Chapter 41 Chapter 41 It’s better to die.
Li Shuyao was not afraid, but she was mostly feeling guilty.
She was so weak that she didn't even dare to look up at people. Her delicate cheeks were burning hot, and even the back of her ears was slightly warm.
I stood there kneading the handkerchief, feeling like there was a lively little deer in my heart.
She waited for a while, but did not hear the emperor's voice. She could not help but raise her eyes and look timidly again, just in time to meet a pair of extremely dark eyes, looking at her with a half-smile.
He doesn't look angry.
Li Shuyao suddenly calmed down, mustered up her courage, and asked dryly, "Your Majesty, is there anything else you would like me to do?"
The emperor calmly withdrew his gaze from her, knocked on the table, and motioned her to come over.
Li Shuyao went over, but she kept her hands down very politely, holding down the hem of her skirt, for fear of accidentally touching anything on the imperial desk.
Then she heard the emperor ask her again: "Have you not visited Baocheng these days?"
Your Highness the Crown Prince?
Li Shuyao was stunned for a moment, then slowly shook her head, her voice still sounding a bit shocked. "Your servant, your servant didn't. Didn't the emperor order you not to leave the courtyard?"
Oh, I remembered that he had previously put Li Shuyao under house arrest, not allowing her to leave the yard or sneak into the surrounding house to look for Guo Luoluo.
Thinking of this, the emperor glanced at Li Shuyao's knees and asked her, "Are your knees feeling better?"
Li Shuyao quickly jumped up and down twice, trying to prove it to him, "Alright, alright, my knee is completely healed now. Your Majesty, can I come out now?"
She no longer wanted to memorize books or write big characters.
Although you can cheat, it doesn’t feel good to be forced to study.
Moreover, he had studied hard for more than ten years, and finally got into university and was liberated. However, he only had a short year of relaxation before he suddenly traveled into this messy book.
She was always worried that her life would be gone one day, so worried that she had no time to think about her family.
But when she thought about it, oh... she missed her parents, grandpa and grandma, grandpa and grandma... She even missed the greedy little fat boy next door, the naughty kid at her uncle's house, and the little sister at her aunt's house who quarreled with her all day long.
There is also West Lake and Qiandao Lake, as well as the trip to Mohe and the Nansha Islands that she had previously planned with her roommate, but no one knows when it will be realized.
Li Shuyao's heart felt like a heavy rain was falling.
The man behind the desk suddenly noticed her low mood and raised his eyebrows in amusement. Didn't she want to stay in the house?
What fun is there outside?
Forget it, she is still a little girl, so let’s not restrict her.
But before that, he had to look at her homework from the past few days.
Thinking of this, the emperor put down what he was holding and began to look around. After a while, he took out a thick roll of rice paper from a porcelain jar at his feet, tore open the bundle, and spread it out on the table one by one.
Li Shuyao was instantly shocked.
I don’t care about any loss or any missing.
Her mind was in a mess, and she was wondering what she had done to deserve such a few poorly written words to be placed on the emperor's extremely noble desk.
She took two quick steps forward, "Your Majesty."
"Well, just stand there and don't move. I'll tell you after I finish reading it."
The rice paper for tracing red characters sent by Liang Jiugong was sorted according to the date, so the emperor only needed to take a few out and look at them to roughly understand the progress of the person in front of him in writing.
But he didn't, as if he really wanted to read it carefully page by page.
He first looked at the first one, and his handsome face quickly wrinkled, but soon returned to normal. It was his first time practicing calligraphy, so he didn't control the strength well and some of his writing went outside the box.
He shouldn't be too harsh on Li Shuyao.
So I looked at the following pictures without changing my expression. Well, at least the level was stable.
He continued to read, his expression normal, but in fact, his hands had doubled in speed when flipping through the pages. When he reached the middle pages, he uttered a "hmm," stopped flipping, and after looking at them for a few times, he said to Li Shuyao with great satisfaction, "Some progress."
Li Shuyao tiptoed to take a look and saw that it was written by Tian Jiarou.
Li Shuyao retracted her neck again.
The emperor took up his red brush with great interest and wrote five large characters on the rice paper. They were all written by Li Shuyao. Then he said leisurely, "These few characters are not good enough."
Li Shuyao: ...
She said "Oh" dryly and replied calmly: "I will continue to work hard in the future."
What I was thinking was, if I had known earlier, I would have let Tian Jiarou write it all...
The emperor started to read again. Every time he read a page, he would circle a few words with his red pen. After circling a few pages, even a wise man like him could not help but feel puzzled. On each page, there was an improvement of five words, and five words were spinning in the same place. Did this little girl plan this?
Fortunately, the word "progress" gradually became eight, and the doubts in my heart were gradually dispelled.
Considering that the little girl had no patience, it was already amazing that she could sit down and write 800 big characters calmly in one day.
Although he's still not as good as Baocheng when he was two years old...
But, isn’t this also a kind of growth?
Thinking of this, the man's cold expression eased a little, and he simply stopped reviewing it. He put down the red pen and flipped through a few more pages with a casual expression. He found that there were dozens of pages at the back, all of which were the same.
There is a bit of rebelliousness in her obedience, and a bit of serious perfunctoriness in her seriousness.
It's difficult for her.
He simply collected all the rice paper.
Li Shuyao saw it, clenched her slightly wet palms, and let out a long breath.
It was a close call. She was really scared to death just now.
"Besides the Analects, have you read any other books these days?"
Li Shuyao shook her head in confusion and said, "There are no books in my room."
The emperor paused again and said, "I'll have someone send some over someday."
Li Shuyao: ...
She even suspected that she had traveled to a university for the imperial examination.
She quickly shook her head and waved her hands to refuse, "No, no, no, I get a headache and feel uncomfortable all over when I read. Your Majesty, please don't let me read..."
The emperor frowned and asked, "If you don't read, what do you usually do?"
"Hmm... on duty, making tea?" Li Shuyao thought seriously. "Also, does following Madam's lead count?"
"By the way, I recently counted all the tea in the tea room and reported the total to the Imperial Kitchen Tea Room..."
"Can you count?"
Hearing this, the emperor became interested again.
Li Shuyao paused in deep thought, then remembered that the emperor in front of him could even solve calculus.
Compared to him, I am as immature as a junior high school student who can only solve linear equations with two variables. We are not on the same level at all.
So he quickly shook his head and said, "This servant only knows simple addition and subtraction."
"Come here, I will teach you."
Teach, how to teach?
When Li Shuyao heard this, her scalp started to tingle.
It was as if she was back in the first grade, when her mother insisted on sending her to the Olympiad class. Fortunately, after the first class, the teacher told her mother that she really had no talent, and her mother gave up the idea of training her to become an Olympiad athlete with great regret.
Li Shuyao walked over reluctantly.
The scent of ambergris she smelled between her nostrils suddenly became stronger, as if it had consciousness, enveloping her completely in it.
Li Shuyao felt dizzy and very scared. After walking over, she didn't know where to put her hands.
The next second, a piece of snow-white paper was handed to her.
There is a mark of ink on it that has not yet dried. It was probably written on a whim. It is a very familiar problem of chickens and rabbits in the same cage.
Then another brush was handed over.
Li Shuyao picked up the pen and wrote "solution" on a blank space on the paper before she finished reading the question.
The emperor standing by looked at her crooked handwriting of the word "解", raised his eyebrows, said nothing, and just waited quietly.
But after waiting for a long time, Li Shuyao didn't take any next step.
He straightened up and moved closer, stopping when he was only about a fist's distance from Li Shuyao. He reached out and tapped the paper, then asked her with a smile, "Don't you know how to solve it?"
Li Shuyao nodded and shook her head, her tone not entirely confident, "I can solve it."
"Oh? Then why don't you write?"
The confidence in Li Shuyao's voice disappeared in an instant, "Your servant, I am still looking at the questions. Please wait a little longer, Your Majesty. Let me look at it for a while. At least I have to finish reading the questions first..." The more she spoke, the lower her voice became.
emperor:……
The emperor found it amusing. He stood up and walked over to Li Shuyao's side. Before she could react, he hugged her from behind. At the same time, his other hand directly covered the back of her soft, white hand, holding the brush, and asked, "Which word do you not understand?"
Li Shuyao's head suddenly buzzed, as if struck by thunder.
She could clearly feel a tall and warm body pressing against her from behind, but she didn't expect it to be... in such a position.
How is this different from flirting?
Li Shuyao quickly let go of his hand and broke away from it, then pressed her body against the imperial desk, bending her knees at the same time. She was like a slippery fish that had just been caught, and disappeared in a flash.
The action was so fast that the emperor had no time to stop it.
He only felt a flash before his eyes, the warmth in his hand was still there, and then the person disappeared.
When I looked down, I almost laughed out of anger.
He took two steps back and said expressionlessly to a young palace maid who was shivering and squatting under his imperial desk with her hands on her knees, "Come out."
"Oh..." Although Li Shuyao's consciousness was still confused, she knew that she could not disobey the order.
So she readily crawled out from under the table, her cheeks burning as she stepped back several steps, as if on guard against some pervert. Her flower-like face was tense and her eyes were extremely alert.
The emperor took a deep breath and asked, "Why are you hiding?"
hide……
Li Shuyao didn't know what she was hiding from, but her body reacted faster than her mind. By the time she realized what was happening, the person was already hiding under the table.
And now, all she could think about was that she couldn't let Qingyao down.
The emperor saw that she didn't answer and her expression was really helpless, which didn't seem like she did it on purpose.
He suppressed his anger and assumed that the little girl had no experience before. He waved at her again and said, "Come here. I will teach you how to read."
Li Shuyao: I still recognize it...
Do you really think she doesn't understand anything?
Li Shuyao decisively took another step back, preferring to disobey the order rather than betray Qingyao.
She put her trembling fingers behind her back and tried to speak, but found that her voice was also shaking, "This servant, this servant is afraid, will, will offend His Majesty, so I dare not, dare not touch the dragon body, please, please forgive me..."
She dared to swear that this was the most frightening day since she came here.
Unfortunately, the emperor did not understand her psychology. He had never failed to get the woman he wanted.
Seeing that Li Shuyao still refused to come over, his tone gradually became threatening, "Are you coming over?"
Li Shuyao really wanted to shake her head, but the alertness unique to small animals told her that if she shook her head at this moment, she might not have a head in the future.
So he hung his head and turned his five steps into fifty, moving slowly, bit by bit, to the front of the imperial desk, stopping two steps, or one meter, away from the emperor.
The next second, she was pulled over by a huge force and stuck together with another body.
Li Shuyao closed her eyes and thought: I might as well just die.
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