The maids brought in the dishes one after another. Luo Yixiu's maid opened the food box and took out a lot of food. Yining ate the crab shell yellow cake that Luo Yixiu had given her and said helplessly, "Fifth sister, please don't talk to me in class. The female teacher will scold me."
Luo Yixiu curled her lips and said, "She always scolds you."
Xuezhi brought a cup of tea over for Yining and said with a smile, "Sister, you have to be patient. Miss Gu was invited by the Second Master. And our Luo family values teachers the most."
Luo Yixiu leaned over and said to Yining, "You don't know, I heard that Miss Gu's family fell into poverty. A young man from a prominent family relied on his ancestors' influence to become an official, and squeezed out her father's official position. Later, they gradually declined. That's why she doesn't like people like us. Look at her expression, it's really..."
Luo Yixiu was about to give a long speech when her maid pulled her sleeve and made her sit back down.
Yining could only console herself, thinking that at most she would just have to behave herself in class and avoid being punished by the teacher. In the second half of the day, Teacher Gu didn't say a single word to her, except to call her back before she left.
"Miss Qi, I saw the book you copied last time." Ms. Gu said calmly, "Your handwriting is too sloppy. You must practice hard."
Yining didn't say anything and agreed.
Ms. Gu then said, "Your handwriting is really too ugly. You should find a copybook to practice on. There's no need to copy the scholarly official script. Instead, you can find some plum blossom small regular script to practice on."
"Thank you for your guidance, Ms.." Yining bowed to her before letting Xuezhi and Songzhi take her things and go back.
When he left the corner gate, he saw his eldest brother Luo Huaiyuan approaching from a distance, talking to an old man. The old man was dressed in plain clothes, had a long white beard, and looked kind and benevolent.
Yining stopped, wanting to wait until Luo Huaiyuan was far away before leaving. Xuezhi looked at Yining with some doubt. Usually, when she saw Luo Huaiyuan, Yining would rush over and call him.
Seeing Xuezhi looking at him, Yining smiled and said, "Brother is talking to someone else, we should not disturb him." Seeing that Luo Huaiyuan had gone far away, Yining walked out. He seemed to see someone out of the corner of his eye.
Yi Ning took a few steps before she suddenly came to her senses. Looking back, she saw Luo Shenyuan standing next to the lattice window, quietly waiting for her to walk away.
She was waiting for someone to come over, but she didn't expect that person was also waiting for her to come over, and also didn't want to meet her.
Seeing her turn around to look at him, Luo Shenyuan's expression did not change. He whispered to the servant, "Forget it, let's go."
The weather had clearly turned warmer, but he might not be fully recovered yet, wearing a cloak. When Luo Shenyuan walked over to her, he clenched his fists and coughed a few times.
Yi Ning asked with concern: "Third brother, your illness is not healed yet?"
Luo Shenyuan looked at her for a long moment, his eyes complex and difficult to discern. Yi Ning felt a little guilty about his gaze. He was just trying to get close to her...
Luo Shenyuan said calmly after a while: "Nothing."
Yi Ning walked with him, but Luo Shenyuan was tall, so she only reached his waist. Even with the same pace, he walked faster than her, so Yi Ning had no choice but to keep up with him on her short legs, which was really a bit painful.
Yi Ning said, "Just now I saw my eldest brother walking with an old man, but I didn't know who they were. Does my third brother know?"
Luo Shenyuan paused for a long time before saying, "It's a teacher in the clan school."
Yining said "oh" and thought to herself that she was just making small talk and now she didn't know what to say.
Yi Ning remembered that Miss Gu had asked her to practice calligraphy, which seemed like an excuse. She took a few more steps to catch up with him. "Third brother... Miss Gu asked me to practice calligraphy, but I don't have a copybook of plum blossom small regular script. Do you have one? Can you lend it to me? I'll return it to you when I'm done."
Luo Shenyuan was silent for a long time, then turned and looked at her with a more complicated look: "Seventh sister, what do you want to do? If you want to borrow calligraphy, you can ask the eldest or second brother. Why bother asking me? I don't have anything good."
Yining didn't know what to say for a moment.
Little Yining had never been kind to Luo Shenyuan. She was even closer to her brother from the next room. This taciturn third brother was just someone she could tease and play with in her spare time. When had she ever treated him sincerely?
Yi Ning felt a little guilty under his gaze and could only whisper, "I really just want to borrow the calligraphy..."
Luo Shenyuan hesitated to speak, closed his eyes, and then said calmly: "...Since you want it, I will give it to you tomorrow."
Yi Ning watched Luo Shenyuan walk away, his back looking very thin and lonely. Thinking of what Mrs. Luo had said about him being gloomy, she felt even more sorry for him.
She suddenly felt that the spring wind was still cold and a bit biting.
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