I'm just a dude

Chapter 41

I don't know if it was Fang Chenghe's begging, the imperial physician finally prescribed heavy medicine, or Qi Yuan suddenly opened up his heart knot, the gloom was completely eliminated, and all diseases disappeared on their own.But within two days, he regained his energy.

Xu Ting was still worried, so she simply asked Jijiu for leave, and brought a few of her own scriptures over, reading and practicing calligraphy by herself during the day, and sleeping with Qi Yuan at night.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter day by day, in order to improve Qi Yuan's appetite, he asked someone to buy food from the restaurant and deliver it all day long.Ice basins were also piled up in the house to cool off the heat.Fortunately, the back of the number room faces the water, although there are some mosquitoes, but the cool breeze and cold water blow away the heat all at once, making this side much cooler than the side.

After a few days, Qi Yuan felt that he was better.

The pill smelled weird, Qi Yuan felt that he didn't need to take it, so he secretly threw the medicine away.Sometimes when he was caught by Xu Yu, he would quickly swallow it in front of Xu Yu, and sometimes Xu Yu didn't notice it, and he would enjoy himself for a whole day as if he had got a bargain.

Ruan Hong came to visit him occasionally, seeing how tender he was every day, he couldn't help but enviously said: "Looking at you like this, I want to be sick and live here. It's so comfortable here, and it's cool to live here, and I don't have to listen to lectures." , you don’t need to practice calligraphy, and you don’t have to be afraid of exams.”

When he talked about the exam, he was also dejected. When Qi Yuan asked, he found out that Ruan Hong didn't do well in the monthly class of Guangyetang this time, and was slapped ten times by the teaching assistant.

For a dude like Ruan Hong, the teaching assistant was a little more relaxed and didn't use much force when using the cane, but Ruan Hong felt that he had hurt his face and was depressed for several days.

Qi Yuan, who is also a student, expressed deep sympathy for this, and asked him, "Why didn't you ask Brother Fang to write it for you?"

These few times, Fang Chenghe and Ruan Hong came to visit separately, and occasionally they bumped into each other, and one of them would definitely leave first.Thinking about it again, these two people seem to have never spoken?

"Did you quarrel?" Qi Yuan asked.

Ruan Hong's face changed slightly, "No." Then he asked Qi Yuan, "Fang... What did Fang Chenghe tell you?"

Qi Yuan shook his head, "Brother Fang didn't say anything."

Ruan Hong heaved a sigh of relief, thought for a while, then hesitated again.He still doesn't know why Fang Chenghe came there suddenly.

He is still living in the numbered room these few days, just to wait for Fang Chenghe to take the initiative to apologize or explain.Even if Fang Chenghe said that there was a worm in his mouth that day and he gnawed it off for him, he would still believe it...

But in fact Fang Chenghe went out early and returned late all day long, so he ignored him.

Ruan Hong was originally angry, but felt that the matter was too embarrassing, so he didn't tell anyone, and now he was almost suffocated.

Now Qi Yuan asked...

The relationship between Qi Yuan and Fang Chenghe is not so good.

Ruan Hong quietly left and right, seeing that Xu Yu was not there, coughed lightly, put his fist lightly on his mouth, and said in a low voice, "Come here."

Qi Yuan's eyes lit up, and he hurried over.

Ruan Hong faltered, hesitated for a long time and said: "I tell you, you can't tell it..." After Qi Yuan nodded again and again, swearing and swearing, Ruan Hong said, "On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, he didn't know what to say." What's crazy, suddenly... just kissed me."

Qi Yuan: "!!"

Qi Yuan jumped away with an "ah".

"Brother Fang, did Brother Fang kiss you?" Qi Yuan asked in shock, "Where is the kiss?"

"Where else can it be!" Ruan Hong blushed, then reacted again, and shouted: "Don't say that word!"

"Which word?" Qi Yuan was taken aback, "Dear? Mouth?"

Ruan Hong: "..."

Qi Yuan: "..."

Ruan Hong: "Don't even say it! Don't say these two words!"

Qi Yuan: "!!" Was it really a kiss? !

The two looked at each other with red faces, and then fell silent.

Ruan Hong said: "Then I slapped him."

Qi Yuan: "!!" Wow...

Qi Yuan never expected that the steady brother Fang would do such a thing, he tilted his head and thought about it, but he couldn't figure out what it was like, and he was as curious as a cat scratching at the bottom of his heart.

"You beat Big Brother Fang..." Qi Yuan asked in a low voice, "Then why did he humiliate you?"

Ruan Hong refused to say "dear", so Qi Yuan could only use a vague particle instead.

Ruan Hong understood in seconds.

"That's it." Ruan Hong pouted, thinking about how to demonstrate to Qi Yuan, when someone outside coughed heavily.

Xu Xuan just pushed open the courtyard door, and saw the two people in front of the window talking together, Qi Yuan raised his face and smiled silly, Ruan Hong suddenly pouted for some reason.His heart skipped a beat, and he shouted without thinking, "Ruan Hong!"

Ruan Hong was seldom called by his first and last name. He thought his brother was coming, so he jumped up from his chair in fright, knocked over the incense table next to him in a panic, and the copper incense burner on it rolled down. The ashes scattered all over the place.

Xu Yu stepped in carrying the food box and looked at him with a frown.

Ruan Hong hugged his knocked toe and screamed, seeing him coming in, he patted his chest and said, "I'm scared to death, Zijing, why are you calling my name all of a sudden?"

Xu Yu put the food box on the table, and said calmly: "I heard the drums beating in the drum room. Let me remind you, you should go back."

Ruan Hong did not doubt that he was there, and said: "I took the brand, it doesn't matter if you stay a little longer." After finishing speaking, he wrinkled his nose lightly, but his eyes lit up, "The silk-making chicken in Wanyan Building?"

Qi Yuan was also taken aback just now, he was regretting that he didn't finish listening to Ruan Hong's speech, but now he smelled the aroma, his attention was all on the food box, he cheered, and was about to wash his hands and eat.

Xu Yu said: "Brother Ruan, if you want to eat, there is still time for the handyman to buy it." He paused after speaking, and simply issued an order to evict guests, "Fengzhou likes to eat this, so I won't keep you."

Ruan Hong let out a hey, but didn't take it to heart, and ran out to find someone to buy food and drink while complaining that he was stingy.

Seeing him walking away, Xu Xuan laid out some food from the food box, and then looked at the yard.

The number room here is in a corner of the Guozijian, far away from the school and Sheyuan, and few people usually come here. There are more than 100 dormitories, and there are no other people except the two supervisors living here who are recovering from the cold because of the cold.

So what was Ruan Hong doing just now?

It's not good to ask directly.Xu Yu hesitated for a while, and tried it out while eating, but Qi Yuan's mouth was tight, and he clearly understood what he meant, so he just talked about him.

Xu Yu didn't want him to be embarrassed, so she didn't ask any more questions when she saw this.

In the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of June, and the students in the Guozijian had all changed into summer clothes, and Qi Yuan had completely recovered, and moved out of the cell here.

After Fang Chenghe learned that he didn't want to stay in the Imperial College, he went to talk to Taifu Yang.The latter did not agree with it at first, because there are learned scholars as teachers in the Guozijian, and there is no suffering of poverty and the labor of running around.Since Qi Yuan is gifted, perhaps with time, he will be able to achieve something again.

Fang Chenghe had no choice but to tell the truth about Qi Yuan vomiting blood.

"Brother Fengzhou was originally a proud and arrogant person. It is very rare for him not to be depressed this time when he encountered fusion." Fang Chenghe bowed to the teacher again and again, begging, "If you force him to start over again at this time, Living in the shadow of the past all day long, students feel cruel even if they are watching."

Taifu Yang sighed again and again, and finally found Gong Jijiu and Tang Siye to intercede.

On the day Qi Yuan came back, Jijiu released him from prison on the grounds that "there is an old mother in the family, let alone a child, so he is allowed to go home to take care of her".

According to the usual practice, there is a set time limit for supervisory students to go home to visit relatives and inspect their relatives, and they are not allowed to exceed the limit.Gong Jijiu gave him a one-year deadline. If Qi Yuan changes his mind and wants to study, he can just go back to the prison to sell his leave.If he has made up his mind to go, after a year, his own Taifu will take care of him.

Qi Yuan was very grateful to the old matriarch.Fang Chenghe came over to help him pack his things, and sighed in a low voice: "The old lady Fu secretly wiped away tears that day, saying that the world lost a face. Brother, are you sure you won't participate in the Jinke Township Examination?"

Qi Yuan let out a "hmm".

Fang Chenghe stopped talking and patted him on the shoulder.

Qi Yuan was silent for a while.He doesn't have many things, only two burdens in total.Now that I packed up my things, I walked with Fang Chenghe in the Imperial College for a while.

The old locust trees in the prison are lush with branches and leaves, and the cicadas are singing above their heads, and the sound of reading can be heard in the distance.Qi Yuan knew that in the future, there would be an unknown number of people who would go to the imperial court from here, be promoted to ranks, or become parents' officials, or become powerful ministers and ministers, controlling the fate of the people in the world.

Fang Chenghe will do this, and so will Ren Yan and his ilk.

Thinking of Fang Chenghe's care these days, Qi Yuan suddenly said, "Brother Fang, after I leave, if Ren Yan and the others say anything, don't worry about it."

Fang Chenghe turned his head in surprise.

Qi Yuan said in a low voice: "Ren Yan is appreciated for offering wine. If you inquire a little bit, you will know why I dropped out of school. I was here before, and you were often excluded by them in order to protect me. Now that I am gone, what do they say about me? If you can’t hear it again, don’t make yourself unhappy. What’s more, you will be officials in the same dynasty with them in the future, and you will have to deal with them.”

Fang Chenghe looked back at him, but smiled: "If you want to become an official in the court in the future, I can be more tactful, so as to offend a few people, I will not be able to protect you in the future, and other years may be useful. Now You are not an official, and I am alone, so there is nothing to be afraid of."

Qi Yuan was puzzled, and turned his head to look at him suspiciously.

Fang Chenghe embraced his shoulder, patted him, and said softly, "Do you know Prime Minister Zhao?"

Qi Yuan shook his head.He doesn't know much about the officials of this dynasty, and naturally he doesn't understand the affairs of the previous dynasty.

Fang Chenghe smiled: "Zhao Xiangying died young and was an official for only ten years. It's normal for you not to know. But there is something special about this man. He was promoted several times in his life, and all of them were appointed by Emperor Jing of the previous dynasty. Chao. Do you know why?"

Qi Yuan looked at him blankly.Fang Chenghe smiled softly, "Because he has an upright personality, he is excluded by his colleagues. Emperor Jing is suspicious by nature, so he likes a lonely and helpless courtier like him. He thinks that he is upright and upright, and promotes him repeatedly, and praises him as an 'lonely minister'. It is also known as the disciple of the Son of Heaven."

Qi Yuan was taken aback for a moment, and then was taken aback.

Emperor Yuan Zhao was also suspicious by nature...

The old matriarch criticized Fang Chenghe last time for being too sharp and easy to attract people's suspicion and exclusion, Qi Yuan only thought that this senior brother was just as arrogant as the original body.Now it seems that there is another plan?

Fang Chenghe smiled, seeing that he understood, he stopped talking.

Qi Yuan slowly came back to his senses, and was secretly moved in his heart.The emperors hated others to speculate on the holy will. If Fang Chenghe could make himself feel at ease, he could find other excuses, but he was willing to tell the truth.

It's a pity that I can't help Shang Chenghe.

"Then I'll make money after I go back." Qi Yuan thought for a while, and said seriously, "If you are short of money, you can ask me for it."

"Thank you, big brother." Fang Chenghe smiled heartily, and patted his head again, "You are at home, don't panic when encountering difficulties. But yours..."

Qi Yuan listened intently.

Fang Chenghe looked around and suddenly stopped talking.Not long after, two supervising students walked over from the corner in front, Qi Yuan saw that Fang Chenghe was chatting about other things, guessing that it was probably not an important matter, so he didn't take it to heart.

In the afternoon, Xu Yu called the carriage over, and Qi Yuan took his things and went home first.

Once he left this time, he would not be able to come back in the future, and he didn't know what he would face when he returned to the mansion. In the past, when he went back occasionally, he would hide it from Mrs. Peng, but this time he just confessed.

Not only did he have to confess that he was released from the Imperial College, but he also had to confess that he was unable to take the provincial examination.

Qi Yuan was not sure about the future, even a little dazed.

Do you really need to make incense as a career in the future?Can Mrs. Bo allow it?Do you feel that being in business is cheap?

But besides this, I can't do anything else, and I don't want to spend money, and I can't go out to gamble by relying on my ability to throw pots and play chess.The only way to do it is to make some fragrances.If Mrs. Uncle is unwilling...

If you don't want to, go find his own son.

Qi Yuan thought angrily, anyway, he didn't die, and he didn't lose his knowledge, so why should he take the exam happily in Yangzhou, but he wants to guard his family and start a business for him?Anyway, that's how I am, whether Mrs. Uncle listens or not, I have nothing to do with myself.

He secretly cheered himself up, returned to the uncle's mansion, knocked on the back door and entered, the servants were all taken aback when they saw him come back with a bundle.Qi Yuan didn't bother to talk to him, and walked all the way back to his small courtyard.Pull out the clothes mound under the tree.He tidied up his clothes again, took a deep breath, and went to find Mrs. Peng.

June was the hottest time, the earth was steaming, Qi Yuan walked from the small courtyard to the entrance of Peng's courtyard, and he was sweating from the heat.But when he knocked on the door and went in, Mrs. Peng was not there. There was only a seven or eight-year-old sweeping girl in the yard. Seeing him coming in, she looked straight at him.

Qi Yuan glanced at the little girl inexplicably, and asked him, "Where's my mother?"

The girl came back to her senses, blushing and hesitantly said: "Madam, Madam... ah!" She realized it later and said in horror, "Madam was tied up by the old lady!"

Qi Yuan was startled: "What?!"

"Shouhetang!" the little girl said, "The person who came to get it from Grandma Sun said that she would teach Madam a lesson!"

As soon as Qi Yuan heard this, he turned around and ran towards the Shouhe Hall.The girl hurriedly grabbed his clothes, Qi Yuan turned his head, the little girl withdrew her hand in fright, fell to her knees with a plop, and said: "Liandong and sister Qu Lian were also arrested! I beg the young master to save them together." !"

Ren Dong and Qu Lian are the maidservants beside Yun Lan, Qi Yuan frowned, "Why arrest them?"

"The old lady wants to be a matchmaker for the young lady, but both the lady and the young lady don't agree. The old lady said that it was Sister Liandong who instigated it, and took Sister Liandong and Sister Qu Lian to torture last night. Today, the two sisters didn't come out, and Nanny Sun Come again to tie up Madam."

As soon as Qi Yuan heard the word "matchmaker", he knew what was going on.There was a "boom" in his mind, and his hands shook with anger.

However, he is only a scholar, so if he rushed over at this time, he might not be able to do much.

"Does my mother have an imperial order to obey the crown?" Qi Yuan suddenly thought of something.

The little maid froze for a moment and nodded.

"Go!" Qi Yuan took a deep breath, "Find out the life-wife's crown clothes!"

In the Shouhe Hall, Mrs. Qi looked at Mrs. Peng who was kneeling on the ground, gritted her teeth and said, "Bitch! What are you talking about!"

Peng's left cheek was swollen high from Madam Sun's slap, and the palm print on it was clearly visible.She knelt upright as usual, with a miserable expression and tears in her eyes.

"I said, don't even think about it!" Peng stared straight at the people above, and said in a trembling voice, "If you dare to force a marriage, I will kill you here, and let Lan'er stay in filial piety for three years. Your wish!"

Old Mrs. Qi was so angry that she pointed at her for a long time, and said bitterly: "Are your bones hardened? Slap your mouth!"

Grandma Sun rubbed her hands and was about to raise her arms when she heard someone shouting outside, and then a woman ran in in a panic, "Madam, it's not good!"

Before the report was finished, a loud bang was suddenly heard outside.The old lady Qi's complexion changed, she stood up hastily, and saw a young man in a jade-colored blouse rushing in aggressively with a stick.

Qi Yuan rushed into the Shouhe Hall, threw the scarf in his hand on Mrs. Peng, held up Mrs. Peng's diadem crown in his hand, and said sharply: "My mother is an imperial court wife, she blinded you, how dare you offend me?" The imperial court, the above is guilty! Come on!"

He was followed by four or five little maidservants and two old women, all of them staring at each other now, and following Qi Yuan's instructions, they shouted loudly: "Here!"

Qi Yuan waved his hand: "Smash it!"

Those few people were the only ones left in the house who were loyal to Erfang, and they had just received Qi Yuan's orders, and now they took advantage of the others not reacting, pushed the table and overturned the chairs, and all of a sudden the teacups and vases in the room fell all over the floor. The sound of dingling and smashing continued.

Old Mrs. Qi was anxious, and shouted outside: "Come on! Come on!"

Seven or eight health servants have already rushed in outside, and all of them are staring at Qi Yuan now.

"I'll see who dares to come here!" Qi Yuan raised his chin, and gave them a contemptuous look, "There is something wrong with Zhai Guan today, you guys will be punished with death!"

He had been pampered since he was a child, and he had a domineering posture, but now he was glaring condescendingly, and those people really hesitated in fright.

Someone secretly thought, no matter how much the old lady teases the wife, she is an elder, so it is easy to excuse her.I am no more than a servant of the family, if there is trouble, it may not be true that I will be taken to death.

Some people wanted to retreat, and the others naturally refused to be the first one, and they all turned to stop the few maids who threw things.

Old Madam Qi gritted her teeth, took two steps back, and looked at him in surprise.

Qi Yuan handed Zhai Guan to Peng Shi, letting her lean against him, then he weighed the firewood stick and took a deep breath.

Mrs. Qi felt that his eyes were not right, and she was about to run away, when she heard a gust of wind blowing past her ears, and then it was Grandma Sun who was next to her screaming.The old lady's face suddenly turned pale, and she leaned on the table to look, only to see Nanny Sun rolling down on the ground holding her legs.

Qi Yuan's hands were still trembling a little. Although he had been domineering before, Qi Yuan had never beaten anyone himself.He had used all his strength just now, and if he guessed correctly, Nanny Sun's leg would definitely be broken.

He was a little scared in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it at this time.

And because of Nanny Sun's wailing and screaming, the other people in Shouhetang stopped unconsciously and looked at him in amazement.

Qi Yuan hid his trembling hands in his sleeves, put his back behind his back, and took a deep breath.

"You offend the imperial court wife with your white body, and you will be punished twenty times with a stick. I will record this account for you first. If you still dare to play Yunlan's idea..." Qi Yuan looked up at the old lady, and said word by word , "Even if I die, I will take your whole family with me."

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