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."

Li Huoyue opened his mouth, many questions surged between his lips and teeth, but suddenly he stopped, and the smoke disappeared in his internal organs.

She didn't dare ask any more.

I really want to know, but I’m afraid to hear something I don’t want to hear.

Emotions took over again, but Li Huoyue suppressed them skillfully.

He quickly changed the dull topic and asked another question:

"Has the picture changed since I left?"

This is the question I wanted to ask just now.

The second brother had not yet recovered from his emotions. It took him a while to slowly recall what was going on. He said, "It seems that... the three red dots in the Prince Liang's Palace have become one, and there have been changes in several other places as well."

He is extremely sensitive to numbers, and can keenly detect changes in quantity, even if the change is only slight in a complex situation.

Li Huoyue frowned, which was basically consistent with her guess.

This map should be some advanced prop.

"Eh? That's not right." The second child followed Li Huoyue's question and responded, "If this map can be changed, and mother is not at home, then who is this red dot?"

Li Huoyue sighed: "It's me, okay."

The second brother was stunned for a moment, then laughed and shook his head, gently tapping Li Huoyue's forehead with his finger: "Then my sister is really amazing. As a time traveler, she dares to covet the position of Special Inspector."

Li Huoyue had no choice but to smile too.

The light around her was not bright, and her bitter smile was hard to tell. "Yeah, I'm really awesome..."

Mingming was an ordinary person. When he first came here, his posture of holding the dagger was wrong.

Li Huoyue didn't know what to say next. Lao Er was also lost in his own thoughts. For a moment, the only sound in his ears was the gentle wind at night.

After a while, Li Huoyue felt that the time was almost up, but Jiang Yunshu did not come back.

Thinking of Jiang Yunshu, Li Huoyue asked the second brother another question:

"Is Jiang Yunshu the friend you mentioned before?"

The second brother didn't expect that Li Huoyue still remembered this. Just as he was about to answer something, Li Huoyue suddenly made a gesture, half stood up, and looked alert.

The people outside didn't seem to intend to hide their whereabouts. The footsteps were not chaotic, but it sounded like there were obviously a lot of people.

Apart from the sound of footsteps, the most obvious sound was the continuous sound of wheels pressing on the ground.

Hearing the noise, Li Huoyue also guessed who the visitor was.