Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 36 Rulan, Minglan

Rulan glared at her and said, "It's finally snowing. Why don't you go out and enjoy the snowdrifts and make snowmen? Mom really insists on letting me do embroidery in the house."

"But it's very cold outside." Minglan said, shrinking her neck.

"Aren't you feeling warm after running around? Oh, stop embroidering and wait for me."

Rulan saw that Minglan had almost finished half of the embroidery, so she quickly snatched it from her.

Mrs. Wang knew that Ru Lan had a restless character, so in order to allow her to practice being a female worker, she specially called Ming Lan to accompany her. He also specifically warned her that if she embroidered slower than Minglan, she would be punished to embroider again.

"But the eldest lady promised to finish the embroidery in two days. Today is the last day. It's almost noon. If I don't hurry up and embroider, the eldest lady will be angry." Minglan said.

In fact, she didn't like being a female worker, but the eldest lady told her that she didn't dare not do it.

"Why are you so stubborn? Then you just say it's cold and your hands are frozen. Can't you just embroider slowly?" Ru Lan said angrily.

"Isn't this a lie?" Minglan whispered.

"you…"

"Girl, girl!"

At this moment, a seven or eight-year-old girl opened the door curtain and ran in.

The door curtain opened, and the cold wind rushed in, making Ru Lan couldn't help but shiver.

"Damn magpie, why don't you be slower when you come in? The curtain is so wide that the cold wind comes in."

"Girl, I know I was wrong." Magpie said nervously.

Ru Lan rolled her eyes at her and said, "What's the matter? Are you in a panic? Could it be that my mother has gone out?"

Rulan's eyes lit up when she mentioned the latter part.

"That's not true. Mr. Li is here." Magpie said.

"Brother Li An is here? Are you at the second brother's place?" Ru Lan said excitedly.

"Yeah." Magpie nodded.

"Come on, let's go over now. I want to ask Brother Li An how he calculated that it would snow yesterday." Ru Lan said.

"Girl, wait a moment. It's cold outside. I'll go get my cloak."

Magpie said and ran to the clothes rack to get the cloak and helped Rulan put it on.

"Fifth sister, what did you mean when you said you figured it would snow yesterday?" Minglan asked curiously.

Magpie was tying Rulan's cloak. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Sixth girl, last time Mr. Li came, my girl complained that it hasn't snowed this year and she couldn't even see the snow scene. Mr. Li said he could figure out when it would snow. .”

"My girl didn't believe it, so she asked Mr. Li to do the calculation. After Mr. Li finished the calculation, he wrote a note and put it in the brocade bag, saying that he would open it on the day it snowed. After it snowed yesterday, the girl opened it. On the note It is written that it will snow today, Mr. Li’s calculation is really accurate.”

After hearing this, Minglan blinked and said, "Fifth sister, he asked you to open it on the day it snows. No matter what day it snows, if you open it, it will snow today."

Rulan was stunned when she heard this, and it took her a while to react. She gritted her teeth and said, "Brother Li An dared to lie to me. No, I have to settle the score with him."

"Lied to you? Girl, Mr. Li was very sure that he didn't lie to you. He said it snowed yesterday, and it snowed yesterday." Magpie heard this and said doubtfully.

"Stupid magpie, no matter when we open that bag of tips, it says it will snow today." Ru Lan said angrily.

"Yeah, no problem." Magpie still didn't react.

"Oh, you're so stupid. Fasten it for me. I'm going to settle the score with Brother Li An!" Ru Lan urged.

She didn't realize that she hadn't reacted before. When she went to bed last night, she kept thinking about how Li An calculated it.

She said magpie was stupid, but she was not much better.

Ru Lan waited for the magpie to tie up her cloak and was about to walk out. After walking a few steps, she suddenly turned around and came back. She pulled Minglan who was still sitting there and said, "Let's go, you come with me."

"What should I do? I still have to embroider." Minglan said.

"Just in case I leave and you do your embroidery."

Ru Lan pulled Ming Lan up and said to Xiao Tao, who was still standing aside stupidly: "Silly Xiao Tao, quickly put the cloak on your girl."

"Oh!"

Xiao Tao came back to her senses and quickly put the cloak in her arms on Minglan. While tying the cloak, she asked Rulan, "Fifth Miss, that Master Li is really amazing. He can even calculate when it will snow."

Rulan: "..."

Minglan: "..."

……

"Thank you, Brother Sheng, for clearing up the confusion." Li An cupped his hands and said.

"You're so polite, Erlang. If I hadn't known that you had only been studying for half a year, I would have thought you had been studying for several years. You are indeed a child prodigy. I have benefited a lot from discussing it with you." Sheng Changbai said with a smile.

"Haha, in front of Brother Sheng, I don't have the nerve to call him a child prodigy. With Brother Sheng's knowledge, I'm sure he can pass the county examination, right?" Li An said with a smile.

Sheng Changbai is only thirteen years old this year, but he is very knowledgeable and has unique insights on many issues.

Li An felt that with his current knowledge, it would be no problem to pass the county examination and obtain the title of scholar.

"Erlang won the prize. My father said that I have to study hard for a few years before I can take the scientific examination." Sheng Changbai said modestly.

Li An is no longer the novice who didn't understand anything when he first time traveled. It has been almost a year since he traveled to this world. In addition, he borrowed a lot of miscellaneous history books from Sheng Changbai to read, and he has a deeper understanding of this era. .

The imperial examination in the Song Dynasty was not like that in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Even if you won the Jinshi and were dissatisfied with your ranking, you could take the exam again.

Once you pass the imperial examination in the Song Dynasty, you cannot take the exam again.

The ranking of Jinshi determines the future.

Therefore, since Sheng Changbai was not sure of ranking high in the exam, Sheng Hong would not let him take the exam.

"By the way, Yangzhou is very lively during the Lantern Festival. Erlang should come over to have fun then." Sheng Changbai said.

"Haha, if you didn't tell me, I would come over and join in the fun." Li An said with a smile.

The most lively festival of the year in ancient times was actually not the Chinese New Year, but the Lantern Festival.

This can be seen from the fact that the ancients wrote many poems describing the Shangyuan Festival, but there are not as many poems about the Spring Festival as there are about the Shangyuan Festival.

On that day, Yangzhou City held a lantern festival that lasted until the next day.

I heard that the Lantern Festival in Bianjing is really lively. A huge lantern is made, which is very spectacular when lit. It is called Aoshan.

It turns out that Li An had always spent the Shangyuan Festival in Lijia Village. Li An naturally wanted to see how lively the Shangyuan Festival was in ancient times.

"Haha, then we can go together." Sheng Changbai said with a smile.

"Brother Li An, you are actually teasing me."

At this moment, Rulan's angry voice came over.

After a while, Rulan pulled Minglan in.

Sheng Changbai frowned slightly and said with a straight face: "What kind of behavior do you have to behave like a yeller?"

Sheng Changbai is young and mature, and when he has a straight face, he is a bit calm and confident.

Ru Lan saw that he had a straight face and was even more nervous than when she was facing Sheng Hong. She was so scared that she didn't dare to say anything.

Sheng Changbai looked at Li An and said, "Let Erlang laugh. Next to my fifth sister is my sixth sister."

"Fifth sister, sixth sister Zhuang'an!" Li An stood up and held his hands, secretly sizing up Minglan.

Although he had been to the Sheng family several times during this period, it was only the first time that Sheng Changbai took him there to pay homage to Mrs. Wang.

Apart from this, only Ru Lan ran over every time he came over, and she had never seen anyone else in the Sheng family.

Minglan looks to be about the same age as Rulan, but slightly shorter. She has a chubby face and looks very cute.

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