I was favored by the evil god, and I became a white-bone bodhisattva.

"Sister Li--"

Suddenly, she heard the little girl's voice.

"Go home quickly and ask your parents to come over!"

Hope ignited in Li Qiaoyun's heart, but for some reason the little girl turned a deaf ear to her. She ran towards this side breathlessly with a small wooden stick in her hand.

"Don't come over here, don't come over here—"

The evil laughter echoing in Li Qiaoyun's ears became more and more shrill, as if it was mocking the little girl for being a fool.

"oops"

Tangtang ran too fast and accidentally tripped over a rock.

The wooden fish stick flew out of his hand and flew straight towards the wildly shaking swing.

With a bang, Li Qiaoyun's ears suddenly became quiet.

"..."

"........"

The girl patted her pants, walked up to the girl, and took the rope away from her hands.

"It's fine"

Tangtang said with a smile: "It, it also made fun of Tangtang, Tangtang, it's really awesome, hehe."

Tangtang, so your name is Tangtang.

"Thank you!"

Li Qiaoyun hugged the little girl excitedly: "You saved my life, how can I repay you?"

Chapter 004 I don’t know about Jin

The little girl has always been helpful and she doesn't need any reward.

Besides, Li Qiaoyun not only pulled Tangtang out of the river, but also provided her with shelter from the wind and rain. She had already helped the little girl a lot.

"You're welcome. This is what Tangtang should do!" The little girl spoke more fluently.

Li Qiaoyun calmed down a little at this time. She let go of the little girl and asked in surprise, "Tangtang, why did I get saved when your little wooden stick flew? Do you know any Miao magic?"

Although the Miao people don’t know magic, the little girl is indeed a practitioner.

She did not hide anything and told Li Qiaoyun the truth.

"Practitioner? Anyway, Tangtang, you know magic, right?"

Seeing the little girl nod, Li Qiaoyun said worriedly, "Tangtang, you can't let the villagers know that you know magic, otherwise they will definitely take you to see the officials."

Eh?

"I don't know about Miaojiang, but here, knowing magic is not a good thing. The government loves to arrest people like you."

Well, Tangtang is not from Miao, but from Wu.

and......

"Why did the government arrest us?"

"My brother said that if there are too many people who know magic, the country will be in chaos. For the sake of national stability, we have to arrest you."

Seeing the little girl's frustrated look, Li Qiaoyun quickly comforted her: "I used to think what you said made sense, but now I don't think so. The more practitioners like you, Tangtang, the better!"

As she spoke, Li Qiaoyun's eyes lit up. She knew how to repay Tangtang.

"Tangtang, I can see that you really like learning things, so do you want to learn to read and write?"

"miss you!"

Without any hesitation, the little girl nodded.

She has no idea about her situation now, but if she could read, many of her questions could be answered through books.

.....

The academy does not accept female students, and Li Qiaoyun does not have the money to send the little girl to study in the academy.

Her idea was to let her brother, who was studying hard in the county town, teach Tangtang how to read.

"No, no, no"

The little girl said worriedly, "If your brother finds out that Tangtang knows magic, he will definitely report it to the police and have someone arrest Tangtang."

This is indeed something that is very likely to happen, but the premise is that he doesn’t know that Tangtang saved him!

"Don't worry, Tangtang. I know my brother well."

Li Qiaoyun said seriously: "As long as he knows that you are my savior, he will definitely try to protect you."

Really, really?

"Believe me, I will only do this if I am sure of it. I won't harm you."

Seeing Li Qiaoyun's serious expression, the little girl couldn't help but nodded.

"Okay! It's decided. We'll go to bed early today and get up in the middle of the night to quietly head to the county town."

Li Qiaoyun is a man of action.

The two of them sneaked out of the village in the middle of the night, and with the help of the little paper horse, they arrived outside the county town at daybreak.

Then Tangtang put away the paper horse and followed Li Qiaoyun to an old, dilapidated and small wooden house.

thump thump——

"Who?"

As soon as the door opened, there was a response from inside. Li Qiaoyun's brother always got up at this time to study.

"It's me, Qiao Yun."

The door opened quickly, and Li Xingwen looked at his sister and Tangtang in surprise.

Without waiting for the young man to say anything, Li Qiaoyun pulled the little girl in and said, "We are so thirsty. Brother, pour us some water first."

.....

After drinking some water to moisten her throat, Li Qiaoyun told her brother the purpose of the trip in detail.

"..."

The more Li Xingwen listened, the tighter his brows furrowed, until in the end their frowns were twisted into the shape of a Chinese character "川".

"Are you from Miaojiang?" He turned and looked at Tangtang and asked.

"Tangtang comes from Wu State"

Wu State?

"There is only the Jin Dynasty in the world today, where does the Wu Kingdom come from?"

Well, Tangtang has been traveling for so long, but she has never heard of Dajin.

Seeing that the little girl didn't say anything, Li Xingwen asked again: "Do you know evil magic?"

"I don't know any evil magic, I only know decent magic."

The girl's origins were unknown and she knew magic, so Li Xingwen just wanted to stay away from her.

but......

"Brother, Tangtang saved my life. She is not a bad person."

Faced with his sister's pleading eyes, Li Xingwen was completely overwhelmed.

"Brother, you said that I would repay your kindness with gratitude. Now that Tangtang wants to learn to read, I have no choice but to come to you."

"Why do you want to learn to read?" Li Xingwen asked the little girl again.

"If you can read, you can read. Tangtang wants to know about this place."

"What happens after you understand?"

After understanding the situation, Tangtang decided to find a way to return to Shang State as soon as possible.

In this way, Sister Maru won’t be so anxious and worried about not being able to find Tangtang.

"suck--"

Seeing the little girl start to sniff, Li Xingwen suddenly had a bad feeling.

"Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow..."

Hey, why are you crying?

I, I didn’t bully you.

"Brother, you can't do this. You are a scholar, how can you bully a child?"

I didn't, I didn't!

"Sugar, suck it, for a month."

Ok?

"Teach for a month, Tangtang, and then you can leave, okay? Tangtang, no, I won't trouble you."

Under the little girl's crying and her sister's silent gaze, Li Xingwen finally wavered.

After some hesitation, he said helplessly: "Even if you say so, I can only spare one, no, at most half an hour a day to teach you."

"It's ok"

The little girl quickly wiped away her tears: "Tangtang will work hard, thank you for helping Tangtang!"

.....

Li Xingwen let Tangtang rest in the house for a while, then quickly took his sister home.

As soon as they got home, as expected, her father roared that he would break Li Qiaoyun's legs.

Li Xingwen persuaded again and again before the punishment was changed to house arrest for half a month.

"A woman's virtue lies in her lack of talent. Moreover, she is a Miao girl. What is the point of her learning to read?"

Since the brother and sister did not mention that Tangtang knew magic, the man could not help but look at his son in confusion, wondering why he let his sister act so foolishly.

“As the saying goes, reviewing the past will help you learn new things.”

Li Xingwen shook his head and said, "What this means is that when you teach others to read, you will also gain new knowledge yourself."

"She can help you read?" The father's eyes lit up: "Then you should go back and teach her as much as possible. Teach her how to read."

"Yes"

Li Xingwen smiled bitterly, gulped down a few gulps of water, and then rushed back to the county town without stopping.

The trip back and forth had already wasted a lot of time and I was exhausted.

But he is Li Xingwen, the man who carries the hopes of his entire family, and he must not abandon his studies!

The young man swallowed a few bites of the cold steamed bread with pickles and began to, well, according to the agreement, he had to take half an hour to teach the little girl to read.

"come here"

Li Xingwen waved at the little girl and said, "I will start teaching you from the Hundred Family Surnames. You should learn to write your own name first."

"Oh!"

Chapter 005 The Number One Talent

Half an hour later, Li Xingwen asked Tangtang to study the Hundred Family Surnames while he himself buried his head in studying hard.

There is still some time before the sun sets, so he dare not be lazy at all.

Crunch -

Li Xingwen, who was engrossed in reading, was awakened by the sound of the door being pushed open. He turned around and found that it was the little girl who walked out of the room.

If you don't learn to read well, where are you going all of a sudden?

The scholar stood up a little irritably, and then a look of doubt appeared on his face.

He hesitated for a moment, and did not choose to lean out of the window to call Tangtang. Instead, he quietly walked out the door and followed her.