Ji Xubai nodded, coughed and asked, "Yes, paper?"
Old Wu frowned and said, "No, you, a refugee, can't just stay in your jurisdiction. Why did you come out?"
Ji Xubai walked directly to their table, took their bowl of water, wetted his fingers, and began to draw slowly and vigorously on the table.
"Hey you..." Old Wu just wanted to say something, but Li Da next to him winked at him, and the two of them looked at the table.
Ji Xubai looked sickly now, but when he was drawing drawings on the table with water on his face, his eyes were still calm and focused, and his expression was even more indifferent, as if he only had the drawings in his eyes.
Especially when he started drawing, his slender fingers moved across it with ease. The elegant temperament he was born with could not be faked.
Li Da immediately saw that this prisoner was something special, and asked with squinted eyes: "What's your name?"
Ji Xubai paused his fingers and said flatly in a hoarse voice: "Ji Xubai."
Old Wu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered something, "The second young master of Lord Ji's family in Beicheng, Taifu Ji of Hanlin Academy?"
Ji Xubai nodded slightly, then lowered his eyes at the drawings on the table and explained: "Beige has a complex environment and it is very difficult to open a road, but it will be much easier if we abandon the land and open a waterway." Ji Xubai said, His fingers zigzagged down from one point on the table to another, "A waterway can be opened from here to the neighboring city. Of course, this is not a big road, but the good thing is that this route can lead directly to Linghe City. The water in Hecheng flows to the sea, and there is so much trade on the sea. As far as I know, that sea is complementary to Jiangzhou. As long as this route is opened, Beige will have easy access and purchase, and there will naturally be outflows. "
Ji Xubai hadn't said so many words in one breath for a long time. He remembered that when he was in the Hanlin Academy, he was in this state, not giving anyone a chance to talk back, and convincing others with his words.
But this time, his purpose was much purer.
After Ji Xubai finished speaking, he coughed again.
Old Wu looked at Li Da, and the two looked at each other for a moment. Old Wu asked, "Do you understand?"
Li Da smiled and said, "I guess I understand that the Imperial Tutors are different. They are much more powerful than the unsophisticated local officials like us..."
Old Wu understood what he meant, and looked at Ji Xubai with a smile: "Well, Master Ji, you don't have to go back to work as a hard worker. It's really overqualified for a person like you to work as a hard worker. You and us What do you think about going back and making a detailed drawing and letting you take the lead in doing this?"
Ji Xubai didn't even show any humility, so he responded quietly, "Okay."
This is his only chance, and he won't ask them whether they believe in him, just because he has enough confidence in himself to do it.
It’s just that whether it is difficult or not, it is not a task that can be completed overnight. It requires enough patience and determination.
In this regard, Ji Xubai will not back down.
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After giving birth to her child, Wen Zhigu was not idle. She set up a primary school in Ancheng to teach the children in the city how to read and write. When she came back from the school, she saw Aqiu still playing with Wen Jian on the cradle. .
When little Wen Jian saw that Wen Zhigu had come back, she tried hard to climb out of the cradle, but she couldn't get out even after kicking awkwardly with her short legs for a long time, so she pressed her mouth in anxiety and refused to cry.