After I got into the drama, I led the plot astray

At this moment, I suddenly saw an unprecedented determination and yearning for the future on Jinping's face. My heart skipped a beat. Could it be that this kid had realized something?

It seems that there is no time to delay sending him to school.

So I asked Ankang: "When will your master be at home?"

Ankang said, "I don't know. The master has been very busy recently. I can hardly see him during the day. I stay in the chrysanthemum garden at night. I don't know when the master will return home."

I watched the sun in the distance slowly setting into the west, and it was getting dark.

I said to Ankang, "Go to the front yard and ask your master when he will be back home. I want to talk to him about something."

"Yes, young master." After hearing this, Ankang quickly stood up and ran away.

I said "Oh", but before I could tell him not to be so anxious, the person had already disappeared.

Jinping bit into the osmanthus cake and asked, "What do you want to do with Gongsun Dacong?"

Yiping also looked at me curiously.

I said, "The entrance exam is coming up soon, and I would like to ask him to be your mentor."

Jinping opened his mouth wide, and the osmanthus cake in his mouth fell down.

Yiping couldn't help but close Jinping's mouth and said, "It's so disgusting. A grown man like you can still leak food while eating."

Jinping quickly swallowed the osmanthus cake in his mouth, choking him so much that he stretched his neck.

After swallowing the sweet-scented osmanthus cake with great difficulty, Jinping patted his chest and said, "Lord Gongsun is the most learned person in our Dayu Kingdom, and he is also the prince's tutor. I want to ask him to be my enlightenment teacher. Isn't this just wishful thinking?"

I rolled my eyes at him and said, "You should have some ambition, okay? Besides, your foundation is not good. If I don't hire a first-class teacher to teach you, I'm really afraid that you won't pass the exam."

Jinping pursed his lips and said nothing, seeming to be struggling.

After a long while, he said, "It would be great if I could ask Master Gongsun to be my first teacher, but if I don't get good grades in the exams, wouldn't that be a disgrace to him?"

I patted Jinping's chest and said, "Good boy, you are finally ambitious. If you are still worried about not doing well in the exam, then you have to work harder and repay Mr. Gongsun. There is nothing in this world that cannot be done. It just depends on whether you work hard enough."

Jinping threw the osmanthus cake on the plate, stood up, pointed to the sky and said, "I will definitely work hard!"

Yiping and I looked at each other. Yiping curled his lips and said, "Fool."

After Yiping finished speaking, he stood up, patted his butt, and turned into the house.

Jinping looked at Yiping's back and shouted, "I'm not stupid. I, Zhao Jinping, will become a learned man in the future."

Yi Ping's back paused, but he still walked away without stopping.

Seeing Yiping's somewhat lonely back, I wonder what this little girl is sad about.

I also stood up, and like Yiping, I brushed the dust off my butt, then ran after Yiping.

As soon as I walked into the room, I saw Yiping sitting at the round table, holding a sewing basket, ready to thread the needle and sew the soles of shoes.

Yiping is very good at needlework. The stitches on the soles she sews are neat and strong. The shoes she makes are soft, comfortable and very durable.

This little girl is smart, lively and hardworking. I wonder who will be lucky enough to marry her in the future.

I walked in and sat next to Yiping to help her with her needlework.

After a while, I said, "Are you worried about something? You used to be all jumping around and chattering, but since your grandmother passed away, you hardly even talk."

Yiping glanced at me, picked up the needle, scratched his hair, and then carefully started to sew the sole of the shoe.

I saw that she didn't say anything and I didn't know what to say, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.

After a while, Yi Ping slowly said, "What was your original world like? Do you still have parents? Do you have brothers and sisters?"

Seeing Yiping finally respond to me, I was delighted and said quickly, "My world is amazing. There are cars, trains, and planes, so it's very convenient to go anywhere. The Internet is also very developed, so you can send messages, make phone calls, and use online video. A lot of important work can be done on the computer. As for my family, it's very simple. It's just my parents and me. I don't have any brothers or sisters."

Yiping paused for a moment, and stopped moving her hands. She didn't understand what I was talking about, and she thought it was pointless to ask, so she asked, "You don't have any brothers or sisters, or cousins? What about other relatives?"

After Yiping asked me this, I really couldn’t remember any relatives I had.

I thought hard, and as far as I can remember, I have never visited relatives, or even classmates' homes. The people I met most often were my parents' colleagues, because apart from going to school, they always wanted to keep me under their eyes.

According to them, they were afraid that something might happen to me again and they would not be able to bear the blow of losing me.

At that time I didn’t think it was strange. I thought my parents loved me too much, so they were so worried about me. But now I think about it, it’s really not right.

Seeing that I was stunned, Yiping couldn't help but ask carefully: "Don't you have any other relatives in that world?"

I quickly shook my head and said, "To be honest, I really don't know what kind of relatives I have, because my parents have never taken me to visit relatives."

Now it was Yi Ping's turn to be stunned. After a long while, he said, "You don't even have relatives. Aren't you lonely?"

Are you lonely?

I don’t really think so.

Because there are many only children around me, I thought it was normal to have only one child in the family.

But I am not lonely, because when I grow up, I have many secrets that I don't want to tell my parents, such as which boy I like and which boy likes me. At this time, I long for an older sister or younger sister to share secrets with me, but unfortunately I don't have one.

So I felt it was quite contradictory and didn’t know how to answer it for a moment.

Yi Ping sighed and said, "Although my eldest brother and I quarrel on weekdays, we always protect each other when something happens. As long as I know that he is safe and sound, I will feel at ease. This is the so-called brother-sister relationship. You don't even have brothers and sisters, so naturally you can't experience this kind of emotion. I'm afraid you will dislike us in the future and think we are a burden."

It turns out that the little girl is worried about this.

I quickly held her hand and said, "My dear little sister, I know that your grandmother's passing is a big blow to you, but as long as I am your second sister, I will always be your second sister, and I will never despise you. Think about it, your grandfather was willing to stay here, wasn't it because he had feelings for this place? I already treat you and your eldest brother as my own siblings. I have feelings for you, so I will naturally treat you well and I don't want to leave."

When Yiping heard this, he threw the needle, thread and shoe soles in his hands into the sewing basket, hugged me tightly and burst into tears.

She cried so sadly and uncontrollably. Only then did I understand how afraid she was of losing me after losing her grandmother!

This family has been broken apart. If I don't want them anymore, she will feel that the whole world has collapsed and there is no meaning in living.