"I wonder what important matter has brought you here, Lord Jijiu?"
Bai Yuheng, who was playing chess with Han Yichen at the table, slowly stood up from his seat and bowed to Ruan Suhe who walked in.
"Master Bai, there's a girl from Class D who's absent. Have you seen her?"
Ruan Suhe looked with a touch of surprise at Bai Yuheng, dressed elegantly in white, and Han Yichen, sitting across from him in a similarly elegant blue suit, holding a black dice in his hand. Such a graceful figure certainly didn't look like that kind of filthy person...
"Master Jijiu, as far as I know, the students in Class D should be taking zither lessons right now, not painting. So... shouldn't we ask Master Liu about the students' whereabouts?"
Bai Yuheng stood tall and graceful, like a green pine or bamboo, neither humble nor overbearing. His eyes swept across Ruan Suhe calmly, his face looking straight ahead.
Hua Qingcheng, who was hidden on the beam by Han Yichen, was listening attentively to the conversation of the people below.
"Master Jijiu, that servant's words are very certain. To be cautious, how about..." Since he was already here, the Right Supervisor decided to go all out.
"Master Bai, our country's Imperial Academy is a sacred place for study and research. It cannot tolerate anything that disrespects its culture. To prove your innocence, I believe you don't mind me conducting a routine inspection."
Ruan Suhe gave a look to the guards at the door, and they all understood and stood ready.
"Please do as you please, Master Jijiu. Brother Han, let's continue..." Bai Yuheng waved his hand indifferently, and then continued to play chess with Han Yichen.
"search!"
Following Ruan Suhe's order, dozens of guards at the door began to search the Anxiang Pavilion.
A quarter of an hour later.
"Your Excellency, I found nothing unusual."
The guards searched every room in the Anxiang Pavilion, including the toilet, and all places where people could hide, and reported the search results to Ruan Suhe.
Ruan Suhe's handsome face couldn't help but become a little gloomy when he heard this.
"Master Jijiu, Master Bai's room has not been searched yet!"
Since he had already offended Master Bai, the Right Supervisor decided to go all out and didn't mind offending the other party even more.
Looking at the two people playing chess leisurely at the square table, Ruan Suhe gestured to the two guards, and they immediately began to search every corner of Bai Yuheng's room, from the outer room to the inner room, and even under the bed.
A quarter of an hour later.
"Master Jijiu, nothing was found." The guard reported to Ruan Suhe again.
"Master Jijiu, the beams have not been checked yet!" The Right Supervisor said unwillingly.
Bai Yuheng and Han Yichen, who were playing chess in the room, paused slightly at the news. However, they quickly suppressed their worries and maintained a calm demeanor. But in their hearts, they were both wondering how they would respond if Hua Qingcheng was discovered...
Hua Qingcheng, who was hanging on the beam, immediately slipped into the space villa, but her ears were still paying attention to the conversations of the people outside.
"I'll do it!"
One guard jumped onto the beam, but of course found nothing.
"Reporting to the Lord, no findings were found." The guard bowed to Ruan Suhe and reported.
"Right Supervisor, what's going on?"
Ruan Suhe, who came with great fanfare but ended up in embarrassment, glanced at the Right Supervisor beside him with a little displeasure.
“This…this…”
The Right Supervisor spoke hesitantly.
"This humble servant... this humble servant was also deceived by the servant sweeping the courtyard of the Anxiang Pavilion. He was just trying to maintain the good morals of the courtyard, so this blunder happened."
Now it is the end of the year and it is time for the Ministry of Personnel to evaluate officials. She urgently needs an opportunity to improve her political performance so that she can move up the ladder.
As the saying goes, when you feel sleepy, someone just gives you a pillow.
Just before class began, someone had sent an anonymous letter, reporting that a female student was planning to sneak into the Anxiang Pavilion to watch Master Bai bathing. The Right Supervisor had thought that by exposing the female student's "promiscuous" behavior at the Imperial College, he could clean up the academy and gain a reputation for being upright, but he didn't expect to end up in trouble.
"Bring that servant here, I will interrogate him personally." Ruan Suhe's face darkened slightly.
"Yes, Master Jijiu."
The Right Supervisor quickly ordered people to go and find the cleaning boy she described. However, the guards searched the entire Imperial College, but the result was... there was no such person!
"Right Supervisor, what's going on here? Could it be that everything you just said was fabricated?"
Ruan Suhe, who was waiting in the pavilion in the Anxiang Pavilion, looked at the Right Supervisor with a hint of anger. Since the founding of the Imperial College, such a filthy thing had never happened before.
"Master...Master Jijiu, your humble servant, your humble servant..." The Right Supervisor's forehead was covered with sweat.
"Right Supervisor, do you know that fabricating facts to slander others will be severely punished in the Imperial College?" Ruan Suhe angrily slammed the stone table in the pavilion.
Ruan Suhe had just received a report that the so-called absent student was none other than Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess. This matter could be a big deal or a small one.
If the evidence is solid, it's fine. But if it's completely fabricated, it would be a smear campaign against the current princess. More broadly, it would be a disrespect for the emperor and his authority. The entire Imperial College would suffer, and that would be disastrous...
"Go to the Discipline Hall and receive your punishment!"
"Yes, Master Jijiu."
…
In Bai Yuheng's room.
"Little Allure~"
"Achen, I'm fine."
After Ruan Suhe and others left, Han Yichen immediately flew to the beam and carried Hua Qingcheng down.
(Hua Qingcheng: I can get down from the beam by myself, and I can also leave the yard without being noticed by anyone, but Achen likes to show off, so let him do it...)
"Your Highness, you just..."
Bai Yuheng was puzzled as to why the guards didn't find Hua Qingcheng on the beam just now.
"It's just a trick, just a deception!" Hua Qingcheng said ambiguously. After all, things like space are of course not to be discussed by outsiders.
"It seems... I've been worrying too much. Her Highness the Crown Princess is a person with great supernatural powers, so she shouldn't need my clever tricks." Bai Yuheng turned the jade flute in his hand, and finally decided to give Hua Qingcheng a look.
"Master Bai, you are too modest. I'll leave the rest to you."
Hua Qingcheng bowed to Bai Yuheng, then left the room and was carried away from Anxiang Pavilion by Han Yichen.
At this time, the second class of the morning was almost over. A quarter of an hour before the bell rang, Hua Qingcheng finally stepped into the piano room.
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