182, New Study Life
182, New Study Life
It was not until it was almost dark that Liu Sanniang saw her eldest son coming back from outside. "Have you eaten yet? I left some rice and vegetables in the pot for you."
"Not yet. I attended classes at the Imperial College all day and had lunch there at noon." Lu Mingfei answered his mother as he walked in.
"Is the yard over there cleaned up?" Liu Sanniang knew what her eldest son had done today. She also knew that her eldest son would live in the Imperial College to study in the future. Living in the Imperial College, he would not be able to go home until ten days off.
So she was very supportive of her eldest son hiring someone to renovate the yard. As her eldest son had said, that was where he would study and live for the next few years, so the house had to be renovated first so that it would be comfortable to live in.
"It's been cleaned up. The bathroom and toilet have been repaired. I also asked the masters to build a small kitchen. They also helped us take down the broken tiles on the roof and replaced them with new ones. We don't have to worry about the house leaking when it rains in the future." Lu Mingfei told his mother about the two masters who brought people to repair the house and dig a well today.
"Oh, that's great." Liu Sanniang laughed.
Lu Mingrui, Lu Mingcong and Zhang Xiaobao, who were at home, all ran over when they saw their brothers coming back.
Lu Mingfei touched the two boys' heads and also touched Zhang Xiaobao's head.
"Brother, you're back?" Zhang Xiaobao came close to his brother and looked up at him.
Zhang Qi touched his brother's head, looked at him with lowered eyes, and said "hmm".
"You two should sit down and eat first. Don't starve. Next time you go out, if you feel hungry, just buy some food outside. Don't go hungry." Liu Sanniang asked someone to bring out the hot food from the kitchen and put it on the table outside the yard for the two children who came back. She also asked someone to fetch bath water in the bathroom and hurried the three boys standing around the dining table to take a bath.
Their two families had already built workshops outside the city and were currently recruiting workers to start operations. Because there was a lot going on over there, his father and adoptive father had not been in the city for a while, and Lu Mingfei hadn't seen his biological father for several days.
After the workshop outside the city was built, all the meat sauce, sausages, bacon, etc. that they had originally made in the city were transferred to the newly built workshop outside the city. Now Liu Sanniang and her friends were not so busy. They could sell out their stalls and pancake shops in the morning and rest in the afternoon.
"Let's sit down and eat together." After calling Zhang Qi to sit down and eat with him, Lu Mingfei also asked A Niang, who was standing, to sit down. "A Niang, please sit down. I have something to discuss with you."
"Oh." Upon hearing this, Liu Sanniang sat down and asked her eldest son, who had something to say to her, with a look of interest, "Do you have anything to say to me?"
Lu Mingfei told his mother that he had eaten at the Imperial College today and that he felt the food tasted average and was expensive. "Mother, how about we arrange for someone to sell braised pork rice and sesame cakes at the gate of the Imperial College? I think they will sell very well."
"Next to the Imperial College is the Imperial College, which also has a lot of students. Where there are people, there is business."
He thought the Imperial College was full of wealthy second-generations, and they wouldn't necessarily enjoy eating at street vendors. But that shouldn't matter much, as the Imperial College already had a lot of students. Just doing business with the students there should be enough for them to make a living.
"Oh, that's a good idea." After hearing her eldest son say that the food in the Imperial College was not good and expensive, Liu Sanniang's first thought was to arrange for people to sell food at the gate of the Imperial College so that she could bring food to her eldest son in the future. "Just tell me what you want to eat in the future, and I'll have someone deliver it to you."
"Haha, I'm not doing this to satisfy my appetite." Lu Mingfei laughed.
Liu Sanniang also laughed. She naturally knew that her eldest son wanted to make more money for the family.
Lu Mingfei picked up a piece of meat with his chopsticks and brought it to his mouth. While eating, he talked to his mother, "I just discussed with Zhang Qi on the way back. From now on, I will study in the Imperial College, and I don't need him to follow me there every day."
"If we set up a stall at the gate of the Imperial College, we can give it to Zhang Qi to be in charge. If there is anything happening at home in the future, you can tell Zhang Qi and have him tell me. Or if I have something to say, I can also tell Zhang Qi and have him bring it back to you."
"Sure, I'll take a look over here and arrange for someone to go with him to set up a stall." Liu Sanniang also thought that arranging two people to set up a stall at the entrance of the Imperial College would allow them to keep in touch with their eldest son who was studying there, so that they could know how he was doing. This would save them from only seeing the child once every ten days or half a month, and not knowing how he was doing.
In order to make it easier for students in the Imperial College and the Imperial Academy to take meals home, Lu Mingfei also suggested that his mother ask someone to order some longer bamboo tubes, which could be used to pack braised pork rice for those who needed to take it away.
"Okay, this is a good idea." Liu Sanniang nodded, thinking that the method proposed by her eldest son was very good.
The mother and son discussed the matter for a few words.
Zhang Qi, who was assigned to set up a stall at the gate of the Imperial College to sell things, had no objection. He actually preferred to be assigned more work to do rather than having nothing to do.
***
After staying at home for one night, the next afternoon Lu Mingfei picked up his packed bags, took Zhang Qi with him, and got on the carriage arranged by Zhang Lingxuan to pick him up. He also went to pick up their senior brother along the way.
The four of them took two carriages to the Imperial College.
This time they were going to the Imperial College and were going to live inside, so the four of them brought their luggage here.
When Zhang Lingxuan, Ye Zhuoran and Fu Boming returned to the courtyard they had visited that day, they saw that the courtyard had changed so much that they almost couldn't recognize that this was the courtyard they had visited that day.
There was even a desk, chair, and wardrobe in the room that Lu Mingfei had sent.
"Wow, Mingfei, you are so nice!" Ye Zhuoran jumped on Lu Mingfei happily and hugged him.
"..." Lu Mingfei was caught off guard and almost knocked down by Ye Zhuoran.
Zhang Lingxuan reached out, grabbed Ye Zhuoran's collar, and pulled Ye Zhuoran away.
Ye Zhuoran turned around and looked at the person who was pulling his collar and said angrily, "What are you doing?"
"Didn't you see that Mingfei was almost knocked down by you?" Zhang Lingxuan asked the man.
Ye Zhuoran didn't dare to make trouble anymore.
Lu Mingfei breathed a sigh of relief and quickly moved away before saying, "I didn't do anything. I hired someone to do it." He was not lying. That day, he just brought a few masters here and went outside to attend classes.
"How much silver did it cost here? The few taels of silver we collected a few days ago should not be enough, right?" Zhang Lingxuan asked.
"Almost." Lu Mingfei said.
"Where's the bill?" Zhang Lingxuan stretched out his hand.
Lu Mingfei had no choice but to give the written bill to Zhang Lingxuan. The money they collected a few days ago was not enough, so he added some money later.
After Zhang Lingxuan took a look at it, he handed it to Fu Boming, took out his purse, and took out a banknote from it and gave it to Lu Mingfei, "You take the extra. If there is anything we need in the future, you can take care of it."
"And mine." Ye Zhuoran also took out a silver note and gave it to Lu Mingfei.
This time, Fu Boming directly took out ten taels of silver and gave it to Lu Mingfei, saying, "Yes, we will live here in the future. You can buy anything you want with the silver we give you. There is no reason for us to ask you to work or pay for it." As the eldest brother, it was not appropriate for him to take advantage of his younger brother.
"Okay, then I'll take it. I'll have someone send some more firewood over, and also have someone send some rice, flour, oil and salt to the small kitchen. If we get hungry while studying in the middle of the night, we can cook something to eat in there." This time, Lu Mingfei had no choice but to accept all the banknotes and silver given by everyone, intending to save them for future dormitory fees.
They would be living together for three years, and there would definitely be some expenses in the courtyard. They couldn't just go through the bills and calculate every expense one by one. It would be better for them to pool some money at once, and then use that money to buy anything in the courtyard.
After settling the bill, the four people took their belongings to their respective rooms.
After cleaning up the house, Lu Mingfei asked Zhang Qi and others to go back together.
There were only four rooms here, and the space inside was not very big, so none of the four of them wanted to keep the servant.
After packing up, Lu Mingfei took three friends to the cafeteria and had a meal at the Imperial College cafeteria, which was expensive and not tasty.
As soon as he came out, Ye Zhuoran couldn't help but complain, "The food here is too unpalatable!"
"I've made an agreement with my mother that she will let Zhang Qi set up a stall at the gate of the Imperial College to sell braised pork rice. If you want to eat anything in the future, just tell me and I'll ask my mother to prepare it for us." Lu Mingfei whispered to his three friends.
"Oh, that's great! I'll tell my dad later and ask him to arrange someone to sell snacks at the gate of the Imperial College and bring me some extra!" After hearing that Lu Mingfei asked his family to set up a stall to sell braised pork rice at the gate of the Imperial College, Ye Zhuoran also thought of his father who ran a teahouse.
Zhang Lingxuan and Fu Boming listened to the mutterings of Lu Mingfei and Ye Zhuoran. They looked at each other and couldn't help shaking their heads and laughing.
That afternoon, the four of them strolled around the Imperial College and then returned to their residence.
After being held hostage by Ye Zhuoran and talking for half the night, Lu Mingfei finally sent him away. When he saw the person in front of him, he was almost scared.
Zhao Lang quickly covered Lu Mingfei's mouth, put his arm around Lu Mingfei's waist, and led his men over the wall and out to the corridor outside.
Seeing this young master appear here, Lu Mingfei was still very surprised. He lowered his voice and asked this person: "How did you know I was here?"
"I have my own way." What Zhao Lang didn't say was that he sent secret guards to follow Lu Mingfei and had known that he was here for a long time.
Lu Mingfei stared at the man with suspicion and asked, "You had someone follow me?"
Zhao Lang didn't answer this question. Instead, he changed the subject and asked Lu Mingfei, "Do you want to go to the Imperial College?"
"Going to the Imperial College in the middle of the night?" Lu Mingfei asked. He really didn't know what was so interesting about going to the Imperial College in the middle of the night.
"How about we go tomorrow in broad daylight?" Zhao Lang asked.
"...Then let's go now." Lu Mingfei said.
Zhao Lang smiled and took Lu Mingfei along the road to the Imperial College. When they arrived under a wall, he put his arm around Lu Mingfei's waist and took Lu Mingfei over the wall.
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