Chapter 710 Grandfather and Grandson Meet (Second Update)
After the morning classes ended, the children came out one after another.
Zhang Dequan stood on the east side of the courtyard gate, carefully watching each child who came out.
It's strange, so many children have come out, but where is our little princess? Could something have happened to her?
No, I've already spoken to Master Lü of the prodigy class, saying it was an imperial edict from the king, instructing him to take good care of the young princess.
A mere tutor in a small academy wouldn't disregard the king's decree.
Zhang Dequan waited and waited, while the little princess in the classroom was slowly packing up her books.
She had never done anything like that before. She never brought books to class; the tutor would provide them, and palace maids would tidy them up for her when she left.
But once she got here, she had to do everything herself.
She was flustered and had no idea which book to start tidying up from.
Fortunately, her deskmate was still tidying up; otherwise, she would have felt a lot of pressure if she were the only student left in the classroom.
Master Lü sat on the podium, propping his chin up with one hand, his head nodding off, almost falling asleep.
Xiao Jingkong was so slow at packing that Master Lü was starting to question his existence. Now, Master Lü has finally found a solution: you pack your things, and I'll sleep in mine.
Xiao Jingkong dawdled as he finished packing up the last book. Fifteen minutes had passed since school ended. He glanced at the desk, which the little princess had turned into a major car crash, and asked, "Why aren't you tidying up yet?"
The young princess was at a loss: "I don't know how."
Master Lü nearly pecked himself off the platform like a chicken pecking at rice. He was successfully shaken awake and saw that Xiao Jingkong had finished packing, leaving only the little princess. He immediately perked up and prepared to get up and help the little princess pack her books.
Then I heard Xiao Jingkong say, "I'll teach you."
Master Lü's heart skipped a beat, and an ominous premonition inexplicably welled up within him.
Before he could stop him, Xiao Jingkong had already dumped out all the books he had painstakingly tidied up.
Master Lü was internally devastated!
Let go! Let me do it—
Xiao Jingkong arranged his books in a manner identical to the car crash scene on the little princess's desk, even down to the exact angle at which the Analects was placed on top of the Three Character Classic.
Because the little princess's table was so messy, it took Xiao Jingkong half an hour just to restore the scene.
Xiao Jingkong placed the book bag flat on his left, with the opening facing the books, and instructed methodically, "Now, open the book bag like this, I'll put one book in, and you put one book in."
"Hmm." The little princess opened her book bag, just like Xiao Jingkong.
She didn't do it well enough; the four corners weren't aligned, so Xiao Jingkong adjusted them for her.
Master Lü's lips twitched. Don't you have any idea how messy your own schoolbag is? How dare you teach a young princess?
Master Lü smiled and said, "Little Xue, shall I help you tidy up?"
Xiao Jingkong said calmly, "Why doesn't Master help her eat? Do your own things, that's what you taught us personally."
Master Lü: "..."
What a rebellious traitor!
"First install the Thousand Character Classic, then the Analects..."
Xiao Jingkong's storage capacity is negative, he fills things up in a mess, but he looks very serious and experienced.
Looking at the two girls' bulging book bags, their edges jagged from the books scattered haphazardly, the young princess vaguely sensed that these were different from the ones the palace maids had packed.
But Xiao Jingkong's inexplicably confident aura made the little princess feel that perhaps this was the right way to collect books.
Master Lü finished another nap, wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, and mumbled sleepily, "Finished collecting? Should we go now?"
Then he heard Xiao Jingkong say to the little princess, "Alright, I just taught you step by step, now you can do it yourself."
After saying that, with Xiao Jingkong's help, the little princess poured all the books out with a splash...
Master Lü collapsed onto the podium with a thud!
He looked up at the roof beam with a sense of despair, and thought, "Someone, please kill me!"
...
The Canglan Girls' Academy had also let out for the day, and Xiao Heng came to Lingbo Academy to pick up Jingkong.
It was several hundred steps from Lingbo Academy. He walked over at a normal pace, but Xiao Jingkong hadn't come out yet.
I'm used to it.
Xiao Jingkong doesn't dawdle like this every day; he only dawdles a little as a form of revenge when he's protesting that he can't go see Gu Jiao.
Xiao Heng never rushed him, nor did he scold him afterwards.
That's how kids are; the more you care, the more they know that this approach can influence you.
Xiao Heng waited patiently at the entrance of the academy.
Zhang Dequan was on the east side, and he was on the west side, separated only by a passageway through the main gate.
Lingbo Academy has over a thousand students. At mealtimes or dismissal times, the main gate is like a floodgate, with crowds surging about.
Even with so many people blocking his view, and even though Zhang Dequan had to be distracted by the young princess, he still caught a glimpse of Xiao Heng across from him in a casual glance.
Xiao Heng was wearing the academy uniform of Canglan Academy and a veil that covered most of his face.
Zhang Dequan was a eunuch. He viewed women no differently than he would a flower in the imperial garden; no matter how beautiful they were, they were just so-so, and he didn't bother to look at them a second time.
But for some reason today, he glanced at that student several times!
Are you a student?
She was wearing the uniform of Canglan Women's Academy.
She was a bit tall, but Empress Xuanyuan was also a very tall and beautiful woman back then.
That's weird, he should be slapped in the face.
How can you compare a student from Canglan Academy to the late Empress Xuanyuan?
I can't watch anymore, I can't watch any more.
They lost sight of the young princess in a moment.
Zhang Dequan forced himself to look away from Xiao Heng, stood on tiptoe, and continued to peer through the crowd pouring out of the gate.
The little princess was so small that she was easily overlooked among the crowd of students in their teens and twenties; she could easily be lost in the crowd.
"But this person really is..."
Zhang Dequan's gaze was unconsciously drawn to Xiao Heng again.
Why do I keep thinking about her?
Even a eunuch like me can't be lustful towards a young woman.
After glancing at it a few more times, Zhang Dequan attributed his curiosity to Xiao Heng's phoenix eyes.
His eyes were long and narrow, with slightly upturned corners, and they were bright and expressive.
Both the Crown Princess and Empress Xuanyuan had phoenix eyes, which possessed a more serene and charming quality than innocent almond eyes.
Anyone who sees such eyes will be unable to look away.
Zhang Dequan was so engrossed in watching that he didn't notice the young princess had already come out of the academy.
She came out with Xiao Jingkong, but Xiao Jingkong didn't know her family. He spotted his bad brother-in-law at a glance and walked over with the little princess.
Then Xiao Heng saw a little boy leading another little boy out of the crowd.
Xiao Jingkong carried a book bag on his back and held another book bag in his arms.
Children can't tell the difference between boys and girls when they look at each other, but an adult like Xiao Heng can.
Xiao Heng raised an eyebrow at Xiao Jingkong. What's going on?
Xiao Jingkong said seriously, "My deskmate." He then turned to the little princess and introduced her, "My sister... my sister."
The young princess politely said, "Hello, elder sister, my name is Xiaoxue."
Xiao Heng's lips twitched. "You brat, I told you to go to school, not to bring home a little girl."
Xiao Jingkong explained to the little princess, "My sister can't speak."
"Oh." The young princess, feeling an overwhelming sense of pride, immediately began to look at Xiao Heng with the kind of affection one would show to a disabled junior.
Xiao Heng: "..."
Meanwhile, in the Crown Prince's residence, a guard rushed to the door of the study: "Your Highness, there is news from Prince Han!"
The Crown Prince put down the official documents in his hand: "Come in quickly!"
"yes!"
The guard entered, bowed to the Crown Prince, and said solemnly, "Han Shizi's confidant just came by and left two messages, one bad and one good."
The Crown Prince frowned and asked, "What time is it? Is it good or bad? Is it news about Xiao Liulang?"
The guard replied, "Yes!"
The prince asked, "What's the good news?"
The guard reported truthfully: "It was Prince Han who, based on the clues left by General Nangong, deduced Xiao Liulang's whereabouts after some investigation. It turns out that Xiao Liulang had always been in the inner city of Shengdu. The reason why General Nangong was unable to find him was because he changed his identity and disguised himself to enter the Canglan Girls' Academy! His surname is Gu, and he is none other than the Zhao Kingdom's daughter who entered the top ten of the beauty list on her third day of arrival!"
The Crown Prince doesn't care about the beauty list, but finding out Xiao Heng's identity is already great news. All he has to do now is go to Canglan Academy and arrest him!
The Crown Prince, unable to contain his excitement, shouted, "Hurry up and have Prince Han arrest him!"
The guard looked worried: "Prince Han cannot arrest him."
"Why?" the prince asked.
The guard forced a smile and said, "This is the bad news that Prince Han sent back... The King is at the academy!"
The prince gasped in shock!
Zhang Dequan had been gone for quite some time, and the emperor had finished reviewing the memorials. The carriage was really stuffy with no one fanning it.
The king ordered his coachman to stop the carriage at the main gate of Lingbo Academy.
Zhang Dequan has already met the young princess and is waiting for her to say goodbye to her new friends.
He hadn't expected that there would be a girl in the prodigy class who was the same age as the little princess, and who happened to be the girl's younger brother.
The young princess spotted the king's carriage at a glance. She ran over, panting, and stood beside the wheels, which were taller than her. Looking up at the carriage window, she exclaimed, "Uncle! I've made a new friend! Would you like to meet him?"
"Is that so?" The king lifted the curtain.
"It's right there!"
The little princess pointed with her hand.
The king looked in the direction of Xiao Heng and Xiao Jingkong.
As if sensing something, Xiao Heng also raised his eyes and looked towards the king's carriage.
(End of this chapter)
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