098, discovered
098, discovered
Lu Mingfei stayed in Prince Ding's mansion until very late that night, and finally took the carriage back home. However, this time he did not ask Zhao Lang to send him back personally, but left in the carriage alone.
Otherwise, every time Zhao Lang came to pick him up, he would have to send him back, running back and forth, which was too troublesome.
When he returned home and closed the door to the yard, and was about to go to the toilet and go back to his room to sleep, he heard the sound of a door opening from the main house, and was immediately startled.
Turning around, I saw Zhang Qi quietly opening the door and walking out.
Lu Mingfei secretly touched his heart and looked at the person coming out. When Zhang Qi came to him, he asked, "Why haven't you slept yet?"
"I just woke up." Zhang Qi looked at his elder brother with a pair of gloomy eyes, wanting to hear if his elder brother had any explanation.
When Lu Mingfei heard this, he guessed that Zhang Qi must have seen him leaving with Zhao Lang. He touched his nose, pulled Zhang Qi into his room, and then lowered his voice and asked Zhang Qi, "Did you see everything?"
"...Yeah." Zhang Qi nodded.
"He's my friend, but I can't tell you who he is. Don't tell anyone about this, or that you've seen him. Don't tell anyone, including my parents, your brother, Mingrui, Mingcong, and the others. Don't mention him to anyone, okay?" Lu Mingfei didn't expect that Zhang Qi was the first to notice Zhao Lang was looking for him. But he still had some trust in Zhang Qi, didn't he?
Worried that Zhang Qi would see Zhao Lang coming to see him again in the future, he reminded Zhang Qi in advance, "If you see him coming to see me in the future, don't worry, I'll go out and play with him for a while and be back soon."
"Yeah." Zhang Qi nodded. Since his elder brother didn't allow him to say it, he would definitely not tell anyone about this matter... and this person.
"Okay, go back to the room and sleep." Lu Mingfei patted Zhang Qi's shoulder and led him out. He also had to go to the toilet, so he asked Zhang Qi if he wanted to go with him.
Zhang Qi followed him, and the two of them went to the toilet before returning to their respective rooms to sleep.
While lying in bed at night, Lu Mingfei touched his arms, which felt a little sore. When he woke up the next day, he found that it was difficult for him to raise his hands to pick up clothes.
After having breakfast at home in the morning, he went out to go to private school.
After class that day, Lu Mingfei went to Mr. Fu and told him that he wanted to study at home. He said that he could adjust his learning method according to his own progress. Of course, he wanted to be more tactful in his words, so as not to let Mr. Fu misunderstand that he would not come here to study because he had won the first place in the county exam.
"That's good. Since you want to study at home, then study at home. If you encounter anything you don't understand during your studies, you can come and ask me." Mr. Fu was not too surprised that the student was leaving.
He was only a scholar himself, and there wasn't much he could teach his students. At best, he could guide them through the imperial examinations, after which they would inevitably leave. Mr. Fu also knew that as a scholar, he couldn't teach a juren. If he had the ability, he wouldn't have remained a scholar for so many years, unable to achieve juren status.
"Thank you, sir." Lu Mingfei bowed to their teacher as a student.
As for the arrangements after the college entrance examination, he did not ask their teacher so early, and planned to make arrangements after the college entrance examination.
After leaving their teacher that morning, Lu Mingfei did not go to the private school in the afternoon, but stayed at home to study. So he did not know that Ye Zhuoran went to the private school in the afternoon, and did not see him in the classroom. He even asked their eldest brother where he had gone.
Ye Zhuoran learned from their senior brother that Lu Mingfei would not come to attend classes with them in the future, and only then did he know that Lu Mingfei would stay at home to study on his own for a period of time.
As soon as the afternoon class ended, Ye Zhuoran took Zhang Lingxuan to Lu Mingfei's house.
Lu Mingfei was not too surprised to see Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan coming to his house to find him. He invited them into his study to talk.
Seeing Ye Zhuoran staring at him angrily, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but laugh.
He first pulled Ye Zhuoran to sit down, and also asked Zhang Lingxuan to sit down. He also pulled a chair and sat down, saying to Ye Zhuoran, "Don't be angry. It's not that I don't want to tell you about this. I'm just afraid that the master won't agree. I told you first, otherwise it would be bad to tell you later."
"I thought you would come to see me this afternoon, and I will explain this matter to you in detail."
Lu Mingfei then told his two friends why he chose to study at home, and said to them, "But don't just follow me. I made arrangements and adjustments based on my own learning progress. This method may not be suitable for everyone."
"How about you all come to my place in the evening after you finish your lessons with the teacher and study for an hour before going home? You can also have dinner at my house. I'll tell my mother and she'll prepare extra food for the two of you." He knew Ye Zhuoran didn't have strong self-control, so studying at home wouldn't work. Furthermore, Ye Zhuoran's foundation wasn't very strong, so he definitely needed to study with the teacher and prepare for the exam.
Ye Zhuoran turned his head and looked at Zhang Lingxuan with a pair of sparkling eyes.
"Okay. From now on, after Zhuoran and I finish our afternoon classes with our teacher, we'll come to your place and study with you. For dinner, we'll have our families bring some food over, and we'll eat with you at your house, then go home later." Zhang Lingxuan also missed the excitement of studying with Lu Mingfei a while ago. He knew that his high ranking this time was largely due to Lu Mingfei's study experience with them, teaching them many methods and techniques for coping with the exams, and encouraging them to have a clear goal and work hard towards it.
Later, he went back and thought about it. If Lu Mingfei had not taken them to study together before and after the New Year, Ye Zhuoran's ranking in the county exam would probably be even lower, and he might not have passed.
So when Lu Mingfei invited them to study at his home again, Zhang Lingxuan knew that Lu Mingfei was willing to take them, which was a good opportunity for both him and Ye Zhuoran.
The three of them agreed to study together in the future, so Zhang Lingxuan took Ye Zhuoran home.
After returning home, Zhang Lingxuan and Ye Zhuoran told their parents and elders that they would go to their classmate's home to study after school. When the adults in their families learned that their classmate had won the county exam, without exception, they did not stop them from going to their classmate's home to study after school. On the contrary, they all supported it.
When the elders of both the Zhang and Ye families learned that their children would be studying at a classmate's home and having dinner at someone else's house every day, even though the dinner was brought home by the servants, the adults of both families still prepared a generous gift for the children and had the housekeeper deliver it to the Lu family early the next morning.
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The next day, Lu Mingfei was studying alone at home when he received two large carts of food and various supplements as gifts from the Ye family's housekeeper and the Zhang family's housekeeper.
The two stewards didn't care how he refused and asked the servants to move the things to their yard quickly. Several people came in like a gust of wind and ran away like a gust of wind. Even the carriage outside the door was running very fast, as if they were afraid that he would catch up with them and return the things.
Looking at the carriage and people running away without even their tails visible, Lu Mingfei was alone facing the food and gift boxes piled up like two small mountains, feeling both helpless and amused.
Zhang Qi stood aside and saw so many things placed here. He looked at their eldest brother and asked, "Brother, what should we do with these things?"
When the other three children saw so many things placed in the yard, they were already happily circling around them.
Lu Mingcong even wanted to open a box to see what was inside.
"Don't move." Lu Mingfei grabbed Lu Mingcong's little paw. Faced with so many things in the yard, he didn't know how to arrange them. He said he would wait for his father and mother to come back and ask the adults for their opinions before making any arrangements.
Looking at the bright sun, it shouldn't rain today.
"Just put it here for now. Go back to the house and play. Don't run around outside." Fearing that the three children at home would break these things, Lu Mingfei asked Zhang Qi to bring the three boys into the main room and close the door, letting the three children play in the house.
When Lu Youtian and Liu Sanniang came back, they saw two piles of things in the yard. When they heard their eldest son explain the origin of these things, the couple looked at a loss as to what to do.
"Or, should we send these things back to them?" Liu Sanniang said.
"I'm afraid that as soon as we send it back, they will send it back again." Lu Youtian felt that his worry was not unreasonable.
Finally, the three of them discussed it and decided to keep these things.
In the afternoon, before Zhang Lingxuan and Ye Zhuoran finished school and arrived at their house, their servants arrived, each carrying a large food box. The food in the two large food boxes was so full that even if Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan shared the food, they probably wouldn't be able to finish it.
So when Zhang Lingxuan and Ye Zhuoran came to his house after school, Lu Mingfei told them what happened today and said to them sincerely, "There's no need for so many empty formalities between classmates. I invited you two to my house to study together, but in fact, I just want us to move forward together on this road."
"As for the rest, we don't need to make it too complicated." He invited two good friends to his house to study together, and he didn't have any ulterior motives.
"I understand what you mean. I will tell my family later." Zhang Lingxuan nodded and said.
Ye Zhuoran, who was standing next to them, looked at the two people with a puzzled look on his face. "What do you understand? Why don't I understand?"
Seeing Ye Zhuoran's puzzled expression, Lu Mingfei resisted the urge to roll his eyes and told him bluntly, "What I'm saying is, since you guys are here to study, we should just focus on studying. We don't want anything else, like gifts or bringing so many dishes to our house. You're a burden to our family."
"Today, both of your families have sent so much food and gifts. From now on, you two can stay at our house for dinner. Don't let your families send any dishes. Just eat what we eat. Okay?"
"...Okay." Ye Zhuoran said with a look of regret. He had originally thought of asking his family to send more food to the Lu family so that Lu Mingfei and the Lu family could eat better.
But since his friend said that they felt embarrassed to send too many things, he went back and told his mother not to send any more.
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