Ch 76: “Senior is so clever!”

Why did the conversation turn to Dong Meng again?

He patiently replied, “Mm.”

“Coincidentally, a student from Xi Meng has extremely weak Shi Juan Shi, almost undetectable, yet is perfectly healthy and active.”

“That student has a connection to Ousgaida?” he casually remarked, still thinking about what secrets Bei Meng might have that A Lu Ai Ta knew but he didn’t.

“Senior is so smart!”

Pa Hua Luo Di: …

“Elder Ous picked him up while on a mission, supposedly delaying the mission because of it.”

Pa Hua Luo Di found it difficult to connect Ousgaida with the word “delay.”

Which child is so difficult to pick up that they could delay Ousgaida’s mission?

“He always picks up children and raises them as…” He realized he had said the wrong thing.

“He’s still as kind as ever.” A bit insincere, it didn’t seem to help much.

“You mean, that student from Xi Meng has a way to solve Shi Juan Shi Failure Syndrome?” He awkwardly glossed over his mistake; thankfully, A Lu Ai Ta didn’t seem to notice his slip-up.

“Mm, but Elder Ous disagrees with that student participating.”

“Why?” This was great news for the entire Quark Clan. “Is there some danger?”

“Of course not.” Her tone remained unhurried. “It’s related to that student’s experience. Their Shi Juan Shi wasn’t weak from birth.”

“Artificial?”

“Yes.”

“Who would do such a wicked thing?”

“To research a solution for Shi Juan Shi Failure Syndrome.”

Pa Hua Luo Di momentarily lost his voice.

This is something that probably nobody would agree to.

“Knowing the reason, how could you still come up with such an idea?” Disgust was evident in his tone.

When A Lu Ai Ta looked over, he quickly suppressed his disgust.

“Mm, yes, this is Bei Meng’s secret. Please keep it confidential, Senior Pa.” Standing up, she stretched. After a nap, she had to return to Bei Meng.

“Wait,” he was a little stunned, quickly pushing her back down into her seat. “One is a student from Dong Meng, and the other is from Xi Meng. What does this have to do with Bei Meng?”

It shouldn’t be difficult to find out about this, so why is it Bei Meng’s secret?

“Oh, because although the student from Xi Meng can be perfectly healthy and active, they still have many problems and need frequent treatment at Bei Meng. The student from Dong Meng needs to go to the infirmary after just a few jumps and needs frequent visits to Bei Meng to alleviate their symptoms.”

She stood up again and patted Pa Hua Luo Di on the shoulder:

“Treating Shi Juan Shi related problems is Bei Meng’s specialty, and now that two students who frequently come to Bei Meng haven’t had their problems solved, of course, this can’t be spread around.”

“Oh—”

She seemed deeply ashamed of this matter.

She isn’t even from Bei Meng, why is she feeling ashamed?

Pa Hua Luo Di hadn’t had a chance to speak yet.

“Director Pa, I shouldn’t have told you this much, please keep this absolutely confidential.”

Ha, absolutely confidential?

Much ado about nothing.

He thought it was some secret related to Meng Academy…

After A Lu Ai Ta left, only he remained in the Teacher’s Office grading papers.

“Wait, that’s not right, is it?”

It seemed like their conversation kept jumping around, and they talked about two students with Shi Juan Shi problems, but the whole thing never strayed from Ousgaida.

First, mentioning that day’s events to evoke his guilt towards Ousgaida, then stirring up his sympathy.

After this, even if Ousgaida simply liked to scowl, or even scolded him directly, he wouldn’t mind at all, and might even think it was his own fault.

“What was she trying to do by going around in such a big circle?”

Or what was Ousgaida trying to do?

“Is Elder Ous planning to do something to me, or to Meng Academy, or am I just overthinking things?”

What could Ousgaida do to him or Meng Academy?

I don’t understand.

Glancing at the large pile of ungraded test papers: “It couldn’t just be an excuse to make me grade this stuff, could it?”

“Wait!”

He wasn’t sure what A Lu Ai Ta or Ousgaida wanted to do.

But he was now certain of one thing—

He hadn’t replied to Tao Ge’s message yet!

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🔵A reader said they wanted daily life scenes. There’s a small discarded draft about a bit of content omitted from Chapter 40—a summary, the magic of fake gold coins. Adding it here.🟦

Mi Ya Xing remained quiet throughout the lesson, diligently taking notes.

If it weren’t for the Magic Cube still in his hand, Rui Bu Si would almost have thought she was hallucinating from wanting money.

While Lao Tai turned around to continue writing on the board, she quickly tapped her Radish Pen twice.

No reaction.

Tapped twice again.

No reaction.

Looking for another opportunity, she aimed and tapped twice again.

Finally, Mi Ya Xing glanced at her, made a silencing gesture, and slowly wrote something on a small slip of paper.

Rui Bu Si felt that the Feather Quill wasn’t writing on the slip of paper, but on her heart.

Oh, it’s just a gold coin, she wouldn’t be greedy, she just wanted to borrow it to touch a couple of times—

Could Mi Ya Xing please write faster!

Her patience plummeting, she aimed at the Magic Cube, predicting Lao Tai’s movements, just as Rui Bu Si was about to reach out, the small slip of paper was thrown from Mi Ya Xing’s position onto her desk.

?Wait until after class.?

She looked at it over and over, confirming that there was nothing else besides these words.

Three words plus a punctuation mark, it took that long to write?

Suspicious glances were cast in that direction; the Magic Cube had already been put away by Mi Ya Xing, let alone any sign of the gold coin.