"Ah —"
Yu Shu sat up from the bed and stretched herself. The soreness from her shoulders to her lower back made her grit her teeth. This was the result of not working for a long time and suddenly becoming diligent.
She lifted a corner of the bed curtain and looked across. The curtain on the other side of the room was still down. Yu Xiaoxiu had not gotten up yet.
After putting on her clothes and carrying a basin, Yu Shu dragged her feet to the yard. Aunt Liu happened to be returning from the well with a bucket of water. Seeing her like this, she said,
"Miss, put on your shoes and walk. It's easy to trip."
"Oh." Yu Shu rubbed her eyes and lifted her calves to put on her heels. She thought that when she had money in the future, she would have to make a pair of slippers first.
Aunt Liu took a few steps forward and turned back to say,
"Tie up your hair before washing your face. Otherwise, you will get water everywhere. Alas, I will boil the water and comb your hair for you."
"Oh." Yu Shu grabbed her loose hair and stuffed it into the back of her collar. These two small movements made her arms creak from the soreness.
Washing her face and fetching water. She didn't want to wash her face, could she?
She walked to the well with a sad face and saw a bucket full of water. At that moment, Yu Shu wanted to turn around and hug Aunt Liu and kiss her. However, considering that Aunt Liu might think that she had lost her mind, she finally gave up.
After pouring half a basin of water, Yu Shu washed her face and hummed,
"Brother took the imperial examination and became a scholar. Brother pushed the cart, Brother was sent to school. Brother studied for three years. Oh, he took the imperial examination and became a scholar."
This was a poem that she pestered Yu Xiaoxiu to teach her before going to bed yesterday. She would recite it when she had nothing to do and practice the local dialect.
"It's early in the morning. Don't leave me alone. Take the water aside and don't block the mouth of the well."
Yu Shu was busy reciting. Hearing the voice, she wiped her face and turned around. She saw the neatly dressed Yu Xiaoxiu standing at the door with his hands behind his back, scolding her like an old man.
Yu Shu really wanted to show some of the dignity of an elder sister, but unfortunately, after trying a few times, she failed to keep a straight face. Instead, under his disdainful gaze, she said with some grievance,
"Xiaoxiu … My arm hurts."
"You only wrote a few words and you said your arm hurts." Yu Xiaoxiu laughed at her and walked over. He took the bucket of water by the well to the side and took her washing water to the foot of the wall to pour it out.
Seeing him busy, Yu Shu's gloomy face brightened up. She returned to the room with a towel. The soreness in her muscles seemed to be relieved a lot.
After dinner, before going out, Yu Shu did not forget to remind Yu Xiaoxiu to bring his homework. She happily played with the flower bag on her shoulder. This was made by Aunt Liu with old clothes two days ago. There were a few small yellow flowers made of cloth sewn on the front of the cloth bag. This handmade fabric was especially cute in her eyes.
Yu Shu didn't know if it was because she had suddenly become younger by more than ten years. In her previous life, she had been forced to be calm and capable in front of others due to the circumstances of her life. The lively and cheerful side of her personality, after experiencing many changes, was able to express itself in this life.
***
Today, when she passed by the school's entrance, Yu Shu deliberately glanced at the plaque above the door. In the past two days, she had managed to recognize some of the characters and was able to read them out. This private school was called "Sanjue's Study House".
In this private school, the brother and sister pair had always been the odd ones out. In addition to the incident yesterday when they were punished to stand on top of the incense burner, there was not a single person in the school who did not know of the two's' great names'.
Yu Shu also knew that she and Yu Xiaoxiu were not welcomed here. However, they did their homework last night, so they came to school with confidence today. She did not think about the punishment of standing with the incense burner, so she did not feel embarrassed. However, Yu Xiaoxiu lowered his head when he entered the door.
Yu Shu followed him to a seat. Before she could sit down, someone in the pavilion laughed and said to her in a loud voice,
"Mouse Yu, it was Xue Wenzhe who sent you home yesterday, right? Why didn't you thank him when you came?"
Yu Shu heard the voice and looked up. She saw a few teenagers clustered around the fence. The one who spoke was a boy with big teeth. As soon as he finished laughing, he was hit on the head by a handsome boy behind him.
"Master asked me to send her home. Do you think I wanted to? Who wants her to thank me?"
Yu Shu looked at the boy, who was also looking at her with disgust. When their eyes met, the boy shouted,
"What are you looking at!"
Yu Shu turned her head back and took off the little flower bag on her shoulder as she thought to herself, "That's right.
Xue … Hmm, what was it again?
When Xue Wenzhe saw that Yu Shu did not say a word and deliberately ignored him, he became angry. He absent-mindedly played with his companions for a while and suddenly shouted to the people around him.
"Let me tell you, there is someone who is very bold. He even dared to deceive Master Liu."
Several teenagers who were playing on the side immediately pricked up their ears and asked curiously,
"Who? Who?"
Xue Wenzhe was not in a hurry to answer. He squinted in the direction of Yu Shu. After waiting for a long time, she did not raise her head. The little bit of pride that had just emerged disappeared immediately. He really wanted to expose her pretending to be unconscious to deceive Master Liu and see how long she could pretend to be unconscious.
"Wenzhe, tell me, which deceiving Master Liu?"
"Wenzhe?"
"So annoying!" Xue Wenzhe pushed away several playmates who were asking and sat back in his seat. He was annoyed.
He was not afraid of being called a turtle by her. He just did not want to argue with a shameless person like her.
Xue Wenzhe had a headache because of Yu Shu's words yesterday. However, Yu Shu did not care about pretending to have a heatstroke to deceive Master Liu. She took out her homework from her bag.
The homework in her hand was copied by hand. Compared with Yu Xiaoxiu's neat calligraphy, her handwriting was as ugly as an earthworm crawling on the paper.
Yu Shu despised herself for a while. She took this time to review the traditional Chinese characters she learned yesterday before the Master came to class.
The An Dynasty was 300 years after the Song Dynasty. The development of characters was very fast and the recognition of characters was also very high. Yu Shu thought that she could learn quickly. As long as she memorized the pronunciation and shape of the characters, it would not be a problem for her to read books after 10 days or half a month.
Speaking of books, Yu Shu thought of the textbooks that were sold by the little girl in her previous life. She turned her head and looked at the books on other people's desks. She was a little worried.
Last night, she asked Yu Xiaoxiu that the books of Yi Xue were privately printed by the family. Although they were also sold outside, the cheapest one cost more than ten taels of silver. She only had ten copper coins with her. She was afraid that it was not enough to buy a page of the book.
Since she did not have so much money to spend, Yu Shu had to think of other ideas. There were still a lot of useless hemp paper in Cao Zixin's shop. She would discuss with him this afternoon and see if he could sell all of them to her at a low price.
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