Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 176: Ten-day Break
" You guys take your time 'having fun', I'm leaving now." Li Xiaoren's back stepped into the sunset outside the Star Arena.
“Yeah, instructor, please play slowly too…oh no, walk slowly…” Tang Zheng waved his hand from behind.
Only when Li Xiaoren's figure completely disappeared from their sight did they breathe a sigh of relief.
Tang Xiaotang patted her fair chest and took a few deep breaths: "I was so scared. I thought he heard me."
Leng Zhan said quietly: "It's no big deal if someone heard it."
"Then why don't you tell him?" Tang Zheng asked.
"No need." Leng Zhan shook his head, walked out of the Star Arena and got on the carriage.
Several people quickly boarded the carriage and slowly returned to the academy.
In the carriage, Leng Zhan was still leaning against the corner with his hands folded and his eyes closed, while Tang Xiaotang looked Tang Zheng up and down and laughed, "There's nothing wrong with you, why is he targeting you so much?"
"I really don't know about that!" Tang Zheng thought that he and Li Xiaoren had been getting along peacefully for some time and he hadn't offended him in any way. However, he found out that Li Xiaoren's targeting of him didn't seem to have decreased at all.
"How about you bring him two jars of good wine tomorrow?" Jiang Wuyan suggested.
"Good idea! But I don't know much about wine... Well, let Xu Qingyan send me two jars of good wine tomorrow night..." Tang Zheng was thinking of trying everything possible. It was not a good thing to be targeted by the instructor all the time, so he decided to give it a try by bribing him.
Although, he still didn't know whether Li Xiaoren, who was so stubborn, would buy into this.
Tang Zheng isn't short of money anyway, so he'll buy the best first. Whether Li Xiaoren wants it or not is another matter.
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Workers on Xingyao Continent have three days of rest every month.
The same goes for the students, of course. The deacons and instructors are all on break, so there is no one to teach them, so they can also rest for three days.
The rules for the ten-day break are different in each family, but generally they are on the ninth, nineteenth, and twenty-ninth day of each month, in order to achieve the auspicious meaning of the nine stars reaching the top.
However, some noble families have made slight adjustments due to important .
The Changyuan Leng family is a middle-class family that received the fiefdom order 1,100 years ago. There is no conflict between family celebrations and memorial days, so they only have these three days off.
The next morning, Tang Zheng went to all the famous wine shops in the world and asked Xu Qingyan to select the best wines in the city, try them in each restaurant one by one, and deliver the wine to his dormitory in Yisu Academy before dinner.
Ning Mo probably failed to eavesdrop on Lu Wantang and the others' subsequent plans because his star power was out of control that day, so he was basically outside these days.
However, although Lu Wantang is not very old, he does things very carefully, and even Ning Mo did not get any valuable information.
"Tell him to be careful. Don't alert the enemy." Tang Zheng instructed Xu Qingyan and went back to school.
The ten-day holiday is very precious to the working people of Xingyao Continent. Many students of Yisu Academy have made an appointment to go out and see the maple leaves.
However, there is a small group of people who are not in this mood.
Tang Zheng and Jiang Wuyan are preparing for the sprint before entering the Sushiwenxing Tower. How high they can climb in the Sushiwenxing Tower depends entirely on themselves, and no one can help them.
Although Leng Zhan had already entered the Tower of Tracing the Worlds, he was still thinking about Leng Xiangyuan's tomb. He himself did not believe that the Leng family's generations of retainers would be such beasts, but he could not pretend that he had never heard of it.
"The ancestral cemetery... where exactly is it?" Leng Zhan is a person who doesn't like trouble and likes to solve problems from the source. As long as he knows where the cemetery is earlier than those coveters, perhaps he can protect it.
Such groundless speculations certainly cannot be expressed in correspondence!
However, he had been unable to contact Leng Changwang, let alone meet him and talk it out.
"Brother, the City Lord's Mansion has come to deliver this month's purple gold. It seems that there is purple gold of very high . Uncle Lu begged for a piece from the military and it was immediately delivered to the academy. Let's go and take a look..." Leng Jing knocked on the door and walked into Leng Zhan's room.
"Are you short of purple gold?" Leng Zhan raised his eyelids and glanced at him calmly.
"You'll know if you go and take a look. I've seen purple gold of that purity before... It matches the star power perfectly." Leng Jing smiled and pulled Leng Zhan, "Let's go."
Leng Zhan couldn't stand Leng Jing's soft and hard persuasion, so he had no choice but to follow her.
Because the purple gold that was sent here contained extremely pure fine products, almost all the students who had not left the academy were attracted here.
When Leng Zhan got there, he saw Tang Zheng was also there.
There was a long row of carriages parked in the square of Yili Academy. The one standing in the front and handing over to Leng Buchen was the mayor of Feishi City, Lu Tianji.
Originally, today was just a routine task of escorting materials to Yili Academy.
Yili Academy has limited resources to train so many students, so the higher-ups routinely distribute a batch of materials every month for the academy to study and research.
However, Lu Tianji usually would not come here by himself to escort the materials.
"Thank you for your hard work, City Lord. I didn't expect you to come here in person." Leng Buchen's reaction was much colder than Lu Tianji expected. He didn't seem to be amazed by the piece of high-purity purple gold.
Tang Zheng found it funny when he saw it. The pure gold he traded to Leng Buchen was of much higher purity than this!
It was still unclear whether Leng Buchen would like this so-called "high-purity" purple gold, and even if he did, he would not be particularly excited about it.
The other party is the mayor of Feishi City, and he is also the head deacon of Yisu Academy.
The two sides are almost equal in administrative status in the Changyuan Leng family, but in terms of personal identity, the surname Leng Buchen represents that he is the master, and no matter how powerful the Lord of Feishi City is, he is still a minister.
Leng Buchen would neither, nor could he, have an excessive reaction to this piece of high-purity purple gold.
Lu Tianji naturally knew the difference between the master and the servant. Not to mention that Leng Buchen was not an ordinary side branch, even if he was facing a side branch of a side branch, he would still be respectful and polite: "It's my job, it's not hard at all. Because this batch of materials is too valuable, I'm afraid my subordinates don't know the importance, so I came here in person. Please ask Steward Leng to take us to the warehouse of the academy."
"Please." Leng Buchen watched Ouyang Luoluo and his team load the supplies onto the academy's own carriage, then he pointed towards the warehouse.
The warehouse of any aristocratic academy is a strategic location, and outside trucks are rarely allowed to enter. Yisu Academy is no exception.
However, just as the Yisu Academy's carriage was dragging the supplies towards the warehouse and everyone's attention was focused on the high-purity gold, five people noticed at the same time that someone in Lu Tianji's entourage had deliberately slowed down and fallen behind!
"Master, it's really Lan Shaoze..." Tang Xiaotang came close to Tang Zheng and said in a complicated tone.
"Don't pay attention to him, keep an eye on the others." Tang Zheng's gaze fell on Lu Wantang instead.
Tang Zheng's eyes quickly scanned and confirmed that there were a total of seven people who had fallen behind in Lu Tianji's team.
The seven people fell behind in different places, but following Lu Wantang, he would definitely be able to find the place where they met...
Leng Zhan's expression already looked a little grim.
Although it is still uncertain what Lu Wantang and the others are going to do, the fact that they did not obtain temporary nameplates through formal channels to enter the Imperial Academy, but entered through this accompanying opportunity, always gives people a bad feeling.
"They went to the back, let's go..." Tang Zheng waved at Tang Xiaotang, indicating her to follow.
"Well, but didn't you say they were going to rob tombs? What are they doing in the academy..." Tang Xiaotang muttered softly while tightening the thorn whip in her hand.
