Crossing the Passenger Sacrifice

"Then what are you looking for?" Li Huoyue turned around and looked at the fourth brother who was drinking tea leisurely with an expressionless face, without any intention of helping. "Fourth brother, you know the layout of your study best, why don't you help the second brother look for it?"

The second brother sighed and said helplessly: "Call me second brother."

"Second brother is looking for general economics, where do I get that stuff?! He didn't believe me even after I told him. He insisted that I threw it into a corner because I was not interested." The fourth brother was complaining, but there was still no expression on his face, as if it was not him who had spoken just now.

"Well, if they hadn't insisted that I go back to the Li residence today, I would have planned to finish reading it." The second brother said as he continued to look.

Li Huoyue actually had a rough idea of what was on the bookshelf, but he just didn't know where they were placed exactly.

Regarding the book that Lao Er mentioned, Li Huoyue was sure that it did not exist here.

"So I shouldn't have threatened them to let you go, right?" Li Huoyue didn't expect this to happen. "But, why do you think that the fourth brother has this book?"

"Paper." The second child changed another bookshelf and searched next to it. "Only the fourth child has that paper."

Li Huoyue did not stop the second brother from searching, letting him give up on his own.

She had not eaten anything except drinking two sips of tea. She walked to the fifth seat, took out a brocade box from the drawer, sat down and started eating the pastries.

"Did you attend their classes?" Li Huoyue asked after finishing a pastry.

The second brother did not take his eyes off the bookshelf and answered, "If you knew, why did you ask me to check it?"

"I don't know. I just guessed it after hearing what you said just now." Li Huoyue took another sip of tea.

This is not difficult to guess. After chatting with the man named Dai Muli last night, and then hearing that the second brother was looking for books when he came back, I naturally thought of the fact that the members of their alliance would teach from time to time.

"You guessed right, they set up a classroom over there and taught some poor kids who had no one to rely on." The second child changed the bookshelf again and looked for it. "I attended two classes. It can be said that... the scope is very wide and the knowledge is very new. I have basically never heard of it before."

A poor child with no one to rely on?

Li Huoyue thought for a moment and asked, "Do you think this kind of teaching can be promoted throughout the South?"

"Basically impossible."

The second brother finally stopped, stood there recalling, and told his analysis to the people in the study.

"Scholars study in order to take the imperial examinations and become successful in life. Relying on reading to increase leisure and enjoyment is not something that rich people can afford, and poor people can't afford.

What they teach is very interesting and useful in the long run.

But it is not orthodox after all. Unless the imperial court examines and selects people from what they teach, no one will spend time learning these things which are easily put aside nowadays. If they have that little time, they will choose to farm.

"Well, if they hadn't insisted that I go back to the Li residence today, I would have planned to finish reading it." The second brother said as he continued to look.

Li Huoyue actually had a rough idea of what was on the bookshelf, but he just didn't know where they were placed exactly.

Regarding the book that Lao Er mentioned, Li Huoyue was sure that it did not exist here.

"So I shouldn't have threatened them to let you go, right?" Li Huoyue didn't expect this to happen. "But, why do you think that the fourth brother has this book?"

"Paper." The second child changed another bookshelf and searched next to it. "Only the fourth child has that paper."

Li Huoyue did not stop the second brother from searching, letting him give up on his own.

She had not eaten anything except drinking two sips of tea. She walked to the fifth seat, took out a brocade box from the drawer, sat down and started eating the pastries.

"Did you attend their classes?" Li Huoyue asked after finishing a pastry.

The second brother did not take his eyes off the bookshelf and answered, "If you knew, why did you ask me to check it?"

"I don't know. I just guessed it after hearing what you said just now." Li Huoyue took another sip of tea.

This is not difficult to guess. After chatting with the man named Dai Muli last night, and then hearing that the second brother was looking for books when he came back, I naturally thought of the fact that the members of their alliance would teach from time to time.

"You guessed right, they set up a classroom over there and taught some poor kids who had no one to rely on." The second child changed the bookshelf again and looked for it. "I attended two classes. It can be said that... the scope is very wide and the knowledge is very new. I have basically never heard of it before."

A poor child with no one to rely on?

Li Huoyue thought for a moment and asked, "Do you think this kind of teaching can be promoted throughout the South?"

"Basically impossible."

The second brother finally stopped, stood there recalling, and told his analysis to the people in the study.

"Scholars study in order to take the imperial examinations and become successful in life. Relying on reading to increase leisure and enjoyment is not something that rich people can afford, and poor people can't afford.

What they teach is very interesting and useful in the long run.

But it is not orthodox after all. Unless the imperial court examines and selects people from what they teach, no one will spend time learning these things which are easily put aside nowadays. If they have that little time, they will choose to farm.

When faced with the third brother's question, no one else answered.

The pictures and books could be replaced without alerting anyone. Whether the mother did it alone or brought someone else in, no one knew or could guess.

"What's wrong? Don't be silent, brothers and sisters!" The third brother felt that what he said was not stupid, so why did the atmosphere suddenly become silent?

Li Huoyue thought for a while and said, "Who cares? If you don't look at the picture right away, why don't you come back later when you remember to look at it? You deserve it if you didn't see it. This thing is too dangerous. Why should we wait for it with the lives of all the people in the Li Mansion?"

"Then let's destroy it." The eldest brother was still worried about the lives of everyone in the mansion.

Li Huoyue nodded and agreed to this approach.

The second brother also agreed and turned to look at the third and fourth brothers.

The two were stared at by the other three and did not dare to raise any objections. They stepped forward again and stood on the left and right, and at the same time began to tear off the paper on the wall from both corners.

The paper was torn with force, making a tearing sound, one sound after another.

The crisp sound did not last long, and the hands of the third and fourth brothers stopped at the same time.

"This..." The third brother raised the torn paper in his hand in confusion. The pattern that should have been on it was gone, and what was in his hand was a blank piece of paper.

"This..." The fourth brother looked at the white paper in his hand and then at the wall.

There was still a map displayed on the wall, it was the original map, with only one piece of paper missing, there was no other difference.

The wind outside suddenly blew in violently, picking up the torn white paper that had fallen from the room and blew it to every corner of the room.

"Then... do we have to tear down the wall...?" the third brother asked weakly.