Chen Dianji did not refuse.
As I said before, research shows that it's normal for children to have trouble sitting still, but it's abnormal for royalty to have an hour-long lesson followed by only a short break.
But that's how it's always been done, so who dares to voice their opinions?
Qi Qi first reviewed the characters he had learned yesterday. After confirming that he remembered them well, Chen Dianji began to teach the next characters. Qi Qi learned quickly, and fearing that he might not be able to digest them thoroughly, Chen Dianji planned to teach him to understand the meaning of each character before he could memorize them fluently and even recite them backwards.
If you're working in a basic position, you need to have a solid grasp of these fundamentals.
Even so, from eight o'clock to twelve o'clock, I taught a whole morning class and finished explaining a Three Character Classic with more than a thousand characters. All I need to do is memorize the meaning a few more times and recite it a few more times.
Chen Dianji taught seriously, he kept talking until his voice was hoarse. Qi Qi was also a little hoarse, so he shared half of his honey drink with him. Fortunately, Chen Dianji stopped teaching in the afternoon and said he would have a calligraphy class instead.
Around 12:10 pm, Xiaopingzi arrived with a food box. Today's lunch consisted of braised mutton, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, braised lion's head meatballs, and cucumber salad, with rice as the staple food.
Qi Qi was extremely sleepy, the weather was hot, and he wasn't as hungry as he was yesterday, so he insisted on sharing half of Chen Dianji's food with him.
"Teacher, please eat it! I really can't finish it all by myself!"
Chen Dianji blushed. In the heat of the moment, he had asked the young eunuch to address him as "teacher." As soon as the words left his mouth, he wondered if it was too abrupt, or if Master Qi would think he was trying to climb the social ladder. Master Qi was a fourth-rank official, and had previously worked in the imperial kitchen after retiring from serving the emperor.
To everyone's surprise, the little eunuch immediately started calling him "teacher" affectionately.
Children are indeed naive; only adults like them think about all sorts of random things.
"this……"
Qi Qi immediately put some food on his plate.
What's wrong with adults? They're never open and honest.
Chen Dianji confirmed that his appetite was the same as yesterday, so he had no choice but to eat.
And let me tell you, it tastes ten times better than my own pickled vegetable steamed buns.
After finishing his meal, Qi Qi took a five-minute walk in the bamboo grove near the entrance to digest his food. There was a corridor separating this place from the Imperial Study where the princes studied. The place was large, and as long as Qi Qi didn't wander around carelessly, no one would notice that there was an extra eunuch here.
After leaving, Qi Qi went upstairs to sleep, thinking about the soft cushion that his godfather Defu had promised to make for him. He curled up and fell asleep.
Chen Dianji was also sleepy, so as usual he lay down on the table for a short nap. In his dream, he smacked his lips and learned that he had taken on a smart student and had eaten something delicious.
At the same time and place, a small figure, not even as tall as the bookshelf, but with an aura that seemed to stretch for two meters and eighty centimeters, walked in.
...
The moment Qi Qi was jolted awake from his dream by having his nose pinched, he realized that the person wanted to beat the child.
The chubby boy, woken from his sleep, was initially dazed and adorable, looking as well-behaved and cute as a little animal. But after a couple of seconds, he seemed to snap out of it, his eyes blazing with fury. This was immediately noticed by the person in front of him, and Qi Qi's face also suffered, as the mischievous boy pinched one cheek on each side: "Hmm? Little eunuch, who are you glaring at?"
Qi Qi instinctively slapped his hand away again: "What are you doing..."
Seeing the Ninth Prince narrow his eyes again, about to speak, Qi Qi reacted quickly, grabbed his hand, and pressed it back onto his own face: "Ninth Prince, don't be angry, you can pinch me, I didn't mean to."
Qi Qi couldn't help but yawn, her rosy cheeks from sleeping making her round, cat-like eyes even more watery.
That's so well-behaved.
It can easily arouse the desire in others to do bad things.
Clearly, the Ninth Prince was not a good person, and he always got whatever he wanted and did whatever he pleased. So he immediately pinched the cheek a few more times. It was probably too tender. He only pinched it lightly a few times, and it turned even redder, even redder than the blush his mother had applied.
"You're smart to know what's good for you. I never see you doing any work all day, just coming here to slack off."
Qi Qi remained silent, knowing full well that it was against the rules for a young eunuch to study classical texts.
His silence only emboldened the Ninth Prince: "Why aren't you saying anything? Look up at me."
"You don't look that old. How old are you this year?"
Qi Qi: "Six years old."
Ninth Prince: "You're a year older than me, but you're as tall as me. What's wrong? Are you starving?"
Qi Qi looked at him. Although the Ninth Prince was tall, he didn't look very healthy. He was thin and small, with a handsome face and an arrogant and domineering expression. In addition to these features, he also had a sickly air about him.
After saying this, the Ninth Prince couldn't help but twitch his lips on his usually indifferent handsome face: "This doesn't seem like someone who isn't getting enough to eat. If you're not getting enough to eat, all the servants in the palace will be ashamed of themselves."
Qi Qi let him pinch her, not too hard, not too soft, treating it like a facial massage.
What does "feel ashamed of it" mean?
The Ninth Prince said, "How can you be so stupid that you don't even know this? It means you're ashamed of others."
Qi Qi looked at him seriously and said, "Because I'm not as smart as the Ninth Prince. The Ninth Prince knows everything, he's so amazing."
The Ninth Prince paused for a moment, then awkwardly withdrew his hand. After all... everyone in the Imperial Study knew that the Ninth Prince and the Seventh Prince were the two most notorious academic underachievers in the study.
"good."
Qi Qi thought to himself, "This works!" As expected, flattery never fails. He immediately said even more sincerely, "How can you say it's okay? From the first moment I saw His Highness the Ninth Prince, I knew that His Highness must be the best, the smartest, and the most amazing prince in the Imperial Study. His Highness is as handsome as a god and has a wealth of knowledge. I admire him so much!"
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