Chapter 39: Becoming Famous in One Battle

On the other side, Su Zhizhi also noticed something was wrong——

That is, the food in the academy today is so delicious!

It smelled so good that she could find the kitchen just by closing her eyes and smelling it.

Uncle Zhang and a woman usually serve meals in the kitchen. Today, Uncle Zhang is still there, but the woman has been replaced by an old lady.

But this is not the point. The point is that what we made today is sweet and sour pork, which is Su Zhizhi's favorite dish.

Su Zhizhi lined up and walked to the place where she could get food. The new grandmother smiled when she saw Su Zhizhi:

"You are such a lovely little girl. Come, grandma will pour more gravy on you."

The food in Su Zhizhi's bowl was almost piled up into a small mountain, and it was topped with thick and delicious gravy.

Su Zhizhi's eyes sparkled, and she happily carried the bowl to eat.

When Gu Qingning and Xue Che came over with their bowls, they started eating together.

Gu Qingning took a bite of the sweet and sour pork and exclaimed:

"When did the cooking skills of the academy's kitchen become so good? And they even use such solid and large pieces of meat."

Su Zhizhi put a mouthful of food into her mouth:

"Yes, just like what we do in our village."

When Xue Che heard Su Zhizhi's words, his eyelashes blinked and a guess flashed through his mind.

Then I heard Su Zhizhi say with doubt and joy:

"Hey, why is there an egg buried under the rice?"

Gu Qingning and Xue Che leaned over to take a look, and saw that there was indeed a round poached egg hidden under the shiny rice.

Golden and shining, like a little sun.

Gu Qingning dug into her bowl and said, "Huh? Nothing."

There was still rice underneath the rice in her bowl.

Su Zhizhi looked at Xue Che: "A Che, what about you?"

Xue Che silently moved the rice in his bowl and saw a poached egg as expected.

He covered it with rice and said calmly:

"No, there's only rice. Maybe you accidentally put it in the wrong bowl."

Gu Qingning clapped her hands: "Zhizhi is so lucky."

"I've always been lucky." Su Zhizhi didn't care. "I just cracked this egg. If I'm lucky again tomorrow, I'll share it with you."

Xue Che turned his head to look at the grandmother who was serving the meal, then turned his head again and saw a figure carrying a sack walking out of the kitchen.

That broad and strong figure is very similar to Kong Wu...

Only then did Xue Che understand what Wu Yingniang had said to him in the morning.

He turned his gaze back to the rice in the bowl and said something as if for no reason:

"Maybe we'll all be lucky these days."

Xue Che was right.

We are really lucky.

When Su Zhizhi went to the bathroom, hot water was immediately available.

She had just changed her dirty clothes when she met the cleaning lady who was washing clothes and washed her clothes in the process.

She saw the pointed tips of the lotus leaves in the pond and wanted to eat lotus cakes. Two days later, she really had lotus cakes to eat in the morning.

At lunch that day, Su Zhizhi discovered that there was a bright red and tempting lion's head buried under the rice in the three bowls.

Gu Qingning was shocked: "It turns out that good luck can be contagious."

Su Zhizhi chewed the meatballs happily: "Of course."

Xue Che: "...it's better not to publicize this matter."

Not far away, Grandma Qiu, who was serving food, looked at Zhizhi eating with a satisfied look on her face and felt that the trip was well worth it.

After receiving Zhizhi's letter at Black Bandit Mountain, they discussed and decided to send a small group of people down the mountain to take care of Su Zhizhi.

In order to conceal their tracks and sneak into the academy, Grandma Qiu changed their appearances, and Kong Wu was also pulled in to help in the kitchen.

Only then did everyone remember that Grandma Qiu’s best skill was not cooking, but facials.

Back then, she was wanted by the entire underworld with a bounty, and she was able to escape and survive to this day, all thanks to her superb face-changing skills!

People's joys and sorrows are different, and so is their luck.

When Su Zhizhi was lucky, Li Shaoer was unlucky.

After Li Shaoer was frightened by the snake last time, he rested at home for a few more days and only returned to the academy when the scar on his neck was completely gone.

On the first day she returned to her residence, she fell at the door before even entering.

I don't know what the sweeper used to clean the floor, it was so greasy and shiny that people couldn't stand on it.

When it was time to wash up, she asked someone to go to the bathroom to get hot water, but the hot water was always used up.

On the way to school, bird droppings and insects suddenly fell from trees and eaves, and always hit her on the forehead.

Li Shaoer couldn't stand it anymore, she suspected someone was cursing her behind her back.

She went to Su Zhizhi angrily:

"Su Zhizhi, are you behind this?"

Su Zhizhi thought Li Shaoer was talking about the big turtle she drew on her desk.

"I didn't do anything bad. At most, I just killed a turtle."

Li Shaoer, however, took Su Zhizhi's reaction as an admission.

Although Zhou Xiaomeng was expelled from the academy and could not come, there were still a few other lackeys following Li Shaoer.

They surrounded Su Zhizhi in a corner of the dormitory.

Li Shaoer didn't want to endure it anymore.

Her father is the chief officer of Xunzhou. Even if she beat Su Zhizhi in the academy, the villagers can't do anything to her.

"Su Zhizhi, I'm going to teach you a lesson today."

Li Shaoer gnashed her teeth, blaming Su Zhizhi for the last time she was frightened by the snake. She directed the others:

"Catch her and make her kneel down!"

Gu Qingning, who returned to the living quarters a little later, saw Su Zhizhi surrounded by several people and outnumbered. She quickly ran over to help Su Zhizhi:

“Zhizhi!”

But she was so thin that before she could get close to Su Zhizhi, she was pushed to the ground by a slightly plump classmate.

More and more classmates gathered around, but no one dared to be the first to speak, and they could only watch the scene.

"What are you looking at?"

Li Shaoer's domineering tone carried a warning: "Whoever dares to tell others about what happened today will be the next one to be punished!"

She had a brand new yet old-fashioned gold-plated pearl flower on her head, which reflected a dazzling light under the sun, making it difficult for people to look at her directly.

Su Zhizhi dodged the classmate who was trying to catch her, rushed towards Li Shaoer, and punched him directly in the nose.

"Ah——" Li Shaoer's scream like a pig being slaughtered almost pierced his eardrums.

She fell to the ground, covering her nose, her hair disheveled and her flower hairpins falling to the ground.

When I took my hand away, I saw that there was blood on the palm of my hand.

"You, you actually dare to hit me..." Li Shaoer's shock even exceeded the pain.

The pupils of others also seemed to be shaking.

Su Zhizhi wanted to whip her from her waist, but she didn't bring it with her when she came to the academy, so she picked up a long willow branch from the ground.

With a strong swing, the willow branch hit the people rushing towards him, causing them to scream in pain and retreat.

Willow branches are fragile and break easily if hit.

Su Zhizhi simply threw away his weapon, waited for an opportunity, and kicked one by one.

"Why not? If you dare to bully me, I'll beat you up, even if you come with ten!"

Su Zhizhi doesn't know how to pull hair or slap people.

In the mountains, she had only seen people using fists, feet, knives, and swords.

Don't act rashly, but if you do, be quick, accurate and ruthless.

"Okay, okay, let's see how many you can beat!" Li Shaoer was also furious.

Several people got up from the ground and rushed towards Su Zhizhi at the same time.

But before he touched Su Zhizhi, he felt as if his knees and ankles were hit by stones, and he knelt down in pain.

"ah--"

“It hurts!”

So, everyone watched helplessly as Li Shaoer and his group of five rushed to Su Zhizhi and—knelt down?!

Li Shaoer:……? !

Gu Qingning: ...Oh my God

"It's too late to beg for mercy."

Su Zhizhi showed no mercy and punched each of them.

Li Shaoer and the other four were beaten so hard that they saw stars and began to cry.

They were all seven or eight-year-old children, and it looked pitiful to see them crying on the ground.

But there were few classmates present who sympathized with them.

This was how Li Shaoer treated them before Su Zhizhi came. She would bully them until they were on their knees and crying, and then she would laugh at them for being spineless and useless.

"Don't cry!" Su Zhizhi yelled with a stern face.

Li Shaoer was so frightened that she held back her tears.

Su Zhizhi was shaking a branch in her hand.

Dad once said that the best way to deal with the enemy is to attack their mind.

Su Zhizhi cleared her throat:

"Look carefully, if any of you dare to hit me again, you will be like this branch."

She snapped the branch in two easily.

Li Shao'er shuddered and said stubbornly, "We are more than one person. We are many. One day, we will—"

"You guys are against me, do you know what will happen?" Su Zhizhi interrupted.

This time she picked up a handful of branches, a bundle as thick as her arm.

Then Su Zhizhi's arms burst out with strength, crackling and breaking the whole bundle of branches into pieces, with debris flying everywhere, confusing people's eyes.

The whole audience was silent.

The slightly plump classmate next to Li Shaoer raised his hand with a tearful voice:

"I will...I will be shattered to pieces."

The long wind blew up the red rope on Su Zhizhi's hair.

Like the red tassel on a spear, like a victorious general.

May of the sixth year of Zhaoqing.

Su Zhizhi fought one against five others at Mingde Academy and became famous in one battle.