Qin Yao heard Zhen Yubai's voice, looked back, and then glanced into the classroom.
The children were practicing calligraphy quietly, and the teacher was not there at all.
Looking at Zhen Yubai walking over with a bamboo basket, Qin Yao glanced at the basket which only had a few wilted wild vegetables and said jokingly, "Teacher, are you not in the classroom teaching? Are you going out to pick wild vegetables?"
Zhen Yubai smiled lightly and jokingly retorted, "Isn't the village chief not handling affairs in the village, and is he just hanging around in the school?"
Qin Yao smiled awkwardly, "It's going to snow, I came here to remind you, Master, it's inconvenient to go out when it snows, if there's anything you need to prepare, please prepare it early."
The implication is that she is not just here for a stroll, but is doing serious business.
"Is it going to snow?" Zhen Yubai looked up at the sky, but could not see anything except gray clouds.
Qin Yao nodded, not wanting to waste any more words with him. She pointed to the children in the classroom who were waiting for the teacher to come back, and started to say goodbye.
"village head!"
Zhen Yubai suddenly called her and asked somewhat embarrassedly, "Village Chief, you are very strong. A rock rolled down from the back mountain the night before yesterday. Fortunately, there was no one else around except me, so no one was injured. But the rock is a bit big and blocked the road to the back mountain. Could you please help move it?"
Qin Yao raised her eyebrows, "Where is it?"
Zhen Yubai was delighted and pointed to the back of the school. "Village head, please follow me. It's not far behind the house."
Qin Yao glanced at him twice, with a warm and harmless look on her face, shrugged and followed.
It’s really not far, and you’ll arrive there in just a few steps.
It rained a few days ago, and the mountain became loose and landslides occurred. In addition to the big rock that Zhen Yubai mentioned, there were also many pieces of rubble lying across the middle of the road, blocking the way up the mountain.
Few people come to this back mountain, so the huge rock blocking the road is not a problem. However, since Zhen Yubai said so, Qin Yao waved her hand to signal him to move aside and came to the front of the huge rock.
"By the way, where should we push it to?" Qin Yao asked doubtfully before taking action.
She thought that it would most likely be pushed to a place where it was not blocking the road, or directly pushed down the slope, as long as it was not in the road.
Unexpectedly, Zhen Yubai smiled and asked tentatively: "Could you trouble the village chief to push this boulder to the open space in front of the school? It's rare to come across such a big stone. I want to bring the children to make a small mountain scene for the school."
Hearing his plea, Qin Yao's mind went blank for a moment. She was stunned for a moment before she came to her senses. She could no longer hold back her temper and glared at Zhen Yubai coldly, "Master, you are so shameless to make such an impolite request!"
Zhen Yubai's smile froze, and she took two steps back, leaving enough space for the boulder and her to pass through. She bowed slightly and said, "Let me thank the village chief on behalf of my students first."
What else can Qin Yao say? She's already here!
"Get away from me."
Zhen Yubai felt even more embarrassed to hear such vulgar words, but the words had already been spoken and there was no way to take them back, so he stepped back meekly.
The boulder was more than half a person's height, and it required four adults to hug it together. Its shape was an irregular oval. Qin Yao tried it out, found a posture that suited her, and with a low shout of "Hey", she lifted the entire boulder.
She acted as if no one was around and walked towards the open space in front of the school, carrying huge rocks that were five or six as big as herself. Her steps were steady and she didn't look like she was struggling at all.
Zhen Yubai was stunned for five or six seconds, then quickly picked up the bamboo basket and chased after him.
He looked at Qin Yao in horror, then looked at the deep marks left by her feet, and shook his head violently, thinking he was seeing things.
She actually has extraordinary powers!
The feeling of seeing it with your own eyes is completely different from the feeling of hearing others talk about it. Zhen Yubai's eyes almost popped out when he watched Qin Yao stop because her nose was itchy, holding the boulder with one hand and scratching her nose with the other hand.
"Where?"
She asked impatiently from the front, and Zhen Yubai hurried forward to reserve a spot, "Village Chief, just put it in the middle of the open space."
Hearing the tremor in his voice, Qin Yao laughed in her heart, thinking that his mental quality was just like that.
With a loud "bang", the boulder sank firmly into the mud, startling the students in the classroom.
The children turned their heads to look towards the source of the sound, and saw a huge rock appear out of nowhere in the middle of the open space. They all opened their mouths in shock.
Zhen Yubai secretly closed his slightly opened mouth, walked out from behind the boulder, and whispered to the students, "Continue practicing calligraphy!"
The students then turned their heads back and continued to practice calligraphy. However, the whispers coming from the room still exposed their true state.
Qin Yao patted the mud off her hands, raised her chin slightly and asked, "Master, is there anything else you want to move? If not, I will go back. The affairs in the village are complicated and there is still work to be done."
Zhen Yubai: "No, no more."
Seeing his stupid look, Qin Yao couldn't help but chuckle, "Then I'm leaving. Teacher, please teach your students well."
Zhen Yubai watched her walk down the mountain in a daze. When the cold mountain wind blew, he finally woke up and looked back at the huge rock in the middle of the clearing in disbelief.
As if possessed by a ghost, he put down the bamboo basket and hoe in his hands, walked to the boulder, and pushed it with his hands.
Not moving at all!
Zhen Yubai felt like he was being mocked by a piece of stone. He tried again, even exerting force on his toes, but the boulder remained motionless.
What on earth did Qin Yao eat to grow up so strong?
After just a brief contact, he had already obtained the result he wanted. The faint fragrance he smelled during his first two night visits to the Lotus Courtyard came from her.
Thinking of this, even in such a cold day, Zhen Yubai broke out in sweat and felt a lingering fear.
I didn't expect that there was such a master hidden in this small mountain village. If he hadn't been born with a sense of smell and sensory perception that was superior to that of ordinary people and smelled the special smell in the air, he probably wouldn't have known that he had been targeted for a long time.
And Qin Yao's housekeeper Awang, who is stern and never smiles, doesn't look like an ordinary person either.
But what makes Zhen Yubai feel fortunate is that he is not in opposition to them, and he can just be a good teacher.
As for Mr. Gongliang, he is unwilling to return to Beijing. What can a small figure like him do?
Looking up at the school in front of him, Zhen Yubai spread his hands. He had done what he could. It was the teacher's business if he didn't want to go back. He couldn't be blamed by the higher-ups.
What's more, he is now just a teacher who has passed the imperial examination and has the title of scholar. He can no longer be demoted.
However, if he wants to stay in this small mountain village where many hidden talents are located for a long time, he still has to write another letter to report to his superiors, pretending to obey but actually disobeying their orders.
After finishing today's class and sending all the students away, Zhen Yubai immediately wrote a letter, explaining how Gong Liangliao told him to get out as soon as he approached, and expressing his helplessness and distress.
After writing the letter, I sealed it and gave it to the cook who was going into the city to buy something, asking her to deliver it to the city.
But Zhen Yubai didn't know that the moment he asked someone to send the letter, he was already being watched by Awang. (End of this chapter)
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