Chapter 14 Say Goodnight to the World
Leaving the broken pen behind and making sure there was nothing else to do, Lin Zhusheng stood up with the scroll in his hand.
Any slight movement in the quiet space would be infinitely magnified. The people around and the manager on the meditation platform would look up, then quickly look away.
It was hard to describe his expression as it ended too early. It was obvious that he had given up struggling and freed himself. He did not add any more pressure to his fellow disciples who were struggling, but only added a subtle sense of sadness.
When the steward took the scroll, he glanced down and saw that it was covered with writings. His eyebrows raised slightly, and he looked at it a few more times in surprise, then quickly and diligently sealed it and put it away.
After putting the scroll away, he looked up again and saw that the disciple in front of him was still standing there, with a hint of expectation in his eyes, as if he was waiting for something.
I don't know what people are waiting for, but those eyes look sincere, and I feel guilty for not meeting people's expectations. The manager looks away and whispers, "If there's nothing else, you can leave."
really. As expected, there was only this set of test questions, and there was no possibility of other tests. Lin Zhusheng lowered his eyes.
Look! I was disappointed as expected!
As soon as the disciple lowered his eyes, the manager could feel the disappointment without even looking. He had done nothing wrong, but his conscience inexplicably hurt.
There was no need to stay any longer, so Lin Zhusheng said goodbye quietly and left, pushing open the school door, leaving the manager with an extremely lonely back.
βKaβββ
The gate was closed, and the manager who stayed in the school felt a pang of conscience. Lin Zhusheng walked out of the school, punched and kicked, and stretched his legs. He went into the woods to look for the kitten that should still be wandering nearby. He was determined to get an explanation.
As if it had sensed something, the kitten who usually would come to find him after a short stroll didn't come out for half a day, and there was no movement around.
Good, hiding.
He searched two bamboo forests in succession but didn't see any trace of the cat. He squatted in the grass and waited. He didn't hear the sound of the kitten fluttering around on the leaves, but he heard footsteps.
The footsteps were very light, as even as those of a machine. They paused at a certain point, and then seemed to change their original direction, moving towards this side. The sound was getting closer and closer.
βCrashβββ
As the footsteps stopped, the bushes where he was crouching were parted, and dappled sunlight shone through the treetops. He saw a bony hand, a neat crane robe behind the hand, and a glowing sword handle.
Sensing the movement, Wen Baizhou, who came to check, lowered his eyes and met a pair of raised light-colored pupils.
The person squatting in the bushes had messy long hair, and there were two leaves mixed in the tangled headband. His eyes were full of surprise at being discovered.
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After a moment of silence, Wen Baizhou excused himself for disturbing the others, withdrew his hand from pushing aside the bushes, and planned to return the same way he came.
βPah.β
He failed to leave because his hanging sleeve was quickly grabbed by someone and held tightly, so he could only turn around.
Lin Zhusheng still doesn't understand what today's test has to do with the brick-playing game he had learned so well before. He just happened to meet someone who seemed to know him very well, and he will definitely not let him go easily.
With his hands tightly grasping his sleeves, he shouted with a look of great surprise, "Big Brother."
Grabbing a piece of his sleeve, he followed his eldest brother out of the bushes and bamboo forest and saw the light of day again.
Walking to a place where he could see the school clearly through the window, Wen Baizhou temporarily ignored the sleeves that he had lost ownership of, and turned around to ask, "What are you doing here?"
This person answered quickly, so he should have completed the test long ago and could have left the academy directly.
"I'm looking for my cat."
The kitten that was destined to be judged after being found was put aside for the time being. What was important now was the few big bricks that he had learned. Lin Zhusheng first carefully verified and said, "This time, the test is only about the General History of Kyushu?"
After learning a little from the Master, Wen Baizhou replied in an affirmative manner.
A heavy blow!
The memory of desperately reading flashed back to his mind. Lin Zhusheng stretched out his shaking hand and asked, "What about the basics of pharmacology, an overview of monsters, and an introduction to swordsmanship...?"
Wen Baizhou seemed a little surprised that he could say these names. He finally showed some expression on his face and said, "These are the books that the outer and inner disciples learn."
Among them, beginners to sword studies will learn from the outer gate to the inner gate, and some direct disciples of the inner gate elders are still continuing to learn and comprehend.
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Without any pre-sway, Lin Zhusheng's tears flew out instantly.
No wonder he always felt strange before!
No wonder Song Ming studied so late and had such a tight schedule but still felt so relaxed! It turns out that they were learning completely different things!
Seeing that his fellow disciples around him were not very nervous when facing the tests, he even thought that everyone in the world of cultivation had the strongest brains, and he was just a retard.
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He roughly reconstructed what happened from the few words he heard, and saw her burst into tears again. This time, Wen Baizhou didn't know how to comfort her. He was silent for a while, and finally lowered his head and said, "Maybe you should learn it in the future."
Just think of it as learning it in advance, so that it will be easier later.
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Very useful comfort, but equivalent to no effect. Tears continued to flow, and Lin Zhusheng cried until he looked like a sad panda.
Not knowing what to say for a moment, Wen Baizhou raised his eyes slightly and saw a small black shadow slowly walking over the academy wall, so he asked, "Is that your cat?"
The sad panda head that was still crying turned around instantly, and looked with both eyes at the kitten that was passing by on the wall.
Meeting a pair of tearful eyes, the kitten quickly realized something. Its fur stood up and its four legs, which had been slowly moving, began to accelerate rapidly.
Without giving it a chance to escape, Lin Zhusheng quickened his pace, leaped and pounced, and as he fell from the air, he firmly grabbed the kitten's head with one hand and held Fate by the scruff of the neck.
The tears that were hanging in his eyes had quickly disappeared. He opened his eyes, smiled and gritted his teeth and said, "Why are you running?"
Looking at him and then at the people standing far away, the kitten probably guessed something and immediately confessed, struggling and saying, "I didn't mean it!"
It also didn't expect that menial disciples only learned a course on the General History of Kyushu. When it first searched the information database, it only found the "Must-Read Books for Tianzong Disciples to Take the Test", and those books were indeed on it.
But last night, when this person finished learning, it checked again for caution. When checking, it suddenly had an idea and added a qualifier before "disciple", turning it into "miscellaneous disciple".
Wow, it's amazing that the number of books I need to read has gone from a pile to just one.
Last night, faced with the dark circles under the eyes caused by staying up late, even though the truth was on the tip of my tongue I couldn't say it. I could only remain silent for a while and escape for a while.
The hand pinching the back of the neck showed no sign of loosening. The struggle was useless. The kitten was quiet for a moment, then changed direction and comforted: "At least you can sleep peacefully when you go to school in the future!"
After all, I have learned everything I should learn, and there is nothing else to do in school.
Comfort was useless, so he ferociously pulled the cat's fur in the opposite direction, and before the kitten tried to lick its fur, he stuffed it into his clothes to interrupt its fur. Then Lin Zhusheng jumped forward two steps and returned to his senior brother.
The previous torrent of tears seemed to be an illusion. Apart from his eyelashes which were still a little wet, his face no longer showed the look of someone crying violently before.
Seeing the tears flowing freely once again, Wen Baizhou became silent for a moment and looked away unnoticeably.
The kitten was caught and punished cruelly. Lin Zhusheng felt a little better and finally remembered the sleeve that he had pinched all the way. He lowered his head and looked at it for a few more times. He found that it had been wrinkled by him, so he rubbed it to try to smooth it out.
But I had used quite a lot of strength before, so the remedial measures were almost ineffective.
Wen Baizhou lowered his eyes and said, "Don't worry about it."
He said the most generous words in the coldest voice, and when the remedy failed, Lin Zhusheng really let go, and patted her in despair before letting go.
He had been looking for the cat for a long time and was doing this for a while before other classmates finally came out of the school one after another, with interesting expressions on their faces.
When he saw his good fellow student among the crowd, he waved and trotted over. Then he remembered something, stepped on the brakes urgently, and turned back to search his pocket.
Itβs so rare that we meet, I almost forgot to give you a gift.
Very good, no gifts. After reaching level 2, the backpack was also upgraded, from the initial five slots to eight slots, and it was filled with things, but none of them was what the other person liked.
Giving away something you don't like will actually reduce your favorability. After trying for a long time, he could only withdraw his hand with regret, waved it in a small arc, and said goodbye.
Wen Baizhou stood there, one hand casually placed on the hilt of the sword, and nodded slightly.
Lin Zhusheng went to find Song Ming, jumping as he took out snacks from his pocket. The snacks were delivered before he arrived.
The fellow student looked fine, as if he thought the test was simple. He turned his gaze slightly towards the figure standing in the distance, but ultimately did not ask any further questions.
As they left the academy while chatting, Master Lin, who had been reading for a few days, did not go running around the mountains and fields with his good fellow disciples. Instead, he returned to his residence as soon as possible, washed up, and fell onto the bed.
The Lingxu pastry he had chewed in the morning couldn't keep away his strong sleepiness, and neither could the sunlight. He fell asleep, and it was dark manually, saying goodnight to the whole world.
The sun is very warm, the grass and trees are stretched out in the sun, and most importantly, there are no endless books to read after waking up, and there is one more person in the world who sleeps soundly.
He slept until the end of time, the seas dried up, the rocks crumbled, the sun and the moon shone together. When Lin Zhusheng opened his eyes again and said good morning to the world, it was Manager Meng who happened to be passing by and knocked on the door to remind him that the test results were out and he could go and check them himself.
The test results came out on the second day of the test, which meant he slept for a full day.
The manager was busy with other things, so he stood outside the door, gave a quick reminder and left.
After lying on the bed and punching and kicking for a while to stretch his muscles, Lin Zhusheng struggled to get up on the bed like a resurrected zombie.
He dressed slowly and tied his hair slowly. He looked unenthusiastic and not in a hurry. Kitty turned around and asked, "Aren't you looking forward to the test results? What if it's a high score?"
His tied hair came loose again, he gave up and tucked his long hair behind his ears, yawned, not too concerned, and said, "It's OK as long as I can get through it."
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