I didn't see a few people along the way in the mansion. I occasionally bumped into a few, but I just nodded to Sister Yan and didn't say anything. The whole house was so quiet that it made people feel a little strange. Or I saw the doubts in my heart, Sister Yan was walking in a low voice and said to me: "Don't think it's strange, our master has always liked quietness, and he never allowed anyone to speak loudly on weekdays."

"So that's it!" This is really a quirk. I thought about it and asked Sister Yan in a low voice: "Why is this?"

Sister Yan smiled at me and replied, "I knew you would ask this! Our master, he likes to sit in the yard and study the most. He is good at everything, but he is not allowed to make noise. If someone makes him unable to read, he will be furious, so we servants don't dare to speak loudly."

After hearing what Sister Yan said, I couldn't help but think in my heart: "It turns out that Mr. Li is really a scholar!"

Sister Yan quickly took me into a courtyard. According to my impression when I walked in, the courtyard seemed to be in the center of the entire house. If nothing wrong, this place should be the place where the owner of this house used it to study and live.

"Master, I found a young man outside today. I want you to see if it is appropriate to let him serve the young master."

When Sister Yan was talking, I looked into the middle of the courtyard and saw a middle-aged man in his forties under the quietest tree, a middle-aged man in his forties was watching with relish. His face and facial features were actually nothing special, but the smell of a book on his face was very impressive. At this time, he sat on a very comfortable Taishi chair, looking extremely comfortable.

Hearing Sister Yan'er's words, the Master Li's eyes moved from the book reluctantly, looked at me, and asked directly: "Have you read a book?"

I nodded and replied, "I went to a school for a few years when I was a child and studied some books."

Mr. Li responded "Yes", pondered for a while, and suddenly asked again: "You can recite the Analects of Confucius for me!"

When I heard this, I was a little shocked. Although the content in "The Analects of Confucius" was not too much, it took some time to recite it. However, after thinking about it, I finally recited "The Analects of Confucius" loudly as Mr. Li said.

Just now, Sister Yan was obviously worried about me because she was afraid that I could not carry it, so her eyes were a little worried about me. But after listening for a while, she saw that I was so catchy about it, and the Master Li shook her head when she heard it. She probably finally felt relieved, and the look at me gradually turned into surprise and admiration.

"Okay, it seems that you recite it so smoothly. It seems that you often recite it on weekdays. As the saying goes, review the old and learn the new. It's good, it's great... Well, just stay!" Mr. Li seemed very satisfied with my performance. After admiring me for a round, he finally agreed to let me stay.

"Why don't you go over the master!" Sister Yan was obviously happier than me. After hearing the master's words, she immediately said to me.

In fact, reciting the "Analects of Confucius" is just a piece of cake for me, and it is not worth having anything to be happy about. But after seeing the sign in Sister Yan'er's eyes, I still thanked me obediently. Sister Yan was about to take me out of the courtyard, but Mr. Li suddenly said, "Wait, what's your name?"

I paused when I heard this and immediately replied, "I am named Zhu Shiqi because I am ranked seventeen in the clan." Speaking of which, this "Zhu Shiqi" was compiled by myself when I was accusing Dajiao sister, so it doesn't seem panic at all when I said it at this time.

"Seventeen? Seventeen, well, okay, Seventeen, I think you are a person who likes to read. If you want to read any books in the future, just come here to ask me, don't waste your knowledge in your heart."

After hearing this sentence, a little touched arises in my heart. Although I am not familiar with it, it can be seen from the words and deeds of Mr. Li that he is definitely a humble gentleman, at least on the surface. For a servant like me, just because I can recite the "Analects of Confucius" smoothly, he encouraged me to read. Although it was just such a simple sentence, it could make people feel the sincerity.

"The villain thanked the master." I had always refused to call myself a villain, only called myself "me", but after feeling his sentiment, I finally said this.

Mr. Li probably didn't notice the difference in my wording. He first nodded, then waved to me and Sister Yan, and then put his attention back to the book in his hand.

After leaving the courtyard, Sister Yan looked at me happily and said, "I really didn't expect that you know so much. You must know that it's difficult for the master to praise people on weekdays. I just promised you to come to him to borrow books to read!"

I laughed in my heart. In fact, there are more than a million people in the world who can recite "The Analects of Confucius"? If I insist on saying that it is my cleverness, at most it is just because I recite it more easily. Moreover, Mr. Li only thinks that I am an ordinary countryman, so I think my fluency is more valuable.

"You... have you been engaged?" Before I could reply, Sister Yan'er's face suddenly turned red and she asked me.

Seeing her shy appearance, I didn't know what she meant. However, at this time, I was not in the mood to think about the love between men and women. After a while, I replied in a hesitant manner: "I...my...I haven't been engaged yet."

"real?"

Looking at the unconcealable joy on Sister Yan'er's face, I couldn't help but think in my heart: "Is it worth it to be so happy?" I nodded as I thought about it.

Sister Yan glanced at me with rippling eyes, pointed to another courtyard not far ahead, and said, "Seventeen, you will live there in the future, because there is the place where the young master lives."

A woman was secretly in love with her. This was originally something that any man deserves to be comforted by, but I couldn't be happy. After frowning, I quickly walked forward as if I ran away. He turned around and said, "Oh, that's it. It turns out that this is the place where the young master lives! It's so big...tsk tsk..."

Just as I walked to the gate of the courtyard and pretended to look inside, a woman's scream suddenly came to my ears: "Who are you? Why did you get here?"

I was stunned for a moment, looked up at the source of the sound, but saw that the person who spoke was a woman in green. There were two people beside the woman in green, one man and one woman, the man was a young woman dressed as a maid, just like Sister Yan.

When I saw those three people, my eyes quickly settled on the woman in green. She was beautiful, tall and frivolous, and had a faint elegance on her face. Among the women I had seen, she was one of the few beauties, and even more noble than Zi Ruo.

At this time, she was looking at me with anger.

"Miss, this is the servant whom the master just invited back to serve the master's school." Sister Yan, who was following me, waited until she saw the faces of the three people clearly and immediately explained to me.

"So she is the lady of the Li family." I felt a little moved in my heart. Her beauty really left a deep impression on me. I really don't understand how Mr. Li gave birth to such a fairy-like character.

"Oh?" The woman in green clothes looked slightly clear when she heard this. She looked me up and down with her beautiful eyes, and then said to Sister Yan: "My father really agrees to let him serve Xiang Ru?"

"Yes, Miss. After the master met him, he even praised him a few words!" Sister Yan said verbally for me, even Mr. Li's words of praise were expressed.

"Did my dad really praise him so much?" Not only the woman in green clothes, but also the boy next to her also looked surprised.

The woman in green shirt thought for a while and suddenly said, "Okay, I'll make a match. If you can make a match, then you can stay!"

"What? I still have to test me?" I felt helpless in secret, and I thought that after passing the "reciting the Analects of Confucius", I could stay in Li's mansion. I didn't expect that there would be any other pairs to be right on this clue.

Sister Yan looked at me with a little embarrassment, wanting to see what I said, I smiled bitterly, can I still refuse at this time, so I nodded and agreed, "Please send me the first couplet, I'll try to see if I can get it right."

The woman in green shirt looked at the bamboo in the courtyard, smiled slightly, and chanted: "There are three parts of water, two parts of bamboo, and one part of bright moon."

After listening to this first couplet, I immediately knew that this pair was not too difficult. It seemed that she was not intentionally making things difficult for me. So after thinking about it, she immediately recited the second couplet: "From the Five Steps Tower, Ten Steps Pavilion, and look at the big river with a hundred steps."

I don’t know if it was because my second couplet was cleverly or because I was quick enough, a hint of surprise appeared in the eyes of the woman in green clothes, which seemed to be beyond her expectations. She pondered for a while and then chanted: “The eyes are beads, the nostrils are me, and the beads are still on Confucius.”

"Why don't you keep your word?" I sighed in my heart: "I had clearly agreed to take a test for me, but now I'll come out with the second one, alas..." At this time, it was really a meat-blowing chopping board, so I had to think about it and also said the second couplet: "Mr. Mei, the young man, is better than the young man!"
Chapter completed!