Chapter 182 Mission 016

Xiao Ying respectfully handed the teacup to Mr. Li, who took it with a smile and drank it, completing the apprenticeship ceremony.

Then Mr. Li said: "Since your name is Qingyun, you must be ambitious in the officialdom. I will give you the name Shenzhi, hoping that you can think twice before doing anything."

Xiao Ying nodded: "Student understands, thank you for your guidance." However, he was destined to live up to the name "Shenzhi" which obviously meant that he should keep a low profile, because he did not want to stay here for decades, and planned to complete the original owner Shao Qingyun's wish mission within ten years, so keeping a low profile was not an option.

At this time, Jiang Li walked in from outside and said with a smile: "Why didn't you tell me that you were accepting a disciple? I can come to watch the ceremony and be a witness!"

It was really sudden that Mr. Li said that he wanted to accept Xiao Ying as a disciple today. Jiang Li just got the news and hurried over.

Mr. Li said calmly, "What does my accepting of a disciple have to do with you, kid?"

Jiang Li touched his nose, "You can't say that. Brother Shao and I have a life-long friendship. You accept Brother Shao as your disciple, so I have to come and congratulate you!" He looked at Xiao Ying, "Congratulations, Brother Shao. Although old man Li has a strange temper, his knowledge is very good."

Mr. Li was so angry that he blew his beard and glared.

Xiao Ying smiled slightly, "I think the teacher has a good temper and cares about me." He said it sincerely, not like he said it to please Mr. Li, which made Mr. Li feel very comfortable.

After becoming a disciple, Xiao Ying's study room had no restrictions on Mr. Li. Although Xiao Ying would not restrict him from entering the study room in order to improve his favorability with Mr. Li before, Mr. Li was a well-educated person after all. How could he enter someone else's study room casually? Now it's different. Isn't it possible for him, the teacher, to enter and exit his own disciple's study room at will?

Mr. Li walked around Xiao Ying's small study room, picked up a few books and read them, feeling very satisfied. Although there were few books in the study room, which was completely incomparable to his own study room, many of the books here were handwritten by his students. Even the books he bought had many small notes on them. It was obvious that his new student was very hardworking.

Mr. Li went to see Xiao Ying's paintings and poems again, and was even more satisfied. Both the paintings and poems were very spiritual. This was talent. It was not enough to have talent without hard work, but it was useless to have hard work without talent.

His new student was not only talented but also very hardworking. Mr. Li felt that his trip to Qingyang County was not in vain.

Mr. Li was satisfied with Xiao Ying, which was reflected in his stricter requirements for Xiao Ying.

The next spring will be the Spring Examination. Mr. Li will focus on the Imperial Examination when teaching students. As for the secondary courses such as music, chess, calligraphy and painting, which are used to cultivate students' sentiments, they will be discussed after students pass the imperial examination and become officials.

Xiao Ying originally wanted to become a disciple for the connections behind the teacher, but after he succeeded in becoming a disciple, he found that it was really different to have a teacher to teach you and not have a teacher to teach you.

When he took the provincial examination before, Xiao Ying relied on his solid knowledge and some "exam precautions" he bought on the market and the experience told by other scholars who had taken the provincial examination to prepare for the examination.

But when he took the examination, no one else would tell him the experience. The precautions for the examination that can be bought on the market are also the most basic things. As a poor boy, he has no way of knowing the deeper things that need to be paid attention to. He can only rely on his own ability and luck.

Now that Mr. Li, a teacher, has openly told Xiao Ying about his own experience in the imperial examination and the experience of other people he knows, Xiao Ying has benefited a lot. It can be said that his chances of passing the imperial examination have greatly increased.

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Just as Xiao Ying was receiving pre-exam training from Mr. Li and getting along well with Jiang Li, the heroine Su Ling, who had not made any noise for a long time, came out to show her presence.

She gave birth prematurely!

There is a saying that if a woman gives birth prematurely at eight months, she will survive seven out of eight. The possibility of a child surviving if the woman gives birth prematurely at seven months is greater than that of a child born prematurely at eight months. Xiao Ying was not very clear about this, but he also knew that premature birth was a very dangerous thing.

Probably because he had experienced the world of house fighting, Xiao Ying subconsciously thought of all kinds of secrets in the backyard when he heard the news of Su Ling's premature birth.

However, he still went to the delivery room to see the situation first, and he had to save the lives of both mother and daughter.

Such things in the backyard, whether it was Mr. Li or Jiang Li Shao's father, had to avoid suspicion, so when Xiao Ying came to the delivery room, she only saw Shao's mother and Wang Nianyun with people guarding outside, while Su Ling's almost distorted screams of pain and the voice of the invited midwife came from the delivery room.

Xiao Ying didn't care about much, and his spiritual consciousness spread into the delivery room, quickly checking the situation inside clearly. Fortunately, things were not too bad. Su Ling and the child in her belly were still alive and breathing vigorously, and they were not in danger of life for the time being.

Su Ling and her daughter were not in danger of life, and Xiao Ying was in the mood to ask: "What happened, why did Su Ling give birth prematurely?"

Shao's mother and Wang Nianyun shook their heads and didn't know. Shao's mother said: "She has been very well behaved recently, and I didn't watch her too closely. I don't know why she suddenly gave birth prematurely. Fortunately, the girl knew to notify me in time, otherwise it would be bad."

"Su Ling notified you in time?" Xiao Ying immediately grasped the key information.

Can a pregnant woman who gives birth to a premature baby notify others in time to find a midwife? This made Xiao Yu suspicious. He had to wonder if this premature birth was a good show directed and performed by Su Ling, but he really couldn't figure out what benefit it would have to Su Ling.

Before he could continue to think about it, the loud cry of a baby suddenly sounded in the delivery room. After a while, a midwife came out holding a swaddling baby, and congratulated Mother Shao and Xiao Yu with a smile: "Old Madam, Master Juren, Congratulations on getting a daughter!"

Shao's mother, who always favored boys over girls and looked forward to her grandson, did not feel disappointed. Instead, she was very happy and happily hugged the baby in the midwife's hand.

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Xiao Yu looked at Wang Nianyun and found that the tension on her face had obviously eased, and she breathed a sigh of relief. Apparently, Su Ling's birth of a daughter had greatly relieved her stress.

Her performance made Xiao Yu rule out the possibility of her attacking Su Ling, so there were only two possibilities left. One was that Su Ling induced labor herself, and the other was that Su Ling accidentally caused the accident.

However, the child was born successfully and was healthy, so Xiao Yu didn't intend to pursue it any further and just let it go.

He walked into Shao's mother and looked at the crumpled monkey-like child in the swaddling clothes, and smiled: "Let's call this child Shao Zhi, Zhi, Angelica dahurica, the name of a kind of herb that can be used as medicine." This is the countryside of this village. There is a custom in ancient times that children need to be given cheap names so that they can support themselves. Boys are given names like dogs or eggs, and girls are given names like flowers or grass. Some even just call them Da Ya Er Ya without giving them names at all.

Xiao Yu followed the custom here and gave his daughter a cursory name, but as a scholar after all, he couldn't name his daughter too vulgar, so he chose the word "Zhi", which sounds nice and elegant.

Shao's mother felt that her son's knowledge was the best, and his name was naturally the best, so she nodded without any objection, and then coaxed to her granddaughter in her arms: "Xiao Zhi'er, your father named it for you." Name, are you happy?"

At this time, Wang Nianyun stepped forward and tried his best to show a gentle smile: "Mom, let me hug Xiao Zhi'er too."

Shao's mother felt that Wang Nianyun would be Shao Zhi's mother in the future, and it was obviously a good decision to let them cultivate their relationship from the beginning. She did not hesitate to put the swaddle in her arms into Wang Nianyun's arms, and then began to give Wang Nianyun instructions on what to do. Hold the baby.

Wang Nianyun had never had a child, let alone such a small child, and was in a hurry.

Shao's mother said a little dissatisfied: "You have to practice hard. What if you give birth to a baby in the future and you can't even hold the baby?"

When Wang Nianyun followed Mother Shao's words, she felt that the annoying little monkey in her arms was no longer so annoying. She smiled sincerely, and her movements in holding the child became gentler and more patient. .

Xiao Yu stood aside and watched, with no intention of holding the child. Although he felt pity for the child who died tragically before and after the heroine's rebirth, after all, it was not his Xiao Yu's child, nor was it his time-travelling child. Children born after becoming Shao Qingyun will naturally not have the heart of a loving father.

At this time, the midwife standing on one side said to everyone: "It's time to take the baby in and feed it."

Wang Nianyun then let go and handed the baby to the midwife to carry into the delivery room.

Xiao Yu's consciousness still enveloped the delivery room. He clearly 'saw' Su Ling take the baby and say to the midwife: "I will breastfeed the baby, you go out first."

Su Ling and her daughter were the only two people left in the delivery room.

Su Ling caressed her daughter's little face: "Xiaoya, you finally returned to your mother..." Xiaoya was her daughter's name in her previous life. Because her daughter was not taken seriously, no one named her, so she had to use 'Xiaoya'. Ya' is the nickname. She still doesn't know that Xiao Yu named her daughter Shao Zhi.

Xiao Yu didn't notice anything unusual. Just when he was about to withdraw his consciousness, he suddenly heard Su Ling murmuring in an inaudible voice: "Sure enough, she was born prematurely like in her previous life, but why did other things happen so badly? What about change?”

Xiao Yu suddenly realized that all the truth was clear.

It turns out that Su Ling was born prematurely due to natural causes in her previous life!