81 Ah,Youth (2/2)
At first, Ning Que was astonished and speechless, then he heartfeltly praised him,” You are hiding the real you well.”
”Bullshit.”
Chu Youxian's deadpan expression was like that of a soulless corpse, and he said despondently, ”My answer for a math question was that the Headmaster of the Academy was a drunk, and he had chewed half of a mountain's peach blossoms. Even with answers like that, I got a B plus, which shows that the instructors of the Academy have gone mad.”
Ning Que thought it over for a moment before guessing, ”Maybe your family spent some silver?”
Chu Youxian angrily said, ”Who has ever heard of a student entering the Academy with just silver? And, my father only spent 2000 silvers, which will only be enough for me to stay in the House of Red-Sleeves for four months. It was nothing!”
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In Chang'an, sitting on a chair in a silver workshop in the Eastern City, was an extremely fat old fogey, who was looking over their accounting book, and he sighed, in tears, ”Two hundred thousand silvers... Son, I sold over half of our assets, and I expect that only you can do something. You can't let me down. Who said the Academy didn't accept money! That group of thieves just doesn't accept small money!”
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Chu Youxian didn't know that his father had made a luxury bet that he normally never would in his business. He was still angry about thinking that the Instructors of the Academy had gone mad.
”I have never liked to learn, ride, or shoot since I was a child, so I couldn't play with the noble young men and women in Chang'an. It is lucky that you are divided into Classroom Three, or I don't know what I would have done for my next few years.”
Chu Youxian said sadly. Ning Que only noticed this when he had said that he didn't like poems and books, and riding and shooting. He didn't show any expression of shame, but rather his expression was so natural, it was even a little proud.
He smiled to console this only acquaintance and said, ”As you are already here, you shouldn't think about it too much.”
”You make sense.” Chu Youxian looked around at his classmates in the wide study room. His eyesight swept over the slim girls, and he gradually became happy,”I will have a good relationship with my classmates, so I can have a good marriage.”
Ning Que had no words or expression to respond with.
Chu Youxian was a typical Tang person who was open and clear, otherwise, he wouldn't have invited Ning Que over to drink wine and play with the girls when they met in a brothel for the first time. After he adjusted his mood, he returned to normal immediately. His two fingers picked up a jade that was pointing at the girls sitting at the front, and said at a low voice, ”That gentle girl is called Jin Wucai, little daughter of the Libationer of Tang. She is meek but she won't be bullied at all because the Libationer is very serious and has a bad temper; You can't annoy that high girl, because her surname is Gao, and she has an uncle working in the palace...”
”That fresh meat is called Chen Zixian, whose family opened a bookstore in the Western City and has some money. If one day we don't have enough money go and drink wine, we can ask him to go with us. As for the short one near him, we ignore him. It is rumored that he came from Chen State, he only knows about eating, sleeping, reading, and shooting. Boring.”
Ning Que admired him greatly. He thought a person who didn't want to enter the Academy, only used half of day to understand every person's background and temper. What should this spirit be——maybe it was his spirit that caused him to all the time, eat, drink, and play, and considered finding friends as a hobby?
”Ah, you may know who this is. Yes, she is the famous daughter of the Yunhui general, Situ Yilan!”
Chu Youxian slightly slapped the table and quickly said, like a storyteller,”Brother Ning, just now you came over to me but not to her, I am so grateful. But, I must warn you that it's probably going to annoy her. She rode a horse on Vermilion Bird Avenue when she was eight. She and some girls of the same age were called female soldiers. They frightened so many Chinese hamburger booths, Luzhu store (selling boiled pork giblets) and many men. If you annoy her, it will be difficult for you to walk in Chang'an City. It is just like when you entered into a Guozi store (Chinese hamburger), you have no good Guozi (ends)!”
Ning Que was astounded by his spray, like a fountain, and he snapped out of it after a while. He wasn't afraid of a female soldier because he didn't trouble them. Situ Yilan was just a little girl without bad intentions, in his eyes, so he wouldn't be concerned by her. But, he acclaimed Chu Youxian's ability, and said,”Next time, if you don't have enough money to join the House of Red-Sleeves, you don't need to force Chen Zixian, and you can just tell some stories to earn money.”
He thought he was being ridiculed when unexpectedly, Chu Youxian glanced at him and slightly laughed,”In that kind of brothel, earning some money just by saying some words was what you do.”
Ning Que was stiff and really wanted to kick his ass. But, he controlled his anger because the instructor who taught them the course of rites just walked in seriously.
The study room became quiet suddenly, and the young and jumping ravens and sparrows had flown away to some unknown places.