Chapter 86: Admissions Office's Pie in the Sky
The moon's shadow brushed across the treetops, and people could be heard getting up one by one in the houses around.
Ning Mingmei estimated that the noise they made in the yard had woken up the sleeping disciples on both sides. He crossed his arms and said to Lian Chengyue calmly, "The man next to me is my senior brother, Qi Miancheng, the head of the Qingji Sect. He and I have a deep friendship. Say hello to him. If there's anything, we can meet in the morning..."
Again……
Ning Mingmei rarely saw such a surprised expression on the bad boy's face. The child opened his eyes wide, looking dazed and surprised like a real child.
?
Child: “He…”
Suddenly, a strong smell of blood came to my nose. Ning Mingmei turned his head.
And shocked.
The moonlight poured on Qi Miancheng. The leader of Ji Yue Guang Feng covered his lips, and blood kept flowing out from between his fingers like running water.
Blood splattered on the white clothes, like scattered red spots.
Ning Mingmei: "All together..."
What is this, is this your vulnerable side again?
Not really.
But this time Qi Miancheng didn't say the words he usually said. His eyes were dim, like a dead star, and the last bit of light from the dead star fell on Ning Mingmei.
"Ming..." he said softly.
Ming, how come I suddenly understand. It doesn't seem like now is the time for parting lives or leaving last words.
But the next moment Qi Miancheng fell down heavily, and fell directly on Ning Mingmei. Ning Mingmei stared at him blankly for three seconds before responding:
"My clothes..."
The clothes, the clothes I just changed into today and wore once, were stained with Qi Miancheng's blood!
Ning Mingmei's face was distorted for only a moment, but this distortion did not escape the eyes of the child next to him.
But he reacted quickly and ordered the disciples who came after hearing the news to carry Qi Miancheng back to the room. He asked everyone not to spread the matter, and ordered Gui Ruoxue to take Qi Miancheng's pulse.
…Gui Ruoxue, who was called “wig” again, went in with a sour face.
Everyone was in chaos, except Ning Mingmei, who sat under a tree and breathed a sigh of relief.
The system saw him frowning at the corner of his clothes and wanted to comfort him.
Ning Mingmei: "It's okay, I still have many disciples, and there are many people in the Lian family, they can all help me wash clothes."
system:……
"Qi Miancheng vomited blood and fainted, don't you worry at all?!" the system said in disbelief.
On the other side, in a corner where the moonlight could not reach, the child pursed his lips.
After waking up tonight, he waited under the moon for half a day with his frail body. It was not until the night breeze entered his body that he finally waited for Ning Mingmei to come back.
Why am I waiting for him here? The child thought.
If you are waiting here with full sincerity. Nine points of it were just to show him that I am a grateful child.
He longs for more recognition of his own worth.
Then he could convince himself that all the seemingly irrational waiting was worth it, as it would become his ticket to enter the Immortal Gate and his ladder to ascension.
But the remaining feeling is really hard to describe. The child originally thought that the one point was just because he wanted to take another look at the immortal.
Until he saw two people walking towards him.
In front of children, Ning Mingmei is always the superior benefactor. He was holding a teacup, sitting on a carved wooden chair with a nonchalant look on his face. With just a few words, you can have the power over the life and death of others.
——But he doesn’t do it, and he doesn’t bother to do it. The crown can only be adorned with pearls and gems. The honor of the superior does not need to be adorned by the submission of ordinary children.
So Ning Mingmei and that man were on par with each other. Ning Mingmei called him senior brother, saying that they had a deep friendship, and he showed such a panicked expression when the man fainted.
——This was an expression he had never seen before.
Then the child suddenly realized that he was born too late. Before that, Ning Mingmei's life had already experienced more than three hundred years of ups and downs. Before he was born, many stories had already happened between Ning Mingmei and Qi Miancheng, whom he called his senior brother.
This makes a lot of sense. But despite this, he was still unwilling to give up.
The reluctance is engraved into the bone marrow.
…
Qi Miancheng's fainting disrupted everyone's plans. What's even more strange is that even Gui Ruoxue, who is known as a miracle doctor, didn't find any problems after taking his pulse.
"No problems were found. Maybe he will wake up in a few days." Gui Ruoxue said with her arms folded.
Ning Mingmei: “Oh.”
The reaction was surprisingly calm.
Gui Ruoxue asked him again: "Why did you come back with him so late at night? What did you do?"
Ning Mingmei: "I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, and my senior brother hadn't slept either, so we walked in the courtyard together."
Gui Ruoxue: ...
"I don't believe you." He gritted his teeth, "What are you going to do?"
Gui Ruoxue certainly said this not because she was worried about Qi Miancheng's safety. As an evil cultivator with a shaky sense of morality, if something really happened to Qi Miancheng, he would instead gloat over it.
He was only worried about one other thing: "You promised to take me back to Piao Miao Peak. Will he get into trouble after he fainted?"
...Gui Ruoxue's words sounded more and more like a common love story in which she was afraid of being abandoned by Ning Ming.
Ning Mingmei said: "Let's wait for three days. If Senior Brother still doesn't wake up, we will return to the sect."
Gui Ruoxue: "Why do you have to wait three days?"
Even someone as smart as Gui Ruoxue couldn't figure out why Ning Mingmei did this.
Ning Mingmei: "First, the Lian family is not a good place. If they knew that my senior brother had fainted, I'm afraid there would be trouble."
Gui Ruoxue agreed: "Good."
Ning Mingmei: "But because, I took a look, there are still eighteen notes that have not been completed."
Gui Ruoxue: ...
Ning Mingmei: "We now have ten disciples. Qi Miancheng has two, and Yinbing Pavilion has two more. Fourteen disciples, completing eighteen pieces of paper in three days is not too exaggerated."
...Don't take advantage of others' unconsciousness to enslave other people's disciples!
Also, why did you include the labor force of Yinbingge?
Ning Mingmei said to Gui Ruoxue again: "Help me change my appearance. Today is the day when Qi Miancheng inherits his mother's estate. Since Qi Miancheng has fainted, I will do him a small favor and help him inherit the estate first."
Gui Ruoxue was helping Ning Mingmei change his appearance as she asked, "If you go to inherit the estate, who will take care of your leader?"
Although his life doesn't seem to be in danger, we can't just leave him lying in bed alone.
Ning Mingmei pushed up his glasses: "Don't we still have you?"
Gui Ruoxue made this human skin mask really well. When Ning Mingmei looked at himself in the mirror, he saw a perfect Qi Miancheng.
…The vicious beauty does have a temper after all. After making a human skin mask for Ning Mingmei and teaching him the voice-changing technique, Gui Ruoxue slammed the door and left.
Only Ning Mingmei was left sitting alone, thinking about how to take care of Qi Miancheng.
Among the few remaining laborers, Wu Yun is depressed, Hu Yang is still seriously injured, and Ren Miao's leg injury has not healed yet. After thinking about it...
Ning Mingmei: "Why not let Lian Chengyue take care of Qi Miancheng?"
The system was shocked: "He just recovered, and you let him, a child, take care of another adult? Even capitalists are not as cruel as you."
Ning Mingmei said: "Heaven will give great responsibilities to this person, but I forgot about it later. This is the first training I prepared for Lian Danan. He had just recovered from a serious illness, and I gave him such a wonderful opportunity. Lian Chengyue can not only exercise his abilities, but also get in touch with the big boss of the state-owned enterprise. This is quite lucky for anyone. Even from the perspective of a novel, it can be regarded as a 'mutual redemption'."
Redeem each other.
Ning Mingmei: "Besides, isn't Qi Miancheng very interested in him? If Qi Miancheng accepts him as his apprentice, Lian Chengyue will have to thank me, the director of the admissions office."
system:……
The system is speechless. Logically speaking, it believed that Ning Mingmei would not let Qi Miancheng accept Lian Chengyue. After all, this would not be beneficial for Ning Mingmei to complete the mission.
But Ning Mingmei's actions were a little confusing to him.
Ning Mingmei thought of a plan and asked someone to call Lian Chengyue in. When he told Lian Chengyue his purpose, he saw that she was three parts surprised and seven parts silent.
There's something wrong with this kid. With Lian Chengyue's ambitious personality, shouldn't he be very surprised?
Ning Mingmei said: "If you have any concerns about this project, you can speak up now. However, this project is very beneficial to your future development."
The child sat opposite Ning Mingmei, his fingers tightly grasping his robe. After a while, he suddenly asked, "The Immortal Venerable asked me to take care of your senior brother... is it because you trust me?"
Ning Mingmei said: "It's because we can't spare any other manpower. You can rest assured, my brother is extremely strong, there won't be any problems even without you."
The Immortal Master said that his senior brother was extremely strong.
But even though he was extremely strong, he was still not confident about his safety.
The child felt his heart was burning. Some negative emotion made his heart beat rapidly, as if there was a dying rabbit stuck in his throat. After a while, he smiled, his eyes curved: "Okay, I will definitely help the Immortal Venerable to do this well."
Ning Mingmei: "It's okay. Just consider it as a way of repaying me. Speaking of which..."
"?"
"These days, I've been thinking about bringing back a few disciples from the people I met during my travels." Ning Mingmei tapped the coffee table with his fingers, "But I haven't made a decision yet."
This time, he clearly heard the child's heavier breathing and his eyes suddenly lit up.
As expected, I still can't keep my cool.
Ning Mingmei said: "Ayue, you are a smart child, you should know what I mean."
Just two simple sentences have painted a whole picture. Ning Mingmei watched the child leave the room excitedly, knowing that he didn't have to worry about taking care of Qi Miancheng anymore.
He put on Qi Miancheng's mask, put on Qi Miancheng's clothes, and left the yard.
At this moment, A Yue had already arrived in front of Qi Miancheng's bed.
The headmaster lay on the bed with his eyes closed, his face paler than paper. His brows were furrowed, as if he was in the middle of a nightmare.
The child looked down at him.
Being able to get close to the leader of the Qingji Sect should have been a great thing that he would have never dared to think about in the past. In particular, he was entrusted by Ning Mingmei to come and take care of him.
If the child was still the same child as before, he must be thinking at this moment, if Qi Miancheng saw him taking care of him when he woke up, would Qi Miancheng be impressed by his attentiveness and talent?
After all, compared to Ning Mingmei, Qi Miancheng's status in the world of immortal cultivation is obviously higher.
A higher status and better conditions have always been what children pursue. Using Ning Mingmei's request as a springboard and eventually joining Qi Miancheng's army, this is what the child would have done.
But at this moment, he could only feel his own heartbeat.
The child's heart was beating very fast. But he knew that his heart was beating not because of the master, but because of the bright future that was within his reach.
But it was because of what Ning Mingmei said to him.
Ning Mingmei...is very optimistic about him?
Ning Mingmei...want to accept him?
The joy was hard to contain, perhaps this was the satisfaction of having a plan completed. The child was also confused. It is obvious that the young man in front of him is the leader of Qingji Sect, and Ning Mingmei is just a peak master under the leader... In terms of status, Qi Miancheng is higher than Ning Mingmei.
And the master he expected should be a truly powerful person like Qi Miancheng, who is in a high position of power.
But when he looked at the sect leader, he felt vaguely displeased. Rather than joining his army, he was actually more eager to become Ning Mingmei's disciple.
"Why would I think of such a thing?" the child said to himself.
The child lifted his robe and sat opposite the young man. He held his chin and looked at Qi Miancheng, frowning, his eyes gloomy and confused at times.
And in a place he couldn't see, in the palm of Qi Miancheng's hand lying on the bed...
A wisp of black gas was faintly emerging.
'Wake up. 'A voice whispered in Qi Miancheng's dream,' It's time to remember who you are. '
A tear of blood slowly flowed down the corner of Qi Miancheng's eye.
The elongated red mark was like the track of a meteor, dragging along the side of his cheek that was buried in the shadow.
Seductive and beautiful.
And it makes people afraid.
…
There was a scent of magnolia on Qi Miancheng's clothes. This was a little hard for Ning Mingmei to accept at first. He walked along, tugging at the corners of his clothes.
Ning Mingmei: "Qi Miancheng seems to be a little bigger than me, tsk."
Qi Miancheng looks so slender, but he is actually very well-endowed.
system:……
People die for money and birds die for food. Isn't Ning Mingmei afraid of being exposed?
But soon, Ning Mingmei's performance became no different from Qi Miancheng's.
Two days later, Ning Mingmei attended the dinner as Qi Miancheng, and inherited all the property left by Lian Tingyu - which was not much in fact.
What surprised the system was that Ning Mingmei's attitude in handling the dinner party was very adept and not inferior to anyone else.
The system is very puzzled by this. Ning Mingmei has such a foul mouth, how come he becomes like a different person when he's at a dinner party?
Ning Mingmei’s answer to this: “I studied for a PhD for seven years.”
It really feels good to be the leader of Qingji Sect. Ning Mingmei received unprecedented treatment as a distinguished guest. However, the head of the Lian family also asked at the dinner party where Ning Mingmei had gone.
The first day was easy, but the second day was a bit difficult to say.
Ning Mingmei was drinking, and his final response was very calm: "Junior brother is in my room, he is a little injured and can't get out of bed for the time being."
Lian family: …………
system:……
I understand. I must never let Ning Mingmei drink alcohol from now on.
Other than that, everything went smoothly. Ning Mingmei also went with everyone to watch Lian Zhao's performances - from magic performances, aptitude tests, to talent shows at the dinner. They come up with so many tricks that they almost want to write "I want extra points for independent enrollment" on their faces.
I couldn't see Lian Zhao's face clearly in the evening. Now Ning Mingmei looked at him under the light and found that he actually looked 50% similar to the male protagonist Lian Zhaohe.
The proud Lian Zhao also looked humble when facing him. If it were someone else, not only would they think Lian Zhao was a promising talent, but they would also think that Lian Zhao was a useful leek.
Unfortunately, the person they met was Ning Mingmei.
Ning Mingmei fully demonstrated the spirit of the admissions office: if you can avoid giving a positive answer, then never give a positive answer. If you can say that you need to work hard, then you can definitely say “there is still hope”. The Lian family parents had never seen such a trick being played by the college entrance examination admissions office. They were fooled into confusion, and were very happy. They were treated to delicious food and wine, but when they went back they realized that Ning Mingmei had not actually promised anything.
After realizing what was happening, the Lian family was like an ant on a frying pan. There is no other reason. The Lian family’s current status cannot tolerate another hundred years of failure.
Besides that... there is another reason that they dare not mention.
Therefore, even if they used more radical improved spells, they had to feed out a talented Lian Zhao. Only when Lian Zhao entered the Qingji Sect, the number one sect in the world, and became the direct disciple of the sect leader Qi Miancheng, could the Lian family establish a relationship with the Qingji Sect and gain protection and regain their glory.
Otherwise, you will be like a fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of others.
Not only the Lian family members were restless, but also Lian Zhao himself. Ning Mingmei heard some news from the Lian Mansion. The Lian family members were complaining privately, blaming themselves for letting the boy named A Yue run away.
They believed that the reason why Lian Zhao was not valued by Qi Miancheng was definitely because Lian Zhao no longer had his medicine man and his strength level was unstable. If A Yue were still alive, Qi Miancheng would definitely be amazed by her beauty and accept Lian Zhao as his wife to fulfill their ambitions.
In fact, in any era, failure to get extra points is not necessarily entirely due to problems with one's own abilities.
But this made Lian Zhao hate the runaway child. Ning Mingmei heard that Lian Zhao was now hiring people to hunt for the right "child" everywhere.
If he were to catch him, he would make sure to use that person "cleanly".
Apart from this, Lian Zhao spent all the time chasing after "Qi Miancheng".
Ning Mingmei didn't react at all to this. All other disciples of Qingji Sect knew that he was impersonating Qi Miancheng, and they worked together to protect this secret for him. In short, the third day was their last day in Lian Mansion, and they would leave early in the morning of the fourth day.
On the third night, Ning Mingmei returned to his original appearance and sat in the yard to enjoy the cool air. Gui Ruoxue stood aside and said, "I went to see him this morning, and Qi Miancheng was still unconscious. I really don't know what disease he has."
Ning Mingmei: "It doesn't matter. I will return to Qingji Sect early tomorrow morning."
Gui Ruoxue frowned. He still felt that this matter was unreliable.
Ning Mingmei saw Lian Chengyue was still in Qi Miancheng's room, so he called out, "Kid."
The child poked his head out.
His cheeks were still pale, and he huddled in his blue-gray robe, looking thin, well-behaved, and pitiful. Ning Mingmei said: "You have worked hard these past few days. Come here and tell me how my senior brother is doing today."
The child took a few steps in his direction.
Suddenly, he stopped.
Ning Mingmei frowned. At the same time, he heard the sound of something falling behind him.
“Bang!”
It fell from the hand of the maid.
Two maids followed a child tremblingly. The maid who dropped something was so frightened that she almost cried.
Everyone knows that the young master of the Lian family is violent. If it were any other day, this maid would have been tortured.
But today, the young master of the Lian family acted as if he didn't hear the voice. He just stood there, staring at the object that caused the maid to be startled and drop the gift for Ning Mingmei.
That's a child.
A child in a blue-gray robe.
Ning Mingmei heard the sound and looked towards them. He raised an eyebrow and asked, "Lian Zhao? Why are you coming to our yard so late?"
Lian Zhao's eyes were still fixed on the person behind him. It was not until a long while later that he reacted: "Immortal Ning...Is Immortal Ning in good health?"
"Much better." Ning Mingmei said shamelessly.
Lian Zhao said, "I'm here to look for Master Qi. We've been bothering Master Qi a lot these past few days at the Lian family. Yesterday, I saw that Master Qi was interested in the fine wine in the mansion, so I packed two boxes and brought them over to give to Master Qi."
Ning Mingmei glanced at the box on the ground and didn't feel that he was very interested in the wine yesterday. He asked, "Oh? Then how did it fall?"
Why did it fall...
Suddenly, Lian Zhao heard a soft laugh. The sound was very, very light, like a feather, but he was the only one who heard it.
The one who laughed was A Yue who was standing behind Ning Mingmei.
The child in the blue-gray robe stood with his hands behind his back, his features as delicate as a doll's. He tilted his head, his lips slightly pink, and smiled maliciously, looking at him as if he were watching a joke.
"you……"
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