at Tian Jiarou, who was sitting on a small stool guarding the gate not far away.
With a sad tone and a heavy heart, he sighed again.
It was a bad idea.
She didn't expect Tian Jiarou to look at her so closely.
Qingyao...
Now she could only hope that Qingyao's brain waves could magically receive her call, and bring over some of the super delicious Emei cakes, osmanthus cakes, mung bean cakes, Dingsheng cakes, hawthorn cakes, water chestnut cakes, pea yellow, crab shell yellow, milk skin cakes, lotus cakes, walnut cakes, one-word cakes, champion cakes, blind man cakes, mandarin duck cakes, Tai Shi cakes... from the imperial kitchen to see her.
Even if we pack everything up, what's wrong with that?
Thinking of this, Li Shuyao sighed deeply again.
Tian Jiarou at the door suddenly moved and turned to look at her, "Are you bored, girl?"
Li Shuyao held her chin with both hands and nodded with dull eyes.
Tian Jiarou thought for a moment and said, "Please wait a moment, young lady. I will go get something."
Li Shuyao's eyes lit up. Was she going to leave?
Then she saw Tian Jiarou walk back into her house, not far from her, to the place where the small package was placed before. She bent down, untied the knot on the package, took something out of it, stood up and walked towards her again, and stuffed the thing into her hand.
Is that all?
Li Shuyao fell back into the rocking chair feeling extremely disappointed.
At the same time, he lowered his eyes and looked at the object in her hand. It was a few balls of... colorful threads?
What does this mean? Is it for her to jump rope? Or is it for her to knit bracelets or a wool scarf?
But...she doesn't know these either.
Tian Jiarou didn't notice her disappointment. She dug out a pair of scissors from somewhere and placed them on the small table next to the rocking chair. She said to Li Shuyao slowly, "Miss, why don't you try making a lace?"
When I give it to the emperor in the future, he will definitely be very happy.
Li Shuyao's eyes became more and more confused. She couldn't even weave a bracelet, and now she was expected to learn how to knit?
Might as well do cross stitch.
Li Shuyao shook her head, unhappily threw the ball of thread on the table, and said, "I don't know how."
I don’t want to learn either.
She was a palace maid serving tea, and all she had to do was learn how to make tea.
When Tian Jiarou heard her answer, there was no disappointment on her face.
Nanny Lin said that Miss Li has no ambition to make progress.
So don't push her to learn anything, just learn something that piques her interest.
She just knows how to play.
Thinking of this, Tian Jiarou suggested hesitantly, "How about I do the beating and you watch from the side? That way you won't be bored."
...That's fine, Li Shuyao nodded indifferently.
She had never seen anyone making lace with her own eyes.
Thinking of this, he sat up a little straighter, and his apricot blossom eyes gradually lit up.
The two of them stayed together and played for half an hour. During the process, Li Shuyao got up twice. Once, he went to the cupboard to get something to eat, and the other time... he also went to the cupboard to get something to eat.
I actually treated it as a performance at the Spring Festival Gala.
When others watch it, I am very interested and eager to try it out, and I can't wait to experience it myself.
But what she was thinking was: the lines are so long, like noodles; this knot looks a bit like dragon beard pastry; that knot is round and plump, like a rice dumpling; the combination of red and yellow makes me want to eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes, what should I do?
But there are no tomatoes in Qingchuan...
Sigh, sigh again.
I sighed and sighed, becoming hungrier and hungrier, and finally had no choice but to reach for the snack cabinet.
After eating three bags of preserved fruits in a row, she saw Qingyao and Lingluo slowly appear in front of her door.
…
At that moment, Li Shuyao was so moved that she almost cried.
She, she is almost full, what should she do?
Li Shuyao stood up with a droopy face. After greeting Qingyao, her eyes immediately turned to Lingluo's hands, wanting to see what delicious food she had brought for her.
result……
Lingluo's hands were empty, not even a handkerchief, let alone a food box.
Instead, it was Qingyao who was holding something bulging in her arms, someone unknown.
"This servant greets Miss Guo Luoluo."
Li Shuyao and Qingyao were used to being close to each other, and they never exchanged greetings when they met in private except in formal occasions.
But Tian Jiarou couldn't do that. She quickly put down the lace that was almost finished in her hand, walked behind Li Shuyao, and knelt down politely to Guo Luoluo Qingyao.
Qingyao didn't expect to see a strange palace maid here with Shuyao. She didn't bother to call out to her for a moment, but subconsciously glared at Li Shuyao fiercely.
His eyes seemed to be saying, great, you made new friends and didn’t tell me!
Li Shuyao blinked innocently and tilted her head. What's wrong?
Seeing this, Lingluo had to rush to the rescue and pushed her young master's arm.
Qingyao reluctantly withdrew her gaze from Li Shuyao's face and looked at the little palace maid kneeling on the ground. She said in a neutral tone, "Get up."
Tian Jiarou lowered her head, slowly stood up, walked behind Li Shuyao, and stood not too far away.
Li Shuyao finally realized what was going on. Smiling, she approached Qingyao, put her arm around her, and led her to her room. As they walked, she whispered to her everything that had happened yesterday and today, word for word.
Hearing that it was the female doctor who was bullied in the Imperial Hospital, Qingyao turned around and glanced at Tian Jiarou.
Suddenly, he thought of something, his eyes softened quickly, and he said to her softly, "So you were a female doctor before."
As they were talking, a group of people slowly walked into the house.
There is no Luohan couch in Li Shuyao's room, and the decoration is not as gorgeous as Qingyao's room. There are only some simple furniture with ancient shapes.
Qingyao didn't show any disgust at all and sat down on the round stool very proactively.
Unlike Wu Yalianchu before, she didn't even bother to ask Li Shuyao for permission before wandering around the house...
Li Shuyao sat down beside Qingyao with her cheeks supported. Her watery and clear apricot eyes were shining as she looked at the thing in Qingyao's arms with great interest.
Qingyao probably noticed her curiosity, and quickly placed the thing in her arms on the table and lifted the silk cloth covering it.
Below is...
How many books are there?
Li Shuyao was instantly disappointed.
Qingyao ignored her, lowered her head, and took out a set of four treasures of the study from somewhere. She looked up and looked around, then asked Li Shuyao, "Don't you have a study in this room?"
Li Shuyao quickly shook her head. She only had an inner room and an outer room. The inner room was for sleeping, and the outer room was for playing... Oh no, it was also for receiving outsiders and eating.
No study, no study.
Don't try to make her study.
She shook her head very vigorously, with obvious resistance on her fair and tender little face, and a hint of disgust in her eyes. If she hadn't taken into consideration that these books were brought by Qingyao, she would have wanted to reach out and push them to the ground.
The velvet flowers on her bun trembled, and the tassel hairpin that she rarely wore bumped into her ears.
Tian Jiarou hurried over and held the tassel on the hairpin.
Qingyao also looked at her ears with concern.
Li Shuyao's eyes rolled, and she simply covered her ears, saying "ouch" in a very affected tone, "It hurts."
Qingyao:......
She rolled her eyes and said unhappily, "This is not what I want to give you."
Then don’t do it.
Li Shuyao decisively reached out towards the books.
The next second——
Qingyao: "But the emperor ordered me to bring it here."
Li Shuyao immediately withdrew her hand and put it in her arms, still feeling scared.
That was a close call, it was a gift from the emperor.
The hand was almost gone.
She recalled Qingyao's words and asked aggrievedly, "Your Majesty, why did you give me these?"
Qingyao said seriously, "The Emperor said that if you want me to come visit you often during this period, you must first complete the homework he assigned."
It turned out that she was here to learn.
Li Shuyao groaned and her little face drooped with a look of deep resentment and bitterness.
She asked weakly, "What homework?"
Qingyao comforted her, "Don't be nervous. The Emperor, considering that you've never been to school and only know simple words like one, two, three, and four, has assigned you the same homework he assigned to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince last year."
"The Emperor said, there's no reason why the two-year-old Crown Prince can accomplish it but you can't."
"It's just memorizing one Analects of Confucius a day, plus a hundred pages of large characters."
The Analects?
Li Shuyao sat up in shock. She knew the Analects of Confucius. It was about "learning and practicing it from time to time."
Then Qingyao continued to introduce in a leisurely tone: "You probably don't know that the Analects is actually very simple. There are only twenty chapters and 492 chapters in total. If you memorize one chapter a day, you can memorize the whole thing in twenty days."
Li Shuyao intuitively felt that something was wrong.
This didn't seem to be what she had learned before: "Learn and practice it from time to time."
Another thing, twenty days, does the emperor mean to lock her up for twenty days?
What about the work in the tea room?
She is the head maid. If she is not here, won’t the people below be in chaos?
Oh yes, with Eunuch Liang here, those people dare not cause trouble.
But...but will they usurp the throne? What if she loses her job before twenty days are over?
By then, she would no longer be able to be the head maid in the tea room. Not only would she lose her monthly salary of twenty taels, but she might even be banished to some corner of the Forbidden City, where she would be bullied and abused...
Also, I will never see Qingyao again.
Li Shuyao was suddenly overcome with grief and felt like crying.
Qingyao, still unaware of her aversion, finished introducing the Analects with her head down, then removed the top copybook, revealing several calligraphy books and two thick stacks of snow-white rice paper. She said to Li Shuyao, "I know you're impatient, so I carefully selected these sheets of rice paper for you. Each page has only ten grids. If you can write a hundred large characters on a sheet, that means you only need to write a thousand characters a day."
"When you first start, focus on tracing the red characters. Take the stack of rice paper on the right. Remember, don't take the wrong one."
"Remember to read the calligraphy while you're at it. This way, it will be easier to copy after ten days..."
Li Shuyao's vision went dark.
Who is she, where is she, what is she doing, and who is sitting opposite her?
Could it be that the emperor is disguised as Qingyao and comes here to bully her on purpose?
Li Shuyao felt like she could hardly breathe.
Qingyao probably noticed that she wasn't listening to him, so she frowned and looked at Li Shuyao seriously, "Yaoyao, did you hear what I just said?"
Li Shuyao pursed her lips and did not answer.
Seeing this, Tian Jiarou behind her did not dare to join in the discussion, but only poked Li Shuyao's hand cautiously.
Li Shuyao withdrew her hand and continued to stare blankly.
Qingyao:......
Okay, she saw that Shu Yao was refusing to cooperate.
She actually felt a little sorry for Shu Yao and thought that the emperor was just looking for trouble.
Can……
Thinking of this, she turned her head to look at Lingluo. Lingluo nodded in understanding, stood up and extended her hand towards Tian Jiarou.
Tian Jiarou subconsciously moved to the side and moved closer to Li Shuyao.
Lingluo had no choice but to whisper, "My lady, I have something to say to Shuyao. Please come out with me first."
Tian Jiarou hesitated for a moment, but decided to ask Li Shuyao's opinion first.
She gently tugged at Li Shuyao's sleeves twice.
Li Shuyao came back to her senses and nodded at her. Even if Qingyao broke her heart, she would still... she would still forgive Qingyao.
So she said to Tian Jiarou, "Qingyao's meaning is my meaning. From now on, you have to listen to me and Qingyao as well." After thinking for a moment, she continued, "Qingyao is smarter than me, so if I ever lose my mind and do something stupid, remember to listen to Qingyao and not me. Do you understand?"
"Because sometimes I don't know what I'm doing, and whether I'm reliable. If I make a mistake, it would be bad if it gets you involved."
Tian Jiarou: ...
Guo Luoluo, Qingyao, and Lingluo also said: ...
This is a bit too honest.
Qingyao and Lingluo looked at each other.
I felt a little touched, and also... wanted to laugh.
When it came to Tian Jiarou, she was completely moved.
Her eyes quickly turned slightly red, and she unconsciously grabbed the sleeve in her hand, sniffed twice through her nose, endured the sourness in her throat, slowly stood up, and followed Lingluo out.
Qingyao looked at her back for a long time, then said with emotion: "What you said is really good."
Look, it’s so easy to win over someone’s heart.
Li Shuyao tilted her head, let out a puzzled "Ah", and asked crisply, "What's good about it?"
“It works well.”
"Effect?" Li Shuyao became more and more confused.
This is also the reason why she always felt that Qingyao was smarter than herself.
Qingyao could always quickly understand every word she said, but she often couldn't react. Sometimes it would take several days before she would suddenly realize while doing something, "Oh, this is what Qingyao meant."
Forget it, if you can’t figure it out, just stop thinking about it. You will figure it out naturally in a few days.
Li Shuyao did not continue to ask questions, but instead reached out her hand angrily and poked a few books on the table.
At this point, she knew that it was impossible for her not to study.
But... she is still very unhappy.
I can only poke at the books to vent my anger.
Qingyao watched her movements with a smile on her face.
At this time, there were two knocks on the door.
This was the secret code agreed upon by Qingyao and Lingluo, which meant that Lingluo had checked around Li Shuyao's room and found no one eavesdropping, so they could whisper to each other without restraint.
So Qingyao quickly came over and whispered something in Li Shuyao's ear.
Li Shuyao's eyes suddenly widened. "Really?"
But thinking about it carefully, it doesn’t seem that surprising…
After all, she already knew how history developed and had read the original novel, so she naturally knew that Qingyao would be granted the title of "concubine" in the grand harem enthronement ceremony at the end of August.
She was just surprised that the emperor would tell Qingyao about this in advance.
Qingyao also did it completely subconsciously and from the bottom of her heart, and ran to her to tell her the good news as soon as possible.
What does this mean? It means Qingyao likes her the most.
Qingyao nodded and said solemnly, "It's true. The emperor told me personally, and the Imperial Household Department has also started making auspicious clothes."
"By the way, the emperor also gave me a few titles and asked me to choose one myself. Would you like to help me with some advice?"
Li Shuyao immediately became excited and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes."
Qingyao took out a piece of thin paper from her sleeve, flipped it over and over again, and finally what caught her eye were three big characters - "Wen", "Yi", and "Chun".
Li Shuyao didn't even think twice and pointed to the one in the middle, saying firmly, "This one."
Qingyao probably didn't anticipate her reaction. Her red lips opened and closed, and then opened and closed again. After a long while, she looked at her with some suspicion.
Then he hesitated and said slowly: "Do you... do you really understand?"
"How about I first explain to you what these words are and what they mean?"
Li Shuyao was stunned, and then became furious.
This time she understood, Qingyao was saying that she was illiterate!
Damn it, she’s a top student!
Do top students understand?
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