Although his face was green and he was in a bad mood, Qi Shaoqiu didn't say anything.
His sister had a bad personality, a sharp tongue, and loved to tear him down in front of outsiders. It could be said that she had a lot of shortcomings, but she was still his sister.
He couldn't bear to scold her.
So he could only hold back his green face and say nothing.
Although he was called a sucker, Roland didn't have any intention of getting angry. Because he saw a strange light shining in the girl's eyes, a little fierce, and also a little pleading, as if saying, if you dare not pay the tuition fee now and dare to disappoint your brother, I will break your feet.
Roland often saw such a look in her eyes.
They were like this among their close friends, usually tearing each other down, laughing and cursing, but this was only daily interaction between childhood friends. If other outsiders dared to use similar words to scold their childhood friends, it would be strange if they didn't rush up and beat them up.
So Roland didn't care. He took out his phone and said, "Scan it!"
The girl picked up a phone with a light pink case from the side and clicked on her payment code.
Roland scanned it, and the girl's profile picture and online name appeared on the phone.
The profile picture was a sprouting small tree, and her online name was Night Tide Sand.
The online name was quite nice.
Roland entered the amount, and soon the girl saw a notification on her phone that she had received a transfer. The amount was correct. She looked at Roland somewhat strangely and said, "Let's eat noodles together."
"No need, I already had breakfast when I came."
The noodles in the pot smelled really good, whetting Roland's appetite, but he wasn't a foodie. Besides, this was their second meeting, and they weren't familiar with each other. It was polite for someone to greet him, but if he really ran up to eat, then he would be a fool.
But the girl said very seriously, "Since you've paid the tuition fee, you should eat this noodles."
Huh? Roland was a little surprised. This place also provided meals?
"Our authentic miaodao training is more difficult, and it has higher requirements for physique and endurance. We will add some Chinese medicine to strengthen the body during breakfast," Qi Shaoqiu explained on the side. "But I'm sorry that this Chinese medicine formula can't be given to you, but in order to be responsible for your studies, we will cover your breakfast in the future."
"Is this an impromptu idea, or has it been a rule since the beginning?" Roland asked curiously.
"That was the rule when we hung out our shingles, and the other students also ate together."
Just as they were talking, four students who had been practicing in the greenhouse walked over. Walking in front, a tanned teenager shouted, "Cousin, help me get a bowl of noodles first. I'm starving."
"There's no rush. Go wipe your sweat first." Facing these younger teenagers, Night Tide Sands' expression was clearly gentler, and she was clearly a different person from when she faced her own brother.
While the teenagers were wiping their sweat, the girl had already scooped four big bowls of noodles and placed them on the table.
Qi Shaoqiu and Roland each got a bowl.
The girl also had a small bowl, and there was only some broth left in the big pot.
The four youths sat at the table and ate the noodles in big mouthfuls.
Qi Shaoqiu held a big bowl and squatted in a corner. As he ate, he signaled Roland with his eyes to hurry up and eat.
The girl looked at him quietly with the bowl in her hand.
Okay … Roland followed Qi Shaoqiu's example and squatted down in the corner with the bowl. He took a bite and found that the noodles tasted really good.
Although there was a medicinal taste, it was wonderfully mixed with the taste of the noodles and was quite delicious.
After eating a big bowl of noodles, Roland felt his whole body warm up, and he couldn't help but ask, "Does it cost you a lot to use Chinese medicine to make noodles every day?"
"It used to cost a lot." Qi Shaoqiu laughed. "But in the last ten or twenty years, thanks to the large-scale cultivation of Chinese herbs, herbs are getting cheaper and cheaper, and the most expensive medicinal food back then is now the cheapest."
Roland was even more curious. "How expensive was it back then?"
"I heard from my grandfather that when he was a teenager, before the nation was founded, eating such a bowl of noodles with Chinese medicine in the morning would cost at least six or seven days of rations for the five of us." Qi Shaoqiu let out a long sigh and said, "In the past, the saying that the poor studied and the rich learned were not a joke. Now that life is better and everyone can eat their fill, not many people are willing to learn martial arts anymore. The status of martial artists is getting worse and worse. "
Roland wanted to say that since the Song Dynasty, the status of martial artists had almost never been higher, but he naturally wouldn't say this foolishly.
At this time, the girl also finished eating. She put down the bowl and said to the four teenagers, "You wash the dishes, I'll take your junior brother to the warehouse to pick some things for practicing martial arts."
The four teenagers responded.
Roland pointed to himself. "Me? Junior brother? "
"That's you." Qi Shaoqiu laughed and said, "Now you're the junior brother."
"What era is this? It's not popular." Roland felt that it was a bit awkward to call him that.
But the girl said, "You also feel awkward calling each other senior sister and junior brother in college?"
"I don't think so."
"Then that's it." The girl stood up. "Follow me."
"Alright, junior brother it is." Roland stood up and followed behind the girl.
The two of them left the kitchen, walked around the outer wall, and walked behind the shed.
Walking behind, Roland smelled a very faint fragrance in the air, a bit like the smell of osmanthus.
Roland liked osmanthus very much, so he habitually took a few more breaths.
At this time, the girl led the way in front and asked, "Why do you want to learn miaodao techniques? Aren't you good at boxing? "
Roland couldn't say that he wanted to practice a weapon skill to defend against Warriors or Rogues in the game, right? He thought for two seconds and replied, "I just feel that boxing has its limits, and against people who use weapons, my chances of winning are still not high."
"My brother said that he might not be able to beat you without a weapon, which means that the average person can't beat you even with a weapon." The girl stopped, turned around, and looked Roland in the eyes. "You don't need to learn miaodao techniques at all."
Roland also looked into her eyes. Her eyes were really beautiful, like two pure black glazed gems.
"Senior sister doesn't seem to welcome me to learn miaodao techniques."
The girl froze for a moment, then she turned around and walked slowly while saying, "I don't know miaodao techniques, so don't call me senior sister. I'm just worried that you'll just have a short-lived enthusiasm, and after a day or two, your head will turn around and you won't want to learn because the tuition is too expensive, and then you'll ask us to refund you. My brother is proud and smiles on the surface, but he's actually very sensitive and fragile. It wasn't easy for him to get a student, and he'll definitely be very sad if you leave like this. "
"Don't worry, I won't leave until I learn it," Roland said lightly.
"I'm just saying, there aren't many young people who can take hardship these days." The girl's voice gradually lowered. "There were at least twenty close and distant relatives who used to learn miaodao from Big Brother, but now there are only four left. They won't learn even if it's free. "
Roland continued to say in a light tone, "I'll really keep learning."
The girl stopped again and looked at him. "Really?"
Roland very much wanted to say that even if he didn't learn, he wouldn't ask them for a refund. But the girl's eyes were very serious, with a hint of pleading in her stubbornness, and a faint gleam of scales. Roland swallowed all of his words at once.
"Really."
It was still a light tone, but there was a bit more solemnity and seriousness.
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