"Miss, it's not good! It's a big deal!"
Inside the Sai Mansion, a young maid in white clothes held a few branches on her head and ran in the drizzle. In front of her was the Sai family's boudoir.
This misty rain, combined with the bamboo forest, gave it a sense of a unique landscape painting. But the long whip outside the small building completely destroyed the misty mood.
The woman outside the house was dressed in a capable and powerful outfit, without any burden, with a bit of Jianghu spirit. She danced with the nine-meter-long whip in her hand like a dragon and a phoenix. Every time she exerted force, there was a sharp and crisp sound, and just hearing the sound made people feel painful.
The arrival of the maid made the woman put away the whip, stop and look back, and her beautiful face that made thousands of flowers pale in comparison with her arrogant face made her whole person vivid, which reminded people of a play circulated among the Yangzhou vagrants.
There is a girl in Jiangnan who is as beautiful as Jiangnan, Yan Huan is thin and white. Her eyes are like stars, and my heart is drawn to her; her eyebrows are like ink, and my mind is relaxed; her lips are like peach honey, and I want them; but if I can't get them, I will use a three-meter red whip to make Jiangnan no longer a playboy.
This girl is worthy of her name, and she has the beauty of Jiangnan all her life. She is really a beauty molded by God. It's a pity that her temper is too fierce, and even wild horses can't beat her. A delicate shout shook the fine leaves of Hsinchu.
"Why are you yelling? If there's anything important, just tell me in detail."
"It's solved! It's solved!"
"What's solved? Can you explain clearly? If you keep talking nonsense, don't blame me for whipping you."
The maid swallowed hard, calmed down and said, "Miss, the test you gave to the lady has been solved."
"Huh?" The little beauty opened her mouth in shock, "Impossible! That question can't be solved even by Sister Zhuli. No, that question is impossible. It is not solved. What if someone can solve it? "
"Really! Xiao Cui heard it with her own ears. That person said - "Adding flowers to the brocade" takes the word "flower", "Wind blowing and sun drying" takes the word "wind", "National beauty and natural fragrance" takes the word "fragrance", "Spring goes and autumn comes" takes the word "spring", "Grass grows and warblers fly" takes the word "grass". The poem is composed of the words "Spring breeze, flowers and grass are fragrant". The whole poem is:
Late sun, beautiful mountains and rivers, spring breeze, flowers and grass are fragrant.
Swallows fly in the mud, mandarin ducks sleep in the warm sand."
"Spring breeze, flowers and grass are fragrant...really...really solved?" The little beauty murmured, a little absent-minded.
The maid also murmured: "Although Xiao Cui has not learned much poetry, she also thinks that poem is beautiful and has a good artistic conception."
"Who is coming? How did the tricky question that I spent a long time thinking about get solved?"
"I heard that his name is Xia Chunqiu, a person from the capital, who came here for a trip. Miss, it seems that the lady has chosen him. Do you really want to fulfill your promise and learn well from Mr. Xia?"
"I..."
Miss Sai was speechless for a moment. She was different from other ladies. She didn't like poetry and needlework, but martial arts. She was born not interested in poetry and thought it was useless. She didn't want to stay in the boudoir and marry someone else in the future according to her parents' orders.
Therefore, she was very disgusted with her mother's desire to invite a teacher to teach her, and she drove away five or six teachers in a row. As a result, Mrs. Sai was furious and had a serious negotiation with her daughter.
Miss Sai didn't dare to disobey her mother's order too much. Finally, she reached an agreement that she could learn poetry, but she must get her approval.
So there was the tricky poetry topic before.
As for the topic just now, only a girl like Miss Sai who was unsophisticated and had wild ideas could come up with it. Even she herself was impressed by her own wonderful creativity. She enthusiastically found several sisters around her who thought they were the most knowledgeable to appreciate it. As a result, they all shook their heads and sighed, saying that it was an unsolvable topic.
Miss Sai was even more pleased with herself now. She felt that with this topic, her mother would never find a suitable gentleman in her life, so she would not have to learn poetry for the rest of her life.
I didn't expect it!
In just one day, the unsolvable topic was solved.
That's why the maid was so panicked.
Now the question is, should we follow our promise and study hard?
Miss Sai was still unwilling to give up, and threw down the whip: "Let's go and see who it is?"
...
Outside the pavilion, the raindrops fell on the bamboo silently, and a solitary hat lay down waiting for the drunkard.
In the small pavilion, the fragrance of the empty pot of warm tea gradually faded away, and the silent scholar looked at the old man.
Although the environment was beautiful, the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
"I'm afraid this third question doesn't need to be asked again?" Mrs. Sai said softly.
The scholar and the old man exchanged glances, sighed bitterly and left sadly.
The maid outside the pavilion led the way for the two, and Mrs. Sai and Xia Shang were left in the hall.
Mrs. Sai was extremely happy. First, she regarded Xia Shang as a soulmate in the tea tasting, and second, she solved the problem she was most worried about.
She also studied her daughter's poem topic, but she couldn't answer it so far. She was worried that she couldn't find someone who could solve this problem, so that she couldn't let her daughter study legitimately, but she didn't expect that this problem was solved so easily.
Time and luck, life is so wonderful.
"Mr. Xia, I wonder how old you are?"
"Eighteen."
"Eighteen?!" Mrs. Sai was shocked.
But judging from Xia Shang's appearance, he is estimated to be only sixteen or seventeen years old. But when I talked to Xia Shang before, I found that this boy had extraordinary demeanor and well-spoken, which was definitely not the case for a man in his early twenties. I guessed that he should be over twenty-five, and he might look younger. But I didn't expect that he was less than twenty years old.
"It's true that heroes emerge from youth. Today, I have really learned a lesson."
"You're welcome."
"Okay, now that I have said this, I believe you also know what I want. The monthly salary is fifty taels, starting at chen and ending at shen, and how about starting school tomorrow?"
"No problem."
"Very good, very good. I wonder if you have a place to live? I can leave a room upstairs for you in my small house."
"No need, I already have a place to live in the county. It's just..."
"What's your secret? Just say it."
"I'm short of money recently, can I..."
Mrs. Sai smiled lightly: "No problem, I believe you are a man, I can pay you one month's tuition now."
After that, Mrs. Sai took out three ingots of silver from her purse, two large and one small.
Xia Shang was delighted. He had never thought that today would be so smooth. He accepted the silver with a smile and stood up to say goodbye.
When he arrived outside the pavilion, he picked up his bamboo hat and was about to put it on. Suddenly, he saw a pair of bright eyes staring at him in the bamboo forest not far away. He did not think much at the time, but walked into the drizzle and left quietly.
At this time, the young lady behind the bamboo was furious and cursed the maid beside her: "This, this, this... Can this young boy who is still wet behind the ears be my teacher? He looks like a picture, weak and fragile, without any masculinity, he must be a feminine monster! What kind of vision does mother have to choose such a stinky boy who is not presentable?"
"Miss, but the lady has already decided, and he solved your questions."
"No matter whether he can solve the questions or not, I don't want such a pretty boy to teach me! What's his ability? He has only studied for a few years? I can teach him!"
"What should I do?"
"What else can I do? My whip is blind, I will beat him so hard that he dare not enter the house tomorrow."