Happy Little Scholar

"Sir... do you want this?"

The pretty maid looked at Li Yi blankly. After a moment of stunned silence, she pointed at the cake in her hand and asked uncertainly.

The voice was soft and glutinous, and it was very pleasant to the ear.

No matter how beautiful the maids of other families were, it had nothing to do with him. Li Yi was only interested in the fragrant cakes in her hand. Seeing that she was quick and decisive when she distributed them to those women, but when it came to him, the other party seemed reluctant, and he felt a little dissatisfied.

Could it be that this beautiful maid had the idea of ​​favoring girls over boys?

Li Yi looked at her and nodded with great certainty. He thought that if she refused him, he would definitely complain to her leader after going down. Feudal ideas must not be tolerated.

The woman was stunned for a moment, and looked up at the scholar in front of her again. Seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, he actually handed the silk handkerchief in his hand to him.

"Xiao Huan, come and try this!"

Li Yi reached out and took the only two cakes left on the handkerchief, then turned around and waved to the little maid. He was never a person who ate alone. The cake smelled good, and Xiao Huan happened to like sweets, so he had to let her try it too.

After walking two steps, he suddenly turned his head and said "thank you" to the maid who was standing there, and then turned around and left again.

The maid looked at Li Yi's back, and the confusion on her face became stronger.

"Ruoqing, do you know that scholar?"

A woman beside him asked with some doubts, and the expression of surprise on her face was still there.

The woman called Ruoqing shook her head and said, "I have never seen him before."

"What?"

The women around her heard this and showed extremely surprised expressions on their faces.

"Then why is he..."

"This scholar is so strange..."

"Yes, I have never seen such a person..."

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Even though Wan Ruoqing tried very hard to recall, she had no impression of the scholar. After a moment, she finally confirmed that she should not have known him before.

But if they had never met before, his action of asking for osmanthus cake just now would be a little hard to understand.

The etiquette between men and women has been very comprehensive in today's era. Even familiar men will stand at attention and bow when they see her, without losing their manners. As for asking for osmanthus cake, I am afraid that he can't do it.

So, when the strange scholar reached out to her, Wan Ruoqing felt a little confused and at a loss.

And until now, she still hasn't figured out why she reached out her hand just now...

"Ruoqing, I remember Zui Mo seemed to have said that we should leave two pieces for her, she likes the sweet-scented osmanthus cake you make the most..." After a moment, a woman beside the pretty woman came back to her senses, as if she remembered something, turned her head and looked at her, and said with a strange look.

"Ah..."

The beautiful woman named Wan Ruoqing couldn't help but let out a light cry when she heard this, and a regretful expression appeared on her pretty face.

At this time, everyone's eyes couldn't help but look at the scholar who was laughing with the pretty girl not far away, with an extremely strange expression on his face.

Li Yi didn't know that he had completely lost his gentlemanly manners in the eyes of these strange women, and might even be labeled as shameless. The taste of the nameless pastry just now made his eyes light up, and he thought in his heart that he would ask the maid where the pastry was bought...

When he thought about this in his heart, he suddenly felt something in his heart. Looking back, he found that the beautiful maid and the women around her were looking at him with strange eyes.

Li Yi was slightly stunned when he saw this, and was a little surprised.

Although the pastry was indeed delicious, they shouldn't be so distressed, right?

Shaking his head, he stopped thinking about these things, turned to look at Xiaohuan, and asked with a smile: "How is it, is this pastry delicious?"

The little maid's eyes were curved into crescents. For her, the happiest thing is to have such pastries to eat every day.

"It turns out that my brother has an old relationship with Miss Wan and several talented women in Yunying Society. I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" At this time, the two scholars who came in with Li Yi just now came up, looked at Li Yi, and said with envy.

"Who is Miss Wan?"

Li Yi was stunned for a moment, then asked in confusion.

What Miss Wan from Yunying Society? He had never even heard of her.

"Brother, don't joke..." The two looked at Li Yi and said with a strange look.

Before Li Yi could speak, one of them spoke again: "Although Miss Wan is an actress, her literary talent is beyond the reach of us. Even those famous talents will not look down on her because of her identity. It is not a shame for you to have an old relationship with Miss Wan, so why hide it?"

Li Yi was really confused.

The two said so much, but he didn't understand what the other party meant. He really didn't know Miss Wan!

As for discrimination against actors...how could there be such a thing?

The ancient actors and actresses were equivalent to the later actors and actresses, but their status was very different. The latter often enjoyed the treatment of being the center of attention, while the former had a relatively low status and belonged to the untouchables outside the ranks of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans. In the minds of the ancients, their status was even lower than that of prostitutes.

There is an old saying, "whores are heartless and actors are disloyal." The actors here refer to actors and actresses, which shows how much the ancients despised this profession.

But what does this have to do with me!

He is a young man of the new century who has received higher education. His values ​​are so positive and he advocates equality for all. Why should he look down on actors and actresses?

If it were in the future, they would all be stars! They are so rare!

"Who is the Miss Wan you are talking about?" Li Yi looked at the two of them and asked sincerely.

This time, it was the two of them who were confused. They pointed at the beautiful maid not far away and said, "That's Miss Wan!"

"What?"

Li Yi widened his eyes and almost blurted out, "Isn't that the maid of Zui Xiang Lou?"

"How could Miss Wan be a maid? And aren't those women beside her the talented women of Yunying Society?" A scholar looked at Li Yi and said in surprise.

Li Yi held the table next to him and felt a little confused.

So, the one just now was not a maid here?

The cakes were not the buffet of the restaurant, but they were brought by themselves?

No wonder she and the other women around her looked at him so strangely just now. After all this time, they all knew him!

Suddenly, Li Yi felt his old face turn red, and he felt terrible.

Even in the future, he was not thick-skinned enough to ask a strange woman for snacks on the street, but just now, he actually did it...

The key is that the other party really gave it to him!

He looked up in that direction involuntarily, and the woman's eyes happened to look over. When their eyes met in the air, Li Yi's expression was extremely embarrassed...

[ps: There is still a little plot to be considered later, and there is only one update today. 】