Chapter 66 The First Class
After the class, Su Li was called away directly by the elder teacher, which made everyone in the classroom envy her.
They ca to a four-sided ventilated teahouse. The approachable elder teacher just let Su Li sit down then he laughed and said, “Little girl, you’re Su Li, aren’t you?”
“Yes, teacher.” Su Li sat in a respectful manner and said gently, “It was my sister who was expelled by you. She was spoiled by my mother since she was a baby. Please don’t mind.”
“Hahahaha...”
Su Li was so frank that the elder teacher did not want to ask about the book basket any more. Instead, he picked up another topic and asked, “I saw the annotations you made on the Dictionary of Dahan. Every word you wrote was aningful. And so insights even I cannot understand. So, you must have a good teacher before. Can you tell who he is?”
“My teacher’s first na is Xianqing, and his last na is Qi. He is the doctor of the Baicao Tang in our town. I don’t know exactly where he ca from.”
Su Li asked tentatively, but she still stupefied the elder teacher. He murmured, “It is him. I knew it...”
The elder teacher ca back to his sense, and his attitude was imdiately different. He even said in an equal way, “Little friend, what do you call that person, is Mr.... or master?”
Su Li frowned. The old guy seed to know a lot, but now she could not ask too many questions. Therefore, she could only answer honestly, “Master.”
Qi Xianqing, that old guy, did not let her conceal that, so she just told the old teacher everything so as to coax so information out from him.
The elder teacher was more shocked at once. He looked at Su Li back and forth, as if he wanted to see the unknown background of Su Li thoroughly.
Su Li pretended to be confused and then she whispered, “Teacher, what are you looking at? Can you tell who my master really is and why you are so surprised?”
The elder teacher shook his head at once, “Since your master didn’t tell you, I don’t dare to say more. But, you shouldn’t be here anyway. Why do you co here now that you have been so talented under his guidance?”
“Teacher, there is sothing that you don’t know. It’s my family that sent here.”
Su Li signed lightly and said, “My master left two months ago, and I don’t know where he has been and when he will be back. When I finished reading the books he left, my grandma happened to sign up for to co here, and I wanted to see how the book collection is.”
The elder teacher laughed embarrassedly, “I am afraid that my little friend will be disappointed. How could the book collection of the Muyang School compare with that of Imperial Tutor...Mr. Qi?”
It’s Imperial Tutor Qi, not Miracle-working Doctor Qi! It seed that the old guy had other identities.
Su Li was satisfied in her heart with what she got. She chatted with the elder teacher for a while before leaving alone.
After Su li left, the elder teacher’s eyebrows frowned together. If Su Li wasted her ti here, he would disappoint Qi Xianqing!
“Daddy, what are you thinking about?”
At this ti, a woman ca in. It’s Lecturer Ning who collected Admission Letters in front of the gate.
“Qing, you’re here in the right ti.” The elder teacher beckoned her, “I saw Su Li today, and she is talented and learned. I could not help but ask her who she has learnt from. Unexpectedly, she is the last disciple of Qi Xianqing.”
Ning Qing said in surprise, “Isn’t she your junior sister apprentice? It shouldn’t be. How could Imperial Tutor Qi still be alive? You were only 16 when you took him as your master, and he was 60. Now it has been 60 years. How could a man be 120?”
The elder teacher was serious at once, “Master is a real immortal among us. How could we doubt him?”
Ning Qing disagreed with him. Although her father had told her countless tis that Imperial Tutor Qi was a real immortal and he was the most talented and learned person in the whole Dahan Country, she had never seen him with her own eyes, so how could she believe it?
She always thought that it was her father who worshipped Qi Xianqing too much and deified him deliberately.
“Daddy, you are Ning Yunzhi, famous in Qinghe Province, the headmaster of the Muyang School. What you just talked to , it doesn’t matter for to know, but please don’t spread it out. It’s bad for the reputation of the school.”
Hearing that, the elder teacher could only sigh in his heart and didn’t said anything.
Su Li ca out of the teahouse and imdiately got lost. It’s her first ti to co to the Muyang School. After the first class, she was called to the teahouse by Ning Yunzhi. She had no ti to get familiar with the place.
“Su Li, what are you looking for?”
When she was in confusion, she heard a clear and lodious voice behind her. She looked back and found that it’s i Ruohan who was divided into the Class Bing before.
“It’s you, i Ruohan. I can’t find my way.”
Su Li smiled gently and answered in a mild tone. i Ruohan flushed and was too shy to say louder.
“My maid went to ask for the key of the yard. I...I’ll take you there!”
Then i Ruohan walked ahead and looked back at Su Li from ti to ti. She saw Su Li smile to her gently, so she also relaxed herself unconsciously. They had a short chat and then beca closer to each other.
“By the way, Ruohan, does the Muyang School has so good conditions? It even provides accommodation to everyone with a separate yard.”
“Of course not!” i Ruohan waved quickly, “If you want to live in the yard, you have to pay extra silver, but I don’t know how much is it each month. Didn’t your family tell you that?”
Su Li squinted her eyes and said in her usual voice, “No, let’s go and have a look together.”
There was a trace of doubt flashed in i Ruohan’s beautiful eyes. She was extrely clever and had already realized sothing. But Su Li was so talented and learned... shouldn’t her family have good conditions?
It’s known that ordinary people couldn’t afford to hire a teacher.
Soon after, they ca to a black-tile house. Su Li saw Su Zipei in the room get a key from the administrator.
“Miss, why are you here?”
A lovely and active maid in a light yellow dress skipped to them with a key and said, “Miss, I’ve got the key. Let’s go!”
Just looking at the active maid, Su Li knew that i Ruohan must treat her very well in ordinary tis, because she was not like a maid at all.
“Guo, wait a minute. Let go in and ask if there is Su Li’s key.”
i Ruohan pulled Guo and wanted to go in, while Su Li walked in front of her and stopped her. Su Li shook her head when i looked at her in doubt.
“Oh! My dear Second Sister, what are you doing here?”
Su Zipei walked out of the door with a smile and shook the key in her hand. She was filled with resentnt in her heart. She didn’t expect that...it’s only been a few months for them not seeing each other, but Su Li was so bold that she embarrassed her in the first class, which made her fall into the Class Gui for four or five-year-old children!
It’s a sha!
Su Zipei, who was used to bullying Su Li, wanted to retaliate against her imdiately. However, when she thought of her grandma’s plan, she suppressed her resentnt and pretended that nothing happened.
i Ruohan looked at Su Zipei and Su Li in surprise. She only guessed that there was a grudge between them, but she didn’t expect that they were sisters.
Su Li didn’t have the key of the yard, but Su Zipei, who was the worst, got one. The elders of the Su Family...was there a problem in their mind?
i Ruohan looked at Su Zipei with disgust showed on her face. She pulled Su Li’s hand and said, “Su Li, live with . The yard is too spacious for two girls, and I’d like to ask you so questions on our learning.”
Su Zipei got angry instantly when she heard that. But, there were too many people and she could not give vent to her anger. She could only hold herself and said proudly, “Su Erya! Mother said that you should live with . You must not live in her yard!”
i Ruohan stopped herself for a while. It turned out that the two sisters would live together. It seed that she thought wrong. She was about to release hold of her hand, but heard Su Li’s magnetic voice.
“Sister Ruohan, let’s go.”
What?
i Ruohan was stunned for a while. Then she realized sothing excitedly and ran with Su Li.
She was extrely obsessed with learning. The teacher hired in her family could teach her in the beginning. Later, she beca more and more talented and learned and she couldn’t learn anything from him. So she ca to the Muyang School, and she did not expect that there was a girl who had so much knowledge at her age. There was no doubt that she would seize the opportunity to learn from her!
Su Zipei looked at them like a fool and didn’t know what to do.
Su Li even didn’t listen to our mother!
The yard i Ruohan rented was at an excellent location. It was only a few hundred ters away from the school and the terrain was high. If they went up to the second floor and overlooked, they could see the whole picture of the Muyang School. From a distance, they could see a high wall. i Ruohan said that it’s the boy’s school on the other side of the wall.
“Miss Su Li, you don’t know that the Muyang School had a dirty side.”
The maid, Guo, looked around then stuck out her tongue and said, “The rent of the yard depends on its location and ranges from one hundred taels to thousands taels for each month. Our miss rents the best place. It takes three thousand taels a month!”
Su Li was surprised when hearing that. i Ruohan must had a high status in her family. Otherwise, even the rchants were not necessarily willing to pay the rent of three thousand taels a month.
“Guo, you talked so much.”
i Ruohan rebuked her and had a rough understanding of Su Li’s situation. She was afraid that Su Li might be discomforted.
“By the way, Su Li.”
i Ruohan hesitated for a while and then asked, “Your sister was going to live in the yard with you. Why don’t you live with her?”
Then i Ruohan suddenly felt it’s inappropriate and then she waved her hands, “Ah...I just asked. Forget it if you don’t want to answer .”
“That’s ok.” Su Li smiled lightly, “If I lived with her, I would live in the wood house. I don’t care about if I am in poverty, but I don’t want to ask for trouble by myself.”
“I see.” i Ruohan was so shocked that she covered her mouth, “How can your Su Family do this? If you were in my family, you would surely be regarded as an apple of the eyes of our family and cultivated as best as possible. What about your parents? Don’t they care about you?
“Maybe, who knows?”
Su Li’s answer was ambiguous, but it made i Ruohan more distressed. Compared with Su Li, her troubles were too insignificant.
“Let’s skip this. I know you have been curious about the Dictionary of Dahan. I will lend it to you and you can give it back when I leave. How about that?”
“Really? Su Li, how kind you are!”
They burst into laughter which was clear and lodious like a ringing bell. And the laughter ran from the yard, floated into the forest and drifted far away.
Thousands of ters away from the yard, Su Zipei was standing alone in the yard. She looked at the ssy weeds and was so furious that she wanted to put the hoe in her hands on Su Li’s head.
“Su Li, just wait! I will certainly let you suffer all kinds of humiliation and be driven out of the school like a stray dog!”
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