Chapter 16 Chapter 16: Outside the house of Master Ergou, there was a storm...
There was a storm outside, but it was quiet inside.
Zhao Mingsheng was the first to break the silence. She said:
"I'll go take it. I just twisted my ankle a little bit, it's nothing serious."
Cui Cen said with a look of disapproval: "Why are you trying so hard? Just sit still and I'll take you there."
"How are you going to go? Going with a cane? I'm afraid you won't be able to walk until dawn. I'll go. You see, I can walk..."
As Zhao Mingsheng said this, he was about to stand up and take a few steps to show him, but before he took a step, his face suddenly turned pale, his body swayed a few times, and he was about to fall down.
Fortunately, Cui Cen was quick-witted and quick-handed. He hooked his arm around the girl's waist and was about to push up, but he forgot that his leg was injured and he couldn't exert any strength at all.
Both of them fell down.
Cui Cen acted as a cushion, and the girl's soft body happened to press on his affected area. The pain from pressing on his broken leg made him groan.
The girl supported her hands on his chest. When she came to her senses, she tried to get up in a panic. This movement inevitably touched Cui Cen's wound again, and the pain made him sweat coldly.
“Don’t…don’t move.”
The pain on the boy's face frightened Zhao Mingsheng so much that he froze in place.
"Are you... okay?"
The girl's voice was soft and a little panicked, and it drifted to Cui Cen's ears along with her pleasant scent. The scattered hair slid across the tip of his nose, bringing a tingling sensation.
Cui Cen suddenly felt his heart beating too fast. He couldn't help but hold his breath. He turned his head away, not daring to look at the pretty face so close to him. His ears were slightly flushed.
"Hurry...get up."
Zhao Mingsheng thought this man was very strange. One moment he wouldn't let her move, and the next he told her to get up quickly. But she was a generous woman, so she didn't argue with him.
When the girl's body left, it would inevitably touch Cui Cen's affected area again, but for now, he would rather endure the pain. As the girl's breath left, he silently breathed a sigh of relief.
"I told you to sit still but you insisted on walking around. Now look what happened. You almost got me kicked out!"
Zhao Mingsheng blinked innocently. She didn't expect her ankle to hurt more than before.
The girl's mistake was unintentional. When he met her watery eyes and saw the worry in them, Cui Cen's anger disappeared completely and he could no longer get angry.
As they looked at each other, the door of the pharmacy was pushed open again.
Cui Cen: Damn! Why are you coming to my place so late at night instead of sleeping?
Zhao Qingyue was half asleep when he heard some noise coming from the pharmacy, so he got up to check it out.
The moment he opened the door and saw Zhao Mingsheng in a dishevel, his originally confused mind became completely clear.
He frowned and said, "What happened? How did it become like this? Are you hurt?" He pulled Zhao Mingsheng's sleeve and checked him up and down.
After confirming that there was nothing serious except for the palm and ankle, he felt relieved, then suddenly became alert:
"What is my sister doing in the pharmacy so late at night? Where is Brother Cui?"
Cui Cen, who had been lying on the ground for a long time, was completely ignored by the siblings: ...
"Brother Zhao...I'm here..."
Zhao Qingyue then noticed that there was another person lying on the ground. He exclaimed, "Brother Cui! Why are you sleeping on the ground?"
Cui Cen: Haha, you’ll have to ask your dear sister.
After a flurry of activity, Cui Cen finally got off the ground.
After understanding the whole story, Zhao Qingyue immediately decided to go and deliver it.
After solving the problem of delivering medicine, Zhao Mingsheng and Cui Cen both breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hold it in your hand."
Zhao Mingsheng glanced at him and saw that his expression was not good, so he obediently stretched out his hand.
Cui Cen applied medicine to the wound on Zhao Mingsheng's palm with a gloomy face, but his movements were extremely gentle.
Zhao Mingsheng's gaze drifted away and he became dazed.
"Okay, what are you thinking about? You're so lost in thought." Cui Cen finished with a beautiful bow, looking at his work with satisfaction. When he looked up, he found that the person in front of him seemed a little absent-minded.
The girl propped up her chin with her good hand. "I'm thinking, it would be great if there was a school in the village," she fantasized. "Then the children would have something to do during the day, and if they were talented, they wouldn't be impossible to become successful in the future."
She whispered, "The most important thing is that things like what happened to Xiaohu today won't happen..."
The girl's lowered face was so white and bright that it dazzled Cui Cen's eyes.
His words awakened the dreamer.
"If there's no school, why not build one?"
Zhao Mingsheng seemed to have just woken up from a dream, and his originally depressed eyes were now shining with light.
Right! If there is no school, why not just build one?
She hadn't touched the two thousand taels her grandmother had given her when she left the mansion, so it shouldn't be a problem to use some of it to build a school.
But soon she encountered new problems.
Building a school is not difficult, but the difficulty lies in who will teach these children and who will be the teacher.
Although Zhao Mingsheng could read and write, and even had no problem reciting poems and songs, the knowledge she had acquired from childhood to university was different from what teachers in formal schools taught their children.
She didn't dare to be arrogant for fear of misleading the students.
Zhao Mingsheng had considered asking her brother to help tutor her for a while, then slowly looking for someone to take over. If she asked, her brother would definitely agree. But with the Autumn Examination approaching, her brother was already exhausted from studying every day. If he were to be distracted and affect his studies, she would feel guilty.
Zhao Mingsheng's wandering gaze focused on the young man in front of him.
The girl suddenly leaned forward and faced Cui Cen. Cui Cen was startled by this action and could not help but hide back.
“You…what are you doing!?”
The girl asked, "My brother praised you! You must be really good at studying!"
Under the girl's adoring gaze, he said somewhat flatteredly, "Of course, I'm second, no one dares to claim first."
Zhao Mingsheng leaned forward again and continued to ask, "Are you also a scholar? Are you also preparing to take the autumn examination?"
Cui Cen was a little embarrassed to tell the girl that he hadn't even passed the imperial examination. It wasn't that he failed the exam, but that he hadn't even taken the exam in the first place. For aristocratic families like theirs, who could count on a legitimate path to success through the imperial examinations?
He touched his nose and said frankly, "I am not a scholar, and I have no intention of participating in this autumn examination."
"Very good!"
Zhao Mingsheng was so happy that she almost jumped up. She was worried that if Cui Er also had to prepare for the Autumn Examination like her brother, it would be difficult to trouble him.
"I'm planning to build a school in the village. Would you please be the teacher?"
Cui Cen: ...
Could he take back what he said before? He really wanted to sew his mouth shut with a needle. Why was he talking about building a school for no reason?
He's the best at making jokes, and the teacher always thanks him when he actually teaches a class. You want him to teach others?
But looking at the girl's innocent face and seeing the expectation in her eyes, the words of refusal got stuck in my throat and I couldn't say them.
"good......"
Having put her worries behind her, the girl giggled. A faint dimple appeared at the corner of her mouth, which seemed to be able to hold the starlight in the river, making people intoxicated.
"Thank you! Cui Ergou!"
Infected by this smile, Cui Cen also laughed. As he laughed, he realized that something was wrong.
Wait...who is Cui Ergou?
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