If you keep making noise, I won’t stand it anymore!

Liu Lai Fu did not talk to Liu Fugui and the others about how he got the visiting card from Qingfeng Academy. He simply told them that he would go to Qingfeng Academy to study during this period.

"This, how much money will this cost?" Liu Fugui asked, rubbing his hands. After the friction, his rough hands were covered with a layer of dandruff, which flew around in the narrow room.

After several years of living at the bottom of society, he no longer had the plump figure he had in the Liu Mansion. The skin on his face hung loosely on his cheeks, and his half-white hair and cloudy eyes revealed his helplessness in life.

Liu Lai Fu's eyes darkened, and when he looked at Mei Xiang and the others who had hardly changed compared to before, he couldn't help but feel a pang of pain in his heart. If the second sister had not pushed the eldest sister down, causing her to have a high fever, would their lives be completely different from now?

But how can there be so many ifs in life?

"Don't worry about this, I'll figure it out myself."

Hearing that they didn't need to worry, Li, who had been hiding in the inner room, quickly popped her head out and asked a series of questions: "Where did you get the money? How much is it? Take it out quickly!"

If Meixiang and others were here now, they would definitely not recognize that the woman in front of them with messy hair like a chicken coop and greasy face was the Liu Li who had to change clothes every time she went out.

"No, no money."

"If you have no money, will the academy agree to let you study?" Li's face was full of suspicion.

Liu Laifu directly stated the reason after careful consideration: "On my way back from setting up the stall, I happened to meet an auntie in need, so I helped her. She knew I wanted to find someone to write a recommendation letter, so she agreed to let me give it a try."

"What difficulties did that lady encounter? Tell me the truth."

"Mom," he called out helplessly. Seeing that his mother was not going to give up until she got a satisfactory answer, he had no choice but to continue, "The cart for selling vegetables broke down on the way, so I sent her back home."

"Later, I helped her read her son's letters and replied to them."

"How could a woman selling vegetables know a gentleman from the academy?"

"lady?"

"Shut up, I'm not asking you! Fu'er, keep talking."

After pressing his heart that was aching, Liu Laifu continued to answer Li's question: "She usually goes to the academy to deliver food, and occasionally helps out and cooks a few dishes when the kitchen is too busy. As time goes by, she has become friends with the masters there."

"I felt sorry for my son because he had nowhere else to go, so I just bit the bullet and tried to help him."

Li rolled her eyes and looked him up and down several times. Seeing that he really didn't look like he was lying, she half-believingly let go of the topic.

"Did you earn any money today?"

Liu Laifu shook his head. In the past, he could give her all the copper coins he earned every day, but now he has to go to the academy and has many other places to spend money, so...

Li wanted to say something else, but she accidentally met her son's eyes. There was a mixture of pleading, hope, indifference, etc. in his eyes, which immediately made her lose the courage to ask further.

"Alas!" Li sighed, turned around and went back into the inner room, "You old man, why don't you come in and help me? I've had enough of this kind of life!"

"I blamed you at first, saying that your cousin had arranged everything and was going to make us rich, but what happened?"

"Now you know that farting is edible, but when you came, weren't you also very active and fierce? Why didn't you fart when you had to? Now you blame me? Who am I doing this for? Myself?"

......

The drama that must be performed every day begins again.

Liu Lai Fu felt his heart aching more and more. He stood there for a long time before walking towards his room.

This was a room where groceries were stored. Pots, shovels and other sundries covered with flour and oil took up most of the room. A wooden board that was just big enough for his body was where he slept.

Two pieces of clothing folded beside his pillow and the backpack he used to make a living were all his belongings.

He did not blame his parents. In fact, compared to his second sister Liu Meihua, he was lucky. At least he had clothes to wear, food to eat, and he could buy a book to read every few months.

Thinking back to when life was better, his parents were decent people, but real life has turned them into what they are now.

Thinking of this, Liu Lai Fu's eyes suddenly became clear and firm.

He must seize this rare opportunity. Perhaps this is his only chance to change his destiny and escape from his current situation.

Sure enough, when he went to get his backpack the next day, he found traces of it being turned over. He couldn't help but secretly feel lucky that he didn't take the cloth bag Meixiang gave him home.

"Young man," Liu Lai Fu carefully confirmed again and again that Li did not follow him, and then he trotted all the way to the gate of the Princess's Mansion. Xiao Shi was in charge of guarding the gate today.

"Hey, you're here, sir. Have you had breakfast?" Xiao Shi took out a cloth bag from the cabinet in the inner room with a smile and handed it to Liu Laifu, "Sir, check if there is anything missing."

"No, no, I trust you, brother."

"You can't say that. It's better for you to check it in person."

Seeing that Xiao Shi insisted, Liu Lai Fu had no choice but to open the cloth bag in front of him. The visiting card and the silver bills were firmly inside, without even the wrinkles of the clothes moving.

Sure enough, his decision was correct. There was no place safer than here in the entire capital.

Before returning home yesterday, Liu Laifu hesitated for a long time while holding the cloth bag, and finally decided to temporarily store it in the Princess's Mansion. He simply explained his purpose to Xiao Shi who was on duty, and the other party agreed without hesitation.

"Yes, that's right, thank you very much, little brother!"

"You're welcome, sir," Xiao Shi waved his hands repeatedly. He saw Brother Chen San bring this young master to the young lady the day before yesterday. He remembered that he called the young lady "elder sister" and asked hurriedly, "Does the young master want to see the young lady? I'll go and inform her?"

"Don't bother the princess. I'll take my leave now." He took a few steps back, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed three times towards the door.

Regardless of whether his exam trip goes smoothly or not, he will remember the favor from the princess!

When Meixiang found out, she smiled and put it aside. This was all she could do for Liu Laifu.

Later, it was heard that Xiao Nuo reported that the dean of Qingfeng Academy, for Situ Yidong's sake, personally met with Liu Lai Fu that day, and on a whim, gave him a test on the spot.

Unexpectedly, Liu Laifu's answer caught the dean's eye. After learning about his family situation, he not only kept him, but also arranged for him to help in the library of the academy to offset his board and lodging expenses in the academy.

After hearing about this, the beautiful woman thought about it and sent Chen San to deliver a set of four treasures of the study to him, and also paid his subsequent tuition on his behalf to encourage him to study hard in the academy.

In the spring examination of the twenty-seventh year of Haoyue, Liu Laifu achieved a good result of 16th place in his first attempt and was officially admitted as the president of Qingfeng Academy. This is a story for later.

After the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival came. Gradually settling down, the people from the Liu Mansion began to walk out of the gate of the Princess's Mansion and officially integrated into the life of the capital.

Although Sun Yu has focused on training and recruiting some pattern designers responsible for customization and ready-to-wear clothing in the past one or two years, Mei Xiang, as one of the shareholders, still draws a few patterns herself every season as a reference.

So as the weather warmed up, the design of the new season was put on the agenda, and Meixiang went out more and more often.

Sometimes she would take Xiao San and Liu Xiaomei alone, and sometimes she would bring the beautiful lady, Madam Feng, and everyone else from the Liu Mansion along to go for a walk.

It was from that time that Xiao Shiba's occasional use of the word "mother" once again caught the ears of those who paid close attention.

After Meixiang came back from Feng Mansion that day, Chen Da came to see her.

"Miss," Chen Da now took over the guarding work of the Princess's Mansion, "I have noticed that more and more people are watching our mansion recently."

"Do you know who they are? What is their purpose?" Meixiang stopped writing and looked up to ask.

Chen Da shook his head. "It's not clear yet. We haven't had any conflicts with anyone recently."

"Tell the people in the mansion to pay more attention and report any situation immediately."