Li Yan fixed me in place, and those "tadpoles" jumped straight into my forehead.

Every time a word popped in, I felt my head twitch. As the "tadpole" jumped faster and faster, my head started to beat so fast that it was about to explode.

Li Yan let go of my hand only after all the words in the book had been written.

I held my head and howled in pain.

Li Yan just stood there and watched me howl, neither comforting me nor helping me, and there wasn't even a trace of pity in his eyes.

After a long while, my head slowly calmed down and stopped throbbing.

I howled until my voice was hoarse, and I was exhausted. I was about to collapse to the ground, but Li Yan grabbed me again and said, "Recite the formula after me."

Before I could react, Li Yan recited a mantra. I was so tired that I didn't want to speak at all, but my mouth couldn't help but follow Li Yan's recitation.

As the formulas came out of my mouth, Li Yan pulled my hand and started dancing. My body, which was not very flexible to begin with, danced gracefully under Li Yan's guidance.

Stretching, jumping, and rolling, completely out of control.

After the round, Li Yan pushed me to the ground and said, "I have helped you clear all your tendons and meridians. You will be able to practice more effectively in the future. You should recite the formula just now. Draw the air, then draw the air into the body, and then twist the air into a thread to pull the beads..."

Li Yan explained it simply. I recited the formula for a long time but didn't even know where the energy was. Li Yan was so angry that he almost beat me up.

Later, seeing that it was getting late, Li Yan left me behind and ran away.

Not long after Li Yan left, I woke up slowly.

When I woke up, the sun was already high in the sky. The dim sunlight shone through the thick window frames, shining in in dots.

My head was aching. If I had known that practicing this technique would be so painful, I would never have asked Li Yan about it even if I were beaten to death.

I struggled to sit up. At this time, Yingchun came in with a basin of water. Seeing that I was awake, she shouted happily: "Miss San, come in quickly, the second young master is awake."

After a while, Yiping ran in. Seeing that I was fine, he secretly turned around and wiped his tears, then turned around and said with a smile: "You must be hungry, wash up and come out for lunch."

I didn't expect that I slept until noon. No wonder Yiping looked so worried.

Yingchun helped me wash up and put on a thick cotton coat for me. No matter how I complained about the heat, it was useless.

When I came out after getting dressed, I found Gongsun Wen and Du Changfeng were already sitting at the table waiting for dinner.

When Gongsun Wen saw me, he looked like he had seen a ghost. He asked in horror, "Your face?"

I touched my face. As the weather was cold now, I applied some moisturizing lotion to make my face look smooth and hydrated.

I said, "My face is very nice and smooth. Do you want to touch it?"

When Gongsun Wen heard this, his face turned red and he gritted his teeth and said, "You, you are a hooligan!"

I groaned and said, "I treat you as a brother, but you treat me as a gangster?"

Gongsun Wen didn't want to pay attention to me. He picked up the bowl and started to eat.

My face was scratched several times by tiles last night, and my forehead was swollen, but after I woke up, my whole face was as smooth as a peeled egg, and it didn't look like it was injured at all!

Gongsun Wen was full of questions, but he could only turn them into strength and eat his meal faster and faster.

Du Changfeng looked exhausted. I thought he was still immersed in his broken heart, so I kindly advised him, "Don't always have such a sour face. It makes you look unhappy. I ruined your marriage, so at most I can help you find another one."

"How to make up for it?" Du Changfeng didn't really want to pay attention to me and asked in a very perfunctory manner.

I thought about it and realized that I have never attended any gathering of noble ladies in the capital, so I don’t know many nice women.

I had no choice but to say, "The matchmaker who helped Lord Gongsun find a wife last time has a lot of photo albums of noble ladies in the capital. I'll go get her and let you choose?"

Gongsun Wen's hands trembled when he heard this, and he almost dropped his chopsticks.

Du Changfeng rolled his eyes at me and said, "Leave it to Lord Gongsun. I don't want it."

Gongsun Wen was so angry that he gnashed his teeth and said angrily: "Zhao Man, all this food can't stop you from eating, why don't you just stop eating and get out of here."

My heart skipped a beat when Gongsun Wen yelled at me, but then I thought, this is my home, they are both here to live with us, so they should be the ones to leave!

So I said bluntly: "If anyone wants to leave, it should be you two. You are eating and living for free, and you dare to tell me to leave!"

Gongsun Wen was choked and rolled his eyes.

But Du Changfeng continued to eat slowly while saying, "I want to leave, but His Majesty won't let me."

I think Du Changfeng's mind has become a little abnormal because of his broken heart.

I thought about it, looked at the not-so-good weather outside, and said, "I wonder if the peach blossoms in the suburbs have withered yet. Why don't we go out to the suburbs to enjoy the flowers?"

When Du Changfeng heard this, he threw his bowl down and shouted, "You just can't stand seeing me doing well, you want to piss me off to death, right?"

Now I am even more certain that Du Changfeng is crazy.

I rolled my eyes at him and said, "If you don't want to go, forget it. Why would you throw away your job? If you don't go, then I will go. Who will spoil you?"

Du Changfeng gritted his teeth, sat down silently and continued eating.

I'm not kidding. Since I have nothing to do, I might as well go for a walk in the suburbs.

The place where we live is considered to be in the suburbs, but it is mostly farmland and there are no peach trees. If you want to see peach blossoms, you have to go to Mingyue Temple.

Mingyue Nunnery is a royal nunnery with a quiet and beautiful environment. The back hill is planted with peach trees. Every year when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, it attracts a large number of tourists to come and watch.

Now that the peach blossoms are in full bloom, of course I can't miss this beautiful scenery.

As we were afraid that the journey would be long and boring, I asked Yiping to prepare a lot of food and put it on the carriage.

Zhao Jinping said he wanted to ride a horse, so I asked Wei Chang to bring Xiao Huihui along, and then bring Zhao Jinping along as well, so that he can satisfy his urge to ride a horse.

Little Huihui was very well behaved, so we could have let it follow the carriage. But Gongsun Wen said that it was a day off and he had nothing to do, so he insisted on going with the carriage, so he let Little Huihui ride on him.

I thought that idiot Du Changfeng would not go, but when I got on the carriage, I found that he was riding a horse and following the carriage side by side with Gongsun Wen.

Ankang's injury had not healed yet and he even had difficulty getting up, so we had to leave him at home. He watched us leave with tears in his eyes.

It would take at least an hour to get from the house to Mingyue Temple. We were not in a hurry, so Wei Chang did not drive the carriage very fast.

Yiping and I were tired from sitting, so we lay down in the carriage together, covered with the woolen quilt we brought from the house, and took a comfortable nap.

Wei Chang drove a carriage to Changlu Academy and picked up Zhao Jinping who was in class. At first, the dean of Changlu Academy did not agree to give Zhao Jinping a leave, but when he saw Gongsun Wen, he was so scared that he told Zhao Jinping to leave quickly.

Zhao Jinping was so happy that he could even skip classes to play. When he saw Yiping and I sleeping, he didn't dare to disturb us. He quietly walked to the front of the carriage and sat with Wei Chang.

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