"Mother."
When Aunt Cui heard the shout behind her, she turned around and looked at Yu Xiaoxiu who was jogging towards her. She frowned and said,
"How many times have I told you not to call me that in front of others?"
Yu Xiaoxiu stepped back and lowered his head, "I have something to say to you."
Aunt Cui looked around and saw that the crowd had not dispersed yet, "Come over here."
Yu Xiaoxiu followed Aunt Cui obediently to an empty corner of the flower pond and stopped.
"Do you have no money to spend again?" As Aunt Cui spoke, she impatiently took off the pouch hanging on her waist and picked out a small piece of silver from it. She weighed it in her hand and stuffed it back. She took out a smaller piece and handed it to Yu Xiaoxiu.
"I don't want money," Yu Xiaoxiu stared at his toes, "Please tell Third Master not to let me go to a private school again. I don't want to learn Yi."
Aunt Cui's eyes suddenly widened. She couldn't restrain her sharp voice, "What nonsense are you talking about, child?"
Yu Xiaoxiu stared at her as if she wanted to eat him alive and said in a muffled voice, "I'm not talking nonsense. I don't want to go to school anymore. I want to go out and learn a trade —"
"Enough!" Aunt Cui fiercely interrupted Yu Xiaoxiu's explanation. She grabbed one of his hands and carelessly stuffed the small piece of silver into his hand. She said angrily, "There are so many people in Yiyang City who want to go to that place to study.
You're the only one who has a good life. You've picked up such a great bargain and yet you're still acting like an idiot. Your sister doesn't live up to expectations. I don't care about her. She's a girl and with her face, she can find a random family and marry them. She won't have to worry about food and drink. If you don't live up to expectations, who will support you in the future? Are you going to shamelessly live in the servant room of the Ji family for the rest of your life? You good-for-nothing. "
Yu Xiaoxiu's neck turned red, and his upper body began to tremble. Aunt Cui didn't seem to notice anything wrong with him. She reached out to twist his shoulder and shook it, lowering her voice to warn him,
"You'd better study hard, didn't you hear me? Did you hear me? "
"Did you hear that?!"
Yu Xiaoxiu didn't say a word. Aunt Cui lost her patience. She raised her head and saw a few maidservants approaching with plates. She angrily pushed Yu Xiaoxiu's shoulder away and quickly left.
Yu Xiaoxiu stubbornly held on to that small piece of silver. He raised the back of his hand and stubbornly rubbed the corner of his eye. He waited until the maidservants were far away before he walked out.
Yu Shu hid in the narrow passageway of the flower pond and roughly heard the conversation between the mother and son. She endured it until Yu Xiaoxiu walked away. She hurriedly stepped on the flower pedestal, leaned against the wall, and jumped down. She quickly chased after him.
"Xiaoxiu." Yu Shu caught up to Yu Xiaoxiu's lonely back and called out to him. When he turned his head and gave her a guarded look, she pretended to be innocent and reached out to pat his shoulder. She complained,
"I was looking for you just now. Where did you go?"
Hearing this, Yu Xiaoxiu put away the guard in his eyes. He ignored Yu Shu's question and walked forward.
Yu Shu did not mind his coldness. Instead, she affectionately put her hand on his shoulder and said with a smile, "I'm really full tonight. I don't think I'll need to eat tomorrow morning. Let's go, let's hurry back. I said I have something good to show you."
Yu Xiaoxiu didn't reply, but he didn't break free from Yu Shu's grip either. He absentmindedly listened to her chatter about tonight's meal, and the gloominess on his face, which didn't match his age, lessened a lot.
***
"Look! Paper, and — ink! "
Yu Shu took out everything she had obtained this afternoon and placed it on the table as if she was presenting a treasure.
There were a few pieces of coarse hemp paper and a small bag of scattered ink. In the eyes of any child in the Ji family, these were worthless things, but they caused Yu Xiaoxiu's eyes to widen in surprise. He couldn't help but reach out to touch this and flip through that.
After a short moment of surprise, the young and mature Younger Brother Yu began to suspect the origins of these things.
"Where did you get them from?"
"Anyway, I didn't steal them. You can use them without worry. I promise you, if these things are not legal, my nose will be crooked tomorrow morning."
Yu Shu did not intend to tell him that she had found a job outside. Not to mention whether it was right for a girl to go out to make money, it was difficult to explain to him that she planned to make money.
Yu Shu's promise dispelled the suspicion on Yu Xiaoxiu's face. It was not that he believed in her character, but he knew that she was a narcissistic person. She would not curse herself to be disfigured just to lie.
"I didn't do my homework last night and was punished this morning. I don't want to embarrass myself again tomorrow. Look, I found the paper and ink. To be fair, you have to teach me how to write my homework later. You know I can't write many words."
Yu Xiaoxiu looked at her with disdain. He looked reluctant, but he still nodded slightly.
Yu Shu happily turned around and rummaged through the drawers.
"Where's the pen? Where's the pen? I remember there was a brush pen in the drawer yesterday. "
Yu Xiaoxiu touched the coarse paper again. He got up and took a small bowl with a hole in it. He brought some water back and picked out two pieces of ink from the paper bag. He melted them with water and mixed the ink. When the ink was ready, Yu Shu also found the pen.
The hairs on the tip of the brush were all split open. Yu Xiaoxiu plucked out a few of the disobedient hairs and dipped them in ink. The tip of the brush looked relatively smooth. He spread out the paper and rolled up his sleeves. Just as he was about to write, Yu Shu pulled on his sleeve.
"You're going to write now? Don't you need to calculate it first? " Yu Shu did not forget that Mister Liu had talked about a lot of theories and divination in class yesterday. In the end, he arranged for them to go home and calculate Tomorrow's Qingyu homework.
"I've calculated it."
"Huh? When did you calculate it? "How come she had already calculated it? She had originally thought that she could learn from the side.
"When you went out to play in the afternoon." Yu Xiaoxiu pushed Yu Shu's hand away and directly wrote the result of the calculation on the paper. He wrote it stroke by stroke seriously.
I didn't go out to play, okay? Yu Shu had no choice but to gloomily turn her attention to Yu Xiaoxiu's writing.
The An Dynasty inherited the culture of the Song Dynasty. There were many kinds of scripts, such as semi-cursive script, cursive script, clerical script, cursive script, and running regular script. Yu Shu was a layman. She felt that Yu Xiaoxiu's writing was neat, so she praised him.
"Xiaoxiu, your writing is so beautiful."
Yu Xiaoxiu did not appreciate it and took the opportunity to mock her. "If you were less playful, you wouldn't be so bad at holding the pen."
Yu Shu laughed dryly. She was afraid that she would disturb him and make a mistake, so she quieted down.
Yu Xiaoxiu finished his writing. After blowing it dry, he took another piece of paper and started writing from the beginning. Yu Shu watched from the side. She thought that he was writing her own. She secretly laughed and pretended to be embarrassed.
"You don't have to write it for me. I can copy it myself. Although the writing is a little crooked, it's fine as long as I can read it."
Hearing her flattery, Yu Xiaoxiu did not even bother to raise his head. "Copy this later. Write two identical copies. Do you think the teacher won't scold you, idiot?"
"Are you bullying me for being illiterate? Are you bullying me for being uncultured?" Yu Shu was secretly angry, but she did not dare to talk back. She stared at the back of his head and silently scolded.
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