Chapter 623 Unparalleled Classmates (Third Update)
The kidnapping of a classmate, who was then recognized by the classmate, was an utterly disgraceful and socially awkward situation!
Gu Jiao couldn't understand how he recognized her.
Although she wasn't wearing a mask, she smeared a pound of wall plaster on her face, and even that didn't cover her face?
More importantly, he didn't seem to look up at her at all the time while in the carriage.
"sit."
Master Jiang said.
All students sat down.
Gu Jiao and her deskmate sat down as well.
Gu Jiao finally understood where the sense of familiarity with Young Master Qingchen came from. Wasn't Mu Qingchen written on the fish-shaped token last night?
"Where is my fish talisman?" Mu Qingchen asked, taking out a book.
“I threw it away,” Gu Jiao said.
This was evidence, which she threw away before leaving the inner city. Otherwise, if she had been stopped and searched by the soldiers when leaving the city, would she have denied it or not?
“I knew it,” Mu Qingchen said.
Gu Jiao glanced at his waist and, unsurprisingly, saw a new fish-shaped talisman.
Gu Jiao didn't think this was the piece she had thrown away, because she had thrown it into the brothel's latrine, and someone of his status probably wouldn't want something picked up from the latrine.
He stared straight at the lecturer and asked without looking away, "What? You want to steal it?"
Gu Jiao sat up straight, looking like a good student, as if she hadn't heard what he was saying at all.
Gu Jiao felt him glance at her out of the corner of his eye twice, but she adhered to the strong belief that she was not embarrassed and that it was others who were embarrassed, so she remained calm and composed for the entire class without making a sound argument with him.
However, thanks to this young master Qingchen, their table became the focus of the entire Mingxin Hall, and even Master Jiang would occasionally cast a complex look of surprise, joy, and relief in their direction.
So this guy probably really rarely attends classes, which is why it caused such a sensation.
Can't people have at least some basic principles? If he's not going to come, he shouldn't come at all. Why does he come the moment she does?
It's impossible that he recognized her as a freshman at Mingxin Hall yesterday in the carriage and came here today specifically to seek revenge.
Gu Jiao thought about it carefully and concluded that the possibility was zero.
They met for the first time on the carriage yesterday. It's understandable that he remembered her and recognized her today, but to say that he guessed her identity last night is too far-fetched.
He's not some kind of monster.
The whole morning was filled with Mr. Jiang's classes.
Gu Jiao was absolutely certain that neither she nor the young master Qingchen beside her had heard a single word.
But both of them acted like top students who were incredibly smart.
After the morning classes ended, Mu Qingchen left amidst envious and fawning comments.
Gu Jiao was about to pack her things to go find Gu Xiaoshun when, just as she was about to get up, six young classmates in their early twenties surrounded her with ill intentions.
Several people arrogantly blocked her way, and one of them, with a square face, even raised his foot, trying to step on her desk.
But perhaps remembering that this desk also belonged to Mu Qingchen, his feet awkwardly froze in mid-air for a while before reluctantly landing back down.
The square-faced man said arrogantly, "My surname is Wu, and I'm from the Yan Kingdom. I heard you're from the Zhao Kingdom. In this world, does even a lowly person from a humble country have the right to sit next to Young Master Qingchen? Get out of my way!"
"That's right! You don't even deserve to sit at the same table as Young Master Qingchen!"
"Overestimating yourself!"
People kept echoing her, as if Gu Jiao had done something heinous. But upon closer inspection, it wasn't Gu Jiao who wanted to sit at the same table as Mu Qingchen; it was Mu Qingchen who left so many empty seats and insisted on sharing a table with her.
Did Mu Qingchen come to help her because she was all alone?
Obviously not.
He won without shedding a drop of blood, yet he managed to garner a lot of hatred for her.
"A bronze vessel," Gu Jiao said.
Zhong Ding, who was pretending to be blind not far away, was taken aback and walked towards Gu Jiao under immense pressure.
"What, what are you doing?" he asked in a low voice.
"Does beating someone result in a demerit?" Gu Jiao asked.
Zhong Ding said in a trembling voice, "Record...record a demerit. Why are you asking this?"
Gu Jiao said regretfully, "What a pity."
As she spoke, she rested one elbow on the table, propped her chin on her hand, looked at the group, and said, "Okay, I'll make room for you now."
The group of people were all taken aback.
So, this is a compromise?
They didn't even struggle?
There's no sense of accomplishment in bullying people here!
“However—” Gu Jiao’s gaze swept across the six people’s faces, “There’s only one seat, so who should I give it to?”
A scholar with triangular eyes stepped forward: "Of course it's me!"
The square-faced man angrily retorted, "Why is it you! I was here first!"
Triangular Eyes: "I suggested it first!"
Square-faced man: "Well, I had my eye on the one first!"
Another person said, "Stop arguing!"
The two said in unison, "If you're not going to fight, then you should sit down!"
The man said, "I'll sit, then!"
...
The group started arguing fiercely. Gu Jiao slowly packed up her books, stood up calmly, and walked out the back door.
Zhong Ding looked at the six people who were about to fight, and then at Gu Jiao who was leaving gracefully, completely dumbfounded.
This works?
A flower-lined path separated Gu Xiaoshun's Mingyue Hall from Mingxin Hall. As Gu Jiao walked along the path, a group of armored guards marched majestically toward her.
They were accompanied by a teacher from the academy, but it wasn't Teacher Jiang; Gu Jiao didn't recognize who it was.
In addition, there was a madam dressed in flamboyant attire.
"Brothers, it's him!"
Gu Jiao quickly realized that the madam was referring to herself.
She was familiar with this madam; she had visited her brothel the previous night.
What's going on?
Even in her condition, how could one or two people recognize her? The important thing is that they all managed to chase her all the way to the academy?
"Are you sure it's him? Are you sure it's him?" the head officer asked.
The teacher standing nearby chimed in, "Yes, this is a student of our Sky Dome Academy. Don't bite people like that!"
The madam waved her handkerchief and said, "I would never mistake him! That birthmark on his face can't be covered by any amount of plaster!"
Oh, it's a birthmark.
So Mu Qingchen recognized her in Mingxin Hall through her birthmark?
But how did the brothel madam manage to track them all the way here?
The madam pointed at Gu Jiao and said, "Officer, this is the man who came to our brothel last night with Young Master Qingchen's fish-shaped tally! Young Master Qingchen is such a handsome and ethereal figure, I've never seen him but I've heard of him! The moment I saw this man, I knew he wasn't the real Young Master Qingchen!"
Gu Jiao asked, "Then why didn't you report it to the authorities?"
The madam, clutching her handkerchief, said, "I...I thought you were Young Master Qingchen's friend, didn't I?"
Gu Jiao then asked, "Then why did you report it to the authorities later?"
The madam sneered, "You threw Young Master Qingchen's fish tally into the latrine! What true friend would do such a thing! I immediately concluded that this person must have stolen Young Master Qingchen's fish tally!"
Gu Jiao: You even dug up the things I threw in the latrine? What kind of fetish do you have!
Gu Jiao asked, "Then how do you know that you are from my Sky Dome Academy?"
The madam's eyes flashed: "Y-he let it slip himself!"
Gu Jiao didn't let anything slip, and to conceal her identity, she didn't carry any items related to Tianqiong Academy.
The madam's previous words may have been true, but this last sentence must be false.
Since it wasn't her who said it, nor did the madam discover it herself, there's only one possibility—someone who knew her identity as a student at Tianqiong Academy was also in the brothel last night.
Gu Jiao glanced at the teacher who had come over with the madam.
Ah, I recognize you.
Isn't this the same teacher who processed her and Gu Xiaoshun's school enrollment procedures at Qingzheng Hall yesterday?
One pretended not to know the other, the other played the good cop and the other the bad cop, but it turned out that she had already told the madam her identity.
The teacher felt Gu Jiao's gaze and his expression panicked.
"Is it illegal for students to visit brothels?" Gu Jiao asked the head constable opposite her.
He said, "Visiting brothels is not illegal, but you are suspected of attempting to assassinate His Highness the Crown Prince, a heinous crime! You also insulted His Highness's maid, bringing shame upon the entire Crown Prince's residence!"
Was the sudden curfew last night due to this?
Gu Jiao calmly replied, "Do you have any evidence that I'm an assassin?"
The head constable said, "Yes! A maid from the Crown Prince's residence once inadvertently glimpsed a red spot on the assassin's face! And it was on his left cheek!"
fall!
How could I be so unlucky!
Can you also get the same red spots on your face?
I seriously suspect that Xiao Liulang's identity is incompatible with the laws of Heaven!
"Is the maid still alive?" Letting the maid see him should make it clear that he wasn't the assassin from last night.
"She has hanged herself," the head constable said.
Gu Jiao: "..."
There are no witnesses left to prove her innocence?
Xiao Liulang, oh Xiao Liulang, your identity is cursed!
Gu Jiao asked, "The assassin just escaped from the Crown Prince's residence, and you've already imposed a city-wide curfew?"
The head constable said, "Of course! Use fireworks as a signal to impose a curfew throughout the city."
There were even fireworks; no wonder it's a superior country.
She didn't see the fireworks because she was most likely hiding under the middle-aged man's blanket at that time.
There are two key points about the killer—he has a red mark on his left cheek and he is a man.
Gu Jiao has two ways to prove she is not the murderer—first, she can directly reveal her identity as a woman, but in doing so, she will be expelled from the academy and will no longer be able to stay in Yan.
Second, have Mu Qingchen provide her with an alibi.
Although she didn't know where the Crown Prince's residence was, she figured it couldn't be too close to the street she was on at the time, since it was a busy downtown area.
She boarded Mu Qingchen's carriage as soon as curfew began, so she didn't have enough time to commit the crime.
However, since she had already robbed Mu Qingchen, would Mu Qingchen still be willing to provide her with an alibi?
I'm having trouble sleeping, so I'll write this late into the night.
(End of this chapter)
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