turn the clouds

Chapter 7 Crisis
Just thinking about it, the locomotive arrived at the station.

A six-story tower stands in front of you, and the signboard of the Taiyuan Academy hangs impressively on it.

It is rich and noble, impressively majestic.

The boys and girls got out of the car with their bookboys and maidservants.

Tai Academy, as part of the highest institution in the Yun Dynasty, is dedicated to educating noble children.

The dean of the Tai Academy is also a senior official at the level of the deputy director of the Sixth Division.

Such a school allows students to bring someone to take care of themselves, but never allows chariots, horses and swordsmen to enter.

At the school gate, Qi Zhongliu found someone to make cards for Chu Tianshu's rank.

The process is very similar to Chu Tianshu's memory of the process in which cat and dog owners in the city license their pets.

Of course, it's not too different in fact - Yun Chao allows the existence of "slaves".

Be it Chu Tianshu, people like Xiaokui, Hongyu, and Zhou Yin, they are said to be "family members", but they are actually slaves of Prince Chen's mansion.

It's just that they usually don't beat them with whips.

Chu Tianshu understood his position in the palace and Yun Dynasty very well.

So there was no disturbance in his heart.

It doesn't look any different from the bookboys and maids that the princes and ladies in the Tai Academy carry with them.

After engraving the plaque, Qi Zhongliu talked and laughed with his acquainted classmates and walked to the class.

And the maidservants and bookboys brought by the students of Qi Zhongliu all talked and laughed with each other and greeted Chu Tianshu as if they were relieved from a heavy burden.

"A new face, has Young Master Seventeen changed his book boy again?"

"I heard that yes, this book boy looks very good-looking."

"Hey, what's your name?"

A fair-looking and petite book boy showed kindness to Chu Tianshu: "Brother, are you the new book boy of the Seventeenth Young Master?"

"If you're asking me, then I think so." Chu Tianshu responded with a smile, and then looked up at the classroom where Qi Zhongliu was.

"What's your name?" the fair and clean book boy asked.

Chu Tianshu reported his family name: "Chu Tianshu."

"Chu Tianshu?" The man groped for a while, but he didn't seem to find any deep meaning or allusion in the name, so he praised dryly: "It's really a nice name."

Chu Tianshu is not modest at all: "I also think my name sounds nice...Masters and ladies are in class, are you not allowed to get close to me?"

It's a pity that I can't see Qi Zhongliu pretending to be aggressive.

"Of course not allowed." The book boy rolled his eyes: "What are you thinking? The people who set up the academy have already thought about it. It is enough for homework to be allowed to take home. Don't even think about helping answer questions in school. I want to recruit."

"Walk, walk, you accompany me on the first day, and go to the lounge with us to chat."

Chu Tianshu looked up.

A group of book boys and maidservants also nodded to him gently.

The masters may still have some grievances and hatreds in the school, but the schoolboys and maids have no intention of sharing hatred or friendship with the masters.

They are relatively friendly to each other.

The book boys took Chu Tianshu to the book boy's lounge.

Compared with the grandeur of the Tai Academy, this place is very simple.

The room is small and cramped.

There is only the same bed as Datong's bunk inside, and the quilt on the bed is just relatively poor industrial waste cotton, which emits a vague and unpleasant smell all the time.

"Hello, Chu Tianshu, my name is Shen Siyuan." The petite book boy who pulled Chu Tianshu over to the lounge greeted him friendly: "Our young master is Shen Yisi's youngest son, and he has a very close relationship with your seventeenth young master. Okay, so we will meet often in the future—of course, the premise is that you can survive."

"Can I... survive?" Chu Tianshu was startled: "What do you mean?"

"Oh." Shen Siyuan suddenly said, "You probably don't know yet."

"Why are you talking so much to him?" A book boy next to him had already kicked off his shoes and was lying on the bed ready to go to sleep: "It's meaningless to talk so much to a dying person."

Chu Tianshu patted his pocket, and the 20 yuan silver coins that Xiaokui gave earlier clattered in his pocket: "I am a dying person, and it may not be meaningful to simply talk to me, but if I am a What about the rich dying man?"

The book boy who was too tired to sleep immediately woke up and stopped sleeping. He sat up and said, "Silver coins!"

Chu Tianshu smiled: "You are very powerful, you can tell that it is a silver coin just from your voice."

"That's necessary." The book boy didn't intend to introduce himself at all, but just rubbed his hands together and said, "If you're willing to give me one... no, fifty cents, I'll tell you the whole story."

At this moment, not only him, but also several bookboys heard the sound of silver coins clattering. Hearing his words, the bookboy next to him couldn't help but say, "I only want three cents."

As soon as he opened his mouth, a kind of malicious bidding was immediately started.

A book boy next to him immediately followed up to lower the price: "I only want a dime, give me a dime, and I will tell you the whole story right away."

Chu Tianshu is in no hurry now.

A buyer's market, wait a minute.

The book boy who had previously bid fifty cents shook his head, and first scolded a few guys who bid maliciously: "You're dead, my cousin, my cousin's wife is so leggy."

Then he gritted his teeth and looked at Chu Tianshu: "At least eight cents, give me eight cents, and I will tell you everything."

Chu Tianshu took out a dollar, stood the silver coin sideways, and blew on the side of the silver coin: "Are you sure this is the lowest price?"

"I only want five cents." Shutong Xiaomi, who was bidding maliciously at the beginning, said: "Brother Chu is able to extract so much money from Young Master Seventeen, so it can be seen that he is also capable. I only charge five cents. Make you this friend."

Shen Siyuan scratched his head: "What are you doing... Chu Tianshu, let me tell you straight, the matter is actually quite simple."

"Even the Seventeenth Young Master before you also had a book boy."

"Just because I made a mistake, I was killed by that ruthless Miss Six in your house."

"The reason is that your predecessor's book boy took the Seventeenth Young Master to the brothel."

"But that's just a theory. In fact, the Seventeenth Young Master wanted to go. Your previous brother was also responsible for the Seventeenth Young Master's crime."

"So..." Chu Tianshu nodded: "I have to figure out a way to keep Young Master Seventeen from going to the brothel, so that I can survive?"

"It's more than that!" The book boy who bid maliciously added at this time: "As far as I know, in the past two years, the Seventeenth Young Master of Chen Wang's Mansion has changed six book boys."

"So many?" Chu Tianshu was really surprised: "Are they all dead?"

"Yes." Shen Siyuan worried: "No one is alive."

Chu Tianshu took a deep breath: "This is a little troublesome."

He casually tossed out a silver coin in his hand.

The silver coins rolled on the Datong shop, and finally stopped, with the side with the words "The Prosperity of the Kingdom" facing up.

"Who can tell me, those bookboys in front of me, why they were killed?"

　I just had dinner with a friend, drank a little wine, and my mind is not so clear. I will make up for it tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)