To travel between the town and the county seat, one has to pass through a very remote mountain road.
Without Pei Ji accompanying her, Su Li unconsciously became extremely alert when passing this section of the mountain road, fearing that she would be robbed. After all, she was carrying her two children.
But she seemed to have thought too much. She didn't encounter any robbers along the way, but she did meet a mother and son who were robbed.
All the money and belongings of the mother and son were stolen.
"My husband is studying at Changqing Academy. My child and I were originally planning to go to the county town to visit him, but we didn't expect... Alas!"
The woman was very young, about the same age as the original owner, and the son beside her was about six or seven years old.
"What a coincidence! My husband is also studying at Changqing Academy. I wonder what the name of my sister-in-law's husband is?" One must be on guard against others. If she wants to help others, she has to be careful.
"Oh? My husband's name is Zhao Xingwen."
Zhao Xingwen?
Or a student of Changqing Academy...
Su Li raised her eyebrows slightly. Could it be that the Zhao Xingwen she was talking about was the "Chen Shimei" Zhao Xingwen in the original novel?
In the original novel, Zhao Xingwen was Pei Ji's classmate. The two even took the palace examination together, with Pei Ji being the top scorer and him being the second.
When Zhao Xingwen was taking the imperial examination in spring, he was noticed by a woman from a prominent family. In order to marry her and become her son-in-law, he lied that he was unmarried and then secretly bribed bandits to kill his wife and children in his hometown.
His son was lucky. A few years later, he met the original heroine. With her help, he finally exposed Zhao Xingwen's crimes...
The mother and son got into the carriage together.
After the two chatted about some irrelevant topics, Su Li thought about it and decided to remind her.
She joked, "I heard that it's all the rage in the capital to try to find a husband for the imperial examination. To marry a noblewoman, some students often lie about being unmarried. Therefore, most women now follow their husbands to the capital to take the exam, fearing their husbands might be snatched away. In the future, if my husband wants to go to the capital, I'll definitely follow him and keep a close eye on him..."
Madam Zhao seemed to be lost in thought when she heard this. Her husband was absolutely sure that he could pass the autumn examination and would have to go to the capital to take the exam in the future. Moreover, her husband was handsome and might be favored by the girls from official families in the capital.
Moreover, her mother also said that men can only share hardships but not happiness. She needs to think about it and decide to go to the capital with her mother in the future.
Seeing her expression, it seemed like she had a plan in mind, so Su Li didn't say anything more.
If Madam Zhao follows him to the capital and appears in the capital in the future, even if Zhao Xingwen wants to hire someone to kill her, he will definitely have reservations.
When they arrived at the town, Su Li and her son got off the carriage. They paid the coachman enough fare to let Zhao Niangzi and her son go home in the carriage. They also gave Zhao Niangzi some dry food and two hundred coins. Zhao Niang thanked them repeatedly.
Afterwards, I bought various fruits, meats and vegetables in the town. After thinking about it, I decided to buy some meat buns for dinner. I didn’t cook in the evening, and hired a donkey cart to go home with my two children.
In the evening, the two children went to bed early.
After taking a shower, Su Li lit the lamp and went to the study, clipping the drawing paper on the easel.
This is a large easel that she had custom-made at Carpenter Pei's house before the Mid-Autumn Festival.
These days, the "Goddess's Ascension Picture" has been basically conceived in her mind.
She planned to paint seven goddesses. As for the appearance of the goddesses, she had this plan, just like many literati and scholars looked for beauties to paint.
In her previous life in the modern era, there were so many beautiful celebrities, and she planned to pick seven beauties who were recognized as having "divine looks" as a reference for the appearance of the seven goddesses.
Then, I borrowed some special effects scenes from Xianxia movies and TV series as backgrounds, and finally created a beautiful mythological story...
Half a month after the deadline for submitting the entries, she decided not to accept any portrait orders in the following days in order to finish the paintings as quickly as possible.
For ten consecutive days, Su Li taught the children to recognize words in the morning, and the two children practiced writing on their own in the afternoon, while she spent the afternoon and evening painting the "Goddess Picture".
In the morning, it started raining just after Su Li finished feeding the chickens. This was the first rainy day she had encountered since she came here.
The original plan to travel far away today has been temporarily put on hold.
After breakfast, she took out the "Three Character Classic" she bought in the county town.
"Today I will teach you to recite the Three Character Classic." The two children have been learning to read for more than half a month, and she thought it was about time.
"Mom, what is the Three Character Classic?"
Su Li briefly explained it and said, "Okay, you guys read it first, and I'll explain it to you in the afternoon..."
The two children responded obediently, so Su Li ignored them and left the study.
As soon as she walked out of the house, a cold wind mixed with rain blew towards her, and she couldn't help shivering.
The weather is getting colder.
I went back to the bedroom and looked through last year's winter clothes, only to find that the two children's winter clothes were too small to wear. I had no idea how old they were when they were wearing them. The original owner's own clothes had several patches on them and were not thick. Pei Ji's clothes were all gone, probably less than two pieces, as they had all been taken to the academy.
She sighed and decided to go buy some winter clothes.
In the afternoon, when she was explaining to the two children, she found that Pei Zhao had a very high ability of comprehension and could quickly draw inferences from one example to another. What was surprising was that he did not even glance at the "Three Character Classic" at hand from beginning to end.
"Zhao'er, can you remember the Three Character Classic?"
Pei Zhao nodded.
She was a little curious: "Then can you recite it again?"
"Yes!" he said, and began to recite. "At birth, human nature is good. Natures are close, but habits make them different... Be careful and strive hard."
Su Li was stunned. It had only been less than two hours, and Pei Zhao had memorized the entire Three Character Classic?
After thinking for a while, she took another poetry collection from the bookshelf and opened it to the first page: "Zhao'er, read this poem again."
Pei Zhao did as he was told.
Closing the poetry collection: "Can you recite the poem just now?"
"Yes." Although Pei Zhao was a little confused, he still recited it fluently.
She opened the poetry collection again: "Read these ten poems."
Pei Zhao did as he was told and finally recited them one by one.
This time she was really shocked. Pei Zhao actually had a photographic memory!
In the original novel, Pei Zhao and his sister started studying after Pei Ji became the top scorer in the imperial examination and settled in the capital. Not long after, the original owner and Pei Chuer were killed by the vicious female supporting role, and Pei Zhao's legs were also crippled.
Although Pei Zhao continued to study for a few more years, he did not have the ability to remember everything he saw. Could it be that he had experienced too much hardship and his talent had disappeared?
No, she had to send Pei Zhao to a private school as soon as possible. She couldn't teach such a child prodigy!
The rain continued until midnight.
The next morning, the sky was clear.
She put the "Goddess Picture" into a wooden box and carried it out.
The paintings had to be submitted to Wencheng Academy in Luocheng, a long journey, so she didn't plan to take Pei Zhao and his sister with her, so she entrusted them to Su Xiaocui.
She still rode Lin Luzi's donkey cart to the town, and then hired a horse carriage to go to Luocheng.
It started to drizzle on the way again, and the rain finally stopped after noon when the carriage arrived at the gate of Luocheng.
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