I am cannon fodder, but I can hug thighs

Lin Jin had never made tea before, and Song Shixia seldom did it herself due to health reasons, but she thought it was quite interesting. She learned how to make tea step by step as the master taught her, with Xi Lilong beside her giving her some advice from time to time. Although her movements were a little clumsy, she was able to follow along.

Lin Jin gave Xi Lilong a cup of tea. Xi Lilong took a sip and drank it silently. Then he gave Lin Jin another cup of his own tea and looked at Lin Jin's expression that was asking for praise: "Taste it yourself and see the difference. Don't waste good tea."

Lin Jin actually thought that the one he fried was pretty good, so he tried Xi Lilong’s.

Well, there is no difference.

"It tastes great." Lin Jin smiled.

Xi Lilong knew from Lin Jin's expression that she didn't taste any difference. She still couldn't maintain her image. She rolled her eyes and said, "People like you should not taste other people's tea. If you can't taste it, don't try to praise it. You will end up with something worse than what you have."

Otherwise, I don’t know how many people I will offend.

Lin Jin nodded hurriedly: "Okay, thank you sister for reminding me."

She really had no way of doing this. Skills like horse riding and archery could be developed, but wine and tea tasting required either natural innate talent or the accumulation of experience, and she happened to have neither of those skills at the moment.

"I'm just afraid that you'll be embarrassed if people know that you're sitting next to me, and I'll be embarrassed too." Xi Lilong didn't want to respond, let alone have anything to do with Lin Jin. The most she wanted to give Lin Jin guidance was that she didn't want to see him waste his talent.

"Yeah, I know my sister is a good person. No one here is willing to take care of me except you." Lin Jin held her face with both hands, making a flower shape, "If it weren't for my sister, I don't know how much suffering I would have endured."

This Lin Jin really did not speak against his conscience. Xi Lilong said that he did not want to be embarrassed again, but Xi Lilong was the only one in the entire academy who was willing to pay attention to him. Xi Lilong even supported him yesterday.

So handsome!

If she hadn't met Song Shixia first, her heart would have been stolen away by Xi Lilong.

One is gentle and intimate like a beautiful camellia, the other is heroic and brave like a thorny rose. The first and second are evenly matched, and she is simply dying of love for them.

Xi Lilong just sipped tea and didn't say anything. She was afraid that if she talked too much to Lin Liu, she would become as stupid as Lin Liu.

Brewing tea is not like giving a lecture. It is like a master leading you to the door, but the practice depends on one's own efforts. After all, the grinding of tea cakes, the temperature and the salt adjustment will all affect the taste of the brewed tea, and all these depend on one's own understanding. No one else can help at all.

Lin Jin experienced what it was like for the ancients to take self-study classes. In modern self-study classes, you can at least slack off. These so-called self-study classes should be called practical classes.

Seeing that Lin Jin couldn't tell the quality of tea, Xi Lilong gave Lin Jin the tea that other people in the lecture hall had passed to her, and only kept the cup that Princess Jing'an had passed to her: "Everyone uses the same tea leaves and water. Taste it yourself, taste it carefully. Once you can taste the difference, you can barely be considered an entry-level teat."

Lin Jin thanked Xi Lilong. In the lecture hall, except Xi Lilong and Princess Jing'an, no one was willing to share the tea they brewed with her. Although she didn't feel disappointed, she still felt a little distressed. After all, how could one tell the good from the bad without tasting it?

She had no knowledge of tea to begin with, and if she didn't drink more, she really wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

Xi Lilong was a talented woman and the daughter of the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple. No matter her talent or family background, there were people willing to curry favor with her. Naturally, she got the most tea. Princess Jing'an and her people also wanted to share, but Princess Jing'an only wanted Xi Lilong's.

Just by learning how to make tea, Lin Jin understood all the ways of the world. If you want these people to be willing to make friends with you, you either have status or talent. The law of survival of the fittest applies no matter what era.

But there is one difference here. They will not look at you differently just because you have a good relationship with someone. You cannot gain the respect of these people by sucking up to them, no matter how favored you are.

After all, no matter how lovable a bird in a cage is, it is just an animal. Sooner or later, it will get tired of it. It won't offend you actively, but it won't take you seriously either.

Lin Jin felt that this was good. She clung to Song Shiqiu to survive, not to make these people bow down to her for the sake of her own success. Survival was the basic requirement. As for respect, she could get it with her own abilities. Even if she couldn't do it now, it didn't mean she couldn't do it in the future. She could always get A's in school even when she didn't have any resources before, not to mention now that she had the resources provided by Song Shiqiu.

It is a piece of cake to learn. As for the tasting of tea and wine, she can also learn it slowly. At most, she will learn slowly and may make some jokes occasionally.

"You are very different today." Xi Lilong suddenly spoke, but he didn't look at anyone else, as if he was talking to himself.

Lin Jin knew that Xi Lilong was talking about her: "Sister, what are you talking about? What's the difference?"

"Although you are very smart and have a talent for studying, you were lazy and didn't care about learning in the past two days. But today, you are particularly serious. Why is that?" Xi Lilong didn't understand why Lin Jin had fundamentally changed overnight. It couldn't be that he woke up after falling into the water.

Lin Jin thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's because I don't want to make Sister Shi Xia worry. Sister Shi Xia cares about me so much, I can't let Sister Shi Xia down."

No way, she wants to improve the heroine's favorability.

Although the heroine in the book is kind, the people who can appear by her side and gain her trust are either servants who are already loyal to Lin Lin, or strategists with extremely high martial arts skills or smart and intelligent wit. In any case, they are not useless.

The method of clinging to someone's thighs works on Song Shiqiu, who has not yet completely turned into a villain, and on Song Shixia. But it doesn't work on the heroine, because the heroine will not trust anyone just because she feels pity for him.

She is the sister that the original Lin Lin hated since childhood. The heroine will definitely know this after absorbing all the memories. She simply cannot play the emotional card, so she can only become the latter.

With her current knowledge reserves, she can only survive in Guda, and she may even die if she makes some common sense mistakes accidentally. If she wants to reach a level that can catch the heroine's eye, she can only absorb knowledge madly and treat herself as a sponge, absorbing as much as she can to strengthen herself.

"He's quite grateful." Xi Lilong commented.

In the pavilion in the distance, the prince handed the peep show to Su Chengan: "This Lin Liu is quite interesting."

Su Chengan looked at Lin Jin in the classroom through a peep show and frowned, "Is this Lin Liu? He doesn't look special, just ordinary. Apart from being playful, there's nothing special about him."

"Nothing extraordinary? The capital is not near the sea, and it is not near water. She is also a girl from the Shangshu Mansion, why can she swim, and even go into the water to save people? The fact that she can swim looks ordinary, but it is not ordinary at all." The prince disagreed, and instead felt that there was something hidden in Lin Liu. "Someone who can be praised by our Prime Minister is definitely not ordinary."

When Su Chengan heard this, he wanted to use a peep show to look at Lin Jin again: "It's useless even if Your Highness the Crown Prince is interested in this Miss Lin Liu. You won't make her the Crown Princess, and Song Shiqiu won't let her be a concubine. Don't even think about it."

The prince snatched the peep show from Su Chengan's hand and said, "Su Chengan, can you stop thinking about war and romance? It's your fate to be outshined by the prime minister in every way."

Su Chengan shrugged: "There is no use for me at the border now, and I don't know any political tactics. If I don't think about these things, what else can I think about? Use me in the war and use him to govern the country. It's fair."

The prince wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it and just sighed.

As expected, he felt more comfortable talking to Song Shiqiu.