freenovelworld Chapter 542: Who would be willing to raise a daughter who brings bad luck to her relatives?
Chapter 542: Who would be willing to raise a daughter who brings bad luck to her relatives?
Lin Zao Zao sighed and said:
"My sister is actually quite pitiful. Everyone in the village despises her and calls her a disaster.
That's why she became like this, sister, please don't blame her, okay?"
Lin Zaozao was also unable to survive, so he thought of this incident: Su Niantang, the legitimate daughter of Ding'an Marquis, was in danger when she went out.
In their previous life, when they came to Bian Jing, they happened to encounter this incident and they all stood around watching the fun.
In this life, she asked Lin Dasheng to help her act out this drama, and finally gained the trust of the Ding'an Marquis Mansion.
The girl in pink lowered her voice and said, "No wonder her father didn't want her. It turns out she's a disaster!"
The girl with a red hairband next to her nodded repeatedly: "That's right! Who would want to raise a daughter who is unlucky in marriage?"
Another girl holding a book frowned:
"That's right! We have to stay away from her.
If you get into bad luck, it will be difficult to get married in the future."
Shen Tao's eyebrows arched, his hair flying beneath his jade crown: "Shut up, do you think this academy is a vegetable market?"
He glanced at the pale-faced crowd, his eyes filled with impatience: "Calling others a disaster star? I think you guys, all chattering together, are really bringing bad luck to others!"
The noble lady in the pomegranate red jacket retorted in a trembling voice: "Master Shen, this is a matter between the boudoirs..."
"Girl?" Shen Tao sneered, using his folding fan to lift the workbook on the table that was being discussed. "After reading so many books, all you've learned is gossip?"
He raised his hand and threw the paper into the air: "What does it have to do with you whether she is incompetent or not? Is it possible that if you look at her too much, your precious life will be shortened?"
Bai Wanwan raised an eyebrow and looked at Shen Tao. Shen Tao glared at him and said, "What are you looking at? Go and memorize your lessons."
Although he spoke harshly, he turned around and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
Bai Wanwan looked at him and said:
"I can handle it without your help. They're just a bunch of brats, so I don't take them seriously.
Besides, it’s hard to say who the disaster star is! "
Bai Wanwan turned her head abruptly, stared at Lin Zaozao and said:
"Lin Zaozao, I heard that your father has been gambling lately and has almost lost all our family fortune?
Your mother spends every day at home mending clothes, and her fingers are covered with blisters. Isn't her life miserable enough?"
The surroundings suddenly became quiet, and the ladies who were talking just now were stunned.
Lin Zao Zao's face turned pale. He opened his mouth to refute, but couldn't say a word.
Bai Wanwan took a deep breath and continued:
"You guys keep saying I'm a disaster, but now let's see who should be despised?
My grandfather was a second-rank censor, my father was a general, and my mother was a first-rank lady.
How unlucky must I be to turn them into this?"
The noble ladies whispered to each other, "Isn't it? How can a disaster star be so good? I think Bai Wanwan is a lucky star."
"You don't know, General Gu and General Huo came to see her a few days ago! Even the ten princes came to see her."
"What? What's the relationship between the Eighteenth Prince and her?"
"Ah? Don't you know? The Eighteenth Prince dotes on her. Sometimes he even brings her food!"
These girls are not stupid. If they use their brains a little, they will know that many things here don't make sense.
The teacher walked in and said, "Today we are going to recite the Analects. I think you are all ready, right?"
Many people lowered their voices and dared not speak. Lin replied early: "I'm ready..."
The gentleman looked at her and said:
"There's a new student here, your name is Lin Zaozao, right?
From now on, everyone should get along well with each other. Okay, now everyone will be given a piece of paper and start reciting the Analects.
Lin Zaozao looked at Bai Wanwan provocatively. She had read some books in her previous life, and especially after she married into the Sun family, the people in the Sun family disliked her for not knowing how to manage accounts.
She has already started learning to write, so now it would be easy for her to copy the Analects of Confucius, right?
But Bai Wanwan was in a miserable state. Her eyes were full of gloating.
When she finished writing and handed it in first, the teacher nodded and said, "It's okay, but there are a few typos. I'll consolidate them when the time comes."
Lin Zao Zao was full of disappointment. This teacher was really strict. Her handwriting was better than most people here, so why didn't he praise her?
After everyone handed in their papers, the teacher looked at the little bully's handwriting, stroked his beard and said:
"Okay, okay, although Shen Tao's handwriting is not very good.
But I finally managed to recite it, even though there were a lot of typos, but it was still progress."
Bai Wanwan walked over directly and almost fainted when she saw it. She made five or six mistakes out of ten words.
Bai Wanwan glanced at Shen Tao and said, "Young Master Shen, please recite all of today's Analects. I need to check it tonight."
Shen Tao slammed the book shut. "The teacher just praised me for my progress. Why do you..."
"Teacher, that's just to give you face." Bai Wanwan threw the homework filled with annotations in front of him:
"You can even write one less horizontal line on the character er in "学而时习之" (learning and practicing at all times), and you still have the nerve to say that your handwriting is good?
If you don’t study, I will tell the princess that you only play around and don’t study…”
Shen Tao's face instantly turned the color of liver, and his knuckles gripping the pen turned white: "Bai Wanwan! How dare you!"
"Whether I dare or not depends on how Young Master Shen performs tonight."
Bai Wanwan raised the corner of her lips, dipped the pen in ink again, and wrote the word "silent" neatly, the tip of the pen hovering above the paper: "After all, those who don't hand in their homework are not qualified to fight crickets."
Shen Tao gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I understand. I'll just be obedient."
Bai Wanwan nodded, and then she heard the gentleman stroking his beard and saying, "Good! Good! This doesn't look like the handwriting of a two-year-old!"
He unfolded the rice paper with shaking hands and said, "Look at the force of the brushstrokes. The horizontal and vertical strokes are straight and sharp. You all need to learn from them!"
There was a sudden burst of gasps from the corridor.
Lin Zao Zao rushed forward and stared at the words on the rice paper, his almond-shaped eyes widening. "Impossible! She's just a wild girl from the countryside. She must have hired someone to write for her!"
The gentleman suddenly sneered:
"She wrote this in front of me. Every word has a childish air, but every stroke is as steady as a pine tree.
How many of you could write like this at the age of two?"
Several noble ladies came forward and looked at the neat handwriting, their expressions turning from shock to shame.
The girl in the lilac skirt murmured, "My handwriting when I was six years old wasn't as good as hers..."
"Isn't it? I can't believe it."
Bai Wanwan smiled and said, "I practice calligraphy every day! For an hour every day, do you guys practice too?"
Everyone fell silent. Su Niantang sneered and said, "She can only write two characters. It's nothing special. Please don't embarrass her."
"Okay, everyone, please talk less." The teacher looked at the children with some dissatisfaction.
Everyone listened to the teacher's lecture attentively. After lunch, the sun was at its highest point.
In the training ground at the back of the academy, the blue bricks were hot from the sun, and the reins on the horse posts swayed gently in the wind.
Bai Wanwan followed a group of noble ladies and gentlemen and walked towards the center of the training ground under the scorching sun.