Tibet

After dinner, Pei Sanniang called her son over.

Your father came here today, the house deed was completed, and this!

Pei Sanniang handed the admission letter to Li Ye, Let you go study!

Li Ye frowned, How can I have time to study? I'm busy!

Whenever you are busy, you don't compete, you just wander around all day long!

I'm not just hanging around, there's a lot going on!

Li Ye suddenly remembered what was in his arms, and quickly took out the envelope and handed it to Pei Sanniang, You will know after you take a look at this!

Pei Sanniang is very familiar with this counter ticket in Prince Ning's Mansion. She always has a counter ticket.

Her eyes lit up, and she quickly took it and asked, How many are there?

look by youself!

Pei Sanniang quickly took out the Feiqian bank ticket inside, and immediately laughed so hard that she couldn't close her mouth. Three thousand coins!

Why are there so many? Aren't there no games recently?

I switched to playing for the Tianpeng Polo Team. King Si Ning terminated my contract. He was very apologetic and gave me some compensation.

When did you switch to playing for the Tianpeng team? Pei Sanniang asked in surprise.

Just today, I've been busy all day, just for this matter!

Aunt Mu next to me was puzzled, That's not even three thousand guan!

Auntie, three thousand guan is a lot for us, but for the royal family and dignitaries, it only costs a few meals. Besides, King Si Ning won 20,000 guan from me, so I can take it with peace of mind.

To put it simply, just to appease my mother, how can three thousand guan be so easy to earn? King Si Ning is not a boy who throws away his wealth.

With three thousand guan of money, Pei Sanniang was no longer enthusiastic about her son's education.

This is arranged by your grandfather. It's up to you whether you want to go or not!

Hearing that it was arranged by Li Linfu, Li Ye was a little tempted. This must be paving the way for himself!

Okay! I'll think about it again.

At the first watch, Li Ye climbed up to the top of the city easily from his courtyard. The city wall his home was close to was the inner city. There were no soldiers on the inner city wall. Soldiers usually would be on the outer city wall. However, this was not a war period, and there were no soldiers on the outer city wall. There were no soldiers, only soldiers standing guard on the top of the city.

There is a one-foot-wide passage between the inner city wall and the outer city wall. Generally, when the emperor went to Qujiang Pool, he would walk south along the passage.

Li Ye originally wanted to use a rope to cross the passage, but later found that it was not necessary. There is a small overpass more than 30 steps south, and he can cross directly.

After getting off the city, Li Ye crossed the moat with the help of several boats. These boats were all lined up on the moat, preparing to enter the city early the next morning.

The east side of the city is very lively, unlike the deserted west side. There are shops and houses on both sides of the official road, and then there are endless vegetable fields. Li Ye rushes eastward along the vegetable field path.

After moving, he couldn't go to Fengshui for training. The nearest lake to him was the life-release pond in Dongshi, but he felt that the water in the life-release pond was not deep and not clean, so he decided to go outside the city.

There are more choices outside the city. Ten miles to the east is Chanshui, thirty miles to Bashui, but if you go ten miles to the south, you will reach the famous Qujiang Pool.

Li Ye finally chose Chanshui for a simple reason. The water flow in Chanshui is very fast, and the upstream is the royal garden without villages. The water quality is very clear and clean.

Li Ye took off his clothes, hid them under a big rock, jumped into the river with the club in hand, but the current could no longer wash him away, and he gradually sank to the bottom of the river.

Since taking the medicine given to him by Lie Feng, Li Ye obviously feels that he has made significant progress. He can stay in the water longer and swing the club more powerfully.

According to the set of sword techniques given to him by Pei Min, Li Ye slashed up and down on the water bottom, creating ripples on the water.

The next morning, Li Ye was slapped awake by his mother.

I know you go to bed late at night, but you can't delay your studies. Other students go out to school before daybreak. You are the only one who is still sleeping here. Get up and go to school?

Li Ye was sleepy and groaned painfully in bed: Mom, let me sleep a little longer!

Pei Sanniang grabbed Li Ye's ear and gritted her teeth and said, You have to go to school!

Helpless, Li Ye had no choice but to sit up and say: The admission book said that I should report on the 15th. Today is only the 13th, it will be the day after tomorrow!

Okay! Practice your calligraphy carefully today. I don't even recognize the messy words you wrote. Don't write them randomly. The school won't recognize them!

The characters Pei Sanniang spoke of were the simplified Chinese characters written by Li Ye. Although they were a bit like the common characters, they were still different. The common characters were only used by the people, but were not recognized by official documents and schools.

Li Ye also understands this. He has been learning traditional Chinese characters in the past few months, and he can basically write and read commonly used traditional Chinese characters.

I know, I'll practice calligraphy later!

Get up quickly, I don't care about you, I'm going to the medicine hall!

The business of Pei Sanniang's Medicine Hall was pretty good. People started queuing up after only two days of operation. She was so busy that day.

Pei Sanniang went out in a hurry, and she was heard shouting in the yard: Azhen, my mother's waist is not good, don't let her carry heavy objects, you know?

Got it, ma'am!

After Pei Sanniang left, Li Ye closed his eyes and took a nap for a while before getting up.

In fact, it was only seven o'clock in the morning. Common people in the Tang Dynasty had to get up at four or five o'clock to live busy lives. Being able to sleep until seven o'clock was already a luxury.

Li Ye lazily came to the well to wash his face with a copper basin. At this time, A Zhen said at the door: Who are you looking for?

I'm looking for your young master, is Forty-eighth Lang here?

Li Ye was startled, and quickly put down the copper basin and walked out. He saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy standing at the door, but Li Ye didn't recognize him.

I am Li Ye, who is your brother?

The young man cupped his fists and said with a smile: Li Xun, I am Sanshiqi Lang and I am also your neighbor.

Li Ye suddenly realized that this was his cousin, and he quickly smiled and said: Please come in and sit down!

The young man walked in, looked around, and smiled at Li Ye: Our family originally wanted to buy this small house, and we had already negotiated with the seller. In the end, we failed to buy it. What a pity!

Why?

The young man pointed to the next door, That old woman had a fight with my mother. If her family doesn't agree, we can't buy it.

Brother is also my neighbor? Li Ye asked.

The opposite side of your house is my house. There are five people in my family, but we only have eight acres of land. It would be better if we changed it to one acre. Moreover, you can build a stable under the city wall here, but not our house. The next door smells bad, so no. allow!

Li Ye felt strange. Didn't his mother say that there were no Li clan members in the third district?

As soon as he thought about it, Li Ye suddenly understood that his mother's memory was from the old almanac fourteen years ago.

“Do I need my neighbor’s permission to build a house in my own house?”

Li Xun nodded and sighed: Our family is relatively weak, there is nothing we can do!

Li Linfu's grandson actually said that his family was relatively weak? Li Ye felt strange when he heard it.

I came here to treat your family to a meal. The malignant sore on my mother's back that had been there for two years was cured by your mother just by applying plaster. Our whole family is very grateful.

Let's wait until your mother is completely recovered from her illness!

Li Ye had a lot of questions in his mind, so he smiled and said, Let's go out to have breakfast! I'll treat you.

I should be the one treating you!

After breakfast, don't fight!

Li Ye took the money bag and went to the street with Li Xun.

Changlefang was very lively in the morning, with food stalls selling breakfast everywhere. Li Xun pointed to a noodle stall in front of him and said, His house is clean and tastes good. I often eat noodles at his house!

Then let's eat noodles!

The two sat down at the noodle stall, and Li Xun said with a smile: Two bowls of chicken noodles, please increase the amount!

My brother's father is...

My father is the 16th old man. He has nothing to do in his life. He works as a steward in a manor in Gaoling County and is away from home most of the time.

Is your father younger than my father? Li Ye was a little confused.

Li Xun shook his head and smiled: It seems that the wise brother doesn't know anything? The order of brothers among our fathers is not entirely based on age. The first five are all legitimate sons. How is it possible?

If sorted by age, your father should be ranked around twenty. Because he is the legitimate son, he is ranked fifth. Then the sixth and seventh sons are both vacant, leaving them for the legitimate sons. However, the two wives only gave birth to five sons.

Lao Ba is the eldest son of a concubine. He is already in his forties. My father is three years older than your father.

Then what do you usually call it? Isn't it confusing?

How could there be chaos? My father calls your father the fifth brother, and your father calls my father the sixteenth brother. You understand!

Li Ye nodded, I understand. I didn't expect that even the rankings should be paid attention to between the concubines.

Li Xun smiled bitterly and said: Ranking is nothing. The gap between the legitimate concubines is as big as the chasm. The legitimate sons can be officials and control various important interests of the family. The concubine can only be a commoner and live on five guans per month. , but your father used to be in charge of the manor, and it was his arrangement for my father to go to the farm in Gaoling County, so the conditions of our family are pretty good!

Li Ye immediately understood that the father of Thirty-seventh Lang was in the same group as his own father.