Happy Little Scholar

[ps: There is a common sense error in the previous chapter. The Emperor Wen and Emperor Wu should be posthumous titles. It has been corrected. In addition, I recommend a book, "The First Scholar of the Ming Dynasty". Interested friends can go and have a look. ]

Outside the Xuanning Palace, the old eunuch named Changde looked at the imperial edict in his hand, and a trace of doubt appeared in his turbid old eyes.

It was really strange that the emperor personally issued an edict to reward a mere eighth-rank county lieutenant.

Soon, the doubt on his face disappeared. The emperor's heart was unpredictable. He only needed to pass on this edict. As an inner minister of the emperor, he had served two generations of emperors and knew very well what he should do.

Looking back at the palace in the night, the old figure disappeared under the palace wall.

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I don't know if it's a psychological reason. I didn't feel anything when I washed my face before. I washed my hands with soap in the morning these few days, and I felt much fresher.

Although this homemade soap looks a bit ugly, it is very useful. Since knowing that Xiaohuan would use this thing called "soap" to wash in the morning, the few pieces left for Lao Fang and others were snatched up by the women in the village.

Lao Fang didn't feel anything about it. In the morning, he would get a basin of clean water and randomly touch his face to wash it. Only women and sons-in-law were so fussy. He only left one piece of the thing called soap for his own aunt, and gave the rest to the girls of the younger generation.

I heard from my son-in-law that he would make a scented soap in the future, and the name was called soap... Lao Fang didn't understand why his son-in-law was tinkering with these things for girls all day long.

He is obviously a grown man, why doesn't he have any manliness?

Standing in the yard early in the morning waiting to go to the shop with Li Yi, watching him rub the soap to make foam, his hands and face were covered with it, and the soap on the stool was accidentally knocked to the ground by him. Lao Fang shook his head helplessly and sighed leisurely.

"Son-in-law."

Li Yi had just washed off the soap foam on his hands when he suddenly heard Lao Fang's voice.

"What's wrong?" Li Yi looked up at him.

"You dropped the soap."

Lao Fang pointed at the soap that Li Yi had accidentally knocked off and reminded him.

Bang!

The copper basin on the stool was also accidentally touched by Li Yi and fell to the ground, splashing the water for washing his face.

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Inside the shop, the four girls can already take care of themselves, and Li Yi is happy to have some free time. If he wants to go to the shop, he will go to the shop to have a look. If he doesn't want to go, he will stay in the village, tell Xiaohuan stories, talk about life ideals with Ruyi, practice martial arts when the weather is good, and fantasize about when he can fly in the sky like Miss Liu Er...

Li Xuan occasionally goes to the shop and tells his doubts. Many problems are difficult to explain to him according to people's current scientific knowledge. Li Yi can only subtly instill some thinking methods in him, such as deduction, induction, and analogy. The stepping stone has been given to him. As for whether he can smash the door of science with a brick, it depends on his luck.

During this period, Li Xuan also asked Li Yi to draw a picture for him. To be precise, it was a picture for the princess. The princess' birthday is approaching, and what gift to give is a problem. Ning Wangfu has everything, and Li Xuan is racking his brains for this matter.

Send calligraphy and paintings? Mother doesn't like these.

Send jewelry? Would a princess be lacking in ornaments?

Rare treasures? That would be necessary.

After considering for a long time, the prince decided to find another way.

The last time Li Yi drew a picture for him, he showed it to the princess like a treasure after returning to the palace. At that time, his mother seemed very interested in the picture. If he could draw a picture for her, he might be able to create a surprise.

Since it was a surprise, of course he couldn't draw it in front of her. It didn't seem good to take Li Yi to the palace to spy on his mother. He could only pick out a picture from the princess's previous portraits and let Li Yi draw it according to the comparison.

This was not difficult for Li Yi. The calligraphy and painting works in this world, like other books, could be copied into his consciousness space and then painted exactly. Just use some three-dimensional painting techniques.

Li Xuan's idea was good. No woman didn't want to keep her youth. Although the princess was not young, she was not yet 40 years old. With good maintenance, she looked like she was in her early 30s. If she and King Ning worked hard, they could probably give Li Xuan another brother or sister.

Speaking of the princess' birthday, when Li Xuan invited him last time, Li Yi agreed because he thought that he would give her a few bottles of Ruyi Lu, which might be promoted in the upper-class circles of Qing'an Prefecture. However, he didn't expect that Ruyi Lu had already become popular before that, so there was no need to do anything extra. If he had known this, he would not have agreed so readily.

After all, he didn't belong to that circle. He didn't know anyone except Li Xuan, so it would be awkward to go there. In his opinion, lying in the yard and basking in the sun was more interesting than attending the birthday party...

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Ten taels of silver for a painting, no deception, Li Xuan was an old customer, so he could get a 99% discount, and after rounding it off, it was exactly ten taels of silver.

As a son, it is not enough to just give a painting to the princess on her birthday. But Li Xuan had a headache just thinking about what else to give. He went around in circles and came back to Li Yi.

"Are we friends?" Li Xuan looked at Li Yi with burning eyes.

"I am just a humble person. How dare I call myself a friend of His Highness the Crown Prince?"

Looking at his eyes, Li Yi became a little wary. He gave him a piece of soap yesterday. Would he misunderstand anything?

This sentence interrupted Li Xuan's train of thought, and he didn't know how to speak next.

"I have always treated you as a friend." Li Xuan looked at him and said with resentment: "To be honest, since the first day we met, have I ever put on the airs of a prince in front of you?"

The sudden confession mode gave Li Yi goose bumps all over his body, and he hurriedly made a pause gesture, "Okay, leave this to me, don't look at me like that!"

After achieving his goal, Li Xuan left with a satisfied look on his face. If this matter was handed over to Li Yi, he would not have to worry about anything.

Encountering such a pit, Li Yi could only shake his head repeatedly and sighed that he made a wrong friend.

In comparison, Mingzhu girl is more reliable. Just by eating a few meals and drinking a few glasses of wine, you can get a free security guard, which is really a good deal.

The only thing that made Li Yi feel a little strange was that in the past two days, he always felt that there was a hint of strangeness in Li Mingzhu's eyes when she looked at him. Thinking about it afterwards, he always felt that something was not right...