097, Celebration
097, Celebration
“Knock knock—”
At night, there was a slight knock on the door. If you didn't listen carefully, you might not hear it. At this moment, Lu Mingfei was still reading in the room, so he heard the sound as soon as the door knocked.
As soon as the door opened, Lu Mingfei was not surprised at all to see Zhao Lang appear at his door.
"Come out." Zhao Lang stood at the door and said to the young man standing inside.
"Wait a moment." Lu Mingfei was wearing thin clothes in the house, and it was still a bit cold to go out at night. He asked Zhao Lang to wait for him at the door, and then he turned back into the house, took the vest hanging on the back of the chair and put it on. After buttoning it and tidying up the hem of his clothes and his hair, he turned around and walked towards the person waiting for him.
Zhao Lang glanced at Lu Mingfei, said "Follow me", and turned to walk out.
Hearing this, Lu Mingfei followed Zhao Lang without asking where he was taking him.
But when I saw this young master swaggering out of the gate of his yard again, I felt a little doubtful when I looked at my own door. Could this door really serve the purpose of protecting my home?
Two people got on the carriage, and the horse in front pulled the carriage, and the carriage they were sitting in started moving.
Arriving at Prince Ding's Mansion again at night, Lu Mingfei no longer had the inexperienced look he had the first time. The second time, he looked much calmer, with a feeling that Zhao Lang had indeed taken him home.
But it was the middle of the night, and it seemed like these two minors had nowhere else to go except home?
Knowing that apart from Zhao Lang, there were no other elders or family members living in Prince Ding's Mansion, he felt very relaxed when following Zhao Lang to Prince Ding's Mansion.
Following Zhao Lang into the room, he saw a large table of dishes on it.
"You asked me to come to your house in the middle of the night just to treat me to dinner?" Lu Mingfei asked the man.
"Sit down." Zhao Lang made a gesture of invitation and sat down first.
Lu Mingfei also sat down and looked at the table full of delicious dishes. Before picking up his chopsticks to pick up some food, he looked at Zhao Lang and said, "Then I won't be polite with you, okay?"
Zhao Lang made a gesture of invitation, meaning that there was no need to be polite to him.
"This soup looks really good. Let's have a bowl first." Lu Mingfei stood up and filled the bowl in front of Zhao Lang with soup before filling his own bowl. The off-white soup had a rich, fresh aroma. He picked up the bowl and drank the entire bowl in two or three gulps. The person opposite him was still holding a spoon and drinking slowly, one sip at a time, his movements very elegant.
As expected of the prince of a royal palace, his demeanor is different!
But looking at Zhao Lang's thin figure, he said a little strangely: "I see you always like to eat midnight snacks, why don't you seem to gain weight?"
Zhao Lang stopped drinking soup, raised his eyes and looked at Lu Mingfei with a puzzled look.
When Lu Mingfei met Zhao Lang's eyes, he knew that this young master didn't understand these things, so he explained to him, "I heard that eating in the middle of the night is difficult to digest, it will easily cause indigestion, and it will also make you gain weight, and it is not good for your health. You should eat dinner earlier in the future, and don't always eat in the middle of the night."
"...Yeah." Zhao Lang paused and nodded.
"Don't always go hungry. You should eat three meals on time. Get up early to have breakfast, have lunch at noon, and have dinner at sunset. Don't always eat in the middle of the night." Lu Mingfei thought about Zhao Lang who left his parents at a young age and came to Kyoto to "study". There was no adult around him who could take care of him, and no one cared about how he lived.
However, after getting along with each other for a few years, he also realized that Zhao Lang was not someone who could be disciplined.
Hearing this, Zhao Lang's eyes fell on the food on the table.
Lu Mingfei immediately understood what Zhao Lang meant by that look, and quickly said, "It's okay to have a meal occasionally." As he spoke, he stretched out his chopsticks and picked up a piece of meat and put it into his bowl. He was very worried that Zhao Lang would have the delicious food on the table removed because of his few words.
Seeing Lu Mingfei's actions, Zhao Lang's mouth curled up into a slight smile.
Catching the smile on the young master's lips, Lu Mingfei also grinned foolishly and thanked Zhao Lang: "Thank you for preparing a table of delicious food to celebrate for me." He knew why Zhao Lang invited him to dinner at Prince Ding's mansion in the middle of the night. It was just like the last time when he had just finished the exam, Zhao Lang also brought a large food box to his house. This good friend was celebrating in this way that he had finished the county exam and passed the county exam.
Zhao Lang put down the bowl and spoon on his wrist and asked the boy opposite him: "After the college entrance examination, do you want to come to the Imperial College to study?"
"Go to the Imperial College to study? Me?" Lu Mingfei widened his eyes.
Seeing Zhao Lang nodding seriously and staring at him, Lu Mingfei raised his hand and touched his face. He really hadn't thought about this question yet, "I really haven't thought about studying at the Imperial College." He did think that the Imperial College was not a place that children from ordinary families like them could go to, and he didn't even dare to dream that he could study at the Imperial College.
"If you can get the first place in the college examination, you can apply to study at the Imperial College. Or, you can tell me and I will arrange it for you." Zhao Lang said.
"If I do well in the college entrance examination, can I study at the Imperial Academy?" Lu Mingfei really didn't understand the preferential treatment this world gave to candidates with good grades. He only knew that if he did well in the college entrance examination, he could apply to study at the provincial school or a better academy.
However, private academies require tuition, while public schools are free, so he had thought early on that if he did well in the academy exam and could go to the public school, he would apply to study there.
But where is the Kyoto Prefecture School? He hasn't asked their teachers yet, and he really doesn't know where the Kyoto Prefecture School is. It seems that he can ask their teachers later.
"Yeah." Zhao Lang nodded.
"Besides the Imperial College, is there any other place I can go to study?" Lu Mingfei asked casually.
"Where do you want to study?" Zhao Lang looked at Lu Mingfei with an inquiring look. He thought Lu Mingfei had a college he wanted to go to.
The tone of voice seems to imply that wherever you want to study, I can let you study there.
Lu Mingfei couldn't help but laugh when he heard the tone in Zhao Lang's words. After thinking for a moment, he told Zhao Lang truthfully, "I don't really want to study at the Imperial Academy. Since you're there, you should know that many students there are from aristocratic families and officials like you. If I, a commoner, went to study at the Imperial Academy, I'd feel a bit... out of place."
"I want to find a place with a more relaxed environment and better teaching conditions to study. I was thinking that if I did well in the college entrance examination, I could apply to study at the prefectural academy, where I could get a tuition reduction. I wonder where the prefectural academy in Kyoto is? Do you know?"
Zhao Lang didn't understand this either, but he thought of the Imperial College next to the Imperial College, so he asked Lu Mingfei, "Why don't you go to the Imperial College?"
"Why do you want me to go to the Imperial College?" Lu Mingfei looked at Zhao Lang with some confusion.
"...The Imperial College is next to the Imperial Academy." Zhao Lang was not a man who would lie. He wanted Lu Mingfei to study at the Imperial Academy because he wanted Lu Mingfei to study with him. Since Lu Mingfei didn't want to go to the Imperial Academy, the place he thought of that was closest to the Imperial Academy was the Imperial College.
Now Lu Mingfei understood why Zhao Lang wanted him to study at the Imperial Academy. "You want me to be closer to you, right?" He looked at Zhao Lang and asked with a smile.
"...Yeah." Facing the boy's smiling gaze, Zhao Lang lowered his head a little embarrassedly to pick up the dish in front of him and put it into his mouth.
"I will consider your proposal carefully. However, this will have to wait until the provincial and academy exams are over. I must be able to pass the last two exams, and I must do well in them." Lu Mingfei didn't want to rely on others to get into such a prestigious institution. Because if he didn't have the ability himself, entering such a prestigious institution would be a burden for him.
But if he has the ability, he can get in by his own ability instead of relying on others' backdoors.
"You can do it." Zhao Lang looked at Lu Mingfei with affirmation.
"Thank you for your trust. I think I can do it too." Lu Mingfei was not humble at all.
He had lived two lives, studied for more than ten years in his previous life, and had been in school for seven or eight years in this life, for a total of more than twenty years of study. If he couldn't even pass three small exams, he wouldn't have to take the big exams later. He still had this little bit of trust!
The two of them couldn't finish all the food on the table. Lu Mingfei put down his chopsticks when he was half full. Seeing that Zhao Lang had also put down his chopsticks, it was obvious that he was full.
Seeing the young man still looking at the food on the table with some reluctance, Zhao Lang asked, "Do you still want to eat?"
"No more." Lu Mingfei really wanted to finish the dishes on the table, but his stomach wouldn't allow it. It was late at night, and he needed to go home to sleep. If he ate too much now, he'd probably toss and turn in bed all night.
He didn't want to go home right after finishing his meal, so he said to Zhao Lang, "Let's go out for a walk?"
"Yeah." Zhao Lang stood up from the stool he was sitting on.
Lu Mingfei also stood up, and the two of them walked out one after the other.
There were lighted lanterns hanging around the yard, so it wasn't dark outside.
The two of them strolled through the courtyard. As they walked, Zhao Lang brought Lu Mingfei to the training ground at the back. He picked up the longbow on the stand and asked Lu Mingfei, "Do you want to try it?"
"I really haven't learned it yet. Do you want to teach me?" Lu Mingfei touched the various weapons on the shelf, picked up a knife, took a look at it, put it back, and looked at the longbow in Zhao Lang's hand. Author's words: Thank you Bole 9492239 (9492239) for your support, mua! To know more exciting content, please leave me a message on Liancheng Reading
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