Chapter 38 Chapter 38 Mu Yang lowered his eyes, biting his teeth tightly...
Mu Yang lowered his eyes, biting his lower lip tightly, his voice a little hoarse, "Do you still hate me?"
"Yes." Li Yian replied calmly.
She didn't hate him, but not having anything to do with him was a good choice for both of them. She didn't look at Mu Yang's expression or wait for his response, but walked past him and into her own yard.
She could feel Mu Yang staring at her from behind. She took two steps, and perhaps her heart softened again. She looked back at Mu Yang, only to see him wiping his tears in a hurry.
His beautiful eyes were red and painful, and tears kept flowing. When Li Yian turned around to look at him, he quickly turned his head, stood there for a while, moved his lips, but finally said nothing and turned and ran away.
Li Yian was stunned, staring blankly at Mu Yang running away. He felt a little uncomfortable. Perhaps what he had just said was a little too unkind.
At daybreak, Li Yian woke up early as usual, washed, dressed, tied the headband on his forehead, took his sword, hurriedly grabbed a few buns, and went out.
Today is her last day at the Theological Society. Qi Yang proudly told her yesterday that he would hold a farewell party for her and asked her to go as early as possible.
This made Li Yian very excited. She kept thinking about what kind of farewell party Qi Yang could hold for her. Maybe he could treat her to a big meal, invite her to give a speech on the podium, or organize all the students in the martial arts academy to give her a blessing note, and then wish her a good journey with tears in her eyes...
But when she arrived at the martial arts academy, it was empty, and her expectant expression suddenly turned into a frown.
"Hmph." Li Yian complained silently in his heart that he really believed Qi Yang's big mouth.
At this moment, the sun had just risen, and the east was a pale morning glow. The surroundings were still dim. The trees planted on the martial arts academy's training grounds swayed in the morning breeze. From within the trees came the sound of flapping wings and the hoarse cries of crows.
Li Yian wrapped a strip of cloth around his hands and pounded the sandbag.
After training her physical strength, she went to the archery range, drew three arrows from the quiver, put them on the bow, and with a push of her finger, the three arrows shot towards the target in unison.
However, after she finished training and was sweating lightly, she looked around the training ground and found it was still empty. The huge training ground was empty, with only the morning breeze blowing gently and the trees rustling.
Li Yian raised her eyebrows in surprise. Usually, the group of rough guys came earlier than her. Every time when she arrived at the martial arts field, many people had already come to the training ground and started training hard.
She put away her longbow, placed it on the stone platform, walked to the center of the training ground, and looked at the gate of the martial arts academy. There was still no one there.
It was daybreak at this moment, and the entire martial arts academy was shrouded in a thin mist. Li Yian frowned slightly, feeling that the situation was a little weird.
She walked out of the training grounds and slowly towards the gate of the martial arts academy. It was so quiet that the only sounds she could hear were the chirping of crickets in the morning, the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves, and the fluttering of wings coming from nowhere.
She walked out of the martial arts academy, and in front of her was a sea of hibiscus flowers. The pink and white flowers were shrouded in mist, and there were several figures under the flowers. Because of the fog, she could not see clearly who those figures were under the flowers in front of her.
Li Yian was wondering, is it because today is a day off? So the students won't be attending classes?
She walked towards the entrance of the theological society without stopping. When she reached the entrance, she looked out and saw that the street ahead was empty. The two osmanthus trees planted in front of the entrance exuded the fragrance of osmanthus.
Suddenly, a few children appeared from the corner of the street, startling her. In the dim, foggy environment, they looked pale, their eyes dark as they stared at her. They were all wearing tattered brown clothes, their faces were thin and fleshless, they were barefoot, their hair was disheveled, and their faces were covered with dust.
One of the youngest children had cracked and bleeding lips. He kept biting his lower lip with his teeth and said to Li Yian in a hoarse voice, "Sister, I'm hungry."
After saying that, he was about to run towards Li Yian. Li Yian was stunned for a moment, looking at the child, and hurriedly searched his clothes, preparing to take out the candy.
But soon, a young man in white grabbed the child's arm, flicked the child's head with his slender fingers, and said softly, "Don't scare your sister." He took out a string of candied haws and handed it to the child, "Here you go."
When the other children saw the man appear, they hurried over. The man rubbed the children's heads with a smile and distributed the candied haws in his hand to the children one by one.
Li Yian looked at the man in white with his back to her not far away, and her expression softened.
"Li Yian!" A voice suddenly sounded beside him, like a thunderclap in the plain, scaring Li Yian so much that he jumped up.
Looking back, he saw Qi Yang folding his arms and looking at Li Yian with a frown, "What are you doing? What are you staring at? I've been calling you for a long time, but you don't respond."
Li Yian was nearly frightened to death by Qi Yang. She held her heart and gasped for breath. She glared at him and said, "Stop calling my name so loudly all the time!" She pointed to the end of the street corner and said, "I'm looking at...eh?"
The children at the end of the street corner and the man in white with his back to her and whose face could not be seen clearly had disappeared.
Qi Yang gave her a look of disdain. "What the hell are you looking at? It's already daybreak, and you're still dawdling here." He raised his eyebrows smugly. "The farewell party we're holding for you today is quite grand. We specially invited people from the Academy of Literature to come and have fun. We're going to a restaurant for dinner later. Unfortunately, we couldn't invite Cheng Qiu, and even Yuan Yin couldn't come..."
While Qi Yang was speaking, Li Yian looked at the bustling street in front of the Theological Society with confusion, the pedestrians coming and going, the students arriving at the Theological Society one after another, and the rising sun hanging high in the sky.
The sun was already a little dazzling at this moment, and the sunlight shining on her made her skin feel a little burning.
Qi Yang raised his arm, put his arm around her neck, and half-dragged the struggling Li Yian into the Theological Society. "Let's go, let's go to class first."
Qi Yang had a bad habit since childhood, always rudely elbowing her neck and dragging her along. Li Yian was a little breathless from being held, and her pretty face flushed as she struggled. She elbowed him away and glared at him, "With your rudeness, you deserve to be unpopular with women."
"Forget it, you're not popular with women either."
"snort!"
She was originally feeling strange about what happened this morning. For example, at the beginning the seminary was empty, foggy, and the sunlight was obscured by the pale morning glow, but the next second people were coming and going, and the sun was shining brightly.
But Qi Yang's actions diverted her attention. Although she pretended not to care on the surface, she was actually looking forward to her own farewell party with great enthusiasm.
Li Yian wasn't particularly popular at the academy due to her reserved personality. Of the nearly 100 students, she was only relatively familiar with Qi Yang. While Qi Yang wasn't very popular with women, he was very popular with men, making it easy for him to chat with any of them. Because of Qi Yang's popularity, Li Yian, familiar with him, also got to know some of his friends from the academy, such as A Quan and the others.
After the morning class, A Quan and his classmates ran to the gate of the Martial Arts Academy with anticipation to welcome the students from the Arts Academy who came to attend the farewell party.
Li Yian had already changed into casual clothes. She considered herself graduated. Morning class was her last, and afterward, it was time to go to the restaurant for a gathering. She was wearing a comfortable light blue dress. While her hair was still tied high in a ponytail, she had removed the headband.
Several students from the Arts College arrived soon. They were beautiful female students from the Arts College, wearing white student uniforms, with exquisite hairstyles, delicate features, lively and cute. As soon as they appeared, they attracted the attention of all the rough men from the Martial Arts College.
Several martial arts academy classmates who had been surrounding Li Yian, including Qi Yang, also rushed over and threw Li Yian aside.
Li Yian was stunned for a moment, then pointed at the group of classmates who valued love over friendship, "Well, you missed the point. This is my farewell party, my..."
Just as she was emphasizing this, she saw Mu Yang also appear in the martial arts academy. Even among a group of beautiful female students from the liberal arts academy, he was still the most eye-catching one.
Li Yian slowly lowered his hand and tilted his head to the side. Mu Yang also lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
The female students from the liberal arts college who were surrounded by students from the martial arts college looked around and saw Li Yian. They walked towards Li Yian with a smile and gave her a farewell gift.
Li Yian was a little flattered. He took the gift and nodded to thank them.
A group of people walked towards the restaurant in a mighty manner. Li Yian, who was walking behind, could feel Mu Yang looking back at her from time to time, and Qi Yang was talking to Mu Yang.
Li Yian heard several female students from the College of Arts say to her, "We were planning to invite Cheng Qiu to come with us, but for some reason, he hasn't been to class these past few days."
"Huh?" Li Yian was stunned, "I seemed to see him this morning..." After a pause, she frowned in confusion. The man in white had his back to her this morning, how could she be sure it was Cheng Qiu?
"Really?" They looked up at Li Yian in surprise.
Li Yian tried hard to recall what happened this morning, but he couldn't be sure if that person was Cheng Qiu. He could only reply awkwardly, "...I'm not sure."
"Oh, so if Brother Chengqiu really came to class, we wouldn't be unaware of it. Brother Chengqiu has been busy organizing activities these days, maybe he's sick from exhaustion." Several girls looked depressed.
Ten days after the celebration, another grand event is held to worship the gods, commemorate the gods' exorcism of evil, and pray for the blessings of mankind. This event is not limited to the theological community; the entire town can also participate and celebrate this festival together.
However, the festival is approaching, but Cheng Qiu is nowhere to be seen. This matter has spread throughout the Academy of Literature, and everyone is very worried about Cheng Qiu.
Li Yian couldn't help but feel a little worried when he saw their worried expressions.
In the morning the sun was bright and blazing, burning my skin. But after the morning class, the sun was obscured by fog, and the sky turned overcast, with clusters of clouds moving and rolling rapidly in the wind.
Qi Yang, who was walking in front, looked up at the sky and said with some disappointment, "Hurry up and catch up, it looks like it's going to rain soon."
A group of people looked up at the sky and saw that it was indeed covered with dark clouds, so they hurriedly quickened their pace and walked forward.
But the rain was falling so fast that before they even reached the restaurant, large raindrops began to pound down. A group of people quickly covered their heads with their hands and ran to the eaves of the restaurant ahead. For a moment, the pedestrians on the street hurriedly dispersed, seeking shelter.
Li Yian, who was walking behind, also covered his head with his hands and quickly hurried to the eaves of the restaurant. However, as he walked, the noisy street suddenly lost all sounds in the vast rain curtain.
She felt her hand being grasped by a cold hand, and an umbrella above her head shielded her from the pouring rain.
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