Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 95: Turbulence Resurfaces
Tang Zheng had just figured out what happened today when there was another knock on the door.
"Master, are you feeling better? Come, have something to eat. We just brought some for you from the canteen." Xiaotang walked in carrying a large food box and said as he entered the room.
Meng Fenghua, Xiao Lingling, and Jiang Wuyan followed Xiaotang and came to check on Tang Zheng's injuries.
Tang Zheng, who had slept for the whole afternoon, felt his stomach growl when he heard Xiaotang mention food. He took the food box from Xiaotang and started to devour it.
"Well, this glutinous wine three-cup chicken is good, and the lotus leaf steamed pork is delicious too. Xiaotang, you really understand my taste..." Tang Zheng praised vaguely while stuffing big mouthfuls of food into his mouth.
"Of course, I am your favorite student, Master. How could I not know what you like to eat?" Tang Xiaotang said proudly after receiving Tang Zheng's praise.
"Tang Zheng, did you encounter any accident today?" Jiang Wuyan, who had been sitting quietly and politely at the back, suddenly asked.
"Oh? Why do you think so, Brother Jiang?" Tang Zheng put down the chopsticks in his hand and asked curiously.
"The first thing that puzzles me is that, Tang Zheng, you went to special training with Instructor Li. According to Instructor Li's personality, even if he accidentally missed your opponent during the fight, he would at most cause you one slightly serious injury. But I observed your condition and found that you have at least three relatively serious injuries. This shows that your injuries were not caused by Instructor Li, but by other people. This is even more strange. With Instructor Li present, he would not tolerate someone beating his students like this!"
"Secondly, it's only been less than one or three hours since you were injured, and rumors about you have already begun to spread in the academy. If it was just one strange thing, it might have been just an accident, but two strange things happened one after another, so there must be something fishy. So I think, Tang Zheng, you must have encountered something unusual this morning!" Jiang Wuyan looked at Tang Zheng and analyzed one by one.
After hearing Jiang Wuyan's words, Tang Zheng did not answer his question, but continued to ask: "There are rumors about me circulating in the academy. What are they?"
Hearing Tang Zheng's question, Tang Xiaotang said angrily, "These are all nonsense rumors. They say that Master, you will not dare to fight Leng Zhan the day after tomorrow. You will probably use tricks like faking an injury to shirk Leng Zhan's challenge. But Master, you are obviously really injured!"
Xiao Lingdang also interrupted angrily, "That's right, there were a few people who were simply bad guys. They kept saying bad things about the teacher in the cafeteria, saying that the teacher would definitely be a coward. Sister Xiaotang almost got into a fight with them."
"Humph, Master is obviously the most powerful, why would he be afraid of others and not dare to fight? Nonsense, they are all talking nonsense!"
Meng Fenghua touched her red face with her fist raised, and shook her head at Tang Zheng with an indignant look, saying, "This rumor is obviously a provocation. The person who spread the rumor probably knows that you can't fight in the short term due to your injury, so he came up with this vicious plan. Tang Zheng, don't be fooled. If you force yourself to fight Leng Zhan, it will probably cause irreparable damage to your body!"
Jiang Wuyan also nodded, and followed Meng Fenghua in persuading, "This rumor is indeed very hurtful, and it puts Tang Zheng in a dilemma. But if he fights, he will surely lose, and he will also suffer serious injuries. If he does not fight, he will only lose his reputation temporarily. I believe that with Tang Zheng's intelligence, he will not make the worst choice."
Tang Zheng listened to Meng Fenghua and Jiang Wuyan's consolation, but did not comment. Instead, he raised his eyebrows and smiled, "This rumor is so well-timed and accurate. It's really the style of the person who wanted to kill me this morning..."
Hearing Tang Zheng's words, Tang Xiaotang and the others were all moved at the same time: "Who? Who sniped you this morning?"
Tang Zheng shrugged. "If I knew, would I let him spread rumors?! But according to Ouyang Luoluo's information, this man has not been interested in killing me for long. The person who could make such a targeted killing plan in such a short time based on my schedule and work and rest must have a certain authority and status in the academy, who can access the special training information given to me by Instructor Li, and who has at least three stars in strength!"
"For this kind of person, no matter who he is, at least his identity is obvious..." Tang Zheng analyzed in an orderly manner based on the existing information.
"Could it be... the instructor in our academy?!" After listening to Tang Zheng's reasoning, Jiang Wuyan came to a very surprising conclusion.
"That's right. Unfortunately, we have nearly a hundred instructors in our academy. Without more information, it is difficult to narrow the scope further and find the final culprit as soon as possible." Tang Zheng spread his hands.
"But Master, why would an instructor suddenly want to kill you? Moreover, he just failed to kill you in the morning, and now he is spreading cruel rumors in the afternoon. It feels like he has an irreconcilable hatred with you. Master, you should not have done anything recently that would anger God and people, or be intolerable by the law, right?" Xiaotang asked puzzledly after hearing Tang Zheng and Jiang Wuyan's analysis, but at the end, her tone became a little uncertain.
"Hey, hey, hey, Xiaotang, can you please take your suspicious eyes away from me first? I am the victim, okay? Besides, is the Master such an anti-social and anti-human image in your minds? I have always been kind and harmless, okay?" Tang Zheng complained.
"Now do you know the other party's motive for wanting to kill you? Perhaps this can also narrow down the scope of the murderer." Jiang Wuyan asked.
Hearing Jiang Wuyan's question, Tang Zheng sighed deeply, looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, and said with a melancholy look: "All this starts with my identity..."
Then, Tang Zheng repeated Ouyang Luoluo's deduction of his identity to Jiang Wuyan and the others verbatim, like pouring beans.
"Oh, could it be that... Tang Zheng, you are really from Yingshan? Then everything makes sense!" After hearing Tang Zheng's words, Jiang Wuyan suddenly got enlightened. He looked Tang Zheng up and down as if he had suddenly realized something. He obviously agreed with Ouyang Luoluo's inference.
Tang Xiaotang, who was standing next to him, laughed so hard after hearing this inference that she fell backwards and laughed, pointing at Tang Zheng and saying, "The Master is Yingshan's man?! Hahaha, he's a fart! Oh, no, he's not a fart... No, he's not even a fart ... Oh, anyway, Deacon Ouyang is completely wrong, the Master is definitely not Yingshan's man!"
Jiang Wuyan originally thought that Ouyang Luoluo's inference was flawless in logic, but when he saw Tang Xiaotang, who was very close to Tang Zheng, laughing like this, he couldn't help but wonder: "Tang Zheng is not from Yingshan? Then where is he from?"
