Li Qingyou was really happy, not because she found out that her brother could read, but because of a piece of news she heard during the day.

Zhang Sipao and Xiashanhu started fighting.

This is what Li Qingyou heard from the person at the table next to him when he was talking in the teahouse during the day.

It is said that both sides suffered heavy losses, and Zhang Sipao was even more injured. I heard that he was even arrested by the Yamen.

Although he has not been sentenced yet, at least he will not come to trouble Li Qingyou in a short time, which is a good thing to celebrate.

"...Do you think this counts as subduing the enemy without fighting?" Li Qingyou was so happy that she even walked with a wave of glee.

Adi nodded, maybe forget it.

"No, this should cause them to fight among themselves. Let's take advantage of it." The more Li Qingyou said, the happier he became. Today is the happy day.

It was not too late now, and the meat seller was still there. Li Qingyou bought two kilograms of pork belly and two kilograms of pork ribs, and asked his brother what else he wanted to eat.

"That's enough." Adi shook his head.

"Don't you like to eat walnut cakes?" Li Qingyou held her chin in her hand and looked around, then at the sky. "It's definitely too late to go to Xuji now, but they are also sold here."

Although it doesn't taste as good as Xu Ji's, it is still a walnut cake.

Li Qingyou pulled Adi and was about to buy it. Adi leaned back and said, "It's really not necessary. I don't like eating much anyway."

When he was in the palace before, he really didn't like to eat much. There were all kinds of exquisite snacks in the palace. Even though his father didn't want to see him, he never treated him badly in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

But that was in the past after all. There are two different things between eating something but not wanting to eat it and not being able to eat it. Ever since Sister Qingyou came back from buying walnut cakes a few days ago, Adi felt that he was wasting his time in the palace. It was so good.

I didn't like what I was eating.

But now they have to live frugally, so... they might as well not eat it, it's not that delicious anyway.

Li Qingyou glanced at Adi and felt that he was a little strange these past two days. She couldn't explain exactly what was to blame, it was just a feeling.

"Brother, are you hiding something from me?" Li Qingyou said, holding her shoulders.

Adi's heart tightened, and he suppressed his wandering eyes. He was not sure what his sister Qingyou was referring to, so he could only deny it.

Pretending to be confused, he said: "What's the matter? I don't have it."

Li Qingyou looked at him, but didn't see the reason. She thought it was probably because she was going to school. After all, she was a girl. She was probably too excited to go to school like a bunch of boys.

It was possible, but Li Qingyou didn't think much about it.

"If you don't want to go, don't go." Li Qingyou grabbed a handful of copper coins from his purse and stuffed them into his brother's hand, "Tomorrow you and Erxi and the others can go to Xuji to buy some."

"Oh." Adi put the copper coins into his purse, roughly counted them, and there were almost a dozen. He sighed silently in his heart. In these critical times, he might as well save them.

Not much though.

The siblings finished shopping and walked back. As soon as they arrived home, they saw the person sitting in the main room, it was Patriarch Li.

Patriarch Li came alone. Xiaoshan Niang made tea for him and was drinking it while waiting. When he saw Li Qingyou coming back, they both met and bowed.

"You go back to the house first." Li Qingyou patted his brother on the shoulder, turned around, walked to another chair, sat down, and asked Patriarch Li what brought him here, "But is there any news about the thing I asked you to do last time?"

Patriarch Li nodded and took out something like a ledger from his arms, "I asked someone to copy this. I copied it again. I couldn't take it out originally."

Li Qingyou took it, flicked it with his fingertips, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly. With this, he increased his chances of winning.

Patriarch Li looked at Li Qingyou seriously, and was surprised to see that she was staring at the account book seriously. She seemed to understand the meaning?

Patriarch Li didn't know what Li Qingyou was like before, but after coming to the Li family, Li Qingyou... well, he didn't know either.

But one thing he knew was that Li Qiping did not invite her husband to teach her lessons.

Although in this era it was considered virtuous for women not to have talents, women from wealthy families still had to learn music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and they also had to study. Although the content was different, at least they were literate.

However, it is not suitable for women to appear in public, so they usually invite their husbands to teach at home.

Li Qiping did not have the financial resources, and he himself was illiterate, so Patriarch Li naturally assumed that Li Qingyou was illiterate.

So I was surprised to see that she seemed to understand.

As for why he made a new copy, it was because he looked down upon the ones he had copied before, and also wanted to show off in front of Li Qingyou. After all, he was the only learned person in the entire Li family.

A knowledgeable person has a transcendent status, so Li Qingyou will not dare to look down on him, and will definitely rely on him in the future.

But now he was a little confused as to whether Li Qingyou was really literate or pretending to be literate. It seemed true. Maybe she had studied before?

This is the only explanation.

Li Qingyou stared at the copy of the account book in her hand "seriously", and glanced at Patriarch Li from the corner of her eye. In fact, she was not very good at understanding. At most, she could read 50% to 60% based on the context. This was mainly a pretense to show the other party.

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She silently sighed in her heart. Unexpectedly, she was an elite person who had received twenty years of education, but she became semi-literate once she traveled through time.

Really sad.

However, Patriarch Li is annoying enough. He just writes well. He even writes words that look like glyphs and even his strokes are continuous. How can he pretend to be knowledgeable?

How good it is to write stroke by stroke like A Di. When thinking of A Di, Li Qingyou's uneasy heart was relieved again. She looked at the words on it with difficulty, A Di should be able to do it.

Later, after Patriarch Li leaves, let Adi explain it to her again.

Li Qingyou looked at it pretendingly for a while, closed the account book and put it aside, and said a few polite words to Patriarch Li.

In fact, there is nothing much to say. It is quite awkward for two people who are basically complete strangers to pretend to be members of the tribe who love each other, but they have to continue to pretend.

After talking for a while, Patriarch Li seemed to have nothing to say. He had accepted Li Qingyou's "kind invitation" and agreed to stay for dinner. But the food was not ready yet, so sitting around like this was not a problem.

I can only ramble on here and there.

"By the way, I heard that Zhang Sipao and Xiashan Hu have been fighting against each other in the past few days, and the two sides have been fighting fiercely." Patriarch Li suddenly said.

Li Qingyou glanced at him in surprise. It was just two groups of gangsters fighting for territory in the county, but it had even been heard outside the city?

The news spreads fast enough.

"It seems that there is such a thing." Li Qingyou took a sip of tea and raised the corners of her mouth slightly.

Although she had known about it for a long time and the excitement had passed, she was still very happy. However, what Patriarch Li said next surprised her.
Chapter completed!