Chapter 187: I don’t have confidence

The night is as cool as water, the stars are as rainy as it is connected with the fireworks all over the city, and it is hard to tell.

The vague sound of firecrackers from Double Ninth Festival made the night look even more quiet.

The Lu Mansion has been banned at night, and each room is returned to our court. The huge left governor's mansion is so quiet that it makes people feel heavy, just like the sea after the ebb, deep and dark.

Wu Jie walked out of the bookstore and his sweat was blown by the autumn wind and he immediately stopped.

He sighed and turned to look at the yard. Just after the hour of Hai, lights projected out of the study and Fatty Lu's room and fell onto a few clusters of dragon clawed chrysanthemums in the yard.

After sending Lu Chang back to the yard, he comforted the emotions of the three men of Mr. Lu Er’s house. Time has been delayed. The Lu Mansion has already put on the door panel and banned the lights. It seems that he will stay at the fat man tonight.

After so many things happened, I was really upset and couldn't sleep no matter what, so I simply put on my clothes. As soon as I walked into the yard, I heard a very depressing voice.

Wu Jie twisted his heart and walked a few more steps in the direction of the sound. He turned over a Taihu stone more than two meters high and saw a little girl sitting on a stone bench and crying in a low voice to the clump of chrysanthemums under her feet.

Wu Jie looked over and recognized that this person was Miss Lu San Lu Shuang, and suddenly felt sad. This young girl, who has always been lawless and heartless, has always been careless and does not take everything seriously. No matter how she tormented the fat man on weekdays, her blood is thicker than water. It is really a critical moment. Seeing that her brother was beaten like this, she still cried like a tearful person.

He walked over with a slight hand and said, "Miss San, why haven't you returned to the house to sleep yet, but you got up and cried in the middle of the night?"

"You have to care..." The third lady shouted angrily as usual and turned her face. Seeing that it was Wu Jie, she burst into tears, and the freckles on both sides of her nose were very eye-catching. She flattened her cherry mouth and her voice fell sad: "Wu Jie, when I think of my second brother, I feel sad and can't sleep."

"Go back to sleep. Brother Chang is thick-skinned and will be fine tomorrow. There is only a small wound on Mrs. Guan's forehead, which is fine." Wu Jie walked up and took out a stack of white paper from his arms and handed it over.

The third lady took it and felt that the stack of white paper was soft and soft, just like a silk cotton handkerchief, but she didn't know what Wu Jie had to do for herself with this thing?

He raised his head in surprise.

Wu Jie pointed to the paper, then pointed to her eyes and nose, signaling her to wipe off her tears and snot.

This tissue was specially made by the manufacturer in the palace a while ago, using the craftsmanship of later generations of toilet paper. The paper was made very soft, with dark flowers printed on it and perfume sprinkled on it.

After traveling to the Ming Dynasty, what he couldn't stand most was that he had no toilet paper when going to the toilet. Ordinary people used something called toilet chip to scrape away filth. In fact, this thing is Zhumei. You have to pay attention to skills when using it, otherwise there will be a risk of dirtying your hands.

Of course, wealthy and noble people should pay more attention to it and wash it directly with water.

Seeing Miss Lu San's surprised expression, Wu Jie couldn't help but think of this, although it was a little inconsistent with the atmosphere in front of him.

But Lu Shuang's next words made Wu Jie feel sad.

The third lady wiped her tears with a tissue, and suddenly choked and said, "Wu Jie, I really don't want to be this lady of the Lu family."

Not understanding what she wanted to say, and did not respond, Wu Jie took out another tissue and handed it over.

This time, Lu Shuang did not continue to wipe her nose and tears, and then said, "Most of the boys and maids in this mansion are from poor families, and they have their own parents and brothers and sisters. They just couldn't eat, so they sold them to our Lu family. But even so, the family is still living a harmonious life. Take the lilac in our yard for example. Every month off, her brother and father would wait early to pick her up at the mansion to reunite. That day is really enviable! But look at our Lu family, you are guarding me and I am guarding you, which is worse than outsiders."

"When I was young, I was thin and fond of trouble, and I was often bullied by other children in the house. Every time my second brother helped me stand out, and others were fat and stupid, and I was often beaten and screamed. But even so, every time I saw me being bullied, I was the first to rush forward. I also knew that my second brother had my own girl in my heart, but for some reason, when he saw him being unsuccessful, he always wanted to tease him hard."

"My second brother is an honest man. There are too many bad people in this mansion. If he doesn't learn to be smarter, he will be killed by others sooner or later. Instead of letting him get bleeding from others, it's better to let me ask him to learn to be smarter first."

"Recently, my second brother finally realized how mom and I were very happy. But why do some people refuse to let us go?"

The little girl's tears flowed freely on her face. She suddenly pounced on the stone stool, and her shoulders kept twitching: "I hate, I hate why we were born in the Lu Mansion. Even if we are a poor family, as long as we are together, we don't have to worry about what will happen wrong and who will be picky about tomorrow. It's a fairy-like day. If that happens, even if my second brother has no future, it will be fine. At worst, I, Lu Chang, will find a promising husband at that time and take him to my in-laws' family to rely on each other."

"Second brother, second brother, you must be successful and have to get a Juren. I have already told my grandfather that as long as you pass the Juren, you will ask for an official position to leave this dirty place far away. Then, don't come back. However, although you have worked hard to study these few days, who can explain the matter of the imperial examination clearly?"

Wu Jie comforted her and said, "Brother Chang has been studying very seriously recently, and divine hard work is rewarded."

"But, I... I, I, I, still, am still a little worried. I am worried that he will not win, and that he will be angry with another room in this life. I am worried that he will be beaten, but he will leave me, a girl. I, I can't bear to leave my second brother."

The last sentence was so sad that Wu Jie felt like he was stabbed by a bayonet. He couldn't help but bend down, touched her little head, and said softly: "It's night, go back. If you let your mother and your brother know that you were crying outside secretly, you don't know what kind of sadness would be like."

Miss Lu San stopped crying, got up, wiped her face, and tiptoed back to the room.

Looking at the third lady's shaking shoulders and thin back, I remembered the upcoming provincial examination. Although I was 100% sure, I suddenly became a little irritated before the big exam.

Thinking of Lu Shuang's words just now, "I can't bear to leave my second brother", and the strong family affection between the mother and son. The faces of his parents who have passed away for many years in modern society appeared before him again, Wu Jie's heart was even more painful.

I stood in front of Taihu Rock for a moment, and a gust of wind blew from the green tiles above my head without warning. The wind was so violent that in an instant, the whole world was filled with flowers and trees swaying, and the sound of opening and closing with the doors and windows.

The sleeves rose in the wind and flew "huh" away.

Looking up, the fireworks and stars in the night sky were already covered by thick clouds.

The wind mixed with the sound of the fat man reading: "Everyone can eat and drink, but it can tell the taste. Confucius said: "That is the fault of knowing that the ignorance of wise and wise is not enough. Although he has such qualifications, he is also a fault of not observing it. The Tao is based on nature, which is not external to people's daily life. If everything can have a natural reason, it is called Zhong..."

This is Lu Chang's reading of the Doctrine of the Mean.

The meaning of this passage is that people eat and drink every day, but why don’t they know how to eat? It is because people don’t know how to reflect on themselves and life, but they just live in a mess and walk like a walking corpse, deviating from the normal trajectory of life.

"Heaven moves hard, and a gentleman strives for self-improvement."

"I am so hurt that I still read it at night. To put it in a bad sentence in later generations," Wu Jie looked at Lu Chang's room and said to himself: "He has the heart of a strong man... This fat man has finally matured."

Just as I was watching, I suddenly looked at the door, and the bright lights were projected, making Wu Jie's eyes dazzled.

After a moment, when he recovered his vision, he saw Dingxiang bowing to him with red eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "Young Master Wu is not asleep yet. Second Master, please come over and talk."

"I haven't slept yet, the study room is really stuffy, come out for a walk." Wu No. 1 nodded: "I'll go to see the second young master now."

"Shizhen, I have heard you talking to the female devil, come in quickly. Haha, brother is about to tell you something important!" Suddenly, the fat man's heartfelt laughter sounded, and it seemed very inconsistent in the sad atmosphere all over the yard.

It seems that this heartless thing has completely returned to normal.

Wu Jie breathed a sigh of relief and walked into Lu Chang's room, but saw a fat white boy lying naked on the bed. His body was wrapped in gauze and like a mummy. The books in front of him were piled up as above, and they were spread out, revealing dense words.

"Your wound is okay?" Wu Jie frowned.

Before Lu Chang could answer, Dingxiang burst into tears: "It's so bloody, the skin is broken and flesh is rotten. I just applied the medicine, but I refused to rest... I have been staying up late so late for almost a month, and my body is so hard that I can't stand it! Mr. Wu, the second young master listens to you the most, so I will persuade him."

The fat man glared: "It's all skin injuries, why are you going to get tight? It's long-lasting. My mother is also injured. Why are you doing here? Why don't you go over and serve the marquis and carefully break your legs."

"Why are you fierce?" Dingxiang suddenly cried loudly: "Everyone is so fierce. Go to the wife's place to serve you. I'm scolded and asked me to come and take care of you. Come to your place and drive me back."

Wu Jie hurriedly comforted: "Dingxiang, go to your wife's place and reassure her that Brother Chang has me here."

"You can't leave quickly." The fat man waved at her annoyedly and drove Dingxiang out: "Woman, that's all that trouble."

When Dingxiang left, Wu Jie asked Lu Chang what he asked him to come over to do.

As soon as he finished speaking, Fatty Lu raised his head with a depressed look on his face: "Brother Jie, I don't want to take the exam anymore, I don't have confidence."

"Ah, what nonsense are you talking about!" Wu Jie suddenly became angry: "You trash, you will be a provincial examination in two days. You are about to go to the battlefield, but you are retreating at the last minute. Are you still a man?"

The fat man's eyes turned red: "I really don't have confidence!" His voice fell.

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