allonlinenovel Chapter 174 Try my food
Chapter 174 Try my food
Xue Li felt annoyed when he saw Li Zhengxue like this. "I don't like you the most. If you are really noble, don't eat or drink. Have you forgotten clearly why you borrowed the two taels of silver from me? What do you mean you don't want money? There are many female merchants in our dynasty, and there are even imperial merchants. How can it be a disgrace to the family? If I were to say, Li Zhengde's sister is called, oh, yes, Li Mingxia. She is a capable person who started from scratch. To be able to achieve this, let alone an ordinary man, even a man with some ability may not be able to do it. How dare you look down on her?"
Actually, Xue Li didn't just speak for Li Mingxia. The reason he said this was that it was his mother who took care of these matters at home. His father was an idle person on weekdays. He basically didn't care about matters at home or outside, business, or his studies. It can be said that Xue Li's mother and Li Mingxia are similar, so when Xue Li heard Li Zhengxue say this, he felt unhappy and retorted.
"If you ask me, you'd better build a good relationship with your younger brother and your sister Li Mingxia. Don't think that you can look down on others just because you have studied for a few years. Not to mention that you have no honor now. Even if you become a juren and an official, does that mean you don't need food and drink or money?" Xue Li glanced at Li Zhengde, then at the food box on the ground, and was hesitant to speak.
Others may not know him, but he knows Master Cao. If he only cares about money, he can enter this intermediate class right after he arrives. If Li Zhengde does not have real talent and knowledge, Master Cao will never let him enter this class. If we talk about scholars, Li Zhengde is not a scholar? I don't know why this Li Zhengxue is pretending to be noble here?
However, after all, thinking that he was his classmate and friend, whom he had known for a long time, Xue Li was unwilling to say anything too harsh.
"You don't have to worry about these things!" Li Zhengxue was no longer in a good mood, and his eyes became more and more resentful when he looked at Li Zhengde.
Xue Li had said all he wanted to say and did not plan to continue discussing this matter with Li Zhengxue. He was just a friend, and a friend he could not read her expressions and did not know what he could and could not do. Xue Li did not want to bother with such a person once he left Baima Academy.
"Brother Zhengxue, how about this? You introduce Li Mingxia to me. I will give you a red envelope as a thank you. How do you think?"
After hearing this, Li Zhengxue wanted to refuse immediately, but suddenly he remembered a light blue straight-collared gown he saw in a clothing store a few days ago. He looked so handsome on himself that the owner of the clothing store was stunned. He kept saying that no one was worthy of wearing this straight-collared gown except him, Li Zhengxue. Li Zhengxue did not respond at that time, but it did not mean that he disagreed with what the owner said. He, Li Zhengxue, should wear those clothes.
As soon as Xue Li saw Li Zhengxue's expression, he knew that he must be tempted by his red envelope. Thinking of what he had just said, he could hardly hide the disdain in his eyes.
It is really the behavior of a mean person who says one thing and does another, which is disgusting and despicable.
Sure enough, after a moment, Li Zhengxue nodded and agreed to this matter. He agreed to it, and Xue Li would not say anything. But Li Zhengxue had to pretend to be helpless and not doing it for the money.
"But let's get this straight. I'm not helping you for money, but for the friendship between us as classmates. If you think I'm doing this for the sake of that little bit of money, I won't agree."
Xue Li’s eyes were about to roll up to the sky, but he still endured it for the moment.
"Yes, yes, that's natural. Others may not know what kind of character our senior brother Zheng is, but don't I know it? It must be out of friendship. Don't mention any yellow or white things. It's simply an insult to our senior brother Zheng!" Xue Li was merciless when he scolded people, but if he wanted to make people happy, it was easy for him.
Li Zhengxue no longer felt unhappy about what Xue Li said just now, and now he looked at Xue Li as pleasingly as before.
But Li Zhengxue is a person who doesn't know when to advance or retreat. Once he gets happy or proud, he wants to preach.
"Although I don't know why you met Li Mingxia, but I'm telling you, stay away from this Li Mingxia. She's not a girl from a good family. You're my good friend, and I don't want others to talk about you behind your back, understand?"
Xue Li wanted to slap him right now, but thinking that he didn't know Li Zhengde and could only start with Li Zhengxue, Xue Li could only swallow his anger and agreed perfunctorily.
"Yes, yes, yes. I know that Brother Zhengxue is doing this for my own good. I am grateful in my heart."
In the blink of an eye, it was already noon. Master Cao said that after the get out of class, the students who had been hungry for the whole morning got up and either went to the academy's classroom to eat or took their own lunch boxes to prepare to eat.
Li Zhengde was no exception. He stood up, took his lunch box and went to his seat to prepare to eat.
"Brother Zhengde, did you also bring a lunch box from home?" Song Li said with a smile, looking at his seatmate whom he had just met.
He really liked Li Zhengde, a diligent student like him. During the conversation, he also discovered that Li Zhengde was a very talented person and had long wanted to make friends with him.
Li Zhengde had a good impression of Song Li, so he nodded and said with a smile, "My sister at home was worried that I wouldn't have enough to eat, so she brought me some food."
Song Li chuckled and lowered his voice and said, "It's because the food in the academy is unpalatable, otherwise why would my family go to such trouble?"
Li Zhengde glanced at Song Li and laughed too. Such frank words could easily bring two people closer together. It must be said that Song Li was very sociable.
"It's a bit unpalatable indeed. My sister brought me a lunch box because she was afraid that I wouldn't be full and couldn't concentrate on my studies."
After hearing this, Song Li took a look at the opened food box and saw that the first layer contained braised pork ribs.
"Your sister is so nice to you." Song Li said sincerely.
Open the food boxes layer by layer, and because the insulation is so good, the aroma spreads out almost instantly.
Song Li swallowed involuntarily as he looked at the four dishes, one soup, and the glistening salted duck eggs placed in front of Li Zhengde.
Song Li pushed his meal towards Li Zhengde. There were six dishes, no soup, and all of them were relatively delicate meat dishes.
"Brother Zhengde, try the food in my house and see if it suits your taste."