077, Reading Notes
077, Reading Notes
After having a late-night snack with Zhao Lang at Prince Ding's mansion, Zhao Lang personally escorted him home. Standing at the door, Lu Mingfei waved to the person sitting in the carriage and whispered, "Goodbye."
Zhao Lang saw what the boy said from his mouth shape, and then he slowly lowered the curtain. After the curtain was lowered, he could no longer control the upward curling of his mouth.
The guards in front drove the carriage away, the sound of horse hooves faded away, and the carriage with people finally disappeared at the other end of the road.
After hearing the sound of horse hooves fade away, Lu Mingfei gently closed the gate of the yard, then put down the bolt, took a look at the room where his father and mother lived, and then tiptoed back to his own room.
I pushed open the door and walked into the room. It was very warm.
After taking a look at the fire in the fireplace and putting two logs in, Lu Mingfei took off the hat on his head, took off his coat, and came over to take a look at the two little guys who were still sleeping on the upper bunk.
After making sure that the two little ones were sleeping soundly here, he poured some hot water and cold water into the wooden basin he used to wash his face, mixed them together, washed up simply, took off his clothes, changed into pajamas, and went to bed.
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It felt like he had just fallen asleep for a short time when he smelled the delicious aroma of meat. He knew that his parents had gotten up to work. He wanted to get up and help them, but he just couldn't open his eyes.
His consciousness was groggy, and then he fell asleep again.
Lu Mingfei didn't open his eyes until he heard a noise from the upper bunk. After a while, he crawled out of the quilt, climbed over the railing of the upper bunk, and looked at the squirming quilt. He asked the child inside, "Are you awake? Do you need to pee?"
“…Hmm!” Lu Mingrui struggled and didn’t want to get up.
In the end, Lu Mingfei was worried that the boy was wetting the bed, so he urged the boy to come down after he woke up, thus solving the big problem of waking up early in the morning.
If one of these two guys wakes up, the other will definitely wake up with him.
By the time he finished helping the two young masters wash and brush their teeth and came out of the kitchen to get breakfast, it was already bright outside. His father and mother had already gone out to do business, so there were no adults at home. Only he, a half-grown adult, was at home with his two younger brothers.
Just like the day before, after the three brothers had breakfast, Lu Mingfei took his two younger brothers to read and write in his room. When they were tired of studying, he would play with his two younger brothers in the room for a while.
It was freezing outside, and he didn't dare take his two younger brothers out to the yard to be blown by the cold wind, for fear that the two little guys would catch a cold.
In this age of shortage of medical care and medicine, a minor cold can be fatal. Taking care of your health is more important than anything else.
Lu Mingfei spent most of the twelfth lunar month helping to take care of his two younger brothers and taking care of their early childhood education. He also took the time to read, review the exam papers Zhao Lang had sent him, and organize his study notes.
Later, Zhao Lang sent him another batch of information, which were all test questions from the previous three quizzes over the years.
There was a lot of information, so he sorted it out separately. On the day of Little New Year, when he came to Mr. Fu's house to deliver New Year's goods, he brought this information to Mr. Fu.
Mr. Fu received the test papers from the students and asked them in surprise, "Where did you get these?"
"My student asked someone to help find it." Lu Mingfei did not explicitly say who he asked for help. After all, the fewer people who knew about his acquaintance with Zhao Lang, the better, even if the person in front of him was his teacher.
After hesitating for a moment, Lu Mingfei said, "I have a suggestion, but I'm not sure if I should say it or not."
"You speak." Mr. Fu waited for the student in front of him to speak.
Lu Mingfei told his teacher about the modern practice of taking mock exams beforehand and said, "This way, students can familiarize themselves with the exam format and questions beforehand, and get used to completing the questions within the time limit. This way, when they actually enter the exam room, they won't be so nervous."
"Well, your suggestion makes sense. I will discuss it with Mr. Cai after the New Year and make arrangements." Mr. Fu thought about it in his mind and immediately felt that the suggestion made by the student in front of him was very good.
Just as Lu Mingfei was talking to their master, Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan also came over to give the master New Year gifts. The three of them stayed with their master for a while, talked with their master for a while, went out and chatted with their senior brother for a few words before leaving.
After coming out, Lu Mingfei asked the two classmates, "Are you in a hurry to go home now?"
"Don't be in a hurry. Do you want to go somewhere to play?" Ye Zhuoran asked as his eyes lit up when he saw Lu Mingfei.
Zhang Lingxuan, who was standing aside, didn't say anything, just looked at Lu Mingfei and Ye Zhuoran.
"Last time you said you wanted to come to my house to play. Do you want to go now?" Lu Mingfei's gaze shifted from Ye Zhuoran to Zhang Lingxuan standing beside him, and he said to the two of them, "I have a set of study materials at home. If you need them, you can come to my house and I'll show them to you."
"Okay, go ahead. I don't want to go home right now." Ye Zhuoran said.
Zhang Lingxuan was very interested in the study materials that Lu Mingfei had compiled. Seeing that Ye Zhuoran had agreed to visit Lu Mingfei's home, he had no objection. He simply turned around and said to the two servants following them, "Zhuoran and I are going to visit a classmate's home. You don't need to follow us."
"Go home and tell my mother that Axuan and I are going to visit a classmate's house, and I will go back later with Axuan." Ye Zhuoran said to his servant.
"Yes, young master." The servant behind responded.
Zhang Lingxuan also told his servant to tell his mother, and then asked the two servants to go home first. He took Ye Zhuoran and followed Lu Mingfei away.
While walking, Ye Zhuoran didn't even walk properly. He insisted on putting one arm on someone else's shoulder and started complaining to a classmate he hadn't seen for a long time, "You don't know how miserable I've been at home lately!"
"Hmm? How miserable is it?" Lu Mingfei did not remove his hand from his arm, but just looked at the person who had a lot of grievances to vent to him with some amusement.
So on the way to his house, he listened to Ye Zhuoran complaining about his aunt and cousin who had come to visit him, and how his mother forced him to receive guests at home.
Because he didn't know the situation at the Ye family, Lu Mingfei just listened to Ye Zhuoran's complaints and did not express any personal opinions or views.
It wasn't too far from their husband's house to his house, and the three of them arrived at his house in about ten minutes.
After returning to the gate of his yard, Lu Mingfei used the key he had on him to open the outer lock, pushed the door open and invited the two classmates in: "Come in, my family members are out, they are not at home now." Today, because he had to go to his teacher's house to deliver New Year gifts, his two younger brothers stayed at his adoptive father and mother's house to sleep yesterday, and stayed in the store to play today.
Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan followed Lu Mingfei into the yard.
The first thing they saw when they entered the yard was a clean and tidy small yard that didn't look too big.
However, Ye Zhuoran did not discriminate against his classmate's poor family just because his classmate's house looked small. He was just a little surprised and said, "Oh, so your family lives here? Ah Xuan and I rarely walk along this road. I didn't know you lived here."
"It's normal that you don't come this way and don't know that I live here. I was busy every day before and had no time to bring you to my house to play. It's rare that I meet you two today, and I happened to have some time, so I brought you here." Lu Mingfei closed the door to the yard at the back, and took Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan to his study.
Pushing open the door of the study, he invited two classmates in, and took a few test papers from the table to look at Zhang Lingxuan and Ye Zhuoran. "You guys take a look first, I'll go next door to get another chair." There was only one chair in the room for him to sit on, and there were no extra chairs for guests.
He asked the two to wait for him in the study, and then Lu Mingfei went back to his bedroom to get two stools.
"Come sit down and read slowly. I have also compiled some reading notes. If you need them, you can take them back and read them. But you must take good care of them when you take them back. You are not allowed to damage them, because I only have this one copy of my notes." Lu Mingfei took out his own reading notes and gave them to Ye Zhuoran while speaking.
Zhang Lingxuan was looking at the paper in his hand. He looked at Lu Mingfei in surprise and asked, "Where did you get this?"
"Don't worry about where I come from. Just tell me whether you need it or not," said Lu Mingfei.
"Wow, I really need this notebook of yours! With this thing, I don't have to look up other books anymore!" When Ye Zhuoran saw the reading notes that Lu Mingfei showed him, he looked at this good classmate with the eyes of looking at his adoptive parents.
Only when Zhang Lingxuan held the paper, he asked Lu Mingfei with a complicated mood: "Why did you want to lend these things to us?" If it were him, he felt that he could not be so generous as to lend such things to his competitive classmates. After all, they all had exams in February next year.
Whether it was the county exam, the prefectural exam, or the imperial examination, there were only so many admissions slots available. To put it bluntly, every one of their classmates had the potential to squeeze out their competitors.
Lu Mingfei understood what Zhang Lingxuan meant. He smiled and said, "Because you are my classmates, I know you well. If we can all pass every exam and become officials in the future, we will at least have a schoolmate friendship and help each other."
"Our opponents are not just each other, but also many more people we don't know. Instead of treating our friends as opponents, why not unite and face the outside world together?"
"Besides, I helped you today. If I encounter difficulties in the future, you will definitely give me a hand because of my help today."
Speaking of this, Lu Mingfei blinked at his two classmates and said with a smile: "I am only so generous to you two. I won't be so generous to other people." The information he gave to the teacher today was just a list of exam papers from previous years, and it did not include the reading notes that he had spent a lot of time organizing.
"Thank you, Mingfei, you are so nice!" Ye Zhuoran was so touched that he gave his good classmate Lu Mingfei a big hug.
Zhang Lingxuan, who was standing aside, looked at the person holding Lu Mingfei, his eyes twitched, but he endured it and finally did not tear Ye Zhuoran off Lu Mingfei.
However, Zhang Lingxuan did not tear Ye Zhuoran off him, but Lu Mingfei could not help but push away the overly enthusiastic classmate.
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